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List_of_political_parties_in_East_Timor (T-H-L-K-D)Citations: None Point of View: Relatively nuetral, but that's not saying much, because this article is next to useless, with one sentence being the primary content of this article - not including the list, of course Accuracy: With no sources, it cannot be confirmed whether or not the only statements made by this article are factual. Theodor_Becker (T-H-L-K-D)Citations: None. Point of View & Accuracy: This article is so badly written, I cannot understand it, much less establish a point of view or accuracy issues. Roary_the_Lion (T-H-L-K-D)Substub. Bloody useless. Should be merged with the article on Middlesbrough_F.C. (T-H-L-K-D) and redirected. This will never be anything more than a stub.
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QUOTE(The Joy @ Fri 8th August 2008, 1:25pm) When I was a more active Wikipedian, I tried to clean up various military articles. At one point, I got stuck on a Indian military article. It was like someone had taken an article from a different language, translated it into English via AltaVista Babelfish, and dumped it on Wikipedia without cleaning it up. I would try to fix things, but I never really knew what the original writers meant so I would just have to leave the ambiguous stuff alone as I have no knowledge of the Indian military.
That's my experience as well. However, I don't think most of those articles are actual Altavista translations, as Babelfish at least gets the punctuation spaced correctly.
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QUOTE(Hushthis @ Wed 5th April 2006, 6:39pm) This could be a fun game -- click random articles and assess the results for citations, viewpoint, grammar and accuracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA-B49 Short, but a lot of interesting info on an HLA allele I knew nothing about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carvers%2C_Nevada Stub about a town, but has grid coords, at least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Elmaleh_de_Buenos Minor French impressionist painter I'd never heard of. Obvious translation. Info but no refs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Hultgren Stub on Miss Sweden, 1995, with some acting gigs. No photo, damnit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_MultiCom Swiss computer network company. Clearly a cropped stub from the company website, just so they have a WP presense. COI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_...hess_of_Suffolk Stub on a younger sister of Edward IV of England, obviously by a ROYAL worshipper. Late 15th century. You remember the York who started the War of the Roses and kept waffling on and off the throne. No? Just as well. Anyway, he had this sister... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern_%28disambiguation%29 A dab page on Ferns. I love dab pages. Did you know a Fern Bar is an upscale yuppie bar? Most people ferns I've met are varieties of human potted plants who decorate the living spaces of the rich and famous. A slang use not reported here. Ah, well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_of_Watching_Fireworks. An album by the American Analog Set. Not much info but a track listing. Apparently not a terribly important band. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_14_of_t...ted_States_Code Not much info, but does give links. Title 14 is THE title in US Code for the legal authorization for the Coast Guard. Who knew? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorma A river in Norway (name means "warm"). Stubby article but long river. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Lucas Texas bankrobber who went to Alcatraz in 1935, stabbed Al Capone non-fatally there in a laundry room in 1936, tried to escape in 1938 (resulting in a death) and was sentenced to life, serving 25 more years till he died there in 1963. This guy's life sucked (I've visited Alcatraz). Decent references and a pretty good article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilston_West_railway_station Stub on a Brit railway station closed in 1962 and used after that only by Hoggwarts students. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenham_Clumps Article on a bunch of small hills in Oxfordshire. Thrilling poetry included. References substandard. But the English live up to their rep, with this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Palace Very nice article on a pretty piece of London architecture, with nice photos and good references. And a good place to stop, as the English have here redeemed themselves for the Wittenham Clumps. This post has been edited by Milton Roe:
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The "Related Works" list in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World is quite entertaining: QUOTE Related works
