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Welcome to Wikipedia: Drawing board. There are many new articles that are being created that appeal to a wide audience. Likewise, there are many people with good ideas for new articles that might interest other people but they want to discuss it with others first.

The drawing board is for discussing ideas you have about articles. If your idea is directly related to one specific article that already exists it would probably be better to discuss it on that article's talk page, or you may be able to discuss it at a relevant WikiProject.

This is a middle ground between requesting an article by name (without discussing it) and creating one yourself. It also allows you to plan something out before jumping in and creating an article.

Remember, discussing articles before creating them is optional. If you're ready, be bold and start the page!.

Contents

  • 1 Current discussions
    • 1.1 Northeast Independent
    • 1.2 Helium.com
    • 1.3 Shared Medical Systems
    • 1.4 Blake Van Leer
    • 1.5 Wolves In The Throne Room
    • 1.6 Randy Staub
    • 1.7 Artificial objects in the solar system with escape(hyperbolic) orbits
    • 1.8 John Frederick Fuggles
    • 1.9 The ETSN
    • 1.10 Crime author Frederic Lindsay
    • 1.11 The Facebook Wall
    • 1.12 1440p and 2160p
    • 1.13 Destined Apostle
    • 1.14 The Sims Life Stories
    • 1.15 Matthew Hanson
    • 1.16 Faros Cigarettes
    • 1.17 Christmas Parties
    • 1.18 Nintendo-Punk
    • 1.19 Thiede, Germany
    • 1.20 Easytown Radio
    • 1.21 Elise Boulding
    • 1.22 Dog Day Sunrise
    • 1.23 The Syndicate
    • 1.24 [[L�on Duguit]]
    • 1.25 Sally Silverstone
    • 1.26 Restricted Clubs
    • 1.27 Tokyo Disney Sea Tower of Terror
    • 1.28 European Monarchies
    • 1.29 First Global Community College of Nong Khai, Thailand
    • 1.30 Hank Marvin
    • 1.31 Upper Playground
    • 1.32 Mike Wise (computer progammer)
    • 1.33 Phone-in incidents
    • 1.34 Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
    • 1.35 Medical advertising
    • 1.36 List of biggest opening weekends
    • 1.37 Plant Death or Death By Plant
    • 1.38 Internet Personalities
    • 1.39 Organizations for mothers
    • 1.40 Riverbelle Casino
    • 1.41 Online Bible
    • 1.42 Geohistory (geo-history)
    • 1.43 OBSAI
    • 1.44 List of asthma triggers
    • 1.45 String (or Violin) Pedagogy
    • 1.46 List of actors who have played God
    • 1.47 SpeechEasy (anti-stuttering devices)
    • 1.48 TrueNuff
    • 1.49 22.2 Channel Surround
    • 1.50 Cathy's Book: If found call (650) 266-8233
    • 1.51 Catherine Patricia Mackin
    • 1.52 Andrew "Bernie" Macdonald
    • 1.53 Latent Failure Model
    • 1.54 List of Naruto Shipp?den Chapters
    • 1.55 Feedback systems
    • 1.56 Easyflirt
    • 1.57 Fort Ancient Valley Conference
    • 1.58 Tammy Zywicki
    • 1.59 Hero Cycle redirect
    • 1.60 Crystal Escape
    • 1.61 Hugh Mulzac
    • 1.62 Rohn Industries, Inc.
    • 1.63 Scenes (Sociology)
  • 2 Older/completed discussions
    • 2.1 Article Tags
    • 2.2 IDMR (Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research)
    • 2.3 Der Golem un die Tazerin (Der Golem and the Dancer)
    • 2.4 British children's television
    • 2.5 Animal attacks
    • 2.6 Fast food advertising
    • 2.7 Fed Shreds
    • 2.8 Peppercorn
    • 2.9 Moving a building
    • 2.10 Big Buck Hunter
    • 2.11 Lyngbakr
    • 2.12 Hafgufa
    • 2.13 Open Aqua Desktop Environemt
    • 2.14 Carnivores Games
    • 2.15 Sundadont
  • 3 Veterinary Pharmacist
  • 4 Strontium Bromdide
  • 5 See Also

Current discussions

Northeast Independent

I was wondering if there was anyone else 'out there' interested in creating a page on the Independent World class winterguard, Northeast Independent. I've tried searching, and found nothing. Their website is here: www.northeastindependent.com/

Even after looking at that site, I can't even understand what the heck it is. - Jmabel | Talk 18:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Helium.com

I am wondering if someone would be interested in doing some research on a reletively new website and writing about it here. The site is www.helium.com. As far as I can see it's a usergenerated content site with what some of my writer friends call a very unique peer review ranking system to determine the quality of the contributions. Some of them compare it to Wikipedia.

If you can find published (print or online) information on which to base an article, rather than remarks from "writer friends", then this has potential. Not an obviously important topic, but if there is evidence for notability, then something that would at least be an OK topic. - Jmabel | Talk 18:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Shared Medical Systems

I was curious if there was any interest in having an article on this fairly large company. Siemens aquired them around 2000 or so. yet there is no mention of them in Siemens Holdings. This was a 3.2 billion dollar purchase that put Siemens Med on the map in the Medical Information Service space.

Any reason not to just add a paragraph to the Siemens article? And a redirect? Then if it grows, you can make it an article of its own. - Jmabel | Talk 18:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Blake Van Leer

One of many notable Van Leer's, you google search for resources and it seems he was featured in Cosmo Magazine as Bachelor of Maryland.

