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Avoid Instability in Rail-to-Rail CMOS Amplifiers

Why, you will not ask, is an image on an article about micrographs a very poor quality, unpublishable image? How does this illustrate the article, you may ask? It isn't described as a crappy micrograph, and the article does not discuss crappy micrographs, it just includes one of an ancient device, although the micrograph is less ancient.

Maybe you won't ask.

out of focus, low resolution, utterly useless, except on Wikipedia:

This is a useful image, though, of the fish scales, although it is somewhat out of focus. But it's not being used to illustrate an article on micrographs.

Contents 1 Catch of the day 2 Wikipoliteness--as if a template could restrain it 3 Spamvertising 3.1 At least this author freely admits it's taken from elsewhere 4 Anyone can edit geology 4.1 The billions years 5 Spamvertising 6 Which article about what science works how.... 6.1 Covers what? 6.2 Which article? 6.3 It's a weed 6.4 The mind boggles (when located in an interesting environment) 6.5 Introducing complexity 7 Uh huh 8 Is it or isn't it? 9 Expertise needed 10 Pseudoexpertise not so needed, but we're not sure 11 It is and it isn't and it is also 12 Looks like butter but it'snot 13 It's Not Unusual 14 Not even four dubious sources? 15 Whilst the usual narrow range 15.1 Exceptional preservation 16 Is it or isn't it 17 English wikipedia 18 The best of WP:AN/I 19 The most informative of Wikipedia (those yellows and blue violets) 19.1 And the common thread is, and the clue is .... 20 The most of the least or the least of the most 21 Better than cinnamon toast 22 Within which formation? 23 Vernal pools 24 Wikiwarnings and advice 25 On top of old smokey, all covered in cheese 26 Accuracy of EDS 27 Amazing inventions 28 Where would Wikipedia put its best micrographs? 29 Possibly the best paragraph in all of Wiki-land 29.1 As geopolitical boundaries 30 References include press releases, and any four sources--reliability and verifiability not needed 31 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky 32 Who are you? 33 Recent useless trash outside my area 34 Where the hell are the Klamath Mountains 35 Works 36 Bibliography 37 References 38 Helen Zelezny 39 User notification 40 A rather good picture, although probably edited the heck out of 41 Berg 42 Interesting thread on the biases that abound on Wikipedia--and I'm under threat of permanent ban for putting fact tags on an article who's the fuckwit? 43 RMHED questionable comments in questionable discussion [11] 44 Agreements 45 Alphabet Poop 46 Abt Durga Nanda Jha 47 Another attempted gun point improvement plan for an article 48 What I would be doing if Wikipedia valued knowledge over cruft and power plays 49 Coming back to the well 50 Re: Obscure Austrian writers 51 Trellium-D 52 good job...

[edit] Catch of the day

[1]

well, no good, just the last two from anyone.

[edit] Wikipoliteness--as if a template could restrain it

[edit] Spamvertising

"Taken from an article by Joe Sixpack at The Philadelphia Daily News: http://www.joesixpack.net/columnArchives/2006/060906.htm

Agriculture scientists in Washington State at Select Botanicals introduced a hybrid hop called Simcoe, and brewers have been boiling it big time ever since.

The goal was to develop a hop variety with high alpha-acid content to reduce the acreage needed to grow the fast-spreading vines. The problem, though, was that once they're boiled in the beer-making process, high-alpha hops often produce harsh flavors. Select Botanicals solved that problem by developing a variety with lower cohumulone, the acid responsible for the astringency of hops.

Jason Perrault, the company's vice president of research and development, said it took 10 years of pollination, crop development, harvesting and analysis till Simcoe was ready to be released in 2000. Perrault said the company is still waiting for interest to grow among the big brewers. But he's heartened by the early acceptance by small brewers. "We've found that craft brewers are so much more willing to try something new, to give it a shot, to be a trend-setter," he said. Mostly, brewers use Simcoe in combination with other hop varieties.

Because of those qualities, it's an especially popular ingredient in the new wave of extra-hoppy ales known as Imperial India Pale Ales. It provides a nice kick without a harsh slap to the palate.

Want a taste of Simcoe hops? Here's a sixpack of other beers that feature the distinctive flavor:

1. Philly Pale Ale, Yards Brewing, Philadelphia.

2. Pliny the Elder, Russian River Brewing, California.

3. Big Fish Barleywine, Flying Fish, New Jersey.

4. Dreadnaught, Three Floyds Brewing, Indiana.

5. The Maharaja, Avery Brewing, Colorado.

6. Titan IPA, Great Divide Brewing, Colorado.

7. Double Simcoe IPA, Weyebacher, Pennsylvania

8. Nugget Nectar, Troegs Brewery, Pennsylvania

9. 90 Minute IPA, Dogfish Head Brewery, Deleware

[2]"

[edit] At least this author freely admits it's taken from elsewhere

"The goal, then, was to develop a hop variety with high alpha-acid content to reduce the acreage needed to grow the fast-spreading vines. The problem, though, was that once they're boiled in the beer-making process, high-alpha hops often produce harsh flavors."[3]

[edit] Anyone can edit geology

"The mountains formed three to four billion years ago in the late Pliocene as a result of an uplifted block of crystalline rocks such as: gneiss, amphibolite granite and quartzite, ...."

if you're a scientist naturalist or technician be afraid

[edit] The billions years

in almost 4 days.[4]

.... as for the rest of the geology....

