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Hello, Joe. I would like your opinion and feedback regarding a discussion I am having with Briangotts here about various categories including Category:Midian and Category:Edom. This issue is whether the categories themselves should be subcategories of Category:Torah people and Category:Torah places, or whether just the articles which actually are about Category:Torah people, such as the parent article Edom and Esau, should be tagged. Further explanation and a place to both voice your opinion and vote may be found on the talk page of Category:Midian. Thank you for your time and input. -- Avi 19:36, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
-- Gurubrahma 03:59, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey. I know you are a busy guy but I understand that you seem to be a well trusted Wikipedian, who could possibly have a look here and comment? These are part of the incidents reported here.
I would really appreciate it if you could have a look and comment? Thanks -- Kash 10:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Jmabel -- I understand you are very busy with other things now, but I thought you might be interested to know, if you haven't already noticed, that the CG article is currently on the FAC list. Polaris999 00:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Joe,
I have a small question to ask you. Could you take a look at the article about Satu Mare in the history section. There is this phrase which I find puzzling:
I do not know anything about the situation of jews in Hungary during WW2 and I can't say if it is right or wrong, but it sounds like ideeas that circulated in Ro, stating that there was no Holocaust in Ro, the germans did it all. Mihai - talk 09:17, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
-- Gurubrahma 03:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Maybe the article will be allowed to mature someday. Best, -- Imagine&Engage/ Talk 12:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Joe,
I have reverted the following paragraph by
User:VinceB in the Hungarian minority article, because I considered this to be too actual and I was afraid that would cause a heated debate:
A peaceful assembly is under organization in
Odorheiu Secuiesc by the Szekely National Council, backed up by the Hungarian National Council in Romania, and some hungarians in
Hungary too, to protest peacefully for the autonomity of
Székelyföld wich will be held on
15th March
2006
(Me and another Hungarian user reverted some other edits of
User:VinceB too, because he tried to include false data about the number of Székelys (1,4 million).) Now I am not too certain if my last action can be fully justified. What do you think, should Wikipedia deal with events just folding out, or it is better to wait until we can look at them from a safe distance? --
KIDB
07:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the edits made ny an anon are . . . accurate. Don't know the subject well enough to revert on my own. Dlohcierekim 14:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
[4] Geeps, can't believe I fell back to the wrong form of its. I thought I'd trained myself out of that. SchmuckyTheCat 09:00, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I've only known a few libertarians, and they were all of the doctrinaire variety, but, as you say, it isn't fair to judge the whole bunch by the few I've known. It just seems to me that unless you close your mind to criticism, you will quickly see why libertarianism won't work. It assumes that human nature is something quite other than it is. Rick Norwood 14:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
It was a long (but great fun project) but I have now completed the translation requested of the French Wiki article on hieroglyphics. NaySay 23:41, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Joe: Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Messianic prophecies (disambiguation). Thank you. IZAK 11:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
After a quite long period of work at ro.wiki project or doing other unintresting tasks around here I've decided miself to create another article from the scratch. It's about the ASTRA National Museum Complex Sibiu. If you have some time, I would be grateful if you could have a look at it. Thx! Mihai - talk 14:06, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
I realize you don't have much time at the moment, but I would like to draw your attention to an edit yesterday by TDC to the Sandinista article. [5] Given earlier evidence of his shabby "scholarship", notably with the Neruda article, these edits need to be rigorously examined. Could you lend a hand? Viajero | Talk 09:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
As you will see from the talk page, I took a look at TDC's citations by virtue of Amazon's "view this" function; some I could confirm, others I couldn't. The larger problem seems to me to be, however, the veracity of the information contained in these raw intelligence archives. I much prefer secondary historical sources in which intelligence secrets are compared with other information to confirm the facts. Given the US's own "intelligence failures" due to everything from bureaucratic inertia to ideological blinders, it is hard to take words of spooks at face value. Did the KGB have influence among the Sandinista leaders? Or was some officer just exagerating his achievements? Based on a cursory glance, clear and reliable picture does not emerge from this book. Viajero | Talk 15:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi -- the article 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is going to be renamed, per discussion discussion to rename eb1911. However before the move I'd like to co-ordinate with an admin to update Template:1911 at around the same time, since there are thousands of redirects. The new article name will be Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. Can we set a time window to coordinate the change to the template? -- Stbalbach 17:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
From what I remember, I had done a quick Google and the results hadn't connected the two with the one person. My apologies for the inconvenience. -- Mal 07:57, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
There is a talk page here Talk:5th Avenue Theatre, which indicates there may have been an article there, a sorely needed one. Can you check to see if there is a deleted history there? If there was a copyvio problem leading to it's deletion the talk page looks like it clears that. If there isn't a deleted article then that jumps pretty high on my to-do list. SchmuckyTheCat 07:09, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Joe, I got your e-mail. I have been delayed in responding by computer and health problems. Thanks, Jay
Hi Mr. Mabel !
