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Hello, feel free to address any of my contributions or emendations here.
Hello, Simonides, and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you: + Just a quick note--usually, on talk pages, add new entries to the bottom. It's less confusing for the recipient. Best, [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 17:40, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hello, Simonides, and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you:
Regarding those pages with the redirect. The standard is to place the article as the person's real name, with a redirect from the non-accented, so English users can find it. Burgundavia 05:19, Jun 19, 2004 (UTC)
Re your remarks at History of literature, a WikiProject sounds good. Anything that will get that beast of an article fleshed out and beaten into shape. :-) I struggled with it for weeks, finally posted my additions in the hopes that it would inspire others to cover the fields I knew less well, and despaired when no one did. Ah well. :-) Once the literature project is up, I'll take a look at the page, and join, no doubt. :-) Medieval literature has been my baby for a long time, and I'd like History of literature to be at least as good. Thanks for leading the way on this! Jwrosenzweig 16:21, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi again, just noticed your comment on the Village Pump apropos of the situation over the Israeli-Palestine media article. To reiterate what others have said, administrators (of which I am one) have no particular authority for resolving conflicts; essentially we are just one voice among many (but we can intervene in conflicts in which we have not earlier been involved by protecting war-torn pages). If you find yourself in a conflict over an article, however obscure the topic, you needn't feel as though you are the only one defending it (a natural instinct; we have all been there). In such cases, drop a note on the Talk page of someone you consider sympathetic and ask them to take a look. Although the final decision is yours, the current thinking tends to frown upon making more than three reverts a day to a given article; if you get to that point, it is defintely time to call in others. Alternatively, you can request page protection on Wikipedia:Protected page. The version protected is not always the "right" one but that is just a temporary situation, and it is better than an extended edit war. It is good to see someone else interested in Middle East topics; you probably realize already it is a contentious area (no surprise), but just keep in mind that on Wikipedia the rational, objective point-of-view, insofar as its exists, eventually prevails over fanaticism in the end. All the best, -- 18:50, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
If you have no objections, or some reasons why not, I would like to split the WikiProject Mass Market and Genre Fiction you added in two: WikiProject Mass Market and Wikiproject Genre Fiction, with both of them as direct descendants of WikiProject Books. I know from experience with science fiction that genre fiction can be a monster, even when the genre is not fantasy, where truly there be real monsters. Also I know that there is science fiction which is straight genre and mass market and other science fiction which is genre but not mass market, and still other like the works of Jules Verne or HG Wells which is canonical. Splitting the genre fiction from the mass market fiction makes regroupings easier afterwards.
Finally I would like to eliminate the intermediary WikiProject Miscellaneous Prose - Criticism, Letters, Memoirs etc., so that the two others you have placed as its descendants (WikiProject Fictional Series and WikiProject Critical Theory) become direct descendants of WikiProject Books. In a subject classification system like the Library of Congress classification there is some sense in making "miscellaneous" categories because they give more power to the cataloguing librarians charged with attributing them to books and after that to the reference librarians helping users find books. But Wikipedia does not have huge permanent staffs. We need something light, with as a flat a classification as possible.
For months now, right after having set up Wikiproject books along with others whose names you see there, I have been sifting though all the new articles every day, looking for book articles, placing basic bibliographical info (author and title are usually there and place of publication, editor and correct date are often missing and ISBN is missing more than half the time) and placing an entry for the book in List of books by title. I have also put all the pages of the list of books by title on my watchlist. I did this to get an idea of what kind of "movement" there was in book articles, and also to see how much work it would mean to use a very simple variation of the ISBD as the basics for a minimalist book template. It turns out that there are not that many book articles coming in: Barely 2 or 3 per day on average. It turns out also that just getting and placing minimalist bibliographical elements and then putting the relevant entries to the articles in the List of books by title takes a lot more time than I thought it would! AlainV 03:54, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Please don't engage in big projects like refactoring and rearraging central Philosophy articles if you don't know what you are doing. Copy-pasting without even stating in the edit summary from where you are pasting is really destructive, and destroys attribution. As you yourself noted, the majority of the article content was relevant to the new title, and therefore the article should be moved, if at all. ✏ Sverdrup 09:32, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Simonides, I feel only a little further on in an attempt to make sense of the "Further reading" etc issue. (For me, a suggested bibliography at the end of a humanities article is a completely different animal to a list of references or sources from which the information is derived.) But I am a belated convert to your no ISBN policy. I agree, they only refer to one out of dozens, even hundreds, of editions; they are language and country specific, and serve to mislead. Let us spread the word. I'd appreciate your opinion on my view that suggested/further reading (whatever we call it) is a different matter to references or sources. Djnjwd 22:15, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I appreciate greatly the recognition by the two of you that an ISBN can be a very misleading ID number. I have spent a good part of the last 20 years explaining to well meaning intellectuals that there is no sense in using an ISBN number for putting books in order in any way (wether they are on paper or digital) for all the reasons you have given and many more. Library catalogs have traditionally omitted ISBNs even in the main entry for a particular book. All librairies had lists of these these ISBNs since they needed them to order books, but they would always keep them in the internal records, never to be seen by most users.
But Wikipedia is not a library catalog. The users and/or the Wiki community want ISBNs in the book articles. In fact they have set up a very sophisticated system which recognizes ISBN numbers, when they are presented properly (it does not pick them up if there is something between the letters ISBN and the number, for instance) and places a link to a page leading to an astonishing variety of buying options or just occasions to go to commercial pages to get more info on a book. Because of the Web the ISBNs have become a gate to more information on a given edition of a book, something they were not before.