[edit] Spamvertising

"Red espresso is made by preparing the Aspalathus Linearis shrub, commonly known as the source of rooibos (or "red") tea, to be filtered through an espresso machine ^[1]. When this patented form of the rooibos plant is filtered through an espresso machine, it results in a tea with a saffron crema.^[2]

Red espresso has been patented ^[3] by a South African based company^[4]. Red espresso can be prepared in an espresso machine, but it can also be prepared in a drip coffee machine, French press, percolator, stove top espresso maker or steeped as strong tea.^[5] Red Espresso was featured as a new product at the World Tea Expo in 2008. ^[6]It won the blue-ribbon award 2008 at the Specialty Coffee World Assembles in Minneapolis for SCAA Conference.^[7]

Extracting tea through high temperature and pressure can be convenient for commercial use. For the individual it is slightly more expensive because it requires an espresso machine. Just like with coffee espresso, this extraction process results in a tea with concentrated flavor. There are pressurized machines being developed specifically for tea extraction."^[8].

A picture is worth a thousand words and as many languages?
		In Integrated circuit article, ....	Believe it or not, and click on it to really appreciate this, this micrograph illustrates the article on micrographs.

[edit] Which article about what science works how....

"Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) refers to the study of developmental programs and patterns from an evolutionary perspective.^[9] It seeks to understand the various influences shaping the form and nature of life on the planet. Evo-devo arose as a separate branch of science only in the last decade.^[10] Most of the synthesis in evo-devo has been in the field of animal evolution, one reason being the presence of elegant model systems like Drosophila, C.elegans, Zebrafish and Xenopus. However, in the past couple of decades, a wealth of information on plant morphology, coupled with modern molecular techniques has helped shed light on the conserved and unique developmental patterns in the plant kingdom also."

[edit] Covers what?

This article covers variolation, inoculation as a method of purposefully infecting a person with smallpox (Variola) in a controlled manner so as to minimise the severity of the infection and also to induce immunity against further infection. See vaccination for post-variolation methods of safeguarding as if by inoculation by administering weakened or dead pathogens to a healthy person or animal with the intent of conferring immunity against a targeted form of a related disease agent.

[edit] Which article?

Kilimanjaro is a desert that is not without oases or small depressions in which rain or melted snow collects. Such areas are covered with a continuous carpet of vegetation (Cyperaceae, Subularia monticola, Eriocaulon volkensii and Bulliarda elatinoides).^[11]

Out of copyright so it's okay to use the text without quotation marks:

"This desert is not without oases, small depressions, in which rain or melted snow collects and which are covered with a continuous carpet of vegetation."

But is it okay to misquote it to such an extent that what you've said on Wikipedia is false? Apparently. Probably four other dubious sources can be found on the internet with these same words. Kilimanjaro is a mountain, a big mountain last time I looked. Maybe I didn't look high enough, or maybe I was looking at the whole mountain.

[edit] It's a weed

Nassella trichotoma (serrated tussock) is a type of grass plant which is regarded as a weed in Australia.

It's nice to see something so Australia-centric every once in while on a US encyclopedia.

[edit] The mind boggles (when located in an interesting environment)

Behavioural genetics

[edit] Introducing complexity

Maybe I mean complexly.

[edit] Uh huh

Depth of focus DOF is a lens optics concept that measures the tolerance of placement of the image plane (the film plane in a camera) in relation to the lens. While the phrase depth of focus was historically used, and is sometimes still used, to mean depth of field, in modern times it is more often reserved for the image-side depth. Depth of field is a measurement of depth of acceptable sharpness in the object space, or subject space. Depth of focus, however, is a measurement of how much distance exists behind the lens wherein the film plane will remain sharply in focus. It can be viewed as the flip side of depth of field, occurring on the opposite side of the lens. Where depth of field often can be measured in macroscopic units such as meters and feet, depth of focus is typically measured in microscopic units such as fractions of a millimeter or thousandths of an inch. Since the measurement indicates the tolerance of the film's displacement within the camera, depth of focus is sometimes referred to as "lens-to-film tolerance."

[edit] Is it or isn't it?

"Blechnum spicant is a species of fern known by the common name deer fern. It is native to Europe and western North America. Like some other Blechnum it has two types of leaves. The sterile leaves have flat, wavy-margined leaflets 5 to 8 millimeters wide, while the fertile leaves have much narrower leaflets, each with two thick rows of sori on the underside."

"In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat (laminar) and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast (chlorenchyma tissue, a type of parenchyma) to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues. Leaves are also the sites in most plants where transpiration and guttation take place. Leaves can store food and water, and are modified in some plants for other purposes. The comparable structures of ferns are correctly referred to as fronds. Furthermore, leaves are prominent in the human diet as leaf vegetables."

It would be nice if two articles discussing the same topic included the same facts....

[edit] Expertise needed

Zanthoxylum psammophilum is a species of plant in the Rutaceae family. It is endemic to the Upper Guinean forests rainforests of Côte d'Ivoire.

