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==sheep foraging habits==
I was just wondering: what is the deal with the foraging habits of sheep? do the listed references cover this? I think we need some more detail  
about this important topic. -- Phoebe 19:11, 13 Jan 2007 (EST)

==sheep foraging habits==
I was just wondering: what is the deal with the foraging habits of sheep? do the listed references cover this? I think we need some more detail   
about this  important topic. -- Phoebe 19:11, 13 Jan 2007 (EST)
:* Sheep foraging habits are covered in Sheep of the world, listed in references. -- Sj 18:24, 10 February 2007 (EST)
::* There's also some info in Sheep Past and Present.—A New Zealander (talk) 18:55, 10 February 2007 (EST)
:::* ok, thanks everyone! -- Phoebe 12:11, 11 Feb 2007 (EST)

==Wool==
The paragraph about wool types is confusing. Could someone who understands the
subject rewrite it?  -- Charles Matthews 21:14, 14 Jan 2007 (EST)

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   As JSDA added above, Lansing, Michigan is now on his "Official Web Site" as his place of birth. How do you explain this one away??? Are you going to continue the hype? And as I've mentioned before, it's fine that he claims he's from the south, but it is not the truth. Again here's the website link. Burt Reynolds.com Lugnut215 00:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

   It is obvious the person doing the page is just regurjitating [sic] facts found on the web and not fact checking. Because here is another "LIE" that is in the personal FAQs .. Bottom line is in his televised interviews when asked his birthplace, he says Waycross, Georgia. He has said it about 10 different interviews, and there isn't one televised interview where he says Michigan. Rogue Gremlin 03:33, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

   "'Tom and Jerry'" are an animated cat ("Tom") and mouse ("Jerry") team who formed the basis of a successful series of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer theatrical short subjects created, written and directed by animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (later of Hanna-Barbera fame). One hundred and fourteen "Tom and Jerry" cartoons were produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in Hollywood from 1940 until 1957, when the animation unit was closed down. These shorts are notable for having won seven Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), tying it with Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies" as the most-awarded theatrical animated series.

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   Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866–August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells, along with Hugo Gernsback and Jules Verne, is sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction."

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   Her strange conduct brought upon her severe censures, in which she could see only manifestations of spite. Evidently, she too often fell short of due reserve and prudence; but after all that can be said in this sense, it must be acknowledged that her morality appears to have given no grounds for serious reproach. Bossuet, who was never indulgent in her regard, could say before the full assembly of the French clergy: "As to the abominations which have been held to be the result of her principles, there was never any question of the horror she testified for them." It is remarkable, too, that her disciples at the Court of Louis XIV were always persons of great piety and of exemplary life.

   Her conduct brought criticism, but her morality gave no grounds for it. Bossuet, one of the critics, said before the French clergy: "As to the abominations which have been held to be the result of her principles, there was never any question of the horror she testified for them." Her disciples at Versailles were pious people of exemplary life.

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 I just wanted to say that becoming a sysop is *not a big deal*. I think perhaps I'll go through semi-willy-nilly and make a bunch of people who have been around for a while sysops. I want to dispel the aura of "authority" around the position. It's merely a technical matter that the powers given to sysops are not given out to everyone. I don't like that there's the apparent feeling here that being granted sysop status is a really special thing.

   Soft Security is like water. It bends under attack, only to rush in from all directions to fill the gaps. It's strong over time yet adaptable to any shape. It seeks to influence and encourage, not control and enforce. […]

   Soft Security follows from the principles of

   Assume Good Faith People are almost always trying to be helpful; so, we apply the Principle of First Trust, confident that occasional bad will be overwhelmed by the good.

   Peer Review Your peers can ensure that you don't damage the system.

   Forgive and Forget Even well-intentioned people make mistakes. They don't need to be permanent.

   Limit Damage When unpreventable mistakes are made, keep the damage within tolerable limits.

   Fair Process Kim and Mauborgne's theory that being transparent and giving everyone a voice are essential management skills.

   Non-Violence Do no violence lest violence seek you.

   Article talk pages for discussing article content

   User talk pages for leaving another contributor personal messages

   Project page and policy page talk pages, where individual policies or processes are discussed

   Project-wide forums for discussing Wikipedia, asking questions, or offering general proposals

   Noticeboards for raising alerts to problems or items of interest about a particular topic

   Process pages for getting feedback or taking polls on a particular kind of issue (such as deletion debates)

   Having everybody vote on everything is cluelessocracy. (User:Eclecticology, April 10, 2007, wiki-en mailing list)

   Strong Keep - what has changed since the six previous Afds? Well, take a good look and you will find that the references are now vastly improved, and the content has been significantly expanded upon and improved since the last afd. The content references what is now a considerable body of academic and human rights literature consisting of either references to descriptions of U.S. state terrorism or in-depth examinations supporting the hypothesis. See the references section which includes contributions from professors from Yale, Princeton, MIT, Columbia and Hong Kong University, among others. If you require more evidence that this is a serious scholarly concern, constituting a significant alternative discourse, albeit not representative of the mainstream, then I would be happy to provide a long long long list of academic references. BernardL (talk) 00:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

   #wikipedia, the general Wikipedia discussion channel, is notoriously nearly always off-topic. This is a decent place to socialize but not for the faint of heart.

