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How is this important? Thanks. DS ( talk) 23:15, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
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Sorry I was trying out something!! I am really truly sorry and I hope you forgive me!! :( Characterized @your service 01:29, 28 October 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Characterized ( talk • contribs)
I've started a discussion at Talk:Women in the military#US centric material. Cheers, Nick-D ( talk) 07:30, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi I'm( talk) 11:46, 20 January 2016 (UTC)( Pinkie99 ( talk) 11:46, 20 January 2016 (UTC))I think you have added the National study of British secularisation section. I don't think Callum would agree with the way you have interpreted The Death of Christian Britain. I think he'd say that secularisation began in Britain at least in the 18th Century, possibly earlier. The point he's arguing in the 'Death' is that the progressive decline in the influence of Christianity on British culture reached a watershed in the 1960s after which the description of Britain as 'a Christian country' is no longer true. This marks a step in the continuing process of secularisation. I don't agree with him as I don't see the 1960s as so important because for me secularisation in Britain has been a remarkable consistent process over the last 300 years.
I think you should remove the reference to the 1960 and to Callum.
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Hello. Regarding your revert of my edit on Radical Republican, I am willing to compromise and retain the sentence regarding the liberal party elements opposing the Radical Republicans. As for the issue of "pro-slavery Democrats" that you mentioned, the words "pro-slavery" were in the article already, before my edit. All I did was add "largely" before that, to acknowledge that there was some division, and add "later anti-Reconstruction" after it, to reflect the era in which slavery had already been abolished. The only other change that I made was when the article referred to William H. Seward. It previously referred to the "New York Governor William Seward, later Secretary of State)." However, the time in which he served as N.Y. Governor was from 1839-1842, well before the rise of Radical Republicanism. Because of this, I changed it to read simply " Secretary of State William Seward." Therefore, I propose that I be allowed to re-add my previous edits, with the one difference being that the sentence referring to opposition from "conservatives" and "liberals" shall stay. Thank you. Display name 99 ( talk) 22:06, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I dislike this version even more. The version that I made gives the reader a better idea of who the Democrats were, because it mentions them as "largely pro-slavery" and "anti-Reconstruction." In addition, it now reads that after the war the Republicans were opposed by "all Democrats." Radicals always faced hostility from Democrats, even if they may have agreed during the war on fighting the Confederacy. In addition, you have identified "conservatives" in the post-war South as different from the Democrats, even though they were almost always the same thing. I respectfully ask that I be permitted to proceed with the previously proposed edits. Thank you. Display name 99 ( talk) 22:57, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I have edited the article in a manner that I believe is satisfactory, while taking into account the things which you have said. Display name 99 ( talk) 23:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. As I'm sure you know, the question of whether or not mainstream Northern Democrats-that is, the Douglas popular sovereignty men-were "pro-slavery" would really depend on who you were asking. The Southerners would argue insufficiently so; the Republicans would say that they were. That was the reason for the use of the word "largely." I'm glad that this was resolved. Also, thank you for your edit in deleting "second" before "Republican Party." As you said, most of the people reading this type of article will know the difference. Display name 99 ( talk) 23:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
If you want to change the list in this article's infobox, then you'll have to change it on these ones as well;
And that's just for starters, there's more. Or you could revert back. They're just links to well-sourced pages. - theWOLFchild 10:16, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Why do you keep ignoring the hidden message above the categories. It says "Please do not add Category:Far-right politics in the United States or Category:Anti-communist organizations here as Category:Ku Klux Klan is already a subcategory of these."? LittleJerry ( talk) 14:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Could you explain your edit here, please? As I said on the talk page years ago, it's one thing to say the copyright was seized by the US government, but another to say that it's in the public domain. Josh Milburn ( talk) 18:06, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi! You seem to have reverted my edit on Theocracy. Why? The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 10:05, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Please read WP:BRD. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 10:15, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
If you continue acting like this you may end up blocked. You need to discuss the edit. Nota bene: I left a message on the talkpage when I removed that claim, but you seem to have ignored that. Please use talkpages. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 10:16, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
I use Merriam-Webster. The definition of theocracy is:
ISIL is not a government and it is not a country or state. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 10:21, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
I noticed something weird on the top of your talkpage. The archives go from 1-10. You've added a link to archive 26. The reason that the template doesn't work is because Archive 11 is missing. Archive number 25 is also missing. But User talk:Rjensen/Archive 19/Archive 18 does exist. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 12:28, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
The Theocracy article contains:
It does not contain potential future theocracies nor does it contain speculation about which groups are likely to achieve their goal of establishing a theocracy (a goal that is shared by many groups worldwide). This is a good decision. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 14:58, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
I wish Braeman had written a biography about Beard. He was very well informed. Yet even with this good secondary source it is hard to conclude that Beard's father was a banker. He said that Beard's father "took in his later years a leading role in organizing three local banks" which I think is different from being a banker. And I think Mary Beard knew better Beard's family than Braeman. :) Best Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by VMCL2015 ( talk • contribs) 18:35, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
He administrated three banks because he had, as his son, great numeracy skills and he was a honest and respected person in the community . But I think that naming him a banker convey a misleading idea. The sources Braeman cited regarding his banking activities are a bit unsubstantial. Hazzard's History,Vol. 2 only lists his name as member of the board of directors. The other primary source Braeman cited is the 1880 census and there he appeared as a carpenter! He took great poetic license to call his hero "building contractor." And Mary Beard did not burn all Beard's papers that is a myth. She kept many, organized them and Beard's children donated to DePauw University Archives. But also there are many primary sources scattered across the United States. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by VMCL2015 ( talk • contribs) 19:20, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Well, that's Mary Beard account of it. A bank was having administrative and financial problems and they decided to bring Beard's father to fix them. However, we may be arguing about a quibble. My objection is mainly against the idea Goldman spread that Beard's father "owned" a bank, therefore, he was a banker. Beard's father participation in the re-organization of three banks may make him "a banker" under a very broad concept of it. I would say that he was a farmer, carpenter, speculator, and a great manager of banks. I don't know how many were destroyed but the remaining letters are many, telling and reveal many clues about Beard previously unknown.Victor M. Cazares 19:56, 28 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by VMCL2015 ( talk • contribs)
The lead of the article Casablanca Conference seems to put French leader Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud as the major attendance. The image of article Allied leaders of World War II also put French leader Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud the top-importance position at the Casablanca Conference. In my memory, the French leaders only involved the leadership problem of Free French forces in this conference and did not join the major discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:6B45:500:34F6:BB79:B3BD:11EE ( talk) 23:35, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm guessing that "The war was Dick Cheney..." is a typo of some sort, and not a clever metaphor? ;-) Kirill Lokshin ( talk) 21:29, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Mr. Jensen! I couldn't help but notice that you reverted some of my added quotes on the C.S. Army article. I don't mind, as you clearly detailed your reasons for doing so. However, I would like to explain the reason why I added those quotes into the article, it was because the speakers were members of the C.S. Army, so I thought that it would be of interest to the article. That said, I'm glad to have another user reviewing my edits and adding input, especially a published historian such as yourself. The topic is a huge subject matter and a lot of work to do for one man alone. Best regards, – Illegitimate Barrister, 00:20, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Greetings: As you know, an inline (book) citation refers to a citation in a page’s text that allows the reader to associate a given piece of information with specific source(s) that support it. In your recent edit of SPRS, under Background, you inserted an Ebert and Hall reference, in the middle of the paragraph, that already had the proper inline citation and it was located in the proper place. This caused the incorrect shifting of citations, and problems that I trust you will remedy. Thank you. Pendright ( talk) 02:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Okay Sir. But King Was a Canadian of American Descent — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.226.145.101 ( talk) 21:33, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for reverting the vandalism on the C.S. Army article. – Illegitimate Barrister ( talk), 09:58, 22 March 2016 (UTC) |
By removing that quote without replacing it, you render the section historically incorrect. Please see my entry on the talk page. Until you are ready to do better, please replace the quote, which at least gives a helpful and appropriate historical reference. For a well-known example usage of the time, see Buckley's God and Man at Yale. Cerberus ( talk) 16:27, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Many thanks for your highly condescending explanation of why you reverted the edit to what it already was for several years, though I seriously, seriously doubt people will never come back to Wikipedia again or even that article just because that one bit is not explained thoroughly. Case in point; when I first read the article, I didn't know what it meant, so I clicked the link. Just curious, should I add an explanation to every war result that has status quo ante bellum? ( RockDrummerQ ( talk) 16:38, 27 March 2016 (UTC))
I accidentally made a mistake when removing some POV in the article. I checked the RSes on Google Books, and they were right. Sorry for any trouble I may have caused you.
Thanks!-- 96.58.192.158 ( talk) 22:48, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Come on now—I'm not going to believe you don't see how silly a statement like that is. Curly Turkey ?? ¡gobble! 11:56, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
You claimed [1] "this article is about conservative thoughts--subgroups like social conservatives& business-oriented disagree. It is NOT about debates on the Left". My first source was a conservative media outlet and it quoted "conservative" black leaders. Just because they're black doesn't place them "on the left". The NPR source establishes that such comparisons between skin color and sexual orientation have taken place, since you had somehow disputed that earlier. I intend to revert, but wanted to discuss the matter with you first and maybe reach an understanding.