I am the author of the report about Tanases death from the website of Mr. Scherz (Karpatenwili), which you courtly cite in your article on Tanase. How the world is small !
I know this story since i was a kid. I have been told it by my grandparents. Later, i heard the same story from the grand aunt and uncle of my wife and from several other persons of same age. It seems that very many of the genuine Bucharester, who were adults in the 40', knew this story. As i can remember, the accounts were remarcably identical among all reporting persons. I have no reasons to doubt the story.
Interestingly, there is an aftermath of the dramatical death of Tanase.
In the 70', the regime, in quite desperate search of legitimacy, tried to recuperate some popular symbols or figures. One of them was Tanase: a popular, quite legendary figure, who in addition, had been quite critical with the prewar regime - a circumstance which could be exploited by the communists.
Thus, 1975 a film have been made, named "Actorul şi sǎlbatecii" (the Actor and the Savages), with the remarcable Toma Caragiu (dead in the earthquake 1977, eversince himself a legend) in the role of Tanase.
The film was supposed to show the tragic end of this great "clown". Showing this however, was not without some intrinsic difficulties, since you couldn't openly blame the Red Army of killing Tanase, even in the "independent" Romania of the 70'.
They solved the problem in a typical way, rewriting the history: in the screenplay the actor was assassinated on the stage by some fascist hooligans, after repeatedly irritated them with antifascist satire.
Everybody should have been now satisfied: the public had his Tanase back home and the regime its propaganda film.
Needless to say, that for the new generations who saw this production, THIS was the story of Tanases death.
Quite fascinating this entanglement of true facts, propaganda and urban legends in the rewriting of the (hi)story.
A quite multilayer story.
Best regards
-- Vintila Barbu 15:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
PS Besides: years ago i read your "Letters from Romania" and i was very, very impressed. I consider it as one of the best pages ever written by a foreigner about postcommunist Romania.
-- Vintila Barbu 15:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
It is true it was my assumption, but I guess that if you hated it, you wouldn't have been interested in Romanian subjects, you wouldn't have made an effort to learn the language and keep translatin... Sorry if I misinterpreted all this. I like your Bucarest travel diary a lot and this is the wholesome impression it gave me. -- Vlad| -> 17:17, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Joe, when do you come back in Romania? You will enjoy this time Romania's integration in EU. Regards, your buddy.
Actually hoping to be there (on business) in April, but nothing is firm. And, mikka, I'm not easily suborned. - Jmabel | Talk 16:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC) Now looking more like early May - Jmabel | Talk 16:43, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Joe: Please see Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 March 20#Category:Kabbalah practitioners. Thank you. IZAK 09:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Loking in on your articles about Bucharest, i see that you've become meanwhile a true Bucurestean...
Now, between us, true Bucuresteni, i'd dare to ask you a favor, of course, within the limits of your time: could you throw a look on my small article Decree of Turda to check if it's tolerable English ?
no flattery: I really appreciate the topics you choose to write about Bucharest...only genuine Bucharester would do that
Regards, -- Vintila Barbu 10:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
-- Vintila Barbu 19:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Hallo, I've sort of adopted the above page--cleaning it up and the like. Hope you don't mind? It's small but useful enough for a noob Wikipedian like myself to start getting the hang of it all. Thanks! Tamarkot 23:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
The three of us, Rjensen, yourself and me, have worked on Labor unions in the United States.
