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Trump Jurors

 * The main panel of 12 is made up of seven men and five women, including two lawyers, a teacher, a retired wealth manager, a product development manager, a security engineer, a software engineer, a speech therapist and a physical therapist. The foreman — the juror who essentially acts as the leader and spokesperson for the panel — is a married man who works in sales and gets his news from The New York Times, MSNBC and Fox News.
 * [] Where Trump jurors get their news

Wikipedia V ADL

 * I'm far from the first to tell you this, but you're in the news! What made that so barnstar-worthy to me was that the news media found that one particular comment of yours to be so representative of the consensus position that I've seen the same quote from you in nearly every single news article about the RfC.Out of 833 comments from 122 people, yours was undoubtedly the most notable. VanillaWizard 💙 12:19, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * User:Iksandar323 User talk:Iskandar323

Judge Cannon

 * [|equitable juristiction] Equitable juristiction

Did He Win?

 * Talk:Donald Trump
 * Talk:Donald Trump
 * User:Viriditas/List of U.S. domestic terror threats, incidents and attacks incited by Donald Trump

Project 2025

 * Downplaying the Project

Clarence Thomas, 52–48, narrowest margin in a century

 * Bump stock ruling: "In a functional society with a legally sound reading of the Second Amendment, survivors of the nation's deadliest shooting should not be forced to watch Clarence Thomas play abstract word games over the worst night of their lives, declaring with callous indifference that 'nothing changes when a semiautomatic rifle is equipped with a bump stock,'" Needham said. She is an attorney at the Haugen Law Group and freelance writer, who slammed the decision in a post to the Public Notice newsletter. Needham raised concerns about Thomas' argument that bump stocks should not be classified as machine guns because they "cannot fire more than one shot 'by a single function of the trigger.'" She added, "Sure, except for the part where a shooter can now get 400 to 800 rounds off per minute without ever flexing their trigger finger again, which is anywhere from double to quadruple the 180 rounds per minute skilled sport shooters can manage when they have to pull the trigger each time."
 * Gallup found in September 2023 that only 41 percent of Americans approve of the way the Supreme Court is handling its job, while 58 percent said they disapprove. Five years earlier in September 2018, 51 percent said they approved of the Court, while 40 percent said they disapproved.

Supreme Court

 * LA Times 5/24 Beware!!!! In addition to the two candidates (one a good-natured old man and the other a convicted felon), the Supreme Court is also on the ballot in November. Many court watchers and informed pundits affirm that Judges Alito and Thomas might well 'retire if Trump wins, Trump could immediately nominate much younger versions of themselves who could serve for manymanymany decades alongside Trump’s trifecta of 50-somethings: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett. The danger is real. It is a Republican plan. Both justices could retire to a leisure life supported by billionaire Trump sycophants and their respective wives could fly as many troublesome flags as they liked
 * Appeal to heaven flag...
 * The Alito's neighbors are Emily Baden and her then-boyfriend, now husband. They claim police were called to investigate the claims. According to the Badens, Martha-Ann Alito, the justice's wife, instigated the weeks-long conflict and at one point, spat at their car as they drove by the Alito's home.
 * The yard signs of the neighbors read "Trump Is a Fascist" and "You Are Complicit" and were displayed shortly after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Emily Baden told the NY Times that the second sign was not directed at the justice and his wife, but at Republicans in general. The signs were soon taken down by Emily's mother out of safety concerns.
 * Flag claims debunked: Martha-Ann Alito, Justice Alito's wife, reportedly hung the flag upside down after she was "distraught" over words exchanged with her neighbors, including vulgar insults such as "the c-word", according to Fox News journalist Shannon Bream. But now, The New York Times has reported that this name-calling took place on February 15, weeks after the flag was taken down. This is according to the newspaper's analysis of a text message and an original police call, corroborated by Fairfax County authorities.
 * Shannon Bream claims on X that she spoke directly with Justice Alito about the flag story in the NYT. "In addition to what's in the story, he told me a neighbor on their street had a "F--- Trump" sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21.  Mrs. Alito brought this up with the neighbor." The question of the day, 5/29 is, "What was on the neighbors sign and was it visible from the children's bus stop.

Two conflicting stories

 * There are two stories: Alito told Fox News that his wife hoisted the flag in response to Ms. Baden’s vulgar insult. But a text message and the police call — corroborated by Fairfax County authorities — indicate that the name-calling incident took place on Feb 15, weeks after the inverted flag was taken down. Alito’s version of events was that the flag “was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito (age 70) in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs,” he said in a statement to The Times. Alito later elaborated in an interview with Fox News, saying that in January 2021, a neighbor on the block displayed a vulgar anti-Trump sign, near where children wait for the school bus. Mrs. Alito complained to the neighbor. “Things escalated and the neighbor put up a sign personally addressing Mrs. Alito and blaming her for the Jan 6th attacks,” tweeted the Fox News reporter who interviewed the justice. But in the Baden family’s version, the justice’s wife initiated the conflict. “Aside from putting up a sign, we did not begin or instigate any of these confrontations,” Ms. Baden said later.
 * The rest of the NYTimes story as of 5/28/2024:::
 * samuel-alito-s-neighbor-disputes-flag-story-outright-lying  . MSNBC as of 6/6/2024

break

 * Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito...inverted flag’s display has raised questions about judicial impartiality and ethics, especially given Alito’s current involvement in cases related to the January 6 riots....the neighbor involved in the dispute argues that the timeline presented by Alito doesn't match the actual events....the confrontation that Alito references occurred weeks after the flag was already flying, challenging the justice’s narrative....broader implications for judicial ethics arise since the cover story falls apart against the evidence....SC justices are expected to uphold the highest standards of impartiality and propriety....Anything less undermines public trust in the judiciary’s neutrality. Alito’s decision not to recuse himself cases related to the political climate has intensified valid concerns.... Alito, unlike his wife, is bound by strict ethical guidelines that emphasize avoiding political activities or statements that could compromise judicial impartiality. There is a delicate balance that SC justices must maintain between personal expressions and their public roles.
 * Judge David S. Tatel, retiring at 82, warned that while neutral judging "fosters public trust in the rule of law," judging that could be "based on a preordained agenda, not on text or precedent or deference, depletes the reservoir of public confidence." The controversy sparked pushback from U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor who wrote that "any judge with reasonable ethical instincts would have realized immediately that flying the flag then and in that way was improper." Other judges have also raised concerns about the Supreme Court's conduct. Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins said in a May interview that he feels the justices "cherry-pick history" when making their rulings.

Durbin and Whitehouse letter from Alito

 * Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent a letter to SC Chief Justice John Roberts, urging him to take appropriate steps to ensure that Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from cases related to the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection1. The senators’ request comes after reports that Justice Alito displayed “Appeal to Heaven” flags outside his homes, which were also carried by insurrectionists during the Capitol attack. They emphasize the need for Alito’s recusal and call for an enforceable code of conduct for Supreme Court justices. Roberts rejected the democrats' call to discuss Alito's refusal to recuse over two flags flap. Alito responded with the letter shown.

Whitehouse response to Alito
Whitehouse (D-RI), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, responded to SC Justice Alito’s letter (addressed to Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Whitehouse), in which Justice Alito refused to recuse from cases related to the January 6th insurrection, despite the display of MAGA battle flags at two of his homes. “Justice Alito’s story conflicts with the accounts of other people involved, and the Supreme Court — uniquely in all of government — has no mechanism for getting to the truth. If the Court won’t create one, then we need to, and my SCERT Act would do that,” said Whitehouse.

Two reports indicate that MAGA battle flags were flown at 2 of Justice Alito’s residences. In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, D and W called on the Chief Justice to implement an enforceable code of conduct at the Court and requested a meeting with the Chief Justice to discuss the Supreme Court’s worsening ethics crisis. The letter also requested that the Chief Justice ensure Justice Alito recuses from cases related to the January 6th insurrection. Whitehouse’s Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act was advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee last July. The bill would require Supreme Court justices to adopt a binding code of conduct, create a mechanism to investigate alleged violations of the code of conduct and other laws, improve disclosure and transparency when a justice has a connection to a party or amicus before the Court, end the practice of justices ruling on their own conflicts of interests, and require justices to explain their recusal decisions to the public. Congress has an appropriate and well-established role in oversight of the judiciary and updating ethics laws that apply to federal officials, including justices and judges. Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act and judicial recusal law, which expressly apply to the justices. Congress also created through statute the Judicial Conference, which administers financial disclosure laws for the entire judiciary.

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag
.....is white with an evergreen tree at its center. The flag was initially a Revolutionary War banner, with the motto taken from philosopher John Locke. Recently, however, the flag has been co-opted by far-right Christian nationalists looking to impose their will on the United States by any means necessary. Rolling Stone reported last fall that House Speaker Mike Johnson flew the flag outside of his office in Congress, and that he has ties to the New Apostolic Reformation, a network of Christian leaders who believe that God has given Christians a “mandate” to “conquer” the government and other aspects of life. Rolling Stone further reported that Supreme Court architect Leonard Leo flew the same ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag as Alito and Johnson

Former CT staff

 * Steve Bannon...chief strategist for the first seven months of Trump's administration, before Trump discharged him
 * Mike Pence...48th vice president of the United States
 * Mrs. Mike Pence...Wife of Mr. Pence
 * Bill Barr...attorney general for George H. W. Bush and CT
 * Nikki Haley...Ambassador to United Nations
 * Stephanie Grisham...the 32nd White House Press Secretary, WH communications director, chief of staff and press secretary for Melania Trump
 * H.R. McMaster...the 25th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018
 * Mark Milley...20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
 * John F. Kelly...former White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security
 * Sarah Matthews...Deputy press secretary
 * John Bolton...the 26th United States National Security Advisor
 * Mark Esper...27th United States secretary of defense and 23rd U.S. secretary of the Army from November
 * Anthony Scaramucci...White House Director of Communications for ten days
 * Michael Cohen (lawyer)...former personal attorney
 * Olivia Troye...Aide to the White House Coronavirus Task Force and Homeland Security official
 * Miles Taylor (security expert)...Homeland Security (DHS) from 2017 to 2019, including as chief of staff and senior advisor to John F. Kelly
 * Omarossa...assistant to the President and director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison
 * Jim Mattis...military veteran, 26th United States Secretary of Defense from 2017 to 2019.
 * Mike Mulvaney,,,Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from Feb2017 until Mar2020, and acting White House Chief of Staff from Jan2019 until Mar2020.
 * Alyssa Farah Griffin...White House Director of Strategic Communications and Assistant to the President in 2020.
 * Dan Coats...Director of National Intelligence from 2017 to 2019
 * Cassidy Hutchinson...assistant to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
 * Marc Short...chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence from Mar2019. Prior...director of legislative affairs at the White House from 2017 to 2018.

possible future administration selections

 * Russell Vought... founded Center for Renewing America, focusing on combating critical race theory. Involved with Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation conservative plan that seeks to reshape the federal government.

Congress

 * Resignations in the GOP-led House of representatives have reached a generational high. Legislative progress has slowed to a pace unseen in nearly a century. Lawmakers are struggling mightily to complete basic tasks. Speaker Johnson organized a retreat focused on unifying his conference, and most of his members chose not to attend. A recent Punchbowl News report concluded, “This is the most chaotic, inefficient and ineffective majority we’ve seen in decades covering Congress.” MTG, one of the House’s most notorious extremists, has launched an effort to oust her party’s speaker. 23 March 2024

How tall is that building Mr. Trump?

 * A slide displayed in the Manhattan courtroom described the property, which was renamed The Trump Building, as a "72 story landmark building in the Financial District, directly across from the New York Stock Exchange." But 40 Wall Street is actually only 63 stories tall according to documents filed with New York City and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The building is also around the corner from the New York Stock Exchange, not directly across from it. Alan Garten, the Trump Organization's chief legal officer, told Forbes that 40 Wall Street has 63 floors of commercial space but said that "when you add the space from 63 to the cupola, the building totals 72 floors."*Trump's lawyers also presented a slide claiming the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, is 64 stories tall. But Alexander noted that an architectural drawing shows the floor numbers jumping from what appears to be the 8th level to the 16th, allowing the top floor to be numbered 64.
 * “Funny how the Republicans conveniently forget about when the economy tanked, millions lost their jobs and many hundreds of thousands died because Trump refused to take covid seriously."

