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In this article, you wrote "He launched numerous studies but had no major successes by the time World War II came and anti-trust was deemphasized so corporations could concentrate on winning the war." In this context, the writing seemed vague and ambigous. Who is "He" -- Arnold or Roosevelt? What were these studies about? Why were they not successes?
In Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources you changed the phrase "OK (sometimes)!" written by Blueboar to "marginal", and the position of the change made it appear that "marginal" was written by Blueboar rather than yourself. I regard this as a confusing blunder at best, forgery at worst. -- Gerry Ashton 22:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
If this procedure fails I suggest we take it up to Arbcom -- Isolani 09:37, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
The article is titled chemical industry, no chemical businesses. Therefore, it would seem logical that it relates to those terms and should cover such material. Oldsci 05:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
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Given your remarks about older encyclopedias (1911 EB=Fun!), I thought you might be entertained by the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_January_18#Template:Catholic-link. Given recent charges, I understand perfectly if you prefer not to comment, but if you think I am wrong then please do comment. Robert A.West ( Talk) 03:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you for the article on Frank L. Owsley. I have put in a few "citations needed", for quotes that I feel really should be verifiable. nut-meg 08:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I'd added the OR tag on the Al Smith article, more because there wasn't any verification, not because I thought there was any actual OR. I just couldn't find a more appropriate tag.
Also, I changed the cite format - I find the current format saves more space, it's more organized, and it's more standard for Wikipedia articles I've worked on in the past, but I'd be happy to talk about what works better. Mosmof 14:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
My complements to you on your comments. I suggest you replace the reference to AH's anti-slavery position in the early paragraph discussing diffferences with T. Jefferson. If I do it, I suspect it will only be summarily removed. Shoreranger 16:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I've noticed you prefer direct links to works at questia.com to ISBN links. Unfortunately, such links violate Wikipedia's guidelines on external links, which state that sites requiring registration (as questia.com does) should only be linked if they are the topic of the article itself, or provide relevant information unavailable elsewhere. Moreover, as a pay site, linking directly to questia.com also runs into problems with Wikipedia's guidelines on spam.
A much better set of links all around are ISBN links, automatically generated by Wikipedia's software. Even better, individual users can make ISBN links point to whatever site they want -- Amazon, Google books, LibraryThing or Questia -- by editing their monobook.js file accordingly. You can find more information about that at WP:ISBN. Using these links makes it possible for everybody to easily get to where they want to go, without running into WP:EL or WP:SPAM problems. - David Schaich Talk/ Cont 19:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC) Questia has two levels--one is completely free (no registration)--and is therefore not NOT forbidden by Wiki rules, the other is a pay site. The Free Questia allows several powerful features: 1) complete information on a book; 2) table of contents; 3) first page of every chapter; 4) Boolean searches in the Questia Library; 5) listings of Questia research guides to specific topics (like the American Revolution). Users doing research need this information and can get it nowhere else. This is far more free information than available anywhere else. Questia claims the largest online library (although Google may now be larger). Questia is very valuable for users. In terms of Wiki rules Questia: "provides relevant information unavailable elsewhere" and is therefore allowed by wp:el. That is Questia links to their free services do NOT violate WP:EL I have no link whatsoever to Questia and there is no question of spamming for their pay site. I am trying to provide users with valuable information they need (especially if they are trying to assemble a bibliography or getting a book through a library). Rjensen 22:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
still today....why delete that? WillC 13:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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I'm a little confused about this edit, specifically, the part where the text "In 1775 he was appointed the chief judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court." was taken out of the article text and placed inside ref tags with no other citation content. Was this intentional? -- Fru1tbat 20:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for continuting to work on this :-)
The Rhur Basin stuff was something I was NOT aware of :-)
Keep going on it :-) ShakespeareFan00 00:57, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Great links but they came out in text instead of hotlinks...can you retry? HJ 13:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
The other ones work 4.0 and worthy addition to any article. HJ 13:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
My inclination was also to remove the sentence about Douglas MacArthur from Robert Taft's article ( your edit). However, a Google search provided an apparently valid source for the info, which I instead added.
Did you check the source before your removal, and note its quote from a book by Pennsylvania State University historian Stanley Weintraub?
