text:
Talk:David Eppstein

A blast from the past
My parents found this in their attic this Christmas: File:CA Leg Res 234 1981.jpg. If it counts as a reliable source (I'm not sure) it might be of possible relevance to the (currently nonexistent) pre-college part of my bio. This is from the year before it became the United States Academic Decathlon. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:48, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * In case that was too cryptic: In 1980, while I was a senior at Palo Alto High School, I participated in the school's academic decathlon team. Our team won the highest level of the competition that year, the state championship.The linked file is a resolution of the California state legislature congratulating us. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:21, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Updated job title
Can someone please change "professor" to "Chancellor's Professor" in the second sentence of the lead? Source: http://www.ap.uci.edu/distinctions/chancprof.html Originally requested here 06:32, 12 August 2014 (UTC); updated to use request edit after a week of no response. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:30, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Done. Johnuniq (talk) 08:09, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! —David Eppstein (talk) 16:18, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Minor grammatical improvement
Hello, new to Wikipedia so please excuse any misunderstanding of edit request protocol. I would like to propose making grammatical changes to the final line of the first section that currently reads "Especially,he improved algorithm for NP-hardness like traveling salesman problem.[3]" to improve readability. Currently, this line could use a space preceding "especially" and another space preceding "he". Generally speaking, this line may read more easily if combined with the last line to be "He is known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics, which includes significant work improving algorithms to solve problems of NP-hardness like the traveling salesman problem.[3]" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sahandnayebaziz (talk • contribs) 19:49, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I have to say (though there's no reason to take my opinion with any more weight than anyone else here) that I find that new sentence a little odd. I mean, I'm still pleased with that paper, but it's a primary source, it's not about TSP algorithms specifically (or improving algorithms in general), rather it's about a technique for algorithm analysis, and it's only somewhere around #30 on my list of most-cited papers rather than being closer to the top. Also if you're going to cite it you should cite the journal version not the preprint. If you're going to list research on exact algorithms for NP-hard problems (an area that I am indeed interested in) I have about four better-cited papers on graph coloring, as well as one that actually is on the TSP ("The traveling salesman problem for cubic graphs"). —David Eppstein (talk) 00:33, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Authorlink
Could someone wikilink the new article Giuseppe F. Italiano (created today by another user) to the occurrence of his name in the selected publication list here, please? Thanks. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:14, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Done. MathKeduor7 (talk) 06:03, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks again! —David Eppstein (talk) 06:10, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Advertisement
As far I can see, a lot of information relevant to this biography came from the Eppstein's personal pages. We need independent and academic sources providing overview and validations of his contributions to computer science and mathematics. I see his works of marginal importance to mathematics.--Vujkovica brdo (talk) 15:13, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * There is no advertisement. According to Google Scholar, Eppstein has an h-index of 59 as of today (see here), being cited 14,167 times. Works of marginal importance do not get so many citations as this. So, I am for removing this tag that you have added, because it is non-sense. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:16, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The article is semi-protected, so the IP would not be able to edit. However, I agree with the IP, and the personal opinions of editors are not a basis for declaring a topic to be of "marginal importance"—an assertion that is unrelated to WP:NPOV and which presents no justification for a tag. Use WP:NPOVN for other opinions if a reason for tagging can be found. Johnuniq (talk) 05:04, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * First of all, the core of my comment is a lot of information relevant to this biography came from the Eppstein's personal pages. We need independent and academic sources providing overview and validations of his contributions to computer science and mathematics which is a valid reason for POV tag. This is not a personal opinion. Google Scholar is just a search engine saying nothing about Eppstein's academic achievements. "Works of marginal importance do not get so many citations as this" is a logical fallacy.--Vujkovica brdo (talk) 15:29, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you aware what POV refers to? That tag concerns WP:NPOV and WP:NPOV dispute. Does any text in the article conflict with the first link? The second link has good advice: "Drive-by tagging is discouraged ... specific issues that are actionable within the content policies ... being of the opinion that a page is not neutral is not sufficient to justify the addition of the tag." There is no need to add a tag if all you want to do is improve the article. Johnuniq (talk) 00:35, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this concerns WP:Articles for deletion/Josip Pečarić where misunderstandings of Wikipedia's procedures concerning Josip Pečarić were revealed. GregorB tried to explain standard procedures at Talk:Josip Pečarić. Please be aware that while the community is very tolerant of people with outlying opinions, it can be quite intolerant of those who target other users. Johnuniq (talk) 00:47, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * For what my opinion is worth on this particular talk page (not much), although I have interacted with Vb before, I have good faith that he's not doing this as a WP:POINTy way to attack me. Rather, I get the impression that he genuinely believes that algorithm design, graph theory, and discrete geometry (the sorts of things I do when not editing Wikipedia) are not real mathematics and therefore should not be notable. Also, he seems to have fallen into a logical fallacy: from the (true) proposition that many significant mathematical works have low citation counts, and therefore that low citation counts may fail to guide us in assessing significance, he has jumped to the (false) conclusion that high citation counts are also rarely or never meaningful. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:37, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Just a quick comment, as I don't have time for a more thorough look: Vb is right to be wary of personal pages used as sources. Have they been checked against WP:SELFPUB?
 * I don't see Vb's remark as a personal attack. At any rate, Wikipedia needs more challengers and naysayers, that's how content is improved. (Just recently I've participated in an RfC on Rolfing - the article has been the subject of an extended dispute, and even if it did get a bit ugly at times, it initiated analysis and discussion, and resulted in vastly improved content.) Having said that, it's important to understand that, as Johnuniq duly noted, while an editor's personal opinion may quite legitimately provide an impetus for changing an article, only policies and guidelines may provide a valid justification. To be fair, policies and guidelines are very complex, and inexperienced editors cannot be expected to fully understand them, but they definitely shouldn't ignore them once they are pointed out.
 * Will be back to the article, time permitting. GregorB (talk) 09:03, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

@David Eppstein I see new disqualifications of my comments and even a threat issued through his proxy. In the Josip Pecaric article deletion proposal I was attacked by Eppstein

 * If you mean Stevo Todorčević, then he is also unquestionably notable, but his citation counts on Google scholar are not any more impressive. ... Anyway, I note that Todorčević is Serbian, and I really really hope that this kerfuffle has nothing to do with continuing Serb-Croat rivalry

Counts not, but this citation is really an impressive one:"This certainly is an unexpected and sensational result". Comparing a provincial mediocre to a great mind is pointless.

Then came an insinuation of bad intentions: Todorčević is Serbian.

After, Eppstein damaged Todorcevic's biography by changing the biography wording coming from a professionally written overview of his work. I had to repeat several times that the text he damaged is supported by a highly academic and profound assessment of the Todorcevc's work. When Eppstein finally noticed that the text is sourced, he accused me for plagiarizing the source!

In the talk page archive we can read

 * The review materials also included a self-statement in which I summarized my work from the period, and which I include below.

 * Eppstein's most heavily cited paper, "Finding the k shortest paths" (J49), provides the first optimal solution to a widely studied problem: finding many short paths between two given nodes in a network. His solution takes constant time per path, improving previous solutions that were at least an order of magnitude slower. The papers that cite this one span a wide variety of application areas: quality of service routing in communication networks, hypothesis generation in natural language processing, biological sequence alignment, vehicle navigation, alternative strategy planning in computer chess, metabolic pathway reconstruction, failure analysis, peptide sequencing, and chemical kinetics

The above is just an advertisement coming from Eppstein himself. His "Finding the k shortest paths" is actually very narrow and the easier part of it. (The k shorthest paths problem in which paths are not required to be simple turns out to be significantly easier. The paths returned by Eppstein's algorithm are not necessary simple. See the right side)

About the usability in the application areas: his "Finding the k shortest paths" was outdated three years after being published. (Computing the K Shortest paths: a New Algorithm and an Experimental Comparison by Victor M Jimenez and Andres Marzal: "Experimental results show that the algorithm outperforms in practice the algorithm by Eppstein and by Martins and Santos for different kinds of random generated graphs") --Vujkovica brdo (talk) 14:05, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Ok, maybe there is some animus here after all. You're still bitter that I removed some plagiarism that you had committed?? —David Eppstein (talk) 15:53, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Sources and notability
Commenting on some remarks stated earlier in this talk page: there are currently two sources that fall within the scope of WP:SELFPUB. The first is used to support the year of birth, which is OK according to WP:SELFPUB, while the second one (online CV) is not used properly, and the statement in question ("He joined the UC Irvine faculty in 1990, and was co-chair of the Computer Science Department there from 2002 to 2005.") requires a secondary source. Tagged as such.