You also have to consider that the big online library catalogs have, gradually started putting ISBNs in the "advanced" optional views or "detailed" views of a given book. Take a look at the "Full record" option of the Library of Congress catalog, for instance. Yes, they are still concerned about presenting the user with too much misleading information, but they do not hide it totally anymore.
So, the question is not wether to put ISBNs or not, but how to put them, and where. And, perhaps, what kind of warnings to place and where and how to do so. For the last months (as I sifted through incoming articles and fetched bibliographical info)(which was more than the ISBN by the way) I have been mulling the idea of an article explaining the difference between an ISBN and the ISBD, another explaining the difference between the ISBD and the scholarly bibliographical style germane to an "end-of-article-list-of-references" and others perhaps. But there should be more than that, since the ISBN is and always will be misleading. We cannot make it disappear and sweep it under a digital rug.
Note that dealing with the ISBN issue does not settle all other bibliographical description issues. I do not agree with the proposition by Simonides (although I admire its brevity: This is ,in my opinion, the right "slim" direction to take for a "minimalist" option), since it lacks certain elements (such as place of publication) and is subject to too many conflicting interpretations but this should be dealt with elsewhere. AlainV 03:01, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Consider this a friendly warning against further reverting my contributions that don't suit your POV. You are new here, so I figured you deserve some slack while learning the rules. Please don't abuse it. ← Humus sapiens← Talk 08:50, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Simonides -- thanks for the pointer list. I can already see a few tweaks I should make.
I see that you are requesting comment regarding User:RK. Because we have an archived discussion about RK, it was necessary to rename your listing. I have provided a new subpage at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/RK2, and copied in the template for you. Please fill it out and have it certified within the next 48 hours, or it will be deleted. I also rewrote the listing for Talk:Anti-Semitism to present the dispute in a more neutral fashion. I hope using the process will assist you in resolving this dispute. -- Michael Snow 21:55, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Yes, I am working on many things, one of them being of course adding basic bibliographical info to all articles that pop up, dealing with a given book, (and of course seeing to it that they have an entry in the list of books by title) and another being writing a coherent and concise (the hardest part)answer to what you perceive to be the problems with ISBNs and biblographical descriptions. There is one thing which I could do for the list of translators: placing in an alphabetical order the works translated (unless you have some other form of order in preparation), since right now they are in a jumble. AlainV 03:52, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Oh my! Now that you point it out I do see a chronological order between 1.1 and 1.25. But it is far from evident for those who are only a little familiar with philosophy. I have only had 4 semesters of courses on it. And then it all falls down after 1.25! You should really place some dates (you choose which,since you started the list) in there or some other way of indicating there is this logical chrono order. Everywhere on Wikipedia you will see advice (from the founders and the majority of editors) to be bold in editing. I cannot bring myself to do this so I inquired first. Otherwise I would have re-ordered your chronological list (not knowing it was one) in alphabetical order from B to V, with translators of Borges first and translators of Virgil last.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Bear in mind that others who come along _will_ be bold and they will not ask you for your advice before ordering your entire article, if your chronological order is not made clear. And this will be done repeatedly.
Unfortunately, apart from the excellent Cecil Parrot (who translated The Good Soldier Svejk Into English) and the marvelous Charles Baudelaire (who translated the works of Edgar Allan Poe into French) I only know some mediocre or even infamous translators, and do not wish to say anything bad about them even if they deserve it sometimes. AlainV 00:35, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I listed another anti-Palestinian diatribe disguised as an enclopedia article, PLO_and_Hamas, on VfD: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/PLO_and_Hamas. It is a little dismaying to see individuals voting to keep who do not otherwise involved themselves in the subject matter, but as you may have already noticed there is a strong culture here of what has been dubbed "anti-deletionism", iow, keeping everything. At this point, the response is fairly predicatable, but the VfD process is useful anyway for turning the spotlight on some of this stuff. Please vote, and after five days, if there is no concensus to delete, we will go in and clean the thing up. -- Viajero 10:29, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The News section suffers from lack of good contributed content, not from actie bias! Please add articles on {foreign crownings, major ecological, political, and spiritual events, and more} to Current events, make suggestions on the ITN-Template talk page, and keep adding good entries to the In the News section! I like the ones you started with. +sj + 13:30, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/User:WHEELER I need one (or two?) people to certify the complaint. If you can attempt to resolve the dispute or intervene on Talk:Early_National_Socialism/draft and then document that would be helpful AndyL 03:13, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Media coverage of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- Viajero 23:15, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You may be being a bit zealous in your pursuit of (?) in the anti-Semitism article; Zealotry has a way of being polarizing. Its just my perception based on a quick look, but, IMHE, I have developed a way of telling these things about controversial articles. - Ste vertigo 04:00, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for editing the article.By the way what do you think of his work?-- Goldie C.K. 10:57, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You're welcome Goldie. Actually, I know very little of his work, though I enjoyed the story I read; he is not well known among English speakers and someone I know told me about him, which is how I got around to keeping an eye on the article about him :). -- Simonides 11:05, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, please see this message on the wiki-en mailinglist: [2]. You might consider joining [3] and giving your side of the story. -- Viajero 05:57, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
hi, i noticed you made a minor edit to my user page. that's fine, i was just wanting to know what exactly you did, because I can't really tell. thanks. blankfaze | (беседа!) 12:06, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I think your take on world history is close to the truth; yet the content of the philosophy article was only slightly changed from the earlier to the later version. What you were most keen on, and what others are most annoyed by, is the connotations of the phrases used; and what is proper depends in large part on whether you find the decline of various non-western philosophies in modern academia "natural" or "imposed".