[edit] Pseudoexpertise not so needed, but we're not sure

A zoonosis (pronounced /ˌzoʊəˈnoʊsɨs/) is any infectious disease that is able to be transmitted (by a vector)--vector is only a noun although it is often misused as a verb. The action of a vector is to transmit--from other animals, both wild and domestic, to humans (zooanthroponosis) or from humans to animals (the latter is sometimes called reverse zoonosis or anthropozoonosis).

The plural of zoonosis is zoonoses, from which an alternative singular zoonose is derived by back-formation.

Other zoonoses might be

• Glanders
• SARS (possibly; civet cats may spread the disease, or may catch the disease from humans.)

Most of human prehistory was spent as small bands of hunter-gatherers; these bands were rarely larger than 150 individuals, and were not in contact with other bands very often. Because of this, epidemic or pandemic diseases, which depend on a constant influx of humans who have not developed an immune response, tended to burn out after their first run through a population. To survive, a biological pathogen had to be a chronic infection, stay alive in the host for long periods of time, or have a non-human reservoir in which to live while waiting for new hosts to pass by. In fact, for many 'human' diseases, the human is actually an accidental victim and a dead-end host. (This is the case with rabies, anthrax, tularemia, West Nile virus, and many others). Thus much of human development has been in relation to zoonotic, not epidemic, diseases.

[edit] It is and it isn't and it is also

The river rises in a black marshy dambo in north-western Zambia, in undulating miombo woodland, quite dense in parts, about 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level. Eastward of the source, the watershed between the Congo and Zambezi basins is a well-marked belt of high ground, falling abruptly north and south, and running nearly east-west. This distinctly cuts off the basin of the Lualaba (the main branch of the upper Congo) from that of the Zambezi. In the neighbourhood of the source the watershed is not as clearly defined, but the two river systems do not connect.

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. The drainage basin includes both the streams and rivers that convey the water as well as the land surfaces from which water drains into those channels, separated from adjacent basins by a drainage divide.

• Watershed, drainage divide (non-American usage)
• Watershed, drainage basin (North American usage)

[edit] Looks like butter but it'snot

The FIB is a scientific instrument that resembles a scanning electron microscope. However, while the SEM uses a focused beam of electrons to image the sample in the chamber, a FIB instead uses a focused beam of gallium ions. Gallium is chosen because it is easy to build a gallium liquid metal ion source (LMIS). In a Gallium LMIS, gallium metal is placed in contact with a tungsten needle and heated. Gallium wets the tungsten, and a huge electric field (greater than 10⁸ volts per centimeter) causes ionization and field emission of the gallium atoms. The FIB can also be incorporated in a system with both electron and ion beam columns, allowing the same feature to be investigated using either of the beams^{[12] [13]}.

[edit] It's Not Unusual

These ions are then accelerated to an energy of 5-50 keV (kiloelectronvolts), and then focused onto the sample by electrostatic lenses. A modern FIB can deliver tens of nanoamps of current to a sample, or can image the sample with a spot size on the order of a few nanometers.

[edit] Not even four dubious sources?

Paraxial ray equation

[edit] Whilst the usual narrow range

[edit] Exceptional preservation

For reasons that are by no means clear – perhaps the particular tectonic regime, or the low abundance of burrowing animals^[14] – the Cambrian is marked by an unusually high number of exceptionally preserved faunas, of which the most significant are the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan shale faunas of Chengjiang (Yunnan, China) and Sirius Passet (Greenland), the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (British Columbia, Canada) fauna, and the Upper Cambrian Orsten (Sweden) fauna. Exceptional faunas preserve a much wider range of tissue types than the conventional record, and thus many types of organisms are only represented in the fossil record by this sort of preservation. The exceptional faunas have therefore played a critical role in driving debates about the Cambrian explosion.

Whilst they have been known since the early 20th century,^[15] exceptional faunas rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s after they were “rediscovered”.^[16] The Burgess Shale has, in particular, yielded many of the most famous fossils ever discovered, and forms the subject of Gould’s Wonderful Life.^[17] The exceptional record displays a fauna dominated by arthropods, with less abundant sponges and echinoderms; in the case of the Chengjiang, purported representatives of many other phyla, even including vertebrates, are present.^[18] A smaller but significant number of taxa, including the famous Opabinia, Anomalocaris, Yunnanozoon, Halkieria, Odontogriphus, Wiwaxia and Hallucigenia, have consistently excited attention since their description, because these organisms do not fit readily into modern taxonomic categories. In addition, most, or even all, of the agreed arthropods from the exceptional faunas do not seem to fit into any modern arthropod class such as the insects, crustaceans or chelicerates.^{[clarify][19]}

[edit] Is it or isn't it

In Central America, the seeds of the Calabash gourd are toasted and ground with other ingredients (including rice, cinnamon, and allspice) to make the drink horchata. Calabash is known locally as morro or jícaro. I believe Jicaro or morro is a tree not a vine. See Crescentia Alata. This picture is from San Vicente, El Salvador and seeds from morros are used to make horchata. http://a877.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/15/l_8ee6c294b11e005df13f8ec1d8e2a41c.jpg

[edit] English wikipedia

The Arab League is Divided Into 4 parts when it comes to Transportation, with Arabian peninsual and the Near East being totally connected, By Air, Sea, Highways and Railways, another part is the Nile Valley, made up of Egypt and Sudan, the Two countries have started to improve the River's Navigation System to be accessible in Trading, and a New Railway System will Connect the Southern Egyptian City of Abu Simble with the Northern Sudanese City of Wadi Halfa, and then to Khartoum and Port Sudan, the third Division of the League is the Maghrib, where a 3000 km of Railway runs from the souther cities of Morocco to Tripoli in Western Libya, the last Division of the League is the East African Part, made up of Djibouti, Somalia and Comoros, these three states are not connected at all with an Arab Countries, Djibouti's main income is acting as a seaport for the neighboring Landlocked Ethiopia.

