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Dear Richard,
I didn't actually get a copy of your reply to my long note in my Talk box, but after a lot of searching I actually found a copy on your own User Talk box. Did I not get it because I clumsilly forgot to sign with tildes?
I'll forgive you for being a Yank. (That's an Aussie joke, of course!)
Thanks for your comments. I think I will restate the brief summary I made on Electrophone, etc, including the links to the three other sites. I really do think this is important as a predecessor to radio broadcasting. I hope that you and I won't have problems if I reinstate this.
I will also add the rest of the Voigt caption, and will add a brief mention of Fisk under "Sealed Set". I will take your advice and not add any mention of US public stations.
I will also add the 1950s onwards sections to you Australian page.
With best wishes, Albert Isaacs ( talk) 00:34, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Richard,
Wow! You certainly have been busy over the last few days. I congratulate you on all your research, particularly as Australia is a foreign country to you. (I don't mean that to sound compromising.)
I think we'll have to agree to disagree re Electrophone, etc. However, I've made a compromise by braketing that section and reducing the text size. This way, I'll hope you'll agree that we've found middle ground.
You'll note that I have made a few other minor changes.
Regards, Albert Isaacs ( talk) 00:51, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Richard,
Yes, I agree - it been a positive experience. I still haven't done a full proofread of the sections that you've added, and I will eventually get around to that. My next job (tomorrow?) will be to divide the list of personalities into sub-groups, such as:
However, it's now time to turn off the computer ...
Regards, Albert Isaacs ( talk) 09:06, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello, You restored ALL the links I deleted including ones to Internet Archive that have been removed from the site most likely due to copyright issues!
There was a Wiki notice that indicated that the long lists following the article was too long etc...so I spent time on "clean up."
Link content guidelines include this statement:
"External links should be kept minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article. Wikipedia is not an advertising opportunity."
Therefore I can't see the point of linking to numerous stubs to the old U Chicago Press books. Researchers can search Worldcat or Google Books and find them. One UCP link to a stub is enough as a pointer.
The guidelines for links also states:
"Non-free content—including all copyrighted content—can only be used in specific cases, and must be employed judiciously. Its usage must be considered fair use under U.S. copyright law, and comply with the non-free content criteria policy."
So I can see keeping one link to a pay article as a reminder for students to check that resource but I even question the need for one.
The size of the list is addressed here:
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Embedded_lists Lists are to be as short as possible.
I think Wikipedia rules should be followed and that Leo deserves better than these messy lists and links to dead ends etc...
Thanks for you input however. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lmlmss44 ( talk • contribs) 01:40, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
This seems to be a thing with you. You can't let a well re-worked lead sit for very long without getting your hands on it, can you? I spent a great deal of time on that lead, and there wasn't anything wrong with it. I took a lead which was a slight evolution from the FA upgrade in 2009, and made it more descriptive. It was chronological, concise, and had good amounts of detail. If you look at other Presidents, i.e. Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, for example, you see a chronological ordering of sections done.
The mention of his alcoholic father was unnecessary in the lead (could be seen as a non-neutral narrative), and other way you structured it weren't as encyclopedia-like. You also had multiple typos. Your grammatical structure was rushed too, and the way you moved around sentences and clauses lead to some things not making sense. This isn't simple language Wikipedia, we can do things in chronological order, and it makes perfect sense; if they only read the first sentence, and they don't find 100% of what they're looking for, they could either A) keep reading B) give up or C) its their problem. I improved and updated a lead that was 6 years old, to keep FA consistency, since it had been slowly changed. Many of your sentences are nearing incomplete thoughts, and would be due for being part of a larger, semicoloned sentence. I undid your edits. Please, use the talk page if you want to completely change a well-structured edit. Just like you did with Theodore Roosevelt, you had to have it your way. Spartan7W § 03:02, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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Poland is a case where SDUSA members with the AFL-CIO helped Solidarity with 300 thousand USD (and more USD later with the NED). Poland is a case where there were clear disagreements among the democracy-promotion social-democrats and the neocons (Kirkpatrick and Podhoretz), who were skeptical about reforming totalitarianism. Since Bush's War with Iraq, "neocons" are typically alleged to be promoting democracy willy nilly, so the Polish case seems significant.
There has been a 7000 character expansion of the SDUSA article, mainly about relations with neoconservatism. Perhaps you could take a look?
