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June 4

How can Wiki be advised that topic wiki/Ehrlichia_canis has another country to add to where the disease is found?

HI UPDATED INFORMATION THAT MIGHT BE USEFUL, on 2nd June 2020 it was officially released that this is now in Australia. https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/biosecurity/kimberley-dog-controlled-area-%E2%80%93-dog-movement-conditions As it's been on the media, perhaps people will want to know more, and Wikipedia is a popular, easy to use so is used by many. I'm too backwards to follow all that editing stuff, but would like people to be able to keep their dogs supersafe. cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8004:2788:91C:AD0E:FC5B:9DD7:DA70 (talk) 07:42, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Added 109.151.74.96 (talk) 10:36, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mohamed Ali

The dictionary.com word of the day today is Caseous. The definition is said to be...of or like cheese. Does this mean that the meaning of his original name was Cheese-like Clay?! A far cry from "...float like a butterfly sting like a bee...". 109.151.74.96 (talk) 10:42, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The name Cassius has nothing whatsoever to do with the word "caseous". JIP | Talk 10:52, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

More likely from Gaius Cassius Longinus, who famously killed a dictator who had overruled the senate (no parallel with modern US politics intended). Alansplodge (talk) 12:31, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The root of the name Cassius is explained at Cassia gens. It was a very old Roman gens, or family, and was a large and prominent family with many well known members. It is unrelated to the word 'caseus', which was latin for cheese. The origin of Muhammad Ali's birth name is explained in detail at Muhammad Ali#Early life and amateur career. He was named for his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who was in turn named for Cassius Marcellus Clay, a former Kentucky politician, ambassador to Russia, and abolitionist. THAT Cassius Clay was named for Julius Caesar's assassin, as evidenced by the fact that he had a brother, Brutus J. Clay, named for another of Caesar's assassins. The Clay family itself (the white politicians, not Ali's) was perhaps the largest political dynasty in Kentucky, the most famous member of which was Henry Clay, "the Great Compromiser". --Jayron 32 15:26, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Cassia gens article doesn't actually give an etymological root for the name, rather it presents indirect evidence of where the family may have originated ("the town of Viscellium or Vescellium"). I myself can't add an authentic etymology, but Latin words that might have a bearing include casia/cassia ('spurge-laurel'), cassida and cassis (from Etruscan, 'metal helmet'), and cassis [different word] or casses ('hunting net', 'snare', 'spiderweb'). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.125.72.102 (talk) 19:14, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Stats of police officers that are killed

I'm looking for data about police officers who are killed in each country. I'm struggling to find anything on google as it just gives me stats about killings by police officers. I'm looking for killings OF police officers. Thanks 15:04, 4 June 2020 (UTC)163.202.51.15 (talk)

What might be contributing to your struggle is that police deaths are a very rare event in many European countries, so stats are may be difficult. Having said that, WHAAOE, see for instance List of British police officers killed in the line of duty, List of Gardaí killed in the line of duty, and the much longer List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States, and indeed the Category:Lists of police officers killed in the line of duty could start you off. Fgf10 (talk) 16:57, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the US FBI Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) statistics.

For New Zealand Officers and staff who died as a direct result of duty (only one in the last decade).

Alansplodge (talk) 18:13, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Alansplodge: Unfortunately now 2 [1] Nil Einne (talk) 03:17, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

BTW I realised when looking at the above list that it's only those who didn't die from a criminal act. This [2] is the list of those killed by a criminal act although until the recent death, there's still been none in over a decade. We also have List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty. Note that in terms of the OP's question, if by "killings OF police officers", they mean homicides, it's likely most of the people in the earlier list including the one in 2011 don't fit that definition. (Although it's possible for a homicide to not be a criminal act.) The CTV Building collapse which caused the death in 2011 is an interesting example. There was great controversy over it due to deficiencies in design (as mentioned in our article as per the Royal Commission of Inquiry) including calls for prosecution but this never happened see e.g. [3]. Nil Einne (talk) 03:41, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here are stats for Canada: [4]. Xuxl (talk) 12:31, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]