George Carlin, Flamethrower

 * “The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”

LBJ quote
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."-President Lyndon B. Johnson Buster Seven   Talk  (UTC) 14:58, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

About XP aka ex-president
"Donald Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, and a stupid man's idea of a smart man. Buster Seven   Talk  (UTC) 14:58, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Golf course
A sign bearing Trump's name removed from Bronx golf course as new management takes over. Bally paid $60 million. Buster Seven   Talk  (UTC) 19:05, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Mary Oliver poem

 * Who made the world?
 * Who made the swan, and the black bear?
 * Who made the grasshopper?
 * This grasshopper, I mean—
 * the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
 * the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
 * who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
 * who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
 * Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
 * Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
 * I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
 * I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
 * into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
 * how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
 * which is what I have been doing all day.
 * Tell me, what else should I have done?
 * Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
 * Tell me, what is it you plan to do
 * with your one wild and precious life?

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

 * Talk:Mike Johnson (Louisiana politician)
 * "Should Mike Johnson's prominent, long-term attempts to enforce sodomy laws and criminalize homosexuality be mentioned in the lead?"
 * Earth is 6000 yrs old
 * Voted against access to contraception
 * Criminalizes abortion
 * Anti-LGBTQ
 * He is Gods appointed messenger
 * Birth control is not aborting a fetus. No fetus is created. Egg and sperm never meet.
 * "When Jefferson writes about the separation of Church and State he means to protect the Church from the State not the other way round"

Is Trump a "forced digital penetrator"?

 * “The jury’s finding of sexual abuse therefore necessarily implies that it found that Mr. Trump forcibly penetrated her vagina,” Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote, calling it the “only remaining conclusion.”
 * “The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ Kaplan wrote. Forcible, unconsented-to penetration with one’s penis is the strictest interpretation.. But he said that the conduct the jury effectively found Trump liable for — forced digital penetration — meets a more common definition of rape. He cited definitions offered by the American Psychological Association and the Justice Department, which in 2012 expanded its definition of rape to include penetration “with any body part or object.”
 * Judge Kaplan also flatly rejected the Trump team’s suggestion that the conduct Trump was found liable for might have been as limited as groping of the breasts. But Trump was NOT accused of that, so the only alleged offense that would have qualified as “sexual abuse” (which was the juries verdict) was forced digital penetration. Beyond that, Trump was accused of putting his mouth on Carroll’s mouth and pulling down her tights, which Kaplan noted were not treated as alleged sexual abuse at trial.

Trump v Covid
Posing three questions:
 * (1) Why do governments (and their leaders) fail to adequately address known vulnerabilities and credible warnings about escalating threats and hazards?
 * (2) Why was the Trump Administration unable or unwilling to respond vigilantly to a long‐forecasted pandemic despite widespread awareness of the general threat and credible and conclusive advanced warning regarding the specific COVID‐19 outbreak?
 * (3) Can concepts and frameworks derived from the literature on “strategic surprise” help explain preparedness and warning‐response failures in the health security domain?

Q1
We deployed a tripartite framework based on our previous work on warning‐response failure (Parker et al., 2009; Parker & Stern, 2002, 2005), emphasizing a combination of psychological (cognitive and motivational bias), bureau‐organizational (organizational fragmentation, competition, and turf concerns), and agenda‐political factors (prioritization of attention and resources and competitive framing). This literature suggests that discernible patterns of denial, disorganization, and distraction, as well as bureaucratic conflict, and the politicization of threat assessment and policy measures go a long way in explaining historical warning‐response failures.

Q2
Factors associated with these three perspectives shed considerable light on the dynamics that contributed to the Trump Administration's failure to proactively address the threat and effectively manage the pandemic and—by extension—to the comparatively high toll of lives lost in the US during that period. As suggested in the apt title of a recent paper by Platje et al. (2020), the COVID‐19 pandemic appears to have been “both an expected and unexpected event.” However, many of the critical challenges that vexed the Trump Administration's response were not only foreseeable but were, in fact, foreseen. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9115435/)

Trump facts

 * “During Donald Trump’s presidency, the debt increased by $8.18 trillion (40%) in 4 years.”

Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York

 * Gary Farro...Farro spent 15 years at First Republic Bank as a senior managing director according to LinkedIn. Republic Bank is the now-defunct institution where Michael D. Cohen established an account for Essential Consultants L.L.C. in order to pay Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement to bury her claim that she and Mr. Trump had sex in 2006.
 * Witnesses in Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan have testified under oath that Trump cheated on his wife with a porn star and a Playboy model, sought to cover up those and other indiscretions by paying people off and then reimbursed his attorney for the sum of the payoffs by claiming they were legal payments.
 * 
 * Before the case was even filed, New York prosecutors were clearly thinking about the evidence they would need to prove that Trump falsified business records with the intent to conceal election and tax crimes. During the seven weeks of trial, every exhibit and every witness has built toward this final page. Jury selection was conducted with the end in mind. When prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked prospective jurors if they could accept the legal concept that a person can be convicted for murder by hiring a hit man to kill his wife, he was advocating for this theory of the case against Trump, who allegedly directed others do his bidding in order to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election by hiding his sins. Prosecutors will return to that theme in their closing.

Donald Hoover Trump

 * Only one Republican has won the popular vote in the presidential election in over 30 years and it took 9/11 for that to happen.
 * Says Biden: “There are only two presidents in American history with fewer jobs the day they left office than when they started. One is President Hoover. The other is Donald Hoover Trump. My predecessor promised to be the greatest jobs president in history. Well, it didn’t really work out that way. He lost 2 million jobs over the course of his presidency.”
 * Fortune wrote in January 2021, the month Mr Trump left the White House following his 2020 election loss and the subsequent insurrection, that Mr Trump was set to become the first president after the Second World War to see employment decrease during their time in the job. The last time that happened was in 1933 when Herbert Hoover left the White House during the Great Depression.
 * On Labor Day, President Joe said in a speech in Pennsylvania: “Guess what? The great real estate builder, the last guy, he didn’t build a damn thing. Under my predecessor, Donald Hoover Trump, Infrastructure Week became a punchline...a joke! On my watch, infrastructure has been (sic)...a headline.”
 * As of 9/18/2023 there were 1,175,172 deaths from covid beginning in Feb 15, 2020. I'm not saying CT is responsible for all of them, but rather than play golf he should have attended more funerals. Buster Seven   Talk  (UTC) 12:39, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
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 * John Kelly, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general, told CNN that Trump had "no idea what America stands for" and that he "admires autocrats and murderous dictators." He also accused Trump of having "nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the rule of law."
 * One social media user had some very strong words for Trump’s supporters. They wrote: “It’s almost impossible to imagine how much of an intellectual and moral deficiency one would have to have to have ever supported the petty, vindictive, cowardly, lying, treasonous, simpleton Trump". Still refusing to hold back their anger, the commenter continued: “It’s no wonder that the educated, moral, rational, civilized people of the world look down on the vulgar, primitive, regressive American right-wingers with revulsion, horror, and disgust. Another commenter wrote: “Gullibility, ignorance, and stupidity are the traits that the orange fascist thug takes advantage of in order to manipulate people to do his bidding to subvert the American Constitution".
 * Formerly successful business man, owner of My Pillow. His banks cancelling him, AMEX closing his line of credit, the FBI seizing his phone, multiple lawsuits, and the IRS recently opening a tax fraud investigation of him. Mike Lindell was a true American success story. He went from homeless crack addict to hugely successful entrepreneur with 3,500 employees in Minnesota. Then he met Donald Trump and, as anyone with half a brain knows, everything that Trump touches dies.
 * Use to check Bias level of articles
 * BARR .. "We shouldn't act as a therapy session for a troubled man"
 * Mike Esper...He is Zero fit for any office. He could not pass a test for teacher, clerk, etc.
 * Linseed Graham- Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic, Religious bigot
 * Trump and me by Mark Singer: "Trump is a man who has aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul
 * Hillary Clinton ...11/2023... said she was willing “to give him a chance” and “support the president we have.” But her attitude all changed once Trump was inaugurated adding that his accusatory behavior and habit of fabricating information and slandering his critics made her believe that he wasn’t qualified for the office of president.

DHT's record

 * Owned the New Jersey Generals in the 80s in the short-lived USFL (United States Football League). Signed Herschel Walker. He decided to move the schedule from spring to fall to go head-to-head with the NFL. This decision was the ultimate contribution to the USFL’s demise.
 * 10/08/2023---“....I like creating jobs in America, which was one of my most successful achievements as President!” Fact check----The economy lost 2.9 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.6 percentage points to 6.3%. Paychecks grew faster than inflation. Average weekly earnings for all workers were up 8.7% after inflation. After-tax corporate profits went up, and the stock market set new records. The S&P 500 index rose 67.8%. The international trade deficit Trump promised to reduce went up. The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services in 2020 was the highest since 2008 and increased 40.5% from 2016. The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million. The federal debt held by the public went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion. Home prices rose 27.5%, and the homeownership rate increased 2.1 percentage points to 65.8%. Illegal immigration increased. Apprehensions at the Southwest border rose 14.7% last year compared with 2016. Coal production declined 26.5%, and coal-mining jobs dropped by 16.7%. Carbon emissions from energy consumption dropped 11.5%. Handgun production rose 12.5% last year compared with 2016, setting a new record. The murder rate last year rose to the highest level since 1997. Trump filled one-third of the Supreme Court, nearly 30% of the appellate court seats and a quarter of District Court seats.
 * Declared bankruptcy six times on his companies. The leading default was on his Atlantic City casino business: 1991: Trump Taj Mahal---1992: Trump Castle Hotel & Casino---1992: Trump Plaza Casino---1992: Trump Plaza Hotel---2004: Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts---2009: Trump Entertainment Resorts
 * News of the merger of Truth Social and Digital World faces a potential collapse. For the most part, people were critical of Trump. “Another failed business! What a business genius! If he didn’t inherit his father’s fortune, he would be selling stolen watches from a suitcase on the market,” one person said. Another person said: “His entire life is a long catalog of bankruptcies and screwing over every single business entity he could. He’s a joke and anyone stupid enough to think he’s not a straight-up con man gets what they deserve.” Some people changed the subject and questioned why the former president still has a fanbase. “Why doesn’t his cult turn on him and realize what a traitor he is? Apparently getting charged with a bunch of crimes isn’t bad enough,” one person said".

Trump Business Failures/Disasters

 * Trump Steaks
 * GoTrump.com
 * Trump Airlines
 * Trump Vodka
 * Trump Mortgage
 * Trump; The Game
 * Trump Magazine
 * Trump University
 * Trump Entrepreneur Institution
 * Trump Ice
 * New Jersey Generals...United States Football League...2 years...failed due to Trump moving the season
 * Tour de Trump
 * Trump on the Ocean
 * The Trump Network...Multi-level marketing
 * Trump New Media AKA Trump Media & Technology Group and World Acquisition Corp (DWAC), a special-purpose acquisition company that aims to raise funds to merge with a private company, said it would return $533 million raised for the deal with Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) having already received termination notices on $467 million work of commitments.

Reality is always the opposite of what Trump says

 * Omarosa's business relationship with Donald Trump began when she starred on the first season of The Apprentice. She believes his "art of the con" began long before he ever stepped foot in the White House. "For me, I just can't believe I fell for a con man, a con man who turned out to be the biggest fraud. I mean, literally found by the courts to be a big fraud, so a lot of the backdrop of our show, a lot of The Apprentice that we thought was real was fabricated, and it was just a house of cards," she revealed to Entertainment Tonight.

