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Rjensen, while I've been assuming good faith on your edits to the Republican Party (United States) article, they seem to be more and more non-NPOV. While I appriciate accurate wording, I don't think replacing "called for" with "demanded," "cautiously" with "grudgingly," under the Republican ideals. is a good idea on Wikipedia. And please don't accuse me of bias, I'm a hardcore Libertarian- but remember, we're supposed to keep our biases outside of Wikipedia. // The True Sora 02:11, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Yesterday, for the umpteenth time, you changed all mention of the "Democratic-Republican Party" in the "Democratic Party" article to "Republican Party" or to "Jeffersonians" or to "Jeffersonian Republicans." Then, to describe your edits, you disingenously wrote, "trim details." You did not "trim details." Your edits were much more elaborate than that and, more imporantly, you tried to go around the back of a matter that has been discussed here many, many times, as you well know. Please stop doing this. Griot 15:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I'd like a rationalization as to just what was POV in the war debt controversy. Quite a lot of valuable information was included, information you would receive in more or less any modern course on the revolution. If some language was POV, that is a different matter. Make it apparent to me.
And honestly, for courtesy's sake, take it to the Talk. Don't revert silently. This is a contentious issue, and if your reasoning is sound you should have no fear of an honest debate. Fearwig 17:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Uor mutual friend keeps on removing the section in which he accused you of vandalism on the grounds of slander, [1], he also posted a note on my page [2], beinf that you only put in a responce under the section on a secodary issue, i figure i would ask that if you would like to have the section removed on the basis that the user was attempting to slander you or that you belive the txt is slanderious to you. IF you belive this is the case then i would have no problem with removing the txt, as well as puting a not on why it was removed. The reson why i have continued to revery his removal of the section is that fall under the vandalism poilcy of, Talk page vandalism and Blanking. I would also recomend that if you decide that the user is slandering you that you report it to [[WP:AN/I], so that, what i would hope, appropate action can be taken. -- Boothy443 | trácht ar 05:09, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi - the link I removed wasn't to the museum itself, but a personal site that had a few photos of the museum. The link was spammed across multiple articles. If you still think the link should stay drop me a line on my talk page. Thanks -- AbsolutDan (talk) 00:36, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
See, this is why I was against editorial comments in Bibliographies! -- JW1805 (Talk) 03:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
You (and several others) saved me many keystrokes by reverting the most recent round of trivial/POV H1-B spam. All I had left to do was leave a message on a talk page: see 71.123.40.76. Much thanks -- Paleorthid 01:49, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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User Doright unilaterally inserted his preferred guideline into WP:RS as follows, replacing the one discussed on its talk page. I reverted once, and he has now reverted it. I'm backing off to prevent an edit war. I would appreciate it if you would comment on this. The text he has inserted says:
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You've dealt with this article for much longer than me - can you tell me why there is a focus on Connecticut right after that part? I'm not terribly familiar with the Connecticut party organization of the time, and don't know why it would be so much of a focus? Thanks Sam 22:04, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
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Nice rewrite! (See article's Talk). Thanks! -- Cultural Freedom talk 10:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
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Revealing of what? It would seem as if such a section would be vulnerable to POV. I figure WikiQuote is a more suitable venue for his quotes, just as it is for Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, and so on. -- Sparkhurst 07:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed your recent interest in Daniel Webster and I was curious as to whether or not you had in interest in improving the article to featured article status. TonyJoe 22:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
It looks like you are heavily involved in the various articles covering the history of the US political system ( First Party System, etc). These don't seem to link into the main stream of articles on the United States right now - Politics of the United States seems to be strictly current, and the History of the United States series is very broad. It looks like it might be useful to have an overview article on US political history to tie these (and perhaps other) political articles together. I've mocked up a quick outline ( here), unless you know of an existing article that would be suitable. Such an overview would provide a single convenient article that could be "see also" or "main article" linked to from "History"/"Politics" or any other place that wants to refer readers to historical US political developments. Does this seem like a good idea?