Regarding notability, Eppstein is an ACM Fellow. That seems "highly selective" ("At most 1% of the ACM membership may be Fellows"), so Eppstein arguably meets WP:NPROF WP:NACADEMIC criterion #3. A look at the list of ACM Fellows reveals a high proportion of bluelinks, which seems to confirm this may indeed be the case. GregorB (talk) 10:04, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
 * WP:NPROF criterion #3 -- It's about the subjective importance, which is a weak criterion.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:08, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I got the shortcut wrong, its WP:NACADEMIC, not WP:NPROF - sorry about the confusion. GregorB (talk) 08:27, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Still it's a weak criterion. We need a professional assessment of his academic credentials, the same way as it was done by Vujkovica brdo regarding his Eppstein algorithm. Every part of his advertised self-assessment shall be academically scrutinized. If we agree that his work is notable by its content, then we shall say- he is a notable person.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:11, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you elaborate a bit here? Do you think Eppstein is not notable because:
 * Being an ACM Fellow is not really a "highly selective" membership, or
 * WP:NACADEMIC #3 is not sufficient for notability
 * Note that as far as I can tell, if Eppstein is not notable, then it has to be one of the above. More specifically, if it's #2 - and apparently it is - then it's your personal opinion, and not something to be acted upon as a matter of policy. GregorB (talk) 12:06, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * You are throwing too many words into your responses with little or no substance. Wikipedia WP:NACADEMIC says
 * 2. The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level.
 * 3. The person is or has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association
 * BUT it did not say WHAT IS a highly prestigious academic award or honor nor WHAT IS a  highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association. I'd like to leave the decision what is highly prestigious and highly selective to true scholars because it is not a business of the Wikipedia guidance writers nor the guidance readers and interpreters. By the way, Institute for Advanced Study which is
 * The Institute’s community of scholars––more than seven thousand scholars and scientists––hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership throughout the academic world. Thirty-three Nobel Laureates and forty-one out of fifty-six Fields Medalists, as well as many winners of the Wolf Prize and MacArthur Fellowship, have been affiliated with the Institute.
 * does not list this Eppstein as a scholar.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:41, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * "IAS does not list this Eppstein as a scholar". So what? Does it have to? GregorB (talk) 16:41, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * To argue that an academic is not notable because he is not affiliated with one particular institution is frivolous.
 * Any legitimate discussion of the article subject's notability may continue, if editors in good faith believe such discussion is warranted, but disparagement of the article subject (such as I had to remove from a section header) and frivolous criticism may not.
 * Editors on this page are reminded that administrators may impose discretionary sanctions against editors making inappropriate edits regarding living persons who are the subjects of articles.
 * Editors are also reminded that it is highly improper to make edits against a BLP subject who also happens to be a Wikipedia editor in retaliation for an on-wiki dispute.
 * Proceed accordingly. Newyorkbrad (talk) 22:38, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Please, avoid any threats. The IAS is the most profound American academic society and a highly selective and prestigious academic society. The IAS shall be a reference point when talking about notability of a scholar in the U.S. It's my opinion no matter whether it might be frivolous to someone. "Editors are also reminded that it is highly improper to make edits against a BLP subject who also happens to be a Wikipedia editor in retaliation for an on-wiki dispute" What are you talking about?--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:17, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Seriously, you should lose your admin rights for threats like that.Gloern (talk) 07:11, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think <IP_ADDRESS> has admin rights to lose... —David Eppstein (talk) 05:27, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't remember what my thought process was (at what would have been 1 in the morning) 5 months ago David, but I think since it was indented as a reply to Newyorkbrad, I guess I must have been referring to his admin status and not a generic user who is only using their IP addressGloern (talk) 19:28, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Notability
Reading the archived discussion - I see a few people were rightfully doubting the Eppstein's credentials as great-enough to establish their notability. Vujkovica brdo did a good work by evaluating his k-shortest path routing algorithm. So, it's not so great as the author want to have it. We shall continue with the evaluation of his self-assessment the same way and completely. I'm certain that this biography should be deleted for we have thousands of the University professors around the globe with small and/or insignificant contributions to math and CS - academically at the similar hierarchical level as D. Eppstein.--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:58, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Please read the previous section. Comments are welcome. GregorB (talk) 11:46, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Research interests vs.Academically validated works
Research interests are not telling us anything about Eppstein's individual achievements validated academically. He earlier advertised some of his works on this talk page; I've managed to collect validations two of his Selected publications entries. Based on these validations, I believe, the colorless Research interests section should be replaced by some more meaningful title and content like the one we can see in the biography of Robert Tarjan ("Computer science career"), for example.

Advertised by Eppstein

 * 1) Eppstein's most heavily cited paper, "Finding the k shortest paths" (J49), provides the first optimal solution to a widely studied problem: finding many short paths between two given nodes in a network. His solution takes constant time per path, improving previous solutions that were at least an order of magnitude slower. The papers that cite this one span a wide variety of application areas: quality of service routing in communication networks, hypothesis generation in natural language processing, biological sequence alignment, vehicle navigation, alternative strategy planning in computer chess, metabolic pathway reconstruction, failure analysis, peptide sequencing, and chemical kinetics.
 * 2) Another influential and heavily-cited paper within the review period, "The crust and the beta-skeleton: combinatorial curve reconstruction" (J46, with Marshall Bern and Nina Amenta) considers "connect-the-dots" like problems in which a curve or surface must be reconstructed accurately from scattered sample points. The paper introduced the idea that a correct reconstruction could be guaranteed if the sample density is proportional to some measure of local feature size, a common theme of subsequent work in the area.

Reality

 * 1. From "Eppstein's algorithm provides the best results" is visible that the paper "Finding the k shortest paths":   a) it solves the easier part of the problem,   b) cannot generate k simple shortest paths and    c) outdated in practice

 * 2. For "The crust and the beta-skeleton: combinatorial curve reconstruction" Eppstein is a third author. From the article it's not possible to separate Eppstein's work from the other two authors. N. Amenta has six articles handling the curve reconstruction, M. Bern two, Eppsetin one. A sufficient validation of N. Amenta et al. algorithm for this purpose can be extracted from these three articles:

 * Christopher Gold: An Algorithmic Approach to a Marine GIS, January 2000

 * Amenta et al. (1998) showed that if a curve or boundary is sufficiently well sampled then the boundary may be extracted from the unordered points as the set of DT edges whose circumcircles do not contain part of the skeleton. (Sufficiently well sampled was shown to be a function of the distance from the boundary to the MAT. It is usually easily achievable except at sharp corners.)

 * Siu-Wing Cheng, Stefan Funke, Mordecai Golin, Piyush Kumar, Sheung-Hung Poon, Edgar Ramos: Curve Reconstruction from Noisy Samples, August 2003

 * Amenta et al. [2] obtained the first results in this problem. They proposed a 2D crust algorithm whose output is provably faithful if the input satisfies the $$\epsilon$$-sampling condition for any $$\epsilon$$ < 0.252. For each point x on F, the local feature size f(x) at x is defined as the distance from x to the medial axis of F. For 0 < $$\epsilon$$ < 1, a set S of samples is an $$\epsilon$$-sampling of F if for any point x ∈ F, there exists a sample s ∈ S such that $$\parallel$$s − x$$\parallel$$ ≤ $$\epsilon$$ · f(x) [2]. The algorithm by Amenta et al. invokes the computation of a Voronoi diagram or Delaunay triangulation twice. Gold and Snoeyink [10] presented a simpler algorithm that invokes the computation of Voronoi diagram or Delaunay triangulation only once.

 * Ulrich Bauer, Konrad Polthier: Generating Parametric Models of Tubes from Laser Scans, October, 2009

 * Another simple but provably correct method, which also works for curves in higher dimensions, is the NN-Crust algorithm, proposed by Dey and Kumar [10]. This is the algorithm we used in our implementation for reconstructing a polygonal curve from a point cloud.

 * Bottom line: The Amenta et al. algorithm has several deficiencies.
 * it's two dimensional
 * sampling fails at sharp corners
 * unnecessarily invokes the computation of a Voronoi diagram or Delaunay triangulation twice
 * outdated in theory and in practice

--Vujkovica brdo (talk) 17:19, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on David Eppstein. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160825235223/http://11011110.livejournal.com/profile to http://11011110.livejournal.com/profile

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 21:14, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Dead external link
The Microsoft Academic Search article says that the project retired in 2012, and the Microsoft Academic Search link on this article appears to be a dead link. Can it be either removed, or replaced by my more-up-to-date Google Scholar profile (use to obtain ), please?

Also, while we're discussing external links, the "Geometry Junkyard" one is also not one I've been maintaining for many years now, and is only one of many links available under my home page. It also probably doesn't deserve a separate entry here. And the Mathematics Genealogy Project link is also available in the Authority Control line, so it is somewhat redundant in the external links. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:19, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. I don't see why cite web should be used in the first two external links, but I left them. Johnuniq (talk) 01:27, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * official website and DBLP would make more sense, but whatever. As longer as they're reasonably well-formatted and apropos, I don't mind. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I tried that as it seems better. Please let me know if there is a parameter problem. Johnuniq (talk) 03:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

AAAS
Please add that I have been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and add Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Sources: (primary, but reliably published and independent of me),, and  (both from my employer). Those sources might also be helpful as references for some of my research interests, which are currently not well sourced. I would also suggest removing the graduate fellowship and young investigator awards as being more minor than we usually mention in articles about academics, and maybe also replacing the mesh generation survey paper in the selected publication list by the corresponding research paper, "Provably good mesh generation" (FOCS 1990 and JCSS 1994), but of course that's up to you. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:03, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I have added the election (supported by link 1) and the category. The rest is probably worth doing but needs thought so I'll do it later unless anyone else gets in first. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 17:07, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

 * ✅ All implemented except substitution of the research paper. Please provide a DOI, and I'll substitute it in the list of publications. Regards,  Spintendo  ᔦᔭ   21:23, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! It's —David Eppstein (talk) 22:08, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

I might be wrong, but...
This biography has some auto biographical elements. Self-sourced in many parts. He is known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics. Known for his work in recreational mathematics? Where it comes from? The Eppstein algorithm link leads us to the k-shortest path routing where we have only a general description of his algorithm.

I'd ask for references verifying his work in recreational mathematics and for deletion of the link.--Dishonesty Test (talk) 08:38, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I might be wrong, but I suspect Sockpuppet investigations/Vujkovica brdo is relevant for this editor. I might also be wrong, but I suspect a big part of the supposed incompleteness of the K shortest path routing article is that Dishonesty Test just removed a big chunk of it. —David Eppstein (talk) 08:46, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Inaccuracy in research topics
Half of the topics that the current version of the article lists as "computational geometry" are not geometry at all. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Huh. You're right. Maybe "topics related to graph theory" would be better. "Geometric optimization" (which should probably point somewhere like here instead) really sticks out, too. XOR'easter (talk) 19:26, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Change of job title
My job title is now "Distinguished Professor" rather than "Chancellor's Professor": see. Can someone please adjust this in the article? Thanks.

