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German/Lesson 3

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 Die Zahlen ~ The Numbers

Lektion 3 ~ Zählen von 1 bis 12
Counting in any language is a valuable skill best learned early on. In German as in English, there are both cardinal (counting) and ordinal (place or order) numbers, and number formation is similar in that the first twelve numbers are unique. Above twelve, numbers are formed by combination. For example, 13 is dreizehn and 14 is vierzehn. Higher numbers will be the subject of later lessons.

Note in the table how ordinals are formed from the cardinals in German by adding te. 'Ten' becomes 'tenth' in English; zehn become zehnte in German. As in English, there are several nonconforming variants: erste, dritte, and siebte.

Audio: [[media:Zahlen_1_bis_12.ogg|OGG]] (385KB)

Grammatik 3-1 ~ Telling time (hours)
Knowing the numbers from 1 to 12, you can now begin asking and telling time in German. Der Uhrturm von Graz

Gespräch 3-1

 * Zwei Jungen, Heinrich und Karl, sind Freunde. Sie begegnen sich eines Nachmittags.
 * Heinrich: Karl. Wie geht's?
 * Karl:      Hallo!
 * Heinrich: Willst du spielen? Ich habe einen Ball.
 * Karl:      Wie spät ist es?
 * Heinrich: Es ist ein Uhr.
 * Karl:      Dann kann ich bis zwei Uhr spielen.
 * Heinrich: Das ist gut. Wir spielen eine Stunde lang!

Asking for the time is accomplished by the sentence: Wie spät ist es? ("How late is it?"). The answer places the hour in the line Es ist ____ Uhr ("It is __ o'clock"), substituting the correct cardinal value (except ein is used instead of eins). One could also ask: Wieviel Uhr ist es? (not used very often anymore) or respond Es ist eins or Es ist drei, etc.—which may be imprecise, unless the time is close to the hour. The following sentences also relate to telling time:
 * * this is only regional - many Germans may not understand

Knowing how to express the quarter, half, and three quarter hours will allow you to give the time more precisely. We will, of course, revisit this subject. Once you know how to count beyond twelve, the hour's division into 60 minutes can be expressed. Also, Germans (like most Europeans) utilize what is known in America as "military time" or a 24-hour clock.

Vokabeln 3-1
Also included in the vocabulary for Lesson 3 are the ordinal and cardinal numbers 1 through 12 from Lektion 3 above. der Ball                  ball der Junge, die Jungen     boy, boys das Lernen                learning, study der Nachmittag            afternoon die Stunde                hour die Uhr                   watch (timepiece); also "o'clock" der Uhrturm               clock tower die Uhrzeit               time, time of day das Viertel               quarter die Zahl, die Zahlen      number, numbers

bis zwei Uhr              until two o'clock das ist gut               very well (lit.: "that is good") eines Nachmittags         one (unspecified) afternoon ich kann... spielen       I can play es ist                    it is willst du ...? do you want ...? (familiar form)

fragen                    ask (a question) spielen                   play zählen                    count

dann                      then halb                      half, halfway to nach                       about, after spät                      late vor                       before, until zu                        to
 * Pronunciation Guide >>

Grammatik 3-2 ~ Introduction to Nouns
A noun is a fundamental part of speech, occurring in sentences in two different ways: as subjects (performers of action), or objects (recipients of action). As a generality, a noun is the name of a "person, place, or thing". Nouns are classified into proper nouns (e.g. "Janet"), common nouns (e.g. "girl"), and pronouns (e.g. "she" and "which"). A proper noun (also called proper name) is a noun which denotes a unique entity. The meaning of a proper noun, outside of what it references, is frequently arbitrary or irrelevant (for example, someone might be named Tiger Smith despite being neither a tiger nor a smith). Because of this, they are often not translated between languages, although they may be transliterated — for example, the German surname "Knödel" becomes "Knoedel" in English, as opposed to "Dumpling". Proper nouns are capitalized in English and all other languages that use the Latin alphabet; this is one way to recognize them. However, in German both proper and common nouns are capitalized (as are certain formal pronouns; see Grammatik 2-3).

Grammatik 3-3 ~ Gender of Nouns
We have seen evidence of word gender in the pronouns we have been encountering; notably 'he', 'she', and 'it' in English and er, sie, and es in German. Just like many other languages (but not English), German has genders for nouns as well. Noun gender is indicated by the definite article, which should always be learned as part of the noun. For this reason, nouns presented in each lesson's Vokabeln include the gender appropriate definite article.

Definite Articles
The definite article (bestimmter Artikel) is equivalent to an English 'the', and the three basic gender forms of definite articles in German are as follows:

To say 'the book' in German, you would say das Buch, because Buch is a neuter noun. To say 'the man' in German, you would say der Mann, because Mann is a masculine noun. To say 'the woman' in German, you would say die Frau, because Frau is a feminine noun.

Noun gender does not always derive from actual gender where gender might be applicable. For example, 'the boy' is der Junge (masculine); but 'the girl' is das Mädchen (neuter). Also, nouns that have no inherent gender are not necessarily neuter. From this lesson: 'the watch or time piece' is die Uhr ('feminine').

Because German is generally more structured than English, it is important when learning German nouns to always learn them with their gender correct definite article; and in the Vokabeln nouns are always given with their associated definite article. That is, you must memorize the word for 'book' in German as das Buch, not simply Buch. Not just definite articles, but indefinite articles and adjectives have endings that must match the gender of the noun they precede. Using the wrong gender can alter the meaning of a German sentence, so in forming a proper sentence with Buch, you will need to know that it is a neuter noun.

Indefinite Articles
In addition to the definite articles—"the" in English and der-words in German—discussed above, both languages have indefinite articles (unbestimmter Artikel). Indefinite articles precede nouns in the same way that definite articles do, but convey a general or indefinite sense. These are "a" or "an" in English. Thus, 'the book' or das Buch refers to a definite or specific book, whereas 'a book' or ein Buch is indefinite about which book is referred to. Indefinite articles also have gender as shown here:

Here are some examples of indefinite articles (underlined) used in German sentences: Why, you ask, are there words like einen in some sentences above—a spelling that does not appear in the gender table? The tables for both the definite and indefinite articles above are simplified at this stage, giving only articles in the nominative case (applied to words that are subjects of verbs). In the very next lesson you will start to address all the other cases in German. However, the nominative case is the one used to signify the gender of a noun, as in our Vokabeln.

Vokabeln 3-2
das Buch                  book die Frau                  woman der Knödel                dumpling das Mädchen               (young) girl der Mann                  man

lesen                     read

 * Pronunciation Guide >>

Übersetzung 3-1
Translate the following sentences into German:
 * 1) I am reading until ten o'clock.
 * 2) It is nine thirty.
 * 3) It is a quarter to ten.
 * 4) Cathy is a student at the university.
 * 5) She meets Mark on the street.
 * 6) Henry has a ball.
 * 7) The girl is a friend.
 * 8) Mr. Smith has a question.
 * Antworten >

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Abirabad, Razavi Khorasan

Abirabad (, also Romanized as ‘Abīrābād) is a village in Darbqazi Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 244, in 60 families.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polymer ratio

The result was redirect to Polymerization. (non-admin closure) ~ Amkgp  💬  15:36, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Polymer ratio

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Appears to be a dicdef, and it's not clear to me how this would be expanded beyond one. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 04:44, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 04:44, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

 * Merge to Polymerization. This could basically be added as is to the end of Polymerization, where it would be nicely in context. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:24, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge or redirect to Polymerization. Doesn't seem to be much else that could be added to this article from what I can see. -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:25, 22 August 2020 (UTC)


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apologet

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) apologist

Noun

 * 1) apologist

Etymology
From, cognate with 🇨🇬, used in Swedish since 1816.