"...poisoning the blood of our country"

 * On October 4th in an interview with MSNBC Trump said; "No, nobody has ever seen anything like this. And I think we could say worldwide. I think you could go to the... you could go to a banana republic and pick the worst one, and you're not going to see what we're witnessing now. No control whatsoever. Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions [and] insane asylums. We know they're terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we're witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It's poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have. And I got to know a lot of the heads of these countries. They're very cunning people. Very street-smart people. If they're not street-smart, they're not going to be there very long. And when they send up those caravans, and I had it ended, we had the safest border in the history of our country, meaning the history, over the last 80 years. Before that, I assume it was probably not so bad. There was nobody around. But, we had the safest in recorded history by far. The least amount of drugs in many, many decades. The least amount of human trafficking, which is a tremendous problem. But, when you look at what's taking place now, nobody's... first of all, it's not sustainable by any country, including ours, even from a (inaudible) standpoint. And, you know, we built over 500 miles of wall. We were going to put up another 200 miles. And, we had it bought. Everything was bought. Everything was purchased. They were going to ready. It could have been done within three weeks. Another 200 miles, all done. And they didn't want to do it. When you look at the numbers of people coming in, and the numbers, Raheem, are much bigger than anyone understands. I really believe it's going to be 15 million people by the end of this year during this administration. That's larger than New York state. Ok, this is what we have.
 * Trump built 455 miles of wall

Strategic Petroleum Reserve

 * On March 31, 2022 in a public statement, Trump said, "It’s called the Strategic National Reserves, and it hasn’t been full for many decades. In fact, it’s been mostly empty.
 * First, it’s called the "Strategic Petroleum Reserve." Beyond that, the stockpile has been entirely full as recently as the early 2010s, and for almost a decade before Trump took office, the stockpile was generally 90% full or higher. Meanwhile, the percentage filled actually fell on Trump’s watch.

Auto Industry

 * Trump stated, on September 27, 2023, in a speech in Michigan: "when I took office, “the auto industry was on its knees gasping its last breath.” Trump administration “tariffs and taxes saved the American auto industry from extinction."
 * But recent history shows the reality is the opposite:
 * Trump neither inherited a nearly dead auto industry nor revived it. Experts say the Bush and Obama administrations helped boost the auto industry while Trump administration actions hurt it. Employment in auto manufacturing in Michigan rose under Obama, stagnated under Trump, and has climbed under Biden. In 2008 and 2009, interventions by the Bush and Obama administrations pulled auto and auto parts makers back from the brink of collapse.
 * Trump raised tariffs for steel and aluminum in 2018, which carmakers said led to higher costs. In March 2018, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on steel imports and a 10% tariff on imported aluminum, with exemptions for Canada and Mexico. The move was intended to punish China. The Congressional Research Service research found that Trump’s overall approach on tariffs backfired because U.S. consumers and companies paid the lion’s share of the increase. In fact, the majority of Trump’s trade deals and tariffs hurt the auto industry or had no significant impact during his presidency. In particular, Trump’s 2018 tariffs on steel and aluminum significantly hurt the U.S. auto industry.

House

 * "Same stupid clown car routine...different driver"
 * Republican representatives, on Wednesday 10/11, nominated Steve Scalise to serve as speaker following last week's ouster of Kevin McCarthy, but they delayed any further action when he appeared to be short of the support needed to assume the speaker's gavel. The tally was 113 for Scalise and 99 for Jordan. As it now stands, voters have little confidence in Congress' ability to overcome its partisan differences - and the Republican infighting that led to McCarthy's ouster on Oct 3 has soured many to Republican's ability to lead. Some 64% of respondents to a Reuters/Ipsos poll last week said they did not believe Washington politicians could put aside partisan disagreements for the good of the nation.

What People say....

 * Miles Taylor, who worked with Trump during his years in the office, tweeted that an ex-Trump cabinet member told him, “He is truly the most evil person I have ever met.”
 * John Kelly’s description of Trump said, “The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”
 * Bill Barr, former Attorney General, warned, “If you believe in his policies, what he’s advertising as his policies, he’s the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them.” Barr shared that Trump was not qualified for the office, as he added, “He does not have the discipline. He does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking or setting priorities, or how to get things done in the system.” Barr issued a chilling conclusion, “It’s a horror show when he’s left to his own devices.” Writing on Truth Social, Trump said, “Bill Barr was a weak & slovenly man who was ill-equipped to be Attorney General because he was literally in fear of the Radical Left Democrats & all they were threatening to do to him.”
 * Former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told CNN that his supporters acted like they went through “brainwashing”. Grisham was at a rally in Waco, Texas, when she shared, “He distracts people … he has no idea what’s going on, so he’s going to continue to play the victim and fundraise and take advantage of the people who really, really believe in him.”
 * One Reddit user wrote, “My dad said nearly the same thing to me right before he died almost 30 years ago. We were passing a Trump property, and he pointed to it and said, ‘That man is the most evil man in the world.'”
 * Asa Hutchinson, the former Republican governor of Arkansas wrote, “Donald Trump has disqualified himself from ever holding our nation’s highest office again. Following the Georgia indictment he said, “This is another day of challenge for our democracy with the indictment handed down by the grand jury in Georgia.”
 * “I Don’t See a Bad Man..truly...I See an Evil One.” says Oscar-Winning Robert de Niro, “He’s a Wannabe Tough Guy With No Morals or Ethics.”
 * During an interview with a Los Angeles radio station, Ann Coulter criticized the bipartisan agreement and Trump’s declaration, expressing her disapproval at the time. “The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot.”
 * Neal Katyal ripped the Trump family as being “allergic to telling the truth.”

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 * John Kelly’s recent criticisms: Trump is “a person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women. He has accused Trump of having nothing but contempt for democratic institutions, the U.S. Constitution, and the rule of law. He expressed a terrible concern for the state of the nation and concluded: “There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”
 * “If everybody who’s worked for Trump is the dumbest in their job, that makes Trump the king of dummies.” Mille, Barr, Kelly, Tillerson, Cohen...all dummies according to Trump.
 * A Vietnam Vet said: “As a Vietnam era veteran, lifelong Republican until Trump came on the scene, and now an independent, Trump as POTUS and his disrespect for our men and women in uniform, our veterans, and the other pillars of our democracy makes me ill. He is an embarrassment to our country.”
 * Noah Bookbinder, the President of CREW stressed, "If the very fabric of our democracy is to hold, we must ensure that the Constitution is enforced and the same people who attacked our democratic system not be put in charge of it.” This refers to Trump and to Jim Jordan
 * Another countered that comment, “The one-term, twice impeached, four times criminally indicted, convicted of sexual abuse 7 defamation former guy will stay as the former guy. The American people WILL NOT elect this conman as the next president of the US.”
 * Peggy Noonan, who now works for the Wall Street Journal, stated, “Donald Trump is an unstable element inserted into an unsettled environment. Sooner or later, there will be a boom. Trump has “poor impulse control” and “likes to start fights,” which is a weakness. Deep down they know ‘What about Hillary?’ doesn’t answer the question: ‘Why would Trump do this? Why would he put America in danger? Who did he show those papers to?'”
 * Cher, the 77-year-old, confessed, “I almost got an ulcer the last time. If he gets in, who knows? This time I will leave the cunt-tree.”
 * Tom Emmer has a long track record of expressing various degrees of disgust for President Trump. If selected as Speaker, he can expect a tumultuous speakership. That’s the last thing the conference needs right now."
 * Miles Taylor, chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, gave an eye-opening account of his time working under President Trump. He described an unusual aspect of his job – rewriting detailed security memos to be as straightforward as a children’s book. “he had to draft national security memos at a first-grade reading level so Trump could understand them.” Taylor painted a picture of a president who struggled with lengthy documents. He made a blunt claim about Trump’s reading habits, stating, “This 50-page memo…is something Trump literally can’t read. The man doesn’t read.” He argued that the former president preferred more concise information, calling into question his ability to digest detailed reports.
 * John Bolton elaborated on Trump’s peculiar behavior regarding official documents. “Unfortunately, Trump didn’t pay too much attention to a lot of what he was given. But he paid enough attention to it to have a constant fixation on trying to hold on to documents.”
 * Trump’s assertion of being a “Stable Genius” has been met with skepticism. "Trump isn’t the smartest person in the room when he is alone."
 * "Trump is an idiot with delusions of intelligence″ (Bill Barr)
 * "I have come to terms with the stupidity of Trumpeters" Colin Whitehead
 * "Not everyone that voted for Trump is a racist...but....everyone that is a racist voted for Donald Trump" Reverend Al Sharpton
 * "Trump minimizes 9/11 for a purpose... Officer Michael Fanone
 * "Trump embraces his homophobic, xenophobic, Anti-American ideology. ...Officer Michael Fanone

Misogyny

 * DT zeroed in on the judges female clerk, who is by his side and helps with court management. DT decided she was a perfect outlet for his rage. He poste lies about her on social media, painting her as a sinister mastermind controlling the judge and inventing elaborate sexual fantasies about her involving Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. She was chosen by DT simply because of where she sits! It's reminiscent of the defamation of two randomly chosen female election workers in Georgia, who were cast as secret leaders of a plot to steal the election in a conspiracy theory that is now part of the evidence in the criminal case against Trump in Georgia. This is what Trump does: Indiscriminately pick women to victimize to entertain himself. Now he's got a machine of propagandists who will reliably join in.

Rare Coins

 * 1995 LincMem Double Die, "Liberty"
 * 1970 LincMem high 7, Small date
 * 1999 LincMem Close together AMerica
 * 1984 LincMem Double Die, Lincoln's ear
 * 1983 LinvMem Double Die, entire backside
 * 1999 Georgia Quarter, wrong metal content, no ridges and diff colored edge
 * 1992 Roosevelt dime, No Mint Mark

Cincinnati Slave history

 * Political borders have been formalized along natural borders formed by rivers. If a precise line is desired, it is often drawn along the thalweg, the deepest line along the river. However, in a 1910 ruling by the United States Supreme Court, the boundary line between the American states of Maryland and West Virginia was determined to be the south bank of the Potomac River. Similarly, in slave times, the opposite or NORTH bank of the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio, a Free State, and Covington, Kentucky, a Slave State, was considered the state line of Kentucky. Escaping slaves could be captured anywhere in the waters of the Ohio river because they were not considered free until they stood on solid ground in Ohio and

Thalweg principle
The thalweg principle (also known as the thalweg doctrine or the rule of thalweg) is the legal principle that if the boundary between two political entities is stated to be a waterway, without further description (e.g., a median line, right bank, eastern shore, low tide line, etc.), the boundary follows the thalweg of that watercourse. In particular, the boundary follows the center of the principal navigable channel of the waterway (which is presumably the deepest part). If there are multiple navigable channels in a river, the one principally used for downstream travel (likely having the strongest current) is used. This definition has been used in specific descriptions as well. The Treaty of Versailles, for example, specifies that "In the case of boundaries which are defined by a [navigable] waterway" the boundary is to follow "the median line of the principal channel of navigation."

Filet-O-Fish

 * Trump's favorite fast-food dinner is 2 Big Macs, 2 Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, and a chocolate shake.
 * In another finding, the judge in the Dominion-Fox case wrote that the “evidence developed in this civil proceeding demonstrates that is CRYSTAL clear that none of the statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.”

How cards are distributed at online playing sites to assure randomness

 * Start with 52 decks of 52 cards each
 * There are 52 standard, independently shuffled, Online Poker Decks (designated D-1 to D-52) of 52 standard Poker cards. Each deck of cards will have randomly dispersed cards via shuffling which should integrate the cards in very different locations in each of the decks.
 * Four suits, 12 cards in each suit. The next action happens in the next deck
 * The top card is dealt to the first player (from D-1). In Texas Hold 'em he is called the Small Blind
 * The same card is removed from each of the remaining 51 decks (D-2 thru D-52) independent of its location within the remaining 51 decks.
 * The top card (from D-2) is dealt to the second player. The Big Blind
 * The same card is removed from each of the remaining 51 decks (D-1 and D-3 thru D-52) independent of its location within the remaining 51 decks
 * The top card (from D-3) is dealt to the third player
 * The same card is removed from each of the remaining 51 decks (D-1, D-2 thru D-52) independent of its location within the remaining 51 decks
 * The fourth card (from D-4) is dealt to the fourth player and is also removed from each of the other decks
 * Subsequent top cards are dealt to each player from the next deck in line and the identical card is removed from all the other decks


 * Prior to displaying the community cards, the (flop, the turn, and river), the top card from the appropriate deck is "burned". This "burn" card must also be removed from all the other decks
 * And so it is with each of the "community" cards. The next deck in line is used to deal the top card and it is then removed from the other decks.

