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want category

I want a category for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushal . I wanted to know whether this article about a word and its meaning should have a category to it. Do we have a category for such names?

Barnstar!

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For your sensible but...yes...humourous personality in the light of assistance at the help desk. Best, — Rudget contributions 21:59, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Oww! Thank you. I'll relish that for a long time, since it's...erm...5 weeks(?) since my last? :) Thanks once again. — Rudget _{contributions} 16:06, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

		The Reference Desk Barnstar
		Thank you for answering my screen resolution question on the Reference Desk! --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 05:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Wow! Thanks for the barn star. You are very generous. Kushal (talk) 11:21, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Dick Cheney quote

Following on from yesterday's IRC conversation (I think it was with you), I've tracked down the event - Cheney spoke to the Discovery Institute on August 14th 1992. I've not been able to find a direct copy of that quote in contemporary reporting, but it certainly fits with what was said at the time.

"There's no doubt we have the ability to prevail," he said. "But then what do you do?" Asked why the Bush administration had left Saddam Hussein in power at the end of the gulf war, Cheney assured the audience of 3,260 veterans and family members that the U.S. military could have ousted Saddam. "But Saddam is not the kind of individual that you could pull a paddy wagon up and say, 'Come on, Saddam, you're going to the slammer,'" said Cheney. "I would guess if we'd gone on to Baghdad, I'd still have troops in Iraq."

(Helen Ellsberg - The News Tribune - Sunday, August 16, 1992)

The bulk of his remarks that day were focused on intervention in Bosnia, which he described as potentially a second Vietnam. "If we were to intervene with U.S. forces on the ground, it would require a very large number of forces ... take a very long time and would entail probably significant casualties for us". "[T]here are some problems that don't lend themselves to a military solution".

Some remarks similar to what was quoted by the Seattle PI appeared in the Washington Post on *September* 15th, from a speech Cheney gave to the "Detroit Economic Club" on September 14th:

If you get into the business of committing U.S. forces on the ground in Iraq, to occupy the place, my guess is I'd probably still have people there today instead of having been able to bring them home. ... The bottom line question for me was: How many additional American lives is Saddam Hussein worth? The answer: not very damn many.

The "not very damn many" quote was also attributed to Cheney in a late-January article by Leslie Gelb (no source date given), then quoted again in a May article by the Associated Press, where he'd said it to the National Press Club on May 20th, before reappearing in September (above). The comments are quite probably from a standard prepared talk Cheney gave in 1992 to various audiences, so it doesn't seem too odd that they're being reported from a different venue to the one mentioned in the article, and it seems to be pretty likely he'd have said them in August as well. Shimgray | talk | 19:46, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't think we need to expand the sources, really - it's sourced to the Seattle PI, and what I was digging around for was just to confirm that even if we didn't have a verbatim contemporary quote to corroborate it, we do have enough contemporary evidence that they probably weren't making it up. Sanity-checking, I guess :-) Shimgray | talk | 20:36, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Main Page redesign

The Main Page Redesign proposal is currently conducting a straw poll to select five new designs, before an RFC in which one will be proposed to replace the Main Page. The poll closes on October 31st. Your input would be hugely appreciated! Many thanks, Pretzels^Talk! 15:01, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

• That's fine Kushal. You can check up on the Community bulletin board on the Community portal to keep up to date with information on projects like this! Pretzels^Talk! 17:09, 28 October 2008 (UTC)