On a related note, I came across these articles while working on the Democracy (disambiguation) page. This currently links directly to the First/Second/Third articles. It seems to be about two levels of disambiguation too many to have articles on American political history directly linked from a disambig page. The debate (just myself and one other) is at Talk:Democracy (disambiguation)#Weeding the links. - David Oberst 22:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Do you have any cites on the original usage of the phrases and divisions, and do you know how common the usage is? The division of the eras obviously makes sense, but are the terms used in most political science textbooks, for example, or just certain subsets, and would the terms be found in texts written by Brits, Australians, or whatever?
Phrasing like " John Fenno was a Federalist editor who helped shape the First Party System..." is likely to be confusing. It isn't as if the "First Party System" is something as tangible as "the Monroe Doctrine" or "the Articles of Confederation", and especially with the capitalization, many readers may take it as something more than it actually is. Something like "who influenced the development of party politics/ during the late 18th century", or whatever, might be preferable in many cases? Again "[the] Third Party System, which began in 1854 and changed over to the Fourth Party System in the mid-1890s..." seems (at least to my ear) much too categorical about "Systems" that are, after all, merely helpful retrospective organizational categories, and a "changeover" that is actually a series of elections and other events under the same essential constitutional system (albeit in an ever-evolving party political landscape).
Some of the articles look like they have been chopped out of a larger piece, or otherwise not completely smoothed out from academic to encyclopedic outlook? For instance, Second Party System has an early phrase "McCormick is most responsible for defining the system" followed by a bunch of bullet points (with "McCormick" not otherwised referenced except as an author in the references). Any objection if I tweak wording like the examples above as I run into it? - David Oberst 23:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
These "Party System" articles are currently under debate at the Talk:Democracy (disambiguation) page - one editor claims these periods are intended to describe distinct "forms" or "types" of democracy, and need to be linked on that page. As you are a major contributor to these articles, your opinion would be useful. - David Oberst 19:59, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I filled the proposal for Words to avoid. Please find it here. I would be thankfull for your commennts, suggestions and corrections.-- AndriyK 16:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I am sending this message to serious contributors who may be interested in articles related to U.S. politics. I believe I am receiving an unreasonable response-- and at times insulting and rude-- from the editors of Norm Coleman article, who refuse to remove a section that may offer some interesting trivia for Wikipeidia users, but is irrelevant to people interested in reading an encyclopedia article on a member of U.S. Senate. If you have time, please take a look at the article. Regards. 172 | Talk 03:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
The Anon IP that altered Great Depression previous to your edits blanked out a portion of the article. I had to rv past you in order to restore the section. Just thought I'd let you know so you could try again...hopefully before anymore IP vandalism hits the article. Cheers and take care! Anger22 23:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Please check your facts before removing other people's work. Wilson did indeed campaign on neutrality. [5]
Are you suggesting then that FDR did promise to keep the U.S. out of the war "no matter what"? If anything, the U.S. neutral stance was much stronger leading up to WWI than WWII. As a result, it's not at all fair to say that Wilson did not promise to stay out of WWI while FDR did promise to stay out of WWII. The edit as it stands now about Wilson and his position on the war is misleading. Rklawton 03:11, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the spot check here. I was pretty sure they should both be removed, but thought it odd to have them piped like how Kepin had them. Thanks again. -- LV (Dark Mark) 01:57, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry User:Rjensen. I respect your decision on "oppose". Your opinion is the most important, I will delete the merge vote in the next few days. I should have just asked you first. All things labor, including Taft-Hartley Act I have allowed you free reign, out of respect for your editing abilities, and out of apprehention of another brutal and emotional edit war. I'd much rather be working with you, then against you, on such projects as Predictions of Soviet collapse.
You don't know how many times I have praised your name to other conseratives, I did just again yesterday. You are my most formniable foe, which means that I have to expend the most time and energy with your edits because they are so well reasoned and intellegent.
Anyway, I should have asked first before I brought up the merge vote. I think it is better to move it, but that is beside the point.
No need to stir the honey pot, when we have had a solid, comfortable truce for months. The vote was stupid on my part. Travb ( talk) 15:25, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I've grouped the bullet points as I see fit, please feel free to re-sort if you see a better way. I can see some points for consolidation already, but would you give section a look to see what can be married?