If you want to make the nonstandard (but perhaps very true) claim that it was mainly imposed for various outside reasons, you have to list a few reasons, and do so as politely and as inoffensively as possible; it is never possible to make unusual and unexpected statements as brashly and as carelessly as one can make standard, accepted statements... many who quickly read your changes will assume you are pushing a private and unsubstantiated POV.
In short, to make unusual improvements to articles can be much more time consuming than making standard improvements. (In particular, No Original Research means you have fewer relevant sources to track down, refer to, and cite!) +sj + 01:21, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for the note, I'll remember that. -- Simonides 22:53, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Why did you move À la recherche du temps perdu? There was a discussion on naming on the Talk page there, which concluded that that was the best location. Markalexander100 07:21, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Please don't "correct" the redirects. If you think that the page should be moved, despite what everyone else has agreed, you should discuss it on the Talk page first. Markalexander100 07:34, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I'm not going to do anything until everyone has had a chance to talk about it. ;-o Markalexander100 07:49, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Simonides, hi, it's Quadell. I wanted to talk about the best way to procede on the anti-Semitism page. Let me quote you here:
I completely agree. There are many energetic contributors that are more interested in slanting the article their way than in acheiving a NPOV. There are juvenile users who resort to name-calling when people make worthy edits. There are even some who are ignoring mediation requests. Arbitration seems unavoidable in these cases, sadly.
The trouble is, keeping an article indefinitely protected is not an acceptable solution. I'm sure you've read Wikipedia:Protection policy. It says that "temporarily protected pages should not be left protected for very long", and other users' pig-headedness isn't a good enough reason to leave it protected. If other users are abusive, or refuse to participate in mediation, or repeatedly revert good info without comment, then arbitration is the right procedure. The best way to fight POV junk is diligence. (And I'll help you in that.) But not indefinite protection. Quadell (talk) 12:54, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I listed User:209.135.35.83 on Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration; he has been a royal PITA for many months now. Care to add anything? -- Viajero 16:27, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Simonides, please do not delete things from anti-Semitism which other contributors think need to mentioned there, such as the so-called " blood libel". I'd like you to cooperate with other editors of the article. -- Uncle Ed 20:12, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Simonides, please let others edit philosophy without your reverting it - that's why we are all here, and you never know, someone might improve on your work. Banno 10:01, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
I’ll try. You have started to mark all your edits as minor. If you do this, the significance of the M will be lost. Would you mind only using M for spelling and grammar? Thanks. Banno 21:48, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
Do you have reliable information allowing to resolve the dispute concerning HCB's date of death? See Talk:Henri Cartier-Bresson. - Karl Stas 08:07, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hello. I moved history of Western Philosophy, with a capital "P", to history of Western philosophy, with a lower-case "p". Generally, Wikipedia article titles don't capitalized words just because they're in the title; see Wikipedia:Manual of Style. I noticed that after you created that page, you linked a lot of pages to it in which you listed links to things like Buddhist Philosophy (which had to be directed to a page with the lower-case "p" in the title). I think you've been using using too many capitals. Michael Hardy 22:13, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
You make some good points, but the way you do it makes me so angry I find it hard to think straight. Can't you find some other approach to this issue but "my way or the highway?"
I have gotten the impression that most of the Modern Library list citations in Wikipedia articles were made by an anon, 64.228.30.118, who for some reason decided to add them to the articles for every book that on the list. And did so using a formula that was unduly long and unduly respectful to the Modern Library.
Also, could you provide me with a model or example of what you think should be done—a Wikipedia article that makes the point that a book is "great" or notable or "one of the best novels" in some category, in the way that you think is proper? [[User:Dpbsmith| Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:36, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The Lance6wins arbitration case is open. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lance6wins/Evidence. -- mav 10:39, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Please vote in the Arb Comm elections!
And what is it with you and people named André? I love André Previn; he put out a beautiful little autobio not long ago.
+sj + 13:03, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
What do you think of this proposal? (Leave comments there). [[User:Dpbsmith| Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:19, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi Simonides. Edits from your IP have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 05:48, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)
That's fine; I personally think that the article should remain at La disparition to avoid favoring one translation over another, but I don't care enough to contest the move. Oh, by the way, it's La disparition not La Disparition, because in French you only capitalize the first word of a book title, not every word in the title. -- — Lowellian ( talk)[[]] 02:12, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
I plan to delete your IndiaNumbered1.png map as I have modified it (IndiaNumbered2.png). Let me know if you have any objections, s'il vous plaît. [[User:Nichalp|¶ ɳȉčḩåḽṗ | ✉]] 19:22, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC
Strange, apparently Gzornenplatz is the only permanent guest of the request for protection page. [[User:Halibutt| Halibu tt]] 02:03, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
Hey there, please add news item you're planning on featuring on the main page to the Current events timeline first, as per the guidelines. Regards, Solitude 14:23, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
I am trying to find people interested in making a comprehensive monography about
Frederic Chopin (hopefully the most comprehensive ever written :-) ). I have seen that you participate to the Classical Music Wikiproject, so I decided to contact you. It should be published as a CD-ROM under
GFDL. If you are interested you could look at a description of the idea on
User:Schopenhauer/Chopin. I already contacted some people of
Mutopia Project that are interested in helping.
