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Sir ScottPat UnS CUN VFH (talk) 17:08, April 26, 2013 (UTC)
- Alright mate. Are you still wanting this looked at? I can't help but notice you've had quite a long wait. I'll happily review it over the next few days if you do. --Chiefjustice32X 20:28, March 23, 2014 (UTC)
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So I finally got down to it! Anton (talk) 21:36, April 17, 2014 (UTC)
How and why is it funny? Any suggestions?
Hi! You said that Remi Gaillard was "almost a fan based article but hopefully contains some comedy". Well, I am glad to reassure you in your hopes: it does contain comedy! However, this doesn't mean that the article doesn't have the fan aspect to it, or that there is no more work to be done. On the contrary...
First of all, repetition. I'll mention it again in the Concept section of this review and I'll talk about repetition of words in Prose, but here I would like to make an accent on repetition of actual ideas. I felt that many things that I've read have already been said previously but only in different words. This doesn't work well with humour writing, unless you find a way to express the same idea many times in original ways or make emphasize the fact that you are repeating it. In this case, I think you could remove extra sentences and try to find something else you can talk about, if you are repeating yourself. Consider these phrases in the introduction:
- "Remi Gaillard is a well-known, respected French actor and director."
- "Remi Gaillard is probably the second most well-known and great [person] in France."
After this, the statement in Film Career - "Remi Gaillard is best known for the direction of his movies and his actorial role in them" - is pointless, as the only thing it says is that Remi is well-known and that he is well-known for his movies, something which we know already. This phrase will be good in the introduction (but not together with the two others), as it even states less than the reader knows by the time he reaches it. I have seen some other examples, such as the omnipresent theme of realism and truth in Remi's movies.
The most problematic section, I thought, was the introduction, especially the very first paragraph of your article, as it announced several jokes that would be told later in the article (for example, the one which I liked very much about the heroism of a soldier who chases all the British tourists from a beach) and thus remove the surprise effect, when the reader reaches the sections where everything is explained in details. Try keeping a bit more suspense, as you did with the Astronaut Career, for example (I personally did not expect these jokes to come and I found that part very successful).
There are some minor issues as well.
- In the introduction, Remi's devise seems like an undeveloped joke. First of all, I haven't heard of him being in prison for anything he did, second, it is hard to imagine that "hilarious pranks" that make you "the enemy of the French state" can inspire people from Haiti to Japan, because you didn't explain the relevance of that crossed out phrase to the rest of the introduction. Finally, you could also search for a deeper meaning in this motto. Originally, it comes from a French proverb which, translated in English, sounds like "It is by forging that one becomes a blacksmith".[1] You could even link that to the fact that Remi had many different careers (and why not one of a blacksmith?). Also, paraphrasing Wikipedia, "n'importe quoi" (whatever) implies something silly, while "n'importe qui" (whoever) can imply greatness. These are just ideas.
- In the introduction (as well), the B.A.G.U.E.T.T.E. awards need some background information, even though you invented them. What you could do without changing a lot the introduction, is make a funny link from "B.A.G.U.E.T.T.E." to a page which would make it a bit clearer whether you joke is that the award in question is not well-known and is given to not that notable directors or if it's something else.
- In the Film Career, the joke in "He has made many different genres of movies from Epics (Violence and war type) all the way to Epics (Surrendering type)." would've been more effective, if you phrased it a bit differently: "He has made many different genres of movies from violence and war type Epics all the way to the surrendering type Epics".
Apart from that, I've found the humour in your article well-developed and I liked the way in which you told the story behind every film. However there are other aspects of the article, such as prose, that challenge your humour.
How good is an idea behind the article?
I enjoyed reading your page, and even re-reading it, as the ideas were well thought out and the way in which they were expressed was very clear. But you have two main challenges, what concerns your concept.
The fan aspect shows itself when you talk about his "greatness" and the "greatness" of his productions. I've noticed plenty of adjectives in superlative: "most famous", "second most well-known and great", "best", "greatest", not counting many other adjectives, that transmit an opinion or a feeling about Remi, such as "astounding" and "hilarious".
While some of them help make the information more ridiculous (as Remi hasn't actually produced any major blockbusters, or Epics, and hasn't had and astounding football career), the abundance of them still makes it hard to differentiate between objective information told in the article (that Remi produced many "films", one of which is "Saving Private Remi") from the subjective (Remi's greatest film is "Saving Private Remi") and some of them do not even do that. For instance, "hilarious pranks on people" is exactly what your opinion about the pranks he makes, and this is not to a least degree ironic.
The best solution, as for me, would be to delete many references to the greatness of any particular production, and to try to say the same thing but in an objective tone. In addition, you yourself do it extremely well: for instance, at the end of the Rubbish Fuzz, you talk about the impact the film had on education, without giving your personal opinion (or it seems so), and I thought that this was one of the best jokes in the article.
The updates to the article are another important thing to focus on. You call "Saving Private Remi" his most recent film, but he shot plenty of videos after that, and in 2013 he even starred in a real movie about himself, called "N'importe qui"[2]. If you mention the fact that he is a filmmaker and an actor, even ironically, and don't talk about his real film career, well, only this might spoil the article, because it will be outdated.
What concerns his videos, have you watched his Free sex (pictured), which caused a lot of controversy in France? As you enjoy inventing Remi's careers based on his videos, this production of his can be a great source for inspiration. At the same time, it is a tough path, as you'll have to follow all his activity and make constant updates. Remi Gaillard posts his videos on his website (N'importe qui) and you can also check the Wikipedia article on him, to see what major events happen in his life. But I am sure that these updates are necessary and will only help your humour!
How good does it look and how well does it read?
When I read the article, the contrasts of your writing style were what struck me the most about it. There were some particular phrases I loved and thought that your ideas couldn't have been expressed in a better way, such as "The French government promptly awarded him the Medal de Honoure (You can guess that translation) for his gallant act and the moment was marked as a peak in the endeavours of French technology", but some of them needed a very serious rephrasing and I wonder if you read them at least once, after you wrote them.
I know that it's annoying to proofread what you've just written, but it is essential even for the humour of the article. Try not doing it all at once but rather re-read every section one by one, like what I'm trying to do with Napoleonic Wars. I partly proofread your article myself, but I concentrated on spelling and grammar mistakes, rather than on the irregularities of the writing style.
I am not giving the prose a high grade, because I felt that it was the only thing that really hampered the reading of your article and if not for that, it could even reach Votes for Highlight. I have identified two important problems, with which you need to deal, to make this a great and funny piece.
- Repetition of words: While it's a valid humour technique, in Remi Gaillard there are many unnecessary and accidental - I presume - repetitions of words and sometimes even phrases. For example:
- ""Saving Private Remi" [...] is a film about a French soldier storming the Normandy beaches and single-handedly wiping out the British tourists on the beach."[3]
- "To make it more realistic Remi adds in a factor [...], which was to portray the tourists who happened to go to the beach that day and show the civilian casualties that were incurred on that day."[4]
- "His second major film was Rocky dans La Francois (English translation: Rocky in France). Many critics claim that this film did not have an original idea behind it and shouldn't therefore be counted as one of Remi's greatest films however the point of the film, yet again [...]."[5]
In the second example, the word "film" is repeated four times in two sentences. Your most recurrent words are: film(s), realism/realistic, cyclist in My Tour of France, police in Rubbish Fuzz and the Moon in Astronaut Career.
