Talk:Home page

Walter L. Hawkins

Info on change

He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from South Fulton High, in East Point, Georgia (1967). He attended: Dekalb College and the University of Georgia. His military education includes: He begin his military career on December 9, 1968 at Basic Combat Training, Fort Benning, Georgia; Advanced Individual Training, Fort Polk, LA., (1969); all the Noncommissioned Officer Education System Courses; Senior Noncommissioned Officer Course at Camp Edwards, MA.; Logistics Management Course, Fort Lee, VA.; United States Army Sergeants Major Academy, Fort Bliss, TX.; United States Army Command Sergeants Major (D) Course, Fort Bliss, TX. His assignments includes: in 1969, assigned with the Supply Point 39, 8th Army, in Korea, promoted to Sergeant on April 6, 1970; from 1974 to 1978, assigned with the 310th Civil Affairs Unit, Atlanta, Ga. promoted to Staff Sergeant on October 5, 1974 and to Sergeant First Class on September 14, 1977; from 1978 to 1980, assigned to the 335th Signal Command, he was promoted to Master Sergeant on July 9, 1980; from July 1980 to February 1986, served as the Chief Logistics NCO at the 81st Army Reserve Command, Atlanta, Ga.; from 1986 to 1989, he served with the 335th Signal Command first as Logistic NCO, later from 1989 to 1993, as Sergeant Major of S-4 (Logistics NCOIC), promoted to Sergeant Major on June 27, 1989; from December 1993 to December 1997, he served as the Command Sergeant Major for the 1st Battalion, 4th Brigade, 87th Division (EX), Fort Gillem, Georgia, he was appointed Command Sergeant Major on December 12, 1993. In March, 1998, he was selected to serve as the Command Sergeant Major for the 75th Combat Support Hospital (HUB), located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The 75th Combat Support Hospital, have 3 Units with nearly 528 soldiers assigned, in Alabama, and Mississippi. He retired from the US Army on December 31, 1999. His military awards and decorations includes: Army Meritorious Service Medal; Army Commendation Medal (with oak leaf clusters); Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal (with two oak leaf cluster); National Defense Service Medal (with bronze service star); Good Conduct Medal(with five oak leaf clusters); Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Korea); Army Force Reserve Medal (with 2nd 10-year device); Army Service Ribbon; Army Reserve Components Overseas Training Ribbon (with number 2); NCO Professional Development Ribbon (with the numeral 4); Two Unit Citations. CSM Hawkins Civilian Occupation: A career as a professional Law Enforcement Officer, and held a wide variety of important command and staff positions, culminating in current position. He served as a Police Officer, Police Narcotic Detective and Internal Investigation Investigator with the Atlanta Police Department, from 1971 to 1975. From 1975 to 1987, first with the Fulton County's new Police Department as one of the first four black police officers with that department in history. He later was promoted as the first black police Sergeant with the Fulton County Police Department. Also work with the Fulton County Sheriff's Department. In January 1990, he was appointed Postal Police Officer and in April 1997, he was promoted to Postal Police Sergeant. In January 1999, he was selected to serve as acting Captain/ Manager of Postal Police in Atlanta, Georgia. In June 2000, he was promoted to Captain and assigned as the Manager for Postal Police for the Southeast Area of the United States. He retired from the United States Postal Service in July 2009. He served with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office from September 2010 to March 2011. CSM Walter L. Hawkins is the author of three other books: African American Biographies (profiles of 558 current men and women); African American Generals and Flag Officers; African American Biographies 2 (profiles of 332 current men and women) and Black American Military Leaders.

Tools - Internet options - select the general tab - Home page has three selections 'use current'- 'use default'-'use blank`' 

This is from my XP Spanish I am sure the English XP is the same or very similar.

Shouldn't this be called "homepage," not "Homepage definition"? --user:Daniel C. Boyer

---

Re "It has the shortest URL: just the--Walter4045 (talk) 21:53, 2 October 2011 (UTC) domain name": is this really so? Aren't many homepages located a number of directories from the domain root? A-giau 01:51, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Meaning

Is this really true: "the website of a g ner face it being used this way by Germans who fell victim to a (IMO) false friend. I have checked a number of dictionaries and all agree that it can only refer to the main page of a web site. Also, the use as the browser's start page is very rare, if ever, and neither backed up by any dictionary. If it were widespread, OK -- but I don't think we should acknowledge occasional wrong usage in an encyclopedia. H005 12:42, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Is this really true: "the website of a group or individual"?