Chopinhauer 14:40, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is Roman Jakobson not a multilingual? -- Rj 09:00, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
Gzornenplatz thinks that by displaying your maps, you're pushing "India's POV, suggesting 'this is rightly part of India, but occupied by Pakistan/China'". Is this allegation true? [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 07:01, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
On another note, he says that "to properly explain the issue there would have to be a legend saying essentially 'claimed by India, occupied by Pakistan/China'". [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 07:03, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
1) Gzornenplatz and VeryVerily are banned from editing any article having to do with German or Polish subjects whilst Arbitration is on-going. Sysops may use their discretion in determining what falls into these areas, and are hereby authorised to enact 24 hour blocks for violations of this.
2) Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, and VeryVerily are banned from reverting any article more than twice in one 24 hour period whilst Arbitration is on-going. Sysops are hereby authorised to enact 24 blocks for violations of this.
3) Shorne and VeryVerily are banned from editing any article having to do with the Cold War or communism whilst Arbitration is on-going. Sysops may use their discretion in determining what falls into these areas, and are hereby authorized to enact 24 hour blocks for violations of this.
-- mav 21:05, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Simonides. Long time no see. I noticed you had reverted Julia Kristeva and have a question on this article. You said it was a copyvio. So it should be listed on Vote for deletion or not? And someone copied the revision you have reverted, and perhaps it should be deleted too. For further duscussion on Japanese Wikipedia, your information on copyvio in this article will be applicited. -- Aphaea 01:39, 3 Dec 2004 (UT
Your repeated personal attacks on other editors are unacceptable. Stop making them. -- Cyrius| ✎ 15:21, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Hi Simonides,
My apologies for the reply that I just posted at the Gplatz clarification page. I didn't realize immediately that you were talking about Gplatz and not me :-) I have struck out my reply. Here is a copy:
Simonides, I am not trying to force anyone to meet my demands. I am perfectly happy with the image that you are endorsing, which is why I have not offered an alternative image for editors to comment. I said above that I think your map is perfectly npov; I only said that Gplatz can make that suggestion if he is interested, rather than continually reverting without discussion. Jesus, I am on your side here. --
ashwatha 03:23, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Poll (Macedonian Slav or Macedonian) I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. There is a poll in the talk page of the 'Macedonian Slavs' article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll
Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonians without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people that _possibly_ share or represent a different point of view. Your contributions to the discussion and the poll are welcomed.
Just in case you are interested and are watching this page, the History of India is this week's Indian collaboration. You might be interested in helping out. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= July 3, 2005 09:39 (UTC)
If you are back, then welcome back. - Xed 22:39, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I've blocked you [4] for 12h for 3RR on Joseph Stalin; see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RR#User:Simonides. If you think this was a mistake, please respond here. William M. Connolley 15:28, 23 January 2006 (UTC).
Thank you for the condescending edit summary, certainly much appreciated. Best of luck with the article. Jbetak 05:52, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
You are in danger of violating the three revert rule. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from further editing. BlueGoose 03:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. Alai 03:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Dear Simonides, let's put aside the intro disputes at Adolf Hitler for a while, as graver issues have arisen. Hitler is under serious POV attack. Help is appreciated. Str1977 16:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Just for your information. It should be noted that there is some evidence that User:Karl Schalike is identical with User:Ted Wilkes and multi-hardbanned User:DW. See Schalike's contribution supporting the deleting and reverting tactics by Ted Wilkes which were criticized by several Wikipedia administrators here. For facts supporting the view that Ted Wilkes is a sockpuppet of DW, see [5]. Ted Wilkes is currently placed on probation and banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality. See [ [6]]. He was, and still is, involved in an edit war with me concerning claims that some celebrity stars such as James Dean, Elvis Presley and Nick Adams may have been bisexual or gay. Last year Wilkes even falsely claimed to have moved content from the Talk:Elvis Presley/Homosexuality page I had created to a Talk:Elvis Presley/Sexuality page, but this page never came into existence, as the content was totally deleted by him. See also the articles on Elvis and Me, the Memphis Mafia and related talk pages. It is very interesting that Karl Schalike is now providing an argument in support of the view that Adolf Hitler might be homosexual. However, these claims exist. Therefore, the material may be included in a separate article entitled Hitler's sexuality or Hitler's supposed homosexuality. Onefortyone 21:06, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I think you are right. I noticed a pattern of dishonesty and attacks, often by hiding behind the rules (while they violate them), with the support of a number of admins, as well. I think the best thing we can do is to follow the rules but keep documenting this behavior and speaking out about it. Eventually someone higher up will put a stop to it as it's inimical to the intersts of Wikeipedia. MikaM 02:14, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I thought that when it was protected we could not edit it, as in locked. This make me think that protection was lifted. I guess I'm still learning. Thanks for the guidance. Giovanni33 13:55, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Regarding WP:3RR, I have a strict policy of never breaking it, so your concern is unnecessary. Camillus (talk) 02:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
According to soviet secret archive in Soviet Union the executions for counter-revolutionary crimes between 1931 and the 1953 have been 786,098, of which 681,692 in period 1937-38. Why many sites esteem 5 or 8 milions executions? Vess 14:27, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Just wondering. Giovanni33 20:21, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Still wondering, one year later. Giovanni33 01:26, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hello. I'm contacting you and other members of WikiProject Books in order to find if you are interested in collaborating to expand and improve The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence article to make it worthy of becoming a featured article candidate, in light of the fact that it is the first book the U.S. government ever went to court to censor before its publication. -- Loremaster ( talk) 22:04, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen you created the article for this masterpiece. I know it was 5 years ago, but do you remember why the three translation that you mentioned are considered the "major ones"? Sum ( talk) 19:59, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
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Attribute barcoding to Sirius, and leave the heavy work to the proper editors. Also, lock edits to the Hitler and Stalin articles for 3 days until the flame wars have died down. You have been warned!