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V-Cube
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House

 * Eric Cantor
 * Pete Sessions
 * Pete Hoekstra
 * Jeb Hansling
 * Dan Lungren
 * Kevin McCarthy
 * Paul Ryan

Senate

 * Newt Gingrich
 * Bob Corker
 * Tom Coburn
 * Jim De Mint
 * John Ensie
 * John Kys
 * Frank Luntz---Host

Vlaams

 * Ik spreek Vlaams mor ik kan et niet tu goed skreven. 'tis nie Algemeen Nederlands. 'tis gewoen wa dannik weit. Mesceen gebruik ik woorden verkeert. Ik vraag dada hij nan anders foutjes vergave. Nou is't précis damme makoar een bietsen beter kennen. Ik vraag dada bleft.
 * I speak Flemish but I can not write it very well. It's not Common Dutch. It's literally what I know. Maybe I use words wrongly. I ask that you forgive others their faults. Now it seems that we know each other a little better. I ask that you stay
 * Een familie voor de deur van de woning. Moeder met kind zittend in de deuropening, achter haar een jonge man in jagerskleding. Op de trappen voor het huis lopen kippen en duiven, links van de deur nog meer duiven bij een duiventil. Links staat een meid bij een put, rechts een hond aan een ketting.
 * A family in front of the door of their home. Mother with a child, sitting in the doorway, behind her a young man in hunting clothes. On the steps in front of the house, chickens and doves are running about, to the left of the door yet more doves around a dovecote. On the left a young woman stands at a churn, on the right a dog on a chain.

Africaans
A relative majority of the first settlers whose descendants today are the Afrikaners were from the United Provinces (now Netherlands and Flanders), though up to one-sixth of the community was also of French Huguenot origin, and a seventh from Germany.

Rural language
Flemish bears the burden of being strongly associated with the rural population, being spoken chiefly in the countryside. The town dialects and their rural variants are on the edge of extinction. Belgians who speak 'Old Flemish as their mother tongue are in rapid decline, just as any other regional language. The direct danger of extinction is enhanced since in some villages more than 95% of the youngsters will speak Nederlans. Many times the old local dialect is spoken only by the oldest members of the adult population, as children are no longer taught.

Dialects of Zeeland
The Dutch province of Zeeland consists of several former islands which were difficult to reach until well into the 20th century. As a result, there is roughly one dialect per island. The respective dialects differ clearly, but only slightly. Within the island dialects themselves dialectal differences also exist: native speakers can frequently tell which village (at least on their own island) a person is from by the specific dialect he or she speaks, even if the differences are imperceptible to outsiders.

Afrikaans phrases
Although there are many different dialects and accents, the transcription would be fairly standard.

In the Dutch language the word Afrikaans means African, in the general sense. Consequently, Afrikaans is commonly denoted as Zuid-Afrikaans. This ambiguity also exists in Afrikaans itself and is resolved either in the context of its usage, or by using Afrika- in the adjective sense (e.g. Afrika-olifant for African elephant).

A handful of Afrikaans words are exactly the same as in English. The following Afrikaans sentences, for example, are exactly the same in the two languages, in terms of both their meaning and spelling; only their pronunciation differs.
 * My pen was in my hand.
 * My hand is in warm water.

Plautdietsch
Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German is a Low Prussian dialect of East Low German with Dutch influence that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia. The word Plautdietsch translates to "flat (or low) German" (referring to the plains of northern Germany or the simplicity of the language). In other Low German dialects, the word for Low German is usually realised as Plattdütsch/Plattdüütsch or Plattdüütsk, but the spelling Plautdietsch is used to refer specifically to the Vistula variant of the language.

Plautdietsch speakers today are mostly the descendants of Mennonites who fled in the 16th century to escape persecution and resettled in the Vistula delta. These refugees were Frisians and Saxons from East Frisia, people from Flanders Netherlands, (then including what was to become Belgium) ) and central Europeans. They settled in West Prussia mostly in the three local areas of Nehrung (on the Baltic Sea), Werder (islands in the Vistula delta) and Niederung (south of the Werder), where they adopted the respective local Low German dialect as their everyday language.

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The list of nominees is running short, and so new nominations are needed for consideration. Have you come across someone in your editing circle who deserves a pat on the back for improving article prose regularly, making it easier to understand? Or perhaps someone has stepped in to mediate a contentious dispute, and did an excellent job. Do you know someone who hasn't received many accolades and is deserving of greater renown? Is there an editor who does lots of little tasks well, such as cleaning up a citation.

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 * Editing since August of 2020 with over 10000 edits. Thru the efforts of many, Women in Red gave her the purpose of sharing, with her daughter, the stories of amazing women. Her Wikipedia goal is leaving this encyclopedia more improved, through civil collaboration, than when she came. Kindness, civility, understanding and respect are an integral part of the "Wikipedia symphonies" that she shares with others. Her view of Life is that she sees our individual lives as a Song and the path we walk as a Dance. She brings these beautiful embracing thoughts to her Wikipedien editing and deserves acknowledgement.
 * Cherokee society
 * Catharine Brown (Cherokee teacher)
 * Cherokee removal


 * 2013-02. 2000 edits=68%,
 * "steady as she goes"
 * "your single-handed creation of Edmund Archer (artist)"
 * "I just came across your terrific article on the Sherwood Studio Building. Your articles on the arts and artists are wonderful!"
 * "I think that has to be the most fully developed article I've ever come across while doing WP:NPP" GirthSummit


 * These days Delabrede edits articles on under-appreciated American artists mostly from the 20th century. Since 2013, her articles on the Arts and artists have been wonderfully crafted and have consistently received the highest praise and credit for high standards, development, detail and sourcing from veteran editors that recognize quality.

User: LouisAragon

 * You're welcome any time, any day. It's thanks to people like you that this site is able to run smoothly. Your hard work doesn't go unnoticed. Take care, - 03:37, 26 December 2017 (UTC)


 * 37419, 80%ES, 70%MAIN, spurts since 2013
 * see User:KansasBear and HistoryofIran
 * Safavid dynasty, Iran, Teresa Sampsonia, Talk:Achaemenid Empire, Talk:Persian people

Doc Tree
Still new enough to remember feeling overwhelmed by everything Wikipedia, DocTree is active in WikiProject Birds and related citizen science. A WikiPlatypus, he often wanders into other areas so you may find him in a discussion of an article proposed for deletion, a good article review, working at the tail end of the backlog of the new page patrol or just about anywhere.
 * Amateur Ornithologist
 * Not very active anymore

User:SW3 5DL

 * In 2013 you were one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you so much for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date medical information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do!

Missvan

 * 187563 45%
 * Lists of Public Art, Admin, Women related articles Wikipedia project:Feminism, WP:GLAM
 * Women in Red
 * Teahouse host

W Finch

 * 62000 plus 95%
 * Rex Stout
 * List of Federal Art Project artists from June/2015 into 2016 till 2019
 * considerate, exceptional dedication, hard-working, well-intentioned, takes the time to explain
 * Is pleasured by helping people find out more about his favorite subjects
 * "well written and well selected references/sources"
 * "Hats off for Perry Mason"
 * His talk page is filled thanks from other editors for "Additions, photos, updated bio info, article expansion, initiative, etc"
 * The honored epic tale of Citizen Kane has received universal acclaim since its release in 1939. User:WFinch's work on the many articles in the Kane genre, such as Orson Welles, Screenplay for Citizen Kane, Sources for Citizen Kane and Citizen Kane trailer, are just as worthy of acclaim and accolades.

Novem

 * Novem was instrumental in the WP:DCGAR effort. In fact, the task at hand was much more technically difficult than it appeared at the outset and would have been a lengthy and difficult undertaking if not for NovemBot and Novem's diligence and effort.
 * they are an expert at what they do outside of content work, as well as an example of civility and collaboration
 * a fine example of what Wikipedia content should be.
 * Working with Novem on DCGAR was a pleasure, and I apologize for not noticing this RFA as soon as it launched. SandyGeorgia

Draft

 * It is with great appreciation that the members of the Editor Retention Project bestow the Editor of the Week award to ____________, a scholar, a gentleman and the sort of Wikipedian we all wish we could one day become. One of the truly bright lights and inspirational editors in the WP community, _____ has faced his recent health diagnosis with his usual thoughtfulness and reason. He has made massive contributions over the years, especially as an administrator, helping to make Wikipedia a more trustworthy source by rooting out misinformation and vandalism. We will never be able to measure the strife he has saved us from, because one never notices the strife which never occurs. A perfect example of his commitment to WP is his welcoming of a new editor just a few days ago. Godspeed to you, good sir. A trusted, productive and helpful editor whose talk page is filled with thanks and well wishes from fellow editors. Thank you for the example, the kindness, and the things that we will miss.

Awarding Stuff

 * If you want a serious albeit possibly contentious proposal, monitor WP:RFA for people who are being shot down in flames but aren't obvious NOTNOW cases. Assuming most of these people go into the process assuming they'll pass, it must be a fairly rude awakening to discover that the majority of your peers consider you either untrustworthy or incompetent. The same could also be said for people who are having their work ripped to shreds at WP:GAN and WP:FAC. "You know that thing you're really proud of and worked really hard on? We think it's crap" is always going to hurt, regardless of how many polite words it's dressed up with, and some of the regular reviewers aren't known for sugar-coating at the best of times.
 * This is a reply by Iridescent @ 00:38, 13 January 2019 (UTC) on his talk page during a discussion about retaining editors. &#8213; Buster7   &#9742;   17:24, 5 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Volunteering builds character and humility. Lessons: giving and receiving criticism, building consensus, acting selflessly, working as a team, and handling disputes.
 * ...with a constructive, common goal: colleagues merging, deleting, and/or rewriting.
 * participation
 * A trusted, productive and helpful editor.
 * A pleasant, civil, and sociable user.
 * Works well with others.
 * A mature, well-spoken user.
 * Clear-headed
 * ______________ has been editing since November 2012. He has done lots of work on _______ related articles.
 * He is a friendly, helpful and active Wikipedian.
 * He is a great "content creator".
 * He is a technically competent and process-savvy asset to the project.
 * He has helped moderate contentious discussions, he's been very active at the Village Pump.
 * He has the technical expertise within contentious areas to help solve disputes where we would normally require an admin.
 * He has the calm demeanor, knowledge level, and persistence to handle collaborative functions.
 * He shows the introspective capabilities to recognize when it's appropriate to back out of a situation that is overwhelming.
 * He has been around in some capacity since ____ and has become particularly active again since April 2016.
 * His content work tends to focus on ____________ and he has created 60 new articles and helped to expand many more.
 * is calm, competent, productive, and clueful
 * calm, reasonable and productive
 * through his diligent contributions at the _________ project.
 * His specialist topic is ________ and _______ in ________,
 * his flair is in the back-door maintenance areas.
 * a regular at _________ and vandalism patrol.
 * He has a good track record of being civil, polite and helpful.
 * Is a frequent contributor to the Teahouse, as well as fielding replies from new users on his talk page with tact and diplomacy.
 * He doesn't go out of his way to make himself known on the noticeboards and project discussions.
 * Good, solid, dependable editor who does "the job" with a minimum of fuss.
 * a solid contributor to the project with a tenure of around five years.
 * An excellent record of participation in all the areas of the encyclopedia.
 * Respectable content creation while also involved in the behind the scenes work.
 * ...articulate, calm and knowledgeable.
 * not easily provoked and possessed of plenty of clue.
 * an impressive number of mainspace contributions, including _________, __________ and ________.
 * A good track record in AfD and CSD
 * civil and respectful to all participants in a debate.
 * Regularly participates in noticeboard discussions
 * Helps diffuse difficult situations.
 * Fields questions from new and experienced users

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WP:GOCE
This WikiProject is dedicated to improving the quality of writing in articles on the English Wikipedia. The Guild welcomes new and experienced editors alike to join the project, participate in its activities, and copy edit Wikipedia articles to make them clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent; to make them say what they mean and mean what they say&#8213; Buster7  &#9742;   19:02, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

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Giving due weight (and avoiding giving undue weight) means that articles should not give minority views or aspects as much of or as detailed a description as more widely held or supported aspects and views...(Talk:Bowling Green massacre)


 * In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In total, 65 nations refused to participate in the games, whereas 80 countries sent athletes to compete.