- Long sentences: they challenge the reader's understanding of the story and make grammar mistakes more likely.
Don't you think that ""This really changed the way that artists think about their work in the 21st Century no longer is it all about profit and Capitalism but the arts industry is about Socialist things such as sharing and kindness"[6] is a lot less comprehensible than "Such Remi's actions influenced his contemporaries and entirely re-established modern art, reintroducing there many important values, such as kindness. Art ceased to be a Capitalist movement"? And isn't the phrase "France's poor industry was on strike the week of the supposed launch" more effective than ""The French has a poor industry and the industry was on strike on the week of the supposed launch"[7]?
How are the images? Are they relevant, with good quality and formatting?
The images you are using in Remi Gaillard are very good, as they reinforce the jokes made in the article. I particularly liked the Moon landings picture and it would be great if you had more images edited in this way, as your edits to a picture generally make it fit the article better and make it more original.
The main problem is how you use them. The resolution of three middle pictures (the two football ones and the one about Rocky) is something that could be improved on, and if you can't find the pictures you want with a good resolution, try simply searching for pictures of Remi Gaillard and then finding the ones which could fit your article. Something else that might bother the reader is the size of the images, as they can only illustrate your work effectively, if you can see them properly.
Finally - the captions.
- "The controversial picture of the French Moon landings" is great, as is "Remi celebrates the win against SC Bastia".
- The first one could be used with some clarifications about what film Remi Gaillard is explaining, because it is a photo, which was taken at a specific moment, and so the caption should relate to something specific as well.
- "It's an open goal" would sound more encyclopedic if you said "Remi Gaillard scores an open goal".
- "Remi Gaillard's most famous film" could be also turned in a sentence, and in its current form it just repeats what is already stated in the article.
- Finally, the Rocky image is without a caption! While it can speak for itself, it is generally better to comment on any image that is in a humour article, unless you made it yourself, as the reader won't understand what you want to say with the help of that illustration, unless you say it yourself.
The article's overall quality - that indefinable something.
I very much appreciated the way in which you treated the story behind each "film". It will be great to see any more such stories about other Remi's videos.
An overall summation of the article.
All in all, your article is in a good shape, and, furthermore, it's going to be funny even for a reader who won't know a thing about Remi Gaillard. The most important areas to concentrate on are prose and concept, and don't be afraid of rewriting sections entirely if the phrasing is too complex and deleting unnecessary material.
The last but not the least, I advise reading Wikipedia's article on the comedian, as information expressed in a very serious way can sometimes be more ridiculous than information in a humour article. For example, "After losing his job at a shoe store, Rémi began to use his free time to have fun and run pranks on the public."
edit References
- ↑ Source: WP:Rémi Gaillard
- ↑ Trailer of "N'importe qui" with English subtitles
- ↑ Introduction
- ↑ Saving Private Remi
- ↑ Rocky in France
- ↑ Film Career
- ↑ Astronaut Career


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Random Walks: Xenakis and Beyond
May 24-25, 2013 Toronto and Waterloo
Toronto's Fields Institute and Waterloo's Perimeter Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing present a two-day festival of contemporary string quartet, percussion, and electroacoustic music, together with lectures and discussion featuring the work and legacy of celebrated composer Iannis Xenakis, renowned for bringing together expertise in music, architecture and math in a remarkable collection of works.
Iannis Xenakis was one of the most intriguing and influential composers of the 20th century. As one of the pioneers of computer music Xenakis explored algorithmic approaches to composition and was known for expanding sound worlds of traditional ensembles (to the point of competing with electronic music), and especially for his expansive use of percussion instruments. His works and ideas have inspired generations of composers since.
The festival features the JACK Quartet, which has electrified audiences worldwide with "viscerally exciting performances" (New York Times) and "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe). Also featured is an abundance of percussion music played by the McGill and University of Toronto Percussion Ensembles and TorQ Percussion as well as a concert of electroacoustics, video and robotic performers.
Day one of the festival features the renowned JACK Quartet's Toronto debut in performances of Xenakis's complete string quartets as well some of the landmark works for percussion by Xenakis performed by the McGill Percussion Ensemble and U of T Percussion Ensemble. The day also includes lectures by experts on Xenakis' music: Sharon Kanach, Curtis Roads and Jim Harley.
For more information go to http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/12-13/xenakis/index.html
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The cross-party commission, which Labour said would take "a long, hard look" at the data from the bridge trial, will be independently chaired and tasked with finding "more consensual suggestions" on how to tackle congestion.
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Film Movement plans a day-and-date limited theatrical release and VoD in the third quarter. President Adley Gartenstein negotiated the deal with Memento Films International head of sales and acquisitions Tanja Meissner.
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up North American rights to Hannah Fidell's Sundance entry A Teacher and will release later in the year. The SXSW-bound drama charts the disintegration of a high school teacher who has an affair with a student. Lindsay Burdge and Will Brittain star. O-Scope negotiated the deal with ICM Partners.
Submarine Deluxe has acquired North American rights to Mareike Wegener's documentary Mark Lombardi: Death Defying Acts Of Art & Conspiracy. David Koh and Dan Braun of Submarine Deluxe brokered the deal with Stanley Buchthal of Dakota Group and Stefan Kloos of Rise & Shine World Sales. Submarine Deluxe plans a theatrical Release later this year on the study of the American Neo-Conceptual artist.
Wolfe Releasing has acquired world rights to Joshua Sanchez's drama Four, about two couples on dates on a steamy July The Fourth. Wolfe plans a summer theatrical release followed by VoD and DVD.
National Geographic Cinema Ventures (NGCV) will distribute five original films on either large-format or digital 3D cinemas in museums worldwide commencing this spring. The films will launch individually over the next 18 to 24 months. The films are: Deepsea Challenge 3D; Mysteries Of The Unseen World; Wildest Weather In The Solar System; Jerusalem 3D; and Mysteries Of The Unseen World 3D.
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In the episode "Night Terrors" while Chief O'Brien is at the bar in Ten Forward talking to Chief Gilespie, you can see O'Brien's rank insignia of 2 pips. I have not seen any insignia for enlisted personnel with two pips.
-- Bob (talk) 06:28, December 28, 2012 (UTC)
- The Miles O'Brien article does discuss the issue of his rank history in this section. 31dot (talk) 09:26, December 28, 2012 (UTC)


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Loras defense overwhelms Central women
PELLA—A tight defense limited Central College to 43 points as Loras College secured a 64-43 Iowa Conference women's basketball win Wednesday night.
Both teams struggled to get going offensively but the Duhawks forced 13 Dutch turnovers in the first half to grab a 32-21 lead. Loras made a 10-1 run to open the second half, extending the gap to 14 points. Central crawled back within nine points but the Duhawks hit back-to-back jumpers and held the Dutch to 25.9 percent shooting to preserve the win.