(Don't ask me why the linked page pulled a 16-years-out-of-date self-portrait from my personal web page, without asking my preference or permission, rather than commissioning the same kind of professional-level photo the other distinguished professors have. Maybe because lockdown? Also don't ask why "Distinguished Professor" is a step up from "Chancellor's Professor" when you might expect from the names that it's the other way around. You're all lucky we didn't add another separate "UCI Distinguished Professor" title at a different level from "Distinguished Professor" as we were talking about doing a couple of years ago.) —David Eppstein (talk) 06:45, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

✅. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 07:40, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! —David Eppstein (talk) 07:40, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

Mangled citation
Someone might want to fix the "Mesh generation and optimal triangulation" listing in the selected publications section, newly mangled by User:Citation bot, and/or file a complaint on the bot's talk page about how badly it mangled the citation. (Hints: the tech report version is not the version that was published with a doi in a book series, and the version in the second edition of the book is not the one that was republished in the first edition of the book.) Alternatively, if it were up to me (which it isn't), I'd seriously consider citing research publications and not survey papers in this section; the research paper that goes with this survey is "Provably good mesh generation". —David Eppstein (talk) 22:57, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

English birth
I see that over the years there has been content added about his English birth and New Zealand family background, which was cut (perhaps more than once) for being unimportant. He is now simply described in the lede as "American". But we still describe him in the infobox as born in England, and categorize him as a "British emigrant to the United States". This breaches policy: the infobox and categories should summarize/reflect verified information in the body of the article (MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE; WP:CATV). So either these details should be included, or they should be omitted, not the current half-and-half. I don't much care either way. You decide. GrindtXX (talk) 01:11, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I have added a source for his birth in Windsor, Berkshire to the body. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 09:31, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

"Of the council"?
I don't know what "Fellows of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science" is supposed to mean. It should be just "fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science". Can someone fix, please? —David Eppstein (talk) 19:27, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ BD2412  T 20:04, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 September 2021
David Eppstein, what's your birthday? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:45, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 09:28, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, see WP:BLPPRIVACY. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:43, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Selected publications
In general, I've tended to leave content inclusion decisions in this article to others, per WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY. And I do think that, if you're going to keep this list short, it's a good idea to only pick one paper from sets of closely related papers (the three most prominent of which are "Mesh generation and optimal triangulation"/"Provably good mesh generation", "Subgraph isomorphism in planar graphs and related problems"/"Diameter and treewidth in minor-closed graph families", and "Sparsification"/"Dynamic graph algorithms"/"Separator based sparsification"). But, if you insist on including the survey paper rather than the research paper from the mesh generation pair, would it be too much to ask for it to be cited correctly? (1) The primary version is the one in Computing in Euclidean Geometry; the tech report version listed first is just a preprint, and is no more the right version to cite than the preliminary versions of the other three papers. (2) It was not "republished" in Computing in Euclidean Geometry; it was published there. (3) "Lecture Notes Series on Computing" is the name of the series the book was published in; it has nothing to do with the tech report version. (4) The link given for it appears to be a pirated version and fails WP:ELNEVER. I don't particularly mind my papers being pirated but that's no excuse for violating Wikipedia's linking standards. The archived deadlink for the crust paper also appears to be a pirate link. There appears to be a non-pirated version of the crust paper at http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~amenta/pubs/crust.ps.gz (sorry, old file format) and of "Mesh generation and optimal triangulation" (but the version from the 1995 second edition of the book) at https://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pubs/BerEpp-CEG-95.pdf, or it would be there if the web server were up. Also, while I'm making suggestions here: I recently created an article on the journal Graphical Models and Image Processing (or rather a redirect there and an article on its current name), so it could be linked from the crust paper. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:16, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * PS I have my own list of selected publications at https://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pubs/selected.html (and have had it there for a long time, but recently went through it and updated it). It's probably too long to be in balance with the rest of the article, and to some extent it's a list of publications I think should be paid attention to rather than the ones that anyone else thinks are important, but it still might be useful input if anyone feels like re-thinking the selection here. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:26, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Categories
While you guys are edit-warring over whether I should be listed in Category:Wikipedia people (please stop and discuss instead of continuing to edit-war), isn't anyone wondering why an article-space page is listed in the user-space category Category:American Wikipedians or why Authority control is putting this article into the bogus redlinked category Category:Articles with google identifiers?

I have no opinion on the Category:Wikipedia people question, by the way. But much as the edit-warring amuses me, you should stop. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:18, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

... i should have figured this would be an edit war—more and more, this website convinces me I have never had an original thought. I have no strong preference :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 08:02, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

 * Happy to leave this argument to people who care, so have unwatched the page. Enjoy. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 11:53, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * But with a parting revert. Having examined the category, and its remarkably unhelpful definition note, it seems to me that DE belongs in it quite as much as many there, several of whom are not even admins. No, I did not notice the user category issue, let alone the authority control issue, & I won't mess with them.  But if anyone thinks DE does not belong in Category:Wikipedia people, let's hear why. Johnbod (talk) 16:25, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * In case you need more sourcing regarding my contributions to Wikipedia, see: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/careers/030822/what-s-with-wikipedia-and-women —David Eppstein (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

criticism section
My editing was vandalized by a David Eppstein, so I looked it up online found this, I think for the balance of Wikipedia content, this should be included https://www.quora.com/Is-David-Eppstein-useful-for-Wikipedia Aggressive editing style is not professional — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:54, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * In case anyone wants context, my best guess (from what I've been editing most recently) is that this is connected to Articles for deletion/Jenia Meng. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:24, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Program chairing
Symposium on Discrete Algorithms has its own article and should be linked from this one, where it is mentioned in the second paragraph of "Research interests". More substantially, I was also program chair for the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory in 2018 (see e.g. DBLP for a source). —David Eppstein (talk) 19:02, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: I added the link, but I think listing the position as program chair would be a little excessive. The article already contains a lot of statements supported by WP:PRIMARY sources; if this position was noteworthy, there should be reporting on it in secondary sources. Actualcpscm (talk) 13:46, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
 * DBLP is a secondary source. That's why I listed it in the request. It seems very strange to list all but one of the program chair positions for notable conferences, and snub one, for reasons that apply to all of them. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:04, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:David Eppstein


text:
Template:Custodian

User: (Talk) – [ Blocks] • [ Deletes] • [ Imports] • [ Moves] • [ Protects] • Contribs

source: wikimedia

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

title: Template:Custodian


text:
Derby Barracks, Bolton

Derby Barracks is a former military installation in Fletcher Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester.

History
The original Fletcher Street drill hall was designed as the headquarters of the 27th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps and established by conversion of an old workhouse in the early 1860s. This unit evolved into the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1883 and the 5th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1908. The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front and was still based there at the start of the Second World War. After the Second World War the drill hall was substantial rebuilt and renamed Derby Barracks after Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, who had been honorary colonel of the battalion. Following the cut-backs in 1967, the presence at the barracks was reduced to a single detachment of C Company, 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment in 1975 but expanded again to company strength when C Company established its main base there in 1986. The barracks were still used as a Territorial Army Centre in the late 1990s but were decommissioned and converted for charitable use in 2006.

title: Derby Barracks, Bolton


text:
pekmez

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) jam, marmalade mixture of fruit boiled with sugar
 * 2)  child who cries excessively, crybaby
 * 3)  person given to crying and complaining when something isn’t going well or needs to be done, sissy, crybaby

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) molasses

title: pekmez


text:
User:Amybowes281

My name is Amy. My specialist area is Reproductive Biology, I study this at University. Message me for information. I am from the United Kingdom.

title: User:Amybowes281


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vasilis Zenetzis

The result was delete. SOFTDELETE per no participation herein other than from the nominator. North America1000 01:11, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Vasilis Zenetzis

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Delete. Fails WP:GNG and WP:BLPNOTE. Sources found on Zenetzis' work as a painter are mostly listings from auctions ——Chalk19 (talk) 19:08, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Greece-related deletion discussions. ——Chalk19 (talk) 19:14, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. ——Chalk19 (talk) 19:20, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:28, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:28, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 02:30, 27 September 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Optakeover (U)(T)(C) 04:53, 4 October 2017 (UTC)


text:
Echinobase

Echinobase is a Model Organism Database (MOD). It supports the international research community by providing a centralized, integrated web based resource to access the diverse and rich, functional genomics data of echinoderm evolution, development and gene regulatory networks.

Genomic research data and tools are available for searching, browsing and bioinformatic analysis of genomes, genes, and transcripts.

Echinobase provides a critical data sharing infrastructure for other NIH-funded projects and enhances the availability and visibility of echinoderm data to the broader biomedical research community.

Supported Species
Echinobase offers two levels of integration for supported echinoderm species. Full support includes full genome integration in the database, including gene pages, as well as availability of the genomes to BLAST, browsing via JBrowse, and genome download. Partial support provides BLAST, JBrowse, and download options, but no gene page integration.

Current level one supported species (at various stages of integration) are:
 * Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Purple sea urchin)
 * Patiria miniata (Bat star)
 * Lytechinus variegatus (Green variegated sea urchin)
 * Acanthaster planci (Crown-of-thorns starfish)

Current level two supported species (at various stages of integration) are:
 * Lytechinus pictus (painted urchin)
 * Anneissia japonica (Feather star, a crinoid)
 * Asterias rubens (Sugar star)

Software, Hardware and Platform
Echinobase runs in a cloud environment. Its virtual machines are running in a VMware vSphere environment on two servers, with automatic load balancing and fault tolerance. Its software uses Java, JSP, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, and CSS. It also uses Apache Tomcat and the IBM Db2 database. Echinobase is developed in tandem with Xenbase.

Functional Genomics
Echinobase is a resource for genomics research that is organized by gene models and represented using gene pages. Each gene page has a tremendous amount of gene specific information.