Dame Etna ( talk) 14:25, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
I remember Domber giving 10 million as NED's aid to Poland, and given the mistreatment of Thiele by the article I wrongly inferred that the NED support was credited to the CIA (by whoever twisted Thiele noncooperatively and in extended form). Dame Etna ( talk) 14:22, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
I've revered your edit here and started a talk page discussion. Cheers, Jonas Vinther • ( speak to me!) 15:10, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Jensen, You edited the Austria Hungary article "analysis of defeat" section with dubious outdated and very relative references. All of these well-spread imaginations misconception are based on the misconceptions of socialist historian Oszkár Jászi. Many historians copied his works ,and even his exact sentences with minimal modifications (especially in USA) without any critique, despite the fact, that Jászi used outdated informations and statistics in his works, for example: he used economic and industrial statistics from the 1890s and 1900 (which was avaiable for him at the time) for the 1910s and WW1 era. What does it mean "rural" no enough strong industry (based on his outdated datas), it is a very relative thing. Which countries are / were the benchmark gauge? Austria-Hungary had higher industrial output (see machine manufacturing electrotechnology etc...) than France in the 1910s. It became the fourth largest industrial nation of his era. (See: Schulze, Max-Stephan. Engineering and Economic Growth: The Development of Austria-Hungary's Machine-Building Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century, p. 295. Peter Lang (Frankfurt), 1996.) About etalon (benchmark) For the WW1 era, we must compare the empire with its enemies: Russia Romania Serbia and Italy. Romania Serbia and Russia were completely agricultural societies, whith historically traditionally very slow economic societal infrastructural development since the beginnings of their existence (they were orthodox countries, which were culturally not part of the Catholic-Protestant western civilization, but the semi-asian Orthodox civilization). Romania and serbia had no industrialization, thus they entirelly based on the weapon import from Other countries. Russia had a french financed arms industry before the ww1, but without Western help and import it was ineffective in long term. Italy had also very weak industry, despite the fact it was a more developed country than the above mentioned three Orthodox countries. The problem of Austro-Hungarian indsurtial capacity was caused by the war, due to the fact, that Austro-Hungarian industry was heavily dependent on foreign raw materials, thus the industrial output was shockingly paralyzed during the ww1.
Best regards and Thank you for your reply!-- Truthvohl ( talk) 08:41, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
It is just a wrong interpretation of facts. It might, that Austria-Hungary had weak industry in a comparison with the USA Germany and UK. But A-H had no real (armed conflicts) with these countries. All of the enemies of A-H Empire were non-industrialized or minimally industrialized countries, which were far backward in economic societal infrastructural development (Russia Romania Serbia), even its most advanced enemy Italy was less industrialized than A-H monarchy. . Therefore this bad interpretation is misleading for the reader.
Best regards! Thank you for your reply! -- Brewglod ( talk) 16:27, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
The German Empire - the strongest industrial country of Europe (its industrial output was double of the UK in 1910 - too weak to sustain a major war against the whole World, and its economic collapse and starvation caused the fall of the Empire and its Emperor. Russia lost the Eastern front with long serials of heavy defeats by the Central powers. Serbia was occupied in one and half year, its army was evacuated to island of Corfu by entente navy. Romania lost the war within half year. Italy had a very deep economic and military crisis which was solved by massive Entente help (enormous import of weapons and munition vehicles etc...) It would be an interesting further discussion that A-H Empire was defeated or - de facto in the reality - dissolved before its major defeat in Italian front. When as "the defeat"? At the last Italian offensive Austro-Hungarian Army took to the field without any food and munition supply, and fought without any political supports for a de facto non-existent empire. Further note: The UK went close to a full economic collapse by 1916, which was solved by heavy loaning from the American Federal Reserve System, and enormous war material industrial and munition supply came from the USA, the UK lost all huge investments in the USA, and have a high dept. Without that American help, the UK had to left the war theater with a separate peace with the Germans.-- Brewglod ( talk) 08:03, 11 June 2015 (UTC) Thank you fro your reply!
I'm baffled by your stated reason for removing the details of the last soldiers to die in the conflict from World War I. Could you explain further? Surely a better reason for removing it is that such information is fundamentally trivia? QuipQuotch ( talk) 09:45, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Dear Richard Jensen,
Your recent edit of my edit at the Napoleonic Wars page occurred while I was still trying to fix the link to a reliable source ("RS") on U.S. immigration statistics, which I gather was your principal concern. The link is now fixed. See the History page for that article. Transatlantic migration is a specialty of mine, but I am far from being an expert at Wikipedia. I hope am posting this comment properly.
I think you are correct in referring to U.S. immigration 1815-30 as "low" relative to what came after, but not before. According to the data I have assembled (see the now correct link in the Napoleonic Wars article, footnote 83, for more information and sources), on an annual basis, migration to the USA from Europe during 1815-30 was nearly as high as it had ever been for any prior 15 year period since independence (or since the Mayflower). The initial post-Napoleonic boom happened in 1816-19; on an annual basis, migrant inflows to America from Europe for those four years were four and half times the rate during the 1803-14 period. The 1820s were a slump period after the Panic of 1819, but by 1827-30 immigration was back at 1816-19 levels, and it mushroomed thereafter. During the potato famine and aftermath of the late 1840s and early 1850s, U.S. immigration hit the all-time peak relative to domestic population. Thereafter, up to WW I, annual inflows were counted in the hundreds of thousands rather than thousands. I think few migration historians would doubt that this unprecedented scale of mass migration could have occurred had transatlantic travel been impeded by the sorts of blockades and Atlantic wide conflicts which characterized the Napoleonic era. Rather than start a whole new section of the article, I put my point about migration, where it arguably fits rather well anyway, under the "Political Effects" following the Congress of Vienna and the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Thanks for keeping a keen eye on Wikipedia history articles! Drew Drewkeeling ( talk) 01:57, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply, Richard. There were two effects, one short term (due to "pent-up demand" and other factors related to Congress of Vienna as noted on my site and in reliable sources listed there), the other long term (the transatlantic century of peace 1815-1914), but those two effects are related. Migration, especially the relatively quite unrestricted migration across the 19th and the 20th century North Atlantic, is highly cyclical. There was a down cycle during and for some time following the depression of 1819-21, after that -interspersed with further economic depressions- the long term trend was up, and the volumes relative to population were historically high. Strictly speaking, the long term impact [the greatest transoceanic migration ever (Europe to US, 1815-1914)] was an outcome of the terms on which the Napoleonic Wars were ended rather than the military conflict per se, but this can be said for long term political and economic impacts in general.