 * Remarks by Pres Carter to Representatives of U.S. Teams to the 1980 Summer Olympics


 * Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, hardcover book, published May 1, 2008, may contain a list


 * Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War, Paperback, published September 27, 2010, may contain a list

Talk page disturbances
Hi, first of all thanks very much for the time and effort you contribute to Wikipedia. You clearly want to improve the quality of the project and are here for the right reasons. Regarding your ongoing debate on the ___________________________talk page, I would ask you not to make any more replies to or to directly address the editor with whom you are having what appears to be a personal dispute. I realize that within your dispute there are article related points and it is necessary to debate in order to reach a consensus so some advice based on Wikipedia policy would be:
 * Don't keep constantly addressing each other by name. Reduce or cease your use of the ping or alert templates as clearly both of you are watching the page. Furthermore your cesation of addressing the editor directly will make other editors feel more included in your discussions. Personal attacks can be subtle and do not by definition contain abusive language, but they can be avoided if you only address content and not the editor.*state your point only once. Your contributions on the talk page are there to demonstrate your ideas to a group of editors, not to convince one person of your point. Replying each time the other person replies not only weakens your own arguments and clutters the talk page, but it also misses the point of talk pages, which is to improve the article not to improve your peers.

In summary, the way we behave on the talk page needs to be inclusive of all editors, focused on content and not on personal points or the people that make them. I have sent this advice, verbatim, to the other party involved in the debate and hope that the outcome will be that we are all able to have more fruitful discussions in the future. Thanks very much for your time and continued contributions. Happy editing!
 * Don't continually point out flaws. A subtle way of doing this is pointing out what you consider to be inappropriate behavior on the part of your colleagues. Instructional comments like, "You shouldn't do this...", or "should do that", are not conducive to the improvement of the article and if repeated frequently, amount to an accusation which can be interpreted as not assuming good faith.
 * scale back or cease your discussion with the party you are debating whilst a dispute resolution is in effect. The point of a dispute resolution is to achieve an outcome, not to achieve the outcome you prefer. While it may be tempting to reply to every comment made in a dispute, or to poison the well by pointing out what you see as an error on the part of the person who sought mediation, you need to have faith that the resolution system will run its course and provide a consensus for the outcome of the disputed article.

"...conclusive evidence that their primary strategy is disruption rather than consensus-building"
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Daily Mail/Khashoggi

 * Gina Haspel briefs Senators

Irony
"We have been here 9 generations. We didn't cross the border. The border crossed us."...Eva Longoria (actress)

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend... Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it... If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo." --Bruce Lee


 * Financial crisis of 2007–08
 * Automotive industry crisis of 2008–10
 * Dick Putz Field
 * ...often it is not

The Borowitz Report

 * Humor
 * "A captive of his own campaign rhetoric"...Rick Stengel
 * By never mentioning why they kneel, he ignores the other side....Bob Shieffer author of Over Load
 * We were 8 Years in Power
 * "the loudest guy in the bar"
 * PR was a heavier lift than expected
 * NYT - 09-17 - The Democratic agenda remains decidedly center-left: Raise taxes on the rich, and use the money to help the middle class and poor. Protect civil rights. Expand educational access. Regulate Wall Street, and fight climate change. Expand health insurance using the current system. And compromise with Republicans when necessary
 * NYT - 09-17 - The Republican agenda: Make climate change worse, unlike almost every other conservative party in the world. Aggravate inequality. Sabotage health-insurance markets. Run up the deficit. Steal a Supreme Court seat. Keep dark-skinned citizens from voting. Protect Trump’s lawlessness

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Again, welcome! Buster Seven   Talk  02:43, 14 January 2017 (UTC)  Buster Seven   Talk  02:43, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Panning for Gold

 * User:Ettercap18

David Frum, The Atlantic

 * Articles

Banking articles

 * Shadow banking system
 * Banking crisis in the United States
 * Category:United States housing bubble
 * National Occupational Employment and Wage estimates
 * The Great Operas

Interesting Conversations

 * Msnicki and BMK
 * The last word

A Style guide

 * David Gerard's personal style guide: We're writing articles for someone who knows nothing about a topic but needs to get up to speed really quickly. You have ten seconds.


 * Who, what, where, when, why?
 * Summary Lead section, then inverted pyramid.
 * Omit needless words.
 * The Economist Style Guide: clarity with precision. ("I love The Economist. It's like a really rational guy on crack." — Erithromycin)
 * HOW TO: write bad documentation that looks good. "Why" is almost more important than "what."
 * Brevity. "It's about viral payload density." — John Hawkes-Reed
 * I sometimes picture my reader as a very bright ten- to twelve-year-old. Someone with a good reading age, but who knows nothing yet. Did you used to devour encyclopaedias as a kid? by David Gerard

Borrowed from the User page of Editor Seraphimblade
Why am I here? Why do I volunteer my time on this project?

This is a good answer to that. Wikipedia will never, ever, ever be perfect. But it is good, even great, and it is free as in freedom. That's good enough for me.

If that's not quite enough for you, consider this. In a little over a decade, a group of self-selected volunteers have constructed what is the greatest educational work ever developed by mankind. Millions have contributed and billions have learned and benefited. Please contribute here in good faith and to further that mission of education and learning.

Expect to be misunderstood
Being misunderstood seriously impedes one's ability to engage in Wikipedia discussions. By expecting to be misunderstood, by knowing that the other editor will completely misunderstand what (or how) you are saying, care is taken to "perfect" what you say and how you say it. Ambiguous and quick responses are the usual culprits. And...once the misunderstanding gains momentum, once the other editor begins to respond to what they think you said (or meant to say), it is hard if not impossible to stop. Therefore, it is important to be as clear and precise and descriptive as possible. Say it two ways, if necessary. Three goals:(1)"make a clear and limited statement and (2) "make sure the statement is understood". and (3) "Win the Point". Consider who you alienate and who you win over. Readers and other editors are destined to go shopping. You want them to shop in your store. You want to encourage loyalty to your brand. An in-control temperament and statement is a powerful tool of persuasion. Resist macho chatter and arm-wrestling. Uphold basic social and universally-held norms. Tailor your message to the audience at hand. Should you concern yourself with who you might offend? Is that a part of our obligation as editors? Do you need to consider the other editors vantage point and POV in order not to alienate, and in so doing, perpetuating animus?

Privacy of Names and their removal if not sourced
The presumption in favor of privacy is strong in the case of family members of articles' subjects and other loosely involved, otherwise low-profile persons. The names of any immediate, ex, or significant family members or any significant relationship of the subject of a BLP may be part of an article, if reliably sourced, subject to editorial discretion that such information is relevant to a reader's complete understanding of the subject. Names of family members who are not also notable public figures must be removed from an article if they are not properly sourced.

Simple editing rules

 * Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
 * Category:Unknown-importance Help articles
 * The information I placed about __________________ was some of the information that I have taught for the past four years. It has been passed down from instructor to instructor since the plant was originally built. I simply did not know how to reference study material from our training program. If it was improper to post information of this type I apologize, and will not try to add any additional information about the station that I have operated for the past 30 years. Thanks and apologies again User:JJ 20:36, 5 March 2016 (UTC)


 * It's important to realize that these article pages aren't places to dump unformatted text for others to clean up. We expect clean, encyclopedic copy (as best as you can do) from the start.  If you have questions about how to add references for the material, or how to wikify it, that should be done before adding the material.  Start here, or for information about citing sources, see WP:CITE.  Your knowledge is very welcome here, but to work on Wikipedia articles seriously requires some self-training and asking questions.  Beyond what I've already said, please feel free to ask me any specific questions.  The WP:HELPDESK is also available.  Also check out WP:COI if you continue to have a close relationship with the subject you are writing about. User:Steviedaman 20:56, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Signing in
When you post to talk pages or other discussion pages (but not articles) you should put four tildes (that is to say ~) at the end of your post. The Wikimedia software will automatically convert that to a signature and date stamp, which as well as telling other editors who posted the message and when, will also contain a link to your talk page, which can be very useful for anyone wishing to contact you. The editor who uses the pseudonym JamesBWatson 15 February 2016

Good advice about adding content to an existing article
I have considerably more information to add to this article but I am not knowledgeable or comfortable adding materials. May I communicate with either editor and ask them if they would be able to add additional information? 18:23, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello ___: The easiest way to perform this is to add content first to your sandbox page (which I created for you) at User: /sandbox. From there, you can notify me or another editor to review the content prior to adding it to the article. User:B7, 19:48, 3 March 2015

RfC aka Request for Comment
In general, the RfC process involves adding the template to a relevant talk page and asking a question. The RfC system automatically lists them, as per WP:RFC. In this case, maybe adding the to WT:EOTW, and adding to the template a neutral form of the question asked, would at least get the RfC started. It might also be possible to add a link to a subpage to the talk page for any sort of criticism of the award, preferably indicating a "noping" template is to be used to link to the name of the editor whose nomination is called into question. And, I suppose, if one thinks that there might be future serious questions regarding the process. to allow for discussion there. But the easiest and probably at least sufficient way to go right now might be to just add the rfc template to the EOTW talk page, with maybe a question something along the lines of "Do any editors have any significant questions regarding the way in which the EotW nominations and awards have been conducted in the past, or, alternately, any ideas which they think might improve the process in some way?" as the statement of the issue in question. User:JC, 22:43, 3 March 2015

Harassment
Harassment is extremely corrosive to the editing environment of Wikipedia. Administrators should be encouraged to step in with short blocks or other enforceable remedies as soon as they become aware of a possible pattern of harassment. The community supports them in these actions. Administrators who become aware of a pattern of harassment should monitor the situation and take action to ensure it does not continue of escalate.

