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Hi there, I am trying to improve the page on the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River and saw that you have made edits there in the past; could you please have a look at the page and see if something could be added? If you could add a logo, please contact me via icpdr at unvienna.org. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.138.94.10 ( talk) 15:38, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for telling my about working on the Sandbox. Some places on Wikipedia seem a little daunting to a new guy, and I really appreciate it. Timothy Hawkins-Heathco ( talk) 13:44, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey, GeorgeLouis; Just wanted to give you the heads up. I checked out the Neenach article, and its looking pretty good. I left a few suggestions on the talk page.
Also, maybe with a good lead on the Gorman article, it'd be a good candidate for GA. Just a thought.
Cheers, -- Starstriker7( Dime algo or see my works) 20:37, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello GeorgeLouis ! Yes, thanks for making the explanations clearer :-) Cheers, Nicolas1981 ( talk) 23:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
You keep removing www.shopoutdoors.com/activities.html as a link from the Frazier Park page. For your information, since you failed to ask, the Frazier Park Visitors Center is a legal California nonprofit 501c3 corporation and NOT a commercial enterprise. Our Center undertakes to promote the various community and recreational activities around the Frazier Park area. You need to leave this link alone, repost it OR undertake the mission of promoting the area yourself, which is not likely. You should start your own promotional website for Neenach and leave our efforts and work to do the same for our town alone —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.251.90.183 ( talk) 02:54, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey, Know it all- leave this page alone —Preceding
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72.251.91.75 (
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Why do you keep reverting and removing everything I edit!? Each edit I make, you remove it. Agtax 03:58, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Burden of evidence
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I hope the above reference helps to avoid having your welcome editing reverted by me or anybody else. Sincerely,
GeorgeLouis (
talk) 04:46, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
I have posted a note at the main MoS talk page and the image use policy talk page to ask for additional views on the issue. Please stop reverting your use of images as bullets until there is actual consensus to support your view that image guidelines should be ignored. -- Collectonian ( talk · contribs) 03:39, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
May I hold your high horse while you relax a little? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 04:56, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
If you are still interested in giving a second opinion on this article, I have fixed the GA review page that the first reviewer did not complete correctly. Therefore, if you wish you can comment there. Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 15:59, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi!
I want to ask your opinion about one of your edits. It's not a mistake I think, but I want to ask the usage of the word whom. I've heared it's the Accusative and the Dative case of the interrogative pronoun who, but nowadays you can also use who because the grammatical cases are disappeared from the English language, only few words remember it. E.g. the personal pronouns still have their cases: I --> me /Dat., Acc./, --> mine /Genitive/; you /Nominative, Acc., Dat./ --> yours /Gen./ he --> him /Acc., Dat./ --> his /Gen./ etc...
And whom used to be the Accusative and the Dative of the who, but you can simply change it into who. /for instance: She is the girl who I sent a bouquet for. She is the girl whom I sent a bouquet for. and She is the girl whom I sent a bouquet. mean the same. I hope you can understand it, sorry I do not want to hurt you, but I do not know how could you understand cases if your language does not use them.
So, why did you change whom into who in the title of a Russian Aria song S Kem Ty? (С Кем Ты?) which means Who(m) Are You Playing with?? Why is it better with who than with whom. I suggest whom, because the preposition s (с) (with) needs Instrumental case in Russian, that Dative case is used in German languages for (like in German), and whom is a Dative form.
Sorry for the bad question, I just learn English, German and Russian all the three, and sometimes I do not understand the translations and transliterations between them :-)
Please answer me on my Hungarian talk page because I check it more often.
Yours faithfully!
Ferike333 (
talk) 17:06, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
It is the article I was writing about: S Kem Ty?. It was just a question, I din't say it is wrong :) Why is who prefered here? Thanks Ferike333 ( talk) 09:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok. Thank you. I heared whom is not so often used in modern English, I just wanted to ask if it realy was not as useful as you would not use it in an article /sorry I do not know if this sentence was correct, it's still difficult me to write this thought in English :)/ Now I already know, I will keep track of it. Otherwise another question. You wrote you have taken two years of Russian. Does it mean the same as you learnt Russian during two years? No problem because of the confusion. Anyway have I had grammatical mistakes in my messages? /I just wanna know/. And please correct them me if I have. A vy govorite po-russki? Ya lyublyu russky yazik. I started to learn because my godmother is Russian and I wanted to be able to speak with her in two languages. But we have not met since :( And what do you think we should do with the prepositions on the end of the sentences? Because we learned by this way, but it can be whatever with it. You know better :) Thanx for the help. Yours sincerely, Ferike333 ( talk) 16:26, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Do you know if the Department of Water & Power is free of racism and discrimination? Do you know anyone in the company? Agtax 03:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Not so long ago you did some work on the above article. Recently I been doing an overhaul, following somewhat of a chronological history, adding references, importing info, etc. You help with cleaning up the article, specifically with grammar/spelling/tense/vocab, etc would be greatly appreciated. (one doesn't so easily see one's own mistakes). Sincerely Djflem ( talk) 22:34, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
I wish You a merry Christmas and lots of presents from the Santa, or from Jesus because in Hungary the baby Jesus brings the presents for children/people. I would write something wonderful from a poem but I do not know any in English. So have a nice Xmas and a nice holiday! Ferike333 ( talk) 21:28, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
First off, I apologize for the spam. You are receiving this message because you have indicated that you are in Southern California or interested in Southern California topics (either via category or WikiProject).
I would like to invite you to the Los Angeles edition of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art, a photography scavenger hunt to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 1:00 to 7:00 PM. All photos are intended for use in Wikipedia articles or on Wikimedia Commons. There will be a prize available for the person who gets the most photos on the list.
If you don't like art, why not come just to meet your fellow Wikipedians. Apparently, we haven't had a meetup in this area since June 2006!
If you are interested in attending, please add your name to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art#Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Please make a note if you are traveling to the area (train or plane) and need transportation, which can probably be arranged via carpool, but we need time to coordinate. Lodging is as of right now out of scope, but we could discuss that if enough people are interested.
Thank you and I hope to see you there! howcheng { chat} 23:54, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi George, I've made the link to the article list more visible. I found it hard to see when I first happened upon this little project too. Cheerio! Mattopaedia ( talk) 06:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi George, I modified your most recent comment to use the <nowiki>...</nowiki> format, which causes the template to not be transformed. I guess it makes the discussion clearer? Please feel free to revert if not. And thanks again for reviewing articles on WP:ASE :-) Cheers Nicolas1981 ( talk) 03:28, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I see that you recently placed a message on my talk page about the proposed deletion of Groves High School (Georgia). I haven't edited that page, so I'm unclear as to why you notified me about this issue. Do what needs to be done, of course. Cheerio and happy editing. Merenta ( talk) 18:39, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello again. Thanks for your feedback on the newspaper piece. I do want to integrate what's currently going on in the marketplace (pretty awful) with where the newspapers are headed. It's worrying, to say the least, that we might lose so many of these great organs of communication -- and I fear they won't be replaced by the 'bloggers.' In any case, thank you for the conversation. Take care and best regards, MarmadukePercy ( talk) 05:56, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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The information on the LA neighborhoods is simply based on relative location to other districts. I got the idea when I saw that the tables were in use for Chicago neighborhoods. Samhuddy ( talk) 02:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I saw this edit of yours [1] - how did you decide it was a commercial site? It looks pretty good to me. dougweller ( talk) 07:50, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Can't argue with that. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:08, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Help, I need an opinion from an uninvolved neutral wiki-editor on a subject Hello, if you have a few minutes to help a fellow editor out, I wanted to take a moment of your time to get your opinion on a dispute I'm having with a wikipedia editor. if you visit the page on Homeowners Association, and look at the discussion, the dissent is about a link I placed on the page to the website "Homeowners Association Websites Central." A certain editor "Wangi" not only believes that I have no right to place the link in the external links section, but further has accused me of starting bogus accounts as new users simply to add this link. I figure if I get some well known wikipedians to look at the situation, the link, and add their opinion to the debate, then at least I will know that the crazy accusations of user fraud will stop. Boy, who would have thought this would be such a hassle. Anyway the url for the link in question is http://www.athomenet.com/homenew/homeowners-association-websites-central.asp , and you can see the long history by looking at the history log on the homeowners association page.... Please, whatever your opinion may be, place it in the discussion area page in the topic of external links of Homeowners association central, and if you think the content is helpful, please add or undo wangi's deletion of the page. I will respect whatever your opinion is. Thank you: 69.15.97.162 ( talk) 15:57, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
The link will take you directly to the appropriate section. - Dan Dank55 ( push to talk) 03:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Dan Dank55 ( push to talk) 04:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. Be bold and make your edits (bearing in mind all the usual caveats about sources etc). But please, no redirects or moves! – ukexpat ( talk) 20:53, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Please be more careful when tagging pages such as Tierra Gitana. The article is clearly about an album by the Gipsy Kings and as such has context. A1 only applies if the context of the article cannot be determined. Regards So Why 07:36, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
GeorgeLouis, please re-consider your reverting of the changes, as I think moving the lists to their own page improves the readability of the article - which is our goal. The article is a sub article off Califonia history - and is more about the the rancho era in California. The lists are useful but obscure the article. Eventually there will be 800 entries in the table. Editing has a wiki warning that it is over 30k. I have been the person adding content to this page, and was careful to preserve all of the content. In my mind, I did suggest that the list should be moved to its own page on the talk page (Feb 09). I did not hear any comment, and being new at this, went ahead. Emargie ( talk) 22:08, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've just made a belated contribution here which supports your view. Cheers Bjenks ( talk) 07:13, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello--I pulled out the text you had along with the link to self-confirming equilibrium. I also added self-confirming equilibrium to the game theory infobox list of solution concepts (at the bottom of many game theory articles). I don't really think that it belongs in the "see also" of most of those articles, but it doesn't deserve to be an orphan, either, so I guess that's a way to handle it until it's better integrated into article text. CRETOG8( t/ c) 21:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
I didn't write that material, I merely moved it from an article that dealt with two very separate subjects. The user you're looking for is User:Ozzyjazz. Mintrick ( talk) 20:59, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
What in particular do you find trivial? The list of videos? Feed back ☎ 23:58, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
I find the article entirely too detailed, more suited to a fansite than to an encyclopedia. I've posted a note to that effect on the article's talk page, and if the consensus is to remove the note, then I am sure somebody will remove it. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:36, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
What project are we talking about? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi George,
I tossed some of the "quiltor" links because the condition isn't really related directly to horseshoes or farriery. It's quite archaic and I am looking for a better explanation. I left the link in the horse hoof article, as it is somewhat relevant there. Montanabw (talk) 23:55, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I have to agree with User:JHunterJ: the example of the "school" disambiguation page on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) is just an example; it is not the actual disambiguation page. It is a copy, not the original. If you have an issue with the way the School (disambiguation) page is worded, you should take it up on that page; and if and when there is a consensus to change the wording of the disambiguation page, then the copy of it used as an example on WP:MOSDAB can also be changed. Trying to change the copy instead of the original makes no sense to me. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 19:28, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've requested the move of both Oberg (disambiguation) and Öberg (disambiguation) to Oberg. There must be some misunderstanding: moving a page giving the page another name. I think what you're requesting is that Oberg (disambiguation) and Öberg (disambiguation) should be redirected to Oberg, which by the way already already contains all the information from the two disambiguation pages. For this, there's no need to file a proposal – you can just be bold and do it yourself. I suggest you remove the proposal from Wikipedia:Requested moves (since it isn't really a move request) and just go ahead and redirect the disambiguation pages to Oberg. Thanks, Jafeluv ( talk) 07:31, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
I am puzzled by this "essay" tag. You edit summary mentions the word "we". That word appeared exactly once in the article. I have now rephrased it. Was it simply the occurrence of that word that you thought made it look like an essay?
If you think it still looks like an essay, could you explain why on the article's talk page? Michael Hardy ( talk) 01:04, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear George,
I hope you will not change the article. I have been reworking the part of Heisenberg's theory, which has been very badly explained in many of the secondary materials.
I do not believe that there are any standards such as you propose that limit articles to lengths (other than there was originally a length standard based more-or-less on how large a file would choke the browsers of five or ten years ago).
The need of readers who seek a way into a field such as quantum physics is (1) for something that is not filled with mathematical treatments that are incomprehensible to anyone without a couple of years of college physics and math, and (2) for something that will not cause them to go away with a false picture -- with something that will have to be uprooted later on.
I got stuck with Heisenberg for just that kind of reason, and ironically I spent yesterday afternoon with one of the physics professors in my university confirming what I suspected about what is at the core of his discovery. Now I can rewrite that part so that it is far less problematical than what is given in, e.g., Introducing Quantum Mechanics.
There are some long discussions about matters that do not need to be discussed at all, or at least I think that they do not need to be discussed. I've already mentioned them in the talk page for the article in preparation for deleting them. (It's generally much easier to make a major change in an article by arguing for the change first and giving interested parties a chance to respond.)
I will take a look at what you propose. I do not mean to dismiss your work. I just want the article to be sufficient for the needs of scientifically inclined but novice readers.
Thanks for communicating with me first.
I have replied to your request in Wikipedia:Requests_for_feedback#Introduction_to_quantum_mechanics. Chzz ► 05:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Chzz ► 06:17, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
We recently have two users, one sock another a possible vandal adding rescue to dozens of articles. It was fine re-adding the tag but you should also participate in the AfD and rescuing of the article. -- Banjeboi 02:10, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
I have added Mary Elizabeth Turner to the {{ embroidery}} navigation template (I changed the section "designers" to "designers and embroiderers" - I've been meaning to do that for a while), in place of the "see also" link to her on the Embroidery page which you added. Hope this works for you. If we add see also links for all of the famous embroiderers through history it would soon overwhelm the page. - PKM ( talk) 02:38, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis,
Solid advice! Going forward that's exactly what I'm going to do.
A quick question, where can I find the articles that need editing help?-- PiRSqr ( talk) 04:34, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi George, for that warning the syntax checker is rather pedantic, and it was fixed by removing a redundant "}}" (correct) and by adding an extra space (a change which should not ideally be needed). However the suggestions should work now - hope they are of help! -- All the best, Nickj (t) 07:39, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
You may not have thot abt why keyboards sport an "&" key. It's not for typing
Bang & Olufsen, nor for saving 2 keystrokes in casual chat. It's true that it doesn't belong in formal sentences except in cases like formal corporate names, but Dab entries are explicitly discouraged from being (even informal) sentences, and in practice barred from it: these are list entries, and should be terse, and should assist the reader by hinting that the connector between, say, "activist" and "writer" carries so little information that the slight mental effort of distinguishing and from end or add would be wasted, and that it is really there to keep the reader from thinking about other interpretations than "both apply", as they would if one were to write it "activist, writer". I'm not sure how old
ampersands are, but the symbol is a stylized version of the letters E and T, as in the Latin et meaning and. It was carried over at least from Latin into English, but probably carried over twice, once into Norman French and then into English, for one reason: it's useful. It was put onto movable type for that reason, and onto typewriter keyboards, and into the ASCII code set, and then onto computer keyboards bcz it's still useful. Just bcz it isn't worth including on grade-school lists of punctuation marks isn't a reason to avoid it in suitable (tho formal) situations like Dab pages.
