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I noticed you added two paragraphs to the Poul Anderson article about themes in his writings. If they are themes, it might be good to mention examples from more than one book. Just a thought. Liblamb 17:52, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
I was reading this article since I am doing a report on H.G. Wells and saw you added a bunch of analytical details which are great! I just wanted to say thanks and ask where you got them or are they your own ideas? Kramer k 07:53, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I just got it from the book itself, I think Wells meant his readers to read the book intelligently and not take at face value Bedford's judgement. By the way, if you make a report of Wells' work in general and not just this book, I would advice you to include his "The Shape of Things to Come" from 1934, which is often neglected and in my view unjustly. Adam Keller
I see that you are also working on In the Presence of Mine Enemies. Thanks very much for starting the expansion program and for helping me with it. The article is quite huge now though all it needs is a list of characters including real-world ones that appear. Should we start with that section. MyNz 04:40, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for the interesting text. Would you have a chance to add screenshot from Zeman's movie when Sword is flapping away from Nautilus?
HMS Sword is also name of at least one real historical ship: [1]. At some time tt may be good to move the fiction submarine under different name and create disambiguation. Pavel Vozenilek 17:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I could have expected this, "Sword" is a natural name for Englsih-speaking navies to use. I agree that this change should be made, the real ship should have some precedence over the fictional one. About the Zeman film: I am afraid I never saw it, only found some refernces to it on the internet. I have no way of adding film sequences to the page, if you can do it go ahead, it would be a nice addition. Adam keller 20:20, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
PS: I now read the interesting description which you found. If I understand correctly the first lines - "Rushmore (LSD-14) was laid down as HMS Sword 31 December 1943 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va; launched as Rushmore 10 May 1944" it seems to meand that the Ameroican origianlly built her for the British who intended to call her "HMS Sword" but that in fact, for an unspecified reason, the Americans decided to keep her and call her "Rushmore", and that was the actual name she bore throughout a quite long career. So, in a way, this "HMS Sword" is as fictional as the other one. Adam keller 20:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
There is a concern that the lyrics are a copyright violation. Are you able to show that they are out of copyright? Thanks. Mmoneypenny 08:44, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry,it did not even occur to me that there could be any such problem with a song which is more than sixty year old and whose text appears on HUNDREDS of websites. Here is what I found in exactly three minutes' search on Yahoo: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. If you go on searching you will find hundreds more (I would not be surprised if it will turn out to be thousands). Are all these people breaking the supposed copyright, and is somebody suing all of them for it? (It could provide several law offices with full employment for several years at least). Or are they all paying royalties (to whom)?
Of course, if turns out there is a real copyright you could wipe the text from the article itself and install instead an outside link to one or more of these websites. A very left-handed way for an encyclopedia to do things,in my view, but far be it from me to cause legal problems to Wikipedia. Adam keller 12:54, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I wondered if you could divulge what your source(s) for your nice expansion of the Shunrō Oshikawa article were. Not only would it be nice to add them to the article for future readers, I'm curious as I'd like some more info on scifi of this period. -- zippedmartin 00:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I see you have done some work on the article. Very good. Of course, I don't know Japanese, so my ability is far more limited. Of course, I should have realised that what got the Nihon SF Taisho award was a book and not a film. Stupid of me! Adam keller 21:59, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
You have started working on it months ago and never continued. But the parts you did add and which remain hidden from the reader are quite good, I would suggest uncovering them and making them available to whoever looks at the article. A pity to let that good work go to waste. Adam keller 12:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
I got no response to the above, I am going now to unveil your added passages to the public view. Adam keller 14:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
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As advised, I looked through the Wikipedia guidelines for "notability", and I must say it is true that Moshe Ayalon does not fit most of them, because he is definitely not famous enough in the various ways enumerated there. (But I saw also that these guidelines are not binding.)
The only criteria which in my view jut might fit him is this: 100 year test (future speculation) -- In 100 years time will anyone without a direct connection to the individual find the article useful?"