Consolidating sandboxes using {-{tl|db-u1}-} or {-{tl|db-user}-}
I have too many sandboxes. I was thinking of consolidating many by using the "Move" featue. Is that the best way?```User: Buster7 23:19, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * reprinted from a TeaHouse conversation
 * Hello and welcome to the Teahouse!  I've added a template to your page that will make it easy to create new sandboxes and keep track of all of them. I'd be happy to help you move your sandboxes to be listed in that box if you need assistance! :) Technical 13/23:34, 19 December 2014 (UTC)


 * @Buster7:  Hi Buster7. Wow, you have a lot of subpages. I know of no way you can do any consolidation using moves (well, actually, administrators can do a form of consolidation by doing history merges of pages which involves moves, but it is not in the slightest way relevant here). Since the pages you are here about, or at least the ones I looked at, only have edits by you, you can simply copy and paste the content from one or more pages into another below the existing text and save, and then tag the pages you copied from for speedy deletion using db-u1/db-user. (Doing this where the pages have substantive edits by other users would result in a copyright problem.) Best regards--User:Fuhghettaboutit|Fuhghettaboutit 06:24, 20 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks U|Technical 13 and U|Fuhghettaboutit}}. Those are the answers I needed. Tech...I will be getting in touch with you after the New Year to help me create the sandboxes I need ```User: Buster7 06:57, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Removing sandboxes

 * Note: { {Db-u1} } is for removing sandboxes no longer needed

Invisible pings

 * User:Buster7 Feel free to ping them here. You can use invisible pings like I did with this edit, if you want that. --L235]] 14:35, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Everything you ever wanted to know about ECHO

Small ping

 * Note:  @Buster7:   creates a tiny ping notification wherever you put it. ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  07:14, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

What is that thing?
A direct section link. When hovering over a section heading, the section sign § will appear. Clicking on § will jump to the section and the URL will update. You can then copy the URL fragment to simplify creation for a section link, or you can right click on the § and copy the entire URL. This feature can be disabled by adding a rule to your personal CSS:


 * Example from Talk:Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 on 10/3/2016: It's currently under § Media coverage . I think it should also be in a sub section of § Refusal to release tax returns . We can write about the provenance of the document, the campaign's reaction, comments from his 1995 accountant, the threat to sue The New York Times, and the general media reactions. We can also include an external link to the actual document...MrX

Massmessagesenders

 * Mass message senders
 * User talk:Imzadi1979
 * Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders

IP Vandalism

 * Template:Welcome-anon-unconstructive
 * Stop hand nuvola.svg This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Sro23 (talk) 05:03, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Its just vetting and peer review
From closing comment at WP:SPA: One forms opinions of fellow editors as a result of their actions. Diversified over time and subjects an editor grows and establishes an "M.O.". Working within a narrow range of articles, an editor may find it difficult to build credibility if in community discussions with the same editors, although extended improvement to a specific section of Wikipedia should not disadvantage an expert opinion. As with all Wikipedia articles, users need to cite the relevant verifiably published evidence from reliable sources to support their point of view. Inevitably, some experienced editors might not agree with cited interpretations during content discussions. Please do not be discouraged by such editors. The process is actually normal vetting and peer review which happens in every level of informed editorial research and discussion. Y your focus, even expertise, is best directed toward finding and citing independent reliable sources for the articles you edit.

MMS talkpage notation templates
Editing Wikipedia talk:Mass message senders

COI aka Conflict of Interest
To User_________: First thing though; you need to add this template to the Talk page of each page you have contributed to with a financial connection and add a list of such pages on your user page. This is required by Wikipedia's Terms of Use, and not doing so may violate astroturfing laws (see here and here for more info).

Paid editing
Hello (User:________). The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message.

New article w/out refs

 * Here is a neat trick to avoid a reprise: never put up a new article unless you have all of your independently confirmable sources in place. The problem is that these appear to be works in progress -- that will open you to tagging. I never put up a new article unless I have my references and links in place. July 2008

"friendly stalkers"
I'm saddened that you are choosing to further restrict your interactions with other editors this way. It was my intention to work with you some more on our areas of common interest such as the ___________ articles you've been editing lately. But of course it is your choice to choose not to. I'll just say here that I watch a lot of people's talkpages and chime in from time to time. That's a normal part of Wikipedia culture and even has a name - WP:Talk page stalker. But "stalker" in this case is tongue-in-cheek. Offering friendly advice, like I did for you regarding the WP:TALKO guideline, is not really stalking. Please keep this in mind as an element of WP:AGF. - Brianhe (talk) 25February2016

Forced refreshing of a page

 * "This happened once before...."
 * B7 - I'm having a problem with Template:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Project main page. Last weeks Eddy recipient is still displayed at the Project and Editor of the Week main pages. Everything looks OK to me. Thanks,  User: Buster7 19:47, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Isaacl - You can force a page to be refreshed immediately by adding "?action=purge" to the end of the page address. For example, I visited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Editor_Retention?action=purge in order to force it to be updated. You can try the same with any other pages that may not have been updated yet (they will all eventually get updated automatically). User:Isaacl 00:42, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

"efn"
Example of using "efn" to add a notation

Self proclaimed level four in language skills
"It's a wiki. I have a bias towards good writing, so "how you state this kind of ideas" and "Have you notice the big number..." and "And tell me that anyone remembers Clint Eastwood..." and "I'm referring about media coverage..." don't give a lot of confidence. So, if I were you, I would not claim This user can contribute with a near-native level of English. on your User page. Close, but not yet!--JWhales
 * Leo Bonzilla at Talk:Melania Trump speech plagiarism controversy

Request for edit summary
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:



The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed. It also helps you to specifically locate edits you have made in the past (via View history or User contributions). So please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  15:53, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Edit Summary request
Hi there! Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Please be sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

Edit summary content is visible in:
 * User contributions
 * Recent changes
 * Watchlists
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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! . <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  17:14, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Please use edit summaries
I was fairly certain this edit was vandalism due to you changing only one figure, until I searched the article history and found out you added the table originally. It would really make the intent and rationale of your contributions clear, and would decrease confusion for other editors. Thanks. User Opencooper|talk]]) 08:28, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Repeated citations

 * Further information: Footnotes: using a source more than once

For multiple use of the same inline citation or footnote, you can use the named references feature, choosing a name to identify the inline citation, and typing <ref >text of the citation</ref>. Thereafter, the same named reference may be reused any number of times by typing just.

The text of the  can be almost anything—apart from just numeric. If spaces are used in the text of the, the text must be placed within double quotes. To help with page maintenance it is recommended that the text of the  has a connection to the inline citation or footnote, for example "author year page": <ref >text of the citation</ref>.

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello User:ABCD, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Songshan, Jilin has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Doug Weller 11:41, 8 February 2016

WP:Copying within WikiPedia
When copying content from one article to another, at a minimum provide a link back to the source page in the edit summary at the destination page and state that content was copied from that source. If substantial, consider posting a note on both talk pages.}}

Wikipedia's licensing requires that attribution be given to all users involved in creating and altering the content of a page. Wikipedia's page history functionality lists all edits made to a page and all users who made these changes. It cannot, however, in itself determine where text originally came from. Because of this, copying content from another page within Wikipedia requires supplementary attribution to indicate it. At minimum, this means providing an edit summary at the destination page – that is, the page into which the material is copied – stating that content was copied, together with a link to the source (copied-from) page, e.g.,. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to make a note in an edit summary at the source page as well. Content reusers should also consider leaving notes at the talk pages of both source and destination.

"....be considered advertising and promotion"
Can you provide some feedback as to why the Orang Eire page was deleted. Why would a page for an not-for-profit sports team can be considered advertising or promotion. Unsigned 12 February 2016| BrianMc15}}
 * The reason why a page would "be considered advertising or promotion" is that it appears to be written to advertise or promote its subject: whether that subject seeks to make a profit or not is irrelevant. Thus, an article which consists almost entirely of a list of successes and achievements of a club, together with language designed to give a favourable impression of the club, rather than neutral reporting, such as telling us that it "is made up of talented athletes", is likely to be seen as attempting to promote the club. Likewise, an article telling us that the club "has gone from strength to strength", that their "hard work paid off", that tournaments held by the club were "overwhelming successes" and so on is not by any stretch of the imagination neutral reporting: it is promotional language, more suited to the club's own web site or PR material than to an encyclopaedia which seeks to give coverage from a neutral point of view. User:JamesBWatson 09:48, 12 February 2016

Co-OP/ Talk pages with no article
Example: Talk:Julia L. Jackson. If you see an article talk page with no corresponding article, the best thing to do is tag it with Db-g8, as described at WP:G8, and that will add it to the list of speedy deletion requests. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  13:42, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Co-OP/Guidance for younger editors
Guidance for younger editors From Jimbo's page, about 14 year olds:
 * "Personally speaking because that (give or take a year) is generally when most children stop being children and society considers them ready and competent to make adult decisions and give informed consent to things like: who they sleep with, to fight for their country, get married, drive etc. It varies by country depending on the various rights, from 14-21." 17:53, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
 * "Children may face potentially very serious problems (e.g. sexual abuse), but it is easy to go overboard with protective measures. Well meant measures can lead to disruption, interfering with normal everyday activities.(http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parents-investigated-letting-children-walk-alone/25700823/ Cases like this] are deeply troubling. When I was 5 years old, I used to walk a lot farther to Kindergarten alone. Today, this is taboo (at least in the US), it's not even good enough for a young child to be accompanied by a ten year old. You have to wonder how children raised this way will turn out as adults."20:58, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Ulterior motives in political articles
Can we please do without the accusations of ulterior motives? Wikipedia is only as good as the state of human knowledge appearing in best available reliable sources, as compiled by us editors. When human knowledge or the sources reporting it are flawed, as they may or may not be here, there's not much an encyclopedia can do. If we were editing during the era when people still believed in alchemy we'd have a lot of articles about efforts to turn lead into gold because that was the state of knowledge at the time. It's up to the scientists, journalists, and historians to get their story straight, not the encyclopedia to jump out in front of them. If people who truly understand blackberries and computer security believe NYT, WSJ, FBI, etc., have it wrong, they need to take those complaints up somewhere else. Editor Wikidemon at Hilary Clintons article on July 14, 2016.

What is "notoc"?

 * See Template:NOTOC/doc. It stands for "no table of contents". It is usually placed in articles that are constituted solely (a) by a single block of text undivided by sections and (b) a few appendices. --User:Omnipaedista 20:53, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

What does it do?
 * The template/magic word "notoc" removes the table of contents of the wiki article. This is desirable in some cases for stylistic reasons.

If the article is later expanded enough to have a toc, should the template be removed?
 * There are no strict rules; according to common practice, if a biographical article has at least one section of main text (e.g., "Life" or "Work"/"Career"), then it could/should have a ToC.

Sockpuppet investigation
<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  05:22, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

One-sentence Paragraphs should be avoided
Paragraphs should be short enough to be readable, but long enough to develop an idea. Overly long paragraphs should be split up, as long as the cousin paragraphs keep the idea in focus.

One-sentence paragraphs are unusually emphatic (Uttered with emphasis. Expressed or performed with emphasis: responded with an emphatic "no." 2. Forceful and definite in expression or action), and should be used sparingly (thrifty). Articles should rarely, if ever, consist solely of such paragraphs.

Some paragraphs are really tables or lists in disguise. They should be rewritten as prose or converted to their unmasked form. When to use tables and Embedded list offer guidance on the proper use of these elements.

Paragraphs/MOS
Sections usually consist of paragraphs of running prose. Between paragraphs—as between sections—there should be a single blank line and the first line of each paragraph is not indented. Bullet points should be minimized in the body and lead of the article, if they are used at all; however, a bulleted list may be useful to break up what would otherwise be a large, grey mass of text, particularly if the topic requires significant effort on the part of readers. However, bulleted lists are typical in the reference and reading sections towards the end of the article. Bullet points are usually not separated by blank lines.

The number of single-sentence paragraphs should be minimized, since they can inhibit the flow of the text; by the same token, paragraphs that exceed a certain length become hard to read. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheading; in such circumstances, it may be preferable to use bullet points.

DEFAULTSORT
The default sort is what allows the persons name of the BLP or BDP to show up on in the category, alphabetized by the last name. Carptrash (talk) 16:46, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Blogs
"Some news outlets host interactive columns they call blogs, and these may be acceptable as sources so long as the writers are professional journalists or are professionals in the field on which they write and the blog is subject to the news outlet's full editorial control." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.191.206.15 @ WP:Vandalism

Music

 * Luckenbach (♫ "...like Willie and Waylon and the boys..." ♫), from User: Dennis Brown 1/14/16. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk ' 15:47, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Captain Blood

 * my vinegarry virgin
 * a healer not a slayer
 * "Give your mind peace"
 * "If your wit were as big as your voive, my dear, its the great man you wqould be"
 * my dull friend
 * you've the manners of a hangman

Fictional Doctor Peter Blood to historic personage Judge Jeffreys, the "hanging judge" at Blood's trial for treason

What a creature must sit on the throne who lets a man like you deal out his justice

Reach-out
"...that's what like-minded humans sometimes do..." User:Case.