Forward Hilary Beaird (junior, Burlington) hit 4-of-5 shots for a team-high nine points and six rebounds. Guard Alyssa Schwartz (senior, Titonka, WCLT HS) had seven points and guard Rachel Evans (guard, Fort Dodge) registered five boards.
Loras (17-7 overall, 7-6 conference) placed three in double digits. The Duhawks shot 42.1 percent for the game, including 33.3 from downtown, while Central finished at 31.9 percent. Loras held a commanding 42-30 rebounding edge.
"Give the Duhawks credit, their defense was aggressive and their pressure caused us problems," coach Mike Jacobsma said. "They got offensive boards for putbacks and points and that just takes the wind out of you."
The Dutch (10-14 overall, 3-10 conference) committed just five turnovers in the second half.
"We came out of the lockerroom fighting," Jacobsma said. "We played like we wanted to win and wanted to be there."
But it was too late to stitch together a comeback.
"It's a tale of two halves and when you dig yourself such a big hole in the first half it's hard to get out of it," Jacobsma said.
Central closes out the season with a league doubleheader against Simpson College Saturday at P.H. Kuyper Gymnasium. The ninth-ranked Storm (22-2 overall, 12-1 conference) already captured the league crown but were upset by Dubuque at home Wednesday, 72-56. Simpson outscored Central 73-56 at Indianola Jan. 23.
Game time is set for 2 p.m. Both contests will be broadcast on KRLS-FM (92.1) and can also be heard at www.kniakrls.com and www.central.edu/athletics. Cory Houser will call the action.


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The Blyde River Canyon is regarded as the world's 'greenest' canyon because of its lush vegetation.
If you plan to go hiking in Mpumalanga, figure out your level of fitness, the time available, then choose between hundreds of trails – attractive to awesome, leisurely to strenuous, half a day or a week.
Some of South Africa's best hiking is in the Blyde River Canyon. It's South Africa's second most-visited natural attraction and you'll soon see why. Red cliffs rear up from the canyon base, waterfalls cascade into deep pools in thick forest (one of the last remaining true afromontane forests in South Africa) birds sing and small animals skitter in the undergrowth. There's an abundance of biodiversity.
There are also great hikes in the Graskop and Sabie areas. If you hike the two-and-a-half day Blyderivierspoort hiking trail you'll start at God's Window and finish at Bourke's Luck Potholes with two overnight stops.
The 72km Fanie Botha hiking trail, situated in the Sabie area, can be broken up into two-, three-, four-, or five-night options , all with varying degrees of difficulty, from easy and moderate, to difficult. This trail takes you through some of Mpumalanga's most beautiful scenery including waterfalls, mountains, forests and God's Window. If you're a birder, you'll be in a feathery heaven with the chance of spotting blue cranes, chorister robins, Verreaux's (black) eagles, the Knysna lourie and scores more, plus lots of small game such as antelopes, baboons and monkeys.
The Uitsuik Hiking Trail, 80km from Mbombela (Nelspruit), near the Sudwala Caves, has two-day or one-day trails, or you could hike the Kaapschehoop Trail which also has several trail options. There are two major highlights on this trail: the famous wild horses of the area, or the internationally endangered blue swallow.
Five Assegais Country Estate, between Machadodorp (eNTokozweni) and Badplaas (eManzana), has a spectacular 50km network of one- and two-day hiking trails, and if it's history you're after then relive the heyday of the 1870s gold rush and follow a Prospector's Hiking Trail in Pilgrim's Rest.
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Deceasedonline has just announced the release of the digitized burial records for Peterborough Cathedral. The records date from the 12th century, but main block of surviving records are from the 16th century to 1955. It is believed that this is the first time that any cathedral burial records have been digitised and placed online.
Among more humble folk the burial records include Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Catherine of Aragon who was Henry 8th's first wife. Some memorial and tombstones have been photographed and available on the website.
For more information about the cathedral go to http://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/


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Best Hair and Makeup: 21 Must-Try Looks
On New Year's Eve in 1979, so much glitter fell on the dance floor at Studio 54 (the place for excess of every kind) that, for months after, revelers found sparkling traces in everything from their shoes to their underwear. "It was legendary—no one could get rid of it," remembers Lancôme celebrity makeup artist Sandy Linter. Its popularity with the disco set, who preferred light layers dusted across cheekbones and lids, and with the glam-rockers, who opted for messy, edgier application, made this after-dark accessory the life of the party.
Glitter's beginning, however, was far from chic: On a New Jersey cattle farm in 1934, machinist Henry Ruschmann figured out how to mass-produce the substance by grinding up large sheets of plastic. Now it's a fashion week backstage hero.
At the fall 2009 shows, touches of glitter lit the runways—from a subtle sheen on the lash line at Louis Vuitton to metallic-armored eyes at Prada, where P&G Global Design Director Pat McGrath chose a shiny-penny shade for the lids. "Although very simple and quick to apply, even a tiny amount of glitter can accelerate almost any makeup in an instant," McGrath says. To make it 2010-ready, Chanel makeup artist Fulvia Farolfi says to "isolate it to one feature—lids, lash line, lips, or cheekbones."
Neat freaks fearful of leaving behind a dreaded glitter trail can apply a touch of Visine on the skin under loose sparkles or opt for glitter-infused lip glosses and eyeliners. "Before you go out, use a Band-Aid, which is very gentle on the skin, to clean up any bits that may have wandered off to your cheeks or nose," says Dany Sanz, creator and artistic director of French brand Make Up For Ever, which started selling glitter in plastic bags back in 1984. "When you come home, use the adhesive again to pick up as much as you can, followed with a creamy cleanser." Should a stray still turn up in the light of day, just consider it a party favor.
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As I reach the second chapter of my new HTML 5 book, I now realize, I can convert a number of sites to be fully functional with the HTML5 syntax by simply applying a small snippet of javascript in my head.
The above will ensure that my HTML5 renders correctly in IE 6,7 and 8 (already tested and works ok).I'm using just a small minority of new tags: header,aside,nav to name just a few.
Is this to much of a risk if the majority of my sites user base is 60% IE 6+?Or, everybody has javascript turned on nowadays this is nothing to worry about?
Am I jumping the gun or should I start embracing these new standards?
I'm very keen to start using HTML 5 and have a lot of clients and new job specs demanding HTML 5.What are you thoughts on the above?
Any information/feedback much appreciated.
Interesting question. TBH, after getting my head around graceful degradation and all, it doesn't sit well to me to be building sites that depend on JS, even if most people have it turned on. Just feels wrong.
Another discussion touching on this topic has started up today: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?792154-Removing-Text-from-Field-when-It-s-Activated&p=4979366#post4979366
So, basically, if all I'm missing is some of your styling, then you won't lose me as a site visitor by using javascript.
Out of interest, why?
