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what is lil waynes hotmail address? —Preceding unsigned comment added by XXrecklessXx (talk • contribs) 05:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Celebrities don't often disclose or tell anyone their contact details, because if they did they'd just be bombarded with fanmail and spam. It'd be hard to get your hands on it Chevymontecarlo. 07:25, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

While it may not be possible to obtain his email address for you, you can send him written letters at his current address in prison as he serves out his sentence until November. He is not allowed internet access while being held at Rikers Island, ( so I doubt his hotmail address would be any good to you) but there is a website that gives you information for sending him letters. He reads them and has someone post updates on the site. look here: [1] 10draftsdeep (talk) 14:38, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

more heartgold/soulsilver

i've actually got two more questions about heartgold/soulsilver.

one, is it possible to beat all the gymleaders, and rival and elite four, while using one pokemon the entire time?

The other is, the team of pokemon i was going to get was typhlosion, lugia, tyranitar, scyther (preferrably scizor, but i dunno how to evolve it), amphoros, and dragonite. I know how to get typhlosion, (level up my quilava to 36) and mareep (ampharos) but how do you get scyther to evolve, at what point can I catch Lugia (I've got soulsilver), and where can i find larvitar (tyranitar) and dratini (dragonite)? Jds500 (talk) 17:24, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Your first stop should be one of the GameFAQs FAQs about these games. Does that answer your questions? Comet Tuttle (talk) 17:49, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Your first question is quite interesting. It would be clearly be difficult, but it may even be fundamentally impossible because of HMs. Surf (HM05) is needed to complete the game and Totodile (and his evolutions) is the only starter that can learn it. I am not sure which other HMs are strictly required, but because Totodile can learn most of them, it might actually be possible. Note that Totodile cannot learn Fly, which means you would have to walk everything. You rather than me.

As for some your other questions:

• Scyther evolves upon trade (with Metal Coat attached).
• Lugia is caught quite far into the game, between the 8th badge and Victory Road.
• Dratini and Larvitar can both be found in the Johto Safari Zone. 83.81.42.44 (talk) 18:23, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

After which city, progressing through the game, is the Johto safari zone? Thanks for answering the other questions.Jds500 (talk) 18:39, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

It is north-west of Cianwood City, but note that you cannot enter it when you first reach that town: you first need to get the SecretPotion in Cianwood and take it back to Jasmine in Olivine. I don't think you actually need to beat the Cianwood gym leader first, so that would be after the fourth badge then. However, the fourth badge allows you to use Fly outside of battle, so without it you would have to go back to Olivine and back to Cianwood again by sea. Therefore, it seems more practical to beat the Cianwood gym first. 83.81.42.44 (talk) 17:55, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

As for your original first question, I found out that there is a actually term for what you are suggesting: "solo run". This page proposes some rules for this, but note that they allow you to use other Pokemon for outside-of-battle (HM) moves like Surf, so I think it simply cannot be done with exactly one Pokemon. 83.81.42.44 (talk) 18:58, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!! Jds500 (talk) 22:24, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

German chord chart

This sort of comes under both music and language really... I've just started to play the German Waldzither Mandolin and the only good information is in German and was hoping I could get some help from here. I was wondering what this chart http://www.waldzither.de/noten/Matrix%201-6.pdf means when in it's talking about Begleitakkorde, Nebenakkorde and Mollakkorde? Also the headings Tonika 1. stufe, Dominant-Septime der Moll- Subdominante Parallele , Tonika-Gegen Akkord 3. Stufe, etc?.. I've also noticed that the H is B and The B is Bb but on the first page it mentions both B and Bb, is it the same?.. And finally what is the 's' and 'is' found next to the notes? Thanks to anyone who can shed any light on this. 85.242.154.48 (talk) 18:37, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

See the article Note. There's a chart partway down the page, compare the "English name" section with the "Northern European name" section. It should help. --Jayron32 20:35, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Here's some other translation guesses:

• I put Begleitakkorde, Nebenakkorde, and Mollakkorde into Google Translate and played around with breaking the words with spaces or not ("Begleitakkorde" vs "Begleit akkorde"). They seem to mean something like "accompanying chords", "secondary chords", and "minor chords".
• From the various dictionary translations Google provided, Stufe probably means degree, as in scale degree.
• If you already knew about English scale degree and chord names, some of the words have obvious English equivalents: Tonika is tonic, Sub-Dominante is subdominant, and Dominant-Septime is dominant seventh.
• I'm not sure what "Tonika-Gegen Akkord 3. Stufe" translates to in English, but it seems to just be a minor chord built from the third scale degree of the particular key in question.
• In the key of F major, F is the tonic (first scale degree) and English B flat/German B is the subdominant (fourth scale degree). I don't know if the "b" in the Bb on the first page is significant. In the fingering diagrams on page 4, the corresponding cell in the table shows just B without the "b". --Bavi H (talk) 01:17, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Thankyou so much for your help... Absolutely invaluable 82.154.225.62 (talk) 17:35, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Begleitakkorde			Nebenakkorde			Mollakkorde
Tonika	Sub- Dominante	Dominant-Septime	Dominant-Septime	Dominant- Septime der Moll		Moll- Subdominant	Parallel- Moll- Akkord	Tonika- Gegen Akkord
				Subdominante	Parallele
1	4	5				2	6	3
C	F	G7	D7	A7	E7	d	a	e

Primary chords			Secondary chords			Minor chords
Tonic	Subdominant	Dominant seventh	[Secondary] dominant seventh	Dominant seventh of the minor		Subdominant parallel	Tonic parallel	Tonic counter parallel
				Subdominant[?]	Parallel[?]
I	IV	V	[V/V]	[V/ii]	[V/vi]	ii	vi	iii
C	F	G7	D7	A7	E7	d	a	e