{-{Template:Relisted}-}
All sorts of notation type stuff...like ✅

UN-retire script

 * Retrieved from User Petrarchan47's Talk page – In an effort to re-juvenate the WER/R and R team I contacted her:

I am a WP Wanderer. I am involved with the BP article because I saw you conversation w/ Slim Virgin regarding the Paid editor situation. I am also one of the original members of the WER project and its sub-project Editor of the Week. Your plight and the fact that it caused you to retire has been on my mind since. When an editor like you retires, WP and the community lose so much. Not just the work you do is missed but your attitude, your way of being, the congenial way you work with fellow editors. I'm not sure but I think you got involved with a 'ruff crowd' a bit too early in your WP career. The same thing happened to me. I was a rookie and I was doing battle with veterans at the Sara Palin page during the 2008 Election period. We were lucky. There was a group of editors that, while they obviously supported Palin, at least could be fair and relatively impartial. Looks like your experience at BP was different. It was just you and Gandydancer.

I wonder if you might consider renewing you enthusiasm for Wikipedia editing. It doesnt have to be at articles like BP or Chevron. That would be nice and you are more than welcome. A restructuring is taking place that you might find very intertesting. But, it can be in any one of a thousand ways. Your voice needs to be heard. Others will try to drown it out with their chatter and their divisiveness but your voice needs to be heard. I hope I am not to presumptuous in this request. As I said, your forced retirement bothered me. I support whatever you decide. ```<em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  20:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

wiki-politics
I wrote and improved articles and tried to help people. All the more so because I'd been entrusted with adminship. But it's reached a point where I'm being accused of harming the project, as well as of being dishonorable, and I was already questioning whether I should continue to volunteer here after what happened to the "best known for IP". As you see, I perceive dangerous problems with the project. If I stay, I would have to fight for it. But Wikipedia is not supposed to be a battleground, and it's apparent that my views are not shared by most. So instead, I'm leaving. I'd like to say I'll come back, but I doubt I would be welcomed given what I have finally said here. And I had already been facing the likelihood of leaving when WP:FLOW is instituted—incidentally, one of the few indications that there are few of us women editors is that there has not been a big reaction to that name, which to me as a woman (maybe of my time and place), says "The WMF wants to put us all on the rag" in big neon letters. That will fatally impair our ability to talk to each other. So ... I'm leaving earlier than I expected and it won't be "us" any longer when that happens. Goodbye. I loved this project
 * Of course you would be welcomed back...and...you might be surprised at how many editors share you views. Having been involved with WikiProject WER from the beginning I have been collecting soliloquies for a few years. Yours is the most thoughtful one I have ever seen. Not too much "Woe is me"...more maternal and caring about the place you love and are forced to leave. Forced in order to keep peace with yourself, to not feel hounded and put upon, to maintain your sense of self-worth. If you are anything like me, what happens and what is said on WP rattles around in my brain throughout the day. I stay away from contentious articles and situations because they take over my thoughts and cause imbalance and stress in my RL...and that's not good! Any artist will tell you, "We give our critics too much of our time and mind. We should just nod at them and move on. We don't need to be loved by everyone. LOVE. We turn away from the LOVE that surrounds us and pay attention to the UN-Love and it gains power over us and we abandon the thing we love. . <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  12:24, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

New understandings
default edit summary - the wording that shows up in the edit summary to designate where the edit was implemented. In this case it says, "/* wiki-politics */".

Two possible editorial responses

 * One is agreeable, it moves thing forward, builds, advances; Yes, and.......
 * The other is a roadblock, a STOP sign, a restriction, a form of Control, No, but........

French

 * from French "casse-tête", which means "head-breaker".

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Searching for THE diff

 * I just noticed my error. I was in a rush to notify all involved and prepare for Super Bowl guests. Please accept my apology. I don't recall ever making that mistake. That it happens here is embarrassing. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  04:43, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is any substance to your accusations, and so I am not willing to engage with you because I don't think it would be a good use of my time.
 * The Olive Branch has withered and died
 * The Editor Interaction Analyzer shows that a certain editor only visited the help desk 8 times...whereas I visited over 100 times.
 * It would be helpful to find the time where I started to exclude myself, with a mention of such, from articles/talk whenever a certain editor showed up. It may have been as many as a dozen times.
 * Where I leave the stage to the other editor :Due to _________s continued participation in this thread, I must, in good conscience, vacate the vicinity. Our history prevents any meaningful, forwarding, "good-for-the Encyclopedia" conversation. User: Buster7 22:12, 12 February 2012. I think this is where I start to mention that I'm leaving .....
 * Wise words given to a blocked editor: This absolute adherence to the idea that your interpretation of the rules is paramount and everyone else's input is merely an obstacle to overcome is an accurate summary of how you ended up in this position. User:Basalisk

Editor Interaction Analyzer
This tool shows the common pages that two or more editors have both edited, sorted by minimum time between edits by the users. In other words, if the editors made an edit to the same page within a short time, that page will show up towards the top of the table. In general, when two users edit a page within a short time, chances are high that they have interacted directly with one another on that page. Click on the "timeline" link to see the edits that both users have made to the page in chronological order. . <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  12:35, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Making Unconstructive Edits
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Chicago Cubs. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. B7

Try being a positive participant instead of a childish vandal

 * Re:The above Vandalism @ _______________________________________________. What you did is not funny. Try being a positive participant instead of a childish vandal. Your edits have been removed. . <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk 
 * Try being a positive participant instead of a childish vandal. . <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  20:24, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * User talk:Yamun253

The Challenge:Entertainer or Educator
Consider becoming a positive participant and collaborator instead of a disruptive vandal. The challenge is to create, not deface. Your edits have no possible chance of remaining in the article...but they show potential. You have chosen "Entertainer" as your way of sharing yourself with the Wikipedia experience and, so, your contributions are rightfully deleted ASAP. Editors that choose "Educator" have a better chance of survival. It's completely up to you. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  13:11, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
 * User:Debate Scholar

Biography template/poorly referenced information

 * Information orange.svg Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons. Thank you.. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  11:40, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Why don't you get an account?
From Jimbo's talk
 * Why don't you get an account? It will provide you with more privacy and a stable identity for longer term building of reputation.--User:Jimbo Wales 21:46, 5 May 2015


 * Discovery while searching for a diff
 * the diff

Start hand.svg Award Process
A nomination follows this process in order to be selected as Editor of the Week:

Hey Li. Can you take a look at this and get rid of the green check marks. I think it might be useful at the Nomination page. Aslo, Let's clear up the potential confusion about nominators using. We clerks will know that and will make the change. Mentioning it only adds to the potential for "spilling the beaaaans". Thanks,. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  13:47, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * ...I lifted the above from Today's articles for improvement and made some adaptations to our process. Does it have potential? . <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  12:45, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks pretty... What do the check marks signify? isaacl (talk) 19:23, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The checkmarks are "leftovers" along with the arrows back to the start. I don't know how to delete them . . <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  22:30, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

EPI

 * Richard Rothstein
 * How our Govt created the ghettos
 * Daily Kos

Political positions of 2016 candidates

 * “I think it’s very dangerous and wrong to allow a group of very strong, well-financed individuals who have no accountability to anyone to have control over who gets access to the data when, why and how,” said Katie Walsh, the RNC’s chief of staff. The beginning of a breech between the Koch Brothers & the RNC
 * “Think about why the Koch Brothers are going to spend $1 Billion in this campaign. If they think politics are important, you should too.” Bernie in the July Rolling Stone article, "Weekend with Bernie".
 * "Journalists are strictly prohibited from covering the campaign/rebellion"

Statement about behavior
I am troubled by the behavior of some of the parties involved. The issue is mostly about bad behavior. The diffs show the less-than-ideal behavior on all sides. What concerned me the most was the tactics used by _________ to attack just about every single person who said anything against his behavior—and his behavior was often very bullying in tone and attitude. The tone I'm seeing has gotten very personal and gone well past the topics at hand. I respect the work that editors do to keep articles free of fringe.

Welcome to Wikipedia - Vandalism warning
Greetings. I have reverted your vandalism edit at the Chicago Cubs article. Vandals are subject warnings and to blocks of their abilities to edit. Why not see if you can improve an article you are interested in? You might just find that adding to the world's free online encyclopedia, instead of disrupting it, is much more rewarding. In hopes you will join us, User:Jusdafax 18:52, 4 February 2016

Re:Welcome
Thank you very much for welcoming me!
 * Glad to have you here at Wikipedia. If I can be of help please feel free to contact me here at my talk page or ping me by placing  on any talk page and signing the edit with  .  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  00:32, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Feuding and bad blood
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Hounding
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An editor's contribution history is public, and there are various legitimate reasons for following an editor's contributions, such as for the purposes of recent changes patrol, WikiProject tagging, or for dispute resolution purposes. Under certain circumstances, these activities can easily be confused with hounding.

Editors should at all times remember to assume good faith before concluding that hounding is taking place, although editors following another editor's contributions should endeavour to be transparent and explain their actions wherever necessary in order to avoid mistaken assumptions being drawn as to their intentions.

Collegiality and recidivism
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Editors who repeatedly or seriously violate these basic standards of conduct may be sanctioned. Editors who have already been sanctioned may be sanctioned more harshly for repeated violations.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect
If you are incompetent, you don't know you are incompetent. The skills needed to produce a right answer to the question, "Are you stupid?" are exactly the skills needed to recognize what a right answer is. Asking, "Do you think I'm stupid?", is the wrong question to ask in order to prove intelligence. It pre-supposses that the asker already thinks the asker is stupid and that the answerer knows that the asker is thinking it. "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."

The Spider

 * In just a little over 1 Hr, he votes to throw it away AfD/HHC
 * My source says "Guardian Brick"
 * "Why I never...."
 * Out of nowhere, he appears....
 * "I want to report a crime...."
 * Edit summary: I avoid making any personal comments whatsoever about the other editor - and I did not deliberately make him plagiarize which is his excuse.
 * Ten minutes later

Gym Beau
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Peace Dove Christmas
Happy Holidays. &#8213; Buster7 &#9742;   23:07, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Peace Dove Christmas, Version 2
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 * From article Oden. Future footnoting planned
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In Federalist 10,
James Madison identified the need “to break and control the violence of faction.” He prayed that the national legislature would not be burdened by those “inflamed … with mutual animosity, … rendered more disposed to vex and oppose each other than to co-operate for the common good.” <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  18:44, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

When Sen. Olympia Snowe of Vermont
...announced that she would decline another term, she penned a column for her local paper explaining her decision: “For change to occur,” she wrote, “our leaders must understand that there is not only strength in compromise, courage in conciliation, and honor in consensus-building, but also a political reward for following those tenets." <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  18:48, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * What Coolidge teaches us

They
... long ago gave up even pretending to offer policy alternatives to those proffered by President Obama. Obstruction has characterized their positions on healthcare, gun control, violence against women, the minimum wage, paid sick and parental leave, climate change, the sequester, the government shutdown, relief for both 9/11 first responders and victims of Hurricane Sandy, and presidential nominations of all kinds, up to and including the Supreme Court. <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black">Buster Seven  <em style="font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;color:black"> Talk  19:17, 7 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Elizabeth Warren blasts Trump
 * David Frum - 7 Guardrails
 * Matt Bai - Yahoo - The Black Hole
 * What its like to be black in America
 * ——The plaintiffs lawsuit was filed under RICO —— “in an effort to extract punitive money awards and exert undue leverage for settlement,” Trump’s brief reads. “Indeed, if this case is allowed to proceed, it would represent an unprecedented and unprincipled expansion of civil RICO and transform virtually every alleged violation of consumer protection laws into a civil RICO claim and subject owners, officers, directors, and others to personal liability for treble damages.”

