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January 10[edit]

Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was a U.S. park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.[edit]

Do you have a photo on file of Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was a U.S. park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

Please advise - Mike O'Mallon Brisbane Australia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.228.198.113 (talk) 03:22, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia does not seem to have a photo. If you google "Roy Cleveland Sullivan", the first link is to the WP article Roy Sullivan and the second to images of the man. There are also links to photos at the very bottom of the WP article. Bielle (talk) 03:31, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

help finding Wikipedia basic design info.[edit]

Hi, I’m trying to find info, very simplified info regarding Wikipedia’s volunteer: editors, administrators, etc. as a hierarchy tree or organization design, as well as Wikipedia’s paid administrative basic hierarchy tree style structure as a simplified business model example. I signed up, in hopes to find relating info. I’ve searched online and read many articles but have come up dry in this area. Any help would be very much appreciated. I also searched at the village pump:) but no luck.

Thank you

JOhn  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pariah07 (talk • contribs) 08:29, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You'll get a lot of information at Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation is the charitable organisation behind Wikipedia, and that page contains information on the members of the board of trustees, its relation to Wikipedia, etc. Wikimedia and Wikipedia have only a very small paid staff, and do not resemble conventional business organisations. You may have read those pages and draw your own organisational tree. If you have further questions, please ask. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:24, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a link (same site as above) with a clear organization chart and list of staff of the Wikimedia Foundation. --Quartermaster (talk) 15:40, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that Wikimedia is separate from Wikipedia. Only Wikimedia has paid staff. Wikipedia has only volunteers and not so much a hierarchy but a mob with various privileges - all of whom are editors. See Wikipedia:User access levels. The most restrictive being non-logged-in editors. The various privileges are assigned individually (like rollbacker) or in packets (like admin which includes deletion, protection and rollbacker). Some users and admins have other tools like oversight and checkuser. Rmhermen (talk) 16:43, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And there are several different language editions of Wikipedia, each with a large degree of autonomy (although all share certain basic principles). the wub "?!" 19:09, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Identify who the statue in the picture is of[edit]

Can anyone identify whose statue it is in this picture http://copytaste.com/l244 ?? Thanks in advance. 110.225.172.58 (talk) 15:26, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That is a (reconstruction) of a statue of Athena Parthenos. The reconstruction was carried out by American sculptor Alan LeQuire. --Saddhiyama (talk) 15:33, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Saddhiyama beat me. Let me just add that the statue, as I found out on the Internet, is apparently situated in the Nashville Parthenon. TomorrowTime (talk) 15:36, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sweet, Thank-you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.95.247.96 (talk) 04:33, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No Japanese elevator companies in Switzerland?[edit]

Why aren't there any elevators with a Japanese brand (Mitsubishi Electric, Hitachi, Toshiba, or Fujitec) in Switzerland? --84.62.209.181 (talk) 19:59, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What makes you think there aren't? --Jayron32 20:29, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Schindler Group, the world's second-largest elevator group, is based in Switzerland, so maybe a lot of Swiss companies buy from them (only the USA's Otis Elevator Company is larger). But they have a partnership deal with Mitsubishi Electric[1]. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:51, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hitachi seems to only sell elevators in Asia[2]; supplying elevators requires having trained engineers etc available nearby, so perhaps it is not cost-effective to offer support in Europe. No idea about the other manufacturers. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:57, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2010 mailing address[edit]

Dear Wikipedia, I am trying to find the current mailing addresses for the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg...even a contact phone number would be nice. I have looked through so many search engines and so many sites... I just can't find what I'm looking for.

Please help, Zaxa —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.14.210.66 (talk) 23:38, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Goodness, how hard did you try? The Trilateral Commission has an official website, and there's a "Contact Us" link on it. I clicked that and found this. --Jayron32 23:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bilderberg also has a website, but no contact info. (It's not really a "thing" to contact though...unless you wanted to contact the actual Bilderberg hotel, I guess.) Adam Bishop (talk) 02:56, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably, there is some body which organizes the meetings, sets the agendas, that sort of thing. I assume that they would have a means to contact them, like a mailbox SOMEWHERE. They no longer meet at the namesake hotel; so that's a dead end. But the Trilateral Commission has contact info which was pretty easy to find. --Jayron32 03:15, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if they are reliable, but this website claims to have contact details. (Found via the first hit for "bilderberg contact") SmartSE (talk) 15:23, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably, you could contact Etienne Davignon, the chairman of the Bilderberg steering committee. He is listed as vice-chairman of Tractebel. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 23:21, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]