When you get a chance, please look at the Military leadership talk page and discuss with me the future of that article. We could make that page a really good one, and I think we can agree on a great deal. I would beg your indulgence please: please for the present, confine your edits to adding new material to the main page and discussing any major reconstruction on the talk page. Please for now indulge me for the nonce. I have reasons for the current wording, but do see the need to add significant material over time. I've explained my vision on the talk page. Perhaps we could create an outline using that (or other workable) structure, then flesh it out. At that point we'll certainly be at the tweak stage with all text, but we'll know more about what we're summarizing.
I think we can do something good with the ACW main page. I also think we should add a section about Politics during the Civil War or an article of that name. We might create Union and Confederate articles, as a matter of fact I prefer that route.
Anyway, no hard feelings; you're aware I'm of a passionate nature, and I've got strong feelings about concepts, not words. Words are merely the tools that help convey concepts. Precise constructions convey exact assertion. That's my method when working here. BusterD 21:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I see in early May you changed some of the text of the Ohio article...in particularly, you removed some very key text regarding Ohio's regional identity.
The text read "Historically (but not universally) considered part of the Midwest" was a key component to a compromise between the tussels regarding Ohio's regional identity (which you will note if you go back into the history far enough.)
The text as originally written successfully and succinctly drew attention to the fact that Ohio's regional identity is not as set in stone as simply declaring it part of the midwest. (I must admit though, the current text version still leaves it semi-open, and sets up an opportunity to go into the regional issue in greater detail, which could make a great sub-section, but I see hasn't been done yet.) I also must admit that the original text might have implied that the historical concept of Ohio's region was not universally accepted, which was not my goal.
So I'm curious to see what you're thinking and where you going with that.
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The only editors that have commented on the talk page appears to be the anonymous editors and, now, us. It also appears you agreed to changes that no longer appear in the article (granted it wasn't you that initially removed those changes, but that means that the accuracy dispute had not come to a consensus. Also, the rationale of the edit said he reverted to the version used in the Democratic Party article. Why can't we change both pages to what was agreed to on the Republican Party page?) MinorityInAcademia 19:32, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
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Rjensen, the sentence I added:
Keynes was himself unimpressed, saying "I had supposed the President was more literate, economically speaking." (TIME Magazine, March 29, 1999, [6])
is a NPOV fact and therefore material for an encyclopedia. Your revert message of "Keynes was unable to communicate clearly and he blamed his audience" is biased and unacceptable, so I'll be putting it back. If you want to continue this please let's discuss it either here or on the articles talk page.
Thanks for your vote. I guess I opened a can or worms with that map but since editors were going back and forth replacing one map with the other in the article I thought it was good to try and gain some consensus. I do find it amusing, though, that the editor from Kentucky said it is the most insulting thing he's ever seen. Being from Alabama, I personally thought anything north of Tennessee was Yankee land :-). Best, -- Alabamaboy 13:21, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you provide a source for most of Reagan's anti-communism movements in latin american failing? A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. HawkerTyphoon 19:48, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
I think you are seriously overreacting. And I strongly suspect you’ve not even read the book before calling Dietrich a crackpot. This dissapoints me, surely a scholar does not judge sight unseen? As for self published, I don’t understand you at all. He was published by Algora Publishing.
1. All his material on the economic and humanitarian consequences of the JCS 1067 are referenced, and It’s highly unlikely that he would have made the references up. But fine, I’ll go to my university library and check out Vladimir Petrov’s book "Money and conquest", to which Dietrich references in the JCS1067 passages you reverted. I’ve got vacations coming up and there will likely be a rainy day sometime.
2. I’ll grant you the communist influence conclusion removal.
3. Unless you can provide a scholarly source that deals as comprehensively with the Post surrender situation as Dietrich I’ll reinsert him in the further reading part. Dietrich collects a lot of material, and is a good source for finding further books. Beschloss quietly fades away in 1945, he mumbles a bit about Hoovers 1946/47 mission where Hoover states that things are the worst in 100 years in Germany, but that’s it. He chooses not to deal with the after-effects of the plan at all beyond that hint. At least Dietrich deals with the subject, and Wikipedia readers should be adult enough to decide for themselves whether he is credible or not, they should need no babying. I’ve found no serious critique of his work in editorials.