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Hello, feel free to address any of my contributions or emendations here.
Hello, Simonides, and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you: + Just a quick note--usually, on talk pages, add new entries to the bottom. It's less confusing for the recipient. Best, [[User:Meelar| Meelar (talk)]] 17:40, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hello, Simonides, and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you:
Regarding those pages with the redirect. The standard is to place the article as the person's real name, with a redirect from the non-accented, so English users can find it. Burgundavia 05:19, Jun 19, 2004 (UTC)
Re your remarks at History of literature, a WikiProject sounds good. Anything that will get that beast of an article fleshed out and beaten into shape. :-) I struggled with it for weeks, finally posted my additions in the hopes that it would inspire others to cover the fields I knew less well, and despaired when no one did. Ah well. :-) Once the literature project is up, I'll take a look at the page, and join, no doubt. :-) Medieval literature has been my baby for a long time, and I'd like History of literature to be at least as good. Thanks for leading the way on this! Jwrosenzweig 16:21, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi again, just noticed your comment on the Village Pump apropos of the situation over the Israeli-Palestine media article. To reiterate what others have said, administrators (of which I am one) have no particular authority for resolving conflicts; essentially we are just one voice among many (but we can intervene in conflicts in which we have not earlier been involved by protecting war-torn pages). If you find yourself in a conflict over an article, however obscure the topic, you needn't feel as though you are the only one defending it (a natural instinct; we have all been there). In such cases, drop a note on the Talk page of someone you consider sympathetic and ask them to take a look. Although the final decision is yours, the current thinking tends to frown upon making more than three reverts a day to a given article; if you get to that point, it is defintely time to call in others. Alternatively, you can request page protection on Wikipedia:Protected page. The version protected is not always the "right" one but that is just a temporary situation, and it is better than an extended edit war. It is good to see someone else interested in Middle East topics; you probably realize already it is a contentious area (no surprise), but just keep in mind that on Wikipedia the rational, objective point-of-view, insofar as its exists, eventually prevails over fanaticism in the end. All the best, -- 18:50, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
If you have no objections, or some reasons why not, I would like to split the WikiProject Mass Market and Genre Fiction you added in two: WikiProject Mass Market and Wikiproject Genre Fiction, with both of them as direct descendants of WikiProject Books. I know from experience with science fiction that genre fiction can be a monster, even when the genre is not fantasy, where truly there be real monsters. Also I know that there is science fiction which is straight genre and mass market and other science fiction which is genre but not mass market, and still other like the works of Jules Verne or HG Wells which is canonical. Splitting the genre fiction from the mass market fiction makes regroupings easier afterwards.
Finally I would like to eliminate the intermediary WikiProject Miscellaneous Prose - Criticism, Letters, Memoirs etc., so that the two others you have placed as its descendants (WikiProject Fictional Series and WikiProject Critical Theory) become direct descendants of WikiProject Books. In a subject classification system like the Library of Congress classification there is some sense in making "miscellaneous" categories because they give more power to the cataloguing librarians charged with attributing them to books and after that to the reference librarians helping users find books. But Wikipedia does not have huge permanent staffs. We need something light, with as a flat a classification as possible.
For months now, right after having set up Wikiproject books along with others whose names you see there, I have been sifting though all the new articles every day, looking for book articles, placing basic bibliographical info (author and title are usually there and place of publication, editor and correct date are often missing and ISBN is missing more than half the time) and placing an entry for the book in List of books by title. I have also put all the pages of the list of books by title on my watchlist. I did this to get an idea of what kind of "movement" there was in book articles, and also to see how much work it would mean to use a very simple variation of the ISBD as the basics for a minimalist book template. It turns out that there are not that many book articles coming in: Barely 2 or 3 per day on average. It turns out also that just getting and placing minimalist bibliographical elements and then putting the relevant entries to the articles in the List of books by title takes a lot more time than I thought it would! AlainV 03:54, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Please don't engage in big projects like refactoring and rearraging central Philosophy articles if you don't know what you are doing. Copy-pasting without even stating in the edit summary from where you are pasting is really destructive, and destroys attribution. As you yourself noted, the majority of the article content was relevant to the new title, and therefore the article should be moved, if at all. ✏ Sverdrup 09:32, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Simonides, I feel only a little further on in an attempt to make sense of the "Further reading" etc issue. (For me, a suggested bibliography at the end of a humanities article is a completely different animal to a list of references or sources from which the information is derived.) But I am a belated convert to your no ISBN policy. I agree, they only refer to one out of dozens, even hundreds, of editions; they are language and country specific, and serve to mislead. Let us spread the word. I'd appreciate your opinion on my view that suggested/further reading (whatever we call it) is a different matter to references or sources. Djnjwd 22:15, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I appreciate greatly the recognition by the two of you that an ISBN can be a very misleading ID number. I have spent a good part of the last 20 years explaining to well meaning intellectuals that there is no sense in using an ISBN number for putting books in order in any way (wether they are on paper or digital) for all the reasons you have given and many more. Library catalogs have traditionally omitted ISBNs even in the main entry for a particular book. All librairies had lists of these these ISBNs since they needed them to order books, but they would always keep them in the internal records, never to be seen by most users.
But Wikipedia is not a library catalog. The users and/or the Wiki community want ISBNs in the book articles. In fact they have set up a very sophisticated system which recognizes ISBN numbers, when they are presented properly (it does not pick them up if there is something between the letters ISBN and the number, for instance) and places a link to a page leading to an astonishing variety of buying options or just occasions to go to commercial pages to get more info on a book. Because of the Web the ISBNs have become a gate to more information on a given edition of a book, something they were not before.