--
Jerzy•
t 20:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. Nevertheless, ampersands are not used in formal English writing. Sincerely, your friend,
GeorgeLouis (
talk) 00:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi George,
I think I should notice you of a discussion about your work – I was confused by the article Basic concepts of quantum mechanics you posted which has the same goal as Introduction to quantum mechanics. So I asked at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics#Introduction to quantum mechanics what people suggest to do with the situation, it is now being discussed at Talk:Introduction to quantum mechanics. Up to now, I did not find time to read either article. -- Momotaro ( talk) 20:42, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
I have repaired your unintentional damage at Knickerbockers (clothing). The best Wikipedia editors are even more cautious about what they delete than what they add. If you have any further doubts about Knickerbocker or knickerbockers, please express them at Talk:Knickerbockers (clothing), and I or some other editor will try to satisfy them. No need to contact me personally. Thank you.-- Wetman ( talk) 21:57, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis! Thanks for the comments on the Jeong Yim page. Yes, I am trying to work on it. There is a fair bit of redundancy right now, but over time it will be refined. Huo Xin ( talk) 17:45, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment, I've tried to edit the page to make it clearer. Note that the project is currently just a proposal. If you're interested or have more concerns, please comment at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Citizendium Porting. -- Cybercobra ( talk) 07:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
After seeing what you've done, I tagged the page Lille University, Northern France for speedy deletion so that the other page could be moved there. But because the speedy deletion has been declined on the grounds that no discussion ever took place, I had to undo everything you did, and make the redirect go in the opposite direction of what you intended.
Please remember that simply copying and pasting the contents of an article to its new location does not transfer the edit history, and therefore violates the GNU Free Documentation License under which this text was made available to begin with. -- Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 20:21, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
It was suggested here. The reason I did not notify you then was because it was a good-faith edit, and a notification would probably have sounded like a warning, which I did not want to do, and no content would have been lost if implemented. The grounds of the speedy deletion was mere maintenance. -- Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 16:04, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
This recent edit of yours was the final straw for me. You politely asked CristianCantoro to explain what is wrong with the image. I gave you that explanation a couple of weeks ago, when you reverted my similar edit, and you never replied. You seem to ignore people as long as the current version of the article is your preferred one. You also removed the {{See also| Introduction to Quantum Mechanics}} that CristianCantoro added. I don't see how you can justify not linking that article—an article collaborated on by many editors, with which your single-author article is essentially in competition. In fact, you undid 100% of the changes by CristianCantoro, restoring the article to a version written entirely by you. The only substantive third-party change to the article since its creation that you didn't undo was this one. I also don't see how you can justify linking to your article from Arthur Stanley Eddington, George Johnstone Stoney, Banesh Hoffmann, and many other pages that don't (and shouldn't) link to Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. How is this anything but self-promotion?
I'm mystified by your behavior. You're an established editor who's worked on articles in many other subject areas, areas in which I assume you have some expertise. You seem to realize that quantum mechanics is not your strong suit, and you're not qualified to judge the accuracy of articles on the subject. Yet you write an article on the subject and revert all attempts to improve it. Please stop. The fact that you can't see what's wrong with that image doesn't make it right. -- BenRG ( talk) 19:30, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hello GeorgeLouis, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Centennial, California - a page you tagged - because: The reason given is not a valid speedy deletion criterion. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. Closedmouth ( talk) 09:26, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi George! Thanks for the comments on the Jeong Yim page. Yep, I know there's a lot of redundancy on the page and I'm working on cleaning it up. I haven't figured out how to do this methodologically. One of the problems regarding the Jeong Yim history is that various schools promote one version or another which are very similar in many aspects, but differ in when he was born, how he trained when he trained and with who and how long, how he died, and when he died. It's crazy, but in China and elsewhere, threats and actual fights have occurred because of these arguments of history. I'm not exactly sure how to deal with this without insulting the schools of which were created under his name and consider him a founder or co-founder of the Choy Li Fut martial arts system, but I'm trying.... Huo Xin ( talk) 22:20, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I came up with the number myself using a topo map, you can verify it for yourself. Ben Goldberg ( talk) 02:36, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi George. I saw you marked the page Pan Wenshi as needing citations. I have put some in but as I have never done this before on a wikipedia article, I thought maybe you could take a look or suggest someone who could. I am not totally confident I did it right and there seems to be so many different style of citation in use on wikipedia. I almost wish there were only one so I could just learn that. ! I think you also marked it as not being neutral POV. I'm not sure what to do about that. I don't have a lot of source material to work from for this guy, and, full disclosure, one of the sources I have is the published work of my brother. Any suggestions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mckennagene ( talk • contribs) 22:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
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I have nominated Basic concepts of quantum mechanics, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Basic concepts of quantum mechanics. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
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Thanks. I'll have a look. Deb ( talk) 11:48, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
I bumped into that page while hitting "random page" and my sympathy gland twinged when I saw the "help me" tag on that page. So I tried to patch the article up a little, but the user kendwallace (who I think also posts as Quentinwllcs and as K.w 2009 based on overlaps of edits for stuff like ' Tartesso', ' Buckeye, Arizona', ' Quay Valley, California' and ' Emeryville, California') put all the advertising dribble back. Living in Denver, I have no horse in those races, I just thought I could "help." Based on grammar and particular typographical errors (and the comment on Deb's talk page), I'm suspecting the editor is a teenager, however I can't imagine why any teenager would be motivated to post such stuff on such a topic. Tangurena ( talk) 22:47, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Dear [User:GeorgeLouis|GeorgeLouis]] ok i understand im sorry for copy it but i went back and took every thing copy on river island in lathrop article and put in my own words can u save the page and yes me Quentinwllcs|Quentinwllcs]] is my uncle we both new at this and yes we both have learning disabled but we both have intersest in these area and i would like you give us us a chance at this. Kendwallace ( talk) 03:36, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Dear [User:GeorgeLouis|GeorgeLouis]], Deb,i understand and im sorry i try to obey the warnings and advice but get so lost here sometimes but im still learning and trying improve my editing skills but need help that why i come to you guys that why going back and re doing rivers island at lathrop and douglass ranch on my talk page in my owns words will not copy anything. ( Kendwallace ( talk) 15:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)).
can put new river island article on my douglass ranch talk page ( Kendwallace ( talk) 16:01, 14 October 2009 (UTC)).
Well, I am just going to concentrate on preventing any damage to the one or two articles I am interested in. You will know what I do by checking the histories of those articles when you run across them. I may be doing some serious rewriting to them. Other editors can handle the other articles you are editing. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 07:03, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello GeorgeLouis, Beetstra has smiled at you! Smiles promote
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no probs, I never really finished it, nor found time to move it to Wikipedia space (though I thought that musea was the multiple of museum, or is that only true in Dutch?). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 22:11, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. You're right: there are a lot of silly people who have left a lot of stupid messages. All you can do is laugh. Take care, — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 19:10, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Sorry. I didn't make any changes to the lead. Or if I did I can't remember what they were right now! Oh, yes, I have read that WP:Lead pretty carefully from time to time, but thanks for reminding me of it anyway. Cheers. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 03:58, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
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Would you be so nice to, in the future, search for reviews/coverage and/or check whether the band/artist is notable before proposing album articles for deletion? I de-prodded some and saw more nominated by you go the same route. I'm not saying all album articles should automatically be kept, but so far the albums I handled were all notable. This is unnecessary work for everyone involved and better spent improving articles. Regards Hekerui ( talk) 00:45, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis. While you may be right that the link I removed is not spam (my reason for removing it is that the account that added it has mass added it to a number of other auto articles), I feel it still violates Wikipedia:External links, specifically where it states: "If the website or page to which you want to link includes information that is not yet a part of the article, consider using it as a source for the article, and citing it." Tiptoety talk 00:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello GeorgeLouis, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Ingra House - a page you tagged - because: not unambiguously advertising and possibly important/significant. Use WP:AFD. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. So Why 10:07, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've blanked the article Bob Benoit (horse racing) for revision, as I'm afraid that Wikipedia does not recognize press releases as public domain. There's more information at the article's talk page. I'm watchlisting it, in case you'd like to discuss it further. Thanks. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:00, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your addition to the top of
Category:Biography articles without listas parameter. One of us, those who are working on the items in the category, should have made that change a long time ago. However, I wonder if something should be added to indicate why a value for |listas=
is necessary. Would you be so kind as to look at what I wrote in response to
Anakin on my
talk page and add something that summarizes that or says it better?
Thank you again. JimCubb ( talk) 00:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
The link is at the blue two words " talk page" or here if that is easier. The link should take you to what is 39 in the Table of Contents. JimCubb ( talk) 01:43, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I am not certain how to do that succinctly. The best explanation of the term that the |listas=
"sort value" sets the order in which a talk page for an article is sorted in the categories that are populated by the project banners. If it is missing or the parameter is missing, the talk page will be sorted by the page name. In some cases that is correct but in other cases it is not.
There are bots that look for missing "sort values" and create them, especially if the page name consists of two English words and contains no punctuation. There are pages in the category that I have deliberately avoided as a check against such errors.
While the sort order of categories that are generated by project banners is almost completely a maintenance issue, the categories that are on the article page are deemed by some to be important. The sort order there is governed by the sort value in {{
DEFAULTSORT}}. There is no way to track the sort value in the "magic word" DEFAULTSORT so we use the value for |listas=
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Does that help? JimCubb ( talk) 03:06, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
That is what I get for trying to avoid being ambiguous. The "sort value" is what comes after the colon in {{
DEFAULTSORT}}, after the equal sign in |listas=
and after a pipe "|" in {{
lifetime}} and category tags. If there is no sort value the page is sorted by its title, as you pointed out at the top of
Category:Biography articles without listas parameter. This is correct for many articles. For biographies of almost everyone in Western Europe or the Western hemisphere it is not correct. The three reasons to have an explicit "sort value" are those I gave Anakin. It shows that the issue has been considered, it protects the page from a bot's placing an incorrect sort value on the page and it makes those pages that truly need such a value more apparent.
Now, do you think that it would be helpful to have this information at the top of the category and, if so, as a retired professional wordsmith, would you be willing to write it?
I read your user page and most of the entries on your talk page before I wrote you. The personal information section is very good. The suggestion on your talk page that you need to learn how to write a lead paragraph did make me laugh.
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The rationale is now on the file page. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:48, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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Winston Churchill at a microphone raising his hat. |
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Source | |
Article | |
Portion used |
All |
Low resolution? |
Yes. In fact, it has been posterized to make it resemble the other graphics on the page. |
Purpose of use |
Illustrating Churchill making a speech as opposed to sitting at his desk or making a V sign. No free equivalent; free images do not show him making a speech. |
Replaceable? |
It's possible, though I didn't find any others that actually showed him "on the stump." |
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As of December 30, 2009, this image is at User:GeorgeLouis/Sandbox |
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The following template was added to the file page:
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Mug shot of Sidney T. Graves, former Los Angeles County supervisor convicted of bribery |
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Los Angeles Public Library |
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All of it |
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Shows what Sidney T. Graves looked like in the 1930s |
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None other. |
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Is Los Angeles International Airport convenient to your location? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Please be aware that per the WP:MILMOS, and the practice of WP:SHIPS that it is perfectly acceptable for ships to be referred to in the feminine (in fact it is the most-common method here). The general use is that either she or it is appropriate, but the article should be consistent and not change without significant reasons and a significant consensus. That means that your change of the pronouns on USS Nicholas (FFG-47) is not in accordance with the guidelines and has been reverted. Please do not continue to force this without entering into discussion. - MBK 004 06:10, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Don't be so effing peremptory. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:44, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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I noticed you uploaded File:1923.04.22-Los Angeles Times Front Page.jpg and a slew of other public domain LATimes images last fall and I was wondering where you got the images in the first place. VernoWhitney ( talk) 15:17, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
"EL" is Wiki-jargon for "external links". Their use is guided by WP:EL. I hope I didn't delete a cherished link! Will Beback talk 21:40, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Wow! I’d half forgotten about this; I’d been putting off doing anything as it isn’t a subject I know much about. Well done! Swanny18 ( talk) 16:52, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Pat Tillman was characterized as "agnostic, if not atheist" if I remember the Krakauer quote correctly somewhere here (51 min long interview). It may be a better source (as he wrote a book on Tillman) than the LA Times piece. - Shootbamboo ( talk) 20:24, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Of course I would not mind if you put in the quotation you mention. but the latest skinny is that Tillman was an atheist, not an agnostic. There are now four references on this WP page from journalists who probably had to write only one story that day and whose stories were vetted by editors. I suppose you know that publishing houses do not fact-check the books they publish. I would trust a major newspaper city room any day over anything in hard cover. Sincerely, and with great admiration for your WP work, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 03:43, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
I don't agree with the decision to omit the cursing, but then again I doubt my opinion would change anything. I think it should be included because it shows how mad his brother was at Maria Schriver and John McCain to ascribing errant religious platitudes to his fallen brother. I believe by taking the curse out it detracts from the quote, dehumanizing it even. Just more of what happened during this whole episode. Ad nauseum sanitization and omittance is not what this article needs or what I believe Pat Tillman deserves. -- Guymontague ( talk) 16:41, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Howdy. Following this edit by your own good self, three articles ( Gospel of Judas, 25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and Strategy+Business) now link to Thomas Desmond Williams - the wrong Thomas D. Williams in each case. Might I kindly ask you to reconsider your change? - TB ( talk) 07:07, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Certainly no objection, and then the DAB page would have to be made anew. I myself am not fond of red links (unless the linked person is really, really famous and there is very little doubt that the article will soon be created), but that's just my personal feeling. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 14:50, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, nice to see that you are cleaning up some dab page :-) But instead of removing {{ disambig-cleanup}}, replace it with {{ disambig}}, otherwise it is not listed as an DAB page anymore. Christian75 ( talk) 11:51, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for inquiring to my Talk page. I appreciate the chance to talk with you before your doing more edits like that. After reviewing the edit, I just reverted your big edit to the St. Paul's Church dab page. Your edit, among other things, deleted redlink entries that were entirely valid by MOSDAB rules (see MOS:DABRL subsection in particular). I am responsible for most/all of the NRHP entries in the dab page. Some of them fully conform to MOSDAB rules. Others are imprefect because their supporting bluelinks point to a statewide NRHP list-article, when instead they should point to a more specific county- or city- NRHP list-article which was broken out from the statewide list. I would appreciate your help in refining the supporting bluelinks, so that they point properly to the list-article showing the same redlink. Simply deleting them is unhelpful. Could you please read up on redlink policy, and supporting bluelinks, and then we can chat further?
Also, about the mention of NRHP listing for items that have articles, I think still mentionin gthe NRHP listing is useful for showing they are historic churches and suggesting why they are notable. It's not a big deal, just something helpful for readers, no strong reason to keep the NRHP mention in those items. The NRHP mention is needed for the redlink items, though, as part of the supporting bluelinks.
About the St. Paul's churches in India and in other countries, I recognize that the entries do not comply fully with MOSDAB guidelines. But I imagine those are real churches and notable ones, and I think it would be better to just leave them in place, or to do the work to make them valid. E.g. by looking for a list-article of churches in India and adding them to that. I look forward to chatting further with you. -- doncram ( talk) 16:59, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I copied all the above to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:St._Paul%27s_Church. Please don't add anything more here. Thank you. Your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 18:40, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm glad you're on board to help clean up disambiguation. A big part of the overall effort is to fix ambiguous links, i.e. links to dab pages. That helps directly in the articles that have the ambiguous links, and it helps at the dab pages too, by allowing "what links here" for redlink entries to work better in finding articles that meaningfully connect to a specific topic (which can then be used to create a proper supporting bluelink). There's a monthly dab-fixing contest, which is kinda fun and is certainly 100% productive, involving no drama. The leaderboard is at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links#DAB Challenge leaderboard; details are [ here]. Please consider joining, by just starting to fix ambiguous links for dabs on the monthly list. It's easier to increase your count early in the month, by the way, as later all the easiest-to-fix ones have been done, but you can start anytime.