Being mentioned in Cosmo probably doesn't merit an encyclopedia article. Does he have any other notability? -- Jmabel | Talk 18:47, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Wolves In The Throne Room

I was just curious as to whether there was interest, or if it was okay within Wikipedia's guidelines, in creating an article on this Olympia, Washington black metal band. They've released two demos, and one full length LP titled 'Diadem Of 12 Stars'. They're currently in the process of recording their new album, to be released at a date still undetermined.

Thank you. --Kidsmokespider 04:55, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Notability (music). It sounds to me like they are just below the cut, but might soon be above it. - Jmabel | Talk 18:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Randy Staub

I know this guy is a recording engineer who worked on Metallica's Black album along with Bob Rock. He appeared in the video "A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica." I would like more information on him and on his approach to audio engineering.

Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikipedia User:666Ktulu (talk • contribs) 01:06, 23 January 2007.

See Wikipedia:Notability (music). - Jmabel | Talk 18:49, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Artificial objects in the solar system with escape(hyperbolic) orbits

For 20 years or more I have been interested in the final fate of human created objects launched into solar system escape orbits. Much is known about this as can be gleaned from AIAA[1] astrodynamics conferences papers. Some thought was put into this with the pioneer and voyager projects to place human artifacts aboard pioneer 10 and 11[2] and also voyager�s 1 and 2[3].indeed this concept of future anthropology/ archeology has made its way into science fiction as in star trek the motion picture. My concern is if this act of sending objects one way into the universe is an important and it is important to say something of our selves then why ignore the other objects we have sent into the galaxy? What am I referring to you may ask? Look closely at those AIAA astrodynamics conference papers from the 1970�s and 1980�s as the space craft in question soon after launch performed there TCM -1�s (first course correction maneuvers) you will notice that the STAR solid fueled upper stage motor had a trajectory very close to that of the science payload itself and it appears that the star motor in the case of pioneer 10 and voyager 1 and 2 also entered the B plane of Jupiter and also entered the solar system escape ellipse. Pioneer 11 had an initial injection aim point error large enough to placing it on a trajectory in front of Jupiter in a orbit much like that of the space craft Ulysses, indeed the solid upper stage of Ulysses is most likely like pioneer 11 in a very large solar orbit inclined to the south of the ecliptic. So there are,

Pioneer 10, first object to leave the solar system Pioneer 10 star motor, second object to leave the solar system Pioneer 11, third object to leave solar system Voyager 1, fourth object to leave solar system Voyager 1 star upper stage, Fifth object to leave solar system Voyager 2, Voyager 2 star upper stage, New horizons Pluto probe, New horizons star upper stage.[4]


So there are 9 objects created by human kind in solar system escape orbits. Only 5 of them carry cultural messages from us to our future selves or any sentient being who may encounter them.

The star motors carry data plates (?)

Some argue that messages (light weight of course) should be on all of our upper stages and space craft heading out into the universe. The new horizons web sight states that some unannounced artifacts where indeed placed aboard that space craft.

I suggest that you might want to look in at Space debris and Escape velocity. If you look at the history of those, you can probably see who has been working on related topics; they would be likely collaborators on this. As for "Some argue", though, if you want to get it inte the encyclopedia, you'll need a clear citation. - Jmabel | Talk 18:52, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

John Frederick Fuggles

John Frederick Fuggles (1949-2002), noted bibliophile and Libraries Advisor to the National Trust, was one of those lovable eccentrics that are rapidly disappearing from everyday life. An excellent obituary by the renowned Nicolas Barker appeared in The Independent (19 November 2002) but I believe that an article would appeal to thoughtful individuals, and would be useful to bibliophiles and researchers. Oldandtired 03:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I would say borderline for encyclopedic notability, but if you wrote something good, I'm sure people would be willing to keep it. Do you have any sources besides that one obituary? If you are basically just rehashing the facts in the obituary, do be careful not to stay so close to it as to raise copyright issues. Finding other sources might require library research. - Jmabel | Talk 18:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

The ETSN

The ETSN is a science organization started by Jesse Salomon, which centers its concerns and conversation on the topic of science. The acronym "ETSN" stands for "Elite Team of Science Nerds". This group was started in Palm Beach County, Florida with a mission to teach and share science concepts with others. A website has been created for information and dates concerning The ETSN; www.esn.tk "or, as an alternate way to get there - etsn.8888mb.com", says the president of The ETSN. A vice president, secretary, treasurer, and SIE (scientific instrument expert) have been appointed to The ETSN, however due to privacy concerns their names have been disclosed. This is a growing organization trying to reach out to others in the many categories of science such as Biology, Physics, Biotechnology, and Environmental Science. Becoming apart of ETSN will help you learn and help you help other's learn, so why not join today?

Warning: Do not attempt to make friends on ETSN, this is for your protection and the protection of others.

I'm not sure organizations release names due to privacy concerns; usually, they withhold names for privacy concerns, but the names are available at the links provided. Wikipedia is not a website for recruiting membership in organizations, the last line should be deleted. I'm not sure that ETSN meets notability requirements for an organization. Has there been an article on the organization in any publication such as a newspaper or magazine? I would think that the article already created would be a candidate for speedy deletion. cgilbert 17:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
I share Cgilbert's concern that nothing here indicates why they would be notable. - Jmabel | Talk 18:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Im Jesse Solomon What The Freaken Crap Do you want from me?
President of The Elite Team of Science Nerds: Class of 2010 - Jesse Salomon
Jesse The Wikipedia is not a grafti page for you to play with. Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day! And if these nonsense articles from you keep apearing your acount will be destroyed

Crime author Frederic Lindsay

I'm interested in writing a short article on the crime writer Frederic Lindsay, who is the author of six series novels featuring Edinburgh-based Detective Inspector Jim Meldrum and several other non-series works. I see it covering such topics as a brief biography; bibliography of the two strands of his writing; his contribution to the crime genre; his filmed works and external links. A similar article would be the one on crime writer Michael Dibdin here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dibdin. Lindsay is a living person so I am aware that the article would need to conform to Wikipedia's policy on this issue.