• Stufe = Scale step or diatonic function

Hyacinth (talk) 07:37, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Identify current song

I heard this song at the mall, I assume it's a recent or current pop song. One distinctive part is someone singing "wuh wuhh wuh" roughly like mi ti do (first note, down 5 -- or 6? -- semitones, and then sliding up a semitone). I think the main singer is a woman. Thanks! 198.161.238.18 (talk) 18:39, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, that is probably not quite enough information for someone to identify the song. The vocals/lyric pattern you are describing could fit a number of songs from a variety of time periods and genres. Any more information you could provide might help, such as the tempo,type of music, geographical area where you heard the song, etc. 10draftsdeep (talk) 15:03, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

You could be right. But songs have been identified with less. I assumed this song was current and popular enough to be easily identified because other store patrons were singing along -- just not the kind of stuff I listen to. I heard it in Canada. I doubt it's Canadian. The "wuh wuh wuh" part is a recurring theme sung as to mimic a muted trumpet (at least that's how I would mimic such). The best description I can give you is pop... it all sounds similar to me. how about obnoxious? It struck me as particularly obnoxious. But that's just me. My next stop is Yahoo Answers...don't make me do it, refdeskers. 198.161.238.18 (talk) 16:51, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I am going go with a couple of possibilities here, based more on the fact that other patrons were singing along and these artists are currently popular. (and may be considered by some to be "obnoxious" as you say.) It could be Blah Blah Blah (song) by Kesha or perhaps something by Lady Gaga. 10draftsdeep (talk) 20:45, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. The Blah Blah Blah song is indeed obnoxious but I'm pretty sure it was more of a "wah". The hook "wuh wuh wuh" seemed to be like:

wuh (8th note, pitch of E) wuh (quarter note, pitch of B below the E) wuh (quarter note, pitch of C halfstep up from B)

Starting on the "and" of 2nd beat in 4/4 time. 198.161.238.18 (talk) 21:28, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Could this be it? [2]99.154.241.62 (talk) 06:53, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Solved -- thanks, 99! The song is indeed Spy by Shakira. 198.161.238.18 (talk) 14:57, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Christian Bale

why has a moderator not ruled on the additon of information regarding the alleged assault by actor christian bale on his mother and a sister? 2 information entries about this have been removed. someone working for christian bale is believed to be responsible. the christian bale site may need to be made to be uneditable, as the steven segal site is, to name one. thanks.189.200.1.1 (talk) 19:13, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Section title added. Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:19, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

I clicked the "history" tab at the top of the Christian Bale article and saw that the editor who reverted your addition to the article asked, in his edit summary, that you see the talk page archives for why. I then clicked the "discussion" tab at the top of the article, and saw "Archives: 1", so I clicked the number "1", and rapidly found Talk:Christian Bale/Archive 1#Accused of assault by Mum and Sister which is a lengthy discussion from 2008 of the allegations. It appears that the allegations are not sufficiently established. By the way, the paragraph you added did not have an inline citation of a reliable source, which is especially required on articles which are biographies of living persons — editors are particularly sensitive about crime allegations in these articles, because some innocent individuals out there have been slandered on Wikipedia by anonymous and pseudonymous editors; see the Wikipedia biography controversy article. If you do have a good reliable source you can cite in detail, then I would add the information in the article along with your citations, and add backup support information if needed on the discussion page. Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia doesn't have moderators. We have admins, but they only can do things about editor conduct, not article content. Article content is basically a free-for-all where the editors with the loudest voices and most free time on their hands tend to win content disputes. In any case, Wikipedia has specific policies about biographical material about living people and that all contentious material be verifiable by reliable sources. I don't really know much about Bale or his Wikipedia article, but a quick Google search finds many reliable sources about the incident[3][4][5] so it seems to me that some mention - with appropriate care - might be justified. However, a quick skim of that talk page archive mentioned above does have some legitimate concerns about weight. Basically, that means that you can't take one aspect of an article topic and blow it out of proportion. Weight issues are tricky to resolve because they often require editors to have a deep understanding of the topic. This incident may not be as significant as say, Roman Polanski's legal problems. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 19:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

I think AQFK is misrepresenting the ideal nature of Wikipedia. Yes, sometimes people can make themselves loud and obnoxious, and that will tend to drive people away; however the way Wikipedia is supposed to work is for the editors to let the sources do the talking. It is somewhat unfair to characterize the entire of Wikipedia as being run by bullies, and people who behave as though that were the case often create the very conditions that their paranoia has led them to believe exist. If you have something you wish to have added to an article, collect some reliable sources and let everyone see and evaluate those sources. That having been said, sometimes there is some information which is irrelevent or trivial even if one can find it mentioned somewhere, there are editorial concerns as well; and being published previously is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for including some information. Wikipedia isn't really a gossip rag, so sometimes true statements about people aren't included in articles for stylistic reasons. Have a reasoned discussion, and arrive at a consensus with people. And Wikipedia is not for everybody. If it is very important that what you write gets published, and that you have complete freedom over your writing, you could perhaps start a blog of some sort. --Jayron32 20:30, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Information on The Wildflowers' (x Snake of Eden) Landeberg Triplets

I know their names are Calle, Nisse and Pelle; better know as Kelii, Izzy and Rock. They were on "Daisy of Love" and in Lady gaga's "Paparazzi" Video. The band name was originally "Snake of Eden" and is now "The Wildflowers" after one of their songs. The live in Japan and travel back to their homeland of Sweden.

Does anybody have an information on them;

-such as who is the oldest and youngest triplet;

-how tall are they; any other siblings;

-and the reason Gaga picked them for her video (their purpose in it).

Any other info would be appreciated.

ThanksWideeyed10001 (talk) 21:35, 6 April 2010 (UTC)