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On November 3, 1964, Illinois chose all 177 members of the state's House of Representatives in a single at-large election. The government was required to draw new electoral districts before the election, each of which would choose three representatives, but both the legislative process and a special commission failed to produce a district map. As a result, the state's constitution mandated that all 177 representatives were to be elected from a statewide at-large district. The Republican Party and the Democratic Party each nominated 118 candidates to appear on the ballot (specimen pictured); voters were allowed to choose up to 177. All 118 Democratic candidates were elected, flipping the Illinois House of Representatives from its previous narrow Republican control, alongside the concurrent presidential election won by Democratic incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson in a landslide. This election is the only time in American history that a state legislative chamber has been elected at-large. (Full article...)

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For your contributions to the CotW focusing on Girl in September, 2005, I, Mamawrites, award you, Ancheta Wis, this THANK YOU.

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Talk:Religious Pluralism

Thank you, Ancheta, for formatting my contribution to the talk page. I don't know whether we'll be able to integrate your proposal about diversity into the new Religious Pluralism article; it might go into a the section about explanations for Religious Diversity, something like that; perhaps you can make a proposal.--Robin.rueth 08:25, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RFA for User:Hike395 --- please see my response on my talk page, thanks!

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Quinobi updated Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikiportals and the Community hash 4 July 2005 02:53 (UTC)

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Thanks for all your work on categories. We don't have anything like a consensus about what is fundamental, or where we should be going with highest-level categories or levels of granularity in each category... but I hope we will soon. Is there a main Categories Wikiproject?

In any case, we shouldn't let our debates about categorization spill out onto the Main Page. I am confused about why the people who have been active in editing the category-list haven't chimed in with their thoughts on the new main-page template. +sj+ 22:33, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hello, AW. You said:

  • Thank you for responding to my appeal on the Fundamental category. What if we transfer the thread of conversation to Category talk:Fundamental. I will alert the folks on the Main Page that we will pick up the conversation there. Ancheta Wis 01:42, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Good idea - copy or move my contribution and put yours in too (telling BodNotBod!) Maybe new heading such as "Refining number and wording of the "fundamental" categories"? Robin Patterson 03:21, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

AW, I've no idea whether this is a reasonable location for this note, so move it if it's not. Gald to see a coment from you re Purr. I'd lost track of you after I gave up on Scientific method. You've clearly more patience than I with what had been going on there for a long time before you began to contribute to it. I've gone back and taken a look at it, and I hadn't expected it to grow in the direction it has. Too bad the tone that's evolved is so 'philosophical' and unapproachable by the Average Reader. Good to hear from you, even if indirectly. ww 02:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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He who knows not, and knows that he knows not — he is ignorant; teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows — he is asleep; awaken him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows — he is wise; follow him.

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  • 4 Note 25: Horowitz, Paul & Hill, Winfield (1989). The Art of Electronics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521370957.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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Autonumbered Footnotes

You asked about using symbolic references rather than numbered. Wikipedia:Footnote3 is a new proposal which allows that and automatically generates numbered notes from them. Mozzerati 22:06, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)

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Thank you for your kind words on my talk page -- hike395 12:53, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

browse by Topic

There's a related discussion at the WP 1.0 editorial team project page, about starting with a superset of 1-10k articles and getting a first-cut of a 'reviewed network of articles' to see what it looks like. +sj + 17:55, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Trinity anniversary

July 16, 2005 —two months from now—will be the 60th anniversary of the "Trinity" test. I'm trying to organize a few people into getting that article to featured quality before then, anticipating a lot of general news coverage and curious minds. I've noticed you doing good work on Manhattan Project-related articles in the past, so I thought I would see if you were interested in helping out. Please see the discussion at Talk:Trinity site for some of my further thoughts on what should be present in the article, and please feel free to share you own. Thanks! --Fastfission 19:05, 15 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Elephant-shapedBluffOnTransmountainRoad.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, or {{PD-self}} if you mean to release the image into public domain.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thank you, Dsmdgold 03:01, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

The creative commons license tag does the job well. Thank you. Dsmdgold 13:29, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

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Bible & Hebrew Script Issues

Hi Ancheta, thanks for the response to my question. Digging on Amazon, the only book I can find that you refer to is "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible" [1] Is that the one? Spellbinder 18:19, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, Ancheta. Sorry, it's taken a while to respond, but I've been away. That 'Cambridge History of the Bible' looks fascinating; I'll have to try to get hold of a copy. Spellbinder 21:15, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)


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Health Questions to identify a stroke

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Dr. George F. Springer, M.D., developed Springer's vaccine for breast cancer. The 5 and 10-year survival rates for his group of patients with stage II, III and IV breast cancer far exceed the norm for those who are untreated. Since his death in 1998 the vaccine is unavailable, but many of the components are known. See: Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo's book on blood types, Live right 4 your type ISBN 0-399-14673-3 pages 235-6.

How to help yourself survive a heart attack when alone

I got this from my mother-in-law, who spent months last year in a cardiology ICU, and who is now at home again. She emailed me with this last March, but it's on paper now and wikipedia is a superior place to have this information if I need it. Ancheta Wis 00:58, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
And take aspirin. Glasses of water are a good idea.