You also have to consider that the big online library catalogs have, gradually started putting ISBNs in the "advanced" optional views or "detailed" views of a given book. Take a look at the "Full record" option of the Library of Congress catalog, for instance. Yes, they are still concerned about presenting the user with too much misleading information, but they do not hide it totally anymore.
So, the question is not wether to put ISBNs or not, but how to put them, and where. And, perhaps, what kind of warnings to place and where and how to do so. For the last months (as I sifted through incoming articles and fetched bibliographical info)(which was more than the ISBN by the way) I have been mulling the idea of an article explaining the difference between an ISBN and the ISBD, another explaining the difference between the ISBD and the scholarly bibliographical style germane to an "end-of-article-list-of-references" and others perhaps. But there should be more than that, since the ISBN is and always will be misleading. We cannot make it disappear and sweep it under a digital rug.
Note that dealing with the ISBN issue does not settle all other bibliographical description issues. I do not agree with the proposition by Simonides (although I admire its brevity: This is ,in my opinion, the right "slim" direction to take for a "minimalist" option), since it lacks certain elements (such as place of publication) and is subject to too many conflicting interpretations but this should be dealt with elsewhere. AlainV 03:01, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Consider this a friendly warning against further reverting my contributions that don't suit your POV. You are new here, so I figured you deserve some slack while learning the rules. Please don't abuse it. ← Humus sapiens← Talk 08:50, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Simonides -- thanks for the pointer list. I can already see a few tweaks I should make.
I see that you are requesting comment regarding User:RK. Because we have an archived discussion about RK, it was necessary to rename your listing. I have provided a new subpage at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/RK2, and copied in the template for you. Please fill it out and have it certified within the next 48 hours, or it will be deleted. I also rewrote the listing for Talk:Anti-Semitism to present the dispute in a more neutral fashion. I hope using the process will assist you in resolving this dispute. -- Michael Snow 21:55, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Yes, I am working on many things, one of them being of course adding basic bibliographical info to all articles that pop up, dealing with a given book, (and of course seeing to it that they have an entry in the list of books by title) and another being writing a coherent and concise (the hardest part)answer to what you perceive to be the problems with ISBNs and biblographical descriptions. There is one thing which I could do for the list of translators: placing in an alphabetical order the works translated (unless you have some other form of order in preparation), since right now they are in a jumble. AlainV 03:52, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Oh my! Now that you point it out I do see a chronological order between 1.1 and 1.25. But it is far from evident for those who are only a little familiar with philosophy. I have only had 4 semesters of courses on it. And then it all falls down after 1.25! You should really place some dates (you choose which,since you started the list) in there or some other way of indicating there is this logical chrono order. Everywhere on Wikipedia you will see advice (from the founders and the majority of editors) to be bold in editing. I cannot bring myself to do this so I inquired first. Otherwise I would have re-ordered your chronological list (not knowing it was one) in alphabetical order from B to V, with translators of Borges first and translators of Virgil last.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Bear in mind that others who come along _will_ be bold and they will not ask you for your advice before ordering your entire article, if your chronological order is not made clear. And this will be done repeatedly.
Unfortunately, apart from the excellent Cecil Parrot (who translated The Good Soldier Svejk Into English) and the marvelous Charles Baudelaire (who translated the works of Edgar Allan Poe into French) I only know some mediocre or even infamous translators, and do not wish to say anything bad about them even if they deserve it sometimes. AlainV 00:35, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I listed another anti-Palestinian diatribe disguised as an enclopedia article, PLO_and_Hamas, on VfD: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/PLO_and_Hamas. It is a little dismaying to see individuals voting to keep who do not otherwise involved themselves in the subject matter, but as you may have already noticed there is a strong culture here of what has been dubbed "anti-deletionism", iow, keeping everything. At this point, the response is fairly predicatable, but the VfD process is useful anyway for turning the spotlight on some of this stuff. Please vote, and after five days, if there is no concensus to delete, we will go in and clean the thing up. -- Viajero 10:29, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The News section suffers from lack of good contributed content, not from actie bias! Please add articles on {foreign crownings, major ecological, political, and spiritual events, and more} to Current events, make suggestions on the ITN-Template talk page, and keep adding good entries to the In the News section! I like the ones you started with. +sj + 13:30, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/User:WHEELER I need one (or two?) people to certify the complaint. If you can attempt to resolve the dispute or intervene on Talk:Early_National_Socialism/draft and then document that would be helpful AndyL 03:13, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Media coverage of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- Viajero 23:15, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You may be being a bit zealous in your pursuit of (?) in the anti-Semitism article; Zealotry has a way of being polarizing. Its just my perception based on a quick look, but, IMHE, I have developed a way of telling these things about controversial articles. - Ste vertigo 04:00, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for editing the article.By the way what do you think of his work?-- Goldie C.K. 10:57, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You're welcome Goldie. Actually, I know very little of his work, though I enjoyed the story I read; he is not well known among English speakers and someone I know told me about him, which is how I got around to keeping an eye on the article about him :). -- Simonides 11:05, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, please see this message on the wiki-en mailinglist: [2]. You might consider joining [3] and giving your side of the story. -- Viajero 05:57, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
hi, i noticed you made a minor edit to my user page. that's fine, i was just wanting to know what exactly you did, because I can't really tell. thanks. blankfaze | (беседа!) 12:06, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I think your take on world history is close to the truth; yet the content of the philosophy article was only slightly changed from the earlier to the later version. What you were most keen on, and what others are most annoyed by, is the connotations of the phrases used; and what is proper depends in large part on whether you find the decline of various non-western philosophies in modern academia "natural" or "imposed".