My source for immigration flows, 1815-19, is Grabbe. I think his book is generally reliable, as does Ray Cohn (in his book). Older migration historioraphy (e.g. Marcus Hansen) generally agrees that there was a surge after 1815. Probably, given chain migration effects, etc. this had a lingering impetus even after the recovery from the 1819-21 slump, but in any case, the transatlantic peace wrought by the Vienna Congress (and the Treaty of Ghent) was clearly a central reason for BOTH the post-1815 surge and for the long run result of 30 million migrants moving to the US from Europe during the ensuing century. I hope this explanation suffices.
I can add in some published sources to the footnotes (though that does not seem to be commonly required at Wikipedia) rather than referencing them indirectly via my own website, but I would appreciate your leaving the text sentences in. If two sentences on immigration seems of balance in this article, I would suggest that this is because there is almost nothing there (yet) on long term economic impacts. So rather than deleting a start towards remedying that deficiency, it seems to me it would make more sense for to get more (not less) economic history included. Drewkeeling ( talk) 04:01, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, Richard. I've read your informative post on my talk page too. I will beef up the footnotes with published sources. I thought it was okay to cite my website if there was specific and relevant source material there which credibly supported the text. But the basic points made in this case can be referenced via published articles of mine, even though they focus mostly on post 1850, along with some of the other standard reference works, and then (if I follow correctly what you are saying) my website -as a guide to accessing the articles- could also remain in footnotes. One clarification: My interest here, and in my historical research and writings generally, has been and is with migration (specifically the processes by which it occurs), not the demographic impacts of it. 04:42, 4 June 2015 (UTC) Drewkeeling
[PS: Thanks also for the comments and pointers on my talk page; see it also for my reply to your latest post there] Drewkeeling ( talk) 11:09, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
I've now added citations to published secondary sources in the footnotes of the Napoleonic Wars article. Thanks for pointing out this deficiency. Drewkeeling ( talk) 04:51, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Sir, Do you know the names of the Anthropologist John Collier hired to work on the reorganization act? Thank you, Stephen Gunter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.107.96.138 ( talk) 20:45, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
You reverted my edit to the timeline of AA history. I disagree with your assessment and the edit should be allowed time for debate. I've started a discussion on the Talk page to allow the public time to weigh in. A person born in West Africa (before transport to the Americas) cannot be reasonably or logically separated from West Africa's history. There is a reason that the hyphenated term African-American starts with the word African. History did not begin for Africans in West Africa and thus African-Americans with the slave trade. That's racist, colonial propaganda of the type that led to the crime against humanity that was the slave trade. Rod ( talk) 01:53, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
The French Union article and the French Fourth Republic explains it better: they were colonies but under the French Union and then as colonies, withdrew from the French Union. As such, the colonial empire as it was ended in 1946 and instead we have colonies of the Union which fought in wars and withdrew. This matches those two articles. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 03:24, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Please discuss whether or not inclusion of the Chomsky quote in the Neoliberalism on the talk page. The material is a criticism of Neoliberalism, & it is reliabbly cited. Peaceray ( talk) 00:37, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Rjensen, thanks for taking an interest in the Malagasy Uprising article. I saw you've been adjusting the number of casualties, which vary widely in the literature on the topic. Let's discuss and come to agreement before making any further adjustments to this as it's currently written, since it's already at GA. Cheers, Lemurbaby ( talk) 00:47, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
I made the edits that you just reverted on the Truman Doctrine page. From your biography, I fail to see how you can dispute the grammatical changes I made. The 'only' was clearly in the wrong place. The Soviet Union would only respond to force? It wouldn't be doing anything else at all? And so forth.
If you think it was Soviet imperialism, that's fine, but this is supposed to be an objective resource, and there are reasonable arguments that it was not imperialism. It certainly didn't call itself imperialism, as British imperialism did. I fail to see why, given that this is supposed to be an objective resource, 'expansionism' is unsatisfactory. It communicates the same meaning without being tendentious.
Hi Richard. Just a heads up that I went bold and hacked away at the overlong and meandering lead at Containment. I expect you will be noting that on your watchlist momentarily. Hopefully less is more here. —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 02:13, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Rjensen
David Cameron's kinship with the present Clan Chief is not influential on British policy (as you suggest) but it is a fact. There is a Wiki section about his ancestry - so by the same token how relevant is it that he is descends from William IV?
Facts! Meantime I shall restore this additional genealogical info & await further considerable comment no doubt! But on a serious note, surely it is important to know how he descends from the Scottish family (qv. Burke's Peerage)?
Best M Mabelina ( talk) 00:05, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
why are you stopping facts from being displayed? are you paid to spread propaganda? Do you seriously suggest that someone has to speak Ukrainian to discuss the Ukraine Crisis?