Leaving aside security concerns, it's because of the large number of sites using javascript for slideshows and other effects with no method to turn them off. :unhappy: Sometimes, there is more than one of these things going on at a time. Unfortunately, I have neurological/perceptual problems as the result of a virus, have a little difficulty reading at the best of time, more so on screen, and I can't do it at all if parts of the screen are moving. I can watch a slide-show if I choose to, but it does really weird things to my brain if I try to concentrate on one part of the screen while another is moving. :crazy:
I suppose this boils down to, personal preference, website stats and so forth. Is it worth the risk?
Personally, I am not bound by any such law for the sites I build.
Mainly I surf with JS disabled for various reasons and within the UK it is a legal requirement that commissioned websites can still have core functionally without client-side scripting within 'reasonable adjustment'. Going back to perspective at least 1 in 10 people will have a disability or problem with interacting with a site.
Stephen, actually was referring to people like me that have a disability regarding being more able to claim against web accessibility discrimination and the fact user-agents aren't all visual.
HTML5 is not fully normative so what they are demanding is questionable? I suspect most of them just heard a buzzword and wouldn't even know what a DFN was if it hit them on the head. I am not saying don't experiment but unless you know they are fully tech-savvy - and wanting a very specific niche feature - the odds are they don't really know what they are asking for or have a misconception regarding semantics.
So the country you are in, the country your web site is hosted in, and the countries all your visitors are in do not have any anti-discrimination laws?
There's nothing to stop someone suing you in their own country in accordance with the laws of their country. They may not be able to actually collect whatever the court awards them as long as you stay out of their country but they certainly could if you ever dcided to visit there.
Plain old HTML / CSS will be with us into the forseeable future, so that's not really an issue. Few, if any, sites really need what HTML5 will offer. I wonder what future web design will really entail, and I don't assume it will just be about more fancy tricks and effects. Hopefully—and the rise of the mobile web might help with this—there will be an increasing focus on keeping content simple and accessible. I'm utterly sick of big, wide websites with lots of graphics, sidebars and flashy stuff all over the place. I'm not making them any more. Plain old HTML on its own is responsive web design right out of the box.
Two things to remember:
The only way to tell for certain that a page is HTML 5 is if it actually contains one or more HTML 5 only tags or attributes - and very few web pages actually do that because the HTML 5 draft standard is a long way from deciding whether or not thiose tags will actually be introduced or not - they are currently just there to test.
If you want me to take your "legal advice" seriously then state the Act of Law whose jurisdiction you claim I am under and that I would be in breach of.
I don't take any notice of legal advice from people not adequately qualified to give it to me
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I could answer that, but I'm not a lawyer and I don't believe you really want an answer anyway. I will, however, add just one thing.
I mentioned that my problems are the result of a virus (20 years ago), in the hope of giving the "I'm alright, Jack" brigade pause for thought. Not all disabilities are present from birth; very many are the result of illness or accident. Tomorrow, it could be you, a member of your family or a close friend struggling to deal with other people's thoughtless or careless attitudes.
Unless, of course, you're convinced that you're as immune to illness as to prosecution?
I could answer that too but you don't want the answer and I don't want to spend an hour or two listing all of the laws that you could be prosecuted under. Besides which the forum doesn't allow posts anywhere near long enough to list them all.
that's ok.
I didn't think you had the ability to state any laws whose jurisdiction you claim I would be under that I would be in breach of.
As I said, you are not qualified to give me legal advice and I take legal advice only from lawyers adequately qualified to give it to me.
The legal advice I have been given is that in my circumstances I would not be in breach of any laws whose jurisdiction I am under.
If you want to be taken seriously, I am entitled to know the verifiable legal qualifications you have to give legal advice. If you choose to not post them, as you are entitled to not do, then I am fully entitled to take any "legal advice" you post as being totally rubbish for my circumstances.
If you require your advice to be taken seriously, the onus of proof is on you to provide evidence it is accurate for my circumstances :). No-one is obliged to blindly believe unsubstantiated "legal advice" posted by wannabe lawyers.
Was the lawyer you consulted qualified to give advice regarding the law in England? What about Australia? Canada? India?
I doubt it. Therefore their advise with regard to any legal actiopn that might be taken against you in any country other than the one that lawyer is in is completely meaningless.
As I said before - any judgement against you in a particular country may not be able to be enforced unless you visit that country but that doesn't prevent the action being taken and then you'd be in big trouble if you ever decided to visit that country.
As an example consider the situation Julian Asange is in because of his web site WikiLeaks which is perfectly legal ias far as the laws in most countries are concerned but where the USA has decided that the site breaks their laws. Of course there is nothing they can do unless they can get him to the USA because he hasn't broken any laws where he and the web site are located.
I honestly can't understand why people bother with accessibility at all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhHwk9qSvI
[QUOTE=oddz;4980306There is only so much that can be done taking into consideration budget. I mean… is less than 1% of an audience really worth taking the time to make a site fully accessible, maybe for those that live in a fantasy land of their own personal projects but not always for those doing professional, payed work, with clients and budgets. That isn't to say you should do what you can but I men at the end of the day a person who is disabled will never have the same experience to someone who is not.[/QUOTE]
Catering for accessibility for disabled people wouldn't be worth doing if it weren't for the fact that somewhere close to 60% of people have some form of disability that will affect the way that they interact with the web. Most of these are so minor that the person is not considered to be actually disabled - except by those who have done web accessibility studies and have determined that approximately that fraction of the potential web audience actually are affected by the issues dealt with under the "accessibility" heading.
Of course if you actually want to ignore 60% of your potential audience there are plenty of other newspapers that would be happy to get the business that used to go to the one you worked for.


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DETROIT - The only thing worse than wide receiver Titus Young being cut by the St. Louis Rams just 10 days after being released by the Lions is the way many criticized and ridiculed the young man.
Obviously, Young, 23, has personal issues off the field that won't allow him to play football until he can get help.
When ClickOnDetroit.com broke the story on Friday that Young, a second-round pick by the Lions in 2011, was going to be cut by the Rams, it also said, according to sources, that he might not play in the NFL again.
For sure, it tells you something just isn't right with Young, that he probably needs professional help. He didn't even get a chance to go through any minicamps with the Rams. So his release has nothing to do with football. That's a huge red light.
We know all the issues Young had in Motown, including the sucker-punch fight with Louis Delmas.
Young was disciplined multiple times the past 12 months with Lions. He was sent home three times for unacceptable behavior. He also had a Twitter rant that didn't help, bashing the Lions.
Yet, there are radio talking-heads and listeners calling Young out and berating him.
That's so sad.
It just doesn't make sense why a guy who has put so much into football -- and by all accounts actually loves the game -- would purposely derail his career.
The moral to this sad story is plain and simple. We shouldn't be so judgmental on people without knowing all the facts. We should have some compassion for people dealing with problems. Just because you have a great career, money and fame doesn't mean you can escape problems in life.
It's so obvious Young has real problems dealing with others. Hopefully, he can get the help he needs.
The NFL can wait.
Enemy Jordan should be honored
Michael Jordan was the enemy in Motown.
His losing battles with the Bad-Boy Pistons were legendary until he finally broke through and started winning championships.
On Sunday, Jordan turned the big 5-0.
As a tribute to the worldwide superstar, even still, retiring NBA commissioner David Stern should change the current NBA logo and use Nike's Jumpman logo, featuring Jordan.