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Read this... It could save your life!!

Let's say it's 6:15PM and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about 5 miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

How to survive a heart attack when alone

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However these victims can help themselves by

coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
  • A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep within the chest.
  • A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

Many Thanks

Greetings, Ancheta!
I've not been around for the past month or so and I only yesterday saw your best wishes on my Bob McEwen article being posted on the front page. I'm grateful for your support. And thanks very much for the praise on the narrative style. If I can help with your articles, do let me know. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 16:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Galilean Transformation

Hi, can you tell me if Galileo actually published his Galilean transformation in Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, or did he just explain the concept of relativity via the "cabin below decks in a sailing ship" example? What I am wondering is whether the Galilean transformations are a Newtonian interpretation of Galilean relativity, since I know Newton was big on absolute time. --Michael C. Price talk 20:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WinFS

Hello. Please try to avoid making inappropriate edits such as what you did here with WinFS. Have a look at the contents of that category, and you will see that the articles there cover subjects that deal conceptually with failure (e.g. power outage), but not specific products or technologies. WinFS has precisely nothing to do with failure as a concept. -/- Warren 12:17, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:The new "test" articles you've created

Hello Ancheta, I'm just letting you know we try to keep all tests in the sandbox and in our userspaces. Shall I move the test pages you've created into your userspace, or nominate them to be speedied?--The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 02:25, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, someone already nominated one, I nominated the other. I hope you don't mind. FWIW, no one will bother you if you create test user subpages.--The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 02:28, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Hi, I would like to express my gratitude for your participation at my recent RfA. The final vote was 68/21/3 and resulted in me becoming an admin!

For those of you who supported my RfA, I highly appreciate your kind words and your trust in me. For those who opposed - many of you expressed valid concerns regarding my activity here; I will make an effort in addressing them as time goes on while at the same time using my admin tools appropriately. So, salamat, gracias, merci, ありがとう, спасибо, धन्यवाद, 多謝, agyamanak unay, شكرًا, cảm ơn, 감사합니다, mahalo, ขอบคุณครับ, go raibh maith agat, dziękuję, ευχαριστώ, Danke, תודה, mulţumesc, გმადლობთ, etc.! If you need any help, feel free to contact me.

PS: I took the company car (pictured left) out for a spin, and well... it's not quite how I pictured it. --Chris S. 23:15, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unspecified source for Image:DonHaskinsUTEPcoach.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:DonHaskinsUTEPcoach.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 23:41, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Sue'sBrain.jpg

Hi! This is a lovely image... I've just got a couple of queries about its source and copyright status. The image doesn't have good sourcing at the moment (as in: did you scan it from a particular book? or upload it from a particular URL?) and if the Field Museum are the copyright-holders, this should probably be made clearer (it's not obvious whether they are merely the host and source of the image, or the copyright holder). In addition, adding some evidence that the image is available under a creative commons license is really pretty important, not because I'm assuming that it isn't and you're wrong in classifying it as such, but because there are loads of images with daft or deceptive copyright statuses uploaded and a requirement of providing some evidence that rights have been released is near essential. Hope this helps - the image is a nice find, and I would hate to see it getting deleted! TheGrappler 23:29, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh, thanks. In that case, who is the copyright holder? The image is licensed as CC-BY, which requires the copyright holder to be clearly stated. In this instance, is that you? TheGrappler 03:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, pictures of pictures, much like photographs of copyrighted buildings (e.g. the bizarre example of the Eiffel Tower, which is uncopyrighted by day but copyrighted at night) are generally pretty dodgy. If you take a picture of a copyrighted picture, then the copyright definitely stays with the copyright holder of the original. Being permitted to take a photograph is a little different to being able to claim the copyright of the photograph. But this does all raise the question of what the copyright status of the original was. TheGrappler 03:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The difference is that they didn't have copyright over the fossils. The Eiffel Tower is a good example: at day, nobody has copyright over it, so you hold copyright over your own photo of the tower. At night, the tower becomes copyright, and when you take an image of it, copyright belongs to the the copyright holder. Your camera, your photo, your film, your own physical print, but not your own copyright. Similarly, if you took a photo of a television screen broadcasting a (copyright) show, the camera, film and physical print are yours, but copyright rests with the copyright holder of the TV show. Copyright law concerns intellectual, not physical, property and is therefore a little bit weird... if the screen contained copyrighted information then you can't claim ownership of the copyright of the photograph, even if you took it. That's why the copyright status of the original displayed image is relevant. Kinda confusing, unfortunately... TheGrappler 03:37, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Unspecified source for Image:Elvis.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Elvis.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Jkelly 23:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania

Hello Ancheta Wis,

I'm wondering if you'd be interested in doing a video interview with us about Wikipedia. We're making a short educational documentary about Wikipedia for Project New Media Literacies, a MacArthur-funded research initiative at MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. Our video series will be free and online, and we're especially interested in making media literacy pieces for jr high and high schoolers.

We'll be coming to Wikimania, but we'd really like to pre-schedule some interviews so we don't get lost in the excitement of the goings-on. Please have a look at my post on the Media section http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Media. Please let me know if you're interested (vanbertozzi(at)gmail.com). Hope to hear from you soon!...Vanessa Vanbertozzi 01:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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