  • Sounds definitely article-worthy. Someone has started it at Frederic Lindsay (might be you, but I can't tell because you didn't sign or date your comment). - Jmabel | Talk 19:01, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

The Facebook Wall

I'm interested in learning the history of the Facebook wall feature. I know it originally wasn't on Facebook. When first launched, it was a 'wiki' type feature. You could write something on your friends wall, and then the next person to write would erase everything you wrote. It then changed to become more of a message board, so wall posts don't get deleted. Also, when did Facebook make the decision to email students when someone posts on their wall, yet not show them the text of the wall post in the email? I think that was the tipping point for the wall.

I have no idea what you are talking about. Could you provide an (internal or external) link that would give this some context? - Jmabel | Talk 23:47, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

True, not everybody knows about facebook.

1440p and 2160p

The resolutions 2,560 x 1,440 and 3,840 x 2,160 are the succesors to 1080p. I looked here for more information about them but there is no article on Wikipedia which even mentions either of them. Hopefully there is someone out there who knows much more about them than me. For now, I am going to make a page for each which redirects to High-definition television. Could someone please help?

4320 line video is described on Ultra High Definition Video. Note that this is no longer a future product as it has been demonstrated at the Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan and NAB 2006, Las Vegas (see 22.2).--Martin.leese 02:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Destined Apostle

This is a band from Chicago that are causing a lot of buzz around here. I dont know how to make an article, but they are worth it if you have the time. They have a female vocalist who has a very deep growl. Deeper than a lot of men, even. It sounds like she has demons coming out of her throat. And the guitar players are heavily influenced by Lamb of God and Black Dahlia Murder and it makes them sound insane! And the drummer is fantastic. He is really talented. If you go to google and type them in a lot of sites pop up. And you can go here http://www.myspace.com/destinedapostleband


Destined Apostle is a 4 piece outfit out of the depths of Chicago's suburban hell. With nothing else to do but play music, the band started. The members are all very young; Ranging in age from 18 to 20 years old with their aggressive female vocalist, Ami, being the eldest, and their hyperactive guitar player, Nick, being the youngest.

Destined Apostle was formed in early 2006 by Nick and Ryan [Kueker] (bass/backing vocals). After numerous attempts and failures with other bands, they finally got a practice space, started paying rent, and began the writing process.

The songwriting was solid, but in order to progress, a drummer had to be found, which is where AJ came into play. At the time, AJ was still jamming with his former band, Fallen From Grace, but after playing with Destined Apostle for a few weeks, he decided to fully commit and parted ways amicably with Fallen From Grace.

The matter of a vocalist was still at hand. For a while Ryan was attempting to do lead vocals and the band was going to try to find a bass player, but the hunt for a bass player was grueling and proving futile. The band found itself doing more writing than practicing. Thats when Ami found her way into the picture. At the time, she was still in her band Dirt Asylum, but her last show with them was quickly approaching and she knew she coulnd't just leave the scene, so she auditioned. Impressed by her ability to scream like she does, the band hired her as lead vox to complete the band known as Destined Apostle.

Destined Apostle mixes a variety of influences both musically and from their own personal experiences and backgrounds. Drawing on these influences gives Destined Apostle the ability to create a sound that is uniquely their own. With catchy riffs, thought provoking lyrics, and intense breakdowns, this band is on their way to becoming one of the heavy hitters in Chicago's metal scene.

Destined Apostle has played many notable venues in Chicago. They have also been interviewed and had a live performance taped for Rebel Access TV.


Do they meet the criteria at Wikipedia:notability (music)? - Jmabel | Talk

The Sims Life Stories

So, yeah, this is this new game coming out by Maxis/EA Games...it's NOT an expansion pack for The Sims 2 (or especially The Sims 1)...and I don't know how to actually make a new article. So...here is a link with all this info about it. http://thesims2.ea.com/about/sims_stories/index.php—The preceding unsigned comment was added by *camisado* (talk • contribs) 02:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

There's an article on the subject at The Sims Life Stories —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 02:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Matthew Hanson

My son is the leader of a new spiritual guidance center in Minnesota people have been asking me for months now what he does. I am looking to have someone here help me set up a article about him and his practice. I'm not sure how to go about creating a new article but I did come accross this page. If there is anyone who can help me with this please let me know. I can provide you with all the information neccesary to start it and i can also have him look it over to make any neccesary changes. His name is Matthew Hanson and his self help group is run out of his home right now. The groups meet every night now because it has become so popular here. His groups are titled "Honkay guidance techniques I, and II". Again I am not sure if im going about this the right way but I am looking for some where to direct my friends and relatves too so they can see what he does. Contact me if there are any questions.

Ya, I have a question...I am from the greater twin cities area in Minnesota and have never ever heard of this gem. why not, he seems like the next great deity.

Well we are up in the northern part outside Bemidji in Blackduck. If you are ever in the area stop in the Conoco up there he has a sign posted with times and directions to his place.