Noun

 * 1) an apologist, a defender (of Christianity)

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Talk:W. A. C. Bennett

Two Rivers Policy/Columbia River Treaty

 * ''The W.A.C. Bennett Dam near Hudson's Hope, built under the Two River Policy, is named after him.

Er, I'm not sure that's the meaning of the Two Rivers Policy (or Two River Policy? I thought it was "Rivers" but I'm not sure), which was Bennett's hold-out (and successful) position in his stonewalling of Washington DC and Ottawa over the Columbia River Treaty. The "one river" policy as far as I understand it would have been the damming of the Columbia insuch a way that all of the Columbia and Kootenay River (and Kootenay Lake) valleys in BC would become one big reservoir; I think Trail, Nelson, and Castlegar would have been preserved but there'd be a big horseshoe-shaped lake stretching from there to the Big Bend, via Revelstoke on the one hand and via Montana on the other; a precursor to the NAWAPTA dream of turning the Rocky Mountain Trench (and most of the rest of BC's valleys) into one big reservoir, all the way to the Yukon. Unfortunately I can't check this quickly as I sold my copy of Paddy Sherman's Bennett a few months ago; it discussed his Columbia River Treaty politics in detail; I haven't read Mitchell's book, which is the source here (FWIU it's a bit sycophantic). It may be that the "Two Rivers" were the Columbia and the Peace, but I'm pretty sure the reference is rather to the Columbia and the Kootenay/Kootenai, i.e. keeping them as separate rivers, instead of effectively making the Kootenay disappear between the waters of a Columbia "mega-reservoir". The Peace project was a bonus that Bennett threw into the deal - and I'm not sure Peace River power is bound by the Columbia River Treaty; it was just built at the same time I think, and part of Bennett's "sell" in getting his way - as the lower levels in the Columbia basin meant also less power generated so he had a way to produce more - damming the Peace, which wasn't part of the original Columbia River proposal advanced by the States. AFAIK it wasn't part of the "downstream benefits" package the NDP signed away on back around 1999 or so (redlinked because it needs an article). Most Canadians today aren't aware that Bennett threatened to secede from Canada if the federal government gave way to the Americans on the deal, and implicitly WAC stood up to Washington DC as well in the same context (seceding from Canada to join the US wasn't "on" - BC remained very royalist and British-loyal in the late '50s)...all of this discussion is tangent off the core point: there should be a mention on this page of the Columbia River Treaty, which there isn't; odd to see the Two River(s) Policy, since it was only a position related to the treaty and not an actual document or agreement.Skookum1 19:19, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Two Rivers Policy & WAC Bennett's bio.
Isn't this a federal policy, not a provincial one? I seem to remember it being some kind of deal to divide power generation on the Columbia River between the US and Canada...

Are you all sure WAC tried to obtain the Progressive Conservative leadership in 1951? I too have a copy of Paddy Sherman's book but it is packed away and I can't get at it now.Chris. Fulker 14:37, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

The Photo.
This looks more like Princess Margaret! And perhaps it should be pointed out that Bennett is the one standing to her immediate right, not the one shaking hands. The woman with the dark glasses does look like May Bennett, though...Chris. Fulker 15:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The BC Archives describes the Royal in question as the Queen. But they could be wrong. fishhead64 05:57, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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Photo
Are there really no photos of his face that we can use ? -- Beardo (talk) 21:09, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It would be nice if we could find a fair use image. I haven't been successful. In a few years, fair use will be permissible.  fishhead64 (talk) 22:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

The 52-53 elections and other matters
It's very difficult to make non-POV edits to such a highly politicized personality and legacy as WAC's; avoiding POV leaves for a terse and rather flavourless and "empty" set of bland facts; and WAC was not bland in the slightest. But I hestitate to make any edits just because of NPOV, because it's very hard to say anythign without editorializing-by-way-of-explanation, or adding facts in logic cause-effect things that I can't immediatley page cite or article cite; most of what I might add in the following bit would be from Paddy Sherman, or over the years from Fotheringham's and various other columnists' writings and general memories/experiences of my own from the later times of his era, and of his son's regime - during which there was a lot of background on Socred politics that had a lot of items from the earlier times; but all also op-ed columss, not news coverage, and so inherently POV (though still quotable, if found). Anyway this bit could use some work/expansion:
 * ''Commencing with the 1952 provincial election, the province used an alternative vote system that had been designed to enable the Conservative and Liberal parties to keep the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation out of power. Unexpectedly, this enabled Social Credit to win the largest number of seats, arguably because of second-preference ballots from CCF voters.
 * "Should" read - Faced with the growth of leftist support in BC as aresult of the Great Depression and its troubles, and because of World War II, the mutually hostile Liberal and Conservative Parties united formally as t he Liberal-Conservative Coalition in advance of the 1941 election, winning power and retaining it until 1952, when discord between the two parties in the Coalition led to its dissolution, with the solution to keeping the CCF blocked from power being the creation of a preferential ballot system. The intent of the system was that Liberal and Tory voters would vote for each other's parties as second preference; instead because of grating hostility between the parties, many gave their second votes to Social Credit, which also found itself the recipient of the second-preference ballots of the bulk of the CCF electorate.
 * ''With only 19 seats out of a total of 48, Social Credit fell short of holding a majority. Bennett had succeeded in convincing an independent labour Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) to support the party, and so the Socreds were able to form a minority government.
 * ["should" read]The result was a surprise tie between the newly-minted Social Credit, and the CCF, with each party holding seats seats out of a total of 48 and the CCF receiving the majority of the popular vote on both first and second counts. Controversially, the CCF were not called upon by the Lieutenant-Governor and Bennett was invited to form a government, successfully recruiting an independent labour member to the Social Credit fold for a total caucus of 19 seats.   The Liberals had won six seats, and the Conservatives four. Labour MLA Tom Uphill won re-election in the coal-mining Fernie riding, and was persuaded by Bennett to support him instead of the CCF.....
 * -This gets a good deal more complicated when you read the Tom Uphill article, which I'll quote here:
 * ''With only 19 seats out of a total of 48, Social Credit fell short of holding a majority. Bennett had succeeded in convincing an independent labour Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) to support the party, and so the Socreds were able to form a minority government.
 * ''The party had no leader, however. In a vote of the newly elected caucus, Bennett defeated Philip Gaglardi for the position of party leader and premier-elect on July 15, 1952 by a margin of 10 to 9.