Maybe you are looking to lose your account as an editor? lol — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.63.102.143 ( talk) 00:32, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Editorial cartoon mocking FDR's "Alphabet agencies".jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Stefan2 ( talk) 23:34, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Rjensen, you recently deleted the "Mr Truman's Degree" part of my update to Harry S. Truman ( diff) with the edit note "Trivial items supported by primary source-- need a reliable secondary source that says this is actually important in Truman's career". I don't dispute that principle, but it seems to me that if the Oxford degree is important enough to mention—which it might not be—then Anscombe's well-documented intervention should be mentioned too. It is very unusual for Oxford's Congregation to be asked to vote on an honorary degree, and back in 1956 it was really quite extraordinary. I was concerned to correct the widely-republished canard that his honorary degree was in "Civic" law, which isn't a field that has a specific degree and anyway is called "Administrative" law by the faculty. I might be able to provide other sources but it isn't clear which one(s) you are objecting to. Such sources will probably be from archived papers so please be specific about your concerns. Frankly I don't understand your objection, but if you were concerned that my edit was made by a thoughtless youngster I assure you the opposite is true! - Pointillist ( talk) 21:51, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
hi, nice image upload. however, don't know why you say unknown author. it's obviously half of an Underwood & Underwood stereo-card [4]. the problem with cropping out the watermark, [5] is that an artist that did the colorizing might claim a copyright. i suspect it may be this artist here [6]. Duckduckstop ( talk) 18:38, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
RJensen I experienced an unwieldy ambush from you before, so please check before making further statements about your knowledge (or lack of)... Sorry to say this, but please do check properly first. Many thanks M Mabelina ( talk) 00:48, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
I was concerned by both [ ] and its summary. That's a wholesale revision; describing it as "Tweaks" is misleading. Furthermore, the sources do not say taht Wilson "felt tricked"; on the contrary, they make it clear that he knew exactly what the film was about. MissPiggysBoyfriend ( talk) 15:15, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Conservatism in the United States#disagreement. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:48, 27 June 2015 (UTC){{Z48}
Just a quick question, as I noticed that you replaced the External Link I removed in the Hugh S. Johnson article. I understand how it could/should be in the sources, but I was under the impression that paywall and subscription based links were not to be in External Links. The link you posted goes to a teaser page that doesn't even cite the subject, unless you are logged in (I assume). I'm just trying to understand the logic. Thanks ! Zeugzeug ( talk) 08:57, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
This article needs some help - I really don't have the time to fix it all up, am hoping someone like yourself who's into American military history/American Revolution history can help. Thanks in advance, Shearonink ( talk) 17:56, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your general fix-up to Military career of George Washington. There was a persistent POV-warrior lurking around it last week and I just didn't have the time to take it on. Shearonink ( talk) 13:43, 29 June 2015 (UTC) |
We've been having a busy summer at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. The Literature award was announced on June 30th. The 2015 recipient is David Hackett Fischer. A new exhibit on late 19th century military life entitled Dignity of Duty opened on June 24th. The exhibit has a companion book, Dignity of Duty: The Journals of Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath, 1861-1898. Lots of Library Interns/Wikipedians in Residence have been busy updating biographies and creating stubs for WWI songs and WWI battles. The Museum & Library has gotten a lot of good press as a result. Please help me spread the word! TeriEmbrey ( talk) 15:00, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your editorial vigilance. That Wikipedia article has been taking quite a lot of abuse recently. MaynardClark ( talk) 02:20, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
I've restored the stable lead to Confederate States of America which you seem to have destabilized by turning a comma into a period and removing more appropriate and accurate language which introduced many grammatical errors. Viriditas ( talk) 04:53, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
If you're going to drop the "fringe theory" about Stonewall Jackson, how about dropping the exact same "fringe theory" on John Wilkes Booth? Why is one accepted but not the other? Thor2000 ( talk) 21:57, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I see you are a history expert. I hope you can solve the dispute in this article based on your professional experience. Recently, I use a source from China as the citation for casualties of Chinese communist in this war. However, User:?????? deleted my edition and changed the figure based on the citation from another wikipedia article [7]. Moreover, the figure he cited is just the casualties of Chinese communist in two battles alone not the entire 8-year war. I told him wikipeidia cannot be used as the source in wiki article but he kept this edition. I don't want to involve a edition war and I don't have the professional history experience. I see you are a modern history professor and a wikipedian. I hope you can give some professional idea for this problem, Then I hope you can check the recent edition from this user. I see the editions from this user are all about how nationalist Chinese killed the Japanese civilians in this war and the massacre committed by Chinese. [8] I did not revert any of his editions about these and did not debate with him because I see he cited some Japanese sources even I cannot understand Japanese. However, he continued revert my referenced editions by a citation from wikipedia made me doubt his previous edition. It seems he is a single purpose editor who focus on article related SSJW [9]. I hope you can determine whether his recent editions in this article are fringe theory based on your professional knowledge. Actually there is a discussion about his edition here [10], Thank you. Miracle dream ( talk)
Was that a mistake? You shouldn't use rollback for those kinds of edits... Dustin (talk) 19:35, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Regarding Religion in the Netherlands, please produce RS to demonstrate that 'most Dutch Jews were murdered in The Holocaust' as there are no sources cited for the percentage of the Dutch Jewish population who perished during that period. -- Iryna Harpy ( talk) 06:30, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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talk) 07:06, 22 July 2015 (UTC)The article is called "Jackson: Hero or american Hitler?" Check it out: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/12/news/OE-BYKER12. It was absolutely sourced. please check your facts before reverting edits next time. I will add it back accordingly. Neddy1234 ( talk) 21:10, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
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see previous talk at User talk:Rjensen/Archive24
Dear Richard,
I didn't actually get a copy of your reply to my long note in my Talk box, but after a lot of searching I actually found a copy on your own User Talk box. Did I not get it because I clumsilly forgot to sign with tildes?