* The Scientific Outlook by philosopher Bertrand Russell. When Brave New World was released, Russell thought that Huxley's book was based on his book The Scientific Outlook that had been released the previous year. Russell contacted his own publisher and asked whether or not he should do something about this apparent plagiarism. His publisher advised him not to, and Russell followed this advice.[22] * The 1921 novel Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells. A utopian novel that was a source of inspiration for Huxley's dystopian Brave New World. * In Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga, an isolated planet practicing genetic eugenics to form a perfect society is called 'Huxleys Haven' * The 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman alludes to how television is goading modern Western culture to be like what we see in Brave New World, where people are not so much denied human rights like free speech, but are rather conditioned not to care. * Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano (1952) he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We."[23] * The Iron Maiden song by the same name on their album Brave New World whose cover art depicts a futuristic London described by Huxley. * "Slave New World," a song by Brazilian band Sepultura from their album Chaos A.D. * Brazilian rock singer Pitty's debut album, released in 2003, is called Admirável Chip Novo (Brave New Chip). * Brave New World is the title song on the third album by the Steve Miller Band. * The Motörhead album Hammered includes a song named Brave New World. * Richard Ashcroft's first solo album Alone with Everybody includes a song named Brave New World. * Demolition Man, a film starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock, is set in a not-too-distant future utopian society based on a Brave New World. Sandra Bullock's character is even named Lenina Huxley, referencing the author and character from the book. (1997) * Reagan Youth had a song named "Brave New World". * The Proletariat had an LP entitled "Soma Holiday." * Scottish techno record label Soma Quality Recordings was named after the drug Soma featured in a Brave New World * On their album Here, Here, and Here, Meg & Dia have a track titled "Hug Me", a song written by Dia inspired by "Brave New World." * The song "Soma Holiday" by Gods of Luxury is based on the novel and includes several quotes from the novel in its lyrics. * The lyrics for Marilyn Manson's song "Ka-boom Ka-boom" from The Golden Age of Grotesque play on the title and idea of this book; in them, Manson suggests that society is a "depraved new world." * Sam Endicott of The Bravery based the song I Have Seen The Future off of Brave New World, as he said in an interview.
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QUOTE(KamrynMatika @ Sun 7th March 2010, 2:11pm) The "Related Works" list in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World is quite entertaining: QUOTE Related works
* The Scientific Outlook by philosopher Bertrand Russell. When Brave New World was released, Russell thought that Huxley's book was based on his book The Scientific Outlook that had been released the previous year. Russell contacted his own publisher and asked whether or not he should do something about this apparent plagiarism. His publisher advised him not to, and Russell followed this advice.[22] * The 1921 novel Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells. A utopian novel that was a source of inspiration for Huxley's dystopian Brave New World. * In Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga, an isolated planet practicing genetic eugenics to form a perfect society is called 'Huxleys Haven' * The 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman alludes to how television is goading modern Western culture to be like what we see in Brave New World, where people are not so much denied human rights like free speech, but are rather conditioned not to care. * Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano (1952) he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We."[23] * The Iron Maiden song by the same name on their album Brave New World whose cover art depicts a futuristic London described by Huxley. * "Slave New World," a song by Brazilian band Sepultura from their album Chaos A.D. * Brazilian rock singer Pitty's debut album, released in 2003, is called Admirável Chip Novo (Brave New Chip). * Brave New World is the title song on the third album by the Steve Miller Band. * The Motörhead album Hammered includes a song named Brave New World. * Richard Ashcroft's first solo album Alone with Everybody includes a song named Brave New World. * Demolition Man, a film starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock, is set in a not-too-distant future utopian society based on a Brave New World. Sandra Bullock's character is even named Lenina Huxley, referencing the author and character from the book. (1997) * Reagan Youth had a song named "Brave New World". * The Proletariat had an LP entitled "Soma Holiday." * Scottish techno record label Soma Quality Recordings was named after the drug Soma featured in a Brave New World * On their album Here, Here, and Here, Meg & Dia have a track titled "Hug Me", a song written by Dia inspired by "Brave New World." * The song "Soma Holiday" by Gods of Luxury is based on the novel and includes several quotes from the novel in its lyrics. * The lyrics for Marilyn Manson's song "Ka-boom Ka-boom" from The Golden Age of Grotesque play on the title and idea of this book; in them, Manson suggests that society is a "depraved new world." * Sam Endicott of The Bravery based the song I Have Seen The Future off of Brave New World, as he said in an interview.
To my mind, an oddly homogeneous listing. The big omission, of course, is Shakespeare's The Tempest, which originated the phrase: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!