Also, you might want to watchlist the Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/The Daily Disambig. I notice dab pages popping up there in my interest area, historic sites, and can often then easily fix the new ambiguous links to them, heading off problems later. Cheers, -- doncram ( talk) 14:30, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Is that any better. I had assumed as a member of the Tongan legislative assembly he was a politician. Sorry. Waacstats ( talk) 19:11, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
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I've raised this at WP:NORN. Using the Bible in this way is classic original research. It would be ok to say 'notable person x says that this quote and this quote show the Israelites are white', but you need a WP:RS to do it. Some editor saying that is original research. Dougweller ( talk) 07:07, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
OK. Whatever you say. Sincerely, your pal, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 20:11, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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Perhaps a bit too radical an approach. I think you take out too much of what makes it a coherent story. I think you should work to the present structure. Writing a FA here at Wikipedia is very quirky. You might want to read through the FAC and see what reviewer concerns were there (leaving aside my runin with Tony1, which we've long since made up).-- Wehwalt ( talk) 21:09, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
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Yeah, I saw that. I guess, if you think about it, every thing everywhere is in the "greater Los Angeles" area. I saw that he has a thing for the greater Sacramento area, too. Mracew ( talk) 03:50, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Thought you might want to know that WP:FUCK is up for MfD, since you commented before on its talk page. Historically, since many opposed to the essay do not watch the page, they don't know when it hits MfD. The last MfD was speedy kept after being open just a few hours IIRC. I'm trying to get a constructive dialog going between the various opinions, and this is starting to happen. You can find it at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism (3rd nomination) if you care to comment. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 05:05, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I see you reverted my adjustment to the Stephen Barrett criticism of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. I believe you acted in good faith. I also believe the revert was erroneous.
Barrett's list is published information. Counting the number of organizations on the list does not represent original research. It is simply a way of summarizing the context in which Barrett's criticism occurred. It is information that is directly and explicitly supported by the source. It is a routine calculation that most people over the age of six could perform for themselves.
As the article stands now, it is misleading and unbalanced. A casual reader gets the impression that Barrett targeted the IONS out for special and specific criticism, when in fact his criticism was spread over hundreds of organizations.
Please undo your revert and/or reply on my talkpage explaining how my changes could be OR.
Best regards,-- Stepheng3 ( talk) 16:55, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to be contrary, but where did you get the idea that "criticism" implies a balanced perspective? I'm looking at
reference.com, wheremost relevant definition seems to be "the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything". --
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I'm interested in this article only because I met a nice woman once who was really into this scene. (Big grin.) Otherwise, it doesn't mean that much to me. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 21:40, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I am now owner of a TUSC account! GeorgeLouis ( talk) 20:34, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for the formatting troubles at Talk:James_Cantor. The mixture of wikimarkups and html makes formatting difficult, sometimes unstable, and the need to avoid edit conflicts often means there isn't enough time to fully test things. It should be fixed now. BitterGrey ( talk) 05:07, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
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I deleted the prod tag you placed on 1906 Auburn Tigers football team, as the article was discussed at AfD on 13 January 2008 with a consensus to keep, and is therefore ineligible for deletion via prod. Compliance with policy/procedure is the only reason I did this; I have no prejudice against opening another AfD. — KuyaBriBri Talk 14:48, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you appear to be proposing deletion for any article that has been tagged as having no sources for any length of time stating vaguely that it is impossible to verify any of the information "because there is no way to check it". I'm sorry, but common sense says that most of these articles would be able to be sourced from somewhere, perhaps not easily from a quick google search, but it is certainly do-able. If you truly believe that deletion would be uncontrovertial, better reasoning is needed. Regards, wjemather bigissue 21:51, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello again. No, I am not doing anything on a whim — more like conscious design. I'm working my way through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006, and I provide sources when I can find them (I do find a lot), removing the Unreferenced tags as I do so. A whole bunch of us are working on that project. It really doesn't matter to me how tenuous the Source is as long as there is one attached to the article. You would be surprised how quickly SOMEBODY will step up to find a Source once any given article is threatened with extinction. I call it Improving the Encyclopedia, but of course I am just one editor and I wonder how any other given editor might go about reducing the backlog? Maybe my Prod reason should be a little less confrontative? What do you think? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:41, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Well, thanks for your attention. I've sent some messages to the people who edited the articles, asking for their assistance in providing sources. No resultsl yet. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 19:28, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi George,
It took me a few clicks on the Arkansas Secretary of State's website to find the information we needed. I sourced it and removed your prod. Just because it's not on Google doesn't mean it's not verifiable. It needs updating. Can you please do that? Bearian ( talk) 23:10, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar! Lugnuts ( talk) 08:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, for your positive comments about my work, in the deletion discussion for the article Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System at the AFD page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System. Your comments are most appreciated. Thanks again, -- Cirt ( talk) 21:32, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
...thank you. Johnlp ( talk) 09:16, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar! It's about time someone noticed the hard life of the humble volunteer... Sincerely, -- DOOMSDAYER520 ( Talk| Contribs) 19:57, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Did you identify a source of the possible copyright violation? VernoWhitney ( talk) 13:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes, George, I did change user names. As a brand new guy to this I picked the user name Timothy Hawkins-Heathco but became dissatisfied with it when I saw the type of names others were using. My current studies span mythology - anthropology - archeology, and there seems to be a distinctive culture in each, including the kind of names commonly chosen. I received the approval of the Arbitration Committee for the new name, and at their suggestion Abandoned the old name. However, I had already worked my first article through the system, with some much appreciated help from some nice folks. When I added the new user name to the Project Archeology member list I noticed that others were displaying their real name instead of their user name and this seemed like a perfect solution. What do you think? — Cathbhadh III ( Talk) 02:20, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
I'll carry on keeping a watching eye on Los Angeles Times in the 21st century. As a matter of interest, why do you nowiki your signature? Barnabypage ( talk) 17:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLewis- in response to this revert, the disclaimers in the references seem very unnecessary. It would be better to use a full citation style. If you'd like me to take the disclaimer to VPP, I'll do so. Aside from the reference issue, do you have any other concerns to the changes I made? tedder ( talk) 05:33, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
I see you reverted my addition, which is fine by me, but I would like to know the reason. Generally if reverting an edit that is not blatant vandalism, one adds a reason to the edit summary. Personally, I think a [ sic] is okay, because that's the accepted academic notation for an intended spelling/markup/etc, but I won't argue if you disagree. ( X! · talk) · @005 · 23:06, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello GeorgeLouis. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Ice Age: Continental Drift, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Although the title "Continental Drift" may change, there is evidence ( Variety and the reference at NY Times in the article) that this is being made. If you feel it should be deleted, either PROD or take to AfD. Thank you. -- PhantomSteve/ talk| contribs\ 02:32, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
fragging even though usally only carried out against officers it has happened to enlisted men in positions of leaderhip before such as Jr. NCO's placed in charge. TucsonDavid ( talk) 08:37, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
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Ill have to look up the reference and get that back to you but the standard is full dates in the paras in the beginning of the article but its ok if you changed that. Your not alone, there are other editors that feel the same as you. typically when the article gets higher in the grade scale through FA it becomes more of a requirement. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:20, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
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Are you sure this [2] is correct in English...?
“ | In mathematics, Cantor's diagonal argument (...), was published in 1891 by Georg Cantor as a proof that.... | ” |
I suppose, Cantor's argument was not published in mathematics, but rather in some mathematical journal...? CiaPan ( talk) 12:05, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Re.
your edit to the
National Do Not Call Registry page:
Why do you consider the cited page,
"Unwanted Telephone Marketing Calls - FCC Consumer Facts", an "activist" page? It's hosted on fcc.gov, and carries the FCC's credentials: contact info, logo, etc. Who or what is behind that "activist" page if not the FCC?
Also, you said of your edit: "The other link went to an activists' site with no mention of nonprofits on the landing page." That page mentions the exemption of "tax-exempt non-profit organization" in three places. Are we looking at the same page?!
I would like to know the reasoning of your edit. Thanks. Andy Nguyen ( talk) 04:08, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
You might be interested in the CfDs I've started regarding the LA Times categories. Purple backpack89 15:46, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for the welcome, I've been here for a while just floating around and decided to finally do something and help clean up the new pages of Wikipedia. Bluefist ( talk) 21:12, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am the page creator of Inu to Anata no Monogatari, the page you have proposed to delete for the following reason: Not notable.
Under the Wikipedia:Notability_(film)#General_principles you have asked me to see, there is one line saying that"Trivial coverage, ......without critical commentary, or listings in comprehensive film guides such as ... the Internet Movie Database." If you bothered to look at the article, you will see that it already has a listing on the Internet Movie Database. Hence, your proposed deletion has no other grounds to fall back on.
Do note that my articles always are based on credible sources and critical commentary, even if it is not in English. Hence, please do not carry out and remove this deletion, failing that, I will have to report you for vandalizing a perfectly legitimate article. Thank you. Lionratz ( talk) 08:26, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello GeorgeLouis, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kirk Sommer, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is an assertion of notabiluty - please use AFD or prod if you wish to delete this. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Spartaz Humbug! 11:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, GeorgeLouis:
Thank you for trying to help me with my edits not saving problem. You indicated you had moved my file to something called Sandbox1, but I can't find it. Please advise where I may find it. I looked in my Sandbox, but nothing is there. I've looked through everything I have (which is only that article I'm working on) and can find it no where. Please tell me how to get to it. Thank you. Cmckibben ( talk) 03:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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GeorgeLouis: Thank you for your help last week. I figured out that through my own stupidity I had inserted a faulty external link and it was causing me the problem of not saving my work. If I'd looked at the top of the file, as you explained, I would have seen that I had a problem with a link! I finally figured it out, thanks to you! All the Best Cmckibben ( talk) 21:58, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you George Louis for posting an informative biography of Irish. I'm a historian at USC in Los Angeles who is researching Irish for a book on white Americans who supported Japanese immigrants. I'm writing to you from the home of Irish's great grand-daughter. Her name is Barbra Brower and she too is very interested in researching Irish. She has some important corrections for your biography that she'd like to share with you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lonkurashige ( talk • contribs) 01:35, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis. I replied to your post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Inline Templates#Template:Registration required/doc. -- œ ™ 09:49, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, sucha newbie mistake on my part, first timer I guess... Anyway, what I wrote in the hair growth article was 100% correct, and I was wondering how I can leave the content there, while providing a reference that wont be considered as a conflict. I have already submitted an application to change my username to my real name. After my name is changed, can you restore the content I wrote on the article? Please advise me if I should do anything else on the matter.
Regards, Daniel Bendheim (aka Harry Donovan :} ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Donovan ( talk • contribs) 08:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
So, once I finish writing about an article in my area of expertise, I can provide lots of links, from which an editor will pick & choose the relevant ones? I simply would like to be recognized as the one who brought forth the information. I don't really care which site gets the credit. There are plenty of sites saying the same things, just different phrasing. Please advise if you can. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Donovan ( talk • contribs) 14:26, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
A friend of mine, who is a linguist specializing in the languages of the Caucasus, sent me some information on a reference for this article. He is in the process of moving, so he cannot lay his hands of the reference book at this moment. When he does, I will insert more specific information. Is the reference good enough to stand on its own for a short time as written? Thanks, Ebikeguy ( talk) 00:16, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Ah, well. That explains it! That was quite a while ago, and actually I have left that particular drive. I am now concentrating more on writing new articles on historical subjects and also, when I tire of that, I keep my eye on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Contributions/newbies. How are you doing these days? Yours, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 02:10, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Most of the articles dealing with the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass are my work. You start with that page and then follow the links all over this area, as far east as Scheideck, California. Haven't done Lockwood Valley, California, yet, but that is on my agenda, as soon as I get back from New Caledonia. Cheers. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 02:33, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
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I'm borrowing your American citizen user box—I earned the right to display it last July but it hadn't occurred to me to update my WP page until I saw yours. :) - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 02:26, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I moved this to different spacing as suggested at Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(people)#Middle_names_and_abbreviated_names, and because there were a couple of incoming redlinks at that spacing. If you've got a birth date you could add him to Macdonald#Notable_people:_MacDonald_surname too. (I just clicked on the Pulitzer Prize link from your stub to see whether it gave any more info or full name, then was surprised to see him still red-linked there, ... etc). PamD ( talk) 09:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thanks for your note. New to wiki edits. Boeingairbus2011 ( talk) 04:24, 26 February 2011 (UTC)boeingairbus2011
George, if you look at WP:FA you will be hard pressed to find an article where we place the image at top left, the TOC at the top right, and the infobox for the article way down the article. This isn't how we structure articles here. Regardless, pending discussion with you I haven't reverted you again in that respect. What I have done though is move the image back to the modeling section, as the use of the image at the top of the article constitutes a violation of WP:NFCC, as this person is alive. Please do NOT place the image back at the top of the article as this is a violation of said policy. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 04:35, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Lacking specific sources about the Daily News's news operations (columnist, awards, etc), I've been unable to improve it past GA. If you have any ideas, they would be welcome indeed.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 11:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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I'm pretty sure not all 30 of the edits you spammed about Pat Tillman even know who Pat Tillman is, let alone need to be made aware of the discussion. I have reverted a good number of your posts; please don't do that again. NW ( Talk) 17:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
FYI, one of the people to whom I sent the message has taken it upon himself to sort out the mess and to survey the participants in the hope of gaining consensus, so I feel my assay was successful. Talk:Pat_Tillman#Clarifying_for_consensus And I would ask you not to be so peremptory. Frankly, I don't deserve it, and nobody does. Yours in Wikidom, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 03:59, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hello George, I must confess I've been admiring your work on Ing from afar. In fact, you may have noticed that I lifted some of the Ing article for the GSLS article. A number of editors have worked on the GSLS article, and I think your resources could be of great help in improving the article. If you have any non-Internet news sources for Ing they might have coverage of the school. The school represents a singular time in the history of Ing; it's a shame more Ing schools don't have articles. On another topic, I see you're on the SoCal taskforce. Have you seen this? Lionel ( talk) 00:02, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis, about a week ago you put a comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle which gave the impression you would actually like to keep that article but couldn't because the case for notability hadn't been made. I don't want to persuade you of anything against your better judgment, but I am just curious whether you would still take the same view now that two other users have given reasons for notability and the main voice for "delete" there and on the parallel page ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medieval Chronicle Society) is the original mover, whose level of argument .. well, speaks for itself. -- Doric Loon ( talk) 16:42, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
You may recall my AfD of Hendrix Junior High School. You made a comment that the only possible notability had to do with the platypus mascot.
Well, turns out the vandalism went so far as to change the colors and mascot. Hendrix is still in the Arizona Interscholastic Association system – with proper colors (red and gray) and mascot (husky).
Thought you might get a chuckle from it. Raymie ( t • c) 23:51, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed you edited my addition to Women in journalism and media professions next to Lara Logan, removing the capital letters and making "foreign affairs" one word: "Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent"→"chief foreignaffairs correspondent." Can you explain why you did that? In the Lara Logan article it says "Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent" with capital letters and "Foreign Affairs" as two words.— Biosketch ( talk) 01:47, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Back in October you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to take it to AfD. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 10:32, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Just curious, why bring the issue up now, eleven months after the fact? I'm not complaining or annoyed; I'm simply surprised. Anyway, I don't understand why you say what you do: the two independent sources provide separate information, and I don't see anything that could come across as sufficiently POV to cause problems. Nyttend ( talk) 05:39, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
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I was very surprised to see that you marked Origen's Philocalia for speedy deletion. May I ask why?