4. Baque has met with a flood of critique, so I’ll agree that his books may not apply here. I’ve not read either them nor their rebuttal, but my impression is that the rebuttal only targets the number of prisoners he calculates to have died in U.S. POW-camps, not what he has to say about the Morgenthau plan. Still, no need to inflame the subject further. Note that it was not me who inserted Bacque.
-- Stor stark7 20:34, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
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Thats probably your last 24h block; 48 and up from now on. Except hopefully there won't be any more.
William M. Connolley 21:14, 1 July 2006 (UTC)Re your mail: having looked, you reverted the NPOV-sect tag 4 times William M. Connolley 08:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, you mention it's not in search engines, but it took me all of two seconds to find sources for LBJ saying it ( Boston Globe, Guardian, Franken in the excerpts section, Al Gore and more (tons of blog types)). I don't know if it's notable in and of itself, but it is certainly used fairly often. I'm not going to revert, but just thought you should know. Perhaps you might need to try a new search engine? ;-) -- LV (Dark Mark) 20:50, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
In regards to the Hollis reference. I reviewed the publication from Melvin G. Holli, "The American Mayor: The Best and the Worst Big-City Leaders. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999". It is essentially a review of American Mayors but makes no reference to Presidents. I can agree with keeping the historian, but the extension you keep putting in ---which have been extended to cover the greatest mayors as well---offers nothing to the article.
Your response to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Rjensen is welcome. This was also mentioned on Talk:Alexander Hamilton. Septentrionalis 22:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
FYI, you seem to have violated WP:3RR at Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.. ← Humus sapiens ну? 21:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
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Rjensen, while I've been assuming good faith on your edits to the Republican Party (United States) article, they seem to be more and more non-NPOV. While I appriciate accurate wording, I don't think replacing "called for" with "demanded," "cautiously" with "grudgingly," under the Republican ideals. is a good idea on Wikipedia. And please don't accuse me of bias, I'm a hardcore Libertarian- but remember, we're supposed to keep our biases outside of Wikipedia. // The True Sora 02:11, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Yesterday, for the umpteenth time, you changed all mention of the "Democratic-Republican Party" in the "Democratic Party" article to "Republican Party" or to "Jeffersonians" or to "Jeffersonian Republicans." Then, to describe your edits, you disingenously wrote, "trim details." You did not "trim details." Your edits were much more elaborate than that and, more imporantly, you tried to go around the back of a matter that has been discussed here many, many times, as you well know. Please stop doing this. Griot 15:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I'd like a rationalization as to just what was POV in the war debt controversy. Quite a lot of valuable information was included, information you would receive in more or less any modern course on the revolution. If some language was POV, that is a different matter. Make it apparent to me.
And honestly, for courtesy's sake, take it to the Talk. Don't revert silently. This is a contentious issue, and if your reasoning is sound you should have no fear of an honest debate. Fearwig 17:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Uor mutual friend keeps on removing the section in which he accused you of vandalism on the grounds of slander, [1], he also posted a note on my page [2], beinf that you only put in a responce under the section on a secodary issue, i figure i would ask that if you would like to have the section removed on the basis that the user was attempting to slander you or that you belive the txt is slanderious to you. IF you belive this is the case then i would have no problem with removing the txt, as well as puting a not on why it was removed. The reson why i have continued to revery his removal of the section is that fall under the vandalism poilcy of, Talk page vandalism and Blanking. I would also recomend that if you decide that the user is slandering you that you report it to [[WP:AN/I], so that, what i would hope, appropate action can be taken. -- Boothy443 | trácht ar 05:09, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi - the link I removed wasn't to the museum itself, but a personal site that had a few photos of the museum. The link was spammed across multiple articles. If you still think the link should stay drop me a line on my talk page. Thanks -- AbsolutDan (talk) 00:36, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
See, this is why I was against editorial comments in Bibliographies! -- JW1805 (Talk) 03:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
You (and several others) saved me many keystrokes by reverting the most recent round of trivial/POV H1-B spam. All I had left to do was leave a message on a talk page: see 71.123.40.76. Much thanks -- Paleorthid 01:49, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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User Doright unilaterally inserted his preferred guideline into WP:RS as follows, replacing the one discussed on its talk page. I reverted once, and he has now reverted it. I'm backing off to prevent an edit war. I would appreciate it if you would comment on this. The text he has inserted says:
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You've dealt with this article for much longer than me - can you tell me why there is a focus on Connecticut right after that part? I'm not terribly familiar with the Connecticut party organization of the time, and don't know why it would be so much of a focus? Thanks Sam 22:04, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
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Nice rewrite! (See article's Talk). Thanks! -- Cultural Freedom talk 10:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