His Airness deserves such an honor. Truth be told, Jordan's the main reason the NBA transformed from a league -- plagued by drugs and taped-delayed TV playoff games -- to a great league, must-see action. And not just for basketball heads.
Sure, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird got the ball rolling with the league's rebirth. But it was Jordan who was center stage. He was a worldwide star, even people in China knew who Michael was.
Yes, everybody really wanted to be like Mike. It wasn't just a commercial slogan. It was real deal, especially for kids. All over this country many put down their baseball gloves and took off football helmets. Instead, they wanted to be Jordan.
If there was ever a player to have such an unprecedented move done, it's MJ.
In a league that's more than 80% black, it would only be fitting that Jordan's logo be the face of this game.
Jordan wasn't perfect, but his play was. Many can argue about who's the greatest player in NBA history. But that conversation can't be had without Jordan's name being included.
For all he did on the court, there's still nothing more impressive than his championship runs: he 6-for-6 in champions and he won all six MVPs.
Most don't even know that the current logo is in Jerry West's imagine. Legend has it that it wasn't done for an specific reason, just that it apparently was easier for the artist to use a left-handed dribbler. Coincidentally, the only player with a higher playoff career scoring average than West is Jordan (33.5 points to 29.1)
This time, the logo would mean something, have a history behind it. Kids forever more would know that Jordan is on the logo and the reasons why.
No one cares that it has been used as the logo to Air Jordan's, Michael's popular sneaker. It's hard to imagine that Nike or Jordan would balk at taking it from the sneaker and moving it to the league.
It would be one thing if there wasn't a player's image on the logo. But since there already is, that player should be Michael Jeffrey Jordan.
K9 Fight tix
IBF Super Welterweight Champ Cornelius (K9) Bundrage will defend his title for the third time at the Masonic Temple in Detroit Feb. 23.
Tickets are available at the Masonic Temple box office and www.ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices range from $25-$200.
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Biomedical engineer Kyle Quinn fends off a frenzied Internet mob after being wrongly identified as a Charlottesville protester.
Poisonous Shrooms Battle Cancer
April 4, 2012|
A deadly mushroom toxin shrinks pancreatic tumors in mice.
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A deadly mushroom toxin shrinks pancreatic tumors in mice.
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A new study shows that grooming by ants promotes colony-wide resistance to fungal infections by transferring small amounts of pathogen to nestmates.
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Fish adapt to feed for months along the entire depth of massive oceanic whirlpools that are rich in nutrients and plankton.
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Bees exposed to neonicotinoids, a widely-used class of pesticide, navigate poorly and produce fewer queens, suggesting a role for neonicotinoids in colony collapse.
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House wrens forced to invest extra resources in their offspring produced bigger sons and daughters with stronger immune systems.
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A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research
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The BeetleCam is back! And this time, it's lion proof.
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An armored, remote controlled contraption fitted with a camera snaps dangerously close pictures of lions in Masai Mara.
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Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland, who first demonstrated that the ozone layer could be destroyed by chemical pollutants, passes away at age 84.
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DETROIT - Detroit police raided the home of a young Detroit rapper known as Young Calicoe Wednesday. When the Detroit Police Department and Humane Socity saw the video they got a warrant. Aerial video of the scene showed police and the Humane Society seizing several dogs from the property.
---Several animals were seized from the home of rapper Young Calico Wednesday
Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee said it isn't just about cruelty to animals.
"It is the culture it brings with it, it brings narcotics dealings frequently, weapons and illegal weapons are frequently associated with this time of activity. Plus, it has a deleterious effect on the quality of life for this neighborhood."
The Wayne County Prosecutor will decide what, if any, criminal charges will be filed.
Watch: UNCUT video of raid on rappers' home
Young Calicoe became the center of a police investigation after video of him making references to dog fighting went viral online.
The rapper lives in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood, in the area of Outer Drive and Evergreen. In the video, the rapper is giving a tour of his home, including his collection of roosters and dogs. At one point, he makes reference to Michael Vick – the NFL quarterback who was sent to prison for being involved in an illegal dog-fighting ring. "I hope we don't get indicted for that, " he says in the video.
He walks the tour through the yard, where there is makeshift kennels.
"We've got the roosters. We fight them too. That's the grand champ right there," the rapper adds.
The video shows a chained pit bull and another in a fenced in area.
RAW: Detroit police chief speaks out on seized dogs
The rapper points out puppies, which he calls "champions in the making."
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Fox Promotes Dishonest Report About Obama's Supposed Health Insurance Premiums
Fox News reported a story that claimed President Obama's premiums would increase under the Affordable Care Act. But Fox's comparison of health coverage for federal employees to ACA exchanges is dishonest because the two types of insurance are fundamentally different and the comparison invokes a "worst case scenario."
On the October 25 edition of America's News HQ, co-host Alisyn Camerota claimed a new report showed "if the president were buying insurance in Wisconsin, his total premium and out-of-pocket costs would skyrocket." She added that his total premium would rise from $21,707 a year to $32,200 under the law.
Camerota did not state where the report she cited came from. It actually came from the conservative Washington Examiner writer Paul Bedard [1], who cited a Wisconsin insurance broker to claim that if Obama "chose to leave the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program," got the most expensive family plan, and exhausted his health care coverage "in a worst case scenario," Obama's premium could jump 48 percent.
But comparing the Affordable Care Act's health exchange to coverage to FEHB is a dubious comparison. Uwe Reinhardt of The New York Times' Economix blog pointed out [2] that the FEHB plans are community-rated, which makes the prices lower than in the exchanges: "This means the premium quoted by a particular insurer was the same for every individual (and analogously for families), regardless of the health status or age of the insured." By contrast, Reinhardt wrote:
These new exchanges, it must be emphasized, were not even intended for the great majority of employed Americans and their families who already have job-based, group health insurance with premiums that are community-rated within the company (although some smaller employers currently with small-group coverage and those with many low-wage workers may in the future take advantage of the federal subsidies offered on the new exchanges).
Rather, the new exchanges were designed mainly for the minority of Americans who have to buy coverage in the nongroup market, many millions of whom have pre-existing medical conditions and hitherto could not afford the high premiums they were quoted or were refused coverage outright.
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Fine Arts Periodicals on Standing Order - Information in Check-in Record
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Hi, guys. I'd like to suggest a few ways to improve the infoboxes on this site. Firstly I like to suggest that they be divided up into the following fields. The reasons for this is, mainly to create an infobox that serves the article better by acting as kinda like a fact file. Secondly I think the Behind the scenes section should be removed from the Template. Mainly, as per Wookieepedia, because including fields such as portrayer contradicts the in universe perspective of the wiki.
Biographical information
- Date and place of birth=
- Date and place of death=
- Family members= (Notice that Wookieepedia dosn't have a family members field? Not quite sure why, but I think it's to avoid the great long lists of in-laws etc, that we have here)
- Blood status= (Not sure if this should go in physical description or not?)