If you want to make the nonstandard (but perhaps very true) claim that it was mainly imposed for various outside reasons, you have to list a few reasons, and do so as politely and as inoffensively as possible; it is never possible to make unusual and unexpected statements as brashly and as carelessly as one can make standard, accepted statements... many who quickly read your changes will assume you are pushing a private and unsubstantiated POV.
In short, to make unusual improvements to articles can be much more time consuming than making standard improvements. (In particular, No Original Research means you have fewer relevant sources to track down, refer to, and cite!) +sj + 01:21, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for the note, I'll remember that. -- Simonides 22:53, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Why did you move À la recherche du temps perdu? There was a discussion on naming on the Talk page there, which concluded that that was the best location. Markalexander100 07:21, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Please don't "correct" the redirects. If you think that the page should be moved, despite what everyone else has agreed, you should discuss it on the Talk page first. Markalexander100 07:34, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I'm not going to do anything until everyone has had a chance to talk about it. ;-o Markalexander100 07:49, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Simonides, hi, it's Quadell. I wanted to talk about the best way to procede on the anti-Semitism page. Let me quote you here:
I completely agree. There are many energetic contributors that are more interested in slanting the article their way than in acheiving a NPOV. There are juvenile users who resort to name-calling when people make worthy edits. There are even some who are ignoring mediation requests. Arbitration seems unavoidable in these cases, sadly.
The trouble is, keeping an article indefinitely protected is not an acceptable solution. I'm sure you've read Wikipedia:Protection policy. It says that "temporarily protected pages should not be left protected for very long", and other users' pig-headedness isn't a good enough reason to leave it protected. If other users are abusive, or refuse to participate in mediation, or repeatedly revert good info without comment, then arbitration is the right procedure. The best way to fight POV junk is diligence. (And I'll help you in that.) But not indefinite protection. Quadell (talk) 12:54, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I listed User:209.135.35.83 on Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration; he has been a royal PITA for many months now. Care to add anything? -- Viajero 16:27, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Simonides, please do not delete things from anti-Semitism which other contributors think need to mentioned there, such as the so-called " blood libel". I'd like you to cooperate with other editors of the article. -- Uncle Ed 20:12, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Simonides, please let others edit philosophy without your reverting it - that's why we are all here, and you never know, someone might improve on your work. Banno 10:01, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
I’ll try. You have started to mark all your edits as minor. If you do this, the significance of the M will be lost. Would you mind only using M for spelling and grammar? Thanks. Banno 21:48, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)
Do you have reliable information allowing to resolve the dispute concerning HCB's date of death? See Talk:Henri Cartier-Bresson. - Karl Stas 08:07, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hello. I moved history of Western Philosophy, with a capital "P", to history of Western philosophy, with a lower-case "p". Generally, Wikipedia article titles don't capitalized words just because they're in the title; see Wikipedia:Manual of Style. I noticed that after you created that page, you linked a lot of pages to it in which you listed links to things like Buddhist Philosophy (which had to be directed to a page with the lower-case "p" in the title). I think you've been using using too many capitals. Michael Hardy 22:13, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
You make some good points, but the way you do it makes me so angry I find it hard to think straight. Can't you find some other approach to this issue but "my way or the highway?"
I have gotten the impression that most of the Modern Library list citations in Wikipedia articles were made by an anon, 64.228.30.118, who for some reason decided to add them to the articles for every book that on the list. And did so using a formula that was unduly long and unduly respectful to the Modern Library.
Also, could you provide me with a model or example of what you think should be done—a Wikipedia article that makes the point that a book is "great" or notable or "one of the best novels" in some category, in the way that you think is proper? [[User:Dpbsmith| Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:36, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The Lance6wins arbitration case is open. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lance6wins/Evidence. -- mav 10:39, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Please vote in the Arb Comm elections!
And what is it with you and people named André? I love André Previn; he put out a beautiful little autobio not long ago.
+sj + 13:03, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
What do you think of this proposal? (Leave comments there). [[User:Dpbsmith| Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:19, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi Simonides. Edits from your IP have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 05:48, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)
That's fine; I personally think that the article should remain at La disparition to avoid favoring one translation over another, but I don't care enough to contest the move. Oh, by the way, it's La disparition not La Disparition, because in French you only capitalize the first word of a book title, not every word in the title. -- — Lowellian ( talk)[[]] 02:12, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
I plan to delete your IndiaNumbered1.png map as I have modified it (IndiaNumbered2.png). Let me know if you have any objections, s'il vous plaît. [[User:Nichalp|¶ ɳȉčḩåḽṗ | ✉]] 19:22, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC
Strange, apparently Gzornenplatz is the only permanent guest of the request for protection page. [[User:Halibutt| Halibu tt]] 02:03, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
Hey there, please add news item you're planning on featuring on the main page to the Current events timeline first, as per the guidelines. Regards, Solitude 14:23, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
Hello,
I am trying to find people interested in making a comprehensive monography about
Frederic Chopin (hopefully the most comprehensive ever written :-) ). I have seen that you participate to the Classical Music Wikiproject, so I decided to contact you. It should be published as a CD-ROM under
GFDL. If you are interested you could look at a description of the idea on
User:Schopenhauer/Chopin. I already contacted some people of
Mutopia Project that are interested in helping.