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Revealing of what? It would seem as if such a section would be vulnerable to POV. I figure WikiQuote is a more suitable venue for his quotes, just as it is for Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, and so on. -- Sparkhurst 07:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed your recent interest in Daniel Webster and I was curious as to whether or not you had in interest in improving the article to featured article status. TonyJoe 22:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
It looks like you are heavily involved in the various articles covering the history of the US political system ( First Party System, etc). These don't seem to link into the main stream of articles on the United States right now - Politics of the United States seems to be strictly current, and the History of the United States series is very broad. It looks like it might be useful to have an overview article on US political history to tie these (and perhaps other) political articles together. I've mocked up a quick outline ( here), unless you know of an existing article that would be suitable. Such an overview would provide a single convenient article that could be "see also" or "main article" linked to from "History"/"Politics" or any other place that wants to refer readers to historical US political developments. Does this seem like a good idea?
On a related note, I came across these articles while working on the Democracy (disambiguation) page. This currently links directly to the First/Second/Third articles. It seems to be about two levels of disambiguation too many to have articles on American political history directly linked from a disambig page. The debate (just myself and one other) is at Talk:Democracy (disambiguation)#Weeding the links. - David Oberst 22:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Do you have any cites on the original usage of the phrases and divisions, and do you know how common the usage is? The division of the eras obviously makes sense, but are the terms used in most political science textbooks, for example, or just certain subsets, and would the terms be found in texts written by Brits, Australians, or whatever?
Phrasing like " John Fenno was a Federalist editor who helped shape the First Party System..." is likely to be confusing. It isn't as if the "First Party System" is something as tangible as "the Monroe Doctrine" or "the Articles of Confederation", and especially with the capitalization, many readers may take it as something more than it actually is. Something like "who influenced the development of party politics/ during the late 18th century", or whatever, might be preferable in many cases? Again "[the] Third Party System, which began in 1854 and changed over to the Fourth Party System in the mid-1890s..." seems (at least to my ear) much too categorical about "Systems" that are, after all, merely helpful retrospective organizational categories, and a "changeover" that is actually a series of elections and other events under the same essential constitutional system (albeit in an ever-evolving party political landscape).
Some of the articles look like they have been chopped out of a larger piece, or otherwise not completely smoothed out from academic to encyclopedic outlook? For instance, Second Party System has an early phrase "McCormick is most responsible for defining the system" followed by a bunch of bullet points (with "McCormick" not otherwised referenced except as an author in the references). Any objection if I tweak wording like the examples above as I run into it? - David Oberst 23:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
These "Party System" articles are currently under debate at the Talk:Democracy (disambiguation) page - one editor claims these periods are intended to describe distinct "forms" or "types" of democracy, and need to be linked on that page. As you are a major contributor to these articles, your opinion would be useful. - David Oberst 19:59, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I filled the proposal for Words to avoid. Please find it here. I would be thankfull for your commennts, suggestions and corrections.-- AndriyK 16:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. Jkelly 23:41, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I am sending this message to serious contributors who may be interested in articles related to U.S. politics. I believe I am receiving an unreasonable response-- and at times insulting and rude-- from the editors of Norm Coleman article, who refuse to remove a section that may offer some interesting trivia for Wikipeidia users, but is irrelevant to people interested in reading an encyclopedia article on a member of U.S. Senate. If you have time, please take a look at the article. Regards. 172 | Talk 03:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
The Anon IP that altered Great Depression previous to your edits blanked out a portion of the article. I had to rv past you in order to restore the section. Just thought I'd let you know so you could try again...hopefully before anymore IP vandalism hits the article. Cheers and take care! Anger22 23:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Please check your facts before removing other people's work. Wilson did indeed campaign on neutrality. [5]
Are you suggesting then that FDR did promise to keep the U.S. out of the war "no matter what"? If anything, the U.S. neutral stance was much stronger leading up to WWI than WWII. As a result, it's not at all fair to say that Wilson did not promise to stay out of WWI while FDR did promise to stay out of WWII. The edit as it stands now about Wilson and his position on the war is misleading. Rklawton 03:11, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the spot check here. I was pretty sure they should both be removed, but thought it odd to have them piped like how Kepin had them. Thanks again. -- LV (Dark Mark) 01:57, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry User:Rjensen. I respect your decision on "oppose". Your opinion is the most important, I will delete the merge vote in the next few days. I should have just asked you first. All things labor, including Taft-Hartley Act I have allowed you free reign, out of respect for your editing abilities, and out of apprehention of another brutal and emotional edit war. I'd much rather be working with you, then against you, on such projects as Predictions of Soviet collapse.