Wikipedia:autobiography suggests that you would not be a good person to write about your own son. I'd suggest you wait until someone else decides that he is notable enough to merit mention in an encyclopedia. If you can provide any examples of mainstream press coverage of his activities, etc., it is likely that someone will take this up. Otherwise, it is hard to see why an encyclopedia should mention him. - Jmabel | Talk 23:53, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


Faros Cigarettes

There should be an article on this brand of rice paper, filterless Mexican cigarette. They are sold 15 packs to a paper carton, 16 cigarettes to a paper pack. No cardboard involved for the Faros brand. They are made by Cigatam, a Mexican company affiliated with Phillip Morris. In general there are many international cigarettes that could be featured. Mexico also has a filtered cigarette called the Delicado. Every city in China seems to have it's own brand of cigarette.

There seems to be a number of cigarette brands, some pretty obscure, listed under Category:Cigarette brands, so I should think you'd be okay to go ahead and create an article for Faros. Be sure to provide sufficient attribution from reliable sources. Good luck! —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 06:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Christmas Parties

In many countries, businesses, schools, and communities have Christmas parties. Christmas parties may include a retelling of the story of the birth of Christ, Christmas games, Christmas gift exchange, or other Christmas theme party ideas. Christmas parties may even plan to go Christmas caroling, volunteer work, or hold fundraising drives for charities.

Surprisingly, not even mentioned at Christmas#Social aspects and entertainment. There is a section on Christmas#Commercialization of Christmas, but not much on other secular aspects. You should probably read the Christmas article thoroughly, and mention this absence on the talk page. People there will probably work with you on the extent to which this belongs in the Christmas article proper and what would be the best additional article or articles to spin out. - Jmabel | Talk 19:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Nintendo-Punk

Nintendo-Punk is a new punk sub-genre inspired by the music which accompanies 8-bit video games, most notably those on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is characterized by the intensity of punk music joined with keyboard parts that sound similar to 8-bit video game music.
Nintendo-Punk doesn't follow a set of rules, but, like punk, you know it when you hear it. Two bands created this genre independently of one another in 2000. Maniac Mansion, aka Manchild and 14 Year Old Girls. Their styles are very different, but both are undeniably Nintendo-Punk. Maniac Mansion describe their sound as influenced by 80s hardcore punk particularly bands associated with L.A. They were listening to Double Dragon long before they ever heard RKL or the Adolescents, but the dominace of these two influences shaped their sound more than anything else.
In combining two simple genres, 3-chord punk and 8-bit Nintendo soundtracks, Nintendo-Punk has created an entirely new and exciting sound.

I'm glad to see that you've already started the article at Nintendo-Punk. I should point out that right now it's what's called an "orphan" article in that there are no incoming links to it. You might want to see what related articles you can add wikilinks to that point towards this article. Nice work. —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 02:49, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Thiede, Germany

Thiede (THEE-dee) is a small town in the Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) region of Germany. Thiede has a population of 10,645. The town is near the city of Salzgitter, 92 miles SE of Bremen, 126 miles WSW of Berlin, 163 miles NNE of Frankfurt, 283 miles NNW of M�nich, and 96 miles S of Hamburg. http://thiede.de/ Go to http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr to translate the page.

  • Towns are always OK for an article. Feel free to write it at Thiede. But do be careful not to plagiarize the one source that you mention. - Jmabel | Talk 19:07, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Easytown Radio

Underground NY-based podcast co-produced by Tim Easy and Mike Sin. This groundbreaking radio program is a delightful mixture of improvisation, excellent music, and original comedy. While not recommended for listeners under the age of 18, the show is notable for it's refreshing nature, and daring leaps of experimentation. Radio is an old game, and there isn't much left that hasn't already been done, but Easytown Radio was built on a foundation of pioneering spirit, and there are surprises at every turn. Listener mail is read aloud during each program, and responded to accordingly. There's plenty of canned laughter and fun audience reactions. The episodes are approximately 25 to 30 minutes in length. Each episode features one artist, or album, exclusively. The episodes feature recurring "characters" who appear and reappear in an ongoing series of vignettes (for example, Don Uts stars in the recurring series "Dollars To DonUts", and Ted Kennedy appears in the recurring series "Ted Kennedy: Drunk Detective". Don Uts and Ted Kennedy have also appeared together in the "Drinks On A Plane" sketch. Don Uts has also appeared as an in-studio guest on the show, chatting it up with the host, Tim Easy).

What evidence is there for notability? And in any case, if you are going to write something, it can't be this promo-ish. - Jmabel | Talk 01:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Elise Boulding

Elise M. Boulding is a Quaker sociologist, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and author credited as a major contributor to creating the academic discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies. Her holistic, multidimensional approach to peace research sets her apart as an important scholar and activist in multiple fields. Her written works span several decades and range from discussion of family as a foundation for peace, to Quaker spirituality to reinventing the international �global culture.� Particularly of note is her emphasis on women and family in the peace process.

She is considered to be one of the most influential peace researchers and activists of the 20th century.

I am part of a group of students who came up with a possible article for Boulding based on class research, the early incarnation of which was rejected on the open proposal page. I still think some type of entry on Boulding would be beneficial to Wikipedia.

Sure. What help are you seeking here on the "drawing board" rather than just starting the article? - Jmabel | Talk 01:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

The original article was not picked up through the basic submission process. I am new to wikipedia and am not familiar with all of the procedures. I figured it couldn't have been Boulding's lack of noteriety that killed the article, but perhaps more that it was too long or something. Not sure whether to just let it go or try again...