Bennett and his wife beside H.R.H. the Princess Margaret in Kelowna, BC on July 19, 1958 Bennett and his wife beside H.R.H. the Princess Margaret in Kelowna, BC on July 19, 1958
 * ''On August 1, he was sworn in as Premier of British Columbia, an office he held for twenty years until 1972. Bennett engineered the defeat of his minority government with a school funding proposal, and forced an election in 1953. Social Credit was re-elected with a clear majority. Alternative voting was not used in BC again.
 * "One of Bennett's first acts of government was to do away wit hthe elctoral system which had brought him to power; alternative voting was not used in BC again"
 * -Thought more could be added about the politics of teh 1952-53 government (all ten months of it, or whatevr it was), and also Uphill's attempt to force a change of govenrment by crossing hte floor "back to" the CCF (see his article) and likewise the L-G's refual to consider a CCF government (for non-Canadians, it helps to know that Lieutenats-Governor aren't supposed to be ..... well, POV, i.e .partisan; in BC they often are......).

That's all for now; these might seem like POV edits but they're largely from Paddy Sherman's Bennett! and are mainstream lore about these events; it's hard not to paint them in a POV light; WAC himself was very POV, and everythign he died was convetroversial.....Skookum1 (talk) 03:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

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Hill Manor

Hill Manor is a manor house in the parish of Brading on the Isle of Wight.

A small holding held, with the adjoining Beaper, by the late Miss le Marchant, lies to the east of Hardingshute Manor, and was in the 14th century held by Reginald le Corner. It probably formed part of the manor of Nunwell at one time. In 1333 Walter le Burgeys de la Brigge granted a rent in Hill to John de Kingston, but this may refer to another holding. In 1604 Robert Dillington died seised of the 'manor of Hill.'

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Mocímboa da Praia offensive

The Mocímboa da Praia offensive was a six day long offensive in northern Mozambique by Islamic State's Central African Province (IS-CAP) to capture the town of 30,000. The offensive, part of the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, was a major success for IS-CAP, as they captured Mocímboa da Praia.

Offensive
The offensive actions started on August 5, 2020 when IS-CAP insurgents attacked the villages of Anga, 1 de Maio, Awasse, and the outskirts of Mocímboa da Praia on the same night. On August 6, IS-CAP attacked two military bases in Mocímboa da Praia, killing or wounding 50 soldiers and seizing dozens of rifles and RPG-7s. The government also repeated an attempted assault on the city, killing 16 insurgents. On August 8, the government pulled out of Ntotue, a strategic town in between Mocímboa da Praia and Awasse. On August 9, IS-CAP took the town of Awasse and were in control of the outskirts of Mocímboa da Praia. A well-carried out ambush took place on Sunday just before Awasse, killing 55 recruits and injuring 90 more. By the 10th the city of Mocímboa da Praia was completely cut off from food and ammunition. South Africa's Dyck Advisory Group attempted to airdrop ammunition onto the city under siege but dropped it too far from the Mozambican military. As a result, the Mozambicans suffered casualties trying to recover the supplies. On Tuesday, August 11, the Mozambican army, outnumbered and low on ammunition, was forced to retreat by boat from the city. In the retreat, an HV32 interceptor vessel was hit with an RPG and sank. 55 soldiers were killed in running battles during the siege of the city. The insurgents lost a total of 70 men during the battle for the city.

Aftermath
Following the offensive, IS-CAP declared Mocímboa da Praia its capital. Several local civilians welcomed the rebels, and were reportedly seen cheering them on. Despite attempts by the Mozambican security forces to retake the town, it remained under rebel control as of March 2021.

A combination of Rwandan and Mozambican forces launched an effort to retake the city at the beginning of August 2021. This offensive was ultimately successful.

As Mocímboa da Praia has traditionally served as a major hub for smuggling in narcotics and minerals, observers believe that the conquest has allowed IS-CAP to impose taxes which provide it with a steady revenue stream.

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Levy Report

The Levy Report (דו״ח לוי), officially called Report on the Legal Status of Building in Judea and Samaria (דו״ח על מעמד הבניה באזור יהודה ושומרון), is an 89-page report on West Bank settlements published on 9 July 2012, authored by a three-member committee headed by former Israeli Supreme Court justice Edmund Levy. The committee, dubbed the "outpost committee", was appointed by Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in late January 2012 to investigate the legal status of unauthorized West Bank Jewish settlements, but also examined whether the Israeli presence in the West Bank is to be considered an occupation or not.

The report concludes that Israel's presence in the West Bank is not an occupation, and that the Israeli settlements are legal under international law. It recommends the legalization of unauthorized Jewish settlement outposts by the state, and provides proposals for new guidelines for settlement construction.

In May 2014, Haaretz reported that the government was covertly carrying out the recommendations of the Report.

The committee
The three members of the committee are former Israeli Supreme Court justice Edmund Levy, former Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker and former deputy president of the Tel Aviv District Court Tchia Shapira. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the "members were meticulously chosen": Levy, who served as deputy mayor of Ramle on behalf of the Likud before being appointed as a Supreme Court judge, was the single minority justice to oppose the 2005 unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, declaring that it violated the rights of the Jewish settlers, Baker who is a resident of the West Bank settlement Har Adar was on the payroll of a settlers' organization which advocates legalization of outposts, and Shapira, the daughter of former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, is a sister-in-law of right-wing ideologue Israel Harel.

Background
The Levy committee was appointed as an advisory committee by the Israeli cabinet in late January 2012, following pressure by settlement leaders. It was to examine legalization of settlement building in the West Bank and to recommend "an appropriate process to clarify land issues in the area", as well as to review the 2005 government report known as the Sasson Report, commissioned by then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, which had found that several dozen outposts had been built without state approval and on privately owned Palestinian land. The Sasson report's objectivity was questioned after its author, former state prosecutor Talia Sasson, entered politics as a member of the left-wing Meretz party, and as a public board member of the human rights group Yesh Din. However, in addition to its assignment, the Levy committee also examined whether the Israeli presence in the West Bank is an occupation or not.

Findings and recommendations
The Levy Report states that the classical laws of belligerent occupation "as set out in the relevant international conventions cannot be considered applicable to the unique and sui generis historic and legal circumstances of Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria spanning over decades", and that the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention against the transfer of populations is not applicable to the Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank, concluding: "Israelis have the legal right to settle in Judea and Samaria and the establishment of settlements cannot, in and of itself, be considered illegal". The assertion that Israel’s settlement project is the province of domestic Israeli jurisdiction and not international law is "the most noteworthy, critical, and challenging aspect of the report," according to the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

The report, while recommending the legalization of outposts, is critical of government policies that allowed their establishment, stating "we wish to stress that the picture that has been displayed before us regarding Israeli settlement activity in Judea and Samaria does not befit the behavior of a state that prides itself on, and is committed to, the rule of law". The report notes that unauthorized Jewish building, including some 100 outposts built from 1991 to 2005, had taken place with the help of government offices and ministries, adding that the involvement of governmental agencies in such activity means that "such conduct is to be seen as implied agreement". The committee asks the government to clarify its policy on West Bank Jewish building, and ensure that all future settlement construction proceeds with the proper authorizations and permits "in accordance with the law". It also made a series of recommendations for the retroactive legalisation of constructions built without due permits.