Chopinhauer 14:40, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is Roman Jakobson not a multilingual? -- Rj 09:00, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
Gzornenplatz thinks that by displaying your maps, you're pushing "India's POV, suggesting 'this is rightly part of India, but occupied by Pakistan/China'". Is this allegation true? [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 07:01, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
On another note, he says that "to properly explain the issue there would have to be a legend saying essentially 'claimed by India, occupied by Pakistan/China'". [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 07:03, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
1) Gzornenplatz and VeryVerily are banned from editing any article having to do with German or Polish subjects whilst Arbitration is on-going. Sysops may use their discretion in determining what falls into these areas, and are hereby authorised to enact 24 hour blocks for violations of this.
2) Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, and VeryVerily are banned from reverting any article more than twice in one 24 hour period whilst Arbitration is on-going. Sysops are hereby authorised to enact 24 blocks for violations of this.
3) Shorne and VeryVerily are banned from editing any article having to do with the Cold War or communism whilst Arbitration is on-going. Sysops may use their discretion in determining what falls into these areas, and are hereby authorized to enact 24 hour blocks for violations of this.
-- mav 21:05, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Simonides. Long time no see. I noticed you had reverted Julia Kristeva and have a question on this article. You said it was a copyvio. So it should be listed on Vote for deletion or not? And someone copied the revision you have reverted, and perhaps it should be deleted too. For further duscussion on Japanese Wikipedia, your information on copyvio in this article will be applicited. -- Aphaea 01:39, 3 Dec 2004 (UT
Your repeated personal attacks on other editors are unacceptable. Stop making them. -- Cyrius| ✎ 15:21, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Hi Simonides,
My apologies for the reply that I just posted at the Gplatz clarification page. I didn't realize immediately that you were talking about Gplatz and not me :-) I have struck out my reply. Here is a copy:
Simonides, I am not trying to force anyone to meet my demands. I am perfectly happy with the image that you are endorsing, which is why I have not offered an alternative image for editors to comment. I said above that I think your map is perfectly npov; I only said that Gplatz can make that suggestion if he is interested, rather than continually reverting without discussion. Jesus, I am on your side here. --
ashwatha 03:23, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Poll (Macedonian Slav or Macedonian) I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. There is a poll in the talk page of the 'Macedonian Slavs' article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll
Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonians without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people that _possibly_ share or represent a different point of view. Your contributions to the discussion and the poll are welcomed.
Just in case you are interested and are watching this page, the History of India is this week's Indian collaboration. You might be interested in helping out. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= July 3, 2005 09:39 (UTC)
If you are back, then welcome back. - Xed 22:39, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I've blocked you [4] for 12h for 3RR on Joseph Stalin; see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RR#User:Simonides. If you think this was a mistake, please respond here. William M. Connolley 15:28, 23 January 2006 (UTC).
Thank you for the condescending edit summary, certainly much appreciated. Best of luck with the article. Jbetak 05:52, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
You are in danger of violating the three revert rule. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from further editing. BlueGoose 03:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. Alai 03:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Dear Simonides, let's put aside the intro disputes at Adolf Hitler for a while, as graver issues have arisen. Hitler is under serious POV attack. Help is appreciated. Str1977 16:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Just for your information. It should be noted that there is some evidence that User:Karl Schalike is identical with User:Ted Wilkes and multi-hardbanned User:DW. See Schalike's contribution supporting the deleting and reverting tactics by Ted Wilkes which were criticized by several Wikipedia administrators here. For facts supporting the view that Ted Wilkes is a sockpuppet of DW, see [5]. Ted Wilkes is currently placed on probation and banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality. See [ [6]]. He was, and still is, involved in an edit war with me concerning claims that some celebrity stars such as James Dean, Elvis Presley and Nick Adams may have been bisexual or gay. Last year Wilkes even falsely claimed to have moved content from the Talk:Elvis Presley/Homosexuality page I had created to a Talk:Elvis Presley/Sexuality page, but this page never came into existence, as the content was totally deleted by him. See also the articles on Elvis and Me, the Memphis Mafia and related talk pages. It is very interesting that Karl Schalike is now providing an argument in support of the view that Adolf Hitler might be homosexual. However, these claims exist. Therefore, the material may be included in a separate article entitled Hitler's sexuality or Hitler's supposed homosexuality. Onefortyone 21:06, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I think you are right. I noticed a pattern of dishonesty and attacks, often by hiding behind the rules (while they violate them), with the support of a number of admins, as well. I think the best thing we can do is to follow the rules but keep documenting this behavior and speaking out about it. Eventually someone higher up will put a stop to it as it's inimical to the intersts of Wikeipedia. MikaM 02:14, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I thought that when it was protected we could not edit it, as in locked. This make me think that protection was lifted. I guess I'm still learning. Thanks for the guidance. Giovanni33 13:55, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Regarding WP:3RR, I have a strict policy of never breaking it, so your concern is unnecessary. Camillus (talk) 02:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
According to soviet secret archive in Soviet Union the executions for counter-revolutionary crimes between 1931 and the 1953 have been 786,098, of which 681,692 in period 1937-38. Why many sites esteem 5 or 8 milions executions? Vess 14:27, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Just wondering. Giovanni33 20:21, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Still wondering, one year later. Giovanni33 01:26, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hello. I'm contacting you and other members of WikiProject Books in order to find if you are interested in collaborating to expand and improve The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence article to make it worthy of becoming a featured article candidate, in light of the fact that it is the first book the U.S. government ever went to court to censor before its publication. -- Loremaster ( talk) 22:04, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen you created the article for this masterpiece. I know it was 5 years ago, but do you remember why the three translation that you mentioned are considered the "major ones"? Sum ( talk) 19:59, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
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Attribute barcoding to Sirius, and leave the heavy work to the proper editors. Also, lock edits to the Hitler and Stalin articles for 3 days until the flame wars have died down. You have been warned!
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