A mycorrhiza (Greek for fungus roots coined by Frank, 1885^[20]; typically seen in the plural forms mycorrhizae or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic (occasionally weakly pathogenic) association between a fungus and the roots of a plant.^[21] In a mycorrhizal association the fungus may colonize the roots of a host plant either intracellularly or extracellularly.

This mutualistic association provides the fungus with relatively constant and direct access to mono- or dimeric carbohydrates, such as glucose and sucrose produced by the plant in photosynthesis.

[edit] The best of WP:AN/I

Support of this edit and confusion over the issue.[5]?[6]

[edit] The most informative of Wikipedia (those yellows and blue violets)

Potyviruses infect plants and belong to the family Potyviridae.

Among other uses, it is used in the production of denim cloth for blue jeans.

[edit] And the common thread is, and the clue is ....

Malva vein clearing potyvirus also known as MVCV^[22] is a species of potyvirus in the family Potyviridae that was first isolated in 1957 from an infected Malva sylvestris in Germany which is transmitted by an insect, Aphis umbrella and Myzus persicae (all Aphididae). The insects mechanically inoculates the victims.^[22]

Our American Cousin is an opera in three acts by the American composer Eric Sawyer.

[edit] The most of the least or the least of the most

Stromatolites of fossilized oxygen-producing cyanobacteria have been found from 2.8 billion years ago.^[23] The ability of cyanobacteria to perform oxygenic photosynthesis is thought to have converted the early reducing atmosphere into an oxidizing one, which dramatically changed the life forms on Earth and provoked an explosion of biodiversity. Chloroplasts in plants and eukaryotic algae have evolved from cyanobacteria.

[edit] Better than cinnamon toast

Metal oxide semiconductor #REDIRECT [[MOSFET]]

If you can top this, please do!

Yet Data isn't a redirect.

Neither is Trigger (firearms), but:

Gate (transistor) #REDIRECT [[Field-effect transistor]]

[edit] Within which formation?

Subsequent exploration has found exposures of the shale over a front of several dozen kilometers and has identified at least six fossiliferous lagerstätten within the formation.

A geologic formation is a formally named rock stratum or geological unit. Formations are Lithostratigraphic units which are defined by primary lithology.

The concept of formally defined layers or strata is central to the geologic discipline of stratigraphy.

[edit] Vernal pools

Most pools are dry for at least part of the year and fill with the winter rains or snow melt.

Despite being dry at times, once filled they teem with life. The most obvious inhabitants are various species of frogs and toads, which one can start looking for as soon as one finds the vernal pool by noticing the wildflowers growing in it.

In vernal pools, flowering occurs simultaneously, making finding the vernal pools to notice its most obvious inhabitants, the frogs and toads, quite easy, because of the seasonality of favorable conditions. Vernal pools are home to many endemic species because of the unique environmental niches created by acidity and salinity gradients.

Different species are suited to different moisture levels, and as water evaporates from the edges of a pool, rings of flowers blossom simultaneously around it. The color patterns change as the wet season simultaneously wears on, the color pattern changing not due to the flowering occuring at different times, but rather due to the change in expressed pigments of the petals of the simltaneously flowering flowers. The rings may form swirls and layers, with the green of new grass surrounding the whole pattern, the grass being new rather than simultaneous because it is not a flowering plant.

[edit] Wikiwarnings and advice

"But beware, temperature coefficients of thick film resistors are tyically ±200 or ±250 ppm/K, depending on the resistance."

Be wary, beware, be warned.

[edit] On top of old smokey, all covered in cheese

Epigenetics is, to put it simply, a term used to describe the idea that an organism's experience may cause its genes to behave (or "express themselves") differently. The genes themselves stay the same, but the way they are expressed is different because of environmental factors. ^[24] It is a term in biology used today to refer to changes in gene expression that are stable over rounds of cell division, and sometimes between generations, even though the underlying DNA sequence of the organism stays the same.^[25] The molecular basis of epigenetics involves modifications to DNA and the chromatin proteins that associate with it. Epigenetics is a fundamental part of eukaryotic biology, and is perhaps most elegantly illustrated in the process of cellular differentiation, which allows cells to stably maintain different characteristics despite containing the same genomic material. Epigenetic states are inherited when cells divide, and although most of these states are considered dynamic over the course of development in multicellular organisms, some epigenetic features show transgenerational inheritance and are inherited from one generation to the next.^[26]