My reasons for thinking this is applicable is - apart from the fact that I think Ayalon IS going to become famous, but of course I can't prove that - is that even if he never become more famous than he now is, he has a sharp and incisive mind, identifying real issues and dealing with them in an original way which nobody did before him, and writing with considerable literary merit. Re the above 100 year test", it is my opinion that for example a researcher of the Twenty-Second Century writing a doctorate about our time might find it useful to mention Moshe Ayalon in at least a footnote, which in my view is sufficiant reason for Wikipedia to retain the article. Adam keller 17:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Adam. I noticed that you added Category:Roman Catholic Church to the London Dock Strike of 1889 article, and I was curious as to your thinking. Is this because of the reference to Cardinal Manning, or is there more to the story? Cheers.-- Bookandcoffee 16:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
If you will look at the addition I just made to the Dock Strike article you will see my reasons for thinking this is a significant event in Catholic history as well as in trade union history. Adam keller 23:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
You marked your edit with "Reference to September 11 in the context of renewed popularity of Belloc's views and works on Islam is HIGHLY RELEVANT and I don't accept continued deletion of it." Unfortunately, that's how Wikipedia works. People edit continuously and someone may disagree with your edit. Instead of yelling at the editors who remove your reference to the September 11 attacks, perhaps you should bring it up on the talk page. Mapetite526 21:01, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
That's a good idea,thank you. Adam keller 21:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
About the comments you left on Katieh5584's user page [11], user pages are not the correct place for user comments. I relocated it to her Talk page [12]. That is probably why you have not heard anything back from her. -- Gogo Dodo 19:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I am very sorry about reverting your edits, I now realise I was wrong--
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Hi--I'm not sure that the section on "The Problematic Doubleplus" is appropriate for the article List of Newspeak words. I've added a comment on this to the article's discussion page; I'd be very interested in your thoughts on this. Narsil 23:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
If you'd like to weigh in on the proposed split, I would welcome your view. Kaisershatner 17:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Adam.
I'm writing to you because I have troble understanding the importance of those huge fragments of H.G. Wells "
The Shape of Things to Come" (or any metion of his opinion on the subject for that matter) being inserted into the article about the
Polish Corridor. Many people of the era - politicians, militarists, historians and ethnographers - wrote about the post WW I Polish German borders. Yet you chose the opinion of a science-fiction writer to occupy most of the article space. Why is it so important to you? (And if it's so important, then maybe it deserves it's own article). Because he predicted WW II? But he "predicted" an international conflict lasting till late 60's resulting in death of over 90% of the Earth's population. Although many people died in WW II it still ended 1945. I don't know if you are aware that
Jehovah's Witnesses "predicted" World War One. Does that make all their reasoning true? Are you going to believe everything else they say because of that?
Another important thing:
Was resolving the Polish Corridor question the German way really going to stop the war?
First demand of Hitler after which he promised peace was reintroduction of military conscription.
Then remilitarization of Rhineland.
Then incorporation of Austria.
Then incorporation of Bohemia and creation of Protectorate.
All those demands were met.
At the same time he already started big scale dicrimination of the Jewish population of Germany.
But again nobody did anything. Makes one wonder if it perhaps wasn't the weakness and undecisiveness of other countries, and their lack of any response to Hitler's actions that caused WW II.
(Speaking of predictions: Polish leader Józef Piłsudski in 1934 also predicted the danger of the Nazi ruled Germany and proposed a preemptive strike to Great Britain and France, but nobody did anything.)
This is of course my humble opinion, everybody has a right to have one, Science-Fiction writers too.
In conclusion - I don't think the inclusion of Mr Wells' opinion (accompanied by a ton of quotes or not) into the article has any constructive purpose. I may be wrong of course. For now I'm going to remove the disputed paragraphs from the article. Maybe a better place for them would be the article about the book, I don't know. I'm open for discussion, though. Happy editing!
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Adam, I was wondering whether your comments on the more recent trilogy are appropriate in an encyclopedia article. The words "seems to" suggest that this is one reader's interpretation. In order to validate this, we need something less subjective. A statement from one of the authors would be ideal. A published book review might be good enough; we could at least say "according to so-and-so."
If it's just your own interpretation, I grant that it's an interesting one, but there are many other places on the Internet where it should appear rather than Wikipedia. -- Rob C (Alarob) 02:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
After reviewing policy, I agree with your viewpoint and have made the appropriate changes. Jackk 01:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Re Prabowo I didn't really look at it yet and will get back to you soon. I removed the pov tag simply because a vandal had hijacked the template and it was showing an obscene picture. This has been happening a bit lately and when I went to report it others had also found it on other articles. Great work and I will get back to you soon. THe person who reverted my removal of the tag was the person who fixed up the vandalised template. Merbabu 01:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Your work improved the article a fair bit. I did some work on the Prabowo article, but i think it is still a problem. Generally, in my opinion much of the content is unsourced opinion. Although it is opinion I personlly agree with, it is not quite up to encyclopedia quality. I made some comments here. Hopefully you or I or both can revisit the article soon. regards Merbabu 03:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your edits and updates to the Sarwo Edhie Wibowo article, I have updated the 'Act of Free Choice'. You will find addition information and links to various source references from http://wpik.org , and in the Introduction text of that page you will see a linked quote from the US Dept. of State Summary "pro-Indonesia group at the White house" - on that page you will find some preliminary information about the three gentlemen in question. Elsewhere in the Kit you will find a listing of New York Times articles about Indonesia and its efforts to gain West Papua, as well as many other reports by various groups. I would greatly appreciate if you could help update various Wikipedia articles with more concise and informative edits. Thank you for your efforts. Andrew. 58.107.15.245 00:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately Merbabu has struck again, deleting the below from the article.