I don't know what you mean by "the basic submission process". There has never been an article at Elise M. Boulding or Elise Boulding. The normal way to submit an article is to write it. - Jmabel | Talk 04:49, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Here is the proposed article from an Articles for Creation page. cgilbert 04:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I glanced over it quickly, so I may be mistaken, but it seems to me you started out with an opinion of her, and used what material you could referance on her to fit it. In this thing you wrote about it not being accepted you mentioned researching her for school. that counts as original research as well, which if forbidden. I hope you have better luck next time around. Corrupt one 02:49, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

The Articles for creation pages have a ridiculous backlog— I think some articles submitted up to a year ago remain unevaluated for inclusion or rejection. It may not have been rejected per se, but just not picked up as of yet. Really the easiest thing to do is to register an account and be bold and create the article. —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 06:12, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Dog Day Sunrise

The harsh, aggressive, metallic tone of Dog Day Sunrise's music is emblematic of the band's honest and independent attitude. A musical recipe of 2 decades of life and pain, combined with their individual influences in many genres of music to create a tasty dish that is addictive for many of today's heavy music fans. This must see band, combines intelligent lyrics, heavy melodic guitar, and a massive rhythm backbone to achieve a ground breaking sound that proves to hold it's own in the industry today.

Dog Day Sunrise was originally formed as a power-trio in 1996. A year later, 1997 saw the first glimpse of what this group had to offer in the form of their first studio recorded "Demo", a cassette comprised of 3 of their original songs. 1,000 copies of this "Demo" had been pressed, and within two weeks of its release, every copy had been sold. From 1997 to 2000 Dog Day Sunrise concentrated on live performances over the North East as well as new material for their first full-length release entitled "Chemical Carnival" (Currently there are over 12,000 copies of the record independently distributed in the US). With their music and reputation spreading rapidly, Dog Day Sunrise was becoming a household name for heavy music fans.

In Dec. of 2002 Dog Day Sunrise hit the studio with legendary recording producer Alex Perialas (Metallica, Anthrax, Testament, Violence, and many others), at Pyramid Studios in New York to record their second full-length release Seasons That Suffer. Currently the band is supporting the record with live performances, online exposure, and radio play covering many of the North-Eastern US states.

Dog Day Sunrise has toured extensively in about 10 states and has shared the stage with such national acts as Fuel, Dope, Dog Fashion Disco, Raging Slab, LA Guns, Bang Tango, Joan Jett, Jackyl, Blue Oyster Cult, Survivor, Eddy Money, along with many others. 2003 promises to add to this growing list of national exposure.

Dog Day Sunrise has gathered an enormous fan base over the years with an online street team of over 8,000 members and proves to be growing daily. The band plans to continue touring the north east this year and will begin working on showcasing to labels at the beginning of summer 2003. With their newest singles 'Outtayermind', 'Loneliest Day', and 'Wrench' climbing the local and regional charts, D.D.S is ready to graduate from regional performances to the national scene.

Given "will begin working on showcasing to labels at the beginning of summer 2003" I take it that this is copied (possibly violating copyright) from something at least 3 years old. They sound like they may barely make the cut for Wikipedia:Notability (music), which you should probably read. In any case, if you are going to write this as an article, remember to (1) write it in your own words, (2) write in a style for an encyclopedia, not a press release, and (3) cite your sources. - Jmabel | Talk 04:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

The Syndicate

Being a big fan of online gaming and the MMO community (massively multiplayer online game), or MMORPG, there is a phenomena occurring with this one specific guild which I find exceedingly interesting and would like more information on.

The Syndicate (www.LLTS.org) is an online gaming guild of players that are becoming an icon in the gaming community. They have Trademarked their guild name as "The Syndicate�", and to my knowledge, are the only gaming guild to have ever done so. They are extremely old for a gaming guild, their site says over 10 years now, and most that I know of barely make it a year it seems. They have a guildmaster named Dragons, and apparently have a number of their over 500 world-wide members who have been with them for many years.

They are credited on the cover of one of the gaming industries most popular strategy guide companies "Prima Games" latest books as being testers or strategy contributers? (not sure which) They are also a dominant base of players in many of the fantasy and (FPS) First-person Shooter games beta tests.

Apparently they have worldwide annual conferences where members meet representatives from gaming companies who talk about their latest products or games in development. More specifically I believe the conferences have thus far been held in the United States a number of times, but recently in Canada, and that their members come from around the globe to attend.

Beyond the fact that they play actively in one of my old time favorite MMO's Ultima Online and are also active in World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment's latest MMO offering) which touts millions of players worldwide, I know relatively little about them beyond their web site.

A Wiki article with information on this organization would be great as a reference.

Rekoj Nori, 11 October 2006.

They do sound like an active group, however do they meet the Wikipedia:Notability guideline? Specifically, do they meet the Wikipedia:Notability (web) guideline? I tried a Google search, but the phrase is so common that it was too much for me to sort out. If you can establish notability per the guidelines I mentioned, you should be able to start the article. Thanks for helping Wikipedia! —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 07:19, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[[L�on Duguit]]

Just saw that in the English version of Wikipedia we do not have any article or stub about L�on Duguit. Duguit was one of the most important philosopher in "Droit"/Rights area and well known by his theories. Especially the transition of the main concepts of "solidarity"(archieved by sociologists like Durkheim, Marx, etc) and its transition to Rights concerns.

Main representant of the Bordeaux "School" of Rights, many informations about him can be found in hundreds of books as well as internet souces... or probably, even in the French version of wikipedia.

L�on Duguit is one of the most importants philosophers of Rights ever. I think it is very disturbing that we have pages and more pages about some fictional characters and not even a stub about Duguit.

