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Popularity in other countries
Knight Rider proved immensely popular overseas, and continues in syndication in various countries today.


 * In Germany and Austria the show was popular enough that it spawned a licensed German audioplay series available on cassettes which re-told the original TV series, only with more accurate translation than can be done for lip-synch dubbing, featuring the series's original dubbing voices but employing their own sound effects and scene music alongside the show's original theme.


 * In the UK the show was also a massive hit. The show raked in a large audience, even though it was not networked for much of its run, with each region showing episodes in their own selected time-slots and (as was common with imported shows) episodes were often shown out of sequence, sometimes edited for time and/or content as each region saw fit. Many regions had their own quirks with the show - for example, London region Thames split the very late episodes, which were not pulling in as many viewers, into two halves, airing them over Monday and Tuesday in a 5:15 pm slot. After the initial run of the series, many regions ran the unpopular edited half-hour versions in the late 1980s. Various ITV regions also gave the complete episode versions a repeat run in the mid-1990s. Although some regions, such as London's LWT, did not, those that did only showed the first three seasons. In 1997, it was shown by the newly launched Channel 5, who ran most episodes in a Saturday morning slot as part of their youth-orientated strand, first as a double-bill of episodes, then later with one episode on Saturday and one episode on Sunday. Although there was the occasional minor edit here and there, it was the first time that a lot of material (such as the opening trailers, which ITV often edited out) was shown on UK television. They ran the series to near the end of the third season, but did not show the fourth season despite many requests from fans; although they did show the feature-length fourth season opener, "Knight Of The Juggernaut", in a 'one-off' showing (the other feature-length episodes were also given airings in such 'one-off' slots several times). A couple of years later they too also aired the unpopular half-hour edit versions. It is currently being broadcast by Virgin Media owned channels Bravo and Virgin 1, who also broadcast the fourth season for the first time since the episodes were originally shown on ITV in the later 1980s. The show has not been broadcast on terrestrial UK TV for some time now, though the two spin-off TV movies get occasional airings on Channel 5, and ITV broadcast Team Knight Rider in the early 2000s.


 * In South America, except Brazil, the show was renamed El Auto Fantástico (The Fantastic Car) and is generally known by that title. Incidentally, many shows are renamed overseas to better suit the subtleties of different languages. In this case the play on the word "Knight" in the title (a triple meaning, with Michael Knight, the Knight Foundation, and the classic medieval Knight all playing part of the meaning) was not as effective in Spanish speaking countries, as the word Knight is translated to "Caballero" (meaning both "Knight" and "Gentleman"). El Auto Fantástico also contained slight differences in the naming of certain elements, with the Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG) being renamed FLO (La Fundación de la Ley y el Orden, translated as the Foundation for Law and Order) to suit the audience. Names of the characters remained unchanged, with the only other differences being the voices of the actors who recorded the lines in Spanish. Currently (2007) in Argentina amd (2008) in Colombia the series is still being broadcast.

Knight Rider still has a large following in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Sri Lanka and China, and reruns of the show air across the world to this day.

Re: undiscussed changes to policy pages
See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 64 which is a related issue, and is in some degree due to a lack of people closely watching a page. —Centrx→talk &bull; 04:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

—Centrx→talk &bull; 01:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

It would be nice if someone created a subpage of Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies to show others how to check for proxies manually (besides web-based CGI proxies, which anyone with average Joe computer smarts can check). I would like to check them, but I do not know how to scan them manually. 

If the sourcing of an article is not presently sufficient for notability, the topic may nevertheless be notable. The depth and authority of present sources, and such considerations as in the guidelines at the right, serve as a useful indicator

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. As a member of the Wikipedia community, I would like to remind you of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy for editors. In the meantime, please be bold and continue contributing to Wikipedia. Thank you!

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. As a member of the Wikipedia community, I would like to remind you of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy for editors. In the meantime, please be bold and continue contributing to Wikipedia. Thank you!

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to blah, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

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CSD CP
These copyright violations may be deleted by any administrator under the WP:Copyright problems process (see also Copyright problems/Advice for admins), and so qualify for deletion as housekeeping. I will try to make this more clear in my tagging. (The criteria under A8 are all for ensuring that a page is not hastily deleted when there is possibility that it is not an infringement or that the page history may be redeemed. The 7-day period and process at WP:CP is for ensuring this is not the case. In particular, A8 requires that it be tagged within 48 hours so that the page on Wikipedia is not mis-identified as a copyright violation being found on a mirror of Wikipedia, when in fact the mirror copied it from Wikipedia.) —Centrx→talk • 00:56, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

The equation
$$K_d=\frac{k1}{k2}=\frac{\textrm{[free\,\, drug]} \times \textrm{albumin}}{\textrm{drug-albumin\,\, complex}}$$

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Eminently bad deleted-protected pages

 * Rob McKenna, attorney general of Washington state
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Stuff
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Random funny things
The "Done and Been there person" is a word found on the words of detest section in American Society.

A person who thinks there the PRO of everything, usually calls people noobs. "Hey, dude I hacked into the Pentagon!", Yeah? So? I don't really care, I've done that >.>.

I don't give an American flag!

That wasn't a test I made, that was meant to vandalize the article. Why did you say it was a test?

For 18 miles, uphill, both ways, in the snow!
 * On STUMPS!! We didn't even have FEET back then!!!

--On mailing list

(about WikiVoter)
 * Also, it has a functionality that basically lets you stalk the discussions of everything you've already commented in. -Cyde
 * I've noticed you do this well enough without WikiVoter, Cyde. Its facetious and irrelevant to bring it up now. SynergeticMaggot 21:13, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * LOL -- Cyde Weys 21:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

On a Turing-complete template scripting language resulting in Wikipedia becoming sentient:

I just saw a great use of #switch

I think it justifies the risk of creating a sentient WikiMurderer

think if Wikipedia got out into the real world

non-notable people would start disappearing

Wikipedia would delete everyone

except for several angsty teenage musicians with sock-voting fan clubs

At RfA: "Support. Would contribute quality articles to football."

At Talk:Five-pointed star:

Who wants to write article? --evrik

"A five pointed star is ..."

-evrik 16:51, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * "...a star with five points.&#91;citation needed&#93; " —Centrx→talk • 02:22, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

(credits to 08:19, 16 July 2006 User:Lambiam for addition of "needs citation")

At Talk:Allie Sin, a deleted page:

Anyone know why this page was deleted?


 * Yes. Somebody created a policy (Notability (pornographic actors)) and somebody followed it. --Easyas12c 20:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom decisions

 * Requests for arbitration/Sortan
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Bad AIV reports
Do not post IPs that have not recently vandalized. Do not say that they didn't stop after a final warning when they actually did. IPs are often dynamically assigned, or by people who are just passing through briefly. There is no point in blocking an IP that hasn't edited in three hours when it is likely that the block will either be useless, because the IP wasn't going to do any more vandalism anyway, or that the block will prevent a totally different person who never vandalized from using Wikipedia. —Centrx→talk • 21:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Flags
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