Genomics - Search and BLAST tools are available directly or through the gene pages that display gene model HGNC compliant names, orthology, GO terms and link to BLAST, the JBrowse genome browser, and a gene expression plotting tool.

Tabs beyond the summary provide gene specific literature, transcripts, expression data, protein sequences and interactants.

Genomic research tools are implemented to assist browsing, search and analysis and visualization of genomic sequence assemblies, annotations and features. Additionally, gene expression data collection, search and visualization is provided.
 * Gene search  - Search genes by name, symbol or synonym directly from the landing page
 * Gene nomenclature guidelines  - Echinobase is the official body responsible for echinoderm gene naming
 * Genome browser with tracks for RNA-seq and ATAC-seq data - Echinobase uses JBrowse
 * BLAST - Users can BLAST against supported genomes, RNA, and protein sequences
 * RNA-seq data visualization - Plots of temporal expression profiles and spatial (anatomy) expression heatmaps for S. purpuratus
 * Diseases - Users can search for both Disease Ontology and OMIM diseases to find relevant genes and publications

The Echinoderm Anatomical Ontology (ECAO) uses standardized terms to refer to anatomical cell types and structures and relates these to developmental stages. Numerous echinoderm species are included in the ontology so that some terms are present in all echinoderms while others are species specific. The ECAO contains thousands of anatomical terms for cell types, structures and tissues and anatomical systems such as the nervous system or skeletal system. Relationships between entities are defined using "develops_from" or "develops_into" and "is_a" or "part_of".
 * Echinoderm Anatomical Ontology - Standardized anatomy terms are used to describe developmental stages

Literature, Resources and Community
Literature on Echinobase is collected by automatically searching published papers using echinoderm query terms and retrieved articles are then manually curated. The data download site makes GFF genome files available and Gene Page Reports provide files for bioinformatic analyses.
 * Literature Search - Users can search for papers based on title, author, journal, etc.
 * EchinoWiki -The Echinobase Resources serve to support the community by collecting data, protocols, reagents and other resources that are then shared using the EchinoWiki.
 * Reagents - Echinobase has reagent search tools for antibodies (Ab), morpholinos (MO), and guide RNAs (gRNA) used in published studies.

In order to support the Community and to enable interdisciplinary and collaborative studies, research, descriptions and contact information of community members, labs and organizations are available and searchable. New Job Openings are also posted on Echinobase.
 * Community Link - People, jobs, labs which study echinoderms

Other Model Organism Databases (MODs)

 * Xenbase
 * Flybase
 * Wormbase
 * Mouse Genome Informatics
 * ZFIN
 * DictyBase

title: Echinobase


text:
Talk:David Harris (British politician)

Perranwell Station
On the station page there is no indication that anybody lives there. Jackiespeel (talk) 16:37, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

title: Talk:David Harris (British politician)


text:
Talk:Nelly Martyl

image of the day
I noticed that this is the image of the day for april fools, is there a joke I'm missing or is this a serious picture (asking since the rest of the things with the exception of news and on this day are jokes). Gaismagorm (talk) 11:22, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

title: Talk:Nelly Martyl


text:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avishai Yechieli

The result of the debate was delete. Flowerparty ■ 08:10, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Avishai Yechieli
A fraudster, presumedly (he is still on trial) with minor notoriety. Not worth an encyclopedia article as per WP:BIO. Delete. JFW | T@lk  22:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete, WP:NOT a directory of all known criminals. And external link mentioned does not even mention his name. — Kimchi.sg | Talk 00:23, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. ¡Dustimagic!  ( T / C ) 05:15, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. --Khoikhoi 05:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn. fraud under £1M. :) feydey 19:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per above. Jayjg (talk) 20:08, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ditto. SlimVirgin (talk) 20:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)


text:
Cookbook:Roasted Oysters with Madeira

| Seafood | Oyster

Ingredients

 * 50 live small oysters
 * ¼ stick (4 tbsp / 2 oz) butter
 * ½ cup madeira
 * salt and cayenne pepper to taste

Procedure

 * 1) Rinse the oysters in a colander and drain well.
 * 2) Roast the oysters in their shells in a large pot over medium high heat until they are done and dry, but not scorched.
 * 3) Remove the oysters from the shell onto a plate, without any of their liquor. Discard any oysters that failed to open.
 * 4) Add the butter. When the butter has melted, add to another pan and place on low heat.
 * 5) Add the Madeira, a little salt and cayenne. Serve when the Madeira is heated.

title: Cookbook:Roasted Oysters with Madeira


text:
Talk:Old Three Hundred

June 18, 2015 clean up
MOS:TABLES This list needs work and oversight. I've removed much miscellaneous biographical content from the Notes section that was not designed for Tables. If there is enough sourced content for a biography, then create the article. Some of what I removed, such as the Stephen F. Austin notes, were recaps of existing articles. — Maile (talk) 16:05, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 01:47, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Merged from Zadock Woods
I have completed a merge from Zadock Woods per the AfD. My merge could use some clean up though. Feel free to chip in. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 04:13, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Delete list or move
This List is deadly for the article. Why not make an article List and put all the names there? This lacks information about most of the families. The article would be improved by discussing more about the Old 300 accomplished in the early years, and other elements of their development that influenced Texas as a whole. Parkwells (talk) 23:26, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikitable
Added an extra column for the images, feedback would be appreiated. Thanks Lotje (talk) 14:51, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

title: Talk:Old Three Hundred


text:
Orthotylus flavinervis

Orthotylus flavinervis is a Palearctic species of bug, commonly found on alder and sycamore. Their upper surface is covered in dense and pale hairs, and their wing membrane is observed to be dusky, with yellow veins throughout.

title: Orthotylus flavinervis


text:
Slavko Barbarić

Slavko Barbarić (11 March 1946 – 24 November 2000) was a Herzegovinian Franciscan Catholic priest and friar involved in the alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje, serving as a spiritual director of the alleged seers from 1984 until he died in 2000. He was a supporter of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

He became a priest as a member of the Franciscans in 1971. From 1981 until 1984 he served as a spiritual assistant in Mostar, but was mainly active in Medjugorje after the alleged apparitions in June 1981. There, he was appointed a chaplain in 1984 and succeeded Tomislav Vlašić as a spiritual director of the alleged seers. Barbarić remained in Medjugorje until his transfer to Blagaj near Mostar in 1985. Nevertheless, he continued his activity in Medjugorje, contrary to the Bishop's orders. He was moved to Humac near Ljubuški, but in 1991 illegally moved to Medjugorje again, where he remained until his death. His confessional jurisdiction was suspended by the Bishop twice due to his disobedience in 2000.

Early life and priesthood
Barbarić was born in the Dragićani hamlet in Čerin near Čitluk in Herzegovina. He was fourth of six children. He attended elementary school in Čerin, and a high school seminary in Dubrovnik from 1961 to 1965. He entered the novitiate of the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina on 14 July 1965. Barbarić enrolled at the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy in Visoko in 1966, and continued his education in Sarajevo and graduated in Schwaz, Austria in 1971.

He gave monastic vows in La Verna, Italy, on 17 September 1971, and was ordained a priest in Reutte, Austria on 19 December 1971. While studying pastoral psychology in Italy, he became impressed with mysticism and Catholic Charismatic Renewal. During his studies in Rome, Barbarić joined the Catholic Charismatic "Community and Freedom (Comunione e liberazione). As a member of the Franciscan community in Frohnleiten in Austria, he was pastorally active there and attended the Faculty of Theology in Graz, where he gained a master's degree in pastoral theology in 1973.

As a priest, Barbarić was first appointed a chaplain in Čapljina on 22 September 1973. There, he saw the Pope's decree Romanis Pontificibus is published in June 1975, by which the Pope ordered the redistribution of parishes in the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno between the Franciscans and the diocesan clergy. Barbarić remained in Čapljina until 1978 when he left for Freiburg, Germany to study. There, he earned a Ph.D. in religious pedagogy and got the title of "psychotherapist" in 1982.

Medjugorje phenomenon
While he was in Freiburg, in June 1981, the alleged seers of the Marian apparitions had their first visions. Barbarić was named a chaplain in Mostar on 18 August 1981. In Mostar, he served as a spiritual assistant, with his main task being the religious education of youth and students. He used this position to go on the pilgrimage with students in Medjugorje as often as possible. His pastoral activity became mainly focused on Medjugorje, where he lived.

As the sex scandal involving Tomislav Vlašić, the spiritual assistant in Medjugorje and spiritual director of the seers became apparent, the bishop requested his transfer to another parish. Thus, the Franciscan province asked the bishop to replace Vlašić with Barbarić. Bishop Pavao Žanić, not knowing about his illicit activities in Medjugorje, approved the request on 16 August 1984. Barbarić succeeded Vlašić as a spiritual director of the alleged seers after Vlašić was transferred to Vitina near Ljubuški a few days later. Barbarić continued to conduct the Chronicle of Apparitions, started by Vlašić. Both Barbarić and Vlašić trained the young seers. According to the Archbishop of Split Frane Franić, a supporter of the Medjugorje apparitions, Barbarić used his expertise as a psychologist to "coach" the seers to prepare them for the visions and miracles.

Not long after Barbarić's new appointment, the bishop requested from the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina to transfer Barbarić from Medjugorje on 3 January 1985 due to his involvement with the alleged apparitions. However, the Province never responded, while the seers claimed that Madonna told them in a vision that Barbarić should take over the parish and to conduct a chronicle about her apparitions, so that "after she stops coming, there can be one overview of everything that happened". After the bishop insisted on his transfer, Barbarić was moved to Blagaj near Mostar on 20 July 1985.

Barbarić continued his activity in Medjugorje, promoting the cult of Our Lady of Medjugorje and traveling around the world with the alleged seers. Three years later, the Franciscan Province proposed the Bishop name him a chaplain in Humac, Ljubuški, which Bishop approved on 16 September 1988. Even after being transferred to Humac, Barbarić remained mostly active in Medjugorje.