I'll forgive you for being a Yank. (That's an Aussie joke, of course!)
Thanks for your comments. I think I will restate the brief summary I made on Electrophone, etc, including the links to the three other sites. I really do think this is important as a predecessor to radio broadcasting. I hope that you and I won't have problems if I reinstate this.
I will also add the rest of the Voigt caption, and will add a brief mention of Fisk under "Sealed Set". I will take your advice and not add any mention of US public stations.
I will also add the 1950s onwards sections to you Australian page.
With best wishes, Albert Isaacs ( talk) 00:34, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Richard,
Wow! You certainly have been busy over the last few days. I congratulate you on all your research, particularly as Australia is a foreign country to you. (I don't mean that to sound compromising.)
I think we'll have to agree to disagree re Electrophone, etc. However, I've made a compromise by braketing that section and reducing the text size. This way, I'll hope you'll agree that we've found middle ground.
You'll note that I have made a few other minor changes.
Regards, Albert Isaacs ( talk) 00:51, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Richard,
Yes, I agree - it been a positive experience. I still haven't done a full proofread of the sections that you've added, and I will eventually get around to that. My next job (tomorrow?) will be to divide the list of personalities into sub-groups, such as:
However, it's now time to turn off the computer ...
Regards, Albert Isaacs ( talk) 09:06, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello, You restored ALL the links I deleted including ones to Internet Archive that have been removed from the site most likely due to copyright issues!
There was a Wiki notice that indicated that the long lists following the article was too long etc...so I spent time on "clean up."
Link content guidelines include this statement:
"External links should be kept minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article. Wikipedia is not an advertising opportunity."
Therefore I can't see the point of linking to numerous stubs to the old U Chicago Press books. Researchers can search Worldcat or Google Books and find them. One UCP link to a stub is enough as a pointer.
The guidelines for links also states:
"Non-free content—including all copyrighted content—can only be used in specific cases, and must be employed judiciously. Its usage must be considered fair use under U.S. copyright law, and comply with the non-free content criteria policy."
So I can see keeping one link to a pay article as a reminder for students to check that resource but I even question the need for one.
The size of the list is addressed here:
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Embedded_lists Lists are to be as short as possible.
I think Wikipedia rules should be followed and that Leo deserves better than these messy lists and links to dead ends etc...
Thanks for you input however. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lmlmss44 ( talk • contribs) 01:40, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
This seems to be a thing with you. You can't let a well re-worked lead sit for very long without getting your hands on it, can you? I spent a great deal of time on that lead, and there wasn't anything wrong with it. I took a lead which was a slight evolution from the FA upgrade in 2009, and made it more descriptive. It was chronological, concise, and had good amounts of detail. If you look at other Presidents, i.e. Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, for example, you see a chronological ordering of sections done.
The mention of his alcoholic father was unnecessary in the lead (could be seen as a non-neutral narrative), and other way you structured it weren't as encyclopedia-like. You also had multiple typos. Your grammatical structure was rushed too, and the way you moved around sentences and clauses lead to some things not making sense. This isn't simple language Wikipedia, we can do things in chronological order, and it makes perfect sense; if they only read the first sentence, and they don't find 100% of what they're looking for, they could either A) keep reading B) give up or C) its their problem. I improved and updated a lead that was 6 years old, to keep FA consistency, since it had been slowly changed. Many of your sentences are nearing incomplete thoughts, and would be due for being part of a larger, semicoloned sentence. I undid your edits. Please, use the talk page if you want to completely change a well-structured edit. Just like you did with Theodore Roosevelt, you had to have it your way. Spartan7W § 03:02, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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I know The Lithograph is on the front cover of 'The Norton Anthology of American Literature' Volume B, but I will look for it on the wikimedia commons, thank you-- Isaacvolpestone ( talk) 17:24, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
Poland is a case where SDUSA members with the AFL-CIO helped Solidarity with 300 thousand USD (and more USD later with the NED). Poland is a case where there were clear disagreements among the democracy-promotion social-democrats and the neocons (Kirkpatrick and Podhoretz), who were skeptical about reforming totalitarianism. Since Bush's War with Iraq, "neocons" are typically alleged to be promoting democracy willy nilly, so the Polish case seems significant.
There has been a 7000 character expansion of the SDUSA article, mainly about relations with neoconservatism. Perhaps you could take a look?