Yes

I have checked a number of dictionaries and all agree that it can only refer to the main page of a web site.

...pillow muncher jargon? Waste of time.

Also, the use as the browser's start page is very rare, if ever, and neither backed up by any dictionary.

Um, no...:

Mozilla/Firefox: Preferences > General > Home Page

Internet Explorer: Options > Home Page

It's fine as it is. ¦ Reisio 14:00, 2005 September 12 (UTC)

Dictionaries on internet jargon are proper sources, not wastes of time.. This is from the American Heritage Dictionary:

The opening or main page of a website, intended animal lover visitors and provide information about the site or its owner.

Now then.. The website of a group or individual is an auxillary meaning more slang than literal definition, but could be still included on the article I think... Not entirely sure.. The important thing is to have sources to cite, as that is the most rampant issue with Wikipedia, the lack of citation, particularly in new information, so those dictionaries aren't a waste of time, but partially vital to the expansion to the article(even more important might be the development of the homepage, from what it once was to what it is now).--Vercalos 05:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

It is a "false friend": In Germany, "Website" is often used to refer to a certain, single page, because "site" sounds much like "Seite" - meaning "page". I'd guess that 95% have never heard of the actual meaning of site as in location, area, place. "Homepage" often means the entire site, or the first/main page of a web site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.63.63.162 (talk) 14:49, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

this article is a stub pretending to be a disambiguation

As I recall from the early days of the web, "The URL or local file that is automatically loaded when a web browser starts" was the original meaning of the term, but I could be wrong.I agree with the concept as similar I have heard at: http://www.webdesigningcompany.net This would be a good place space olympics to come to find out where the phrase really comes from, and how and when it came to be used for these other things as well. It is not clear, and seems unlikely, that following any of these disambiguation links that will answer any of those questions. Having just a disambiguation page without an actual article doesn't work. 67.168.216.176 16:35, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Possibly, though in the early days of the Web, browsers didn't usually automatically load a Web page as the Home page. Unless and until there is a better article here, though, it's still a dab page. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

world-home.org

I agree that the edited portion was promoting websites, but world-home.org is an excellent homepage, and just the sort of page I was looking for when I searched the web for "homepage", finding it in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hhhsss (talk • contribs) 05:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

hey what happened to the home page frenzy of the 90s

it is clearly the predecessor of blogs. it needs its article. --AaThinker (talk) 13:09, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Page moved. Ucucha 06:41, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

---

Homepage → Home page — Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:48, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Occurrences of home page outnumber homepage in COCA, 519 to 100. Home page is the main headword in the OED[1], Merriam-Webster,[2] and Random House[3] dictionaries (but not AHD). Relisted for further input. --RegentsPark (talk) 17:23, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

— User:Mzajac 20:46, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose "homepage" is clear, "home page" can take alternate meanings since its two words, and not one word, though the primary meaning is "homepage", in the internet age. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 05:06, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

  What alternate meanings? I don't see how home page is any less clear, but our rule is most common name. —Michael Z. 2010-04-28 06:29 z

1. Support the proposed move. Deb (talk) 19:52, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

MajorDee

Well were shall we start, MajorDee is an unsigned grime/hiphop artist from the southwest of london. MajorDee is now 17 years old and has been making hes own music for a good few years now. In the near future MajorDee is hoping to get signed to a record label and hopfully get his music in the charts. MajorDee also has a IF I WANT SOMTHING IM GOING TO GET IT, determination attitude. Please check him out on: His Website:http://whisper.bandvista.com/home/, His facebook:http://www.facebook.com/don.kypho1, His Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/majordee_artist, His youtube:http://www.youtube.com/user/oboy526?feature=mhee, or his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/majordee-artist

Thank You..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.7.71.23 (talk) 19:56, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Fifth meaning of "homepage" seems incomprehensible

The fifth item in the list of meanings of "homepage" seems incomprehensible to me. At the time I write this comment, it says:

Home page also webpage . the web page set by default setting of browser that web page consider as home page of that particular browser

I am quite sure that there must be an error, also because the period/full stop is in the wrong position.
Can someone, who understands what this sentence intends to mean, please correct it? 84.115.137.46 (talk) 19:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Okay, obviously someone was just at the same moment editing the page, because shortly later, the sentence has been corrected. Anyway, I deleted the fifth item, because in my opinion, it explained the same meaning as the second item.

Home page: The web page set by default setting of a browser that a web page considers as a home page of that particular browser

84.115.137.46 (talk) 19:34, 16 August 2011 (UTC)