Physical description
- Gender=
- Height=
- Hair color=
- Eye color=
- Skin color=
Magical characteristics
- Animagus form=
- Boggart form=
- Patronus form=
- Wand statistics=
- Affiliated organizations, goverments etc=
I think this is a much better way of organizing the information in the infoboxes, and prevents them from becoming cluttered by removing non essential fields. Let me know what you guys think, I've also got some ideas on how to make the templates more asthetically pleasing. Jayce Carver Talk 17:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Also I think it might be beneficial to have less infoboxes, or to have more general ones that would apply to more characters. For example, we have Beauxbatons and Durmstrang infoboxes, yet there are only two or three articles that require these, so it's kinda wasted. I think having ones for the major factions for the majority of characters, and having a basic one for individuals who can't be placed. So it'd be "Order of the Phoenix character infobox", "Death Eater character infobox", "Ministry of Magic character infobox", "Muggle character infobox". That classifies nearly all the characters in the series, rather than having Gryffindor Slytherin Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw for characters who could all share a single template like Hogwarts student infobox. Jayce Carver Talk 15:43, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
- I have been working on the appearance of the infobox, and I think I have made a more appealing version. I'm going to try and incorporate some of the changes mentioned above.--Matoro183 (Talk) 01:22, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- I agree with Jayce's proposal. But I think we should keep the relatives field, because it allows readers to quickly scan the infobox for this information, which is often scattered throughout the text of an article (and thus not easy to find). As to who should be included, immediate family like parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses, children, and grandchildren are obvious choices. Extended family like aunts, uncles, cousins, and in-laws are okay in moderation. It makes sense to list Bellatrix Lestrange as "sister-in-law" in the infobox of Lucius Malfoy, due to the level of interaction these two characters have in the books, but it's hard to justify cluttering up all the Weasley pages with twenty minor cousins/nieces/nephews/uncles/aunts/etc.
- Blood status belongs under the heading "Biographical information" because it does not effect physical appearance. I also think we should add a separate Hogwarts House field as this can be hard to determine from the colour of an infobox alone. And what about occupation? I guess that should go under "Biographical information." ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 03:23, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- Although it might seem unnecessary, I also think we should retain the gender field, because a character's gender is not always immediately apparent based on their name (especially if they are known only by a surname or have a unisex given name like Terry, Dominique, or Blaise). ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 03:41, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
We should definately retain the gender fields as it is a essential part of a character. I suppose we could keep the family members but we definately need to tighten the restrictions. A persons occupation is determined by their afilliation, so I'm not sure if it's needed. Also I think titles and or alias should go, I've noticed a lot of people putting things like "Hagger" as Hagrid's alias and "Crack pot old fool" as Dumbledore's, so yeah a line needs to be drawn somewhere I think. And like I said before including fields such as a charcters first and last appearance in the books and there portrayer in the film directly contradicts the in universe perspective of the wiki, so the behind the scenes section should definately go. Jayce Carver Talk 07:48, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- I don't think occupation can always be linked to a particular organization. For instance, Luna Lovegood is a magizoologist, but we don't know which research institute, if any, is her employer. And what about characters who have two or more careers during their lifetimes? Ginny Weasley started out as a professional Quidditch player but went on to write for the Daily Prophet. It would be awkward trying to incorporate this sort of information in the affiliations field.
- I completely agree with your suggestion to thin out non-essential fields like titles and aliases, although I feel there is an argument for keeping significant and/or widely-used nicknames (Moony, Prongs, Lord Voldemort, The-Boy-Who-Lived, Mad-Eye, The Half-Blood Prince, etc.). But we should definitely get rid of trivial and one-off nicknames like the examples you gave. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 08:46, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- The main concern I have is that, by looking at Matoro's test page, I believe that the physical description info should go before the biographical; since having the family list so high up looks wrong to me. The family field is important to have in the infobox since family (or the essence of family) is a strong plot thread throughout the Potter novel.
I propose a slight tweak:
Biographical information
- Date and place of birth=
- Date and place of death=
- Blood status= (Not sure if this should go in physical description or not?)
Physical description
- Species=
- Gender=
- Height=
- Hair colour=
- Eye colour=
- Skin colour=
Family information
- Family members= (Following our previously established policy on the matter)
Magical characteristics
- Animagus form=
- Boggart form=
- Patronus form=
- Wand statistics=
- Occupation(s)
- Affiliated organisations, governments etc=
- Also, the behind the scenes information section could be done away with. By keeping our Appearances section as it is, we can clearly show exactly where and when a character was first introduced or mentioned, and which books/media they appear in. Also, a mention of the film portrayer would be more appropriate to the bts section. In addition, adopting a Wookieepedia-style required for reffing the infobox would be recommended. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 08:53, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Agreed. Personally I don't think there is a need to have an occupation field at all. A general rule on Wookiepedia is less is more, only include the bare neccesity of information and let the article itself fill out the details. Thats what it is there for afterall, the infobox is meant to just be a quick rundown. I agree with Cavalier One, we need to start refrenceing the infoboxes. Jayce Carver Talk 09:21, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- Of course, remember that we are not Wookieepedia, and our way of doings things can and will be different from theirs. The information recorded in the infoboxes are what we believe to be important to the characters in our respective universes. We would also need to include a species field in the biographical section for non-Human characters. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 09:32, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
True, that would be physical description.
I also think we should discuss the possibility of condesing the number of infoboxes we have and getting rid of some uneccsery ones. Jayce Carver Talk 09:58, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- The occupations of characters play an important role in the series and influence the story at many points. It's the kind of information that readers probably want to be able to access quickly. Unnecessary information, to me, would include things like hobbies and interests. Leave it to articles to reveal the fact that Dean Thomas liked drawing and Eileen Prince liked Gobstones. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 10:17, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- Which ones would you class as unnecessary? Currently, for characters, we have:
- Template:Dark wizard individual infobox
- Template:Beauxbatons individual infobox
- Template:Durmstrang individual infobox
- Template:Hufflepuff individual infobox
- Template:Gryffindor individual infobox
- Template:Slytherin individual infobox
- Template:Ravenclaw individual infobox
- Template:Individual infobox
- Template:Muggle individual infobox
- The only ones I can see might be expendable would be the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang ones. The house infoboxes are, I feel, important since a lot of the characters pride themselves—and identify themselves with—their house, even after leaving the school. Individual is needed for characters whose affiliations are unknown, and Muggle to clearly differentiate between Wizards and non-Wizards. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 10:23, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- The Muggle infobox probably isn't needed. I always use the individual infobox on Muggle articles, because the Muggle infobox lacks a job field, and is also impossible to distinguish from the individual infobox due to its identical grey heading. There is no colour which intuitively represents Muggle status. Adding the word "Muggle" to the blood status field instead makes it immediately apparent to readers that a character is a Muggle. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 10:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Right, here is what I think. We should get rid of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, as well as Dark wizard. Merge the house infoboxes into one "Hogwarts character infobox", which would have a field in the "Affiliation" section for their house. Instead of just putting a link to their house in that field, Slytherin etc, we would put a template, "Slytherin", which would detrmine the infoboxes color as well as automatically categorizing the article. Sounds complicated I know but it can be done i think. I'd say we need a "Muggle character infobox" a "Wizard character infobox, as well as a "Order of the Phoenix character infobox, a "Death Eater character infobox" and a "Ministry of Magic character infobox". Here's my proposed listing.