[edit] Accuracy of EDS

Wikipedia article: "Accuracy of EDS spectrum can be effected by many variants. Windows in front of the SiLi detector can absorb low-energy X-rays(a.k.a. EDS detectors cannot detect presence of oxygen, carbon, boron, etc.). Differing the over-voltage of the EDS will result in different peak sizes - Raising over-voltage on the SEM will shift the spectrum to the larger energies making higher-energy peaks larger while making lower energy peaks smaller. Also many elements will have overlapping peaks(ex. Ti Kβ and V Kα, Mn Kβ and Fe Kα)." Study of EDS vs. WDS accuracy in common labs

Link compares EMPA WDS system with SEM EDS system, irrelevant to this section of the article about EDS. I assume it's just another spamvertisement on Wikipedia. It certain doesn't make the false statement that "EDS detectors cannot detect presense of oxygen, carbon, born etc." any more true or less false. This is common on Wikipedia, nonsense tied to unrelated sources, as sources appear sacred: if it's sourced it must be true. Four people said it on the web, so that's good enough for me. However, in this case, I can't find four sources that support this, although there are a couple of thousand that support something else.

[edit] Amazing inventions

"Scanning electron microscopes are equipped with a cathode and magnetic lenses to create and focus a beam of electrons, and since the 1960s they have been equipped with elemental analysis capabilities."

Which article gives us this incredible tid-bit of information?

"Unlike visible light microscopes, X-rays do not reflect or refract easily, and they are invisible to the human eye. Therefore the basic process of an X-ray microscope is to expose film or use a charge-coupled device (CCD) detector to detect X-rays that pass through the specimen, rather than light which bounces off the specimen. It is a contrast imaging technology using the difference in absorption of soft x-ray in the water window region (wavelength region: 2.3 - 4.4 nm, photon energy region: 0.28 - 0.53 keV) by the carbon atom (main element composing the living cell) and the oxygen atom (main element for water)."

"The ALS is also home to the world's first soft x-ray microscope designed for biological and biomedical research."

Whatever the ALS is, it's home to the first one of these, which is these....

"Sources of soft X-rays suitable for microscopy, such as synchrotron radiation sources, have fairly low brightness of the required wavelengths, so an alternative method of image formation is scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy."

"Until now, resolutions of 30 nanometer are possible using the Fresnel zone plate lens which forms the image using the soft x-rays emitted from a synchrotron. Recently, more researchers have begun to use the soft x-rays emitted from laser-produced plasma rather than synchrotron radiation. "

"Electron microscopy is widely used to obtain images with nanometer level resolution but the relatively thick living cell cannot be observed as the sample has to be sliced thinly and then dried to get the image."

Now that's an accomplishment I'd like to see!

"In optical mineralogy and petrography, a thin section is a laboratory preparation of a rock, mineral or soil sample for use with a polarizing petrographic microscope."

Is that all? At least it's my favorite.

[edit] Where would Wikipedia put its best micrographs?

Not in this article. Although I suppose it's better than having the bad micrographs dispersed throughout.... I do appreciate the idea of having one out of focus, and two low resolution micrographs for the article though. At least one of the low res ones is by a famous microscopist/artist/photographer.

[edit] Possibly the best paragraph in all of Wiki-land

[edit] As geopolitical boundaries

"Drainage basins have been important historically in determining boundaries, particularly in regions where trade by water has been important. For example, the English crown gave the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly on the Indian Trade in the entire Hudson Bay watershed, an area called Rupert's Land. The company later acquired the North American watershed of the Arctic Ocean (the North-Western Territory). These lands later became part of Canada as the Northwest Territories, making up the vast majority of Canada's land area."

"Currently the Sistan Basin stretches over the southern parts of Afghanistan and Iran. Shangrila Lake in Skardu Pakistan."

"Today, bioregional democracy can include agreements of states in a particular drainage basin to defend it. These include the Great Lakes Commission."

If you can tie the importance of the stub about the Sistan Basin into this general article on drainage basin's or make the following sentence fragment interesting, then you're probably not already editing this article. Love the anybody can add an unrelated fragment attitude.

[edit] References include press releases, and any four sources--reliability and verifiability not needed

[7] [8]

Including an event newsletter, and links to the advertisers, and their product pages.[9]

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky

Hoaxes that aren't recognized right away.

Not sure why you refer to it as a hoax, but a good find and speedy close.  Frank  |  talk  12:48, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Who are you?

More than that.

[edit] Recent useless trash outside my area

Articles on obscure rabbis

Articles on non-obscure, except on Wikipedia, inventors

[edit] Where the hell are the Klamath Mountains

... nowhere near California's Central Valley, apparently.

Helen Zelezny better known in Europe as Helene Zelezny-Scholz or Helene Scholzová-Železná (August 16, 1882 - February 18, 1974) was a Czech born sculptor and architectural sculptor. She is also known as an Italian sculptor as she lived and created in Rome, where she was critically acclaimed, for a number of years. She is better known in parts of Europe as Helena Zelezny-Scholz, and is sometimes called Helen Scholz.

Zelezny grew up in her family's castle in Třebovice. Her mother was Marie Stonawski (1861-1944) a writer of fiction and poetry who used the pseudonym Maria Stona and led artistic salon in Třebovice. Zelezny studied drawing in Vienna and Dresden, and sculpture in Berlin under Fritz Heinemann. She studied in Brussels between 1898 and 1901 under Charles van der Stappen. Van der Stappen emphasized realistic sculpture, what Zelezny is known for, with the French sensualism in his teaching and creation.