I can�t write the article or the stub myself because I can�t write in english properly(english is not my main language... and i am a student only). Also, I can�t understand wikipedia properly enough to write a "article request". Actually i am quite afraid of this "edit" I am doing now(it was suposed to be placed on top...botton?).

I hope the comunity forgive my ignorance(stupidity?) in english, in wikipedia resources, and help me to create at least a stub or an article request about this greatly important person who was L�on Duguit, and his major contributions to Rights theory.

Again sorry for any mistake or edit problem...

Ivan Cavallazzi, 09 october 2006

Looks like your English is good enough to do a first draft. Why don't you do that and then drop a note on my user talk page to help clean it up? It will be simplest if you just translate the existing French article, because then I can look at the original French if your English is ambiguous. - Jmabel | Talk 19:07, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
If you don't want to do this yourself, you can make a request at Wikipedia:Translation. - Jmabel | Talk 19:09, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Sally Silverstone

hello i am a relative of sally silverstone one of the original biosphere 2 crew and am wondering about wirting a article about her.

Does she have notability aside from Biosphere 2? If not, I suggest just adding a section about her in the Biosphere 2 article and adding a redirect from Sally Silverstone to Biosphere 2. If she does, then absolutely. But please read Wikipedia:Autobiography first: this isn't literally autobiography, but it's close. You still need to stick to citable, verifiable sources and to keep in mind that this is an encyclopedia, not a personal website.
By the way, if you have family photos that include her, it would be great if you can release one under GFDL. Just make sure that is OK with the person who actually snapped the photo, or their legal heir. - Jmabel | Talk 19:12, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Restricted Clubs

I've just seen an episode of a TV show where a character is shown as "evil" because she belongs to a "restricted" club. There are references to such clubs in the West Wing (a club forbidden to Black people) and Auntie Mame (an area with no Jews). I wonder, do "restricted clubs" really still exist? Where do they come from? Why restrict a club against Jews? Or even, as it used to be so common, against women? Isn't it illegal, even for a private club, to restrict against minorities? I'm very curious about that. --Eje211 14:03, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

As for why restrict a club against Jews, presumably you have heard of anti-Semitism; if not, I recommend you read the article.
At the present time, in the U.S., it is legal under federal law for certain types of private clubs (as long as they receive no federal funds) to discriminate on the basis of religion sex, or race, though local laws can supersede that. Clubs cannot discriminate as employers, but as I understand it, they can for membership, as long as they are not enough of an economic or political factor in their respective communities that being excluded from the group constitutes economic hardship or political disadvantage. In some cases, I think most of us would say this is reasonable (a church sodality, a women's bowling league). Historically, of course, many institutions of enormous economic and political importance accepted only white males, often only white males of a particular religion, a practice that few would defend today.
There have been several suits involving this with reference to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks who are, to a significant extent, a business networking group. Some Elks lodges are still lily-white. [5] - Jmabel | Talk 00:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
No one's picked up on this; I think it would be a good topic; the title presumably should be restricted club. - Jmabel | Talk 04:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Tokyo Disney Sea Tower of Terror

I have heard of the general article The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, which encompasses WDW, DCA, and Euro Disneyland versions. However, there is one other tower that I feel needs a page: the Tokyo DisneySea version. This one has no direct link to the previous Hollywood Tower Hotel TTZ versions as DisneySea isn't directly owned by The Disney Company, which therefore would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to get copyright access to the Disney/CBS deal and the rights to use The Twilight Zone. Their solution: create their own storyline. I am a huge ToT fanatic, and feel that this version should have its own seperate page.

European Monarchies

I feel an article on this is required detailing the rise and fall of European Monarchies (Tribal, Roman, Dark Ages, MIddle Ages, Renaissance, Modern, Fall post 1914). It should detail the rise of the interlinked clan of European Monarchies explaining how their fates were link and should explain how Industrialisation and WW1 hastened their downfall. I was looking for information on this topic when I discovered there was no article so would be grateful if others could start it, though I wanted to explain my ideas for the article (as opposed to a simple request).

Good thought. We have articles on the individual dynasties, which could be mined to start this. - Jmabel | Talk 05:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
That sounds like a great idea as long as the article is careful to avoid original research. --Doc Tropics Message in a bottle 08:17, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

First Global Community College of Nong Khai, Thailand

This is a small school in northeastern THailand, but it has an ambitious and noteworthy goal of educating the poor in the northeast. It is located in Nong Khai, not far from Udon Thani. While it may be small and remote it is part of a very important reform to the education of this up and coming Southeast Asian Economy. There is already a website for the school with much of the pertinent information www.fgcc.ac.th however I just thought that it might be of interest in Wikipedia due to the large number of British and American Faculty and Volunteers. I am new to Wikipedia but fully willing to assist if the school warrants a page here.

Hank Marvin

Surely one of the greatest guitarists of all time. I was amazed to find no Wiki page about him. Lead guitarist for Cliff Richard and the Shadows for decades, now living (in retirement, I imagine) in Perth, Australia. I would be happy to contribute but others have a greater knowledge. Since I'm a Wiki newbie, I make this entry and hope others will start it off, point the way or some such. When I think more about it, I see Shadows affiliate John Farrar has a page but, for example, equally-talented Alan Tarney does not. Hank's right-hand man in the Shadows, Bruce Welch, does have a page. And, funny, Bruce's entry includes a Wiki link to "Hank Marvin" that goes nowhere. Early bassist for the Shadows, Jet Harris, early drummer Tony Meehan later drummer Brian Bennett and the "king" himself, Sir Cliff Richard all have pages so it is a complete mystery how Hank missed out. The Shadows as a group has an entry but surely Hank deserves a page of his own. User:DavidFarmbrough, where are you? Get in touch if you want collaboration. loloveweb@hotmail.com

Umm, Hank Marvin was created on 15 June 2004. violet/riga (t) 15:12, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Upper Playground

An "independent" retail company that features various artists' products, mostly consisting of clothing and excessories, but also books, music, and movies. They also has an art gallery with frequent shows. There are many similar companies and an associated subculture. Very interesting and diverse work. It may be more appropriate to organize an article under a non-business heading, but I don't know what artistic heading to use (contempory stuff).