   #wikipedia-en has fewer people and is more focused on the English-language Wikipedia.

   #wikipedia-en-help is a help channel.

   #wikimedia discusses issues related to the Wikimedia Foundation as a whole.

   Wikipedia—also known as Unemployed Ph.D. Deathmatch (User:Finlay McWalter)

   Use software that promotes good discussions.

   Don't impose a length limitation on postings.

   Front-load your system with talkative, diverse people.

   Let the users resolve their own disputes.

   Provide institutional memory.

   Promote continuity.

   Be host to a particular interest group.

   Provide places for children.

   Most Important: Confront the users with a crisis.

   Much of Wikipedia's content and all of the day-to-day functions are overseen by a small core of the most dedicated contributors.

   Content brings visitors—this is as true for wikis as it is for networks, as dictated by Metcalfe's law. Of those visitors, a certain number will stay and become contributors. Of those contributors, a certain number will stay long enough to become dedicated users.

   You cannot motivate people on a large scale to write about something they don't want to write about.

   Over time, contentious articles will grow from edit-war inspiring to eventually reach a compromise that is agreed upon by all the editors who have not departed in exasperation. This equilibrium will inevitably be disturbed by new users who accuse the article of being absurdly one sided and who attempt to rewrite the entire article.

   Wikipedia's steadily increasing popularity means that within the next year or two, we will begin to see organized corporate astroturfing campaigns. [29]

   As time goes on, the rules and informal policies on Wikipedia tend to become less and less plastic and harder and harder to change.

   The worth of open information that is outside copyright barriers (and, therefore, probably support for free software too)

   A commitment to sharing knowledge worldwide

   Multiculturalism, diversity, and multilingualism

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   Can quality be sustained in an open encyclopedia with millions of articles?

Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes.

   There are only a few key policies that might be regarded as "official"—that is, considered by the founders and the vast majority of contributors as being particularly important to the running of Wikipedia. […] They have either withstood the test of time or have been adopted by consensus or acclamation.

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   A set index article describes a single set of concepts. For example, Dodge Charger describes a set of cars, List of peaks named Signal Mountain describes a set of mountain peaks, or USS Enterprise describes a set of ships. A set index article is both for information and for navigation: just like a normal list article, it can have metadata and extra information about each entry. A set index article can be entertaining and informative by itself, can help editors find redlinks to create articles on notable entries, and finally can also help readers navigate between articles that have similar names. (From http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Disambiguation&diff=130088375&oldid=129966757)

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 1. What's in Wikipedia?

What Is an Article?

Audience and Level

Types of Articles

Further Reading

Article and Content Inclusion Policies

Core Policies: V, NOR, and NPOV

Understanding the Policies

Other Guidelines

Notability

Copyrighted Material

Non-encyclopedic Content

What Wikipedia Is Not

Non-article Content

3.1. Types of Non-article Pages

Namespaces

List of Namespaces

Summary and What to Read Next

Supplementary Figures

Chapter 2

Wikipedia's Mission

Wikipedia's Roots

Ancient Greece to Today: Encyclopedias

Late 17th Century: The Modern Encyclopedia

Wikipedia as an Encyclopedia

The 1960s and 1970s: Unix, Networks, and Personal Computers

The 1980s: The Free Software Movement

Wikipedia and the Free Perspective

1995: Ward's Wiki

1997: Open Source Communities

2000: Online Community Dynamics

Wikipedia as a Wiki Community

2001: Wikipedia Goes Live

Wikipedia Today

Unfinished Business

The Wikipedia Model Debated

Misinformation: The Seigenthaler Scandal

Amateur Contributors, Authority, and Academia

Wikipedia and Academic Authority

Wikipedia and Experts

Case Studies in Academic Authority

Pseudonyms and Claimed Expertise

The Crowd of Amateurs

Notes

Summary

Chapter 3

Searching Wikipedia

Basic Searching

Varying the Search

Search Operators

Searching Other Namespaces

Some Special Searches

Search Problems and Some Alternatives

External Search Engines

When to Use External Search Engines

When Not to Use External Search Engines

Ways into Wikipedia

Welcome to the Main Page

Navigating the Main Page

Portals into the Encyclopedia

Daily Content

Constructing the Main Page

Disclaimers, License, and Privacy

The Omnipresent Sidebar

Navigation

Interaction

Recent Changes

The Search Box

Toolbox

Languages

Joys of Hypertext

A Hypertext Primer

Three Types of Links

Browsing by Topic

Lists of Articles

Traditional Classification Schemes

Date-Related Articles