As for the social-business disagreement, you're simply wrong to label the latter the "libertarian faction", especially in this context. Libertarians support individual liberty for business owners, not liberal PC government mandates. "Libertarian" does not mean "pro gay rights". The NR source you use doesn't call the governor a "libertarian". It says liberal pressure groups, and particularly some big companies led by social liberals and broadly supportive of left wing concerns (like Disney), blackmailed him into rolling over and vetoing the religious freedom bill. That has nothing to do with libertarianism. Quite the opposite. VictorD7 ( talk) 00:01, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Rjensen After spending more time on The Gilded Age article, I wondered why it is only rated C class. Seems better to me. What it would take? Format improvements in references? Changes of more substance? It is read by so many people, monitored and improved by so many knowledgeable (historians) editors, like you. I am no historian, but I have learned so much from this article. Just curious. -- Prairieplant ( talk) 09:00, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Was the Emancipation Proclamation an executive order or proclamation? And can it be both?
The following from the American Presidency Project provided by University of California, Santa Barbara states it is ONLY a proclamation. When I checked the listing of executive orders for 1862 or 1863 issued by Lincoln there was no Emancipation Proclamation.
I am aware of other sources that "claim" it is one or the other, but this source appears more definitive. Your thoughts? Mitchumch ( talk) 21:24, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm going to put up a talk page discussion and then an appeal of the close at Manifest destiny (it feels even odd typing that in lower case), and will ping you when I open that discussion. The closer, who joined Wikipedia less than a month ago, looked at the page, the discussion, and the data presented in that discussion for less than a minute. A minute! Manifest Destiny is, of course, a proper name and should become re-capitalized. This seems to be one of those things that make it important for historians like you to be involved in decisions such as this. There is also a discussion at Montgomery bus boycott which was similarly closed and moved to lower-case in less than five minutes based, apparently, on the number of editors commenting and a n-gram sleight-of-hand. I dislike Wikipedia politics, and although it's not World war ii, in cases like these two it seems worth the time to kick the dust a little. Randy Kryn 10:18, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
[2] These are blatant problems. Given your history here, I'd think it safe to assume you'd know this. If a spammer came along and added or reverted such info, they'd be well on their way to a block. How about helping clean up the article instead of what appears to be trolling someone that is pointing out some of the most obvious problems?
To be clear, the external link is inappropriate. If you honestly feel different, follow WP:ELBURDEN. But as I said, it's blatantly inappropriate.
As for "explaining the availability of major books", that is by definition advertising. Indicating the publisher, ISBN, etc are appropriate. The rest is not. Given the nature of the specific books, the typical reader would have no interest whatsoever. The only people that would be interested would be librarians looking to add it to their collections, and such people don't need such instruction. -- Ronz ( talk) 18:03, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, early you received a post about being warned from being blocked. That was an imposter who created a similar username, but with only 1 “p” at User:Winterystepe. He's now blocked. im just letting you know that Im the real person and I won't do that. Shoutout to Tassedethe for taking quick action in 6 minutes. Happy Editing Winterysteppe ( talk) 00:28, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
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You indicated (on Goldwater–Nichols Act) that Questia was free for Wikipedians. I tried to register to access the indicated document, per your factoid, but saw no offered membership for Wikipedians. (The closest option was for Professional Researchers or Librarians, which -by definition- we're neither.) How did you access this free membership for Wikipedians? I would really like to access this reference document.-- LeyteWolfer ( talk) 02:06, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I wanted to ask what was "unreliable" and "the sort interns prepare" about the reference I added (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Taft%E2%80%93Katsura_agreement&diff=prev&oldid=717550869)
The reference was taken from the US government webpage, which states:
"“Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations” provides a general overview of the history of U.S. engagement with the world through short essays on important moments, or milestones, in the diplomatic history of the United States. The basic objective of these essays is to provide a clear, accurate, narrative account of the events being discussed, with a brief discussion of each event’s significance for U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic history. The publication is divided into 19 chapters covering time periods from 1750 until 2000, with brief introductions providing context for each period.
The essays were drafted for the Office of the Historian website by many historians over many years, and we continue to revise and expand the existing periods. Most recently, the essays covering the Kennedy and Johnson (1961–68), Nixon and Ford (1969–76), Carter (1977–80), Reagan (1981–88), Bush (1989–92), and Clinton (1993–2000) administrations were revised and expanded. These same essays were also enhanced with “tags,” or lists of the key people, places, and topics in the essay. The tags appear as links in the right sidebar of the essay and facilitate discovery of other other essays and resources, including volumes from the Foreign Relations of the United States series, on these subjects. The “tags” feature is still in progress, and over time the Office will extend the tags to all of the essays.""
Does this not qualify as a reliable publication? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.134.92.216 ( talk) 08:35, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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For adding content in a mad dash to stop a merger. Rather than reporting you on Wikipedia Noticeboards, you deserve a barnstar instead. GRuban ( talk) 14:00, 13 May 2016 (UTC) |
Could you weigh in here? Thanks. Chris Troutman ( talk) 23:54, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
I have nominated George Tucker (politician) for FA - would be so grateful if you could take a look at it and add your comments/support - always enjoy our collaborations. Hoppyh ( talk) 13:44, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
There is currently an upgrade effort on John Calhoun on the Talk page there taking place by User:Display which you might be interested in. Possibly you could take a glance at it. Fountains-of-Paris ( talk) 14:58, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rjensen. We added a Historical assessment in the Slavery section of the Thomas Jefferson article. Right now it is a summary paragraph on the division historians have whether Jefferson supported or condemned slavery. If you can please take a look at the section. Any contributions or suggestions you can make to the section would be welcome on my part. Thanks. Cmguy777 ( talk) 02:21, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
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1. rjensen is me, the same as Richard J. Jensen. Proof see my Richard Jensen facebook page https://www.facebook.com/richard.jensen.16940 that states at the top: Richard Jensen (rjensen Wikipedia username) 2. I did email info-en wikimedia.org yestereday & got no response. Rjensen ( talk) 1:37 pm, Today (UTC+1)
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You are welcome to bring up my behavior in any venue you wish. Jbh Talk 18:23, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
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"you have not read the rules carefully."[4]. Not the response I would expect from a good faith editor. Jbh Talk 18:37, 25 May 2016 (UTC) Note the material I saw on the user page is an assertion not a verification. Jbh Talk 18:38, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Rjensen. I generally edit about health and medicine but work a lot on conflict of issues in WP. And fwiw, I got my undergrad in history from U of I (CU campus, not Chicago).
Two things. First, as a historian I think you understand the long view. Hopefully you also are well aware of the no deadline essay. The stuff that is going at the biography article about you is a flareup and something that the community will work through pretty quickly. Please don't get caught up in the moment - please don't try to preserve the article about you on a minute-by-minute basis - please just let others deal with this flare-up. Your involvement is actually escalating the difficulties; you are becoming part of the acute problem. Please know that using bad judgement now can lead to blocks and harm to reputation here in WP. Please use good judgement and step back now.
In a couple of days when this flareup has died down (and I would be surprised if it goes on even that long) I would like to discuss the conflict of interest guideline with you. You have edited the article about you directly under this account ( diffs) and have argued on the Talk page that doing this is OK. Like I said, after this flareup has calmed down I would like to circle back and discuss this with you. The way the community thinks about COI has developed over the years and I want to be sure you are aware of where consensus stands as of 2016.
Please do let me know about stepping away from the biography article - including its talk page - for a bit and letting others handle it. Best regards Jytdog ( talk) 18:40, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
Be careful with it! It can produce sentences like this:
J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 16:43, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
[This message was directed by a reply mechanism linked to my messages. If misdirected return to sender and discard] Dr. Jensen: Although it is clear that you are historically well credentialed, your recent changes regarding the populism Wiki-page caused contemporary interfaced metrics to divert worldwide Google searches. Google's algorithmic cues, based upon search results and quality volumes, directed users to the previous "populism" page as Google's "first hit." The version that I edited was popular and generally accepted proportionally, which tethered to the standard. I monitored the progress by that essential independent variable alone. Multiple devices and IP locations were used to verify my findings. When the edits changed, the Google results also changed. Users are now taken to Merriam-Webster's entry first. Although mild variations of essential editing arose throughout, a standard that accentuated Wikipedia held for ~7 months. That standard was set by comprehensive worldwide volume traffic, and enough to prompt the Wikipedia page entry and link to appear first in worldwide data searching. Subsequently, the externally generated population standard that was produced by merely typing "populism" in Google's search box and tethered it to Wikipedia is now an afterthought. Thanks. --J.Canfield — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdcanfield ( talk • contribs) 03:44, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
The source I did not initiate. I left it alone from the last editor's small contribution due to the Princeton connection. I'm done. But, populism is very important to the entire world at present. I was proud to have noticed the correlations to what I wrote without anyone knowing. The essences were spot on and bridged ancient to modern populist concepts from my travels and graduate exposures. I am also not a spring chicken. --J.Canfield
You recently reverted one of my edits. My edit removed a sentence that noted that the article's subjected is mentioned in a book and the material was supported by a reference to the book's Amazon page. I removed the material using an edit summary of "rm advertisement" and you reverted my edit using an edit summary of "citing a RS is not an ad--it's central to Wikipedia."