The conclusion of the Conference of Bishops, published in Zadar on 10 April 1991, regarding the alleged apparitions, stated that the apparitions "non constat de supernaturalitate", that is that on the basis of previous examinations, it is impossible to establish that these are supernatural apparitions or revelations. However, the Conference left the possibility of the pilgrimage. In connection to the conclusion, Barbarić stated: "We have our sanctuary. We have permission for the people to come here. Why do we need the seers anyway?"

The same year in July, the Province proposed to the Bishop that Barbarić should remain in Humac, which the Bishop approved. However, Barbarić on his own initiative returned to Medjugorje, claiming he agreed to this verbally with the Provincial Drago Tolj, due to the lack of confessors. The Episcopal Ordinariate wasn't even informed about the transfer, so Barbarić remained active without the necessary decree from the bishop. The Episcopal Ordinariate was in turmoil due to the war in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina that broke out in October 1991. In 1993, Bishop Žanić was replaced by Ratko Perić. The Ordinariate continued to communicate with Barbarić regularly, presuming that his transfer in Medjugorje was legal.

In 1999, Bishop Perić asked the Province to transfer him from Medjugorje again, after he found that Barbarić was active in Medjugorje without a pastoral decree. Barbarić refused to transfer, so the Bishop suspended his confessional jurisdiction on 20 February 2000. Barbarić asked the Bishop for revision, but the Bishop confirmed his previous decision. He again complained to the Holy See over the issue, and the Bishop insisted that Barbarić signs the statement of obedience and leave Medjugorje. He signed the statement on 20 June 2000 but still remained active in Medjugorje. The bishop suspended his confessional jurisdiction once again on 30 October 2000. He died on 24 November 2000.

title: Slavko Barbarić


text:
Puzzles/How do you ... ?/The Burning Island/Solution

The man picks up a piece of wood and lights it from the fire on the west end of the island. He then carries it over to set fire to the middle of the island. Fortunately, the wind is hurricane strength, so the fire from the middle only burns the east side of the island.

The man then goes to the east side of the island, where the fire from the west side can't spread, because the east side has already burned down.

The man survives the fire, but dies of starvation, with all the food in the forest burnt.

 * Comments
 * 1) The puzzle, as stated, does not assert that the entire island is covered by the forest, but the solution is trivial unless it is.
 * 2) In a real fire, the smoke being blown eastward across the island would be as much of a danger to the man as the flames. (He must have had a source of fresh water on the island to survive... he could dip his shirt in that to use as a gas mask.  He should also lie flat on the ground to try to stay below the smoke.)
 * 3) The puzzle does not state anything about the flatness of the island. The presence of hills or canyons would affect the path the fire would take, possibly offering areas of safety due to the fire making its own fire break (a fire break being essentially the solution described above).
 * 4) The fire set in the middle of the island would not burn the entire east side of the island, but only a triangular area extending eastward from the point the fire was set. The shape of the triangle would be determined by the balance between the tendency of the fire to burn outward in a circle from where it was started and the force of the wind. This being the case, and with the assertion of hurricane-force winds, the far end of the triangle, where the man would have to stand, might be too narrow to shield him from the heat and smoke.
 * 5) Nothing in the puzzle asserts the shape of the island. The entire surface of the island burns only if the island perimeter is convex. If there are concave areas, a peninsula is formed, and the tip of the peninsula would be unscathed. The shape and size of the peninsula would be relevant, per the reasoning above about fire cutting a triangular shape. This solution has the added advantage that the tip of the peninsula would be free of smoke.
 * 6) If the island was a circle, which is a convex shape, and the fire burnt in a triangle, not all could burn. If the island was shaped like the concave Greek letter Λ (or the roman letter V) and the fire started at the tip, the whole island could burn. Currently, the problem states the whole island would burn without intervention, anyway.
 * 7) When one considers that one does not typically find trees on a beach, the man could just make his way to the west beach. The fire and smoke would both travel away from him.
 * um... if the island is circled by cliffs how is he supposed to get to the beach?
 * 1) And if cliffs surround the island and he can't get back on, the most obvious question is: how did he get on in the first place?
 * 2) *Clearly he crash landed
 * 3) Perhaps the man survives the fire by entering the luxurious fire-retardent home, complete with cable television and beer.
 * 4) The puzzle doesn't state that the man would die on impact by jumping off the cliff. He could jump off the island and survive the fire. Most likely he would die of starvation or dehydration, just as he would on the burned out island as stated in the current solution.
 * The man can dig a hole in the ground deep enough to withstand the fire for a few minutes which time would be enough for the fire to recede from his location.
 * The man can cut part of the wood and therefore stop it from burning the whole island.


text:
File:OTSBlueprint14degreeFrameForge.jpg

Summary
Movie Set view of the Over The Shoulder Shot using a 14 degree field of view lens in FrameForge 3D Studio 2 Demo Version

title: File:OTSBlueprint14degreeFrameForge.jpg


text:
Andro Knego

Andrija "Andro" Knego (born 21 October 1956) is a Croatian former professional basketball player.

Professional career
During his club career, Knego was the FIBA Saporta Cup Finals Top Scorer, in 1982.

National team career
Knego played with the senior Yugoslavian national basketball team at the 1976 Summer Olympics, the 1980 Summer Olympics, and the 1984 Summer Olympics.

title: Andro Knego


text:
User:SuggestBot/Interviews/User-50

As part of our current research study we would like to know a bit more about you and your involvement on Wikipedia and your use of SuggestBot. Your participation is voluntary, meaning you are free to not answer any questions or withdraw at any time. You can find more information about the study and contact information in the consent information sheet. To respond you can edit this page and write the answers below the questions like it was a talk page. If you wish to submit your answers in private you can email us directly.

If you have questions about any part of this, feel free to let us know. I (User:Nettrom) am the researcher responsible for the project and I’ve got this page on my watchlist so I can respond fairly quickly. I might also stop by to ask some follow-up questions, e.g. to clarify if there was something I could not understand. Regards, Nettrom (talk) 18:11, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

 * 1) Articles you are interested in.
 * 2) How do you decide which articles to work on?
 * 3) Are there certain features of Wikipedia that help you make these decisions, e.g. recent changes, community portal, WikiProjects, etc?
 * 4) What kind of things to do on Wikipedia do you find most interesting?
 * 5) How much time (in hours per week) do you generally spend on Wikipedia?
 * 6) When SuggestBot has posted suggestions to you, what do you do with them?
 * 7) What makes a specific suggestion from SuggestBot good or bad for you?
 * 8) We have recently run an experiment where we added information about the suggested articles, in your case icons similar to this one: Stars310.svg
 * 9) How did you interpret the information?
 * 10) How did you use that information when thinking about the suggestions?
 * 11) What other types of information would be helpful?
 * 12) Do you have suggestions for how to improve SuggestBot? It could be specific types of articles or work you would like to see added, things that need to be improved, or anything else for that matter. Let us know what we should work on!

title: User:SuggestBot/Interviews/User-50


text:
Talk:The Origins and History of Consciousness

Untenable selection pressure

The psychiatrist Anthony Stevens called The Origins and History of Consciousness, "a great but misguided book".

Stevens argues that Neumann's assumptions that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, that preliterate human beings were "unconscious", and that Western consciousness has been subjected to different selection pressures to that of other civilized populations, are fallacious and biologically untenable.

The genocide of indigenous peoples has in part been attributed to Europeans introducing diseases to the Americas to which they had already become immune (through generations of selective pressure of living in close proximity with livestock, as they did in Europe at that time).

One can imagine after the introduction of visual writing systems that dyslexia was subject to a differential selective pressure in societies where written communication had become ascendant. Perhaps not so much in societies with a quipu record system. Dyslexia is at least part of our cognitive/conscious apparatus.

The realm of selective pressure is vast and variegated, with the vast majority of effects between small and/or cryptic (indistinguishable as a separate causal force). Modern academia has a very high threshold for selective pressure entering into the debate about cultural differences, and there are excellent reasons for adopting this social posture. However, it's still wrong to say that the selective pressures don't exist merely because they are too small, too unproven, too divisive, and too permanently cryptic to be worthy of discussion. — MaxEnt 22:01, 22 June 2020 (UTC)


text:
East Spotswood, New Jersey

East Spotswood is an unincorporated community located within the borough of Spotswood in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Spotswood's East Spotswood Park and trackside memorial for the Camden and Amboy Railroad are located here. It had a passenger and freight station on the Pennsylvania Railroad, the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company subsidiary, which runs through the community.

title: East Spotswood, New Jersey


text:
User:Dfrauzel

Interested in contributing to topics on Networking and Computer Science in general.

Articles I am contributing to / watching

 * Topic:Networking
 * Topic:Networking_Intro
 * Networking_Intro/About_this_course

Articles I am drafting

 * User:Dfrauzel/Networking_Intro

Useful links

 * Editing Help
 * Sandbox
 * Computer Network
 * Web_Design/Emerging_Technologies_Research_Activities
 * Examples

title: User:Dfrauzel


text:
Out growth

An out growth (OG) is an urban settlement contiguous to another urban area (such as a statutory town, census town, or city) that possesses urban characteristics but is not qualified as an independent town. It should not possess any uninhabited areas, and should be strictly contiguous with the town.

The 2011 Census of India defined it as:

"A viable unit such as a village or part of a village contiguous to a statutory town and possess the urban features in terms of infrastructure and amenities such as pucca roads, electricity, taps, drainage system, educational institutions, post offices, medical facilities, banks etc.

Examples of OGs are Railway colonies, university colonies and port areas, that may come up near a city or statutory towns outside its statutory limits but within the revenue limit of a village or villages contiguous to the town or city."

title: Out growth


text:
lilli

Etymology 1
From a variant of.

Noun

 * 1)  newly milked milk

Etymology 2
See.