Dame Etna ( talk) 14:25, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
I remember Domber giving 10 million as NED's aid to Poland, and given the mistreatment of Thiele by the article I wrongly inferred that the NED support was credited to the CIA (by whoever twisted Thiele noncooperatively and in extended form). Dame Etna ( talk) 14:22, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
I've revered your edit here and started a talk page discussion. Cheers, Jonas Vinther • ( speak to me!) 15:10, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
Dear Jensen, You edited the Austria Hungary article "analysis of defeat" section with dubious outdated and very relative references. All of these well-spread imaginations misconception are based on the misconceptions of socialist historian Oszkár Jászi. Many historians copied his works ,and even his exact sentences with minimal modifications (especially in USA) without any critique, despite the fact, that Jászi used outdated informations and statistics in his works, for example: he used economic and industrial statistics from the 1890s and 1900 (which was avaiable for him at the time) for the 1910s and WW1 era. What does it mean "rural" no enough strong industry (based on his outdated datas), it is a very relative thing. Which countries are / were the benchmark gauge? Austria-Hungary had higher industrial output (see machine manufacturing electrotechnology etc...) than France in the 1910s. It became the fourth largest industrial nation of his era. (See: Schulze, Max-Stephan. Engineering and Economic Growth: The Development of Austria-Hungary's Machine-Building Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century, p. 295. Peter Lang (Frankfurt), 1996.) About etalon (benchmark) For the WW1 era, we must compare the empire with its enemies: Russia Romania Serbia and Italy. Romania Serbia and Russia were completely agricultural societies, whith historically traditionally very slow economic societal infrastructural development since the beginnings of their existence (they were orthodox countries, which were culturally not part of the Catholic-Protestant western civilization, but the semi-asian Orthodox civilization). Romania and serbia had no industrialization, thus they entirelly based on the weapon import from Other countries. Russia had a french financed arms industry before the ww1, but without Western help and import it was ineffective in long term. Italy had also very weak industry, despite the fact it was a more developed country than the above mentioned three Orthodox countries. The problem of Austro-Hungarian indsurtial capacity was caused by the war, due to the fact, that Austro-Hungarian industry was heavily dependent on foreign raw materials, thus the industrial output was shockingly paralyzed during the ww1.
Best regards and Thank you for your reply!-- Truthvohl ( talk) 08:41, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
It is just a wrong interpretation of facts. It might, that Austria-Hungary had weak industry in a comparison with the USA Germany and UK. But A-H had no real (armed conflicts) with these countries. All of the enemies of A-H Empire were non-industrialized or minimally industrialized countries, which were far backward in economic societal infrastructural development (Russia Romania Serbia), even its most advanced enemy Italy was less industrialized than A-H monarchy. . Therefore this bad interpretation is misleading for the reader.
Best regards! Thank you for your reply! -- Brewglod ( talk) 16:27, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
The German Empire - the strongest industrial country of Europe (its industrial output was double of the UK in 1910 - too weak to sustain a major war against the whole World, and its economic collapse and starvation caused the fall of the Empire and its Emperor. Russia lost the Eastern front with long serials of heavy defeats by the Central powers. Serbia was occupied in one and half year, its army was evacuated to island of Corfu by entente navy. Romania lost the war within half year. Italy had a very deep economic and military crisis which was solved by massive Entente help (enormous import of weapons and munition vehicles etc...) It would be an interesting further discussion that A-H Empire was defeated or - de facto in the reality - dissolved before its major defeat in Italian front. When as "the defeat"? At the last Italian offensive Austro-Hungarian Army took to the field without any food and munition supply, and fought without any political supports for a de facto non-existent empire. Further note: The UK went close to a full economic collapse by 1916, which was solved by heavy loaning from the American Federal Reserve System, and enormous war material industrial and munition supply came from the USA, the UK lost all huge investments in the USA, and have a high dept. Without that American help, the UK had to left the war theater with a separate peace with the Germans.-- Brewglod ( talk) 08:03, 11 June 2015 (UTC) Thank you fro your reply!
I'm baffled by your stated reason for removing the details of the last soldiers to die in the conflict from World War I. Could you explain further? Surely a better reason for removing it is that such information is fundamentally trivia? QuipQuotch ( talk) 09:45, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Dear Richard Jensen,
Your recent edit of my edit at the Napoleonic Wars page occurred while I was still trying to fix the link to a reliable source ("RS") on U.S. immigration statistics, which I gather was your principal concern. The link is now fixed. See the History page for that article. Transatlantic migration is a specialty of mine, but I am far from being an expert at Wikipedia. I hope am posting this comment properly.
I think you are correct in referring to U.S. immigration 1815-30 as "low" relative to what came after, but not before. According to the data I have assembled (see the now correct link in the Napoleonic Wars article, footnote 83, for more information and sources), on an annual basis, migration to the USA from Europe during 1815-30 was nearly as high as it had ever been for any prior 15 year period since independence (or since the Mayflower). The initial post-Napoleonic boom happened in 1816-19; on an annual basis, migrant inflows to America from Europe for those four years were four and half times the rate during the 1803-14 period. The 1820s were a slump period after the Panic of 1819, but by 1827-30 immigration was back at 1816-19 levels, and it mushroomed thereafter. During the potato famine and aftermath of the late 1840s and early 1850s, U.S. immigration hit the all-time peak relative to domestic population. Thereafter, up to WW I, annual inflows were counted in the hundreds of thousands rather than thousands. I think few migration historians would doubt that this unprecedented scale of mass migration could have occurred had transatlantic travel been impeded by the sorts of blockades and Atlantic wide conflicts which characterized the Napoleonic era. Rather than start a whole new section of the article, I put my point about migration, where it arguably fits rather well anyway, under the "Political Effects" following the Congress of Vienna and the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Thanks for keeping a keen eye on Wikipedia history articles! Drew Drewkeeling ( talk) 01:57, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply, Richard. There were two effects, one short term (due to "pent-up demand" and other factors related to Congress of Vienna as noted on my site and in reliable sources listed there), the other long term (the transatlantic century of peace 1815-1914), but those two effects are related. Migration, especially the relatively quite unrestricted migration across the 19th and the 20th century North Atlantic, is highly cyclical. There was a down cycle during and for some time following the depression of 1819-21, after that -interspersed with further economic depressions- the long term trend was up, and the volumes relative to population were historically high. Strictly speaking, the long term impact [the greatest transoceanic migration ever (Europe to US, 1815-1914)] was an outcome of the terms on which the Napoleonic Wars were ended rather than the military conflict per se, but this can be said for long term political and economic impacts in general.