I strongly recommend you revert your edit. The material was added by an editor who (a) has a username similar to the author of the book and (b) has only edited articles to add mentions of the author's books and links to their Amazon pages. In short, it's apparent that the edits are advertisements for the books. Further, there isn't any argument about the books being especially noteworthy or important so it's not clear why the information should be in any articles anyway. ElKevbo ( talk) 18:25, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
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For your substantive expansion of African-American newspapers. E.M.Gregory ( talk) 11:10, 3 June 2016 (UTC) |
About this comment - that was very unhelpful as it just causes confusion and isn't accurate.
In my COI work, I come across countless current students, alum, and present employees of universities who want to work on articles about that institution and fill it with all kinds of praise. We even have an essay about this. See WP:BOOSTER. Really - please read it. That essay exists for a reason. I can show you many, many examples of this. And there are people even more experienced than me in COI matters and articles about universities and (ahem) academics who will tell you that this is a very common problem.
Please don't interfere with active discussions at COIN this way. Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 04:33, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
I want to sincerely thank you for sticking up for me on the IDEA Public Schools Conflict of Interest issue. As a recent editor, I am still getting accustomed to Wikipedia and its rules. I do think it was wrong for this article to be placed under speedy deletion and have a user who keeps on insisting that. Thank you again, I really appreciate all the help! De88 ( talk) 07:36, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, thanks to the review (!)... Can you check again and help to simplify the "illustrating" text? Now it is at talk page -- Krauss ( talk) 18:12, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
See this [6] report at AN3, which I've removed as malformed and confusingly-attributed, and my response [7]. Mattswest ( talk · contribs) appears to be an account registered by 70.161.173.99 ( talk · contribs). Acroterion (talk) 03:28, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
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BLP guidelines are not meant to prohibit all mention of living persons. If a statement is well sourced and if that source relies on solid empirical evidence that has not been refuted (and you certainly have not offered refutation in this case), it cannot be deemed "contentious" and be deleted simply because of our own political or partisan allegiances. In this case, you argue that because the cited source does not VERBATIM say "Clinton is a neoliberal," that it constitutes "reading between the lines" and is therefore a contentious statement. But while the cited source does not say so verbatim, it very clearly identifies Clinton as being a neoliberal (the term "neoliberal" or its permutations are used several times, and the policies described in the article clearly locate Clinton within the neoliberal tradition, at least for readers with an elementary grasp of neoliberalism). The cited source does not explicitly label Clinton an imperialist, either (i.e., "Clinton is an imperialist"), but a reader would need to be blind to think that the authors did not consider Clinton an imperialist. You also allege that "no other major RS makes any such allegation." In fact, many sources---at least outside of the corporate media and the ranks of fawning liberal scholars and pundits---do indeed characterize Clinton as a neoliberal (see, among many others, Liza Featherstone's 2016 edited volume "False Choices: The Faux-Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton", published by Verso). In a previous comment, you labeled the neoliberal characterization of Clinton as a "fringe theory"; it is neither theory nor fringe, but an observation about her policies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BiblioJordan ( talk • contribs) 20:37, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello. I'm mildly surprised to see you restore the sources I removed. Wikipedia is not responsible for providing a "Further reading" list, and frankly they just add noise to the page. However, I am not aware offhand of a guideline that would let me delete them unilaterally. I would suggest that you remove them, but the fact that you restored them makes me think you see some value in them... Changing the topic, and perhaps more importantly for you, if you are a major contributor to this page, I am surprised that you are not participating in the current FAC. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 05:37, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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I'm not sure what your intention with this edit was, but it doesn't match the edit summary and it uses the future tense for something that happened in the past. Just wanted to let you know in case you meant to do something different :) Kaldari ( talk) 06:22, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
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Where did you hear that Georgia doesn't try to become NATO member anymore? By your edits readers will think that it has stopped its effort in 2008 which is not true. -- g. balaxaZe ? 11:33, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, Could you please start a discussion on the talk page regarding the content you're seeking to add to the World War II article? The article currently doesn't have summaries of the contributions of the various countries involved, and I personally don't think that this would be useful - others might have a different view though, of course. I note that you have added identical links to the books concerned to multiple articles. Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 23:53, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit you introduced a refname "Oxford" without defining it. Do you remember what it was supposed to be? DuncanHill ( talk) 16:35, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hello. Is there any chance that you could provide a link for the source for the Wilson quotation? I understand you changed it from what I originally had, but still think that a link would be helpful. Thank you. Display name 99 ( talk) 02:00, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
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I'm concerned about this claim. [8] Reinstating uncommented journalistic opinions about popular nationalism from the 1860s is really problematic. I'm pretty sure you're aware that perceptions of popular nationalism in general have changed quite a bit the past 150 years, to say nothing of how modern historians view the issue.
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you appear to have made the edit “he invented the process by which maps the was separated from crude oil, making oil refining possible” in the Henry Huttleston Rogers article. I am unsuccessfully trying to learn what “maps” refers to. I hope that you can help. Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 23:14, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Earlier today, I added "Weasel Word" and "Citation needed" alerts to the text of the page "Economy of India Under The British Raj". You reverted these edits, suggesting they were "vague". I have restored them and added a section to the "Talk" page of the article to show why they are necessary.
If you wish to revert them once more, please could you look at the "Talk" page first and make your comments first before re-editing? May I respectfully remind you that any further re-edit at this stage may breach Wikipedia's three-revert rule (3RR)? Sincerely Hubertgrove ( talk) 10:55, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Please discuss at the article talk page.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 01:06, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
What on earth are you doing? I'm trying to stem the tide of copyright violations, which are literally pouring in every few seconds. Granted, improper copying within Wikipedia is not quite as serious as the wholesale copying form external sources, but you've been around long enough to know we don;t simply copy material form other Wikipedia articles.
I expect you to help me explain this to newbie Enginerfactories, not subvert me by undoing my removal and incorrectly claiming that the edit summaries were sufficient. It is necessary to identify the source and the fact that you are copying in the edit summary. There was nothing of the sort.--
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I see that you commonly copy material form other article with an edit summary in the form of copy ex "source"
Please note per Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia that one should include at a minimum
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Because you are using a non-standard notice, I initially missed what you were doing (in Austria-Hungary) . My apologies for missing it, but if you had met our minimum standards, I would not have missed it.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 01:44, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
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Do you still have the archival source for this? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 08:20, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Replying to this... says a simple map or a knowledge of history and geography. There hasn't been a sovereign state of Great Britain since 1801. Since then there's been an island and a sovereign state including that island and all or part of the island of Ireland. So if the reliable sources say that the U.S. only declared war on the island of GB, I'd have to question what they know about the actual declaration, as that says differently. Valenciano ( talk) 13:30, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Rjensen, I see that you are a really, really prolific editor. Thank you much for your work.
I have a small request for edit summaries changes like Modern Whig Party. Would you please consider adding wikilinks for things like [[WP:Rs|RS]] in the edit summary? Newbies & IP editors will generally have no idea what RS is or how to look it up.
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Hi, you edited the etymology of U.S.A. by removing the details about the original letter by Stephen Moylan to J. Reed which has value. I noticed in the talk page you highlighted the aspect of the citation in the original article that talks about G. Washington perhaps being the one who coined the term -- it is clear in the original article that this is mere speculation and that we have primary source evidence that the author of the U.S.A. letter is Stephen Moylan, Esq. This letter is held at the N.Y. Historical Society. Do you think an additional reference from the NY Historical Society concerning this fact would clarify the issue? Thx, Byron — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeLear2012 ( talk • contribs) 03:54, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
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It's not an issue of how they self identified, but more of an issue of how they were identified by the US government. I don't know how 3/5ths of a person can be a citizen. To call them African Americans at the time of slavery would be misnomer of fact.
Hi there.
This edit got me thinking. Workers on pre-Civil War plantations were Africans, not Americans. Many fled America when they had the chance, to Canada or even back to Africa (eg. Liberia). Later generations were Americans, though I doubt any first generation slaves would call themselves Americans. I may open this up on the Mississippi talk page. Cheers.
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I appreciate this may not be something you had in interest in, but very slowly Wikisource was transcribing Cassell's Illustrated History, which goes up to around the early 1870's.
I was considering asking if there was anyone on Wikipedia that felt confident in writing a "tenth" volume to continue the History up to 1918 (roughly 100 years ago). Your name was on my list, (and thank you for your efforts on the Coall mining articles which I didn't thank you for previously.)