Higham/Moseley Reviews

 * Talk:Cary Grant/Archive 3

a tumultuous two weeks

 * T claims his predecessors did not make calls to the families of fallen U.S. soldiers;
 * T upsets the family and friends of Sgt. La David T. Johnson, who was killed in Niger, by allegedly telling them that Johnson “must've known what he signed up for”;
 * Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., emphatically criticize T.
 * the uranium deal; FactCheck.org, which concludes, “Donald Trump falsely accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of giving away U.S. uranium rights to the Russians and claimed—without evidence—that it was done in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation.”
 * "Making honest feelings do dis-honest work", Tyrion

Gaslighting

 * "...an ability to gaslight the public..", NewYorker Ryan Lyssa 10/28/17
 * | January 10 article

Game 5
As the teams returned to Washington for the deciding Game 5, the Cubs sent Kyle Hendricks to the mound while the Nationals chose Gio González. The Cubs scored in the first as Jon Jay led off the game with a double and scored on an Anthony Rizzo groundout. The Cubs then loaded the bases with two outs, but Jason Heyward grounded out to end the inning. C1N1 A great play by Javy to cut down Turner at the plate prevented the Nationals from tying the game in the bottom of the first. In the second inning, Daniel Murphy hit a solo homer and Michael Turner hit a three-run shotr to put the Nationals up C1N4. González continued to struggle in the third as Kris Bryant doubled and Willson Contreras and Albert Almora Jr. walked to the load the bases. Addison Russell drove in his first run of the night on a groundout and Contreras scored on a wild pitch to narrow the lead to C3N4. Heyward would again end the threat by striking out on an outside pitch that would have been ball four. The Nationals went to the pen in the fourth, bringing in M. Albers and in the fifth brought in starter Max Scherzer in relief. After Bryant and Rizzo were retired by Scherzer, Contreras gets an infield single and Zoebist singles to center. Russell hits a two run double down the third base line scoring Willy and Zoe. C5N4 An intentional walk to Heyward (hitting .162 in the post-season), a passed ball strikeout to (Baez) with Nats catcher Weiters committing an error, throwing the ball past first into right field allowing Russell to score, a catchers interference call on Weiters while pinch hitter Tommy La Stella (for Hendricks) at bat loads the bases, followed by Scherzer hitting John Jay in the knee with a pitch allowing Heyward to cross the plate. Cubs lead is now C7N4. In the bottom of the 5th Duensing starts the inning with a walk to Daniel Murphy and then Rendon and Weiters are outs. Pedro Strop comes in to strike out Taylor.C7N4

The Cubs added to their lead in the top of the sixth against "Kinzler". With two out, Russell "doubled" in Ben Zobrist (who had walked and was running with two outs) on a relatively easy fly ball that was badly misplayed by left fielder Jayson Werth. C8N4. In the sixth, Strop gets the first two outs but then walks Werth. Mike Montgomery now pitching. Harper doubles, Werth going to third. Zimmerman walks and the base are loaded. The Nationals scored on a wild pitch by Mike Montgomery scoring Werth and a double by Daniel Murphy scores Harper. Leading C8N6 in the seventh, the Cubs added a run when Kyle Schwarber, pinch hitting for Montgomery, hits a line drive single off reliever Sammy Solis that dents the outfield cushion and just misses going out. Jay singles to center with Schwarber going to third. He scores on a groundout by Kris Bryant. C9N6 In the bottom of the seventh inning relief pitcher Carl Edwards Jr. walked Taylor on 5 pitches and was replaced by Jose Quintana (in his first career relief appearance). who got Lobeton to fly out to RF for the first out. Turner singled to RF, Taylor going to 2nd. Werth walked, loading the bases. A sacrifice fly by Harper scored Taylor from third, narrowed the lead to C9N7. Wade Davis came in "in relief" and struck out Ryan Zimmerman to end the seventh inning. In the bottom of the eighth, Davis gave up a run-scoring single by Michael Taylor to bring the lead to one at C9N8. Following a single by José Lobatón to put runners on first and second with two outs, Contreras picked Lobatón off of first, ending the inning. In the ninth, Davis set the Nationals down in order, striking out Werth and getting Harper to swing at ball four, end the game and win the series for the Cubs.

Final Out Call
Pat Hughes, on Cubs radio 670 The Score WSCR, made the following historic call for the final out of the game: A little bouncer, slowly towards Bryant. He will glove it and throw to Rizzo - it's in time! And the Chicago Cubs win the World Series! The Cubs come pouring out of the dugout, jumping up and down like a bunch of delirious 10-year-olds. The Cubs have done it! The longest drought in the history of American sports is over, and the celebration begins! After the game and series, Hughes would routinely mention, due to the fact there was no radio or television in 1908 (the last time the Cubs won the World Series), his call was the first time in broadcast history which someone said the Cubs had won the world series.

WH Daily Press Briefings

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Merry Christmas!
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No One Is Coming To Save Us
"This is a painful, uncomfortable moment. Instead of trying to get past this moment, we should sit with it, wrap ourselves in the sorrow, distress and humiliation of it. We need to sit with the discomfort of the president of the United States referring to several countries as “shitholes” during a meeting (in the Oval Office of the White House), a meeting that continued after his comments. No one is coming to save us. Before we can figure out how to save ourselves from this travesty, we need to sit with that, too."


 * Roxanne Gay

Economy and employment
In the first quarter of 2017, the real US GDP increased at an annual rate of 0.7 percent, the slowest growth since the first quarter of 2014. The growth was primarily due to an increase in business structures and equipment (such as mining and wells), industrial supplies and materials (such as petroleum), and services. This was offset by decreases in motor vehicles and parts, private inventory investment, and government spending. On 31 March 2017, the U.S. national debt stood at $19.8 trillion representing a quarterly decline of 0.65%.

Religious pluralism and the Bahai Faith


Bahá'u'lláh, founder of Baháʼí Faith, a religion that developed in Persia, having roots in Islam, urged the elimination of religious intolerance. He taught that God is one, and religion has been progressively revealed over time through Manifestations of God, the founders of religion. Bahá'u'lláh taught that Baháʼís must associate with peoples of all religions, whether this is reciprocated or not.

Baháʼís refer to this concept as Progressive revelation, meaning that each religion brings a more advanced understanding of divinity and updated social laws as mankind matures. In this view, God's word is revealed through a series of messengers: Abraham, Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, Báb and Bahá'u'lláh (the founder of the Baháʼí Faith) among them. According to Baháʼí writings, there will not be another messenger for many hundreds of years.. There is also a respect for the religious traditions of the native peoples of the planet who may have little other than oral traditions as a record of their religious figures.

Help Desk Request:How to show ties in a numerical list
I just redid the list of 1000 plus point players for the Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team article. There is a tie at #50 but I can't find instructions on how to show that fact. TY. &#8213; Buster7  &#9742;   01:46, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * The list could end like this per Help:List:


 * 1) Wayne Walls (1,030)</li>
 * 2) Dennis Blind (1,011)</li>
 * 3) Rapheal Davis (1,009)
 * It produces:


 * 1) Wayne Walls (1,030)</li>
 * 2) Dennis Blind (1,011)</li>
 * 3) Rapheal Davis (1,009)
 * It would require manual updating each time the position changes. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:33, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

"...breathe a different air of life..."

 * believed "his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He doubted he would be better understood in the future. He once said he felt as though he was writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men."
 * NASA is also looking at the problem of harassment. [63]. I've always felt WP is a workspace and that the workers are entitled to "air to breathe" rather than the stench of aggression. From the NASA article: “We’re committed to providing people with air to breathe, that’s literal and metaphorical in mission,” he said. “The air really speaks to the physical and psychological safety, so individuals don’t have to hold their breath. It speaks to, obviously, the literal oxygen, and it speaks to our mission. We’re also committed to providing space so that people are included and feel they belong.” Worth a read! ―Buster7 ☎ 13:40, 9 July 2019 (UTC) at WP:FRAM

June22/2020 NYT
The list of prominent people who have publicly defied President Trump — including onetime allies — keeps growing. Consider what has happened in just the past few weeks:


 * Senate Republicans over the weekend refused to support Trump’s firing of a federal prosecutor who had investigated two of the president’s personal lawyers. As a result, the prosecutor’s deputy, rather than the administration’s choice, replaced him.
 * A federal judge on Saturday rejected Trump’s request to block the release of a book critical of him. The author of that book — John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser — said in an interview with ABC News on Sunday that Trump posed a “danger for the republic.”
 * Another former administration official — Jim Mattis, a retired Marine general who served as defense secretary — said Trump was trying to divide the country and “make a mockery of our Constitution.”
 * Trump’s top military adviser, Gen. Mark Milley, publicly apologized for participating in a photo op with him that followed the use of tear gas against peaceful protesters.
 * The Supreme Court blocked Trump’s effort to end a signature Obama administration immigration policy. (And, yes, the court is influenced by public opinion, as The Times’s Adam Liptak has explained.)
 * Several Trump-friendly commentators — at The Wall Street Journal, Breitbart and elsewhere — have said his responses to the coronavirus and police violence are hurting his chances of re-election.
 * The commissioner of the N.F.L. switched his position on player protests about racial injustice, which angered Trump.
 * These acts of defiance are both a sign of Trump’s current weakness and a further cause of it, as Matt Glassman, a Georgetown University political scientist, told me. People feel more comfortable opposing Trump because they think he is on the wrong side of public opinion on several major issues.
 * And the more people who defy Trump, the less difficult it becomes for others to do so. It was especially striking to see Senator Lindsey Graham, a frequent Trump defender, decline to support the Trump administration’s choice of a new federal prosecutor. “It’s not a random, rogue action,” Glassman said. “It’s a calculated move based on the weakness of the president.”
 * None of this means Trump is doomed to lose in November. Past presidential candidates, like George H.W. Bush and Harry Truman, overcame polling deficits bigger than the one Trump currently has against Joe Biden. But sustained weakness is very dangerous for a politician.
 * Trump threatened to fire Nancy Messonnier, a CDC official, after she warned in late February that the coronavirus was likely to spread within the United States at a time Trump was denying it posed any threat. Messonnier, unlike Bright, was not fired, but either she or her supervisors got the message and stopped letting her speak publicly.

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Jarvis Square Flea Market
Maybe a dozen years ago my wife and I ran a semi-successful resale shop in the Rogers park neighborhood of Chicago. I say semi-successful because while we always paid the rent, we never made any real money. When we started our little venture into "being our own bosses" the rent was a reasonable $300 a month. 7 years and two landlord changes later and the rent had more than doubled to $900. Luckily we had other "real" jobs that paid for our extravagant lifestyle :~). The store was located on a busy corner just east of the Jarvis L and had a nice big patio out front. I made it my practice to daily set up rooms and displays outside for customers and passers-by to peruse our goods. One day a kitchen, the next a dining room, followed by a bedroom. The stuff was all piled into the aisles of the store each night only to be moved back outside the next day. We opened late in the day and stayed open into the evening. Hard work, sure, but we had a great time. We had an article written about the store in The Reader, which talked about my transition from t-shirt worker to collared shirt w/ a pocket worker. Regulars would stop by on their way home, friends would stop in to visit, and we would sit outside among the merchandise to act as magnets for shoppers. We renamed the street to Jarvis Square just to add a bit of English class to the place. Early on, I painted our Marquee with the address "1447 Jarvis Square". After our opening success we started to conduct 2 day (I think it was a Sat/Sun event but I have to ask Cathy) Flea Markets and advertised "in beautiful DownTown Jarvis Square" on the patio and the city berms up and down Jarvis and Greenview. I think we had about six events over the life of the store. We usually had 25 or so independent vendors. They, like us, would set up early and stay late. The Flea Markets were a BIG hit. People came throughout the day, meeting neighbors and old friends they hadn't seen in a while. With the EL close by riders could see the event and drop in to shop. It was a big party and I wore a top hat so I could be found easily. We collected a small nominal fee for advertising and minimal expenses. No permits or permission... and no problems that I can recall. I think we would do it again in a heart beat if any ever asked us to. But no one ever has which I find very surprising. Before we opened, the building was a bit of an eyesore. The space we rented had been vacant for many years with only occasional use by the local alderman as a campaign office. The other storefronts were either empty or were office type businesses with no street presence.Don Selle's Coffee Shoppe was a local institution and hangout and did good business. I have to think long and hard about who was in the other dozen or so spots. By the time we left, the new owners had renovated rather than tear down and we had been an important fixture in the renovation and reawakening of the whole little business district. Others played their part and spent gobs of money, but without our impetus, their vision would never have been realized. Jarvis Liquors going out of business also had a big affect on the changes.