Once secured as President in 1968, one of the matters which Suharto turned to was the West New Guinea territory. Although attempted military invasions had been repelled by local villagers in the New Guinea highlands and a small Papuan naval force; during 1962 Whitehouse advisors McGeorge Bundy, Robert Komer, and Walt Rostow convinced President Kennedy the Indonesian threat to adopt communism could only be halted by coercing the Netherlands to sign the New York Agreement trading West New Guinea to Indonesian control; the initial Indonesian administration disbanded the elected West New Guinea Council, installed 10,000 troops for enforcement of Indonesian rule, outlaw the national Morning Star flag and anthem, and began renaming the territory from its elected title of West Papua to Irian Barat, Irian Jaya, and (in 2000) Papua before then dividing the territory into smaller completeing fractions. Although United Nations resolutions required Self-determination without delay in 1962 the New York Agreement instead called for an 'Act of Free Choice' in seven years time; although Indonesia in 1966 announced it would not allow the Papuan people a vote, subsequent to Suharto establishing his control his first foreign mining license was sold to the Freeport corporation in 1967 for West New Guinea's gold and copper reserves, in 1968 it was decided Sarwo Edhie Wibowo should arrange a display of Papuan approval for Indonesian sovereignty of their territory in what would also be called the ' Act of Free Choice'. Sarwo Edhie was transferred to West Irian to become the Commander of KODAM XVII/Cendrawasih both crushing Papuan democracy and political groups and selecting Papuans to represent the Indonesian decision that the Papuan people should accept Indonesian sovereignty. [1]
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I noticed you added two paragraphs to the Poul Anderson article about themes in his writings. If they are themes, it might be good to mention examples from more than one book. Just a thought. Liblamb 17:52, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
I was reading this article since I am doing a report on H.G. Wells and saw you added a bunch of analytical details which are great! I just wanted to say thanks and ask where you got them or are they your own ideas? Kramer k 07:53, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I just got it from the book itself, I think Wells meant his readers to read the book intelligently and not take at face value Bedford's judgement. By the way, if you make a report of Wells' work in general and not just this book, I would advice you to include his "The Shape of Things to Come" from 1934, which is often neglected and in my view unjustly. Adam Keller
I see that you are also working on In the Presence of Mine Enemies. Thanks very much for starting the expansion program and for helping me with it. The article is quite huge now though all it needs is a list of characters including real-world ones that appear. Should we start with that section. MyNz 04:40, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for the interesting text. Would you have a chance to add screenshot from Zeman's movie when Sword is flapping away from Nautilus?
HMS Sword is also name of at least one real historical ship: [1]. At some time tt may be good to move the fiction submarine under different name and create disambiguation. Pavel Vozenilek 17:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I could have expected this, "Sword" is a natural name for Englsih-speaking navies to use. I agree that this change should be made, the real ship should have some precedence over the fictional one. About the Zeman film: I am afraid I never saw it, only found some refernces to it on the internet. I have no way of adding film sequences to the page, if you can do it go ahead, it would be a nice addition. Adam keller 20:20, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
PS: I now read the interesting description which you found. If I understand correctly the first lines - "Rushmore (LSD-14) was laid down as HMS Sword 31 December 1943 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va; launched as Rushmore 10 May 1944" it seems to meand that the Ameroican origianlly built her for the British who intended to call her "HMS Sword" but that in fact, for an unspecified reason, the Americans decided to keep her and call her "Rushmore", and that was the actual name she bore throughout a quite long career. So, in a way, this "HMS Sword" is as fictional as the other one. Adam keller 20:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
There is a concern that the lyrics are a copyright violation. Are you able to show that they are out of copyright? Thanks. Mmoneypenny 08:44, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Sorry,it did not even occur to me that there could be any such problem with a song which is more than sixty year old and whose text appears on HUNDREDS of websites. Here is what I found in exactly three minutes' search on Yahoo: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. If you go on searching you will find hundreds more (I would not be surprised if it will turn out to be thousands). Are all these people breaking the supposed copyright, and is somebody suing all of them for it? (It could provide several law offices with full employment for several years at least). Or are they all paying royalties (to whom)?