Also What would you consider the major themes in the history of this period? ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 18:17, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Dear Rjensen, you reverted my deletion of the section Origin of the term with the comment "keep fully sourced history of the term (later sections deal with the concept but not the term)". It is rather unclear what the distinction between the term and the concept is but two things are clear, one is that the contents of each are largely repeated and the other is that they actually conflict. The origin of the term is integral to its history anyway, the term can only be understood in the history of its development. It would be better if we did away with one or other of the sections and integrated them under History, or a better heading if you prefer. The whole article has grown in a rather incoherent way, it would be helpful if we could cull out a great deal of it and tried to get some discipline into the structure. I suggest that we retain the History, starting with the origin of the term in de Tocqueville, any content considered to be of value that is unique to Origin of therm can be retained within History, but actually there is almost none in there. The other thing I tried to do was to make History a history, and that was already developing as a timeline with dates but I note that Post War development - 1945-1999 has been replaced with Uniqueness, which seems to be introducing a random conceptual idea into what is otherwise a chronology. You can probably do a better job of it than than I did but I would ask you to reconsider the wholesale reinstatement of Origin of the term on the basis that it is redundant. E x nihil ( talk) 09:42, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Margaret Thatcher#Hatnote?. Hi Rjensen. Should we include a hatnote above the lede at Margaret Thatcher for The Iron Lady redirect? -- Neve – selbert 16:35, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
I appreciate the feedback on my recent edits. I'm new to Wikipedia and wanted to help clean up the Lend-lease article, portions of which seem to be the result of typical internet feuding re:WWII. The recent scholarly works of Glantz and others in opening the Soviet archives have provided new source material I'd like to use in updating some of the article. I'm not sure how best to go about this and would appreciate any guidance you could provide. Thanks again. Level3Sentry ( talk) 00:12, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
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There is a discussion about whether Japan surrender unconditionally in the talk page of World War II. I guess you can give some professional comments as a historian in modern history area. LelouchEdward ( talk) 00:56, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Richard, your input on the editorial quality of the First Transcontinental Railroad article is needed here. Thanks. — btphelps ( talk to me) ( what I've done) 21:56, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
I fully support your objectives on Charles XII and think we should work together to get a sensible outcome on this. I can see that all the familiar homophobes are already being attracted to the discussion so we should get smart about how to handle this. Contaldo80 ( talk) 09:47, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
FYI, your edit was replaced by an anonymous poster on 10/7/16 with numbers that seem inconsistent with the rest of the table (Bush's end value of 84% does not match Obama's start value of 88%) and the delta is incorrect (112 - 88 = 24, not 21). Finally, the 112% gdp figure needs a reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.27.16 ( talk) 02:38, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rjensen, I guess you've read the earlier section. For me (until now) the WAPO was the trustworthiest newspaper, but now I'm stunned. They're going all out (including fifth column allegations) against their target. No sophistication anymore. What will be the end of it? -- Fb8cont ( talk) 12:52, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
I'm reverting again. Please discuss at the Wikiproject level, as there is clearly no consensus in any of the articles for your additions. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:18, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
He was older then his British predecessors (Anne & George I), too. GoodDay ( talk) 18:11, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give History of French newspapers a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a " cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. Randykitty ( talk) 21:29, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Some extraneous verbiage ("Pierce she"?) appears to have crept into the quotation you added to the George Mosse article: "as a teacher and scholar, George Mosse has posed challenging questions about what it means to be an intellectual engaged in the world. The central problem Mosse has examined throughout his career is: how do intellectuals relate their ideas to reality or to alternative views of that reality?... Mosse has chosen to focus on intellectuals and the movements with which they were often connected to their most intemperate.... For Mosse the role of the historian is one of political engagement; Pierce she must delineate the connections (and disconnections) between myth and reality." Could you please check this? -- Jdsteakley ( talk) 15:27, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
You undid my Wiktionary link but left the word surreptitiously in place. If they were built openly then surreptitiously should be removed as well. Slight Smile 23:31, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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Rjenson - Do not re-add the sentence advertising Brad Delong's opinion without expanding your reading list. According to your talk page, you supposedly have a PhD in theology (I am not saying you do or you don't -- just saying anyone could type anything in their autobiography). Being a PhD in theology, you are not an expert in all religions; perhaps you might know a lot about some religions. But people who specialize their entire life on one single religion do not claim to know everything about that one religion. The Judaeo-Christian religions (and probably others) teach the importance of humility and recognizing that God knows everything, but we humans do not.
The paragraph under the Harry Dexter White article is about economics and fiscal policy, it is not about theology. Just because YOU personally haven't read any other economic schools of thought does not mean those other schools do not exist. It means you are poorly read on the subject of economics. Other49states ( talk) 14:44, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
PS -- if you really are a professor at Yale University, would you mind getting your employer to pay its fair share of taxes in Connecticut? Or maybe just start paying some property taxes in New Haven? Yale is the largest land holder in New Haven, the largest employer, and yet it pays ZERO taxes toward the endless expenses it causes the city and state. Massachusetts universities have been making voluntary contributions to help cover their costs to the state for more than a decade.
Hi Rjensen, I saw you reverted my changes to a number of economist associations. I didn't see any explanations except for one saying "citation to article in scholarly journal is not advertising." I agree generally, except in this case the wikipedia user has been systematically inserting references to articles in Econ Journal Watch into articles, where they are tangentially relevant at best. The lines the user inserts do little to add content other than to send readers to the article inserted, and so I'd consider that relevant to WP:PROMOTIONAL. I have undone your reversions but happy to talk more. WeakTrain ( talk) 19:50, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Can you find another source that states that the scandal was the first American political sex scandal? Otherwise you'll have to show that the Master's thesis you used as a source has had "significant scholarly influence" before it can be considered a reliable source. See WP:SCHOLARSHIP. Meters ( talk) 23:31, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Alexander Hamilton, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. It dosn't need a citation needed. It is not a reliable source, as has already been pointed out to you twice. You have added this citation three times now. Take it to the talk page or leave it alone. Meters ( talk) 05:37, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
Calling all editors to form a consensus on the lead image at John Quincy Adams. First posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Presidents. YoPienso ( talk) 23:25, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Richard,
You just made some edits to the terminology section of nationalism page without explaining why. Your first change was to remove some of the information about the word 'nation' and to replace a reference to the modern period with 'before 1800'. I can see why you made this change, as the sentence was a bit vague, but the Hobsbawm source for this sentence doesn't actually say 'before 1800'. In fact it refers to 1884. I agree this sentence needs to be improved (I used a reference to 'modernity' to try and avoid a specific date), but I don't think mentioning 1800 specifically, when that's not mentioned in the source, is the way to do it.
For the second part of the sentence, you removed a well sourced statement about the development of the word nationalism, referring to autonomy and self determination, and Herder and Baurrel, and replaced it with a less informative sentence referring to Norman Rich, and then a sentence about Glenda Sluga that is irrelevant to 'terminology'. I don't think this is an improvement at all. Could you explain what you thought was wrong with the previous sentence and how this one is better? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mabandalone ( talk • contribs) 22:27, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mr Jensen,
You recently edited the sex in advertising page. We've been asked to edit that page for a university project, and we added several changes to that page. Thank you for removing the part you did and giving a reason, it obviously will help the page and thats what matters! We were wondering if you had any other ideas about what can be done to improve that page further?
Kind regards Tmase1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmase1 ( talk • contribs) 17:20, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for correcting the part of the article about Martin Frobisher, as I thought that was a severely warped interpretation of history based on little more than insecure anti-Americanism (though I was willing to allow that plurality of opinion for the judgment of the reader).
Dates & specific locations, of the Plymouth Thanksgiving, the French-Indian War, the specific town birthplaces of Philemon Wright & Laura Secord in Massachusetts, were based on the Wikipedia articles on these subjects. I could not find any United Empire Loyalists of any particular significance from Massachusetts, so I left that part out, even though they are the, "original without a modifier", of what an English-Canadian is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Prickett ( talk • contribs) 22:22, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Interesting to see that there really isn't a classification about white privilege being real or not. I wonder if white supremacy makes people not think its real Shantalaleman ( talk) 01:04, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Dude, that's a load of bull! Lincoln was pro-big government. He lived at a time when the "classical liberal" party was the Democrats and the big-government parties were the Whigs and Republicans. p b p 23:15, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Please be careful on the ANI talk page. You accidentally removed Jennica's and my comments on another discussion, so I've reverted your edit. Just thought you should know. Erick ( talk) 01:43, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
It looks like you tried to remove a citation, asserting that the source is unreliable. But I think the article still contains one or more citations to that source. — BarrelProof ( talk) 05:18, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Liberal Toryism. Since you had some involvement with the Liberal Toryism redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Nevé – selbert 01:21, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
I restored the phrase "thus joining the present federal Union of states" which you had deleted from List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union. It is true that "the US of A was formed in 1776", as you said in your edit summary. However, prior to 1787, the USA was a confederation, not a federal union. Thanks for your ongoing contributions to making this a great encyclopedia! YBG ( talk) 02:32, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Rjensen, could you give a hand on this article's lede? Taking it on strides. I already made a request for help in the talk page. Thanks. Caballero/Historiador ? 22:06, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rjensen. Would you please consider commenting on these move discussions? The former is about whether Gladstone should redirect to William Ewart Gladstone, and the latter is whether D'Israeli should redirect to Benjamin Disraeli as {{ R from alternative spelling}}. Thank-you.-- Nevé – selbert 07:17, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
I know Wikipedia hates experts and believes any yahoo off the street is better than you. If there are 2 yahoos off the street, they can claim consensus against your informed opinion. Still, I value your opinion.