The report calls on the government to allow planning and zoning authorities to complete the authorization process for outposts and unauthorized settler building on state land without any further need for additional political approval, saying that “pending completion of these proceedings and examination of the possibility of granting building permits, the state is advised to avoid carrying out demolition orders, since it brought about the present situation by itself” and suggests that settlements built on land whose status is unclear should be considered “settlements whose legal status is pending”.

The report provides guidelines for settlement construction. These include proposals that
 * Only the government or an empowered ministerial committee should establish new settlements.
 * Settlements should only be extended beyond their boundary or jurisdiction with the defense minister’s approval, and notification of the prime minister.
 * Construction within the bounds of an existing or future settlement should only require authorization from the planning and zoning authorities, without government or ministerial approval.
 * There should be no prohibition on settler construction within the bounds of a settlement built on land seized by a military order.
 * Israelis should be able to directly purchase land in the West Bank, and the procedures to register that land should be accelerated and completed within a reasonable time period.
 * The public should be entitled to see data with regard to land rights in the West Bank.

In addition to that, the report recommends
 * The establishment of a new court to adjudicate land disputes in the West Bank. Barring that, it suggests that the jurisdiction of district court judges be expanded to allow them to handle these disputes. These new judicial tribunal should settle the land disputes, including issues of Jewish construction on private Palestinian property, before petitions for eviction and demolitions are determined, stating that "pending such determination, state authorities should be instructed to avoid taking any positions in land conflicts and carrying out irreversible measures, such as eviction or demolition of buildings on the property".

Publication
The report was published on 9 July 2012, after it was handed to prime minister Netanyahu in June 2012 and given to members of the Ministerial Committee on Settlements on 8 July 2012. Next, the report was subject to the review and approval of Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein. Its publication came just days before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to visit the region.

Implementation of the Levy Report
The Netanyahu government was reluctant to adopt the Levy Report. In May 2014, however, Haaretz reported that the Government was covertly carrying out the report's recommendations to ease the settlement of Jews in the West Bank. Besides not to remove settlers from private Palestinian land, the Government was considering setting up a special court for land disputes in the West Bank, thus removing the military from such disputes.

Palestinian National Authority
Nabil Abu Rudaineh, a spokesperson for Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, dismissed the report and called on Israel to stop settlement activities if it is interested in reaching peace. Palestinian officials also noted that the Levy Report was published on the anniversary of the 2004 International Court of Justice′s advisory opinion which determined that Israel’s construction of its separation barrier across the Green Line in the West Bank violates international law.

Al Fatah, the PLO′s largest faction headed by Mahmoud Abbas, reportedly issued a statement calling the Levy committee’s conclusions a "farce" that "mocked and defied the international community".

In a press release of 18 October 2012, Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian negotiator, stated that "the Levy Report simply reflects the position of a government that has chosen to turn occupation into annexation and to impose an Apartheid reality in Palestine rather than taking steps to make peace possible".

Political reactions in Israel
Prime Minister Netanyahu praised the report, saying: "In my opinion, this report is important because it deals with the legalization and the legitimization of the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria on the basis of facts, a variety of facts and arguments that should be seriously considered", adding that the Ministerial Committee on Settlements would debate and decide the matter. By the time the Knesset dissolved in October 2012 following the call for early elections in January 2013, Netanyahu had not brought the report before the cabinet or the Ministerial Settlements Committee, which would have the power to approve it. Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein reportedly had issued a general directive asking ministries not to make major policy decisions until the next government is sworn in, without specifically mentioning the Levy Report.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said he welcomes the report, and hopes the cabinet approves it, adding that "it's not perfect, but it's an important step".

Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan said he "will work to ensure the government adopts the report’s conclusion and give a clear future and stability for tens of thousands of families after dozens of years," adding "finally, legal and historic justice has been done, following the twister political stances based on the Meretz activist Talia Sasson's report".

Interior Minister Eli Yishai praised the report, saying “the time has come to fix the injustice of the Talia Sasson Report and say openly that settlements in Judea and Samaria do not contradict the law, and complement the spirit of Zionism and Judaism".

Science and Technology Minister Daniel Herschkowitz called on Netanyahu to immediately convene the Ministerial Committee on Settlements to adopt the report, which "proves the Sasson report was political from the start to the end".

Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli Edelstein said "as a resident of a settlement in Judea and Samaria and the public diplomacy minister who fights to express the natural right to settle [there] and not apologize for it, I welcome the committee’s findings".

Likud MK Danny Danon welcomed the report, calling it "a gift for communities in Judea and Samaria" and urged the prime minister to act upon the report and to encourage more communities to develop in the West Bank, adding "the report will remove any leftist radicalism from previous court ruling on the outposts and bury once and for all the alarming report previously submitted by attorney Talia Sasson".

Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely, preparing to submit a bill to the Knesset, stated that "the Knesset must approve the report's conclusions, set up an Israeli land registry in Judea and Samaria, set up a court of law for discussing land issues in Judea and Samaria and apply Israeli planning and construction laws in these areas".

National Union MK Arieh Eldad said the report "smashes into pieces the mantra of 'occupation' as far as international law is concerned" and called for an end to the "Muslim occupation of the Land of Israel that began 1300 years ago".

Former Kadima leader Tzipi Livni said that "it is possible and necessary to use the Levy Report for matters of international law, while considering the current reality and continue negotiations on settlement blocs," stating that the future of settlements is a diplomatic matter, not a legal one, and should be based on the possibility of a future peace agreement.

Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On slammed the report, saying that the committee was formed only to "justify the vermin of illegal outposts after the High Court and the Attorney-General were not good enough for Netanyahu", adding "efforts to create a virtual reality will not help Netanyahu. Settlements are not legal, and neither are outposts".

Settlement representatives
Yesha settlement council chairman Dani Dayan praised the report, saying "it is clear that deep, basic and serious legal work was done. Compared to the Talia Sasson report, this time we're talking about impartial, first rate jurists" and called for the implementation of its recommendations.

After the European Commission published its new guidelines on June 30, 2013, that Israeli governmental and non-governmental entities located over the pre-1967 lines were not eligible for European Union (EU) grants, prizes or funding, the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, a group of pro-settlement attorneys, urged the Israeli government to pass the Levy Report, stating that "the right answer to the EU is the immediate implementation of the Edmund Levy report to clarify to the Europeans and others that it is not our policy to weaken our legal and historic right to the land".

Other Israeli reactions
According to David Kretzmer, professor emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, accepting the Levy Report and its conclusion that the West Bank is not under occupation will mean that the Israeli government, no longer able to argue that the territory is subject to a temporary regime of belligerent occupation, will either have to acknowledge that there is a system with elements of apartheid in the West Bank, or it will have to extend political rights to all Palestinian residents of the West Bank.

Israeli historian Ron Pundak who played an important role in starting the Oslo peace process in 1993 argues that the Levy Report is part of a sophisticated plan to alter Israeli public perceptions about Area C, which, as he asserts, is already de facto annexed and 40 percent of which Netanyahu intends to keep, and where Israel is investing notable economics resources to prevent Palestinian development.

As soon as the report's findings were published, social media in Israel were swamped with memes making fun of the fact that apparently there was no occupation.

