User talk:Novalia

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Avenging Angels (song)
Greetings. I've taken the liberty of moving the 'Avenging Angels' article you created to the new title Avenging Angels (song). I did this for two reasons: I have also added links to this article to the Avenging Angel disambiguation page, and to the article on the Tin Planet album. Don't worry, I don't plan on mucking around with the content of the article itself. Feel free to contact me on my talk page if you have any further questions. Happy editing! -- Finngall  talk  16:55, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Since the actual song title does not feature the quotes, the quotes should not be in the article title.
 * Since there are other definitions for avenging angels, adding the (song) designation removes ambiguity.

Categories
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Speedy deletion nomination of Venturi Flume
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Flexing
I removed your comment from the talk page of the flexing article because it was a comment about the dance and not a comment about how to improve the article. Comments like that are discouraged. To answer your question, yes, shoulder flexibility is standard in flexing. Contortion is a large part of the dance so being able to flex in this way is not only common, it's necessary/critical. I don't know how anyone could call themselves a flexor without being able to move in this way. As noted in the article, flexors incorporate tutting into their dancing but both styles, I think, look very different.

As you may already know there are different forms of tutting. Sometimes people tut without using their arms, just using wrists, hands, and fingers (called finger tutting). I've never seen that done in flexing. Watch this video which shows finger tutting, then watch this video which shows regular tutting. Finally, watch this one which shows standard flexing. This last video is long. It actually shows a battle between a turfer, the first dancer in the black shirt (turfing comes from Oakland/San Francisco) and a flexor, the second dancer in the white shirt. These two styles look much more similar to each other. I don't want to confuse you but I linked this video because the second dancer, a flexor, gives a really good example of standard flexing: contortion mixed with waving, tutting, and gliding. Flexing incorporates tutting but only sometimes. It's not necessary to tut in order to perform flexing. What characterizes flexing is well... flexing i.e. contortion. During the flexor's second set, which was roughly a minute and a half, he only does tutting for the first three seconds. The rest is all contortion and burns.

After watching these videos, I think you'll see tutting and flexing don't look that much alike. If not, at least you'll get to see some good dancing. Note: the second video shows the freestylers using a fake gun in order to burn each other (click here for a definition if you don't know what it means; read the third one). Please don't be offended. It's common in battling (NOT the use of guns, but executing burns). //Gbern3 (talk) 18:15, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

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Three Graces
Hello I noticed your comment on the Pier Head talk page a while ago (here). Your second link was interesting; do you know any more about it? It refers to a "Books" magazine, but I haven't been able to find it in a google search; do you know if it has another title? Also, it says it is Volumes 12-17, which (going by the other volumes on offer) covers about 5 years; do you have any dates? And the book being reviewed (called "Still Here", I think) doesn't show up in a search either; do you know the author, or if it has another title? I'm kind of interested in running down the truth of this question, as it seems to provoke strong opinions one way or another... it'd be nice to have a definitive answer. Swanny18 (talk) 20:31, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

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Birmingham Gay Village
Thank you for your contributions to Birmingham Gay Village. If you also have any images to upload of the area it would save me a bit of work, Thanks again Candykim  J e n o v a  20 11:04, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool update
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DYK nomination of Heap's Rice Mill
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DYK for Heap's Rice Mill
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Nomination of Per Sempre Amore for deletion
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As a linguistic editor, can you please help me out with the linguistics around digital dependencies and global mental health
RfC open there and social media addiction. Its quite basic linguistics but now the article is being suggested for deletion based on the linguistics. Any thoughts appreciated! --E.3 (talk) 12:46, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

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