Please see /info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_United_States_Presidents and see if you have any advice for the RFC since you are a historian, frequent Wikipedia writer, and smart person.
Basically, the RFC writer wants to know if all Presidents should not be called "politician" in the introductory paragraph. Some Trump people in Wikipedia think all presidents are politicians are should be, even George Washington.
My opinion is uncertain. I don't know. Lakeshake ( talk) 19:26, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
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How is this important? Thanks. DS ( talk) 23:15, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
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Sorry I was trying out something!! I am really truly sorry and I hope you forgive me!! :( Characterized @your service 01:29, 28 October 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Characterized ( talk • contribs)
I've started a discussion at Talk:Women in the military#US centric material. Cheers, Nick-D ( talk) 07:30, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi I'm( talk) 11:46, 20 January 2016 (UTC)( Pinkie99 ( talk) 11:46, 20 January 2016 (UTC))I think you have added the National study of British secularisation section. I don't think Callum would agree with the way you have interpreted The Death of Christian Britain. I think he'd say that secularisation began in Britain at least in the 18th Century, possibly earlier. The point he's arguing in the 'Death' is that the progressive decline in the influence of Christianity on British culture reached a watershed in the 1960s after which the description of Britain as 'a Christian country' is no longer true. This marks a step in the continuing process of secularisation. I don't agree with him as I don't see the 1960s as so important because for me secularisation in Britain has been a remarkable consistent process over the last 300 years.
I think you should remove the reference to the 1960 and to Callum.
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Hello. Regarding your revert of my edit on Radical Republican, I am willing to compromise and retain the sentence regarding the liberal party elements opposing the Radical Republicans. As for the issue of "pro-slavery Democrats" that you mentioned, the words "pro-slavery" were in the article already, before my edit. All I did was add "largely" before that, to acknowledge that there was some division, and add "later anti-Reconstruction" after it, to reflect the era in which slavery had already been abolished. The only other change that I made was when the article referred to William H. Seward. It previously referred to the "New York Governor William Seward, later Secretary of State)." However, the time in which he served as N.Y. Governor was from 1839-1842, well before the rise of Radical Republicanism. Because of this, I changed it to read simply " Secretary of State William Seward." Therefore, I propose that I be allowed to re-add my previous edits, with the one difference being that the sentence referring to opposition from "conservatives" and "liberals" shall stay. Thank you. Display name 99 ( talk) 22:06, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I dislike this version even more. The version that I made gives the reader a better idea of who the Democrats were, because it mentions them as "largely pro-slavery" and "anti-Reconstruction." In addition, it now reads that after the war the Republicans were opposed by "all Democrats." Radicals always faced hostility from Democrats, even if they may have agreed during the war on fighting the Confederacy. In addition, you have identified "conservatives" in the post-war South as different from the Democrats, even though they were almost always the same thing. I respectfully ask that I be permitted to proceed with the previously proposed edits. Thank you. Display name 99 ( talk) 22:57, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
I have edited the article in a manner that I believe is satisfactory, while taking into account the things which you have said. Display name 99 ( talk) 23:30, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. As I'm sure you know, the question of whether or not mainstream Northern Democrats-that is, the Douglas popular sovereignty men-were "pro-slavery" would really depend on who you were asking. The Southerners would argue insufficiently so; the Republicans would say that they were. That was the reason for the use of the word "largely." I'm glad that this was resolved. Also, thank you for your edit in deleting "second" before "Republican Party." As you said, most of the people reading this type of article will know the difference. Display name 99 ( talk) 23:58, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
If you want to change the list in this article's infobox, then you'll have to change it on these ones as well;
And that's just for starters, there's more. Or you could revert back. They're just links to well-sourced pages. - theWOLFchild 10:16, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Why do you keep ignoring the hidden message above the categories. It says "Please do not add Category:Far-right politics in the United States or Category:Anti-communist organizations here as Category:Ku Klux Klan is already a subcategory of these."? LittleJerry ( talk) 14:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
Could you explain your edit here, please? As I said on the talk page years ago, it's one thing to say the copyright was seized by the US government, but another to say that it's in the public domain. Josh Milburn ( talk) 18:06, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Hi! You seem to have reverted my edit on Theocracy. Why? The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 10:05, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Please read WP:BRD. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 10:15, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
If you continue acting like this you may end up blocked. You need to discuss the edit. Nota bene: I left a message on the talkpage when I removed that claim, but you seem to have ignored that. Please use talkpages. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 10:16, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
I use Merriam-Webster. The definition of theocracy is:
ISIL is not a government and it is not a country or state. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 10:21, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
I noticed something weird on the top of your talkpage. The archives go from 1-10. You've added a link to archive 26. The reason that the template doesn't work is because Archive 11 is missing. Archive number 25 is also missing. But User talk:Rjensen/Archive 19/Archive 18 does exist. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 12:28, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
The Theocracy article contains:
It does not contain potential future theocracies nor does it contain speculation about which groups are likely to achieve their goal of establishing a theocracy (a goal that is shared by many groups worldwide). This is a good decision. The Quixotic Potato ( talk) 14:58, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
I wish Braeman had written a biography about Beard. He was very well informed. Yet even with this good secondary source it is hard to conclude that Beard's father was a banker. He said that Beard's father "took in his later years a leading role in organizing three local banks" which I think is different from being a banker. And I think Mary Beard knew better Beard's family than Braeman. :) Best Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by VMCL2015 ( talk • contribs) 18:35, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
He administrated three banks because he had, as his son, great numeracy skills and he was a honest and respected person in the community . But I think that naming him a banker convey a misleading idea. The sources Braeman cited regarding his banking activities are a bit unsubstantial. Hazzard's History,Vol. 2 only lists his name as member of the board of directors. The other primary source Braeman cited is the 1880 census and there he appeared as a carpenter! He took great poetic license to call his hero "building contractor." And Mary Beard did not burn all Beard's papers that is a myth. She kept many, organized them and Beard's children donated to DePauw University Archives. But also there are many primary sources scattered across the United States. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by VMCL2015 ( talk • contribs) 19:20, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Well, that's Mary Beard account of it. A bank was having administrative and financial problems and they decided to bring Beard's father to fix them. However, we may be arguing about a quibble. My objection is mainly against the idea Goldman spread that Beard's father "owned" a bank, therefore, he was a banker. Beard's father participation in the re-organization of three banks may make him "a banker" under a very broad concept of it. I would say that he was a farmer, carpenter, speculator, and a great manager of banks. I don't know how many were destroyed but the remaining letters are many, telling and reveal many clues about Beard previously unknown.Victor M. Cazares 19:56, 28 February 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by VMCL2015 ( talk • contribs)
The lead of the article Casablanca Conference seems to put French leader Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud as the major attendance. The image of article Allied leaders of World War II also put French leader Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud the top-importance position at the Casablanca Conference. In my memory, the French leaders only involved the leadership problem of Free French forces in this conference and did not join the major discussion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:6B45:500:34F6:BB79:B3BD:11EE ( talk) 23:35, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm guessing that "The war was Dick Cheney..." is a typo of some sort, and not a clever metaphor? ;-) Kirill Lokshin ( talk) 21:29, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Mr. Jensen! I couldn't help but notice that you reverted some of my added quotes on the C.S. Army article. I don't mind, as you clearly detailed your reasons for doing so. However, I would like to explain the reason why I added those quotes into the article, it was because the speakers were members of the C.S. Army, so I thought that it would be of interest to the article. That said, I'm glad to have another user reviewing my edits and adding input, especially a published historian such as yourself. The topic is a huge subject matter and a lot of work to do for one man alone. Best regards, – Illegitimate Barrister, 00:20, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Greetings: As you know, an inline (book) citation refers to a citation in a page’s text that allows the reader to associate a given piece of information with specific source(s) that support it. In your recent edit of SPRS, under Background, you inserted an Ebert and Hall reference, in the middle of the paragraph, that already had the proper inline citation and it was located in the proper place. This caused the incorrect shifting of citations, and problems that I trust you will remedy. Thank you. Pendright ( talk) 02:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
Okay Sir. But King Was a Canadian of American Descent — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.226.145.101 ( talk) 21:33, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for reverting the vandalism on the C.S. Army article. – Illegitimate Barrister ( talk), 09:58, 22 March 2016 (UTC) |
By removing that quote without replacing it, you render the section historically incorrect. Please see my entry on the talk page. Until you are ready to do better, please replace the quote, which at least gives a helpful and appropriate historical reference. For a well-known example usage of the time, see Buckley's God and Man at Yale. Cerberus ( talk) 16:27, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Many thanks for your highly condescending explanation of why you reverted the edit to what it already was for several years, though I seriously, seriously doubt people will never come back to Wikipedia again or even that article just because that one bit is not explained thoroughly. Case in point; when I first read the article, I didn't know what it meant, so I clicked the link. Just curious, should I add an explanation to every war result that has status quo ante bellum? ( RockDrummerQ ( talk) 16:38, 27 March 2016 (UTC))
I accidentally made a mistake when removing some POV in the article. I checked the RSes on Google Books, and they were right. Sorry for any trouble I may have caused you.