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I tried: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossana_Schneider - text is close to nonsensical, and is basically a puff piece, reference is unverifiable. Rubbish. 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Sattsayev - minor Russian footballer, no information provided, latest year's stats not given by reference. Only one line. Unlikely to be useful to anyone. 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaquina - dismabiguation page that rather misses the opportunity to explain why places in Oregon are called 'Yaquina'. 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berman - another disambig page 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street - about a brutalist skyscraper. Now this is actually interesting, and appears to be the only real article about the subject available online. 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_governor - article asserting the existence of a specific mental process to prevent over-exertion. Presented as fact with a 'criticism' section at the end, but a google search leads me to suspect it's actually a fringe theory and not accepted generally by medical science. 7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaysin_Quli - Balkar poet, pretty good article. Appears to have been written by only one or two people. 8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_warship_combat - geek topic, I'm not even going to bother questioning this 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACP%E2%80%93E...entary_Assembly - article describing an African, Caribbean, Pacific-EU assembly. Very dry, no analysis. Has this really attracted no news coverage? 10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFAF_Challenge_Cup - minor European gridiron competition. This post has been edited by wikieyeay:
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QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Sun 7th March 2010, 11:39pm) To my mind, an oddly homogeneous listing. The big omission, of course, is Shakespeare's The Tempest, which originated the phrase: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!
Seriously? [edit] I mean, does it seriously omit it? This post has been edited by Peter Damian:
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QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Mon 8th March 2010, 12:58pm) QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Sun 7th March 2010, 11:39pm) To my mind, an oddly homogeneous listing. The big omission, of course, is Shakespeare's The Tempest, which originated the phrase: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!
Seriously? [edit] I mean, does it seriously omit it? No. (Peter, I have to say that took all of two seconds to check.)
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How can you forget the Saints? -any religion will do; Christian: Mariam Baouardy (T-H-L-K-D) QUOTE Eyes flashing with hatred he lost control and kicked her to the floor. He then drew his sword and slashed her throat. Thinking her dead he dumped her bloody body in a nearby dark alley. It was 8 September 1858. What followed was a strange and beautifully moving story, told years later by Mariam to her Mistress of Novices at Marseilles, France. “A nun dressed in blue picked me up and stitched my throat wound. This happened in a grotto somewhere.
..or Muslim: Sukayna bint Husayn (T-H-L-K-D): QUOTE ..the children gathered around Sukaina with their little cups, knowing that as soon as Abbas ibn Ali would bring water, Sukaina would first make sure that they had some before taking any herself. Sukaina was standing next to Hussain ibn Ali, also with her eyes fixed on the Alam of Abbas ibn Ali. Abbas reached the river bank fighting Yazid's men trying to block his way, killing anyone with his spear that tried to stop his progress. Abbas' bravery was well known among the Arabs and the Yazid’s troops started to flee in different directions. As he bent down to fill the mashk, the Alam disappeared from sight. Sakīnah was frightened and looked at her father. Hussain ibn Ali said, Sakīnah, your uncle Abbas is at the river bank. Sakīnah smiled and said, Alhamdulillah (all praise is for Allah), and called out all the children to welcome Abbas.
With the water-bag filled, Abbas ibn Ali wanted to get the water to the anxiously waiting children as quickly as possible. Seeing him gallop towards the camp of Hussain ibn Ali, Umar ibn Sa’ad shouted from the enemy ranks that if even a single drop of water reaches Hussain's camp, it would be impossible to fight them on the battlefield. When arrows were coming from all sides, Abbas had only one thought in his mind, how to protect the water-bag than his life. Abbas ibn Ali lost both his arms during the attack, trying to save the water-bag. The Alam fell onto the ground. SakÄ«nah could not see it any longer. She looked at Hussain ibn Ali, but he turned his face away. SakÄ«nah began to tremble with fear and her eyes filled with tears. She raised her hands and prayed, “Ya Allah! Do not let them kill my uncle Abbas, I will not ask for water again and ran inside the tent to her motherâ€. PS: the girl died...5 years old (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/huh.gif)
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I have a COI with respect to this article, so I'll let someone else decide if it's sufficiently crappy to be deletion-worthy. HandsFree Networks
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QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 19th January 2011, 12:11pm) Ran across Wikipedia's press releasearticle on Apple's Time Capsule (Apple) yesterday. The article is fairly obviously at best a light gloss on Apple product literature. The Time Capsule has been heavily criticized in industry press for its design flaws (and Apple's original reticence to replace defective units), but the article valiantly minimizes that. Alison wrote it.