Human rights groups
Peace Now director-general Yariv Oppenheimer slammed the composition, findings and recommendations of the committee, saying that “no jurist in the world would refer to this political manifesto as a serious report", adding "the conclusion that there is no occupation proves that the committee members are living in continuous denial”.

B'Tselem rejected the report and pointed out that "almost totally absent from the committee’s report are the 2.5 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank, who are the ones principally harmed by the settlement enterprise", adding that "any recommendation adopted concerning the status and future of the West Bank must address the Palestinians who live there. The Israelis living in the West Bank are Israeli citizens, and as such their rights are protected and they can influence the decisions that shape their fate. The Palestinians in the West Bank, in contrast, live under a military regime and the only law protecting them and their rights is the law of occupation. If the committee’s claim is accepted that Israel is not obliged to act in accordance with these laws, some other normative framework must be offered, one that will meet international legal standards. Ignoring 2.5 million human beings, as the committee proposes to do, is not an option that the State can accept".

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel rejected the findings of the report, saying the conclusions were "legally unfounded and their purpose is to authorize and deepen the injustice that Israeli governments are performing in the Occupied Territories in the past 45 years".

Yesh Din attorney Michael Sfard called the report "not a legal report but an ideological report that ignores the basic principles of the rule of law ... conceived in sin to legalize a crime", adding "the members of the Levy Committee apparently fell down the rabbit hole, and their report was written in Wonderland, governed by the laws of absurdity: there is no occupation, there are no illegal outposts and there is apparently no Palestinian people either. To that we must say in the words of Alice [in Wonderland]: 'This is the silliest tea party I have ever been to'".

In May 2014, Yesh Din published a comprehensive report entitled "Unprecedented". The report analyses the Levy Report in the framework of International Law, Israeli law, Israeli Court rulings, and the Government policy in the past.

United States
The Obama administration disagreed with the findings of the report. As a spokesperson from the State Department said on the day the report was published: "Obviously, we've seen the reports that an Israeli Government appointed panel has recommended legalizing dozens of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but we do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity and we oppose any effort to legalize settlement outposts... We’re concerned about it, obviously".

On December 4, 2014, the portion of the report dealing with international law was introduced into the Congressional Record.

In a press release, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), a centrist American Jewish advocacy organization, affirming its conviction "that Israel’s presence in the West Bank is based on solid legal ground, called on the Israeli government to reject the recommendations of the Levy Commission as a distraction from the ongoing quest for a negotiated two-state solution... If accepted by the government, the commission's findings would offer an unearned excuse for Palestinian resistance to a return to peace talks with Israel – talks Israel is eager to resume, without preconditions. And they would interfere with the message that Prime Minister Netanyahu and previous Israeli governments have sent for the last two decades of a profound commitment to a negotiated two-state solution that will require compromise by both sides. We hope the panel's recommendations will not be adopted".

In a letter initiated and organized by the Israel Policy Forum (IPF), more than 40 prominent American Jewish leaders and philanthropists condemned the report and asked prime minister Netanyahu to "ensure that adoption of this report does not take place". Committee member Alan Baker angrily rebuffed the protest letter, accusing its signatories of "insulting" the committee members, making "incorrect and ill-advised assumptions" and of providing ammunition to those seeking to delegitimize Israel. In response to Baker's letter, IPF executive director David Halperin wrote in an email to Haaretz: "In short, Ambassador Baker seems to have misunderstood the nature of our concerns, which stem from the added impediments the Levy Report poses for achieving a diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – not the technical and legal reasoning used to arrive at its conclusions, which is irrelevant to our concern", adding IPF's fear "that the Levy Report will not strengthen Israel's position in this conflict, [and] at this moment, it is more critical than ever that Israel strengthen its claim in the international community that it is committed to a two-state vision, which is, in turn, central to Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state".

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) issued a statement in which it "has praised and endorsed the report" and supports Likut MK "Tzipi Hotovely in her quest to have the Report’s conclusions adopted by the Knesset," adding "the Levy Report is an important and timely document. Not because it tells us something that was not known before – the legality of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, as in any other part of the territory earmarked for Jewish settlement by the 1920 San Remo Conference, is a known but ignored fact. Indeed, the ZOA has frequently pointed out that the San Remo decision has never been superseded by any subsequent, internationally-binding agreement. Rather, it is important that a respected legal commission under the chairmanship of one of the Supreme Court’s retired justices has both reaffirmed this truth as well as making recommendations for avoiding in the future the complications and arbitrary procedures whereby Jewish life and construction in Judea and Samaria have become unnecessarily fraught. This situation has helped contribute to the utterly false notion that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria are both illegal and an obstacle to peace... We are also pleased that the false, indeed malicious, claim that Jewish settlement and construction beyond the 1949 armistice lines violates the Fourth Geneva Convention has been specifically repudiated. This is the fraudulent basis on which Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria have been called 'illegal'."

In a letter of 2 August 2012, spearheaded by Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Executive Vice President, Emeritus of the National Council of Young Israel, 65 American Jewish rabbis, leaders and activists urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to adopt the findings of the Levy Report, saying "We are heartened by the Levy Report’s finding that the 'settlements' in Judea and Samaria are completely legal under international law ... As the Levy Report correctly notes, Israel is not engaged in ‘military occupation’ in relation to the communities in Judea and Samaria. We believe that this conclusion vindicates the Israeli government, which has been unjustifiably vilified by many in the international community, simply because there are Jews living in this particular area of the Jewish State," continuing "like you, we recognize and respect the fact that the Jewish people have inalienable rights to the land of Israel which stem from the Bible, and we are familiar with the historic legacy of the movement of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Menachem Begin, and Herut/Likud, which you now lead, that has long endorsed Jewish rights in the entirety of the land of Israel". The letter also rejects the Israel Policy Forum's stance, stating "Despite assertions to the contrary, the conclusions of the Levy Report do not ‘place … the prestige of Israel as a democratic member of the international community, in peril.’ We categorically reject this absurd declaration and sincerely hope and pray that you do the same".

International Committee of the Red Cross
In November 2012, Juan Pedro Schaerer, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross′s (ICRC) delegation for Israel and the Occupied Territories issued a statement on behalf of ICRC "in its role as guardian of international humanitarian law" in response to the Levy Report's "misrepresentation" of a "commentary published by the International Committee of the Red Cross on the Fourth Geneva Convention," which the Levy Report "uses to support the argument that the Israeli settlement project does not entail a breach of international humanitarian law". Quoting the Hague Regulations of 1907 according to which a "territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army" the ICRC statement clarifies that ""[f]or the purpose of the law of occupation, it is sufficient that the state whose army established effective control over the territory was not itself the rightful sovereign of the place when the conflict broke out. Nowhere in the law of occupation can one find the suggestion that only territory whose title is clear and uncontested can be considered occupied for the purposes of international humanitarian law. Indeed, it would be in complete contravention of the humanitarian purpose of such law to deprive people living under occupation of the protection afforded by the law because of disputes between belligerents regarding sovereignty over the territory concerned.