Of course, if turns out there is a real copyright you could wipe the text from the article itself and install instead an outside link to one or more of these websites. A very left-handed way for an encyclopedia to do things,in my view, but far be it from me to cause legal problems to Wikipedia. Adam keller 12:54, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I wondered if you could divulge what your source(s) for your nice expansion of the Shunrō Oshikawa article were. Not only would it be nice to add them to the article for future readers, I'm curious as I'd like some more info on scifi of this period. -- zippedmartin 00:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I see you have done some work on the article. Very good. Of course, I don't know Japanese, so my ability is far more limited. Of course, I should have realised that what got the Nihon SF Taisho award was a book and not a film. Stupid of me! Adam keller 21:59, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
You have started working on it months ago and never continued. But the parts you did add and which remain hidden from the reader are quite good, I would suggest uncovering them and making them available to whoever looks at the article. A pity to let that good work go to waste. Adam keller 12:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
I got no response to the above, I am going now to unveil your added passages to the public view. Adam keller 14:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
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As advised, I looked through the Wikipedia guidelines for "notability", and I must say it is true that Moshe Ayalon does not fit most of them, because he is definitely not famous enough in the various ways enumerated there. (But I saw also that these guidelines are not binding.)
The only criteria which in my view jut might fit him is this: 100 year test (future speculation) -- In 100 years time will anyone without a direct connection to the individual find the article useful?"
My reasons for thinking this is applicable is - apart from the fact that I think Ayalon IS going to become famous, but of course I can't prove that - is that even if he never become more famous than he now is, he has a sharp and incisive mind, identifying real issues and dealing with them in an original way which nobody did before him, and writing with considerable literary merit. Re the above 100 year test", it is my opinion that for example a researcher of the Twenty-Second Century writing a doctorate about our time might find it useful to mention Moshe Ayalon in at least a footnote, which in my view is sufficiant reason for Wikipedia to retain the article. Adam keller 17:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Adam. I noticed that you added Category:Roman Catholic Church to the London Dock Strike of 1889 article, and I was curious as to your thinking. Is this because of the reference to Cardinal Manning, or is there more to the story? Cheers.-- Bookandcoffee 16:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
If you will look at the addition I just made to the Dock Strike article you will see my reasons for thinking this is a significant event in Catholic history as well as in trade union history. Adam keller 23:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
You marked your edit with "Reference to September 11 in the context of renewed popularity of Belloc's views and works on Islam is HIGHLY RELEVANT and I don't accept continued deletion of it." Unfortunately, that's how Wikipedia works. People edit continuously and someone may disagree with your edit. Instead of yelling at the editors who remove your reference to the September 11 attacks, perhaps you should bring it up on the talk page. Mapetite526 21:01, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
That's a good idea,thank you. Adam keller 21:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
About the comments you left on Katieh5584's user page [11], user pages are not the correct place for user comments. I relocated it to her Talk page [12]. That is probably why you have not heard anything back from her. -- Gogo Dodo 19:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I am very sorry about reverting your edits, I now realise I was wrong--
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Hi--I'm not sure that the section on "The Problematic Doubleplus" is appropriate for the article List of Newspeak words. I've added a comment on this to the article's discussion page; I'd be very interested in your thoughts on this. Narsil 23:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
If you'd like to weigh in on the proposed split, I would welcome your view. Kaisershatner 17:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Adam.
I'm writing to you because I have troble understanding the importance of those huge fragments of H.G. Wells "
The Shape of Things to Come" (or any metion of his opinion on the subject for that matter) being inserted into the article about the
Polish Corridor. Many people of the era - politicians, militarists, historians and ethnographers - wrote about the post WW I Polish German borders. Yet you chose the opinion of a science-fiction writer to occupy most of the article space. Why is it so important to you? (And if it's so important, then maybe it deserves it's own article). Because he predicted WW II? But he "predicted" an international conflict lasting till late 60's resulting in death of over 90% of the Earth's population. Although many people died in WW II it still ended 1945. I don't know if you are aware that
Jehovah's Witnesses "predicted" World War One. Does that make all their reasoning true? Are you going to believe everything else they say because of that?
Another important thing:
Was resolving the Polish Corridor question the German way really going to stop the war?
First demand of Hitler after which he promised peace was reintroduction of military conscription.
Then remilitarization of Rhineland.
Then incorporation of Austria.
Then incorporation of Bohemia and creation of Protectorate.
All those demands were met.
At the same time he already started big scale dicrimination of the Jewish population of Germany.
But again nobody did anything. Makes one wonder if it perhaps wasn't the weakness and undecisiveness of other countries, and their lack of any response to Hitler's actions that caused WW II.