Funny, but I didn't see the connection until today between Rjensen's edits on Business Plot and Rjensen's edits on Labor unions in the United States.
If you recall, we first heard of Rjensen when he deleted all the content that is now on Labor Unions: International comparisons. This caused a big stir. I later apologized on his web page, welcomed him back and comprimised to allow him to move all of the information I wrote to Labor Unions: International comparisons, despite your protests, because I thought he may be an expert on labor.
Well, my opinion of Rjensen edits has now gone down, way down, after I realized that the same Rjensen at Labor unions in the United States is the same editor which I caught several times stating things which were simply not true on Business Plot. Rjensen quoted books, which when I researched a little bit, I realized he was making up, and which actually conflicted 100% with what he was saying. On Business Plot he makes a lot of statments which simply are not true, when I have called him on this mistakes, he denies them, fervently. He keeps waiting for several months when he thinks that I am no longer watching the page, then will add his very slanted POV to the article. All the evidence of his tactics are on Talk:Business Plot.
We are in a middle of another feirce argument, where I have had to corner him several times to admit in a round about way, that he is incorrect. I just wanted to warn you about his edits. Based on his mistakes and patent falsehoods at Business Plot, I seriously question how much he really knows about labor. From my expereince at Business Plot he has this thin layer of authority, which is very convincing, but when you dig a little deeper you realize that he is a POV warrior, who will manipulate and even invent sources to support his own POV. Travb 14:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I sent you an email. Have a look at it. thx. -- Candide, or Optimism 16:05, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
Thanks very much for catching my error and restoring the categories and external links; when I pasted the succession box from a Word doc, I inadvertently removed them. Joe 04:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I saw your comments on the talk page, but I felt that the ball was now in TDC's court; I had posted a list of issues I had, you followed up with some helpful comments and suggestions, but there was no further word from him. This morning I decided we had waited long enough and, when I read your note, I was about to remove all his material until he has time to add the citations and attributions to the article.
As an aside, I will freely admit that Amazon's "Look inside" feature is not the ideal way to verify citations, as it doesn't actually enable to you jump to a specific page, the way you can, for example, in Adobe's Acrobat reader. On the other hand, searches on surnames pulls up the relevant index page as well, and in at least one case I could see that there was no index listing for the citation TDC presented.
Thanks for your help. Viajero | Talk 10:32, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I leapt in, especially to the lead. Have a look. I'd be interested to know what you think. - Jmabel | Talk 06:54, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I tightened the tentative language but it still needs more specifics. I stopped at the discussion of the twentieth century due to (my) time limitations. Will try to revisit it later. Thanks for working on it. skywriter 16:56, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Why the link to Infinite monkey theorem from Pierre Menard (fictional character)? I could see the theorem being relevant to the The Library of Babel, but it seems to have little to do with "Pierre Menard". There is nothing random about Menard replicating Cervantes: his enterprise is to become so immersed in his understanding of the time and place as to be able to recreate exactly Cervantes text. It's like the difference between a single laser-guided missile and a barrage of shotgun blasts. - Jmabel | Talk 01:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Please note that I have now referred User:Jacrosse to the Arbitration Committee for their consideration, and will be referring to your trouble on the Socialist Party of America. Let me know if you would like to be a party. You can find the arbitration request at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Jacrosse. If you wish to, please append to the "Statement by DuncanBCS" heading. We must keep our response to 500 words or less, or it may be removed without warning by the Committee clerks.-- Duncan 10:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I must admit I'm not that sure when a distinction between "Xish people" and "People from X" is intended on Wikipedia – not just in articles, but in category names too – so I am also not sure how inclusive the "we" above might be. I'm not on some crusade, though, so will happily leave such descriptions in place, unless I do recognise a conflict between an ethnic and national description. Thanks for your concern! David Kernow 23:36, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 30 | Archive 31 | Archive 32 | Archive 33 | Archive 34 | Archive 35 | → | Archive 40 |
Hello, Joe. I would like your opinion and feedback regarding a discussion I am having with Briangotts here about various categories including Category:Midian and Category:Edom. This issue is whether the categories themselves should be subcategories of Category:Torah people and Category:Torah places, or whether just the articles which actually are about Category:Torah people, such as the parent article Edom and Esau, should be tagged. Further explanation and a place to both voice your opinion and vote may be found on the talk page of Category:Midian. Thank you for your time and input. -- Avi 19:36, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
-- Gurubrahma 03:59, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey. I know you are a busy guy but I understand that you seem to be a well trusted Wikipedian, who could possibly have a look here and comment? These are part of the incidents reported here.