In 1913 Zelezny visited Tunis where she later sculpted the outside of a house. She moved to Vienna at the beginning of the First World War. She acted in Paris, Florence and Rome between the world wars, while maintaing her ties to her home country. She was the most significant representative of the sculpture of north Moravia and Silesia beside Josef Obeth at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

Her sculptures largely featured sculpted portraits, including members of the Habsburg family, Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Lady Sybil Grahamová, Benito Mussolini, and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1932). She was also commissioned to sculpt monuments such as monuments to victims of the First World War, as well less allegoric works with biblical, oriental and literary inspiration. She exhibited in a international exhibitions in Berlin and Vienna (1907), in Rome in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery (1932), and in Paris.

[edit] Works

• The Thoughtful, bronze, 1906, the castle Raduň
• The Melancholia, 1906, bronze, 1906, the castle Raduň
• Allegory of the Drama and Music, 1907, town theatre in Moravská Ostrava (smash);
• Alois Scholzes tomb with the allegory of the sorrow, 1908-9, Gratz;
• Small statue Georg Brandes 1913
• Allegory justice, 1914, judicial building, [[Fryštát];
• tomb sculpture on the grave dr. Ostrčil, 1924, Praha-Olšany;
• cenotaph, 1930, Těšín (smash);
• The Common and Feast Days, bronze, 1933, gallery in Ostrava
• Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), bronze, 1933, Museum Silesie in Opava
• The Slovak Family, bronze, 1933, the castle Raduň
• cycle of 10 reliefs of the life the saintess, 1936, church St. Hedvika, Opava;
• Pope Paul VI, 1967

Zelazny has work in maintained in the permanent collection of the castle Hradec nad Moravicí, several pieces in the Museum Silesie in Opava, some works in Gallery of the Fine Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ostrava, and in in the [National Gallery in Prague]] in addition to private collections.

[edit] Bibliography

Aus der Jugend einer Bildhauerin, Tagenbuchblätter aus den Jahren 1908-1917. Roma 1972. Jessen, J.: Deutsche Bildhauerinnen. In: Der Bazar (Berlin) 20. 1. 1908; Deutsche Heimat (Sudetendeutsche Monatshefte) 4, 1928, 16, 43 a 48; Das Bild (Karlsruhe) 12, 1942, 124, 131-136, 141; Strinati, R.: Elena Z. - Sch., Scultrice. Roma 1957; Spidlik, T.: Sculptured Prayer. Roma 1968; Mann, Anthony: Zelezny Portrait Sculpture 1917-1970. Roma 1970; H. Z.¬Sch. Sculpturess. My dear Pupils. Roma 1973; H. Z. - Sch. Nachlese. Roma 1974;

Thesis (in Czech): Jůza, Jiří.: H. Z.-Sch., zapomenutá sochařka 1. poloviny 20. století. Diplomová prá¬ce FF UP Olomouc. Olomouc 1996.

[edit] References

• Biografický slovník Slezska a severní Moravy. Sešit 11. Ostrava, Ostravská univerzita, 1998, s. 123-124.
• 1 of 10 reliefs of the life the saintess in church St. Hedvika, Opava 1936, foto J. Novák.

in: Gebauer, Josef. Chrám sv. Hedviky v Opavě. In: Vlastivědné listy, 1994, Vol. 20, Nr. 1, p. 21-23.

• Helene Scholz-Zelezny. In: SMETANOVÁ, J. TGM. Praha : Primus, 1996, p. 191.

• All in: Jůza, Jiří.: Helena Železná-Scholzová, zapomenutá sochařka 1. poloviny 20. století. In: Ostrava. Vol. 19. Šenov : Tilia, 1999, p. 147-175.

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[edit] Helen Zelezny

Hi, that was some nice work saving this article. It's good to see AFD having such a positive result. Cheers Kevin (talk) 01:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User notification

This is to notify you that you are the subject of a thread posted to WP:AN. Please check here[10] to join the fun. Last time no one bothered to notify you, because bullying you is more fun, but this time, here's your notification. --Blechnic (talk) 02:59, 30 May 2008 (UTC) Oh, wait, I'm notifying me. My bad. That doesn't count. Community permanent ban that editor quick!

[edit] A rather good picture, although probably edited the heck out of

[edit] Berg

Well, we did save it after all.DGG (talk) 16:40, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Interesting thread on the biases that abound on Wikipedia--and I'm under threat of permanent ban for putting fact tags on an article who's the fuckwit?

[edit] RMHED questionable comments in questionable discussion [11]

Note: this section is copied and pasted from AN/I. None of these comments were posted here directly. They show a lot about Wikipedia administrators and their biases about "disrupting Wikipedia." Someone didn't agree with my contectual edit, so I got blocked and threatened with a permanent ban. Civil? That's not about to happen on Wikipedia. Encyclopedia? Neither is that.