You see, I expended quite some time on this, referenced it thoroughly, and thereby resolved a confusion between the medieval Philokalia and the text by Origen. I just don't understand how there can be a problem here? Roger Pearse ( talk) 07:22, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
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In February you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider taking it to AfD. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 19:40, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
I liked this. -- John ( talk) 02:26, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
why did you delete Margaret D. Bennie Public School Leamington — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kagazuda ( talk • contribs) 01:24, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
I apologize if this is the wrong way to do it, but my name is Lawrence Ross. There was a question as to whether I'm from Inglewood California (on the Inglewood page). I am from Inglewood, and I still live in Inglewood today. Hope that helps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alpha1906 ( talk • contribs) 03:03, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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Very impressive. I can't think of a single aspect that went uncovered - it's truly comprehensive. Yet no issue is belabored -- it's a very readable account of a distinct and noteworthy topic. Well done! Will Beback talk 08:55, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi GeorgeLouis! I had been a long time, I just refreshed the WP:ASE list! Your help in checking potentially biased articles would be greatly appreciated! The list is intentionally short, I will keep adding fresh words every time the list becomes empty. Cheers! Nicolas1981 ( talk) 10:45, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
That you don't see the ILO's importance in the UNDg, especially being a professor. Other dictionaries are better ( talk) 11:24, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Just follow the links in the demographics section. For some reason it starts at Alabama. Just select California and voila all is revealed. Carlossuarez46 ( talk)
Well, it is a lot better than the 2000 version. Where do I go to edit it, or to engage in a discussion about it? Thanks again. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 23:24, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
CarlosSuarez, "please be a doer"? That is just insulting. By writing a message I am "doing" something. If you care to look at my record, I think you will see plenty of "doing." I await your apology. Yours, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 01:00, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hi GeorgeLouis - You commented on Palazzolo before, so I want to bring your attention to a new BLPN section I have presented at - Neutral BLP for Palazzolo
Struggling to find equity for this case, I was advised by an editor (after a long wiki journey) to give a few pithy examples of what has been written that is wrong, and then offer an alternative BLP, which I have done.
Thanks in advance for considering this case. I merely ask that someone adjudicate as my pleas to the present author fall on deaf ears.
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{{ subscription required}} and {{ registration required}} are well-established as the way to indicate similar source access restrictions; they likewise use parentheses. In any case, the use of a monospaced font seemed quite abnormal. Also, many (all?) of the links can be generalized to the database provider and thus made non-library-specific. -- Cybercobra (talk) 01:50, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
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Just wanted to drop you a line and tell you you've done a great job cleaning up the W. V. Grant article. You've really put a nice coat of polish on it, doing the little things everyone else never sees. Nice work! Dayewalker ( talk) 03:11, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
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I appreciate the welcome, I have edited on Wiki for a number of years already. I disappear unfortunately when time does not allow, I hope my contribution in Networking have help. I also went thought a great deal of effort to get photo's that were not available anywhere ( to me at least ) put into the public domain by Cisco so they could be used in the article.
I may make a mistake here and there, but it is not intentional by any means and I know there will be someone to point out what I did wrong "quickly".
In any event, I wanted to leave you this note becuase after all the years I edited, you are the first to "welcome" me.
akc9000 ( talk • contribs • count) 12:00, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Again, I would really like to see these videos that are used in the cite of the article, I say this because I saw this guy preach, and I could not see any trick, I would love to see what is claimed. This is also the first time I have experienced a cite that is not verifiable. Any help would be appreciated. As you can tell I am curious. videos: # James Randi exposes WV Grant on West 57th Street - Faith Healing 2/2 and Faith Healing 1/2
Thanks!
akc9000 ( talk • contribs • count) 12:53, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the explanation, I have read it a little late, I remove a cite and put the citation needed as you mentioned and OrangeMike was quite upset over my action.
In any event, I took interest in that specific article since I recently saw the man preach and in all, I would say he called out 90 percent of the audience, told them what was wrong with them and their doctor's names then prayed for them and they recovered. I cannot see how all these people could be cured without the help of God via Jesus.
After I saw this service, I came and looked up information about the man on Wiki, and the article, at least to me does not appear to be from a neutral point of view. It talks about fraud, scandal, and does not mention many things that I think should be included to balance it, Nowhere does it mention for example that he went to Haiti and paid for orphanages after the disaster there.
No matter what I tried to add to the article, was reverted for some reason or another, I did NOT try to put a positive spin on it, I was trying to make the article more balanced. But no matter what I did it was no good. Unfortunately, it is my "personal" point of view the article not from a neutral point of view, and no one is going to add any good thing that this man has done to it, nor allow anyone else add anything to it.
I really don't have the time for this, I just saw something wonderful, looked him up and saw all negative stuff on Wiki so I tried to balance it.
But thanks for the cookies :)
akc9000 ( talk • contribs • count) 18:51, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
PS: Here is a quick example. Why would the information at his diploma being phony be included in the article when these diplomas are normally honorary anyway? So technically it does not matter unless you want to make the person look worse correct?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Divinity
I do understand you worked on this article and you received an awarded for it being neutral but I am having a problem seeing it being neutral.
akc9000 ( talk • contribs • count) 19:37, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Your recent edit to Camden, New Jersey adds an entry for Robert S. MacAlister as a notable, an entry that had also been added earlier to the article for Camden High School (New Jersey). Neither the article for Camden or the Camden HS article include a source, and the MacAlister article doesn't appear to provide a source for Camden being his home town or Camden HS as his alma mater. In the ongoing cleanup of these articles I would like to ensure that all of the entries have sources. Could I ask for your assistance in providing a reliable and verifiable source for his connection to Camden / Camden HS? Alansohn ( talk) 18:52, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi George, I left some questions on the WV. Grant talk page about the cite, I tried to help. Let me know if this stuff counts or not. I don't want everyone jumping all over me because I add a cite that does not qualify.
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I apologize for the comment--I was a little peeved at the libel bit, which I think I read harsher than you intended, and reacted too strongly. I do think that a citation needed tag would have been the appropriate response, but I was wrong to snap. Best, Meelar (talk) 20:37, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
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I notice that you've added Ira J. McDonald to the notable-alumni list at University of Nebraska at Kearney. There, you've affixed the dates 1941-43. The article on McDonald lists his dates on the City Council as 1941-45. Could you please reconcile these? -- Ammodramus ( talk) 16:33, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for your observation. I have a source, but forgot to add a citation. I fixed that problem a few minutes ago.
My source says "For half its height visitors had carved their names into the face of the bricks."
The source does not specify which half is carved. The structure is 32 feet tall, so 16 feet would be carved. I tried to simplify this slightly by stating: "Over the years, trespassers have carved names or initials into almost every brick within their reach."
I also have another source that said someone would carve initials, then come back years later and carve again, so this did not happen all at once.
Some photos also show where it is carved. One photo is a close up of carvings.
I have been a hard time telling the difference between original research and stating the obvious.
I greatly appreciate your thoughts. I will keep everything you say in mind as I reread my sources. Wikfr ( talk) 02:07, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Check Wikipedia:Images. There are some forks from there, too. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:15, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
I hadn't even noticed the email address there, or I would have removed it. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 02:57, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey- I thought you might be interested in reviewing Rick J. Caruso, a new article created by some COI editors. When I get time I'll comb through it too. tedder ( talk) 00:28, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, George I've added in the references, but I'm not very good at the style, so you may need to fix that. Basically, the main source is a TLS article: 'The Hanky-Panky Way', TLS, 18 June 2010, p. 16. The book itself I have added the bibliographical information for. Hope this helps. Victorianistjaf ( talk) 08:42, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Nice work. An interesting local politician with an outsized influence. Will Beback talk 20:17, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Isn't there a policy against using a username with a famous name in it? Feed back ☎ 18:10, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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Regarding your recent edit at Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004.
Although the spelling "judgement" is usually the correct form in British English, the variant "judgment" is preferred when referring to a formal decision by a judicial body. By way of example, see the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council's website here.
Regarding the changes I made to references in the article to the Privy Council, it's always the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council that hears cases, and not the Privy Council of the United Kingdom proper; as such, I think a link to the more specific article is the most appropriate in such circumstances. Links to " Privy council" should generally be avoided, since it's an article about the generic concept of a privy council, rather than about any specific institution by that name.
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Hello, I added a discussion here about your proposed deletion. I translated this page from the French Wikipedia because Sabine Karsenti had no article in English. She had a prominent role in Battlefield Earth which was a widely viewed (or at least heard of) big-budget feature film, starring many A-List celebrities. She also had a starring role in a cult television show, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, that has a wider following on DVD now than its viewership when it aired. She had no article before not because she was non-notable, but because most of her work was in French, and her article in French is over five years old. Finally, since I made the article (again, based on the French original which I translated, with information there that has been notable enough for the past five years) in late august, according to stats.grok.se it has averaged over a dozen views per day and gotten as many as 30. Not a lot, of course, but not insignificant. That means that deleting the article would remove some information from the wealth of knowledge that is Wikipedia. I've begun to add some interlingual wikilinks to have a different shade of blue, which is better than red, and I will add the rest of her filmography when I have some more time. JesseRafe ( talk) 17:47, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
As per your suggestion, I have written a biography of Sir John for Wikipedia. Being an newbie and Wikipedia being complex beyond belief, I have no idea what to do next. It is somewhere in my user talk section. There are MANY John Stokes, so I think it best that the article has his full title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charles Poynton ( talk • contribs) 21:28, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
I have a copy of Sir John Stokes' autobiography and I know where a few others might be. However, only a few hundred were printed and distributed among descendents in Australia. The publisher (Ken Maynard Stokes) died in about 2001. I put the biography on the Internet in 1998 to make it more accessible and it is for that reason that links are given directly to the Internet document. The autobiography was doubtless written from diaries, but those have presumably been lost. Charles Poynton ( talk) 22:39, 17 September 2011 (UTC) Charles Poynton (the time here in NZ is 10:47 on the morning of Sunday 18th)
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Hi George, I noticed that you moved the TOC at civil engineering. I don't care how it's formatted, but it needs to be in its standard position for screen readers, per the last line here. Graham 87 02:12, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
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What I was trying to say is that you have written a lot at the DRV. So much that the DrV is hard to read. I'd urge you to be a lot more concise at the AfD. 02:14, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry, friend Bwilkins, but I don't know what DRV means. Yours, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 12:10, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
We're working on bringing the L.A. article up to Featured status. The history summary is a current topic. I just trimmed some excessive detail about the early Spanish explorers, so it's now about 662 words long. The history section of San Francisco, which is a featured article, is 1400 words long. We can do a better job of adding material on the last 70 years of L.A. history, and we've got several hundred words in which to do it. I've proposed some topics which we might mention (mostly crimes or civil disturbances). Talk:Los Angeles#founding and move of san gabriel mission. Do you have any thoughts on the matter? Would you like to take on the project? Will Beback talk 06:51, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hello GeorgeLouis: I have placed the entry on Sir John Stokes in my sandbox as per your suggestion. One day, some day, I will do some inline citations, but have some more pressing (paid) writing to do at the moment. What next? Charles Poynton ( talk) 08:36, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
I have restored the redirect of the above article, since for the last 2 months you have made no changes to it other than to add empty sections and continually restore the underconstruction tag. As an unsourced blp it is not an acceptable article, I suggest you work on it in your userspace, or leave it as a redirect until such time as you are able to create it properly-- Jac16888 Talk 10:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for your kind words at WPConservatism. There are liberals on Wikipedia who give mouth service to NPOV: you actually live by it. The deletion at the AfD 2nd was ridiculous. It was solidly No consensus. When you're ready for round #3 with Watson, let me know... – Lionel ( talk) 03:40, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for the clarification. I wasn't aware that it was a direct quote from The Times.
On an unrelated note, it kind of took me a while to realize the section said 1966 and not 1996. You can imagine how shocked I was at first, thinking the incident only happened fifteen years ago, as opposed to forty-five.
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You tagged this as copyvio without listing a source. Any clues?
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I haven't logged on here in a while, and I was concerned to find a copyvio notice from you on my talk page. My concern turned to complete bafflement when I checked the link to the supposedly infringed source. I'm fairly certain I have never even seen it before. I'm trying to figure out what's going on, but the article and article:talk are gone, I can't find anything on my contributions page referencing the article or article:talk, and I haven't been about to locate any Wikipedia page discussing the article deletion. Can you give me some idea what's going on? Thanx. The deleted page was Greg Garcia, and the allegedly infringed source was http://www.isa.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Products_and_Services/Conferences_and_Exhibitions1/ISA_EXPO/Events_For_All1/Spotlight_on_Industrial_Security/Spotlight_on_Industrial_Security.htm Alsee ( talk) 00:23, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I am at a loss as to why all this is on my Talk Page. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 22:39, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
I am sorry, but I don't recall anything like that. I suppose it has slipped my memory. If you can provide a diff or whatever, perhaps that will jog my recollection. Which Greg Garcia is this? Maybe you can find the notice in your archives and post it here. Thank you so much. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
The issue has been resolved. Someone else committed a Copyvio and the Copyvio notice was mistakenly directed onto my talk page. Alsee ( talk) 22:48, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hello GeorgeLouis, I hope that you are having a nice day. I guess you if you live in California you must have a nice day. I reverted your edit to the Hector Santiago Colon article and would like to tell you why. The surname of Hector's father was "Santiago" and his mother "Colon". He was inscribed in his birth certificate with both surnames, without the hyphen, a custom which is very common in Puerto Rico and in most Latin countries. Before Puerto Rico was ceded to the US, it was common for people to use an "y" between both surnames, an example of this is "Cayetano Coll y Cuchí". The American influence has led many Puerto Ricans to continue to use both surnames as in Spanish naming customs, with a hyphen (ex. "Antonio Fernós-Isern") or nothing at all (ex. Ernesto Ramos Antonini) instead of "y".
The fact about Hector was confirmed by his nephew Lt. Col. Nelson Guadalupe whom I know. I became curious in regard to Hector's father whose surname "Santiago" I share and since Puerto Rico is so small I wondered if we were related. No, we are not related, but it is a fact that "Santiago" is his father's surname and "Colon" his mothers. Thank you for your contributions and your time and may you have a great day. Tony the Marine ( talk) 23:56, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear GeorgeLouis, I absolutely agree with you in what you wrote about the quality of the Klaus article. Yesterday I tried to improve it a little bit. It is still partly terrible, biased etc., and substantial points are missing. In my view, there have been some far-left oriented users, probably of Czech origin, who contributed to this article with unbelievable bias towards Klaus´ market-economy stands and his person in general. They also used every opportunity to accuse him of things like alleged intelligence activities and friendship with Mr. Putin. In fact, Klaus is friend of the Republican Party of the United States. Of course, he was concerned to continue Russian oil and gas supplies to the Czech Republic during the 1990 years, as they were rather cheap, and there were scarcely any other supplies in needed quantities and with acceptable transportation costs. Have a nice day, -- Zbrnajsem ( talk) 11:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
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The San Diego Union-Tribune did, in fact, announce a name change to the deathlessly memorable moniker U-T San Diego on January 3. I added some sources for this, and I'd value your input on the talk page as to whether we should change the name of the article, or leave the old (and still possibly better-known) article name for the time being. Thanks very much. Best, -- Arxiloxos ( talk) 00:41, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
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Yes. They do it all the time. I don't know what purpose they think it serves. Deb ( talk) 22:07, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
See the explanation for my changes in my edit summaries and at Talk:R.W. Dromgold. So far you have not provided any explanation for your reversions from standard MOSBIO formatting. – ukexpat ( talk) 22:12, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Bencherlite. It is certainly good to hear from you, but I wonder if you realize how peremptory all those "Please do thises!" and "Please do thats!" sound. Gee whiz, it is those stern admonitions from cyberspace that send potential editors in droves away from Wikipedia. I would certainly appreciate an apology for what seems to me to be just plain rudeness. As for the content of your message, I have no objection to your making the changes that you want to make at this point because I will be able to answer all of your requests (or, rather, demands) when I get some time. (I actually do have reasons for just about everything about which you commented, and I was lying awake last night thinking about them: A total misuse of "sack time." I know, Bencherlite, that you are just trying to improve the encyclopedia, but so am I, and I am rather offended at your message. Still, that doesn't prohibit us from working together, and I'll be providing an answer to you, but just not right away. In the meantime, make your changes, but I may want to resume the discussion in a few days or a week. I actually appreciate the detail in the message, just not the tone. Sincerely, still your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 20:34, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Oh, I get it now! You were offended by my message. Well, I certainly apologize for the rather glib way I phrased it. I guess I didn't pay that much attention to the wording of the reason for my reversion. I am sure you worked for a good long time on your changes (just as I did in writing the original article), and I didn't take that into consideration. None of us likes to be slapped down for the honest work we do. Anyway, I will get back to you on your comments above, which I felt when I first read them were less polite than they could have been. I am sure you didn't mean for them to come across that way, just as I didn't mean for my message to be so abrupt, so once again, I am sorry. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 15:21, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, I am trying to improve the page on the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River and saw that you have made edits there in the past; could you please have a look at the page and see if something could be added? If you could add a logo, please contact me via icpdr at unvienna.org. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.138.94.10 ( talk) 15:38, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for telling my about working on the Sandbox. Some places on Wikipedia seem a little daunting to a new guy, and I really appreciate it. Timothy Hawkins-Heathco ( talk) 13:44, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey, GeorgeLouis; Just wanted to give you the heads up. I checked out the Neenach article, and its looking pretty good. I left a few suggestions on the talk page.