My source for immigration flows, 1815-19, is Grabbe. I think his book is generally reliable, as does Ray Cohn (in his book). Older migration historioraphy (e.g. Marcus Hansen) generally agrees that there was a surge after 1815. Probably, given chain migration effects, etc. this had a lingering impetus even after the recovery from the 1819-21 slump, but in any case, the transatlantic peace wrought by the Vienna Congress (and the Treaty of Ghent) was clearly a central reason for BOTH the post-1815 surge and for the long run result of 30 million migrants moving to the US from Europe during the ensuing century. I hope this explanation suffices.
I can add in some published sources to the footnotes (though that does not seem to be commonly required at Wikipedia) rather than referencing them indirectly via my own website, but I would appreciate your leaving the text sentences in. If two sentences on immigration seems of balance in this article, I would suggest that this is because there is almost nothing there (yet) on long term economic impacts. So rather than deleting a start towards remedying that deficiency, it seems to me it would make more sense for to get more (not less) economic history included. Drewkeeling ( talk) 04:01, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, Richard. I've read your informative post on my talk page too. I will beef up the footnotes with published sources. I thought it was okay to cite my website if there was specific and relevant source material there which credibly supported the text. But the basic points made in this case can be referenced via published articles of mine, even though they focus mostly on post 1850, along with some of the other standard reference works, and then (if I follow correctly what you are saying) my website -as a guide to accessing the articles- could also remain in footnotes. One clarification: My interest here, and in my historical research and writings generally, has been and is with migration (specifically the processes by which it occurs), not the demographic impacts of it. 04:42, 4 June 2015 (UTC) Drewkeeling
[PS: Thanks also for the comments and pointers on my talk page; see it also for my reply to your latest post there] Drewkeeling ( talk) 11:09, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
I've now added citations to published secondary sources in the footnotes of the Napoleonic Wars article. Thanks for pointing out this deficiency. Drewkeeling ( talk) 04:51, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Sir, Do you know the names of the Anthropologist John Collier hired to work on the reorganization act? Thank you, Stephen Gunter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.107.96.138 ( talk) 20:45, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
You reverted my edit to the timeline of AA history. I disagree with your assessment and the edit should be allowed time for debate. I've started a discussion on the Talk page to allow the public time to weigh in. A person born in West Africa (before transport to the Americas) cannot be reasonably or logically separated from West Africa's history. There is a reason that the hyphenated term African-American starts with the word African. History did not begin for Africans in West Africa and thus African-Americans with the slave trade. That's racist, colonial propaganda of the type that led to the crime against humanity that was the slave trade. Rod ( talk) 01:53, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
The French Union article and the French Fourth Republic explains it better: they were colonies but under the French Union and then as colonies, withdrew from the French Union. As such, the colonial empire as it was ended in 1946 and instead we have colonies of the Union which fought in wars and withdrew. This matches those two articles. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 03:24, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Please discuss whether or not inclusion of the Chomsky quote in the Neoliberalism on the talk page. The material is a criticism of Neoliberalism, & it is reliabbly cited. Peaceray ( talk) 00:37, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Rjensen, thanks for taking an interest in the Malagasy Uprising article. I saw you've been adjusting the number of casualties, which vary widely in the literature on the topic. Let's discuss and come to agreement before making any further adjustments to this as it's currently written, since it's already at GA. Cheers, Lemurbaby ( talk) 00:47, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
I made the edits that you just reverted on the Truman Doctrine page. From your biography, I fail to see how you can dispute the grammatical changes I made. The 'only' was clearly in the wrong place. The Soviet Union would only respond to force? It wouldn't be doing anything else at all? And so forth.
If you think it was Soviet imperialism, that's fine, but this is supposed to be an objective resource, and there are reasonable arguments that it was not imperialism. It certainly didn't call itself imperialism, as British imperialism did. I fail to see why, given that this is supposed to be an objective resource, 'expansionism' is unsatisfactory. It communicates the same meaning without being tendentious.
Hi Richard. Just a heads up that I went bold and hacked away at the overlong and meandering lead at Containment. I expect you will be noting that on your watchlist momentarily. Hopefully less is more here. —Tim /// Carrite ( talk) 02:13, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Rjensen
David Cameron's kinship with the present Clan Chief is not influential on British policy (as you suggest) but it is a fact. There is a Wiki section about his ancestry - so by the same token how relevant is it that he is descends from William IV?
Facts! Meantime I shall restore this additional genealogical info & await further considerable comment no doubt! But on a serious note, surely it is important to know how he descends from the Scottish family (qv. Burke's Peerage)?
Best M Mabelina ( talk) 00:05, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
why are you stopping facts from being displayed? are you paid to spread propaganda? Do you seriously suggest that someone has to speak Ukrainian to discuss the Ukraine Crisis?