Etymology 3
Possibly a variant of.

Etymology 4
Variant of, or from.

title: lilli


text:
User:PGWG/CSD log

This is a log of all speedy deletion nominations made by this user using Twinkle's CSD module.

If you no longer wish to keep this log, you can turn it off using the preferences panel, and nominate this page for speedy deletion under CSD U1.

September 2017

 * Laser Background: CSD A7 (db-band); notified 04:19, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

title: User:PGWG/CSD log


text:
下課

Verb

 * 1)  to finish class; to get out of school
 * 2)  to be fired; to be dismissed
 * 3)  to have break time; to have recess

title: 下課


text:
wunderlich

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) quaint, bizarre, strange

title: wunderlich


text:
Willie Williams (basketball)

Willie Earl Williams (born July 28, 1946) is a former National Basketball Association (NBA) player. Williams lettered two years in basketball at Florida State University after two years at Miami Dade Community College. In the 1968–69 season, Williams averaged 7.8 points and 9.6 rebounds per game. The following season, Williams averaged 16.9 points and 11.0 rebounds per game. He was drafted with the fourth pick in the third round of the 1970 NBA draft. After playing sixteen games with the Celtics in the 1970-71 NBA season, Williams was waived by the Celtics and then claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Royals. In his one NBA season, Williams averaged 0.9 points and 0.9 rebounds per game.

title: Willie Williams (basketball)


text:
Talk:Olney, Texas

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion: Participate in the deletion discussion at the. —Community Tech bot (talk) 06:36, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * One-Arm Dove Hunt Mural.jpg

title: Talk:Olney, Texas


text:
Cyril Simpson (footballer)

Cyril Simpson (18 August 1942 – January 2015) was an English professional association footballer of the 1950s. He played as a forward in the Football League for Gillingham, making 18 appearances. Simpson was born in August 1942 in Aylesham, Kent, and died in Kent in January 2015 at the age of 72.

title: Cyril Simpson (footballer)


text:
Thomas Halsey (died 1788)

Thomas Halsey (c. 1731–1788) was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1784.

Halsey was the son of Charles Halsey of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire and his wife Agatha Dorrien, daughter of Frederick Dorrien of London. His grandfather had been MP for Hertfordshire and his father, a younger son, was a London merchant in the Hamburg trade. His father in 1739 had inherited the family estates on the death of his elder brother. Halsey himself joined his father in the business, and in or before 1759 he went to Hamburg as a member of the firm of Hanbury and Halsey. In 1760 while still out there, he was appointed a commissary of control to the army under Prince Ferdinand which involved examining the execution of contracts.

In 1762 he succeeded to the family estates on the death of his brother, and in February 1763 returned to England, where he settled down as a country gentleman. In 1768 he began the building of Gaddesden Place. It is a large Palladian villa, which is said to be the first work of the architect James Wyatt. It was completed in 1774.

In the 1768 general election Halsey was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire. He was re-elected in the 1774 general election. In 1780 he was returned again after a contest. The English Chronicle wrote of him: “His infirm state of health prevents him from all attention to his parliamentary duty, sometimes for a whole sessions together. This amiable character, however, in private life, has so endeared him to his constituents, that notwithstanding several gentlemen of the first opulence in the country have attempted to supplant him, and have promised a stricter attention to the duties of so important a trust; their efforts have, hitherto, proved totally nugatory ... Mr. Halsey resides mostly in the country, where his humanity and generosity, and a friendly familiar intercourse with his neighbours, have gained him the most universal esteem” He stood for Hertfordshire again in 1784 but was defeated.

Halsey died on 9 October 1788, aged 57. He had married Sarah Crawley, daughter of John Crawley of Stockwood, Bedfordshire on 18 March 1784 with whom he had a daughter, Sarah. His estates, including that of Gaddesden Place, were inherited by Sarah, who had married Joseph Thompson Whately, later the MP for St Albans. Whately thereupon adopted the name and arms of Halsey.

title: Thomas Halsey (died 1788)


text:
User:Davidjk14/sandbox

Heading text
some text

more text

bold

italic bold and italic

blah blah

 * first
 * second
 * sub
 * last

\#

3

 * term
 * defination

4
Main Page

google

google

title: User:Davidjk14/sandbox


text:
Herberts

Herberts may refer to:

 * Herberts, New Jersey, United States
 * The Herberts, Wales, United Kingdom
 * Alfred Herbert (company) or Herbert's, British former machine tool manufacturing business
 * Herberts Gmbh, a German chemical company specializing in protective coatings, now Axalta

title: Herberts


text:
1993–94 Danish Superliga

The 1993–94 Danish Superliga season was the 4th season of the Danish Superliga league championship, governed by the Danish Football Association.

The tournament was held in two rounds. First round was in the autumn 1993, and the second in the spring 1994. The teams placed first to eighth in first round, played in second round. Their scores were reset to zero, and their mutual points were shorted to the half.

The two teams placed ninth and tenth in first round, played in the qualification league in the spring. They had respectively 8 and 7 points with.

The Danish champions qualified for the UEFA Champions League 1994-95 qualification, while the second and third placed teams qualified for the qualification round of the UEFA Cup 1994-95. The teams placed first and second in the qualification league promoted.

title: 1993–94 Danish Superliga


text:
Cookbook:Trout

Trout is a family of fresh water game fish related to salmon, found naturally in Europe, North America, and northern Asia, and as an introduced species around the world. The North American Rainbow Trout is now farm raised to provide a large portion of the trout found on the market.

Trout is a bony fish with a mild flavor and a firm texture. It is fairly interchangeable with salmon. The most common ways to prepare trout are pan frying, broiling, smoking, and grilling, but trout can be prepared by a variety of methods.

When purchasing fish, freshness is important. The fish should not have a fishy smell, which actually comes from bacteria decomposing the fish. If purchasing whole fish, the eyes should be clear.

Farm raised Rainbow Trout is listed as a "Best Choice" by the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Program.

Trout recipes

 * Campfire Trout

title: Cookbook:Trout


text:
Fresh Ponds, New Jersey

Fresh Ponds is an unincorporated community located within South Brunswick Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located in a rural portion of the township at the intersection of Fresh Ponds Road and Davidson Mill Road. Forest land, farms, homes, and a church are located around the settlement.

title: Fresh Ponds, New Jersey


text:
User:JKizzieHumanities/William Wiley

William Wiley was a civil rights activist, newspaper editor and postal worker who worked in Providence, Rhode Island. Wiley is known for editing and publishing the Providence Chronicle, the only black newspaper in Rhode Island in its time.

Wiley was born in South Carolina and moved to Providence to live with his father and his second wife (servant of the prominent Rhode Island family, the Chafees) when his mother died. Wiley was editor of his high school newspaper. He could not afford college and joined the Navy in 1918, working as a mess attendant before being promoted to the level of steward. When he returned from service in 1919, he worked for the Imperial Printing and Finishing Company. He met his wife, Olive F. Wiley, in 1921, and they were married in 1925. Wiley worked briefly as the editor of religious publication The Burning Bush in Wisconsin, and he trained to be a minister in the late 1920s. In the 1930s, the Wileys returned to Providence. There, Wiley began editing the Providence Chronicle, and became one of the founding members of the Providence Urban League along with Andrew J. Bell.

In 1985 Olive and William Wiley were jointly inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.

His son was civil rights activist George Alvin Willey, and his granddaughter is civil rights activist Maya Wiley.

title: User:JKizzieHumanities/William Wiley


text:
Talk:Biochemistry/Introduction

This is great matherial. But it seems to me too much for an introduction. Should we make other chapter(s) to reorganize the material correctly? Cyclop 17 apr 2004 - 17.24 UTC

title: Talk:Biochemistry/Introduction


text:
Gwen Stacy (The Amazing Spider-Man film series)

Gwendolyne Maxine Stacy is a fictional character in Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man films, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. She was portrayed by Emma Stone in the films The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. As opposed to taking a supporting role in the previous film trilogy, Gwen is given a prominent role in Webb's films as one of Peter Parker's classmates, serving as his primary love interest and a foil to his character. Webb based Gwen's character off of her traditional comic-book portrayal. For her performance in the films, Stone has received critical praise and wider recognition, despite the divided response to the film series as a whole.

Origins and casting
The character of Gwen Stacy first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #31 in 1965. Intended to be Spider-Man's primary love interest, she was soon superseded in popularity by Mary Jane Watson in that role by fans. This eventually led to the now-controversial decision by Spider-Man writers to kill off Gwen, which served as one of the most pivotal moments in comic-book history; Spider-Man's failure to save Gwen was one of the first big failures by a superhero, and is regarded as the end of the Silver Age of Comic Books. The character has subsequently been cloned or revived several times or seen different iterations in the comics, including one as Spider-Gwen, and has been included in several television shows and cartoons based on Spider-Man.

The first big-budget cinematic appearance of Gwen Stacy was in Spider-Man 3, with Bryce Dallas Howard portraying the character in a supporting role, as Mary Jane was already serving as Peter's main love interest in that trilogy. Following the cancellation of Spider-Man 4 and reboot of the Spider-Man film series, it was originally reported that both Gwen and Mary Jane would appear in the first film of the new series before Gwen was confirmed as the only one of Peter's love interests to appear. The shortlist of actresses to play the role included Lily Collins, Ophelia Lovibond, and Imogen Poots, with Teresa Palmer, Emma Roberts, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter as "potentially in the mix". In September 2010, Variety reported that the shortlist had expanded to include Emma Stone and Mia Wasikowska. After a few more actresses were considered, Stone was announced as the winner of the role in October 2010 due to her chemistry with Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield. That chemistry later inspired their off-screen romance.