Also, maybe with a good lead on the Gorman article, it'd be a good candidate for GA. Just a thought.
Cheers, -- Starstriker7( Dime algo or see my works) 20:37, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello GeorgeLouis ! Yes, thanks for making the explanations clearer :-) Cheers, Nicolas1981 ( talk) 23:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
You keep removing www.shopoutdoors.com/activities.html as a link from the Frazier Park page. For your information, since you failed to ask, the Frazier Park Visitors Center is a legal California nonprofit 501c3 corporation and NOT a commercial enterprise. Our Center undertakes to promote the various community and recreational activities around the Frazier Park area. You need to leave this link alone, repost it OR undertake the mission of promoting the area yourself, which is not likely. You should start your own promotional website for Neenach and leave our efforts and work to do the same for our town alone —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.251.90.183 ( talk) 02:54, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hey, Know it all- leave this page alone —Preceding
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Why do you keep reverting and removing everything I edit!? Each edit I make, you remove it. Agtax 03:58, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
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I hope the above reference helps to avoid having your welcome editing reverted by me or anybody else. Sincerely,
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I have posted a note at the main MoS talk page and the image use policy talk page to ask for additional views on the issue. Please stop reverting your use of images as bullets until there is actual consensus to support your view that image guidelines should be ignored. -- Collectonian ( talk · contribs) 03:39, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
May I hold your high horse while you relax a little? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 04:56, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
If you are still interested in giving a second opinion on this article, I have fixed the GA review page that the first reviewer did not complete correctly. Therefore, if you wish you can comment there. Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 15:59, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi!
I want to ask your opinion about one of your edits. It's not a mistake I think, but I want to ask the usage of the word whom. I've heared it's the Accusative and the Dative case of the interrogative pronoun who, but nowadays you can also use who because the grammatical cases are disappeared from the English language, only few words remember it. E.g. the personal pronouns still have their cases: I --> me /Dat., Acc./, --> mine /Genitive/; you /Nominative, Acc., Dat./ --> yours /Gen./ he --> him /Acc., Dat./ --> his /Gen./ etc...
And whom used to be the Accusative and the Dative of the who, but you can simply change it into who. /for instance: She is the girl who I sent a bouquet for. She is the girl whom I sent a bouquet for. and She is the girl whom I sent a bouquet. mean the same. I hope you can understand it, sorry I do not want to hurt you, but I do not know how could you understand cases if your language does not use them.
So, why did you change whom into who in the title of a Russian Aria song S Kem Ty? (С Кем Ты?) which means Who(m) Are You Playing with?? Why is it better with who than with whom. I suggest whom, because the preposition s (с) (with) needs Instrumental case in Russian, that Dative case is used in German languages for (like in German), and whom is a Dative form.
Sorry for the bad question, I just learn English, German and Russian all the three, and sometimes I do not understand the translations and transliterations between them :-)
Please answer me on my Hungarian talk page because I check it more often.
Yours faithfully!
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It is the article I was writing about: S Kem Ty?. It was just a question, I din't say it is wrong :) Why is who prefered here? Thanks Ferike333 ( talk) 09:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok. Thank you. I heared whom is not so often used in modern English, I just wanted to ask if it realy was not as useful as you would not use it in an article /sorry I do not know if this sentence was correct, it's still difficult me to write this thought in English :)/ Now I already know, I will keep track of it. Otherwise another question. You wrote you have taken two years of Russian. Does it mean the same as you learnt Russian during two years? No problem because of the confusion. Anyway have I had grammatical mistakes in my messages? /I just wanna know/. And please correct them me if I have. A vy govorite po-russki? Ya lyublyu russky yazik. I started to learn because my godmother is Russian and I wanted to be able to speak with her in two languages. But we have not met since :( And what do you think we should do with the prepositions on the end of the sentences? Because we learned by this way, but it can be whatever with it. You know better :) Thanx for the help. Yours sincerely, Ferike333 ( talk) 16:26, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Do you know if the Department of Water & Power is free of racism and discrimination? Do you know anyone in the company? Agtax 03:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Not so long ago you did some work on the above article. Recently I been doing an overhaul, following somewhat of a chronological history, adding references, importing info, etc. You help with cleaning up the article, specifically with grammar/spelling/tense/vocab, etc would be greatly appreciated. (one doesn't so easily see one's own mistakes). Sincerely Djflem ( talk) 22:34, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
I wish You a merry Christmas and lots of presents from the Santa, or from Jesus because in Hungary the baby Jesus brings the presents for children/people. I would write something wonderful from a poem but I do not know any in English. So have a nice Xmas and a nice holiday! Ferike333 ( talk) 21:28, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hi George, I've made the link to the article list more visible. I found it hard to see when I first happened upon this little project too. Cheerio! Mattopaedia ( talk) 06:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi George, I modified your most recent comment to use the <nowiki>...</nowiki> format, which causes the template to not be transformed. I guess it makes the discussion clearer? Please feel free to revert if not. And thanks again for reviewing articles on WP:ASE :-) Cheers Nicolas1981 ( talk) 03:28, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I see that you recently placed a message on my talk page about the proposed deletion of Groves High School (Georgia). I haven't edited that page, so I'm unclear as to why you notified me about this issue. Do what needs to be done, of course. Cheerio and happy editing. Merenta ( talk) 18:39, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello again. Thanks for your feedback on the newspaper piece. I do want to integrate what's currently going on in the marketplace (pretty awful) with where the newspapers are headed. It's worrying, to say the least, that we might lose so many of these great organs of communication -- and I fear they won't be replaced by the 'bloggers.' In any case, thank you for the conversation. Take care and best regards, MarmadukePercy ( talk) 05:56, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
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The information on the LA neighborhoods is simply based on relative location to other districts. I got the idea when I saw that the tables were in use for Chicago neighborhoods. Samhuddy ( talk) 02:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I saw this edit of yours [1] - how did you decide it was a commercial site? It looks pretty good to me. dougweller ( talk) 07:50, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Can't argue with that. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:08, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Help, I need an opinion from an uninvolved neutral wiki-editor on a subject Hello, if you have a few minutes to help a fellow editor out, I wanted to take a moment of your time to get your opinion on a dispute I'm having with a wikipedia editor. if you visit the page on Homeowners Association, and look at the discussion, the dissent is about a link I placed on the page to the website "Homeowners Association Websites Central." A certain editor "Wangi" not only believes that I have no right to place the link in the external links section, but further has accused me of starting bogus accounts as new users simply to add this link. I figure if I get some well known wikipedians to look at the situation, the link, and add their opinion to the debate, then at least I will know that the crazy accusations of user fraud will stop. Boy, who would have thought this would be such a hassle. Anyway the url for the link in question is http://www.athomenet.com/homenew/homeowners-association-websites-central.asp , and you can see the long history by looking at the history log on the homeowners association page.... Please, whatever your opinion may be, place it in the discussion area page in the topic of external links of Homeowners association central, and if you think the content is helpful, please add or undo wangi's deletion of the page. I will respect whatever your opinion is. Thank you: 69.15.97.162 ( talk) 15:57, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
The link will take you directly to the appropriate section. - Dan Dank55 ( push to talk) 03:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for the message. Be bold and make your edits (bearing in mind all the usual caveats about sources etc). But please, no redirects or moves! – ukexpat ( talk) 20:53, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Please be more careful when tagging pages such as Tierra Gitana. The article is clearly about an album by the Gipsy Kings and as such has context. A1 only applies if the context of the article cannot be determined. Regards So Why 07:36, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
GeorgeLouis, please re-consider your reverting of the changes, as I think moving the lists to their own page improves the readability of the article - which is our goal. The article is a sub article off Califonia history - and is more about the the rancho era in California. The lists are useful but obscure the article. Eventually there will be 800 entries in the table. Editing has a wiki warning that it is over 30k. I have been the person adding content to this page, and was careful to preserve all of the content. In my mind, I did suggest that the list should be moved to its own page on the talk page (Feb 09). I did not hear any comment, and being new at this, went ahead. Emargie ( talk) 22:08, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've just made a belated contribution here which supports your view. Cheers Bjenks ( talk) 07:13, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello--I pulled out the text you had along with the link to self-confirming equilibrium. I also added self-confirming equilibrium to the game theory infobox list of solution concepts (at the bottom of many game theory articles). I don't really think that it belongs in the "see also" of most of those articles, but it doesn't deserve to be an orphan, either, so I guess that's a way to handle it until it's better integrated into article text. CRETOG8( t/ c) 21:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
I didn't write that material, I merely moved it from an article that dealt with two very separate subjects. The user you're looking for is User:Ozzyjazz. Mintrick ( talk) 20:59, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
What in particular do you find trivial? The list of videos? Feed back ☎ 23:58, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
I find the article entirely too detailed, more suited to a fansite than to an encyclopedia. I've posted a note to that effect on the article's talk page, and if the consensus is to remove the note, then I am sure somebody will remove it. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:36, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
What project are we talking about? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:04, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi George,
I tossed some of the "quiltor" links because the condition isn't really related directly to horseshoes or farriery. It's quite archaic and I am looking for a better explanation. I left the link in the horse hoof article, as it is somewhat relevant there. Montanabw (talk) 23:55, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I have to agree with User:JHunterJ: the example of the "school" disambiguation page on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) is just an example; it is not the actual disambiguation page. It is a copy, not the original. If you have an issue with the way the School (disambiguation) page is worded, you should take it up on that page; and if and when there is a consensus to change the wording of the disambiguation page, then the copy of it used as an example on WP:MOSDAB can also be changed. Trying to change the copy instead of the original makes no sense to me. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 19:28, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've requested the move of both Oberg (disambiguation) and Öberg (disambiguation) to Oberg. There must be some misunderstanding: moving a page giving the page another name. I think what you're requesting is that Oberg (disambiguation) and Öberg (disambiguation) should be redirected to Oberg, which by the way already already contains all the information from the two disambiguation pages. For this, there's no need to file a proposal – you can just be bold and do it yourself. I suggest you remove the proposal from Wikipedia:Requested moves (since it isn't really a move request) and just go ahead and redirect the disambiguation pages to Oberg. Thanks, Jafeluv ( talk) 07:31, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
I am puzzled by this "essay" tag. You edit summary mentions the word "we". That word appeared exactly once in the article. I have now rephrased it. Was it simply the occurrence of that word that you thought made it look like an essay?
If you think it still looks like an essay, could you explain why on the article's talk page? Michael Hardy ( talk) 01:04, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Dear George,
I hope you will not change the article. I have been reworking the part of Heisenberg's theory, which has been very badly explained in many of the secondary materials.
I do not believe that there are any standards such as you propose that limit articles to lengths (other than there was originally a length standard based more-or-less on how large a file would choke the browsers of five or ten years ago).
The need of readers who seek a way into a field such as quantum physics is (1) for something that is not filled with mathematical treatments that are incomprehensible to anyone without a couple of years of college physics and math, and (2) for something that will not cause them to go away with a false picture -- with something that will have to be uprooted later on.
I got stuck with Heisenberg for just that kind of reason, and ironically I spent yesterday afternoon with one of the physics professors in my university confirming what I suspected about what is at the core of his discovery. Now I can rewrite that part so that it is far less problematical than what is given in, e.g., Introducing Quantum Mechanics.
There are some long discussions about matters that do not need to be discussed at all, or at least I think that they do not need to be discussed. I've already mentioned them in the talk page for the article in preparation for deleting them. (It's generally much easier to make a major change in an article by arguing for the change first and giving interested parties a chance to respond.)
I will take a look at what you propose. I do not mean to dismiss your work. I just want the article to be sufficient for the needs of scientifically inclined but novice readers.
Thanks for communicating with me first.
I have replied to your request in Wikipedia:Requests_for_feedback#Introduction_to_quantum_mechanics. Chzz ► 05:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
Chzz ► 06:17, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
We recently have two users, one sock another a possible vandal adding rescue to dozens of articles. It was fine re-adding the tag but you should also participate in the AfD and rescuing of the article. -- Banjeboi 02:10, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
I have added Mary Elizabeth Turner to the {{ embroidery}} navigation template (I changed the section "designers" to "designers and embroiderers" - I've been meaning to do that for a while), in place of the "see also" link to her on the Embroidery page which you added. Hope this works for you. If we add see also links for all of the famous embroiderers through history it would soon overwhelm the page. - PKM ( talk) 02:38, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis,
Solid advice! Going forward that's exactly what I'm going to do.
A quick question, where can I find the articles that need editing help?-- PiRSqr ( talk) 04:34, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi George, for that warning the syntax checker is rather pedantic, and it was fixed by removing a redundant "}}" (correct) and by adding an extra space (a change which should not ideally be needed). However the suggestions should work now - hope they are of help! -- All the best, Nickj (t) 07:39, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
You may not have thot abt why keyboards sport an "&" key. It's not for typing
Bang & Olufsen, nor for saving 2 keystrokes in casual chat. It's true that it doesn't belong in formal sentences except in cases like formal corporate names, but Dab entries are explicitly discouraged from being (even informal) sentences, and in practice barred from it: these are list entries, and should be terse, and should assist the reader by hinting that the connector between, say, "activist" and "writer" carries so little information that the slight mental effort of distinguishing and from end or add would be wasted, and that it is really there to keep the reader from thinking about other interpretations than "both apply", as they would if one were to write it "activist, writer". I'm not sure how old
ampersands are, but the symbol is a stylized version of the letters E and T, as in the Latin et meaning and. It was carried over at least from Latin into English, but probably carried over twice, once into Norman French and then into English, for one reason: it's useful. It was put onto movable type for that reason, and onto typewriter keyboards, and into the ASCII code set, and then onto computer keyboards bcz it's still useful. Just bcz it isn't worth including on grade-school lists of punctuation marks isn't a reason to avoid it in suitable (tho formal) situations like Dab pages.
--
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Thanks for the information. Nevertheless, ampersands are not used in formal English writing. Sincerely, your friend,
GeorgeLouis (
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Hi George,
I think I should notice you of a discussion about your work – I was confused by the article Basic concepts of quantum mechanics you posted which has the same goal as Introduction to quantum mechanics. So I asked at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics#Introduction to quantum mechanics what people suggest to do with the situation, it is now being discussed at Talk:Introduction to quantum mechanics. Up to now, I did not find time to read either article. -- Momotaro ( talk) 20:42, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
I have repaired your unintentional damage at Knickerbockers (clothing). The best Wikipedia editors are even more cautious about what they delete than what they add. If you have any further doubts about Knickerbocker or knickerbockers, please express them at Talk:Knickerbockers (clothing), and I or some other editor will try to satisfy them. No need to contact me personally. Thank you.-- Wetman ( talk) 21:57, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis! Thanks for the comments on the Jeong Yim page. Yes, I am trying to work on it. There is a fair bit of redundancy right now, but over time it will be refined. Huo Xin ( talk) 17:45, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment, I've tried to edit the page to make it clearer. Note that the project is currently just a proposal. If you're interested or have more concerns, please comment at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Citizendium Porting. -- Cybercobra ( talk) 07:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
After seeing what you've done, I tagged the page Lille University, Northern France for speedy deletion so that the other page could be moved there. But because the speedy deletion has been declined on the grounds that no discussion ever took place, I had to undo everything you did, and make the redirect go in the opposite direction of what you intended.