The West Bank is under the effective control of Israel. Israel acquired this control through a military campaign and maintains it through military force. Even those who hold that Israel has 'a claim to sovereign rights' in the West Bank cannot claim that Israel was the rightful sovereign of the territory when it seized control over it. Accordingly, contrary to what is claimed in the Levy report, it is manifestly clear that the West Bank is occupied by Israel. Indeed, the Israeli Supreme Court has repeatedly and consistently ruled that the territory of the West Bank is subject to belligerent occupation.

Furthermore, concerning the settlements in the West Bank, it has to be emphasized that Article 49 (6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits a state from transferring parts of its own civilian population to territory it occupies, does not merely prohibit the occupying state from forcefully transferring parts of its population; it also prohibits any action by the occupier which facilitates such transfer.

The ICRC commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention makes clear that Article 49 (6), like the convention as a whole, aims to protect the local population in the occupied territory and not the population of the occupying state. Furthermore, international humanitarian law prohibits any action by an occupying power aimed at altering the intrinsic characteristics of the occupied territory, including any measures that affect its demographic, cultural or social composition.

Contrary to what the Levy report maintains, from the viewpoint of international law the West Bank is occupied by Israel. This assertion, like the ICRC's position that the Israeli settlements in the West Bank are unlawful, is based entirely on the relevant provisions of international humanitarian law"."

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User:Nestum82

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Malaysian born and bred. Did my final year of university in Australia. Currently living and working in Japan.

I'm interested in beefing up the Malay vocabulary here, and with that in mind, I've been trying to read up on the established conventions (WT:ELE etc). If all goes well, I might try to come up with a guideline for Malay entries along the lines of the other language-specific considerations. And even further down the road, I might try to transfer stuff over to the Malay and Japanese Wiktionaries.

Currently Working On

 * depa
 * TOW
 * TOW

Stuff I've Done

 * Template:R:Kamus Dewan 1996

Useful Links

 * A Dictionary of the Malayan Language, in Two Parts, Malayan and English and English and Malayan, William Marsden, Cox and Baylis, 1812
 * A Malay-English Dictionary, Richard James Wilkinson, Kelly & Walsh Limited, 1901-1903

Texts

 * Hikaiat Shamsu 'L-Bahrain, in Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society No. 47, Methodist Publishing House, September 1906
 * Inilah Syair Lampung Karam Adanya, Muhammad Salleh, Ibrahim ed., 1888

Disclaimer
I am by no means a qualified linguist. Just an interested bi(tri? quadri?)lingual amateur with an internet connection :P

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ridit Nimdia (2nd nomination)

The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:50, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Ridit Nimdia
AfDs for this article:
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WP:1EVENT, and anyways neither becoming youngest rated player nor beating a rated player at the youngest age should count notable.(Especially since FIDE has continually lowered the bar for entry). Also World School Chess Championship is not a proper World age-group or school Championship. It is only held every year in Turkey with people from Turkey, India or Central Asia winning it. One can see in the result page that often below 2000 rated players are 3rd or 4th even in U15 or U17 groups. Also Ridit is now 16 years old, he peaked at a rating of 1729 and is currently rated at 1561. Roller26 (talk) 01:48, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. As per nominator. Also, fails GNG.Knox490 (talk) 04:11, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Roller26 (talk) 01:48, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. - hako9 (talk) 07:27, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

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Cookbook:Tomato Pasta

Ingredients

 * 300 g (10 oz) large pasta spirals (dry)
 * 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, more if you like it
 * 2 large garlic cloves, crushed and finely chopped, more if you like it
 * 4 large ripe tomatoes, well-chopped, seeds and skin included (remove the seeds and skin if you like, but it isn't mandatory.)
 * 1 handful of well-torn basil leaves
 * Salt, to taste
 * Pepper, to taste
 * 4 tbsp freshly, finely grated Parmesan-style cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano recommended!)

Procedure

 * 1) Cook dry pasta in plenty of salted boiling water for 10–12 minutes. Proper cooking time should be indicated on the pasta box itself. If it's not, taste one pasta piece from time to time, and stop the cooking when it's still crispy but not tough (it should be al dente). Prepare the sauce while the pasta is cooking:
 * 2) Heat the olive oil gently in a large frying pan or wok. When moderately hot add the garlic and gently fry until lightly coloured only. Avoid overcooking. Add the tomatoes and cook for several minutes, stirring and folding the ingredients. If there is a lot of liquid from the tomatoes, turn up the heat a little and reduce it a bit. Stir in the basil and turn the heat down.
 * 3) By this time the pasta should be cooked. Turn off the heat to the pasta and use a slotted spoon to transfer the pasta to the sauce in the other pan. Don't worry if a little of the cooking water is transferred—this is a good thing as long as you don't swamp the sauce with it (you could also use a colander to drain the pasta).
 * 4) Season to taste, stir and transfer to a large pasta bowl for serving. Scatter the cheese over the whole dish, reserving some for the table.

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alberta/Archive 5

Alberta region articles clean up proposal
Following the talk that took place within the Maps of Alberta regions talk section and the finding a lot of articles about the unofficial regions of Alberta has been created from former unofficial regions created by Travel Alberta for promotional purpose and not even census regional units, I have the following proposals about them:
 * Northern Alberta: article removal and/or fusion of any sourced content with Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation,
 * Southern Alberta: article removal and/or fusion of any sourced content with Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation,
 * Peace River Country, a geographical region with sourced citations: keep and improve (if possible) the article,
 * Palliser's Triangle, a geographical region with currently only one sourced citations: keep and improve (if possible) the article,
 * Alberta's Rockies, a geographical region with sourced citations but with outdated content: replace the map and remove any outdated Travel Alberta reference,
 * Calgary Region, a geographical region with many sourced citations: keep and improve (if possible) the article, replace the map,
 * Edmonton Capital Region, a geographical region with many sourced citations: keep and improve (if possible) the article, replace the map,
 * Central Alberta, article removal and/or fusion of any sourced content with an Central Alberta Economic Partnership article to create and/or Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation,
 * Calgary–Edmonton Corridor, a geographical region with sourced citations: keep and improve (if possible) the article.

What do you think? Please help me to decide what to do with those articles. :) --— Foldo Squirrel (nuts?) 18:29, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

 * Here is what I propose in terms of movements, most of which aligns with the above:
 * Keep Peace River Country, Palliser's Triangle, Alberta's Rockies, Calgary Region, Edmonton Capital Region and Calgary–Edmonton Corridor
 * Move the List of regions of Alberta (currently a redirect) to a new Lists of regions of Alberta article, and include sections for "Tourism regions", "Land-use framework regions", "Metropolitan regions", "Economic regions", etc.
 * Redirect Northern Alberta, Southern Alberta and Central Alberta to subsections under Lists of regions of Alberta
 * Redirect Central Alberta Economic Partnership to a subsection under Lists of regions of Alberta
 * Looking forward to continued comments. Hwy43 (talk) 19:56, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

 * You've both outlined the keeping and deletion of the same articles, so either option sounds good. 117Avenue (talk) 06:27, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

 * Yep. I just think a single consolidated place to summarize all various regions of Alberta would be better than pointing tourism regions to the ministry article. Further, I don't believe redirecting Central Alberta to a new Central Alberta Economic Partnership article is wise as the former is more expansive than the latter and I don't believe the latter is notable enough to warrant its own article either. By the way, if we go with the single consolidated article idea, it may not actually turn out as a list, so the title Regions of Alberta may be more appropriate than Lists of regions of Alberta. Hwy43 (talk) 07:23, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