Thanks!-- 96.58.192.158 ( talk) 22:48, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Come on now—I'm not going to believe you don't see how silly a statement like that is. Curly Turkey ?? ¡gobble! 11:56, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
You claimed [1] "this article is about conservative thoughts--subgroups like social conservatives& business-oriented disagree. It is NOT about debates on the Left". My first source was a conservative media outlet and it quoted "conservative" black leaders. Just because they're black doesn't place them "on the left". The NPR source establishes that such comparisons between skin color and sexual orientation have taken place, since you had somehow disputed that earlier. I intend to revert, but wanted to discuss the matter with you first and maybe reach an understanding.
As for the social-business disagreement, you're simply wrong to label the latter the "libertarian faction", especially in this context. Libertarians support individual liberty for business owners, not liberal PC government mandates. "Libertarian" does not mean "pro gay rights". The NR source you use doesn't call the governor a "libertarian". It says liberal pressure groups, and particularly some big companies led by social liberals and broadly supportive of left wing concerns (like Disney), blackmailed him into rolling over and vetoing the religious freedom bill. That has nothing to do with libertarianism. Quite the opposite. VictorD7 ( talk) 00:01, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Rjensen After spending more time on The Gilded Age article, I wondered why it is only rated C class. Seems better to me. What it would take? Format improvements in references? Changes of more substance? It is read by so many people, monitored and improved by so many knowledgeable (historians) editors, like you. I am no historian, but I have learned so much from this article. Just curious. -- Prairieplant ( talk) 09:00, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
Was the Emancipation Proclamation an executive order or proclamation? And can it be both?
The following from the American Presidency Project provided by University of California, Santa Barbara states it is ONLY a proclamation. When I checked the listing of executive orders for 1862 or 1863 issued by Lincoln there was no Emancipation Proclamation.
I am aware of other sources that "claim" it is one or the other, but this source appears more definitive. Your thoughts? Mitchumch ( talk) 21:24, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
I'm going to put up a talk page discussion and then an appeal of the close at Manifest destiny (it feels even odd typing that in lower case), and will ping you when I open that discussion. The closer, who joined Wikipedia less than a month ago, looked at the page, the discussion, and the data presented in that discussion for less than a minute. A minute! Manifest Destiny is, of course, a proper name and should become re-capitalized. This seems to be one of those things that make it important for historians like you to be involved in decisions such as this. There is also a discussion at Montgomery bus boycott which was similarly closed and moved to lower-case in less than five minutes based, apparently, on the number of editors commenting and a n-gram sleight-of-hand. I dislike Wikipedia politics, and although it's not World war ii, in cases like these two it seems worth the time to kick the dust a little. Randy Kryn 10:18, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
[2] These are blatant problems. Given your history here, I'd think it safe to assume you'd know this. If a spammer came along and added or reverted such info, they'd be well on their way to a block. How about helping clean up the article instead of what appears to be trolling someone that is pointing out some of the most obvious problems?
To be clear, the external link is inappropriate. If you honestly feel different, follow WP:ELBURDEN. But as I said, it's blatantly inappropriate.
As for "explaining the availability of major books", that is by definition advertising. Indicating the publisher, ISBN, etc are appropriate. The rest is not. Given the nature of the specific books, the typical reader would have no interest whatsoever. The only people that would be interested would be librarians looking to add it to their collections, and such people don't need such instruction. -- Ronz ( talk) 18:03, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi, early you received a post about being warned from being blocked. That was an imposter who created a similar username, but with only 1 “p” at User:Winterystepe. He's now blocked. im just letting you know that Im the real person and I won't do that. Shoutout to Tassedethe for taking quick action in 6 minutes. Happy Editing Winterysteppe ( talk) 00:28, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I wanted to ask what was "unreliable" and "the sort interns prepare" about the reference I added (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Taft%E2%80%93Katsura_agreement&diff=prev&oldid=717550869)
The reference was taken from the US government webpage, which states:
"“Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations” provides a general overview of the history of U.S. engagement with the world through short essays on important moments, or milestones, in the diplomatic history of the United States. The basic objective of these essays is to provide a clear, accurate, narrative account of the events being discussed, with a brief discussion of each event’s significance for U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic history. The publication is divided into 19 chapters covering time periods from 1750 until 2000, with brief introductions providing context for each period.
The essays were drafted for the Office of the Historian website by many historians over many years, and we continue to revise and expand the existing periods. Most recently, the essays covering the Kennedy and Johnson (1961–68), Nixon and Ford (1969–76), Carter (1977–80), Reagan (1981–88), Bush (1989–92), and Clinton (1993–2000) administrations were revised and expanded. These same essays were also enhanced with “tags,” or lists of the key people, places, and topics in the essay. The tags appear as links in the right sidebar of the essay and facilitate discovery of other other essays and resources, including volumes from the Foreign Relations of the United States series, on these subjects. The “tags” feature is still in progress, and over time the Office will extend the tags to all of the essays.""
Does this not qualify as a reliable publication? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.134.92.216 ( talk) 08:35, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
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For adding content in a mad dash to stop a merger. Rather than reporting you on Wikipedia Noticeboards, you deserve a barnstar instead. GRuban ( talk) 14:00, 13 May 2016 (UTC) |
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I have nominated George Tucker (politician) for FA - would be so grateful if you could take a look at it and add your comments/support - always enjoy our collaborations. Hoppyh ( talk) 13:44, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
There is currently an upgrade effort on John Calhoun on the Talk page there taking place by User:Display which you might be interested in. Possibly you could take a glance at it. Fountains-of-Paris ( talk) 14:58, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
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1. rjensen is me, the same as Richard J. Jensen. Proof see my Richard Jensen facebook page https://www.facebook.com/richard.jensen.16940 that states at the top: Richard Jensen (rjensen Wikipedia username) 2. I did email info-en wikimedia.org yestereday & got no response. Rjensen ( talk) 1:37 pm, Today (UTC+1)
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You are welcome to bring up my behavior in any venue you wish. Jbh Talk 18:23, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
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"you have not read the rules carefully."[4]. Not the response I would expect from a good faith editor. Jbh Talk 18:37, 25 May 2016 (UTC) Note the material I saw on the user page is an assertion not a verification. Jbh Talk 18:38, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Rjensen. I generally edit about health and medicine but work a lot on conflict of issues in WP. And fwiw, I got my undergrad in history from U of I (CU campus, not Chicago).
Two things. First, as a historian I think you understand the long view. Hopefully you also are well aware of the no deadline essay. The stuff that is going at the biography article about you is a flareup and something that the community will work through pretty quickly. Please don't get caught up in the moment - please don't try to preserve the article about you on a minute-by-minute basis - please just let others deal with this flare-up. Your involvement is actually escalating the difficulties; you are becoming part of the acute problem. Please know that using bad judgement now can lead to blocks and harm to reputation here in WP. Please use good judgement and step back now.
In a couple of days when this flareup has died down (and I would be surprised if it goes on even that long) I would like to discuss the conflict of interest guideline with you. You have edited the article about you directly under this account ( diffs) and have argued on the Talk page that doing this is OK. Like I said, after this flareup has calmed down I would like to circle back and discuss this with you. The way the community thinks about COI has developed over the years and I want to be sure you are aware of where consensus stands as of 2016.
Please do let me know about stepping away from the biography article - including its talk page - for a bit and letting others handle it. Best regards Jytdog ( talk) 18:40, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
Be careful with it! It can produce sentences like this:
J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 16:43, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
[This message was directed by a reply mechanism linked to my messages. If misdirected return to sender and discard] Dr. Jensen: Although it is clear that you are historically well credentialed, your recent changes regarding the populism Wiki-page caused contemporary interfaced metrics to divert worldwide Google searches. Google's algorithmic cues, based upon search results and quality volumes, directed users to the previous "populism" page as Google's "first hit." The version that I edited was popular and generally accepted proportionally, which tethered to the standard. I monitored the progress by that essential independent variable alone. Multiple devices and IP locations were used to verify my findings. When the edits changed, the Google results also changed. Users are now taken to Merriam-Webster's entry first. Although mild variations of essential editing arose throughout, a standard that accentuated Wikipedia held for ~7 months. That standard was set by comprehensive worldwide volume traffic, and enough to prompt the Wikipedia page entry and link to appear first in worldwide data searching. Subsequently, the externally generated population standard that was produced by merely typing "populism" in Google's search box and tethered it to Wikipedia is now an afterthought. Thanks. --J.Canfield — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdcanfield ( talk • contribs) 03:44, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
The source I did not initiate. I left it alone from the last editor's small contribution due to the Princeton connection. I'm done. But, populism is very important to the entire world at present. I was proud to have noticed the correlations to what I wrote without anyone knowing. The essences were spot on and bridged ancient to modern populist concepts from my travels and graduate exposures. I am also not a spring chicken. --J.Canfield
You recently reverted one of my edits. My edit removed a sentence that noted that the article's subjected is mentioned in a book and the material was supported by a reference to the book's Amazon page. I removed the material using an edit summary of "rm advertisement" and you reverted my edit using an edit summary of "citing a RS is not an ad--it's central to Wikipedia."