Please remember that simply copying and pasting the contents of an article to its new location does not transfer the edit history, and therefore violates the GNU Free Documentation License under which this text was made available to begin with. -- Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 20:21, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
It was suggested here. The reason I did not notify you then was because it was a good-faith edit, and a notification would probably have sounded like a warning, which I did not want to do, and no content would have been lost if implemented. The grounds of the speedy deletion was mere maintenance. -- Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 16:04, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
This recent edit of yours was the final straw for me. You politely asked CristianCantoro to explain what is wrong with the image. I gave you that explanation a couple of weeks ago, when you reverted my similar edit, and you never replied. You seem to ignore people as long as the current version of the article is your preferred one. You also removed the {{See also| Introduction to Quantum Mechanics}} that CristianCantoro added. I don't see how you can justify not linking that article—an article collaborated on by many editors, with which your single-author article is essentially in competition. In fact, you undid 100% of the changes by CristianCantoro, restoring the article to a version written entirely by you. The only substantive third-party change to the article since its creation that you didn't undo was this one. I also don't see how you can justify linking to your article from Arthur Stanley Eddington, George Johnstone Stoney, Banesh Hoffmann, and many other pages that don't (and shouldn't) link to Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. How is this anything but self-promotion?
I'm mystified by your behavior. You're an established editor who's worked on articles in many other subject areas, areas in which I assume you have some expertise. You seem to realize that quantum mechanics is not your strong suit, and you're not qualified to judge the accuracy of articles on the subject. Yet you write an article on the subject and revert all attempts to improve it. Please stop. The fact that you can't see what's wrong with that image doesn't make it right. -- BenRG ( talk) 19:30, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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Hi George! Thanks for the comments on the Jeong Yim page. Yep, I know there's a lot of redundancy on the page and I'm working on cleaning it up. I haven't figured out how to do this methodologically. One of the problems regarding the Jeong Yim history is that various schools promote one version or another which are very similar in many aspects, but differ in when he was born, how he trained when he trained and with who and how long, how he died, and when he died. It's crazy, but in China and elsewhere, threats and actual fights have occurred because of these arguments of history. I'm not exactly sure how to deal with this without insulting the schools of which were created under his name and consider him a founder or co-founder of the Choy Li Fut martial arts system, but I'm trying.... Huo Xin ( talk) 22:20, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
I came up with the number myself using a topo map, you can verify it for yourself. Ben Goldberg ( talk) 02:36, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi George. I saw you marked the page Pan Wenshi as needing citations. I have put some in but as I have never done this before on a wikipedia article, I thought maybe you could take a look or suggest someone who could. I am not totally confident I did it right and there seems to be so many different style of citation in use on wikipedia. I almost wish there were only one so I could just learn that. ! I think you also marked it as not being neutral POV. I'm not sure what to do about that. I don't have a lot of source material to work from for this guy, and, full disclosure, one of the sources I have is the published work of my brother. Any suggestions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mckennagene ( talk • contribs) 22:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks. I'll have a look. Deb ( talk) 11:48, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
I bumped into that page while hitting "random page" and my sympathy gland twinged when I saw the "help me" tag on that page. So I tried to patch the article up a little, but the user kendwallace (who I think also posts as Quentinwllcs and as K.w 2009 based on overlaps of edits for stuff like ' Tartesso', ' Buckeye, Arizona', ' Quay Valley, California' and ' Emeryville, California') put all the advertising dribble back. Living in Denver, I have no horse in those races, I just thought I could "help." Based on grammar and particular typographical errors (and the comment on Deb's talk page), I'm suspecting the editor is a teenager, however I can't imagine why any teenager would be motivated to post such stuff on such a topic. Tangurena ( talk) 22:47, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Dear [User:GeorgeLouis|GeorgeLouis]] ok i understand im sorry for copy it but i went back and took every thing copy on river island in lathrop article and put in my own words can u save the page and yes me Quentinwllcs|Quentinwllcs]] is my uncle we both new at this and yes we both have learning disabled but we both have intersest in these area and i would like you give us us a chance at this. Kendwallace ( talk) 03:36, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Dear [User:GeorgeLouis|GeorgeLouis]], Deb,i understand and im sorry i try to obey the warnings and advice but get so lost here sometimes but im still learning and trying improve my editing skills but need help that why i come to you guys that why going back and re doing rivers island at lathrop and douglass ranch on my talk page in my owns words will not copy anything. ( Kendwallace ( talk) 15:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)).
can put new river island article on my douglass ranch talk page ( Kendwallace ( talk) 16:01, 14 October 2009 (UTC)).
Well, I am just going to concentrate on preventing any damage to the one or two articles I am interested in. You will know what I do by checking the histories of those articles when you run across them. I may be doing some serious rewriting to them. Other editors can handle the other articles you are editing. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 07:03, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
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no probs, I never really finished it, nor found time to move it to Wikipedia space (though I thought that musea was the multiple of museum, or is that only true in Dutch?). -- Dirk Beetstra T C 22:11, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. You're right: there are a lot of silly people who have left a lot of stupid messages. All you can do is laugh. Take care, — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 19:10, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
Sorry. I didn't make any changes to the lead. Or if I did I can't remember what they were right now! Oh, yes, I have read that WP:Lead pretty carefully from time to time, but thanks for reminding me of it anyway. Cheers. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 03:58, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
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Would you be so nice to, in the future, search for reviews/coverage and/or check whether the band/artist is notable before proposing album articles for deletion? I de-prodded some and saw more nominated by you go the same route. I'm not saying all album articles should automatically be kept, but so far the albums I handled were all notable. This is unnecessary work for everyone involved and better spent improving articles. Regards Hekerui ( talk) 00:45, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis. While you may be right that the link I removed is not spam (my reason for removing it is that the account that added it has mass added it to a number of other auto articles), I feel it still violates Wikipedia:External links, specifically where it states: "If the website or page to which you want to link includes information that is not yet a part of the article, consider using it as a source for the article, and citing it." Tiptoety talk 00:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello GeorgeLouis, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Ingra House - a page you tagged - because: not unambiguously advertising and possibly important/significant. Use WP:AFD. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. So Why 10:07, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I've blanked the article Bob Benoit (horse racing) for revision, as I'm afraid that Wikipedia does not recognize press releases as public domain. There's more information at the article's talk page. I'm watchlisting it, in case you'd like to discuss it further. Thanks. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:00, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your addition to the top of
Category:Biography articles without listas parameter. One of us, those who are working on the items in the category, should have made that change a long time ago. However, I wonder if something should be added to indicate why a value for |listas=
is necessary. Would you be so kind as to look at what I wrote in response to
Anakin on my
talk page and add something that summarizes that or says it better?
Thank you again. JimCubb ( talk) 00:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
The link is at the blue two words " talk page" or here if that is easier. The link should take you to what is 39 in the Table of Contents. JimCubb ( talk) 01:43, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I am not certain how to do that succinctly. The best explanation of the term that the |listas=
"sort value" sets the order in which a talk page for an article is sorted in the categories that are populated by the project banners. If it is missing or the parameter is missing, the talk page will be sorted by the page name. In some cases that is correct but in other cases it is not.
There are bots that look for missing "sort values" and create them, especially if the page name consists of two English words and contains no punctuation. There are pages in the category that I have deliberately avoided as a check against such errors.
While the sort order of categories that are generated by project banners is almost completely a maintenance issue, the categories that are on the article page are deemed by some to be important. The sort order there is governed by the sort value in {{
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Does that help? JimCubb ( talk) 03:06, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
That is what I get for trying to avoid being ambiguous. The "sort value" is what comes after the colon in {{
DEFAULTSORT}}, after the equal sign in |listas=
and after a pipe "|" in {{
lifetime}} and category tags. If there is no sort value the page is sorted by its title, as you pointed out at the top of
Category:Biography articles without listas parameter. This is correct for many articles. For biographies of almost everyone in Western Europe or the Western hemisphere it is not correct. The three reasons to have an explicit "sort value" are those I gave Anakin. It shows that the issue has been considered, it protects the page from a bot's placing an incorrect sort value on the page and it makes those pages that truly need such a value more apparent.
Now, do you think that it would be helpful to have this information at the top of the category and, if so, as a retired professional wordsmith, would you be willing to write it?
I read your user page and most of the entries on your talk page before I wrote you. The personal information section is very good. The suggestion on your talk page that you need to learn how to write a lead paragraph did make me laugh.
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The rationale is now on the file page. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:48, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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Winston Churchill at a microphone raising his hat. |
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All |
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Illustrating Churchill making a speech as opposed to sitting at his desk or making a V sign. No free equivalent; free images do not show him making a speech. |
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It's possible, though I didn't find any others that actually showed him "on the stump." |
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Mug shot of Sidney T. Graves, former Los Angeles County supervisor convicted of bribery |
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Is Los Angeles International Airport convenient to your location? WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:25, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Please be aware that per the WP:MILMOS, and the practice of WP:SHIPS that it is perfectly acceptable for ships to be referred to in the feminine (in fact it is the most-common method here). The general use is that either she or it is appropriate, but the article should be consistent and not change without significant reasons and a significant consensus. That means that your change of the pronouns on USS Nicholas (FFG-47) is not in accordance with the guidelines and has been reverted. Please do not continue to force this without entering into discussion. - MBK 004 06:10, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Don't be so effing peremptory. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:44, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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I noticed you uploaded File:1923.04.22-Los Angeles Times Front Page.jpg and a slew of other public domain LATimes images last fall and I was wondering where you got the images in the first place. VernoWhitney ( talk) 15:17, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
"EL" is Wiki-jargon for "external links". Their use is guided by WP:EL. I hope I didn't delete a cherished link! Will Beback talk 21:40, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Wow! I’d half forgotten about this; I’d been putting off doing anything as it isn’t a subject I know much about. Well done! Swanny18 ( talk) 16:52, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Pat Tillman was characterized as "agnostic, if not atheist" if I remember the Krakauer quote correctly somewhere here (51 min long interview). It may be a better source (as he wrote a book on Tillman) than the LA Times piece. - Shootbamboo ( talk) 20:24, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Of course I would not mind if you put in the quotation you mention. but the latest skinny is that Tillman was an atheist, not an agnostic. There are now four references on this WP page from journalists who probably had to write only one story that day and whose stories were vetted by editors. I suppose you know that publishing houses do not fact-check the books they publish. I would trust a major newspaper city room any day over anything in hard cover. Sincerely, and with great admiration for your WP work, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 03:43, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
I don't agree with the decision to omit the cursing, but then again I doubt my opinion would change anything. I think it should be included because it shows how mad his brother was at Maria Schriver and John McCain to ascribing errant religious platitudes to his fallen brother. I believe by taking the curse out it detracts from the quote, dehumanizing it even. Just more of what happened during this whole episode. Ad nauseum sanitization and omittance is not what this article needs or what I believe Pat Tillman deserves. -- Guymontague ( talk) 16:41, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Howdy. Following this edit by your own good self, three articles ( Gospel of Judas, 25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and Strategy+Business) now link to Thomas Desmond Williams - the wrong Thomas D. Williams in each case. Might I kindly ask you to reconsider your change? - TB ( talk) 07:07, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Certainly no objection, and then the DAB page would have to be made anew. I myself am not fond of red links (unless the linked person is really, really famous and there is very little doubt that the article will soon be created), but that's just my personal feeling. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 14:50, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, nice to see that you are cleaning up some dab page :-) But instead of removing {{ disambig-cleanup}}, replace it with {{ disambig}}, otherwise it is not listed as an DAB page anymore. Christian75 ( talk) 11:51, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for inquiring to my Talk page. I appreciate the chance to talk with you before your doing more edits like that. After reviewing the edit, I just reverted your big edit to the St. Paul's Church dab page. Your edit, among other things, deleted redlink entries that were entirely valid by MOSDAB rules (see MOS:DABRL subsection in particular). I am responsible for most/all of the NRHP entries in the dab page. Some of them fully conform to MOSDAB rules. Others are imprefect because their supporting bluelinks point to a statewide NRHP list-article, when instead they should point to a more specific county- or city- NRHP list-article which was broken out from the statewide list. I would appreciate your help in refining the supporting bluelinks, so that they point properly to the list-article showing the same redlink. Simply deleting them is unhelpful. Could you please read up on redlink policy, and supporting bluelinks, and then we can chat further?
Also, about the mention of NRHP listing for items that have articles, I think still mentionin gthe NRHP listing is useful for showing they are historic churches and suggesting why they are notable. It's not a big deal, just something helpful for readers, no strong reason to keep the NRHP mention in those items. The NRHP mention is needed for the redlink items, though, as part of the supporting bluelinks.
About the St. Paul's churches in India and in other countries, I recognize that the entries do not comply fully with MOSDAB guidelines. But I imagine those are real churches and notable ones, and I think it would be better to just leave them in place, or to do the work to make them valid. E.g. by looking for a list-article of churches in India and adding them to that. I look forward to chatting further with you. -- doncram ( talk) 16:59, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I copied all the above to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:St._Paul%27s_Church. Please don't add anything more here. Thank you. Your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 18:40, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm glad you're on board to help clean up disambiguation. A big part of the overall effort is to fix ambiguous links, i.e. links to dab pages. That helps directly in the articles that have the ambiguous links, and it helps at the dab pages too, by allowing "what links here" for redlink entries to work better in finding articles that meaningfully connect to a specific topic (which can then be used to create a proper supporting bluelink). There's a monthly dab-fixing contest, which is kinda fun and is certainly 100% productive, involving no drama. The leaderboard is at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links#DAB Challenge leaderboard; details are [ here]. Please consider joining, by just starting to fix ambiguous links for dabs on the monthly list. It's easier to increase your count early in the month, by the way, as later all the easiest-to-fix ones have been done, but you can start anytime.
Also, you might want to watchlist the Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/The Daily Disambig. I notice dab pages popping up there in my interest area, historic sites, and can often then easily fix the new ambiguous links to them, heading off problems later. Cheers, -- doncram ( talk) 14:30, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Is that any better. I had assumed as a member of the Tongan legislative assembly he was a politician. Sorry. Waacstats ( talk) 19:11, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for the info. I knew that once, but I forgot about it. There is a lot to know here. Sincerely, in gratitude, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:26, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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I've raised this at WP:NORN. Using the Bible in this way is classic original research. It would be ok to say 'notable person x says that this quote and this quote show the Israelites are white', but you need a WP:RS to do it. Some editor saying that is original research. Dougweller ( talk) 07:07, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
OK. Whatever you say. Sincerely, your pal, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 20:11, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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Perhaps a bit too radical an approach. I think you take out too much of what makes it a coherent story. I think you should work to the present structure. Writing a FA here at Wikipedia is very quirky. You might want to read through the FAC and see what reviewer concerns were there (leaving aside my runin with Tony1, which we've long since made up).-- Wehwalt ( talk) 21:09, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
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Yeah, I saw that. I guess, if you think about it, every thing everywhere is in the "greater Los Angeles" area. I saw that he has a thing for the greater Sacramento area, too. Mracew ( talk) 03:50, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Thought you might want to know that WP:FUCK is up for MfD, since you commented before on its talk page. Historically, since many opposed to the essay do not watch the page, they don't know when it hits MfD. The last MfD was speedy kept after being open just a few hours IIRC. I'm trying to get a constructive dialog going between the various opinions, and this is starting to happen. You can find it at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism (3rd nomination) if you care to comment. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 05:05, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I see you reverted my adjustment to the Stephen Barrett criticism of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. I believe you acted in good faith. I also believe the revert was erroneous.
Barrett's list is published information. Counting the number of organizations on the list does not represent original research. It is simply a way of summarizing the context in which Barrett's criticism occurred. It is information that is directly and explicitly supported by the source. It is a routine calculation that most people over the age of six could perform for themselves.