 * Hwy43 proposals looks good to me too. And yes, maybe making a list for the regions is not really necessary, we'll see. Also, I just remembered the existing stub categories for Alberta articles are formed by those former tourism regions (and their models too). Guess we should move the stubs in the upper category or reorganize the subcategories? — Foldo Squirrel (nuts?) 20:57, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

 * I've prepared an outline for the new article in my sandbox. Thoughts? As for categories, my first inclination is we should move them up a category. Hwy43 (talk) 04:07, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

 * I currently can't give a long look for now, but I already noticed the lack of the Central Alberta Economic Partnership we talked about. Waht are you plans for it? — Foldo Squirrel (nuts?) 17:26, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

 * The Central Alberta Economic Partnership is a municipal membership-based economic development alliance that happens to take its name from a geographic area within the province. Its true boundaries change every time a new member signs up or an existing member quits. As it is more so an organization than a true region, I have no plans for it at all. Hwy43 (talk) 20:07, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

 * Actually, the Category:Alberta geography stubs is already too cluttered. For communities, I think they should be placed in a new child category named Category:Alberta community stubs. Hwy43 (talk) 04:11, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

 * I agree. Do you think we should create subcategories for each kind of community too? — Foldo Squirrel (nuts?) 17:26, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

 * I don't think so. Although there are numerous community types, most of the stubs would fall only in one or two community type subcategories making the subcategories of little value. I'd be interested in hearing what has to say about categories. He's got more experience with them than I. Hwy43 (talk) 20:07, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I've been wondering what to do with the stub categories as well. It would be nice to keep them grouped by region, but if regions can't be used for even this, census divisions can be used. I'm not sure how they would break down, if 19 categories are too many, I think 7 categories would work. They would be 1-5, 6, 7-10, 11, 12-14, 15, and 16-19. Transferring them would be a lot of work though, over 800 articles would have to be inspected for census division, and edited. 117Avenue (talk) 01:50, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

 * The more I think about this, I don't see a problem with how the stubs are currently grouped. Sure, Alberta's Rockies and Northern/Central/Southern Alberta appear to have been based on previous iterations of Travel Alberta tourism regions, but quite frankly, Alberta residents, the media, the province, etc. use these to described different areas in the province without specifically intending to refer to them as defined by Travel Alberta. Northern and southern are cardinally correct with central being the gap in between, while the Rockies are geographically distinct from the balance of the province. I think status quo is the best option, and better than forcing cats into groupings of numbered census divisions that very few people recognize, understand, or relate to. It would save us a lot of work too, except for maybe some adjustments along the boundaries. The Capital Region and Calgary Region sub cats definitely can stay. Hwy43 (talk) 05:00, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Thinking about the regions: we are going to have to remove regions from Alberta municipal infoboxes, I guess. Isn't it someone with Auto-Wiki Browser (or a bot) here that could do that? Foldo (talk) 16:49, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Proposed move of rural and specialized municipality articles
This is a consolidated two-part proposal to move the following 70 (68 existing and 2 former) rural and specialized municipality articles to their common, undisambiguated names. See the subsections that follow the below for a description of both parts of the proposal. If there is no consensus to move these from within our provincial WikiProject community, I will open a more formal RM. Hwy43 (talk) 07:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 1) Athabasca County, Alberta → Athabasca County
 * 2) Birch Hills County, Alberta → Birch Hills County
 * 3) Brazeau County, Alberta → Brazeau County
 * 4) Camrose County, Alberta → Camrose County
 * 5) Cardston County, Alberta → Cardston County
 * 6) Clear Hills County, Alberta → Clear Hills County
 * 7) Cypress County, Alberta → Cypress County
 * 8) Flagstaff County, Alberta → Flagstaff County
 * 9) Kneehill County, Alberta → Kneehill County
 * 10) Lac La Biche County, Alberta → Lac La Biche County
 * 11) Lac Ste. Anne County, Alberta → Lac Ste. Anne County
 * 12) Lacombe County, Alberta → Lacombe County
 * 13) Lakeland County, Alberta → Lakeland County (former municipal district)
 * 14) Lamont County, Alberta → Lamont County
 * 15) Leduc County, Alberta → Leduc County
 * 16) Lethbridge County, Alberta → Lethbridge County
 * 17) Mackenzie County, Alberta → Mackenzie County
 * 18) Mountain View County, Alberta → Mountain View County
 * 19) Northern Sunrise County, Alberta → Northern Sunrise County
 * 20) Parkland County, Alberta → Parkland County
 * 21) Ponoka County, Alberta → Ponoka County
 * 22) Red Deer County, Alberta → Red Deer County
 * 23) Rocky View County, Alberta → Rocky View County
 * 24) Saddle Hills County, Alberta → Saddle Hills County
 * 25) Smoky Lake County, Alberta → Smoky Lake County
 * 26) Special Area No. 2, Alberta → Special Area No. 2
 * 27) Special Area No. 3, Alberta → Special Area No. 3
 * 28) Special Area No. 4, Alberta → Special Area No. 4
 * 29) Starland County, Alberta → Starland County
 * 30) Sturgeon County, Alberta → Sturgeon County
 * 31) Thorhild County, Alberta → Thorhild County
 * 32) Vulcan County, Alberta → Vulcan County
 * 33) Westlock County, Alberta → Westlock County
 * 34) Woodlands County, Alberta → Woodlands County
 * 35) Yellowhead County, Alberta → Yellowhead County
 * 36) Acadia No. 34, Alberta → Municipal District of Acadia No. 34
 * 37) Badlands No. 7, Alberta → Municipal District of Badlands No. 7 (former municipal district)
 * 38) Barrhead County No. 11, Alberta → County of Barrhead No. 11
 * 39) Big Lakes, Alberta → Municipal District of Big Lakes
 * 40) Bighorn No. 8, Alberta → Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8
 * 41) Bonnyville No. 87, Alberta → Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87
 * 42) Crowsnest Pass, Alberta → Municipality of Crowsnest Pass
 * 43) Fairview No. 136, Alberta → Municipal District of Fairview No. 136
 * 44) Foothills No. 31, Alberta → Municipal District of Foothills No. 31
 * 45) Forty Mile County No. 8, Alberta → County of Forty Mile No. 8
 * 46) Grande Prairie County No. 1, Alberta → County of Grande Prairie No. 1
 * 47) Greenview No. 16, Alberta → Municipal District of Greenview No. 16
 * 48) Jasper, Alberta → Municipality of Jasper
 * 49) Lesser Slave River No. 124, Alberta → Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124
 * 50) Minburn County No. 27, Alberta → County of Minburn No. 27
 * 51) Newell County, Alberta → County of Newell
 * 52) Northern Lights County, Alberta → County of Northern Lights
 * 53) Opportunity No. 17, Alberta → Municipal District of Opportunity No. 17
 * 54) Paintearth County No. 18, Alberta → County of Paintearth No. 18
 * 55) Peace No. 135, Alberta → Municipal District of Peace No. 135
 * 56) Pincher Creek No. 9, Alberta → Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9
 * 57) Provost No. 52, Alberta → Municipal District of Provost No. 52
 * 58) Ranchland No. 66, Alberta → Municipal District of Ranchland No. 66
 * 59) Smoky River No. 130, Alberta → Municipal District of Smoky River No. 130
 * 60) Spirit River No. 133, Alberta → Municipal District of Spirit River No. 133
 * 61) St. Paul County No. 19, Alberta → County of St. Paul No. 19
 * 62) Stettler County No. 6, Alberta → County of Stettler No. 6
 * 63) Taber, Alberta (municipal district) → Municipal District of Taber
 * 64) Two Hills County No. 21, Alberta → County of Two Hills No. 21
 * 65) Vermilion River County, Alberta → County of Vermilion River
 * 66) Wainwright No. 61, Alberta → Municipal District of Wainwright No. 61
 * 67) Warner County No. 5, Alberta → County of Warner No. 5
 * 68) Wetaskiwin County No. 10, Alberta → County of Wetaskiwin No. 10
 * 69) Willow Creek No. 26, Alberta → Municipal District of Willow Creek No. 26
 * 70) Wood Buffalo, Alberta → Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
 * Note: Beaver County, Clearwater County and Wheatland County are excluded as their undisambiguated names are dabs while Strathcona County is already at the undisambiguated Strathcona County.