(Speaking of predictions: Polish leader Józef Piłsudski in 1934 also predicted the danger of the Nazi ruled Germany and proposed a preemptive strike to Great Britain and France, but nobody did anything.)
This is of course my humble opinion, everybody has a right to have one, Science-Fiction writers too.
In conclusion - I don't think the inclusion of Mr Wells' opinion (accompanied by a ton of quotes or not) into the article has any constructive purpose. I may be wrong of course. For now I'm going to remove the disputed paragraphs from the article. Maybe a better place for them would be the article about the book, I don't know. I'm open for discussion, though. Happy editing!
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00:16, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Adam, I was wondering whether your comments on the more recent trilogy are appropriate in an encyclopedia article. The words "seems to" suggest that this is one reader's interpretation. In order to validate this, we need something less subjective. A statement from one of the authors would be ideal. A published book review might be good enough; we could at least say "according to so-and-so."
If it's just your own interpretation, I grant that it's an interesting one, but there are many other places on the Internet where it should appear rather than Wikipedia. -- Rob C (Alarob) 02:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
After reviewing policy, I agree with your viewpoint and have made the appropriate changes. Jackk 01:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Re Prabowo I didn't really look at it yet and will get back to you soon. I removed the pov tag simply because a vandal had hijacked the template and it was showing an obscene picture. This has been happening a bit lately and when I went to report it others had also found it on other articles. Great work and I will get back to you soon. THe person who reverted my removal of the tag was the person who fixed up the vandalised template. Merbabu 01:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Your work improved the article a fair bit. I did some work on the Prabowo article, but i think it is still a problem. Generally, in my opinion much of the content is unsourced opinion. Although it is opinion I personlly agree with, it is not quite up to encyclopedia quality. I made some comments here. Hopefully you or I or both can revisit the article soon. regards Merbabu 03:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your edits and updates to the Sarwo Edhie Wibowo article, I have updated the 'Act of Free Choice'. You will find addition information and links to various source references from http://wpik.org , and in the Introduction text of that page you will see a linked quote from the US Dept. of State Summary "pro-Indonesia group at the White house" - on that page you will find some preliminary information about the three gentlemen in question. Elsewhere in the Kit you will find a listing of New York Times articles about Indonesia and its efforts to gain West Papua, as well as many other reports by various groups. I would greatly appreciate if you could help update various Wikipedia articles with more concise and informative edits. Thank you for your efforts. Andrew. 58.107.15.245 00:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately Merbabu has struck again, deleting the below from the article.
Once secured as President in 1968, one of the matters which Suharto turned to was the West New Guinea territory. Although attempted military invasions had been repelled by local villagers in the New Guinea highlands and a small Papuan naval force; during 1962 Whitehouse advisors McGeorge Bundy, Robert Komer, and Walt Rostow convinced President Kennedy the Indonesian threat to adopt communism could only be halted by coercing the Netherlands to sign the New York Agreement trading West New Guinea to Indonesian control; the initial Indonesian administration disbanded the elected West New Guinea Council, installed 10,000 troops for enforcement of Indonesian rule, outlaw the national Morning Star flag and anthem, and began renaming the territory from its elected title of West Papua to Irian Barat, Irian Jaya, and (in 2000) Papua before then dividing the territory into smaller completeing fractions. Although United Nations resolutions required Self-determination without delay in 1962 the New York Agreement instead called for an 'Act of Free Choice' in seven years time; although Indonesia in 1966 announced it would not allow the Papuan people a vote, subsequent to Suharto establishing his control his first foreign mining license was sold to the Freeport corporation in 1967 for West New Guinea's gold and copper reserves, in 1968 it was decided Sarwo Edhie Wibowo should arrange a display of Papuan approval for Indonesian sovereignty of their territory in what would also be called the ' Act of Free Choice'. Sarwo Edhie was transferred to West Irian to become the Commander of KODAM XVII/Cendrawasih both crushing Papuan democracy and political groups and selecting Papuans to represent the Indonesian decision that the Papuan people should accept Indonesian sovereignty. [1]
Thanks for your interest in the Dnieper article and fixing up images there. -- Irpen 02:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
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On November 3, 2006 you created the stub article Golden Hours (magazine), but I believe you confused it with the children's magazine Golden Argosy, started by Frank Munsey in 1882. That children's magazine became Argosy (magazine), and magazine for adults. The children's magazine Golden Hours: A Magazine for Boys and Girls was a religious periodical published between 1869 and 1880. Would you have any objection if I changed the article to show the contents of the actual Golden Hours magazine? Karenthewriter ( talk) 18:07, 2 March 2022 (UTC)