Disclaimer: I do not make it a habit to complain here, as some do. It seems we have a large body of tattlers whose entire Wikipedia career revolves around getting involved in assorted fights on these noticeboards and filing assorted administrative actions, RfCs and RfArs etc. I also have expressed my opinions about what I see is an irrational application of principles like WP:CIVIL to increasingly mild and subtle slights, and the increasing misuse of WP:CIVIL as a weapon (see this for a discussion of my own feelings about WP:CIVIL).

However, there is a limit, and I humbly suggest that this sort of comment might be approaching that limit. It is part and parcel of what looks to be a fairly rancorous discussion that is probably unproductive for fostering harmony and comity. Perhaps when a line like this is crossed, it would be appropriate for people to be cautioned, if not more. I would also suggest that any admins who have taken part in this sort of discussion without attempting to dampen its hostile tone and even encouraged some of its more negative aspects are clearly not acting in accordance with what we would expect of administrators on Wikipedia.--Filll (talk | wpc) 13:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Have you discussed that edit with the user on his talk page before coming here? Not that I disagree with you- then again it was a day and a half ago now. Sticky Parkin 16:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

No I have not. I only just learned about it from seeing an announcement of the conversation on Orangemarlin's talk page: [12]. Interesting response, but not unexpected. We will see how important WP:CIVIL is, I guess, won't we? --Filll (talk | wpc) 17:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

? I'm not sure what you mean, but I assure you WP:CIVIL is one of my favourite policies. Why didn't you just warn or advise User:RMHED that his edit was not appropriate? Or I will, I can do that even though I'm only a lowly editor.:) Why go straight to AN/I rather than first speak to the user yourself? Other than that, I'm sure no-one here will disagree with you that the comment was inappropriate, but by the dispute resolution processes you could simply have warned or spoke to him yourself, AN/I is not something to use straight away before speaking to the user personally.Sticky Parkin 17:46, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I am no expert in dealing with WP:CIVIL. I have never reported anyone for a WP:CIVIL violation before. In fact, I am fairly unimpressed with noticeboards in general, and usually am only here to defend myself from some attack or other, or chime in to defend a friend. And in those instances, I personally have not seen some sort of delicate coordinated dance with escalating talk page warnings, but maybe they were not following correct procedure. The only case I have ever observed this is for 3RR.--Filll (talk | wpc) 17:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I am unfamiliar with standard procedures but I surmise I am supposed to notify the main party on their talk pages, which I did here. Should I notify others in that conversation who are engaged in questionable discussions or ignoring or encouraging questionable discussions?--Filll (talk | wpc) 17:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm not an expert:) I'm just saying you should have spoken to him first, as you've named part of this thread after one particular person. Maybe it should just be called "questionable discussion" if it's about the discussion? Just that your first comments made it seemed like it was RMHED's edit you objected to in particular. I'm sure after all this time on wiki you are familiar with the dispute resolution process.:) You could post about the AN/I thread in the discussion, that way everyone following it will know about it, but you should have spoken to the individual editor first, as it seems (rightfully) to be this particular comment of his that upsets you, as well as the discussion as a whole. Sticky Parkin 17:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh a thought- witiquette alerts board- Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts, I'd forgotten about that, might be just the thing you're after. Sticky Parkin 17:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

As usual, this just makes things so complicated it is not even worth it. Typical. But of course, calling someone a "homeopathy promoter" or a "self promoter" or saying someone has a "silly argument" are sanctionable under WP:CIVIL. But implying someone is a f@ckwit is not. Ah, so reasonable and rational...--Filll (talk | wpc) 18:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Clearly out-of-line. I've gone ahead and removed. Mahalo. --Ali'i 19:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

No more out of line than Orangemarlin's nasty insinuations, I've reinstated my comment. RMHED (talk) 20:38, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps, but my mommy told me two wrongs don't make a right. I've removed it again. I would request you not reinsert it. You can stand by your statement a thousand times over, but unless you are contributing to the discussion, there is absolutely no need for it to be there, and only adds to inflaming the situation. I won't remove it again, but please consider just leaving it be. Mahalo. --Ali'i 21:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

What you and your mommy discuss is of no interest to me, if you believe my comment is unhelpful then ignore it, but please do not remove it. RMHED (talk) 21:46, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

And added another example here. I am glad to see that our political correctness police are so anxious to address these violations of WP:CIVIL.--Filll (talk | wpc) 20:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

• Best to just ignore it. Someone else has added it back, and it is by no means worth edit-warring over. If an admin wants to leave a civility warning, then thats fine, but I don't think any further discussion is warranted about this here. Avruch ^T 21:19, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Well if I was an admin, I would have cautioned several people here to just tone it down a tad, on all sides of the issue. Stupidly, I thought that is what would transpire here. Goes to show what I know. Ah well...--Filll (talk | wpc) 00:35, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I added it back (fuckwit). I am very tired of the facist like "enforcement" of the WP:CIVIL policy. I'm all about following policy and I even have admin aspirations in the future, but this is too much. Beam 21:32, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Fuckwit is not civil, unless one is clearly referring to oneself, in which case it's funny. SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 22:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you can read the statement in question, no one was called fuckwit. But yes, Beam is a fuckwit. :D Beam 01:02, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Well I have been keeping track of some of the nice examples of alleged WP:CIVIL violations that I have run across over the last while here. And interestingly, none of them are as bad as calling someone a "f@ckwit", let alone doing it more than once and edit warring over it. This has been, and continues to be, an exceedingly nice example of massive hypocrisy which I am glad to be able to point to. I guess it all depends on who is doing the name-calling then, doesn't it? Frankly, the political correctness police and champions of wikilove all look pretty bad as far as I am concerned. And I am glad to have this nice example proving that Wikipedia is full of it on this issue. Very very nice.--Filll (talk | wpc) 22:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Agreements

I have to agree with this[13] though. However, the assumption that that's possibly in the midst of a cesspool of it is a bit off.