Entries 1 through 35 are already at their common name (before the provincial disambiguator). They are also at their official legal names (before the disambiguator). All the bluelinked targets are redirects to the current article names. There are no other articles on Wikipedia that could contend for their undisambiguated names. In fact I could only find four articles that start with the common name (i.e., "Foo County"), all of which are redirects (Lacombe County municipal by-election, 2011; Lethbridge County Airport; Rocky View County municipal by-election, 2012; and Yellowhead County municipal by-election, 2012). It is therefore proposed that they be moved to their common undisambiguated names. Hwy43 (talk) 07:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Entries #1-35

Entries 36 through 70 are neither at their common nor official legal names. Rather, they are at a short form name format applied by Statistics Canada. The StatCan short form names of these municipalities definitely are not their common names. Note: It is presumed StatCan applies this format to simply enable alphabetical sorting of municipalities by the given component of their official legal names (i.e., "Barrhead County No. 11" rather than "County of Barrhead No. 11"). Unlike urban municipalities where usage of the given name is more common that the official legal name (e.g., "Foo" rather than "City/Town/Village/Summer Village of Foo"), rural and specialized municipalities are rarely referred to by "just" their given names (e.g., referring to the "County of Forty Mile No. 8" as simply "Forty Mile" or "Forty Mile No. 8" is not widespread). Their official legal names are by far more common than the StatCan short forms and would also meet the article naming criteria. Finally, using the official legal name format for non-urban municipalities is consistent with what is done for rural municipalities in Manitoba (see Category:Rural municipalities in Manitoba) and those improvement districts of Alberta that have their own articles (specifically Kananaskis and Nos. 9, 12 and 349). Also see the following upper-tier municipalities from Ontario at their official legal names:
 * Entries #36-70

County of Brant

Regional Municipality of Durham

Regional Municipality of Halton

United Counties of Leeds and Grenville

District Municipality of Muskoka

Regional Municipality of Niagara

Regional Municipality of Peel

United Counties of Prescott and Russell

United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry

Regional Municipality of Waterloo

Regional Municipality of York It is therefore proposed that all of entries 36 through 70 be moved to their official legal names. If moved, the same set of moves should be considered for the countless rural municipalities in Saskatchewan. Hwy43 (talk) 07:34, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Additional comment During my first couple of years on here, I would have opposed this very idea, but I have evolved after becoming more familiar with WP:COMMONNAME, WP:CRITERIA and what has been done elsewhere (MB & ON) in accordance with both. The evolution happened shortly after this discussion where I think it was evident from my empathy that I was torn. I'm now confident that it is time to move on from the StatCan short form article naming convention implemented presumably in good faith during Wikipedia's infancy. Hwy43 (talk) 07:38, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. The proposal removes unneeded disambiguation, which will make these articles easier to link to. We might consider dropping the numbers from the titles ("County of Stettler" instead of "County of Stettler No. 6"), but using the full legal names will be less controversial and more consistent. Indefatigable (talk) 12:59, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

 * Support entries 1 through 35, except 17, these can go to their common, undisambiguated names. I'll try to open a discussion with the Australian WikiProject to see if we can determine that Mackenzie County and County of Mackenzie are both at their WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Oppose entries 42 and 48, as you've stated official names work with rural municipalities, but I feel Crowsnest Pass and Jasper are urban communities, as this is how mail is addressed. Support entry 70, this is probably the best way to disambiguate Wood Buffalo in Alberta, and it also meets common name. I am having a tough time supporting the move of the remainder because they probably do not meet COMMONNAME, the longest being "Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124". My guess of what its common name would be is "M.D. of Lesser Slave River", or "Lesser Slave River No. 124", but you make a convincing argument to err on the side of official name rather than something arbitrary. 117Avenue (talk) 02:40, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

 * Comment I agree with your point regarding Jasper. It was an urban community prior to incorporation and it is predominantly an "urban" specialized municipality. I have struck it from the above. Not quite sure what to think regarding Crowsnest Pass. It has held the official name of "Municipality of Crowsnest Pass" for 35 years now. Do people say they are going to "Crowsnest Pass" or do they say they are going to "Blairmore", "Coleman", "Frank" or the other urban communities within the municipality? I'm not sure. You've provided a couple possible frequently used name scenarios for the MDLSR124. To add further complexity, it often refers to itself as "MD 124". Like this one, there are probably at least two possible frequently used names for each of the remaining MDs/counties. Due to the various scenarios, I doubt any complex web search comparisons would be able to conclusively determine which is the most common for each, and if so, the results would likely result in inconsistent formats among all. Erring on the side of official name as stated would be a satisfactory alternative to determining the most common of all, and also as stated would achieve consistency and be less controversial. Hwy43 (talk) 04:20, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

 * People will always say that they are going to the larger, more recognizable name. You don't have to go far to see that "Crowsnest Pass" is treated like a town when referred to, and in naming places and events there. I think it is very easily the best name. 117Avenue (talk) 05:13, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

 * I'm convinced. I've struck that entry from the list. I see there was a response at the Australia WP. It appears Alberta's "Mackenzie County" would be the primary topic. Hwy43 (talk) 06:48, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

 * I've added hats to the two Mackenzies, I think we're good there. 117Avenue (talk) 22:41, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

 * As it is unanimous thus far to move #1 through #35 and #70, I'm going to start moving them per above. I'll hold off on moving the balance for now in case there is any further comments. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 04:37, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

 * Hearing no further comments over the past 12 days, the current consensus is to move #36 through #69, excluding #42 and #48. I'll begin processing tomorrow evening if I hear nothing further by then. Hwy43 (talk) 05:11, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

 * The above is now complete. I've just opened a similar discussion at the Saskatchewan WikiProject about doing the same for its 296 rural municipalities. Hwy43 (talk) 06:57, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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Drayton Valley's Frank Maddock High School nominated for deletion
See discussion here. Hwy43 (talk) 17:37, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

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