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QUOTE(Obesity @ Sun 13th February 2011, 7:45am) QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 19th January 2011, 12:11pm) Ran across Wikipedia's press releasearticle on Apple's Time Capsule (Apple) yesterday. The article is fairly obviously at best a light gloss on Apple product literature. The Time Capsule has been heavily criticized in industry press for its design flaws (and Apple's original reticence to replace defective units), but the article valiantly minimizes that. Alison wrote it. I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo. Jes' sayin' ...
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QUOTE(Alison @ Sun 13th February 2011, 6:48pm) QUOTE(Obesity @ Sun 13th February 2011, 7:45am) QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 19th January 2011, 12:11pm) Ran across Wikipedia's press releasearticle on Apple's Time Capsule (Apple) yesterday. The article is fairly obviously at best a light gloss on Apple product literature. The Time Capsule has been heavily criticized in industry press for its design flaws (and Apple's original reticence to replace defective units), but the article valiantly minimizes that. Alison wrote it. I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo. Jes' sayin' ... But then again, you would say that wouldn't you...
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QUOTE(Alison @ Sun 13th February 2011, 1:48pm) QUOTE(Obesity @ Sun 13th February 2011, 7:45am) QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 19th January 2011, 12:11pm) Ran across Wikipedia's press releasearticle on Apple's Time Capsule (Apple) yesterday. The article is fairly obviously at best a light gloss on Apple product literature. The Time Capsule has been heavily criticized in industry press for its design flaws (and Apple's original reticence to replace defective units), but the article valiantly minimizes that. Alison wrote it. I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo. Jes' sayin' ... i am sorry for my disrespect sorry for my lies :-(
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QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 22nd February 2011, 1:36am) QUOTE(Obesity @ Tue 22nd February 2011, 12:06am) i am sorry for my disrespect sorry for my lies Sorry for my dialect, and my pumpkin pies... i don't think Biggie Smalls, despite his physique, ever rapped about PUMPKIN PIES
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Some say the spies, make the pies Spec-tacular, make me lick it from da fork On da plate, then ya, shiverin, tongue deliverin Taste of that pumpkin, that pie is jumpkin Skip the milk and the cookies, no Oreos tonight If its alright with you, we slicin' dat pie
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QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Sun 10th April 2011, 10:12pm) I thought Wikipedia had lost its capacity to surprise me. I was wrong. Where I come from, there is a word for this. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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QUOTE(radek @ Mon 11th April 2011, 12:09am) QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Sun 10th April 2011, 3:12pm) I thought Wikipedia had lost its capacity to surprise me. I was wrong. To be fair, that's in good part a reflection on our general culture rather than being specific to Wikipedia. Ever culture has its reliquaries. The reliquary of the tooth of Mary Magdelene . The requiquary of the lock of hair of Justin Beiber. You can start to worry when either the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Beiber's hair, or else they start building a cathedral around it. Even so, it's not THAT much more silly than Catholicism. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/tongue.gif)
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QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Mon 11th April 2011, 1:21pm) QUOTE(radek @ Mon 11th April 2011, 12:09am) QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Sun 10th April 2011, 3:12pm) I thought Wikipedia had lost its capacity to surprise me. I was wrong. To be fair, that's in good part a reflection on our general culture rather than being specific to Wikipedia. Ever culture has its reliquaries. The reliquary of the tooth of Mary Magdelene . The requiquary of the lock of hair of Justin Beiber. You can start to worry when either the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Beiber's hair, or else they start building a cathedral around it. Even so, it's not THAT much more silly than Catholicism. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/tongue.gif) Oh, I totally agree with that - I'm willing to bet that pretty much every culture at every point in history was more or less just as goofy as ours. It's just the fog of history and the dulling vapors of romanticism that make it seem otherwise. Seriously, when Mozart was around, how many people do you think actually listened to the guy (putting aside the fact that he's over rated). I tell you how many. Two. Everyone else was listening to some roadside tavern version of Justin Bieber (of course in those times, each village had to have its own version of JB, and some did worse than others). But that stuff never got recorded so we were spared it. Or it got passed through the generation but thanks to the passage of time it now seems quaint and "authentic" (ugh). But now we record every single damn thing. So anyway, my standard of comparison, was my somewhat idealized version of what culture we should have, rather than any kind of historical comparison. You know, I was being elitist. btw, that article was apparently created as a (very awesome and hillarious) violation of WP:POINT (bad editor! bad!),
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