I strongly recommend you revert your edit. The material was added by an editor who (a) has a username similar to the author of the book and (b) has only edited articles to add mentions of the author's books and links to their Amazon pages. In short, it's apparent that the edits are advertisements for the books. Further, there isn't any argument about the books being especially noteworthy or important so it's not clear why the information should be in any articles anyway. ElKevbo ( talk) 18:25, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
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For your substantive expansion of African-American newspapers. E.M.Gregory ( talk) 11:10, 3 June 2016 (UTC) |
About this comment - that was very unhelpful as it just causes confusion and isn't accurate.
In my COI work, I come across countless current students, alum, and present employees of universities who want to work on articles about that institution and fill it with all kinds of praise. We even have an essay about this. See WP:BOOSTER. Really - please read it. That essay exists for a reason. I can show you many, many examples of this. And there are people even more experienced than me in COI matters and articles about universities and (ahem) academics who will tell you that this is a very common problem.
Please don't interfere with active discussions at COIN this way. Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 04:33, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello,
I want to sincerely thank you for sticking up for me on the IDEA Public Schools Conflict of Interest issue. As a recent editor, I am still getting accustomed to Wikipedia and its rules. I do think it was wrong for this article to be placed under speedy deletion and have a user who keeps on insisting that. Thank you again, I really appreciate all the help! De88 ( talk) 07:36, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, thanks to the review (!)... Can you check again and help to simplify the "illustrating" text? Now it is at talk page -- Krauss ( talk) 18:12, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
See this [6] report at AN3, which I've removed as malformed and confusingly-attributed, and my response [7]. Mattswest ( talk · contribs) appears to be an account registered by 70.161.173.99 ( talk · contribs). Acroterion (talk) 03:28, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
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BLP guidelines are not meant to prohibit all mention of living persons. If a statement is well sourced and if that source relies on solid empirical evidence that has not been refuted (and you certainly have not offered refutation in this case), it cannot be deemed "contentious" and be deleted simply because of our own political or partisan allegiances. In this case, you argue that because the cited source does not VERBATIM say "Clinton is a neoliberal," that it constitutes "reading between the lines" and is therefore a contentious statement. But while the cited source does not say so verbatim, it very clearly identifies Clinton as being a neoliberal (the term "neoliberal" or its permutations are used several times, and the policies described in the article clearly locate Clinton within the neoliberal tradition, at least for readers with an elementary grasp of neoliberalism). The cited source does not explicitly label Clinton an imperialist, either (i.e., "Clinton is an imperialist"), but a reader would need to be blind to think that the authors did not consider Clinton an imperialist. You also allege that "no other major RS makes any such allegation." In fact, many sources---at least outside of the corporate media and the ranks of fawning liberal scholars and pundits---do indeed characterize Clinton as a neoliberal (see, among many others, Liza Featherstone's 2016 edited volume "False Choices: The Faux-Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton", published by Verso). In a previous comment, you labeled the neoliberal characterization of Clinton as a "fringe theory"; it is neither theory nor fringe, but an observation about her policies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BiblioJordan ( talk • contribs) 20:37, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Hello. I'm mildly surprised to see you restore the sources I removed. Wikipedia is not responsible for providing a "Further reading" list, and frankly they just add noise to the page. However, I am not aware offhand of a guideline that would let me delete them unilaterally. I would suggest that you remove them, but the fact that you restored them makes me think you see some value in them... Changing the topic, and perhaps more importantly for you, if you are a major contributor to this page, I am surprised that you are not participating in the current FAC. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 05:37, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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I'm not sure what your intention with this edit was, but it doesn't match the edit summary and it uses the future tense for something that happened in the past. Just wanted to let you know in case you meant to do something different :) Kaldari ( talk) 06:22, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
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Where did you hear that Georgia doesn't try to become NATO member anymore? By your edits readers will think that it has stopped its effort in 2008 which is not true. -- g. balaxaZe ? 11:33, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, Could you please start a discussion on the talk page regarding the content you're seeking to add to the World War II article? The article currently doesn't have summaries of the contributions of the various countries involved, and I personally don't think that this would be useful - others might have a different view though, of course. I note that you have added identical links to the books concerned to multiple articles. Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 23:53, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit you introduced a refname "Oxford" without defining it. Do you remember what it was supposed to be? DuncanHill ( talk) 16:35, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hello. Is there any chance that you could provide a link for the source for the Wilson quotation? I understand you changed it from what I originally had, but still think that a link would be helpful. Thank you. Display name 99 ( talk) 02:00, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
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I'm concerned about this claim. [8] Reinstating uncommented journalistic opinions about popular nationalism from the 1860s is really problematic. I'm pretty sure you're aware that perceptions of popular nationalism in general have changed quite a bit the past 150 years, to say nothing of how modern historians view the issue.
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you appear to have made the edit “he invented the process by which maps the was separated from crude oil, making oil refining possible” in the Henry Huttleston Rogers article. I am unsuccessfully trying to learn what “maps” refers to. I hope that you can help. Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 23:14, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Earlier today, I added "Weasel Word" and "Citation needed" alerts to the text of the page "Economy of India Under The British Raj". You reverted these edits, suggesting they were "vague". I have restored them and added a section to the "Talk" page of the article to show why they are necessary.
If you wish to revert them once more, please could you look at the "Talk" page first and make your comments first before re-editing? May I respectfully remind you that any further re-edit at this stage may breach Wikipedia's three-revert rule (3RR)? Sincerely Hubertgrove ( talk) 10:55, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Please discuss at the article talk page.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 01:06, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
What on earth are you doing? I'm trying to stem the tide of copyright violations, which are literally pouring in every few seconds. Granted, improper copying within Wikipedia is not quite as serious as the wholesale copying form external sources, but you've been around long enough to know we don;t simply copy material form other Wikipedia articles.
I expect you to help me explain this to newbie Enginerfactories, not subvert me by undoing my removal and incorrectly claiming that the edit summaries were sufficient. It is necessary to identify the source and the fact that you are copying in the edit summary. There was nothing of the sort.--
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I see that you commonly copy material form other article with an edit summary in the form of copy ex "source"
Please note per Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia that one should include at a minimum
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Because you are using a non-standard notice, I initially missed what you were doing (in Austria-Hungary) . My apologies for missing it, but if you had met our minimum standards, I would not have missed it.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 01:44, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
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Do you still have the archival source for this? Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 08:20, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Replying to this... says a simple map or a knowledge of history and geography. There hasn't been a sovereign state of Great Britain since 1801. Since then there's been an island and a sovereign state including that island and all or part of the island of Ireland. So if the reliable sources say that the U.S. only declared war on the island of GB, I'd have to question what they know about the actual declaration, as that says differently. Valenciano ( talk) 13:30, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Rjensen, I see that you are a really, really prolific editor. Thank you much for your work.
I have a small request for edit summaries changes like Modern Whig Party. Would you please consider adding wikilinks for things like [[WP:Rs|RS]] in the edit summary? Newbies & IP editors will generally have no idea what RS is or how to look it up.
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It's not an issue of how they self identified, but more of an issue of how they were identified by the US government. I don't know how 3/5ths of a person can be a citizen. To call them African Americans at the time of slavery would be misnomer of fact.
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This edit got me thinking. Workers on pre-Civil War plantations were Africans, not Americans. Many fled America when they had the chance, to Canada or even back to Africa (eg. Liberia). Later generations were Americans, though I doubt any first generation slaves would call themselves Americans. I may open this up on the Mississippi talk page. Cheers.
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I appreciate this may not be something you had in interest in, but very slowly Wikisource was transcribing Cassell's Illustrated History, which goes up to around the early 1870's.
I was considering asking if there was anyone on Wikipedia that felt confident in writing a "tenth" volume to continue the History up to 1918 (roughly 100 years ago). Your name was on my list, (and thank you for your efforts on the Coall mining articles which I didn't thank you for previously.)