I would really appreciate it if you could have a look and comment? Thanks -- Kash 10:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Jmabel -- I understand you are very busy with other things now, but I thought you might be interested to know, if you haven't already noticed, that the CG article is currently on the FAC list. Polaris999 00:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Joe,
I have a small question to ask you. Could you take a look at the article about Satu Mare in the history section. There is this phrase which I find puzzling:
I do not know anything about the situation of jews in Hungary during WW2 and I can't say if it is right or wrong, but it sounds like ideeas that circulated in Ro, stating that there was no Holocaust in Ro, the germans did it all. Mihai - talk 09:17, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
-- Gurubrahma 03:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Maybe the article will be allowed to mature someday. Best, -- Imagine&Engage/ Talk 12:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Joe,
I have reverted the following paragraph by
User:VinceB in the Hungarian minority article, because I considered this to be too actual and I was afraid that would cause a heated debate:
A peaceful assembly is under organization in
Odorheiu Secuiesc by the Szekely National Council, backed up by the Hungarian National Council in Romania, and some hungarians in
Hungary too, to protest peacefully for the autonomity of
Székelyföld wich will be held on
15th March
2006
(Me and another Hungarian user reverted some other edits of
User:VinceB too, because he tried to include false data about the number of Székelys (1,4 million).) Now I am not too certain if my last action can be fully justified. What do you think, should Wikipedia deal with events just folding out, or it is better to wait until we can look at them from a safe distance? --
KIDB
07:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the edits made ny an anon are . . . accurate. Don't know the subject well enough to revert on my own. Dlohcierekim 14:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
[4] Geeps, can't believe I fell back to the wrong form of its. I thought I'd trained myself out of that. SchmuckyTheCat 09:00, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I've only known a few libertarians, and they were all of the doctrinaire variety, but, as you say, it isn't fair to judge the whole bunch by the few I've known. It just seems to me that unless you close your mind to criticism, you will quickly see why libertarianism won't work. It assumes that human nature is something quite other than it is. Rick Norwood 14:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
It was a long (but great fun project) but I have now completed the translation requested of the French Wiki article on hieroglyphics. NaySay 23:41, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Joe: Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Messianic prophecies (disambiguation). Thank you. IZAK 11:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
After a quite long period of work at ro.wiki project or doing other unintresting tasks around here I've decided miself to create another article from the scratch. It's about the ASTRA National Museum Complex Sibiu. If you have some time, I would be grateful if you could have a look at it. Thx! Mihai - talk 14:06, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
I realize you don't have much time at the moment, but I would like to draw your attention to an edit yesterday by TDC to the Sandinista article. [5] Given earlier evidence of his shabby "scholarship", notably with the Neruda article, these edits need to be rigorously examined. Could you lend a hand? Viajero | Talk 09:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
As you will see from the talk page, I took a look at TDC's citations by virtue of Amazon's "view this" function; some I could confirm, others I couldn't. The larger problem seems to me to be, however, the veracity of the information contained in these raw intelligence archives. I much prefer secondary historical sources in which intelligence secrets are compared with other information to confirm the facts. Given the US's own "intelligence failures" due to everything from bureaucratic inertia to ideological blinders, it is hard to take words of spooks at face value. Did the KGB have influence among the Sandinista leaders? Or was some officer just exagerating his achievements? Based on a cursory glance, clear and reliable picture does not emerge from this book. Viajero | Talk 15:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi -- the article 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is going to be renamed, per discussion discussion to rename eb1911. However before the move I'd like to co-ordinate with an admin to update Template:1911 at around the same time, since there are thousands of redirects. The new article name will be Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. Can we set a time window to coordinate the change to the template? -- Stbalbach 17:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
From what I remember, I had done a quick Google and the results hadn't connected the two with the one person. My apologies for the inconvenience. -- Mal 07:57, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
There is a talk page here Talk:5th Avenue Theatre, which indicates there may have been an article there, a sorely needed one. Can you check to see if there is a deleted history there? If there was a copyvio problem leading to it's deletion the talk page looks like it clears that. If there isn't a deleted article then that jumps pretty high on my to-do list. SchmuckyTheCat 07:09, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Joe, I got your e-mail. I have been delayed in responding by computer and health problems. Thanks, Jay
Hi Mr. Mabel !