As the article stands now, it is misleading and unbalanced. A casual reader gets the impression that Barrett targeted the IONS out for special and specific criticism, when in fact his criticism was spread over hundreds of organizations.
Please undo your revert and/or reply on my talkpage explaining how my changes could be OR.
Best regards,-- Stepheng3 ( talk) 16:55, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to be contrary, but where did you get the idea that "criticism" implies a balanced perspective? I'm looking at
reference.com, wheremost relevant definition seems to be "the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything". --
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I'm interested in this article only because I met a nice woman once who was really into this scene. (Big grin.) Otherwise, it doesn't mean that much to me. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 21:40, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I am now owner of a TUSC account! GeorgeLouis ( talk) 20:34, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for the formatting troubles at Talk:James_Cantor. The mixture of wikimarkups and html makes formatting difficult, sometimes unstable, and the need to avoid edit conflicts often means there isn't enough time to fully test things. It should be fixed now. BitterGrey ( talk) 05:07, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
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I deleted the prod tag you placed on 1906 Auburn Tigers football team, as the article was discussed at AfD on 13 January 2008 with a consensus to keep, and is therefore ineligible for deletion via prod. Compliance with policy/procedure is the only reason I did this; I have no prejudice against opening another AfD. — KuyaBriBri Talk 14:48, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you appear to be proposing deletion for any article that has been tagged as having no sources for any length of time stating vaguely that it is impossible to verify any of the information "because there is no way to check it". I'm sorry, but common sense says that most of these articles would be able to be sourced from somewhere, perhaps not easily from a quick google search, but it is certainly do-able. If you truly believe that deletion would be uncontrovertial, better reasoning is needed. Regards, wjemather bigissue 21:51, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello again. No, I am not doing anything on a whim — more like conscious design. I'm working my way through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006, and I provide sources when I can find them (I do find a lot), removing the Unreferenced tags as I do so. A whole bunch of us are working on that project. It really doesn't matter to me how tenuous the Source is as long as there is one attached to the article. You would be surprised how quickly SOMEBODY will step up to find a Source once any given article is threatened with extinction. I call it Improving the Encyclopedia, but of course I am just one editor and I wonder how any other given editor might go about reducing the backlog? Maybe my Prod reason should be a little less confrontative? What do you think? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:41, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Well, thanks for your attention. I've sent some messages to the people who edited the articles, asking for their assistance in providing sources. No resultsl yet. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 19:28, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi George,
It took me a few clicks on the Arkansas Secretary of State's website to find the information we needed. I sourced it and removed your prod. Just because it's not on Google doesn't mean it's not verifiable. It needs updating. Can you please do that? Bearian ( talk) 23:10, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar! Lugnuts ( talk) 08:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, for your positive comments about my work, in the deletion discussion for the article Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System at the AFD page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System. Your comments are most appreciated. Thanks again, -- Cirt ( talk) 21:32, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
...thank you. Johnlp ( talk) 09:16, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the Barnstar! It's about time someone noticed the hard life of the humble volunteer... Sincerely, -- DOOMSDAYER520 ( Talk| Contribs) 19:57, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Did you identify a source of the possible copyright violation? VernoWhitney ( talk) 13:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes, George, I did change user names. As a brand new guy to this I picked the user name Timothy Hawkins-Heathco but became dissatisfied with it when I saw the type of names others were using. My current studies span mythology - anthropology - archeology, and there seems to be a distinctive culture in each, including the kind of names commonly chosen. I received the approval of the Arbitration Committee for the new name, and at their suggestion Abandoned the old name. However, I had already worked my first article through the system, with some much appreciated help from some nice folks. When I added the new user name to the Project Archeology member list I noticed that others were displaying their real name instead of their user name and this seemed like a perfect solution. What do you think? — Cathbhadh III ( Talk) 02:20, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
I'll carry on keeping a watching eye on Los Angeles Times in the 21st century. As a matter of interest, why do you nowiki your signature? Barnabypage ( talk) 17:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLewis- in response to this revert, the disclaimers in the references seem very unnecessary. It would be better to use a full citation style. If you'd like me to take the disclaimer to VPP, I'll do so. Aside from the reference issue, do you have any other concerns to the changes I made? tedder ( talk) 05:33, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
I see you reverted my addition, which is fine by me, but I would like to know the reason. Generally if reverting an edit that is not blatant vandalism, one adds a reason to the edit summary. Personally, I think a [ sic] is okay, because that's the accepted academic notation for an intended spelling/markup/etc, but I won't argue if you disagree. ( X! · talk) · @005 · 23:06, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello GeorgeLouis. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Ice Age: Continental Drift, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Although the title "Continental Drift" may change, there is evidence ( Variety and the reference at NY Times in the article) that this is being made. If you feel it should be deleted, either PROD or take to AfD. Thank you. -- PhantomSteve/ talk| contribs\ 02:32, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
fragging even though usally only carried out against officers it has happened to enlisted men in positions of leaderhip before such as Jr. NCO's placed in charge. TucsonDavid ( talk) 08:37, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Redirect created. Skier Dude ( talk 06:28, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Ill have to look up the reference and get that back to you but the standard is full dates in the paras in the beginning of the article but its ok if you changed that. Your not alone, there are other editors that feel the same as you. typically when the article gets higher in the grade scale through FA it becomes more of a requirement. -- Kumioko ( talk) 04:20, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
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In my edit summary here, I said the image sized should not be locked according to "MoS", by which I meant WP:MOS; WP:MOSIMAGE, specifically. However, I was wrong; it is WP:PIC that explains why sizing images with pixel factors is not preferred: "Although pixel counts are easier to understand than upright factors, they adjust less well to user preferences... [M]any of the users who set the default width to 300 pixels to work better with their high-resolution screens will be annoyed with "200px" because it will make the picture a third smaller than their preferred size." I used the "upright" factor to size the tall image at Royal Victorian Order, instead. -- Ħ MIESIANIACAL 08:13, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
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Are you sure this [2] is correct in English...?
“ | In mathematics, Cantor's diagonal argument (...), was published in 1891 by Georg Cantor as a proof that.... | ” |
I suppose, Cantor's argument was not published in mathematics, but rather in some mathematical journal...? CiaPan ( talk) 12:05, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Re.
your edit to the
National Do Not Call Registry page:
Why do you consider the cited page,
"Unwanted Telephone Marketing Calls - FCC Consumer Facts", an "activist" page? It's hosted on fcc.gov, and carries the FCC's credentials: contact info, logo, etc. Who or what is behind that "activist" page if not the FCC?
Also, you said of your edit: "The other link went to an activists' site with no mention of nonprofits on the landing page." That page mentions the exemption of "tax-exempt non-profit organization" in three places. Are we looking at the same page?!
I would like to know the reasoning of your edit. Thanks. Andy Nguyen ( talk) 04:08, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
You might be interested in the CfDs I've started regarding the LA Times categories. Purple backpack89 15:46, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for the welcome, I've been here for a while just floating around and decided to finally do something and help clean up the new pages of Wikipedia. Bluefist ( talk) 21:12, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am the page creator of Inu to Anata no Monogatari, the page you have proposed to delete for the following reason: Not notable.
Under the Wikipedia:Notability_(film)#General_principles you have asked me to see, there is one line saying that"Trivial coverage, ......without critical commentary, or listings in comprehensive film guides such as ... the Internet Movie Database." If you bothered to look at the article, you will see that it already has a listing on the Internet Movie Database. Hence, your proposed deletion has no other grounds to fall back on.
Do note that my articles always are based on credible sources and critical commentary, even if it is not in English. Hence, please do not carry out and remove this deletion, failing that, I will have to report you for vandalizing a perfectly legitimate article. Thank you. Lionratz ( talk) 08:26, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello GeorgeLouis, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kirk Sommer, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is an assertion of notabiluty - please use AFD or prod if you wish to delete this. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Spartaz Humbug! 11:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, GeorgeLouis:
Thank you for trying to help me with my edits not saving problem. You indicated you had moved my file to something called Sandbox1, but I can't find it. Please advise where I may find it. I looked in my Sandbox, but nothing is there. I've looked through everything I have (which is only that article I'm working on) and can find it no where. Please tell me how to get to it. Thank you. Cmckibben ( talk) 03:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
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Armbrust Talk Contribs 20:52, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Armbrust Talk Contribs 21:14, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
GeorgeLouis: Thank you for your help last week. I figured out that through my own stupidity I had inserted a faulty external link and it was causing me the problem of not saving my work. If I'd looked at the top of the file, as you explained, I would have seen that I had a problem with a link! I finally figured it out, thanks to you! All the Best Cmckibben ( talk) 21:58, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you George Louis for posting an informative biography of Irish. I'm a historian at USC in Los Angeles who is researching Irish for a book on white Americans who supported Japanese immigrants. I'm writing to you from the home of Irish's great grand-daughter. Her name is Barbra Brower and she too is very interested in researching Irish. She has some important corrections for your biography that she'd like to share with you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lonkurashige ( talk • contribs) 01:35, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis. I replied to your post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Inline Templates#Template:Registration required/doc. -- œ ™ 09:49, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, sucha newbie mistake on my part, first timer I guess... Anyway, what I wrote in the hair growth article was 100% correct, and I was wondering how I can leave the content there, while providing a reference that wont be considered as a conflict. I have already submitted an application to change my username to my real name. After my name is changed, can you restore the content I wrote on the article? Please advise me if I should do anything else on the matter.
Regards, Daniel Bendheim (aka Harry Donovan :} ) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Donovan ( talk • contribs) 08:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
So, once I finish writing about an article in my area of expertise, I can provide lots of links, from which an editor will pick & choose the relevant ones? I simply would like to be recognized as the one who brought forth the information. I don't really care which site gets the credit. There are plenty of sites saying the same things, just different phrasing. Please advise if you can. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Donovan ( talk • contribs) 14:26, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
A friend of mine, who is a linguist specializing in the languages of the Caucasus, sent me some information on a reference for this article. He is in the process of moving, so he cannot lay his hands of the reference book at this moment. When he does, I will insert more specific information. Is the reference good enough to stand on its own for a short time as written? Thanks, Ebikeguy ( talk) 00:16, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Ah, well. That explains it! That was quite a while ago, and actually I have left that particular drive. I am now concentrating more on writing new articles on historical subjects and also, when I tire of that, I keep my eye on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Contributions/newbies. How are you doing these days? Yours, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 02:10, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Most of the articles dealing with the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass are my work. You start with that page and then follow the links all over this area, as far east as Scheideck, California. Haven't done Lockwood Valley, California, yet, but that is on my agenda, as soon as I get back from New Caledonia. Cheers. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 02:33, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
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I'm borrowing your American citizen user box—I earned the right to display it last July but it hadn't occurred to me to update my WP page until I saw yours. :) - Simon Dodd { U· T· C· WP:LAW } 02:26, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I moved this to different spacing as suggested at Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(people)#Middle_names_and_abbreviated_names, and because there were a couple of incoming redlinks at that spacing. If you've got a birth date you could add him to Macdonald#Notable_people:_MacDonald_surname too. (I just clicked on the Pulitzer Prize link from your stub to see whether it gave any more info or full name, then was surprised to see him still red-linked there, ... etc). PamD ( talk) 09:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thanks for your note. New to wiki edits. Boeingairbus2011 ( talk) 04:24, 26 February 2011 (UTC)boeingairbus2011
George, if you look at WP:FA you will be hard pressed to find an article where we place the image at top left, the TOC at the top right, and the infobox for the article way down the article. This isn't how we structure articles here. Regardless, pending discussion with you I haven't reverted you again in that respect. What I have done though is move the image back to the modeling section, as the use of the image at the top of the article constitutes a violation of WP:NFCC, as this person is alive. Please do NOT place the image back at the top of the article as this is a violation of said policy. Thank you, -- Hammersoft ( talk) 04:35, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Lacking specific sources about the Daily News's news operations (columnist, awards, etc), I've been unable to improve it past GA. If you have any ideas, they would be welcome indeed.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 11:41, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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I'm pretty sure not all 30 of the edits you spammed about Pat Tillman even know who Pat Tillman is, let alone need to be made aware of the discussion. I have reverted a good number of your posts; please don't do that again. NW ( Talk) 17:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
FYI, one of the people to whom I sent the message has taken it upon himself to sort out the mess and to survey the participants in the hope of gaining consensus, so I feel my assay was successful. Talk:Pat_Tillman#Clarifying_for_consensus And I would ask you not to be so peremptory. Frankly, I don't deserve it, and nobody does. Yours in Wikidom, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 03:59, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hello George, I must confess I've been admiring your work on Ing from afar. In fact, you may have noticed that I lifted some of the Ing article for the GSLS article. A number of editors have worked on the GSLS article, and I think your resources could be of great help in improving the article. If you have any non-Internet news sources for Ing they might have coverage of the school. The school represents a singular time in the history of Ing; it's a shame more Ing schools don't have articles. On another topic, I see you're on the SoCal taskforce. Have you seen this? Lionel ( talk) 00:02, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi GeorgeLouis, about a week ago you put a comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle which gave the impression you would actually like to keep that article but couldn't because the case for notability hadn't been made. I don't want to persuade you of anything against your better judgment, but I am just curious whether you would still take the same view now that two other users have given reasons for notability and the main voice for "delete" there and on the parallel page ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medieval Chronicle Society) is the original mover, whose level of argument .. well, speaks for itself. -- Doric Loon ( talk) 16:42, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
You may recall my AfD of Hendrix Junior High School. You made a comment that the only possible notability had to do with the platypus mascot.
Well, turns out the vandalism went so far as to change the colors and mascot. Hendrix is still in the Arizona Interscholastic Association system – with proper colors (red and gray) and mascot (husky).
Thought you might get a chuckle from it. Raymie ( t • c) 23:51, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed you edited my addition to Women in journalism and media professions next to Lara Logan, removing the capital letters and making "foreign affairs" one word: "Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent"→"chief foreignaffairs correspondent." Can you explain why you did that? In the Lara Logan article it says "Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent" with capital letters and "Foreign Affairs" as two words.— Biosketch ( talk) 01:47, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Back in October you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to take it to AfD. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 10:32, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
Just curious, why bring the issue up now, eleven months after the fact? I'm not complaining or annoyed; I'm simply surprised. Anyway, I don't understand why you say what you do: the two independent sources provide separate information, and I don't see anything that could come across as sufficiently POV to cause problems. Nyttend ( talk) 05:39, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
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I was very surprised to see that you marked Origen's Philocalia for speedy deletion. May I ask why?
You see, I expended quite some time on this, referenced it thoroughly, and thereby resolved a confusion between the medieval Philokalia and the text by Origen. I just don't understand how there can be a problem here? Roger Pearse ( talk) 07:22, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
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In February you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider taking it to AfD. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 19:40, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
I liked this. -- John ( talk) 02:26, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
why did you delete Margaret D. Bennie Public School Leamington — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kagazuda ( talk • contribs) 01:24, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
I apologize if this is the wrong way to do it, but my name is Lawrence Ross. There was a question as to whether I'm from Inglewood California (on the Inglewood page). I am from Inglewood, and I still live in Inglewood today. Hope that helps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alpha1906 ( talk • contribs) 03:03, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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Very impressive. I can't think of a single aspect that went uncovered - it's truly comprehensive. Yet no issue is belabored -- it's a very readable account of a distinct and noteworthy topic. Well done! Will Beback talk 08:55, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hi GeorgeLouis! I had been a long time, I just refreshed the WP:ASE list! Your help in checking potentially biased articles would be greatly appreciated! The list is intentionally short, I will keep adding fresh words every time the list becomes empty. Cheers! Nicolas1981 ( talk) 10:45, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
That you don't see the ILO's importance in the UNDg, especially being a professor. Other dictionaries are better ( talk) 11:24, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Just follow the links in the demographics section. For some reason it starts at Alabama. Just select California and voila all is revealed. Carlossuarez46 ( talk)
Well, it is a lot better than the 2000 version. Where do I go to edit it, or to engage in a discussion about it? Thanks again. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 23:24, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
CarlosSuarez, "please be a doer"? That is just insulting. By writing a message I am "doing" something. If you care to look at my record, I think you will see plenty of "doing." I await your apology. Yours, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 01:00, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the unexpected barnstar! It's true, I do hate using jargon around newbies (in real life too). It makes them feel excluded instead of welcome - and it's really just laziness on our parts. Thanks for the backpat! -- MelanieN ( talk) 03:44, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hi GeorgeLouis - You commented on Palazzolo before, so I want to bring your attention to a new BLPN section I have presented at - Neutral BLP for Palazzolo
Struggling to find equity for this case, I was advised by an editor (after a long wiki journey) to give a few pithy examples of what has been written that is wrong, and then offer an alternative BLP, which I have done.