For the role, Stone kept her natural blonde hair color to match Gwen's depiction in the comic books, rather than maintaining her usual dyed red hair. She felt that she had a responsibility to educate herself on Spider-Man, admitting she "hadn't read the comic book growing up, and my experience was with the Sam Raimi movies... I always assumed that Mary Jane was his first love", and having only been familiar with Howard's portrayal in Spider-Man 3. Stone said, "There's a part of me that really wants to please people [who] love Spider-Man or Gwen Stacy and want her to be done justice. I hope they'll give me license to interpret her my way." While The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb introduced a few elements from Ultimate Spider-Man, he wanted to keep the mainstream version of Gwen Stacy instead of that world's punk rocker, though he states that the "texture" of the romantic relationship between her and Peter is based on that of the Ultimate versions of Peter and Mary Jane.

Despite her character's death in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Stone expressed interest in returning as a resurrected Stacy in a future The Amazing Spider-Man film in an interview with Screen Rant. By July 2014, development of follow-ups Sinister Six, The Amazing Spider-Man 3, and The Amazing Spider-Man 4 had stalled; the films would have seen Stone reprise her role, the plot following a returned Norman Osborn setting a resurrected amnesiac Gwen as Carnage against Peter, Harry Osborn, and the Sinister Six. By early 2015, a deal to reboot the series within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was reached, effectively cancelling the Amazing Spider-Man franchise.

Screenwriters Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna wrote at various points versions of the story for the MCU film Spider-Man: No Way Home that included Gwen Stacy, alongside appearances of Sally Field's Aunt May and Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane Watson, but Sommers and McKenna ultimately concluded that the story felt already overstuffed, ultimately choosing Zendaya's Michelle "MJ" Jones and Marisa Tomei's Aunt May to be the only female characters in the film with significant screen time.

Characterization and themes
Sony Pictures' official website for The Amazing Spider-Man described Gwen Stacy as "smart, charismatic and rebellious". Stone described her character as "a daddy's girl" who is very responsible and protective of her family and loves science. She said of her character, "she offers Parker a world of stability, of a family unit not marred with parental loss and, beyond physical allure, the two forge an intellectual connection over their shared love of science." Her character, she explained, "is stuck between [her father] the Captain and Peter Parker and Spider-Man, who have different ways about going about finding justice in their lives" which she felt was a fun thing to explore. Dana Stevens of Slate described the character "as the stuff of a comic nerd's dreams: a sweet, smart, wisecracking dame in demure sweaters, miniskirts, thigh-high stockings and boots."

Gwen and Peter's relationship is further explored in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. When asked about their relationship in the sequel, Stone said, "She saves him more than he saves her. She's incredibly helpful to Spider-Man ... He's the muscle, she's the brains." Emily Kubincanek of Film School Rejects observes that unlike Mary Jane Watson, the primary love interest in the Raimi trilogy, Gwen Stacy, as portrayed in the Marc Webb films, provides a "feeling of partnership" in her relationship with Peter Parker and is more than willing to aid him in his battles, even at the cost of her own life when she helps him against Electro and is subsequently targeted and killed by the Green Goblin.

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Gwen first appears as the daughter of NYPD captain George Stacy and as a classmate to Peter Parker and Flash Thompson at Midtown Science High School. She breaks up a fight between the two, admonishing Flash for not finishing his homework and for beating up Peter, then later commends the latter for standing up to Flash. Peter and Gwen begin to develop a mutual interest in each other from that point onwards. They encounter each other later at Oscorp, where Gwen is interning as a research assistant, as Peter sneaks into the facility to find Dr. Curt Connors and is later bitten by a radioactive spider that gives him new abilities. Gwen catches up with Peter after his Uncle Ben picks him up following after-school detention, and later consoles Peter after Ben's death.

After Peter starts tracking down Ben's killer as a masked vigilante, Gwen invites him to dinner with her family, where Peter and Captain Stacy argue about the vigilante's motives. Afterwards, Peter reveals to her that he is, in fact, the vigilante, sharing a kiss with her. Gwen also plays a crucial part in the Lizard's defeat; having helped Peter develop an antidote for Connors' serum for turning people into reptilian hybrids using her own scientific knowledge. Unfortunately, her father is killed by the Lizard before Peter can defeat the villain. George makes Peter promise to keep Gwen out of his dangerous life. Peter honors that vow without immediately telling Gwen, which offends her until she realizes what her father did and forgives Peter. However, when Peter later hints that he's reconsidering keeping that vow, she quietly smiles at this development.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
Gwen and Peter are graduating from high school. She calls him, telling him that he'll be "late" to the graduation ceremony while unbeknownst to her, he is in action as Spider-Man helping the NYPD apprehend Aleksei Sytsevich. Peter arrives just after Gwen finishes her speech as valedictorian to collect his diploma, kissing her in front of the crowd. Gwen and Peter talk where she invites him to dinner before she was called by her mother for a family photo. Later in the evening, Peter tells Gwen about the visions of her father he's been having and insists that he needs to keep his promise which as a result, Gwen breaks up with Peter.

Gwen is seen then working at Oscorp and meets Max Dillon in an elevator, where she finds out his birthday and the fact that he is obsessed with Spider-Man. She later meets up with Peter again, in which they try to maintain their friendship and establish some "ground rules". Gwen tells Peter that she is trying to apply for a scholarship to Oxford University, meaning she has to move to England if she gets it. Before the two can discuss it, Max, having suffered an industrial accident and become Electro, shuts off the power to Times Square whilst looking for electricity to power himself. Gwen recognizes Max and starts asking questions; Donald Menken, a high ranking and mutinous Oscorp board member, decides that she is a threat, fires her and targets her for elimination. In the chaos, she also encounters Peter's childhood best friend Harry Osborn.

Gwen later leaves Peter a voicemail, saying that she got the position at Oxford and has to leave early for a flight. Peter catches up to her and declares his love for her, agreeing to accompany her to England. They are interrupted by an intentional blackout caused by Electro. Peter takes Gwen down where the police are and Gwen helps him with his web-shooters to go against Electro. Peter heads off to fight with Electro having the upper-hand. As Electro has Spider-Man in the air and is electrocuting him, Gwen comes in a police car and hits Electro, against Peter's demands. The two defeat and kill Electro by overloading his electricity supply.

Just after they do so, Harry arrives, now as the Green Goblin, having figured out Spider-Man's identity and wanting revenge for being refused a potentially life-saving blood transfusion. Goblin takes Gwen to a clock tower and drops her but Spider-Man catches her. The two fight at the top of the tower, and Spider-Man manages to subdue the Goblin. However, during the fight, Gwen falls and is supported by a web connected to one of the gears. The gear soon gives away, which cuts the web and Gwen again plummets. Goblin is then defeated and Peter tries to save Gwen using his web. Though he successfully catches her inches from the ground, she dies nonetheless after hitting her head on the ground, causing whiplash. Devastated by his failure to save Gwen, Peter ends his career as Spider-Man.

Five months pass and Spider-Man is nowhere to be seen in New York as Peter spends every day at Gwen's grave. Later, an unknown team of men break Sytsevich out of prison. Equipped with an electromechanical suit of armor, Sytsevich dubs himself the "Rhino" and rampages through the streets. Peter, inspired by re-watching Gwen's graduation speech, resumes his role as Spider-Man and confronts him.

Marvel Infinite tie-in comics
Gwen appears in comics that tie into both films in the series, helping Peter redesign his Spider-Man suit and attempting to maintain a friendship with him after their initial breakup before resuming their relationship.

Video games

 * This version of the character also appears in The Amazing Spider-Man movie video game, voiced by Kari Wahlgren. Several months after the film, Gwen continues to work at Oscorp, and occasionally provides assistance to Spider-Man.
 * Gwen Stacy does not appear in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie video game, but is mentioned by Peter Parker while speaking to his Aunt May when he excuses himself to leave the house and pretend to check up on Gwen during an attack on Oscorp (when in reality, she wasn't present at the incident). Beenox confirmed that the character was excluded from the plot so the game doesn't generate spoilers for the then-upcoming film.

Reception
Emma Stone's performance as Gwen Stacy has received positive reviews and led to wider recognition for the actress, as she was nominated for several awards, winning "Favorite Movie Actress" at the 2015 Kids' Choice Awards. Critics praised Stone's chemistry with Andrew Garfield in both The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and the fact that her character was significantly more fleshed-out than the Gwen Stacy of the Sam Raimi trilogy. In a review of the first film, Stephanie Zacharek of Movieline wrote that she "had no specific desire to see the series resuscitated. But watching Garfield and Stone made me think doing so wasn't such a bad idea". Following the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Alison Willmore of BuzzFeed cited Stone's performance and the love story of two people "hopelessly smitten with each other" as the highlights of the film, with the other subplots and villains serving to "complicate the relationship between Peter and Gwen." She also called the love story "uncommonly appealing" for an otherwise cliché superhero film.


text:
Texas (novel)

Texas is a 1985 novel by American writer James A. Michener (1907–1997), based on the history of Texas. Characters include real and fictional characters spanning hundreds of years, such as explorers, Spanish colonists, American immigrants, German Texan settlers, ranchers, oil men, aristocrats, Chicanos, and others, all based on extensive historical research.

Background
Michener did extensive research on the novel in Texas, receiving much support from the state government. Governor Bill Clements offered him access to numerous state archives and research staff at the University of Texas at Austin. Michener rented 3506 Mt. Bonnell Road for $1 per year to write the manuscript.

At 1,076 pages, it was the longest Michener novel published by Random House. Given the success of his previous novels, the company did a first printing of 750,000 copies, 'the largest in the company's history'.

Chapters
The book is divided into an introduction and 14 subsequent chapters:

The Governor's Task Force - Provides a fictional account of the setting up of a group in 1983 to write a report encouraging an interest in Texas history on the eve of the sesquicentenary in 1986. Each chapter traces the events and lives of key characters then ends with a return to the present time alongside some analysis of the themes covered.