Company websites are useful sources.

[6] [7]

This is my first submission, and I'm not a member; I apologize for any fox passes ;)

  • Sounds a lot like advertising. Did anyone else than they themselves write about them? Where did they do art gallery shows? Any well known places? - Mgm|(talk) 04:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Mike Wise (computer progammer)

There is somebody on the wikipedia with this name, but this Mike Wise was accredited with creating the first PC, the Sphere I. I don't know what to title it, or really what to write, but I have found several interesting websites for whomever could write it: Byte Magazine article Mike Wise Bio First Decade of Early Computing


Additional info added By Scott Adams (see my info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_%28game_designer%29 ) I saw the original ad for the Sphere in radio electronics. (June I think it was) After borrowing some funds from my sisters and brothers I ordered the kit. It did not come for many long months later. I found out later I was the very first order the company received.

When the kit came I assembled it and powered it up. No joy it was DOA. I had a friend who was a EE and worked at the radar station in Antigua where I currently was. We spent some time with an oscilloscope and probes and eventually found 2 dead chips. These got replaced and joy oh joy it booted up!

I went on to design and build a b&w graphics card for the system. I then wrote a Tank War game and and designed 2 sets of controllers for it. It was an arcade style game for 2 people to driver their tanks around and shoot at each other. Each controller had to levers that moved forward and back and a fire button on the top of one of the levers. I submitted this with a home movie of the game in action to Sphere and won their first (and only) annual "What do I use my Sphere computer for" contest.

I had my sphere for many years and finally sold it working to a collector in Longwood Florida. I don't remember his name and have no idea what ever happened to it. Mine was some what unique as I mounted the chassis and cards to the top of the CRT unit so I can easily get into it and change things.

Here is a company that has a reference about Mike Wise. http://www.a-systems.net/company.htm

Wikapedia

Phone-in incidents

Phone-in incidents on both television and radio could make an interesting article. It could be made wider to include all phone-related incidents, such as controversial phone polls. violet/riga (t) 11:54, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd be concerned that this crosses into Wikipedia:No orginal research. It might be a catgory, however: see Wikipedia:Category. -- John Broughton | (??) 17:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

When I wrote the article In Dreams (2005 album) and the related DYK item, I was surprised there wasn't an article on the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra yet. Can I entice someone to write it? There's WikiMoney and a barnstar in it for whoever can write a reasonable entry. - Mgm|(talk) 10:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

It appears a more common name is City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra [8], and yes, I agree that this could make a good article. You might just want to put a stub out there and see what happens. -- John Broughton | (??) 17:21, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Medical advertising

Carrying on with the idea of product advertising, I think it would be good to cover medical advertising, but have no sources. Anyone got any and want to start this article? violet/riga (t) 13:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

List of biggest opening weekends

A list of all films that grossed $40 million or more during their first weekend on release, as well as another section for films that once held the record.

I'm surprised that this doesn't exist already - perhaps Wikipedia:WikiProject Films could get onto it. I've asked them to take a look here. violet/riga (t) 21:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
The $40M cut-off point sounds arbitrary. Any other cut-off would likewise be arbitrary. What, after all, is special about $40M, or any other figure? Another problem is copyright -- the figures for any given movie are public information, but a list of figures may well be compilation-copyrighted information belonging to the source. A way to make Wikipedia a means of finding the information would be to have a page ("Film Box Office Records" perhaps) that names the top one film in a few major categories, then links a source (such as [9]) for more detailed and current statistics. Steve Schonberger 11:39, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
  • How about such lists with British pounds and Euros as the main currency? - 131.211.210.11 07:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Plant Death or Death By Plant

I am interested in creating an article about "Plant Death" or "Death By Plant". Basically, it relates to the common belief that one may die as a result of leaving a plant in their room overnight. The rational behind this is that the plant, through the process of photosynthesis and/or respiration (Respiration (physiology)), will remove the oxygen in the room and convert it into carbon dioxide, thus killing anyone within.

Any suggestions on how to proceed, and/or what sources to site? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikipedia User:70.71.13.210 (talk • contribs) 23:15, 13 August 2006.

Never heard of that one before! Perhaps you could look at creating an article that is a little broader, such as plant-related death (cf. toilet-related injury) that looks at other ways of being killed by a plant as well. I don't think that leaving a plant in the room that removes all the oxygen overnight is a particularly common belief though! violet/riga (t) 08:10, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
When plants photosynthesize, they take carbon dioxide from the air and convert it to oxygen -- not the other way around. So, if someone died with a plant in their room, they'd probably have died anyway. Sorry to sink this one. Connor Gilbert 00:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I feel so stupid for not realising that silliness! violet/riga (t) 07:32, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
In daylight plants photosynthesize and use carbon dioxide, but without light, like in night, they use oxygen and convert it into carbon dioxide. There is opinion that it is bad to keep a plant in your bedroom. .Toms. (t) 16:31, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
However, air with adequate oxygen but an absence of carbon dioxide can cause breathing difficulties, because the body's breathing reflex is triggered by carbon dioxide. Medical oxygen normally has a trace of carbon dioxide added, just as normal air has a trace of oxygen. However, I can't imagine that one plant -- or even an entire greenhouse full of them on a sunny day -- could suck up so much of the available carbon dioxide that a human would be endangered by having insufficient carbon dioxide to trigger the breathing reflex, because the human's own breathing would supply some of it in the human's immediate vicinity. Steve Schonberger 11:46, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Right, that's called hypocapnia. Thanks for mentioning that, Steve--I never heard of it before.