Thanks in advance for considering this case. I merely ask that someone adjudicate as my pleas to the present author fall on deaf ears.
-- Fircks ( talk) 11:50, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
{{ subscription required}} and {{ registration required}} are well-established as the way to indicate similar source access restrictions; they likewise use parentheses. In any case, the use of a monospaced font seemed quite abnormal. Also, many (all?) of the links can be generalized to the database provider and thus made non-library-specific. -- Cybercobra (talk) 01:50, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hey, I came across Will H. Kindig while stub sorting. What do you think of the edits I made to it? Thanks. -- I dream of horses @ 20:23, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hello! You recently added a note to the Stanford University article saying that the lead is way too long. Way too long? It's four paragraphs; that seems to me to be completely appropriate for this very lengthy article, and I really don't see what ought to be removed. Could you please discuss this at Talk:Stanford University? Thanks. -- MelanieN ( talk) 15:02, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
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Just wanted to drop you a line and tell you you've done a great job cleaning up the W. V. Grant article. You've really put a nice coat of polish on it, doing the little things everyone else never sees. Nice work! Dayewalker ( talk) 03:11, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
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I appreciate the welcome, I have edited on Wiki for a number of years already. I disappear unfortunately when time does not allow, I hope my contribution in Networking have help. I also went thought a great deal of effort to get photo's that were not available anywhere ( to me at least ) put into the public domain by Cisco so they could be used in the article.
I may make a mistake here and there, but it is not intentional by any means and I know there will be someone to point out what I did wrong "quickly".
In any event, I wanted to leave you this note becuase after all the years I edited, you are the first to "welcome" me.
akc9000 ( talk • contribs • count) 12:00, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Again, I would really like to see these videos that are used in the cite of the article, I say this because I saw this guy preach, and I could not see any trick, I would love to see what is claimed. This is also the first time I have experienced a cite that is not verifiable. Any help would be appreciated. As you can tell I am curious. videos: # James Randi exposes WV Grant on West 57th Street - Faith Healing 2/2 and Faith Healing 1/2
Thanks!
akc9000 ( talk • contribs • count) 12:53, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the explanation, I have read it a little late, I remove a cite and put the citation needed as you mentioned and OrangeMike was quite upset over my action.
In any event, I took interest in that specific article since I recently saw the man preach and in all, I would say he called out 90 percent of the audience, told them what was wrong with them and their doctor's names then prayed for them and they recovered. I cannot see how all these people could be cured without the help of God via Jesus.
After I saw this service, I came and looked up information about the man on Wiki, and the article, at least to me does not appear to be from a neutral point of view. It talks about fraud, scandal, and does not mention many things that I think should be included to balance it, Nowhere does it mention for example that he went to Haiti and paid for orphanages after the disaster there.
No matter what I tried to add to the article, was reverted for some reason or another, I did NOT try to put a positive spin on it, I was trying to make the article more balanced. But no matter what I did it was no good. Unfortunately, it is my "personal" point of view the article not from a neutral point of view, and no one is going to add any good thing that this man has done to it, nor allow anyone else add anything to it.
I really don't have the time for this, I just saw something wonderful, looked him up and saw all negative stuff on Wiki so I tried to balance it.
But thanks for the cookies :)
akc9000 ( talk • contribs • count) 18:51, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
PS: Here is a quick example. Why would the information at his diploma being phony be included in the article when these diplomas are normally honorary anyway? So technically it does not matter unless you want to make the person look worse correct?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Divinity
I do understand you worked on this article and you received an awarded for it being neutral but I am having a problem seeing it being neutral.
akc9000 ( talk • contribs • count) 19:37, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Your recent edit to Camden, New Jersey adds an entry for Robert S. MacAlister as a notable, an entry that had also been added earlier to the article for Camden High School (New Jersey). Neither the article for Camden or the Camden HS article include a source, and the MacAlister article doesn't appear to provide a source for Camden being his home town or Camden HS as his alma mater. In the ongoing cleanup of these articles I would like to ensure that all of the entries have sources. Could I ask for your assistance in providing a reliable and verifiable source for his connection to Camden / Camden HS? Alansohn ( talk) 18:52, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi George, I left some questions on the WV. Grant talk page about the cite, I tried to help. Let me know if this stuff counts or not. I don't want everyone jumping all over me because I add a cite that does not qualify.
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I apologize for the comment--I was a little peeved at the libel bit, which I think I read harsher than you intended, and reacted too strongly. I do think that a citation needed tag would have been the appropriate response, but I was wrong to snap. Best, Meelar (talk) 20:37, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
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I added a statement of fact from Randi's article and OrangeMike called it reducinging the quality of the arttile. I really don't understand how a statement of fact that is in a different article can be cited as slanderous when that is his statements in his own words?
Could you take a movement to explain what is going on here?
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Thanks for your observation. I have a source, but forgot to add a citation. I fixed that problem a few minutes ago.
My source says "For half its height visitors had carved their names into the face of the bricks."
The source does not specify which half is carved. The structure is 32 feet tall, so 16 feet would be carved. I tried to simplify this slightly by stating: "Over the years, trespassers have carved names or initials into almost every brick within their reach."
I also have another source that said someone would carve initials, then come back years later and carve again, so this did not happen all at once.
Some photos also show where it is carved. One photo is a close up of carvings.
I have been a hard time telling the difference between original research and stating the obvious.
I greatly appreciate your thoughts. I will keep everything you say in mind as I reread my sources. Wikfr ( talk) 02:07, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
Check Wikipedia:Images. There are some forks from there, too. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:15, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
I hadn't even noticed the email address there, or I would have removed it. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 02:57, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey- I thought you might be interested in reviewing Rick J. Caruso, a new article created by some COI editors. When I get time I'll comb through it too. tedder ( talk) 00:28, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, George I've added in the references, but I'm not very good at the style, so you may need to fix that. Basically, the main source is a TLS article: 'The Hanky-Panky Way', TLS, 18 June 2010, p. 16. The book itself I have added the bibliographical information for. Hope this helps. Victorianistjaf ( talk) 08:42, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
Nice work. An interesting local politician with an outsized influence. Will Beback talk 20:17, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Isn't there a policy against using a username with a famous name in it? Feed back ☎ 18:10, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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Regarding your recent edit at Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004.
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Regarding the changes I made to references in the article to the Privy Council, it's always the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council that hears cases, and not the Privy Council of the United Kingdom proper; as such, I think a link to the more specific article is the most appropriate in such circumstances. Links to " Privy council" should generally be avoided, since it's an article about the generic concept of a privy council, rather than about any specific institution by that name.
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Hello, I added a discussion here about your proposed deletion. I translated this page from the French Wikipedia because Sabine Karsenti had no article in English. She had a prominent role in Battlefield Earth which was a widely viewed (or at least heard of) big-budget feature film, starring many A-List celebrities. She also had a starring role in a cult television show, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, that has a wider following on DVD now than its viewership when it aired. She had no article before not because she was non-notable, but because most of her work was in French, and her article in French is over five years old. Finally, since I made the article (again, based on the French original which I translated, with information there that has been notable enough for the past five years) in late august, according to stats.grok.se it has averaged over a dozen views per day and gotten as many as 30. Not a lot, of course, but not insignificant. That means that deleting the article would remove some information from the wealth of knowledge that is Wikipedia. I've begun to add some interlingual wikilinks to have a different shade of blue, which is better than red, and I will add the rest of her filmography when I have some more time. JesseRafe ( talk) 17:47, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
As per your suggestion, I have written a biography of Sir John for Wikipedia. Being an newbie and Wikipedia being complex beyond belief, I have no idea what to do next. It is somewhere in my user talk section. There are MANY John Stokes, so I think it best that the article has his full title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charles Poynton ( talk • contribs) 21:28, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
I have a copy of Sir John Stokes' autobiography and I know where a few others might be. However, only a few hundred were printed and distributed among descendents in Australia. The publisher (Ken Maynard Stokes) died in about 2001. I put the biography on the Internet in 1998 to make it more accessible and it is for that reason that links are given directly to the Internet document. The autobiography was doubtless written from diaries, but those have presumably been lost. Charles Poynton ( talk) 22:39, 17 September 2011 (UTC) Charles Poynton (the time here in NZ is 10:47 on the morning of Sunday 18th)
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Hi George, I noticed that you moved the TOC at civil engineering. I don't care how it's formatted, but it needs to be in its standard position for screen readers, per the last line here. Graham 87 02:12, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
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What I was trying to say is that you have written a lot at the DRV. So much that the DrV is hard to read. I'd urge you to be a lot more concise at the AfD. 02:14, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry, friend Bwilkins, but I don't know what DRV means. Yours, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 12:10, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
We're working on bringing the L.A. article up to Featured status. The history summary is a current topic. I just trimmed some excessive detail about the early Spanish explorers, so it's now about 662 words long. The history section of San Francisco, which is a featured article, is 1400 words long. We can do a better job of adding material on the last 70 years of L.A. history, and we've got several hundred words in which to do it. I've proposed some topics which we might mention (mostly crimes or civil disturbances). Talk:Los Angeles#founding and move of san gabriel mission. Do you have any thoughts on the matter? Would you like to take on the project? Will Beback talk 06:51, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hello GeorgeLouis: I have placed the entry on Sir John Stokes in my sandbox as per your suggestion. One day, some day, I will do some inline citations, but have some more pressing (paid) writing to do at the moment. What next? Charles Poynton ( talk) 08:36, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
I have restored the redirect of the above article, since for the last 2 months you have made no changes to it other than to add empty sections and continually restore the underconstruction tag. As an unsourced blp it is not an acceptable article, I suggest you work on it in your userspace, or leave it as a redirect until such time as you are able to create it properly-- Jac16888 Talk 10:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for your kind words at WPConservatism. There are liberals on Wikipedia who give mouth service to NPOV: you actually live by it. The deletion at the AfD 2nd was ridiculous. It was solidly No consensus. When you're ready for round #3 with Watson, let me know... – Lionel ( talk) 03:40, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
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Sorry if I erroneously reverted a change you made on the Biographeis of Living People noticeboard. I was under the impression you added something about a "teenage boy wanker." Maybe it was not you. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 23:52, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for the clarification. I wasn't aware that it was a direct quote from The Times.
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I haven't logged on here in a while, and I was concerned to find a copyvio notice from you on my talk page. My concern turned to complete bafflement when I checked the link to the supposedly infringed source. I'm fairly certain I have never even seen it before. I'm trying to figure out what's going on, but the article and article:talk are gone, I can't find anything on my contributions page referencing the article or article:talk, and I haven't been about to locate any Wikipedia page discussing the article deletion. Can you give me some idea what's going on? Thanx. The deleted page was Greg Garcia, and the allegedly infringed source was http://www.isa.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Products_and_Services/Conferences_and_Exhibitions1/ISA_EXPO/Events_For_All1/Spotlight_on_Industrial_Security/Spotlight_on_Industrial_Security.htm Alsee ( talk) 00:23, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
I am at a loss as to why all this is on my Talk Page. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 22:39, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
I am sorry, but I don't recall anything like that. I suppose it has slipped my memory. If you can provide a diff or whatever, perhaps that will jog my recollection. Which Greg Garcia is this? Maybe you can find the notice in your archives and post it here. Thank you so much. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 17:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
The issue has been resolved. Someone else committed a Copyvio and the Copyvio notice was mistakenly directed onto my talk page. Alsee ( talk) 22:48, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hello GeorgeLouis, I hope that you are having a nice day. I guess you if you live in California you must have a nice day. I reverted your edit to the Hector Santiago Colon article and would like to tell you why. The surname of Hector's father was "Santiago" and his mother "Colon". He was inscribed in his birth certificate with both surnames, without the hyphen, a custom which is very common in Puerto Rico and in most Latin countries. Before Puerto Rico was ceded to the US, it was common for people to use an "y" between both surnames, an example of this is "Cayetano Coll y Cuchí". The American influence has led many Puerto Ricans to continue to use both surnames as in Spanish naming customs, with a hyphen (ex. "Antonio Fernós-Isern") or nothing at all (ex. Ernesto Ramos Antonini) instead of "y".
The fact about Hector was confirmed by his nephew Lt. Col. Nelson Guadalupe whom I know. I became curious in regard to Hector's father whose surname "Santiago" I share and since Puerto Rico is so small I wondered if we were related. No, we are not related, but it is a fact that "Santiago" is his father's surname and "Colon" his mothers. Thank you for your contributions and your time and may you have a great day. Tony the Marine ( talk) 23:56, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear GeorgeLouis, I absolutely agree with you in what you wrote about the quality of the Klaus article. Yesterday I tried to improve it a little bit. It is still partly terrible, biased etc., and substantial points are missing. In my view, there have been some far-left oriented users, probably of Czech origin, who contributed to this article with unbelievable bias towards Klaus´ market-economy stands and his person in general. They also used every opportunity to accuse him of things like alleged intelligence activities and friendship with Mr. Putin. In fact, Klaus is friend of the Republican Party of the United States. Of course, he was concerned to continue Russian oil and gas supplies to the Czech Republic during the 1990 years, as they were rather cheap, and there were scarcely any other supplies in needed quantities and with acceptable transportation costs. Have a nice day, -- Zbrnajsem ( talk) 11:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
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The San Diego Union-Tribune did, in fact, announce a name change to the deathlessly memorable moniker U-T San Diego on January 3. I added some sources for this, and I'd value your input on the talk page as to whether we should change the name of the article, or leave the old (and still possibly better-known) article name for the time being. Thanks very much. Best, -- Arxiloxos ( talk) 00:41, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Bencherlite. It is certainly good to hear from you, but I wonder if you realize how peremptory all those "Please do thises!" and "Please do thats!" sound. Gee whiz, it is those stern admonitions from cyberspace that send potential editors in droves away from Wikipedia. I would certainly appreciate an apology for what seems to me to be just plain rudeness. As for the content of your message, I have no objection to your making the changes that you want to make at this point because I will be able to answer all of your requests (or, rather, demands) when I get some time. (I actually do have reasons for just about everything about which you commented, and I was lying awake last night thinking about them: A total misuse of "sack time." I know, Bencherlite, that you are just trying to improve the encyclopedia, but so am I, and I am rather offended at your message. Still, that doesn't prohibit us from working together, and I'll be providing an answer to you, but just not right away. In the meantime, make your changes, but I may want to resume the discussion in a few days or a week. I actually appreciate the detail in the message, just not the tone. Sincerely, still your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 20:34, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Oh, I get it now! You were offended by my message. Well, I certainly apologize for the rather glib way I phrased it. I guess I didn't pay that much attention to the wording of the reason for my reversion. I am sure you worked for a good long time on your changes (just as I did in writing the original article), and I didn't take that into consideration. None of us likes to be slapped down for the honest work we do. Anyway, I will get back to you on your comments above, which I felt when I first read them were less polite than they could have been. I am sure you didn't mean for them to come across that way, just as I didn't mean for my message to be so abrupt, so once again, I am sorry. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 15:21, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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