You don't know how many times I have praised your name to other conseratives, I did just again yesterday. You are my most formniable foe, which means that I have to expend the most time and energy with your edits because they are so well reasoned and intellegent.
Anyway, I should have asked first before I brought up the merge vote. I think it is better to move it, but that is beside the point.
No need to stir the honey pot, when we have had a solid, comfortable truce for months. The vote was stupid on my part. Travb ( talk) 15:25, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I've grouped the bullet points as I see fit, please feel free to re-sort if you see a better way. I can see some points for consolidation already, but would you give section a look to see what can be married?
When you get a chance, please look at the Military leadership talk page and discuss with me the future of that article. We could make that page a really good one, and I think we can agree on a great deal. I would beg your indulgence please: please for the present, confine your edits to adding new material to the main page and discussing any major reconstruction on the talk page. Please for now indulge me for the nonce. I have reasons for the current wording, but do see the need to add significant material over time. I've explained my vision on the talk page. Perhaps we could create an outline using that (or other workable) structure, then flesh it out. At that point we'll certainly be at the tweak stage with all text, but we'll know more about what we're summarizing.
I think we can do something good with the ACW main page. I also think we should add a section about Politics during the Civil War or an article of that name. We might create Union and Confederate articles, as a matter of fact I prefer that route.
Anyway, no hard feelings; you're aware I'm of a passionate nature, and I've got strong feelings about concepts, not words. Words are merely the tools that help convey concepts. Precise constructions convey exact assertion. That's my method when working here. BusterD 21:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I see in early May you changed some of the text of the Ohio article...in particularly, you removed some very key text regarding Ohio's regional identity.
The text read "Historically (but not universally) considered part of the Midwest" was a key component to a compromise between the tussels regarding Ohio's regional identity (which you will note if you go back into the history far enough.)
The text as originally written successfully and succinctly drew attention to the fact that Ohio's regional identity is not as set in stone as simply declaring it part of the midwest. (I must admit though, the current text version still leaves it semi-open, and sets up an opportunity to go into the regional issue in greater detail, which could make a great sub-section, but I see hasn't been done yet.) I also must admit that the original text might have implied that the historical concept of Ohio's region was not universally accepted, which was not my goal.
So I'm curious to see what you're thinking and where you going with that.