- "Muggle character infobox"
- "Wizard character infobox"
- "Hogwarts character infobox"
- "Death Eater character infobox"
- "Order of the Phoenix character infobox"
- "Ministry of Magic character infobox"
Using those templates we can clasify all the charcters in the series, it also a lot simpler and more clear cut. I also feel color schemes are something that sould be decided on, currently there are some really revolting ones, like black and pink. Jayce Carver Talk 11:48, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- I would strongly be against removing the House templates unless you can prove to me that adding a template to an infobox would change the colours of said infobox. If someone can show me on a test page, then I'd be grateful. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 11:59, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
But more dark wizards were Death Eaters than not. And as Death Eater is one of the major factions it is more appropriate to have it's own infobox. The dark wizards that werent death eaters can use the general Wizard character infobox, as they dont have affiliations that we know of. Jayce Carver Talk 13:10, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- I'm gonna go out and put my foot down and say absolutely NO to removing many of the infoboxes. The only difference in the infoboxes are the colors (i.e. Gryffindor is red & gold, Slytherin is green & silver (grey)). There is no reason to remove them. They are all the same infobox anyway, its just a combination of subst's on colors that makes them the way they are. If you take the {{Individual infobox}} and include that with some code it creates the {{Gryffindor infobox}}, etc. (see the bottom of that page). What're you're saying is essentially the same thing, but in a much more convoluted way -- why render the colors on real time (using a "Slytherin template") when they can be rendered beforehand using a "Slytherin infobox". It just makes it much easier.
- I like some of your suggestions, (Ministry of Magic, Order of the Phoenix, possibly Death Eater) but in general I would say those should be added to the current infoboxes, not used in place of them. The reason that it is "Dark Wizard" right now instead of "Death Eater" is to include people such as Grindelwald...although he currently has a Durmstrang infobox. Are there any characters using {{Dark wizard infobox}} that are not Death Eaters? if no, then we can simple move it to Death Eater infobox. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 17:02, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- I agree with DarkJedi. By the way, Herpo the Foul and Morgan Le Fay weren't Death Eaters and they use the dark wizard infobox. -- Seth Cooper Owl Post 17:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Morgan La Fay and Herpo the Foul are the only ones. And afterall the Dark Arts are not a faction so it really does not need it's own template, those two charcters plus Grindlewald would be better off with a general Wizard infobox, the color scheme of which could be customized to reflect the characters dark nature. I don't belive Grindlewald should have a Durmstrang infobox, as he was expelled, and never finished his education there. Jayce Carver Talk 17:21, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Also, this is just my opinion, but I think your remark about the house infobox is kinda contradictory. Basically you say there all the same so why merge them into one, wheras my thinking is, if there all the same why do we need four? It's kinda of a two edged sword I know, but... Jayce Carver Talk 17:30, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- I'm saying they are all made off the same source and should be have exactly the same and its easier to use just one template (Slytherin infobox or Gryffindor infobox) instead of two templates (Hogwarts infobox then one that does the colors). What're you're suggesting is either:
- Use 5 templates (Hogwarts + 4 coloring ones)
- Use 1 templates (Hogwarts) and be forced to use color codes
- I'm saying to simply use 4 (one for each house) which in my opinion is the best situation, it doesn't require remembering random hex codes and it uses less templates (and is easier to implement), etc. Its also been working for a long time and doesn't require a refactoring of lots of articles.
- Also, we don't necessarily only use infoboxes to represent factions here -- they are a way to quickly categorize a character by the color of the infobox. For example Wookieepedia has a "Bounty hunter character infobox" and a "Dark Jedi character infobox" these are not factions, they are just simple a category someone can be lumped into. We use a similar system. After all the houses (Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw) are not really factions, they are just a category the characters strongly identify with. I would be for creating a "Death Eater infobox" but not for removing the "Dark wizard infobox". -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 18:23, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
I got the idea of the color template from UESP. They have one race color template, which has a list of colors and a corresponding codeword. When you put a clean template at the top of the page you enter the code word into a field, the template then activates and assigns the infobox it's color. It only requires one template, though it may be to complicate to use with color combinations. I know Dark Jedi and Bounty hunter arent factions, but Wookieepedia have vast numbers of articles that require these templates, we have two articles that use the dark wizard infobox, and they could easily use an already available template. Jayce Carver Talk 18:45, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- But there really isn't any reason to get rid of them! It doesn't confuse anything having them. And you could set up the template that way...wouldn't be terrible difficult (I did a similar thing for the Month template we use here), but I don't see any benefits. You still have to remember a keyword. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 19:56, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
It less about having a good reason to get rid of them, and more about not needing them in the first place. It's just not needed. But anyway as for the keyword, er, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin. Wouldn't be too diffcult to remebr. But I'm not going to argue on the houses anymore has it seems to be going nowhere. But i do support the use of a general Wizard character infobox in place of multiple infoboxes that only apply to two or three people. Jayce Carver Talk 20:10, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- Right, but isn't it easier to type "Hufflepuff infobox" then to do "Hogwarts infobox" and "|house=Hufflepuff". Just think of it as a shortcut. And to counter your point -- I would feel the way you're saying to do it is unnecessarily difficult. What i would propose we use is:
- {{Dark wizard individual infobox}}
- {{Death Eater individual infobox}}
- {{Beauxbatons individual infobox}}
- {{Durmstrang individual infobox}}
- {{Hufflepuff individual infobox}}
- {{Gryffindor individual infobox}}
- {{Slytherin individual infobox}}
- {{Ravenclaw individual infobox}}
- {{Individual infobox}}
- {{Muggle individual infobox}}
- {{Order of the Phoenix individual infobox}}
- {{Ministry of Magic individual infobox}}
- The last two should only be added if they are necessary. Many of the characters that would use those might currently have their House infobox in use. I'll post later about my thoughts of what should be in them. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 22:35, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- I agree with DarkJedi on keeping the Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw infoboxes, and possibly creating Death Eater ones while retaining the Dark wizard one. There is no reason to give Morgan le Fay, Herpo the Foul, etc. less specific infoboxes than they already have, in my opinion.