[edit] Alphabet Poop

Oh, a new one, now I got called a penis. I wonder if there is a WP:ASSHOLE/WP:PRICK or any gender specific ones for women in the bowl? It's easy to see why there's so much crap on Wikipedia, and no time to repair any of it: WP:BLATHER. --Blechnic (talk) 05:49, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Abt Durga Nanda Jha

Thanks for the edits. I just checked his status about martyrdom. He is not formally a martyr of Nepal till date. However, he had and has been held as a martyr be Nepali Congress party since the date he was executed. A lot of literature about him is present in Nepali which I plan to add to article. One of the things that is bugging in article is calling him an "assasin". He was a democratic activist. Calling him an assisin is like calling Roosevelt a butcher for standing up against Hitler. So, I think some better terminoly between martyr and assassin might serve the article well. --Eukesh (talk) 17:20, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Another attempted gun point improvement plan for an article

In modern furniture-making, the upholstery frame gives structural support and determines the basic shape of any piece of upholstered furniture. If a frame is unstable, an upholstered piece will not be durable, no matter how fine or costly its design, padding, cushioning, or cover. Quality frames are generally made of solid wood, but plywood, engineered wood products, a variety of polymers and metals are also used.

Hardwood frames are usually constructed from kiln-dried mixed hardwoods. White ash is a superior frame making wood. White oak, red oak, and American elm are good, and hard maple and birch are acceptable. Softwoods make poor frames.

Kiln drying reduces the moisture content of the lumber, a process which inhibits checking, splitting, and strengthens the finished product.

Engineered wood products may not look strong, but can be stronger than hardwood because the layers add to the strength. They are sometimes used at critical stress areas when maximum strength is needed.

Wooden frame joints are often double doweled, which means that round wooden pegs are fitted into holes in two adjacent frame sections and glued. Epoxy coated staples and gang nails are also commonly used. The gang nail is a metal plate with saw teeth, which immobilizes the joint when it is pressed into the wood with a hydraulic press. Major joints need the additional support of corner blocks, which should be glued and screwed into place.

Since lumber costs increase rapidly with increasing board thickness, some manufacturers may hold down frame coasts by skimping at the precise point where ample strength is most important. The engineering principle involved is that strength varies directly with rail width and with the cube of thickness. If we assume that a certain 1î x 1î beam will sustain a load of 100 pounds, then a beam 1î thick and 2î wide will sustain 200 pounds. An old rule of thumb suggests that rails of 3î or more in width should be 1 1/8thî thick, while rails less than 3î wide should exceed 11/8thî in thickness.

Category:Furniture

[edit] What I would be doing if Wikipedia valued knowledge over cruft and power plays

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

[edit] Coming back to the well

I've done a bit of an expansion on author/journalist Else Feldmann and was wondering if you have any information you could add. The majority of information about her is in German (I don't speak it either) or protected by University access. Any chance you have any information on her? So you know, I added her to Wikipedia: WikiProject Austria and left a note there as well. AniMate 04:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I was going to say something ridiculous about how you've renewed my faith in this place, but... this is Wikipedia, and being idealistic about it is pointless. Thank you for actually helping with something that wasn't a controversial ordeal that landed on one of the admin boards. If there's no drama, people really don't seem to want to help. It feels good to expand an article, and not to think about bullshit like AfDs or prodding. Thank you. AniMate 06:00, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I know exactly what Wikipedia is. I played the MMORPG and went after the almighty Good Article rating, the article didn't get it, I got bitter, and decided to really play the game. Starting AfDs is really pointless and such an unimportant part of what this is supposed to be about. However, I will admit to wishing there was a better way to influence (or blackmail) people into expanding stubs. If a fraction of the admins who care so much about this project really cared, they'd be down in the trenches writing articles, instead of debating pointless policies. AniMate 06:40, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

And for the record, if you aren't a drama queen the next time we meet... then I'll be offended. AniMate 06:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Obscure Austrian writers

You wrote: You really know your obscure critically acclaimed Austrian writers of the early 20th century, and there are so many more whose articles you did not start. And you provided a photo of Krzysztof Penderecki? You've made an impressive contribution to cultural knowledge in Wikipedia with these important literary stubs you started. Let me know if you need assistance with any potential deletion issues. --Blechnic (talk) 05:47, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I haven't contributed much here for a long time (got tired of pokemons being more important than artists), but thanks! Karol (talk) 11:02, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trellium-D

Given your recent interest in the article, please note that there is a formal merger discussion at Talk:Trellium-D#Merge proposal. - Fayenatic (talk) 18:36, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] good job...

You did a good job fleshing out the Alberto Martinez (United States Army) article.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 14:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)