Please do not remove maintenance notices from pages unless the required changes have been made. If you are uncertain whether the page requires further work, or if you disagree with the notice, please discuss these issues on the page's talk page before removing the notice from the page. These notices and comments are needed to establish community consensus about the status of a page. Thank you. MinorityInAcademia 19:20, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry you believe that, because the maintenance tags are Wikipedia's way of improving articles. If you believe that a maintenance tag is placed in bad faith, get consensus on the talk page before removing it. MinorityInAcademia 19:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
The only editors that have commented on the talk page appears to be the anonymous editors and, now, us. It also appears you agreed to changes that no longer appear in the article (granted it wasn't you that initially removed those changes, but that means that the accuracy dispute had not come to a consensus. Also, the rationale of the edit said he reverted to the version used in the Democratic Party article. Why can't we change both pages to what was agreed to on the Republican Party page?) MinorityInAcademia 19:32, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
A discussion on this topic has started at: Talk:On the Jews and Their Lies. -- CTSWyneken 11:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Rjensen, the sentence I added:
Keynes was himself unimpressed, saying "I had supposed the President was more literate, economically speaking." (TIME Magazine, March 29, 1999, [6])
is a NPOV fact and therefore material for an encyclopedia. Your revert message of "Keynes was unable to communicate clearly and he blamed his audience" is biased and unacceptable, so I'll be putting it back. If you want to continue this please let's discuss it either here or on the articles talk page.
Thanks for your vote. I guess I opened a can or worms with that map but since editors were going back and forth replacing one map with the other in the article I thought it was good to try and gain some consensus. I do find it amusing, though, that the editor from Kentucky said it is the most insulting thing he's ever seen. Being from Alabama, I personally thought anything north of Tennessee was Yankee land :-). Best, -- Alabamaboy 13:21, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you provide a source for most of Reagan's anti-communism movements in latin american failing? A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. HawkerTyphoon 19:48, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
I think you are seriously overreacting. And I strongly suspect you’ve not even read the book before calling Dietrich a crackpot. This dissapoints me, surely a scholar does not judge sight unseen? As for self published, I don’t understand you at all. He was published by Algora Publishing.
1. All his material on the economic and humanitarian consequences of the JCS 1067 are referenced, and It’s highly unlikely that he would have made the references up. But fine, I’ll go to my university library and check out Vladimir Petrov’s book "Money and conquest", to which Dietrich references in the JCS1067 passages you reverted. I’ve got vacations coming up and there will likely be a rainy day sometime.
2. I’ll grant you the communist influence conclusion removal.
3. Unless you can provide a scholarly source that deals as comprehensively with the Post surrender situation as Dietrich I’ll reinsert him in the further reading part. Dietrich collects a lot of material, and is a good source for finding further books. Beschloss quietly fades away in 1945, he mumbles a bit about Hoovers 1946/47 mission where Hoover states that things are the worst in 100 years in Germany, but that’s it. He chooses not to deal with the after-effects of the plan at all beyond that hint. At least Dietrich deals with the subject, and Wikipedia readers should be adult enough to decide for themselves whether he is credible or not, they should need no babying. I’ve found no serious critique of his work in editorials.
4. Baque has met with a flood of critique, so I’ll agree that his books may not apply here. I’ve not read either them nor their rebuttal, but my impression is that the rebuttal only targets the number of prisoners he calculates to have died in U.S. POW-camps, not what he has to say about the Morgenthau plan. Still, no need to inflame the subject further. Note that it was not me who inserted Bacque.
-- Stor stark7 20:34, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. |
Thats probably your last 24h block; 48 and up from now on. Except hopefully there won't be any more.
William M. Connolley 21:14, 1 July 2006 (UTC)Re your mail: having looked, you reverted the NPOV-sect tag 4 times William M. Connolley 08:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, you mention it's not in search engines, but it took me all of two seconds to find sources for LBJ saying it ( Boston Globe, Guardian, Franken in the excerpts section, Al Gore and more (tons of blog types)). I don't know if it's notable in and of itself, but it is certainly used fairly often. I'm not going to revert, but just thought you should know. Perhaps you might need to try a new search engine? ;-) -- LV (Dark Mark) 20:50, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
In regards to the Hollis reference. I reviewed the publication from Melvin G. Holli, "The American Mayor: The Best and the Worst Big-City Leaders. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999". It is essentially a review of American Mayors but makes no reference to Presidents. I can agree with keeping the historian, but the extension you keep putting in ---which have been extended to cover the greatest mayors as well---offers nothing to the article.
Your response to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Rjensen is welcome. This was also mentioned on Talk:Alexander Hamilton. Septentrionalis 22:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
FYI, you seem to have violated WP:3RR at Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.. ← Humus sapiens ну? 21:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)