- The only issue I take with other proposed changes is the inclusion of height in the physical description section. Do we even know the measurements of any characters? Or are we just planning to use the heights of the actors who portray them? I don't personally feel we should do this, because in some cases the novels and films are not uniform – e.g. Ginny Weasley is described as short in the books, but Bonnie Wright is 5'6"; James and Oliver Phelps are taller than Rupert Grint, though their characters are meant to be shorter than Ron; and so on. Oread 22:56, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- It should be heights of the characters, not of the actors...although this doesn't even really make sense since most of the characters are teenagers whose height would obviously change a lot during the novels. Something to look into. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 23:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- I agree completely. But the novels don't reveal characters' exact heights (except in very rare cases, such as Grawp). We only have ambiguous adjectives such as "tall", which I don't think would be at all appropriate for an infobox. Oread 00:39, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
- It should be heights of the characters, not of the actors...although this doesn't even really make sense since most of the characters are teenagers whose height would obviously change a lot during the novels. Something to look into. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 23:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok, you guys win. It just seems common sense to me not have a great number of templates that are only ever going to be used by two people. But like I said, I yield. As for the height, I'm not sure. It is an important statistic, but since we don't know any of them. I'd say include the field, as it may be adressed some day. Also I know that many charcacters who would have a MOM box or a OOTP box already have their house infobox, but I think that a major faction such as the Ministry would take precedence over what house they were in at school. It just makes more sense to me to use the faction they were best known for in universe rather than out of universe. Well we appear to makeing progress, I think the color schemes of proposed new infoboxes should be discussed, as well as revisions to the current ones. Jayce Carver Talk 08:35, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I've come up with a few possibilites. Take a look and let me know what you think. User:Jayce Carver/Infoboxes. Jayce Carver Talk 08:39, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
- All current colors being used at available at User:DarkJedi613/Colors (I think that's all of them?) Seems to me the Muggle infobox is pretty much the same colors. I have problems reading the text on Dark Wizard, Ministry of Magic and Wizard. I think the color needs to be lightened a bit. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 14:11, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah you're right. I tried to select colors that represent the organizations in some way. Also, this may just be me, but I think a single infobox should have two shades of the same color, rather than two diffrent colors. I just think it looks better. Jayce Carver Talk 14:45, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
- I like the extra color that the two colors add, but it can also be a bit distracting. Doesn't make a huge difference to as long as they're readable. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 03:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
True, I just think the that two colors, especially when it's two completely oppsing colors, can be a little garish. Also as for the house infoboxes, I think bolder shades of Blue and Yellow should be used for Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, not dark shades, just deeper as i think the current ones are too pale, and don't reflect the colors described in the books or shown in the films. Jayce Carver Talk 11:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
- How about these colors? I think all of the others can stay the same. Ravenclaw was too...light before. When are we going to implement the changes to the infobox?--Matoro183 (Talk) 23:49, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
They great. But I do think Hufflepuff should be more...yellow, it's too brown at the moment. Presumably we all have to vote on the various issues discussed. Does anyone want to bring anything else, up, or further discuus what is already proposed. Jayce Carver Talk 10:48, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry I've been busy the last few days. We're probably ready to vote (I suggest using the talk page for it...makes it easier to follow). Pretty much things we need to vote on:
- Stuff in the infoboxes
- Order of stuff in infoboxes/categories
- Colors of infoboxes
- Anything else I'm missing? -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 23:49, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
The creation of Death Eater, Order of the Phoenix, and MOM character infoboxes. As well as the deleteion of the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang infoboxes. Also wether or not to implement the athestic changes personofied in mine and Matoro's sandboxes, unless we are already agreed on that? Jayce Carver Talk 13:21, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
- I fixed the issue that was causing the birth, death, and eye color fields not to show up inside the newly-designed infoboxes. Another problem I noticed is how the section headings don't disappear if all the fields under them are empty (see Antonin Dolohov for an example). This causes the section headings to clump together in an aesthetically unappealing way. I don't know how to fix this.
- I added a "House" field to make up for the phasing out of House infoboxes on the articles of characters who weren't Hogwarts-age in the books. It also seemed redudant to have an "Affiliation" field under the heading "Affiliation," so I changed its displayed name to "Loyalty," though the name used in the code (i.e., "|affiliation=") remains the same so that the field will still show up in articles without a significant number of changes needing to be made. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 09:29, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
- Several things: I have fixed the issue with collapsable fields. The new templates now have fields marked as hideb (Biographical information), hidep (Physical information), hidef (Family information), hidem (Magical information), and hidea (Affiliation information). Adding a y to any of them will hide that particular section.
- Now the main thing - simply changing the title of the infobox on article pages will not upgrade the infobox to the new fields. You've changed the basic layout of the entire infobox - every character article will need to be manually recoded. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 11:03, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
- I understand that we're going to need to go through articles and add new infoboxes where appropriate (Category:Death Eaters, Category:Order of the Phoenix, and Category:Ministry of Magic employees would be good places to start). This would mean filling in the new House field, wherever it is applicable, as well as clearing all fields under the now-defunct "Behind the scenes" section. The reason I left "|affiliation=" the same was so that any infobox with that field filled in would still display the field's content in the article; if I'd changed it "|loyalty=", everything would've gone blank, and I was concerned about breaking the functionality of a field across so many infoboxes. But we've got to change all the infoboxes, anyway, so why not everything out of the way in one fell swoop? Maybe we should put a notice under the site-wide spoiler warning to let visitors know we're currently working over all the infoboxes and that things might be out of order? Going through all the articles and updating the infoboxes could be another project for the House Points Game. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 11:57, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


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Born January 1, 1810(1810-01-01)
Bucks County, Pennsylvania Died June 21, 1862 (aged 52)
Battle of Memphis Occupation Engineer Known for Championing suspension bridges and other engineering endeavors in United States
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Ellet was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, brother of Alfred W. Ellet, also a civil engineer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the war.[1]
Charles studied civil engineering at École Polytechnique in Paris, France, and in 1832 submitted proposals for a suspension bridge across the Potomac River.[2]. In 1842, he designed the first wire-cable suspension bridge in the United States, spanning 358 feet over the Schuylkill River at Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3] He designed the record-breaking Wheeling suspension bridge over the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia in 1848, and a 770-foot suspension footbridge at Niagara Falls at the same time.[4] His other civil engineering accomplishments include improving flood control and navigation of mid-western rivers and planning the layout of railways in Virginia.
The Secretary of War appointed him colonel of engineers and tasked him with developing the United States Ram Fleet.A plaque placed in honor of Charles Ellet, Jr. on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia.
He was mortally wounded during the Battle of Memphis while on board Queen of the West, dying fifteen days later.[5]
Ellet published a Report of the Overflows of the Delta of the Mississippi River, which helped to reshape New Orlean's waterfront. George Perkins Marsh published Man and Nature fourteen years later, but it was Ellet who first noted in writing that the artificial embankments created an overflowing delta. It would be decades later that his assertions were taken seriously and used in flood control decisions.[6]
His son Charles Rivers Ellet was a colonel in the Union Army.
USS Ellet (DD-398), which was in service in 1939-46, was named in honor of Charles Ellet, Jr. and other members of his family.American Civil War portal United States Army portal
- ^ Eicher, John H.; Eicher, David J. (2001). Civil War High Commands. p. 224. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- ^ Steinman, David B.; Watson, Sara Ruth (1941). Bridges and Their Builders. G.P. Putnams. p. 209.
- ^ Steinman & Watson, p. 210
- ^ Steinman & Watson, p. 211
- ^ Eicher, David J. (2001). The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. Simon & Schuster. p. 253. ISBN 0-684-84944-5.
- ^ Kelman, Ari (2003). A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. University of California Press. p. 162. ISBN 0-520-23432-4.
- Fowler, William M. 1990. Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil War. Norton and Company. ISBN 0-393-02859-3