I am the author of the report about Tanases death from the website of Mr. Scherz (Karpatenwili), which you courtly cite in your article on Tanase. How the world is small !
I know this story since i was a kid. I have been told it by my grandparents. Later, i heard the same story from the grand aunt and uncle of my wife and from several other persons of same age. It seems that very many of the genuine Bucharester, who were adults in the 40', knew this story. As i can remember, the accounts were remarcably identical among all reporting persons. I have no reasons to doubt the story.
Interestingly, there is an aftermath of the dramatical death of Tanase.
In the 70', the regime, in quite desperate search of legitimacy, tried to recuperate some popular symbols or figures. One of them was Tanase: a popular, quite legendary figure, who in addition, had been quite critical with the prewar regime - a circumstance which could be exploited by the communists.
Thus, 1975 a film have been made, named "Actorul şi sǎlbatecii" (the Actor and the Savages), with the remarcable Toma Caragiu (dead in the earthquake 1977, eversince himself a legend) in the role of Tanase.
The film was supposed to show the tragic end of this great "clown". Showing this however, was not without some intrinsic difficulties, since you couldn't openly blame the Red Army of killing Tanase, even in the "independent" Romania of the 70'.
They solved the problem in a typical way, rewriting the history: in the screenplay the actor was assassinated on the stage by some fascist hooligans, after repeatedly irritated them with antifascist satire.
Everybody should have been now satisfied: the public had his Tanase back home and the regime its propaganda film.
Needless to say, that for the new generations who saw this production, THIS was the story of Tanases death.
Quite fascinating this entanglement of true facts, propaganda and urban legends in the rewriting of the (hi)story.
A quite multilayer story.
Best regards
-- Vintila Barbu 15:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
PS Besides: years ago i read your "Letters from Romania" and i was very, very impressed. I consider it as one of the best pages ever written by a foreigner about postcommunist Romania.
-- Vintila Barbu 15:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
It is true it was my assumption, but I guess that if you hated it, you wouldn't have been interested in Romanian subjects, you wouldn't have made an effort to learn the language and keep translatin... Sorry if I misinterpreted all this. I like your Bucarest travel diary a lot and this is the wholesome impression it gave me. -- Vlad| -> 17:17, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Joe, when do you come back in Romania? You will enjoy this time Romania's integration in EU. Regards, your buddy.
Actually hoping to be there (on business) in April, but nothing is firm. And, mikka, I'm not easily suborned. - Jmabel | Talk 16:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC) Now looking more like early May - Jmabel | Talk 16:43, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Joe: Please see Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 March 20#Category:Kabbalah practitioners. Thank you. IZAK 09:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Loking in on your articles about Bucharest, i see that you've become meanwhile a true Bucurestean...
Now, between us, true Bucuresteni, i'd dare to ask you a favor, of course, within the limits of your time: could you throw a look on my small article Decree of Turda to check if it's tolerable English ?
no flattery: I really appreciate the topics you choose to write about Bucharest...only genuine Bucharester would do that
Regards, -- Vintila Barbu 10:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
-- Vintila Barbu 19:44, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Hallo, I've sort of adopted the above page--cleaning it up and the like. Hope you don't mind? It's small but useful enough for a noob Wikipedian like myself to start getting the hang of it all. Thanks! Tamarkot 23:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
The three of us, Rjensen, yourself and me, have worked on Labor unions in the United States.