Maybe you are looking to lose your account as an editor? lol — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.63.102.143 ( talk) 00:32, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Editorial cartoon mocking FDR's "Alphabet agencies".jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Stefan2 ( talk) 23:34, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Rjensen, you recently deleted the "Mr Truman's Degree" part of my update to Harry S. Truman ( diff) with the edit note "Trivial items supported by primary source-- need a reliable secondary source that says this is actually important in Truman's career". I don't dispute that principle, but it seems to me that if the Oxford degree is important enough to mention—which it might not be—then Anscombe's well-documented intervention should be mentioned too. It is very unusual for Oxford's Congregation to be asked to vote on an honorary degree, and back in 1956 it was really quite extraordinary. I was concerned to correct the widely-republished canard that his honorary degree was in "Civic" law, which isn't a field that has a specific degree and anyway is called "Administrative" law by the faculty. I might be able to provide other sources but it isn't clear which one(s) you are objecting to. Such sources will probably be from archived papers so please be specific about your concerns. Frankly I don't understand your objection, but if you were concerned that my edit was made by a thoughtless youngster I assure you the opposite is true! - Pointillist ( talk) 21:51, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
hi, nice image upload. however, don't know why you say unknown author. it's obviously half of an Underwood & Underwood stereo-card [4]. the problem with cropping out the watermark, [5] is that an artist that did the colorizing might claim a copyright. i suspect it may be this artist here [6]. Duckduckstop ( talk) 18:38, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
RJensen I experienced an unwieldy ambush from you before, so please check before making further statements about your knowledge (or lack of)... Sorry to say this, but please do check properly first. Many thanks M Mabelina ( talk) 00:48, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
I was concerned by both [ ] and its summary. That's a wholesale revision; describing it as "Tweaks" is misleading. Furthermore, the sources do not say taht Wilson "felt tricked"; on the contrary, they make it clear that he knew exactly what the film was about. MissPiggysBoyfriend ( talk) 15:15, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Conservatism in the United States#disagreement. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 17:48, 27 June 2015 (UTC){{Z48}
Just a quick question, as I noticed that you replaced the External Link I removed in the Hugh S. Johnson article. I understand how it could/should be in the sources, but I was under the impression that paywall and subscription based links were not to be in External Links. The link you posted goes to a teaser page that doesn't even cite the subject, unless you are logged in (I assume). I'm just trying to understand the logic. Thanks ! Zeugzeug ( talk) 08:57, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
This article needs some help - I really don't have the time to fix it all up, am hoping someone like yourself who's into American military history/American Revolution history can help. Thanks in advance, Shearonink ( talk) 17:56, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your general fix-up to Military career of George Washington. There was a persistent POV-warrior lurking around it last week and I just didn't have the time to take it on. Shearonink ( talk) 13:43, 29 June 2015 (UTC) |
We've been having a busy summer at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. The Literature award was announced on June 30th. The 2015 recipient is David Hackett Fischer. A new exhibit on late 19th century military life entitled Dignity of Duty opened on June 24th. The exhibit has a companion book, Dignity of Duty: The Journals of Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath, 1861-1898. Lots of Library Interns/Wikipedians in Residence have been busy updating biographies and creating stubs for WWI songs and WWI battles. The Museum & Library has gotten a lot of good press as a result. Please help me spread the word! TeriEmbrey ( talk) 15:00, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your editorial vigilance. That Wikipedia article has been taking quite a lot of abuse recently. MaynardClark ( talk) 02:20, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
I've restored the stable lead to Confederate States of America which you seem to have destabilized by turning a comma into a period and removing more appropriate and accurate language which introduced many grammatical errors. Viriditas ( talk) 04:53, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
If you're going to drop the "fringe theory" about Stonewall Jackson, how about dropping the exact same "fringe theory" on John Wilkes Booth? Why is one accepted but not the other? Thor2000 ( talk) 21:57, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I see you are a history expert. I hope you can solve the dispute in this article based on your professional experience. Recently, I use a source from China as the citation for casualties of Chinese communist in this war. However, User:?????? deleted my edition and changed the figure based on the citation from another wikipedia article [7]. Moreover, the figure he cited is just the casualties of Chinese communist in two battles alone not the entire 8-year war. I told him wikipeidia cannot be used as the source in wiki article but he kept this edition. I don't want to involve a edition war and I don't have the professional history experience. I see you are a modern history professor and a wikipedian. I hope you can give some professional idea for this problem, Then I hope you can check the recent edition from this user. I see the editions from this user are all about how nationalist Chinese killed the Japanese civilians in this war and the massacre committed by Chinese. [8] I did not revert any of his editions about these and did not debate with him because I see he cited some Japanese sources even I cannot understand Japanese. However, he continued revert my referenced editions by a citation from wikipedia made me doubt his previous edition. It seems he is a single purpose editor who focus on article related SSJW [9]. I hope you can determine whether his recent editions in this article are fringe theory based on your professional knowledge. Actually there is a discussion about his edition here [10], Thank you. Miracle dream ( talk)
Was that a mistake? You shouldn't use rollback for those kinds of edits... Dustin (talk) 19:35, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
Regarding Religion in the Netherlands, please produce RS to demonstrate that 'most Dutch Jews were murdered in The Holocaust' as there are no sources cited for the percentage of the Dutch Jewish population who perished during that period. -- Iryna Harpy ( talk) 06:30, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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talk) 07:06, 22 July 2015 (UTC)The article is called "Jackson: Hero or american Hitler?" Check it out: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/12/news/OE-BYKER12. It was absolutely sourced. please check your facts before reverting edits next time. I will add it back accordingly. Neddy1234 ( talk) 21:10, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
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