 * 1) Land of Many Lands - Introduces the early Mexican expeditions of Cabeza de Vaca, Fray Marcos, and Coronado in the 1530s and 1540s. Other elements include Esteban, Isla de Malhado, the Seven Cities of Cibola, Quivira, El Turco, the Requerimiento, and The Black Legend.
 * 2) The Mission - Covers the era in the 18th century of evangelism by Franciscans, the construction of missions and presidio (i.e. Presidio San Antonio de Béxar), and settlement by Spanish (i.e. Canary Islanders led by Juan Leal Goras), criollo, and mestizo immigrants in central and north-eastern New Spain. Other elements include matchmaking paseo, land acquisition, conflicts in Apacheria and Comancheria, relations with French Louisiana, and Catholic martydom.
 * 3) El Camino Real - Explains the weakening of the missions in the late 18th century and how "The Royal Road" running through San Antonio linked the barren north with the more prosperous south of Spanish Texas. The early focus on casta, particularly by the Spanish-born class, influenced marriage and land ownership, contrasting with the culture of the non-Spanish entering the area from the north.
 * 4) The Settlers - Details the ongoing influx of settlers from the north in the 1820s. Crossing the Neutral Ground, immigrants were often attracted by empresario (such as Stephen F. Austin) but had to submit to Catholicism in order to settle. Many brought with them strong convictions about freedom, government, and religion. Conflict over land with natives (such as the Karankawa) also ensued, leading to their eventual displacement.
 * 5) The Trace - By the early 1830s, the Mississippi and the Natchez Trace (where Meriweather Lewis died) became organized routes for migration and trade to Texas, slowly becoming more settled and less lawless. The influence of Scots-Irish Protestants is highlighted—particularly in land settlement (i.e. league and a labor grants) and early industry (selling horses and cattle to New Orleans) alongside the local Mexicans.
 * 6) Three Men, Three Battles - Traces the events leading up to the Texas Revolution of 1835–1836, a rebellion of Texians and Tejanos resisting the centralist government of Mexico. The campaign north by Santa Anna results in clashes at the Alamo Mission in Béxar and near the Presidio La Bahía in Goliad. Despite the general chaos, rivalry, and indecision shown by the various commanders, including Sam Houston's Runaway Scrape, the decisive battle at San Jacinto secures independence.
 * 7) The Texians - Covers the formative and chaotic period of the Republic of Texas (1836–1845) and the ongoing skirmishes across the Nueces Strip. Governing the new nation was difficult given its size and formative legal institutions. The presidencies of Sam Houston and Mirabeau B. Lamar are detailed against increasing tensions with native tribes (see Texas Cherokees, Council House Fight, and Great Raid of 1840) and Mexicans. The arrival of German Texan settlers help the developing industry and agriculture sectors.
 * 8) The Ranger - After being granted statehood, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) erupts as a result of historical border tensions and a failed attempt to purchase the region. Various battles are covered as is the return from exile of Santa Anna. Texas forces (i.e. the Texas Rangers) join the US force under General Zachary Taylor, and although brave, they prove to be ill-disciplined and prone to vengeance against Mexicans.
 * 9) Loyalties - Covers the late period of the Antebellum South to the end of the American Civil War. It highlights the fundamental influence that the Old South had on the "New South" (including Texas), from agriculture (cotton), the export economy, to labor (slavery), and social and political attitudes. It also outlines the impact of the Vicksburg campaign and Union blockade on families and increasing tensions due to the Emancipation Proclamation.
 * 10) The Fort - Highlights the shift in focus in post-war Texas to the frontier and conflicts with native tribes over land and resources (such as water and buffalo). As settlers moved increasingly to the west, forts followed to provide security. The book introduces Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry and Benjamin Grierson, cultural prejudices, and the slow erosion of native resistance and inevitable resettlement.
 * 11) The Frontier - Covers the late 1870s–1880s as attention turned to developing settlements and land holdings. Cattle drives and droving became a significant way to profit from the extension west of railroad heads (primarily Abilene and Dodge City), as did the cross breeding of longhorns with imported herefords to increase sale values. The introduction of barbed wire, to enclose land and water resources, led to several range wars.
 * 12) The Town - Moves the narrative to 1900 and the devastating arrival of the boll weevil. It explains the particularly strong and local nature of Protestantism in Texas. It also highlights voter fraud and collusion as an element in local politics as well as the revival of the KKK as a local moral force. The discovery of oil changes the nature of the Texas economy while the development of high school football affects local sports culture.
 * 13) The Invaders - The focus of the novel moves to the 1960s and illegal immigration (and border patrol) along the Mexican border alongside the regional economic activity supported by immigrants. It contrasts with internal migration and relocation from declining economic regions such as Detroit. The inevitable spread north of the nine-banded armadillo is also detailed as another 'invader'. The rise of seasonal hunting and aquifer irrigation is also explained.
 * 14) Power and Change - Covers the first half of the 1980s, including the early 1980s recession, where oil prices fell and office space in major cities became over supplied. Other themes include Texas' influence on national politics, the Ogallala Aquifer depletion, regular regional droughts, and longhorn sales. The ongoing changes in Texas universities are covered as is the establishment of notable art museums (e.g., Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth).

Reception
Texas Monthly did not like the novel, awarding Michener its 'Bum Steer of the Year Award' (given to people who have done something to merit ridicule or embarrassment) for the work's "hackneyed dialogue" and "tendency to resort to stereotypes". The magazine, however, made peace with Michener later.

Adaptations
The novel was adapted as a 1994 made-for-TV movie of the same name, directed by Richard Lang and featuring actors Stacy Keach, Benjamin Bratt, Rick Schroder, and Patrick Duffy.

title: Texas (novel)


text:
Talk:Dave McClain (musician)

Disambig
A disambiguation page needed. Sr13 08:09, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:Dave McClain (musician)


text:
Vestalis

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to Vesta, goddess of hearth and home.
 * 2) vestal

Noun

 * 1) A priestess of Vesta; a vestal virgin

title: Vestalis


text:
Mike Bahía

Michael Egred Mejía (born 27 June 1987 in Cali, Colombia) artistically known as Mike Bahía, is a Colombian singer and enterprise administrator. He is best known for his songs "Estar Contigo", "Buscándote", "La Muñeca", and his most recent collaboration "Amantes", with Greeicy Rendón.

Career
Bahía has played guitar since he was 8 years old. He did a university degree in business administration, but does not currently exercise that title. He began his career in 2013 in the reality show La Voz Colombia (The voice Colombia) performing the song "This Love" by Maroon 5, and was selected for the first stage of the program as part of the Fanny Lu team. Later it was eliminated in the second stage of the program. During that time, he was part of Capzula, a rock band from Cali, where he worked as a vocalist performing songs as "Punto y Aparte" and "Lo Dejamos Así". In this group he was for almost seven years, until in 2014 he decided to leave he and continue his path as a soloist. In 2015, he released his first song "Buscándote", produced by Montana "The Producer", Ronny Watts and Juan Jhail. This single made it known not only in Colombia, but internationally, and marked the beginning of a great musical career. Later, he released the songs "Estar Contigo", "Tarde", and "La Muñeca", which became the most listened to on all radio and television programs dedicated to music nationwide.

In 2017, he released his first album entitled "Yo Soy", which he promoted with his single "Déjame". The album was produced by Grammy winner, Sky. Other of the singles that are part of the album is "Una Noche en Hawaii", which he performed with the Bolivian singer Bonny Lovy. And "Alguien Me Dijo" produced by Maffio and with the participation of Jamaican artist Red Rat. However, it was with the single "Amantes", in which he collaborated with Greeicy Rendón, with which he stood out. The single since its launch lasted 6 weeks in the number one spot on the National-Report charts. On television he has been guest stars in television series as The Girl (2016), and Francisco el matemático: Clase 2017 where he also composed the main theme song of the series. Later, in 2018, he participated in the reality show Mira quién baila as a competitor.

In 2021 and 2022, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified five of his Bahía's singles. "Cuenta Conmigo" (with Llane and PJ Sin Suela, featuring Mozart La Para), "La Lá" (featuring Ovy On The Drums) and "Serenata" were certified Disco De Oro, while "Detente" (featuring Danny Ocean) and "Esta Noche" (with Greeicy) were featured "Disco De Platino".

title: Mike Bahía


text:
Queen Tamara (play)

Queen Tamara (Dronning Tamara) is a three-act play by Knut Hamsun about Tamar of Georgia. It was published in 1903.

Characters

 * Tamara, Queen of Georgia
 * Prince Giorgi, her husband
 * Giorgi and Rusdan, their children
 * The prior
 * The abbot
 * Fatimat, the queen's servant
 * The khan of Tovin
 * Zaidata
 * Juanata
 * Sofiat
 * Mecedu
 * Prince Giorgi's adjutant
 * Two Tatar officers
 * Two Georgian prisoners
 * A hetman
 * The queen's officers and soldiers, Tovin officers and soldiers, monks, scribes, musicians, dancers, girls, servants

Reception
Hamsun's play was poorly received. Reviews characterized it as uninteresting or even a failure, and Hamsun is considered to have known too little about the subject matter to convincingly develop the plot.

title: Queen Tamara (play)


text:
WWE: Uncaged II

WWE: Uncaged II is a compilation album of unreleased professional wrestling entrance theme songs which was released by WWE on March 21, 2017, on online music stores. The album was originally scheduled to be released on March 17, 2017, but was delayed. The album features multiple tracks that were not available to the general public before the release of the album, track 10 "Danger in the Jungle" with Rainforest intro was originally used for The Headshrinkers, the version that Haku and Faces of Fear used was remixed with drums in WCW.

Track listing
All songs are composed, written and produced by Jim Johnston,

title: WWE: Uncaged II


text:
User:Zesmo~enwikiversity

Hello, you can call me Zesmo and if you have any questions about my work please feel free to contact me at: maziy300@yahoo.ca

title: User:Zesmo~enwikiversity