Funny, but I didn't see the connection until today between Rjensen's edits on Business Plot and Rjensen's edits on Labor unions in the United States.
If you recall, we first heard of Rjensen when he deleted all the content that is now on Labor Unions: International comparisons. This caused a big stir. I later apologized on his web page, welcomed him back and comprimised to allow him to move all of the information I wrote to Labor Unions: International comparisons, despite your protests, because I thought he may be an expert on labor.
Well, my opinion of Rjensen edits has now gone down, way down, after I realized that the same Rjensen at Labor unions in the United States is the same editor which I caught several times stating things which were simply not true on Business Plot. Rjensen quoted books, which when I researched a little bit, I realized he was making up, and which actually conflicted 100% with what he was saying. On Business Plot he makes a lot of statments which simply are not true, when I have called him on this mistakes, he denies them, fervently. He keeps waiting for several months when he thinks that I am no longer watching the page, then will add his very slanted POV to the article. All the evidence of his tactics are on Talk:Business Plot.
We are in a middle of another feirce argument, where I have had to corner him several times to admit in a round about way, that he is incorrect. I just wanted to warn you about his edits. Based on his mistakes and patent falsehoods at Business Plot, I seriously question how much he really knows about labor. From my expereince at Business Plot he has this thin layer of authority, which is very convincing, but when you dig a little deeper you realize that he is a POV warrior, who will manipulate and even invent sources to support his own POV. Travb 14:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I sent you an email. Have a look at it. thx. -- Candide, or Optimism 16:05, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
Thanks very much for catching my error and restoring the categories and external links; when I pasted the succession box from a Word doc, I inadvertently removed them. Joe 04:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I saw your comments on the talk page, but I felt that the ball was now in TDC's court; I had posted a list of issues I had, you followed up with some helpful comments and suggestions, but there was no further word from him. This morning I decided we had waited long enough and, when I read your note, I was about to remove all his material until he has time to add the citations and attributions to the article.
As an aside, I will freely admit that Amazon's "Look inside" feature is not the ideal way to verify citations, as it doesn't actually enable to you jump to a specific page, the way you can, for example, in Adobe's Acrobat reader. On the other hand, searches on surnames pulls up the relevant index page as well, and in at least one case I could see that there was no index listing for the citation TDC presented.
Thanks for your help. Viajero | Talk 10:32, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I leapt in, especially to the lead. Have a look. I'd be interested to know what you think. - Jmabel | Talk 06:54, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I tightened the tentative language but it still needs more specifics. I stopped at the discussion of the twentieth century due to (my) time limitations. Will try to revisit it later. Thanks for working on it. skywriter 16:56, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Why the link to Infinite monkey theorem from Pierre Menard (fictional character)? I could see the theorem being relevant to the The Library of Babel, but it seems to have little to do with "Pierre Menard". There is nothing random about Menard replicating Cervantes: his enterprise is to become so immersed in his understanding of the time and place as to be able to recreate exactly Cervantes text. It's like the difference between a single laser-guided missile and a barrage of shotgun blasts. - Jmabel | Talk 01:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Please note that I have now referred User:Jacrosse to the Arbitration Committee for their consideration, and will be referring to your trouble on the Socialist Party of America. Let me know if you would like to be a party. You can find the arbitration request at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Jacrosse. If you wish to, please append to the "Statement by DuncanBCS" heading. We must keep our response to 500 words or less, or it may be removed without warning by the Committee clerks.-- Duncan 10:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
I must admit I'm not that sure when a distinction between "Xish people" and "People from X" is intended on Wikipedia – not just in articles, but in category names too – so I am also not sure how inclusive the "we" above might be. I'm not on some crusade, though, so will happily leave such descriptions in place, unless I do recognise a conflict between an ethnic and national description. Thanks for your concern! David Kernow 23:36, 30 March 2006 (UTC)