Also What would you consider the major themes in the history of this period? ShakespeareFan00 ( talk) 18:17, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Dear Rjensen, you reverted my deletion of the section Origin of the term with the comment "keep fully sourced history of the term (later sections deal with the concept but not the term)". It is rather unclear what the distinction between the term and the concept is but two things are clear, one is that the contents of each are largely repeated and the other is that they actually conflict. The origin of the term is integral to its history anyway, the term can only be understood in the history of its development. It would be better if we did away with one or other of the sections and integrated them under History, or a better heading if you prefer. The whole article has grown in a rather incoherent way, it would be helpful if we could cull out a great deal of it and tried to get some discipline into the structure. I suggest that we retain the History, starting with the origin of the term in de Tocqueville, any content considered to be of value that is unique to Origin of therm can be retained within History, but actually there is almost none in there. The other thing I tried to do was to make History a history, and that was already developing as a timeline with dates but I note that Post War development - 1945-1999 has been replaced with Uniqueness, which seems to be introducing a random conceptual idea into what is otherwise a chronology. You can probably do a better job of it than than I did but I would ask you to reconsider the wholesale reinstatement of Origin of the term on the basis that it is redundant. E x nihil ( talk) 09:42, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Margaret Thatcher#Hatnote?. Hi Rjensen. Should we include a hatnote above the lede at Margaret Thatcher for The Iron Lady redirect? -- Neve – selbert 16:35, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
I appreciate the feedback on my recent edits. I'm new to Wikipedia and wanted to help clean up the Lend-lease article, portions of which seem to be the result of typical internet feuding re:WWII. The recent scholarly works of Glantz and others in opening the Soviet archives have provided new source material I'd like to use in updating some of the article. I'm not sure how best to go about this and would appreciate any guidance you could provide. Thanks again. Level3Sentry ( talk) 00:12, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
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There is a discussion about whether Japan surrender unconditionally in the talk page of World War II. I guess you can give some professional comments as a historian in modern history area. LelouchEdward ( talk) 00:56, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Richard, your input on the editorial quality of the First Transcontinental Railroad article is needed here. Thanks. — btphelps ( talk to me) ( what I've done) 21:56, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
I fully support your objectives on Charles XII and think we should work together to get a sensible outcome on this. I can see that all the familiar homophobes are already being attracted to the discussion so we should get smart about how to handle this. Contaldo80 ( talk) 09:47, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
FYI, your edit was replaced by an anonymous poster on 10/7/16 with numbers that seem inconsistent with the rest of the table (Bush's end value of 84% does not match Obama's start value of 88%) and the delta is incorrect (112 - 88 = 24, not 21). Finally, the 112% gdp figure needs a reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.27.16 ( talk) 02:38, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rjensen, I guess you've read the earlier section. For me (until now) the WAPO was the trustworthiest newspaper, but now I'm stunned. They're going all out (including fifth column allegations) against their target. No sophistication anymore. What will be the end of it? -- Fb8cont ( talk) 12:52, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
I'm reverting again. Please discuss at the Wikiproject level, as there is clearly no consensus in any of the articles for your additions. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:18, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
He was older then his British predecessors (Anne & George I), too. GoodDay ( talk) 18:11, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
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Some extraneous verbiage ("Pierce she"?) appears to have crept into the quotation you added to the George Mosse article: "as a teacher and scholar, George Mosse has posed challenging questions about what it means to be an intellectual engaged in the world. The central problem Mosse has examined throughout his career is: how do intellectuals relate their ideas to reality or to alternative views of that reality?... Mosse has chosen to focus on intellectuals and the movements with which they were often connected to their most intemperate.... For Mosse the role of the historian is one of political engagement; Pierce she must delineate the connections (and disconnections) between myth and reality." Could you please check this? -- Jdsteakley ( talk) 15:27, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
You undid my Wiktionary link but left the word surreptitiously in place. If they were built openly then surreptitiously should be removed as well. Slight Smile 23:31, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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Rjenson - Do not re-add the sentence advertising Brad Delong's opinion without expanding your reading list. According to your talk page, you supposedly have a PhD in theology (I am not saying you do or you don't -- just saying anyone could type anything in their autobiography). Being a PhD in theology, you are not an expert in all religions; perhaps you might know a lot about some religions. But people who specialize their entire life on one single religion do not claim to know everything about that one religion. The Judaeo-Christian religions (and probably others) teach the importance of humility and recognizing that God knows everything, but we humans do not.
The paragraph under the Harry Dexter White article is about economics and fiscal policy, it is not about theology. Just because YOU personally haven't read any other economic schools of thought does not mean those other schools do not exist. It means you are poorly read on the subject of economics. Other49states ( talk) 14:44, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
PS -- if you really are a professor at Yale University, would you mind getting your employer to pay its fair share of taxes in Connecticut? Or maybe just start paying some property taxes in New Haven? Yale is the largest land holder in New Haven, the largest employer, and yet it pays ZERO taxes toward the endless expenses it causes the city and state. Massachusetts universities have been making voluntary contributions to help cover their costs to the state for more than a decade.
Hi Rjensen, I saw you reverted my changes to a number of economist associations. I didn't see any explanations except for one saying "citation to article in scholarly journal is not advertising." I agree generally, except in this case the wikipedia user has been systematically inserting references to articles in Econ Journal Watch into articles, where they are tangentially relevant at best. The lines the user inserts do little to add content other than to send readers to the article inserted, and so I'd consider that relevant to WP:PROMOTIONAL. I have undone your reversions but happy to talk more. WeakTrain ( talk) 19:50, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Can you find another source that states that the scandal was the first American political sex scandal? Otherwise you'll have to show that the Master's thesis you used as a source has had "significant scholarly influence" before it can be considered a reliable source. See WP:SCHOLARSHIP. Meters ( talk) 23:31, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Alexander Hamilton, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. It dosn't need a citation needed. It is not a reliable source, as has already been pointed out to you twice. You have added this citation three times now. Take it to the talk page or leave it alone. Meters ( talk) 05:37, 19 November 2016 (UTC)
Calling all editors to form a consensus on the lead image at John Quincy Adams. First posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States Presidents. YoPienso ( talk) 23:25, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Richard,
You just made some edits to the terminology section of nationalism page without explaining why. Your first change was to remove some of the information about the word 'nation' and to replace a reference to the modern period with 'before 1800'. I can see why you made this change, as the sentence was a bit vague, but the Hobsbawm source for this sentence doesn't actually say 'before 1800'. In fact it refers to 1884. I agree this sentence needs to be improved (I used a reference to 'modernity' to try and avoid a specific date), but I don't think mentioning 1800 specifically, when that's not mentioned in the source, is the way to do it.
For the second part of the sentence, you removed a well sourced statement about the development of the word nationalism, referring to autonomy and self determination, and Herder and Baurrel, and replaced it with a less informative sentence referring to Norman Rich, and then a sentence about Glenda Sluga that is irrelevant to 'terminology'. I don't think this is an improvement at all. Could you explain what you thought was wrong with the previous sentence and how this one is better? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mabandalone ( talk • contribs) 22:27, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Mr Jensen,
You recently edited the sex in advertising page. We've been asked to edit that page for a university project, and we added several changes to that page. Thank you for removing the part you did and giving a reason, it obviously will help the page and thats what matters! We were wondering if you had any other ideas about what can be done to improve that page further?
Kind regards Tmase1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmase1 ( talk • contribs) 17:20, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for correcting the part of the article about Martin Frobisher, as I thought that was a severely warped interpretation of history based on little more than insecure anti-Americanism (though I was willing to allow that plurality of opinion for the judgment of the reader).
Dates & specific locations, of the Plymouth Thanksgiving, the French-Indian War, the specific town birthplaces of Philemon Wright & Laura Secord in Massachusetts, were based on the Wikipedia articles on these subjects. I could not find any United Empire Loyalists of any particular significance from Massachusetts, so I left that part out, even though they are the, "original without a modifier", of what an English-Canadian is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Prickett ( talk • contribs) 22:22, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Interesting to see that there really isn't a classification about white privilege being real or not. I wonder if white supremacy makes people not think its real Shantalaleman ( talk) 01:04, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Dude, that's a load of bull! Lincoln was pro-big government. He lived at a time when the "classical liberal" party was the Democrats and the big-government parties were the Whigs and Republicans. p b p 23:15, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Please be careful on the ANI talk page. You accidentally removed Jennica's and my comments on another discussion, so I've reverted your edit. Just thought you should know. Erick ( talk) 01:43, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
It looks like you tried to remove a citation, asserting that the source is unreliable. But I think the article still contains one or more citations to that source. — BarrelProof ( talk) 05:18, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Liberal Toryism. Since you had some involvement with the Liberal Toryism redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Nevé – selbert 01:21, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
I restored the phrase "thus joining the present federal Union of states" which you had deleted from List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union. It is true that "the US of A was formed in 1776", as you said in your edit summary. However, prior to 1787, the USA was a confederation, not a federal union. Thanks for your ongoing contributions to making this a great encyclopedia! YBG ( talk) 02:32, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Rjensen, could you give a hand on this article's lede? Taking it on strides. I already made a request for help in the talk page. Thanks. Caballero/Historiador ? 22:06, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello Rjensen. Would you please consider commenting on these move discussions? The former is about whether Gladstone should redirect to William Ewart Gladstone, and the latter is whether D'Israeli should redirect to Benjamin Disraeli as {{ R from alternative spelling}}. Thank-you.-- Nevé – selbert 07:17, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
I know Wikipedia hates experts and believes any yahoo off the street is better than you. If there are 2 yahoos off the street, they can claim consensus against your informed opinion. Still, I value your opinion.
Please see /info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_United_States_Presidents and see if you have any advice for the RFC since you are a historian, frequent Wikipedia writer, and smart person.
Basically, the RFC writer wants to know if all Presidents should not be called "politician" in the introductory paragraph. Some Trump people in Wikipedia think all presidents are politicians are should be, even George Washington.
My opinion is uncertain. I don't know. Lakeshake ( talk) 19:26, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
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