As I was going through lots of books on various aspects of cancer, I read that it was once common practice for nurses to remove plants from patients' hospital rooms at night, because the plants were believed to suck up oxygen in the absence of sunlight. Of course there is a grain of truth to this. But I agree with Steve, nobody ever suffocated just by being in a forest at night or anything like that! I think this is a fascinating example of a medical myth that at one time was commonly held to be true by medical practitioners. (Actually "medical myths" might be a good general topic for an article. I wish I could remember the book though, sorry about that.) Neoprote 22:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I expect a lack of carbon dioxide or oxygen would kill the plants before it killed people. NeonMerlin 18:20, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Internet Personalities

I believe that there should be a page that tells of the numerous amounts of internet personalitys floating about the internet. A page where all the internet personalitys could be represented could bring unity to the internet, and all its memes. People would know about remarkable websites, and other sorts of web projects, and would generally have a better time finding existing content, that has a subtle, superior quality about it.

CMCAdvanced 15:54, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Chinstopher Moncree

If you could give a few examples it might help to do some research into how this article could be started. violet/riga (t) 17:41, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I like this idea as there are plenty of people who have helped develop the Internet be it technically or culturally both on a national and international scene. If you could expand on this, and maybe break it into seperate headings, biography's, contribution type etc. If you do a general Internet Search with the term "who contributed to the development of the Internet", Wikipedia doesn't appear highly with a central article on this with biography links then it could be a brilliant resource for present and future researchers. An example Tim Berners-Lee.
--The pen is mightier than the sword! Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73) | Bush wins with the Pen of a Judge! Alex Gogan (1968- gulp!) 18:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
There is already Category:Internet personalities. PrimeHunter 15:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
I created a redirect for Internet Personalities to the Category Page Category:Internet personalities. cgilbert 19:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
I also created a redirect for Internet personalities. PrimeHunter 23:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Organizations for mothers

I'm interested in writing an article on organizations for mothers, most of which support mothers who are home with their children during the day full or part time (school age or not). Most of the statistics on size, etc, come from the websites of the organizations. This would be my first article. Any help would be appreciated. Is this appropriate for Wikipedia, even? �The preceding unsigned comment was added by Momof3 (talk � contribs) 11 September 2006.

Yes, it would be an appropriate topic. - Jmabel | Talk 05:32, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Sounds good. Go for it! Let us know the name of the article and I'll pop along and try and help. violet/riga (t) 16:20, 15 September 2006 (UTC): Thanks for the positive feedback. I'll get started, and let you know the name when I can. --Momof3 19:10, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I belong to one of these organizations (MOMS Club), and I would be happy to give you information about it.SusieQ7 00:12, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Not to discourage anyone, but this sounds like it might cross the line: Wikipedia:No original research. If you're going to get information from individual websites, you should restrict yourself to state and national-level organizations. Also, please read Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Thanks. -- John Broughton | (??) 16:57, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Riverbelle Casino

Is there any information on riverbelle.com, I have tried to start one however it keeps beeing rejected as spam.

I don't really think that it's notable enough for its own article. Unless you can explain why it is I don't think an article will remain on Wikipedia. violet/riga (t) 16:20, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Right - that's an online, commercial game site. Not a chance, I'd say, of meeting WP:N guidelines. Also, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest if you are personally involved with the site. -- John Broughton | (??) 17:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Online Bible

Maybe an online bible including the most popular books (genesis, etc). It would be a useful resource for people all over the world.

I'm sure that must be provided somewhere. More of a thing for WikiBooks than here anyway. violet/riga (t) 16:20, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
The text of the Bible is already available at Wikisource. --Metropolitan90 23:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Fully searchable online bibles are available at:

  • http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/
  • http://bible.crosswalk.com/ParallelBible/
  • http://www.blueletterbible.org/search.html#verse
  • http://search.americanbible.org/
  • http://etext.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html

Matthew 1130 13:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

See also Bible#Others for other online bibles. Matthew 1130 13:51, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Geohistory (geo-history)

This is already an established field in French social sciences, interpreting history (and historical events) through geography. Certainly American geography does not include a broad enough definition to accept geohistory as a subtopic, while British geography might (I don't know enough about British geographical fields of study to comment here). Perhaps this should start in a French / Swiss context and then migrate over to the English language Wikipedia?

Isn't archaeology similar to this? I think a small section in the geography and archaeology articles would do for now, especally as it is not a well established or long term field of study. Think outside the box 12:54, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

OBSAI

This stands for Open Base Station Architecture Initiative. With a variety of Technologies in the pipeline waiting to redefine Wireless Communications, OBSAI promises make life easy for Service Providers wanting interoperability and sharing of resources. This should have links to Wireless Communication categories and BTS.61.246.30.195 21:01, 30 September 2006 (UTC)Raj


List of asthma triggers

I feel it is important for a number of reasons that a page be created with a list or lists of what can trigger asthma attacks in those not insusseptable (i.e. Astmatics). It is the triggers that should be seen as the problem, not the asthmatics.

See the Asthma page, which has several triggers listed in the first par