What associated event(s) do you believe did not happen? -- Adavidb 08:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
While not a declared presidential candidate, MacArthur did receive ballots for nomination as the Republican candidate during the 1952 United States presidential election process. -- Adavidb 09:35, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
I submit that Taft's promise/tentative decision to run with MacArthur is worthy of inclusion in Taft's article; it's already in MacArthur's, though it didn't 'happen'. -- Adavidb 14:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
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I appreciate that some of the information you have been removing is not as relevant as other parts. But it is relevant, nonetheless, and there are readers who will want to know these things. I therefore am asking you, politely, to not revert it back, or remove information from that article on that basis. This is particularly important because of the FA status - first, the article had all that information in it when it was passed as an FA (meaning that nobody saw any problem with it), and second, its FA status may be jeopardised if it is removed. I thus suggest that you formally raise the issue on the article discussion page, and go through it point by point - try to get editorial support from other contributors. This issue needs careful consideration from all concerned, rather than our unilateral decisions. I hope you will not make any such major changes to the article for the time being, and will be willing to try to get support. I don't want an edit war - I do want to prevent the article being damaged. Michaelsanders 00:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I recognized your username but for a sec there I thought it was vandalism, with so many characters cut. I agree it was wordy, but the point of that intro section was to set up the debate over having a BOR, which was in part a result of the powerful central government designed at the Philadelphia Convention. I reverted your changes, but am more than willing to hash it out at talk, so please don't be insulted by the reversion. I see where you're coming from, I just think you went farther than I would have. Thanks, Kaisershatner 03:33, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
If someone doesn't read past the intro, too bad for them. We don't have to write for the ADHD set. Gazpacho 04:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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I'm curious why you think links to book reviews should be included in external links. This seems to run contrary to both #1 of important points to remember and #15 of links normally to be avoided. I would agree on including reviews on an article about a book or an author, but not on the topic of the book. Some reviews do include a discussion of the topic, but the main focus of a review is on the book. I could see perhaps including a review on a book that was considered the authoritative source on a topic, but none of the removals you reverted seem to fall in that category. There are a significant number of books on these topics & probably a large number of reviews on each book. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 20:46, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Just a little style/etiquette note — when you combine an edit and a revert, it'd be nice to mention that you reverted vandalism too in your edit summary. I had a brief moment of "oh no! someone vandalized, and the next editor didn't notice! I can't use my simple rollback!" before I checked your edit and saw you'd done both at one go. Thanks for cleaning up the mess, though. -- John Owens | (talk) 10:18, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey I was wondering if you would form a concensus with me on the Southern talk page involving Kentucky's cultural variation section. If you can remember back on the old talk page user 70-68/Gator was ingorantly arguing that Kentucky is a boarder/Midwestern state, and now he is going against the SOuthern Focus Study's findings to incorporate his opinion in the Article. Please form this concensus with me. Louisvillian 17:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rjensen. Sorry about that dust up about the WWII industrial production table. In retrospect it all seems a little silly. I've been encountering some of your edits in other areas and usually agree with what you're trying to do and appreciate the contribution you're making.
Of course I wouldn't be writing unless I had a little problem. I'm a little concerned about this edit. You deleted a section on Ottoman treatment of POWs, but described "(small fixes; terser language)" in the edit summary. I'm sure it was just an oversight, but I would appreciate it if you were a little more careful. WWI is one of the articles I like to watch and it makes it much easier for me to keep an eye on things if edit summaries are accurate.
Anyway good luck with your editing and I look forward to collaborating with you in the future. Haber 01:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm feeling a little miffed about your removal of my edit to the Cold War page. I posted a suggestion about what I was about to do on the Talk page and received no comments for 5 months. I went ahead and added Shapiro's theories with the appropriate citation. You may not agree with Shapiro (and, I admit, his theories aren't popular or common). However, his book is masterly in its scope and directly cites numerous historians (e.g., Ambrose, Gaddis, Paterson) and politicians (Harriman, Stalin and Truman themselves) for the source of 80-90% of his material. In addition, this book is cited by Gore Vidal as a critical source of 20th century history. I strongly recommend that you find or offer some way to edit or improve this material rather than unilaterally removing it. 99th Percentile 16:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you have removed Lincoln's actions in Maryland from the Confederate States of America article, the reason being "Maryland traitors can thank Lincoln for not being hung". This is blatantly POV and please refrain from doing so. Thanks! Wooyi 23:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for removing the link to the Paris treaty from George Washington's Presidency. It was obviously put there in good faith, and I'm too much of a newbie to trust my judgment to simply remove it (I raise the question in the talk page). Fordsfords 00:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rjensen. I have some questions about your edits (from last year) to this article; see Talk:Annexation Bill of 1866. Regards, -- Saforrest 21:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Your reversion to William Howard Taft re-inserted some vandalism! I've tidied up after you, for no extra charge! Best wishes, Bencherlite 21:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Professor Jensen,
It is not my personal intention to modify the Rhodes quote. My intention is to mark it clearly and distinctly as a quote from Rhodes, both as a service to Rhodes and to incautious readers.
My motivation arises from the experiences of a first time reader of the article — coming in cold, as it were. I was struck with the queasy feeling that some middle chunk of the article came from a distinct author writing under nineteenth century conventions. Glancing up, I belatedly saw the advisory about material being drawn from James Ford Rhodes. Still, it was not clear to me where the excerpted passage began or ended. Indeed, later investigations of article histories showed me that the marker is misplaced, grouping three paragraphs composed by various contemporary editors with the material you provided from Rhodes, with no other clear dividing line. Such uncertainty is a disservice to readers, in that they are given an incorrect impression of who is writing what, and to Rhodes, in that his contribution to the article is blurred with works of others. Properly blocking the quote off in a box, as I illustrated on the talk page, puts that ambiguity to rest, both to the benefit of Rhodes and the readers. To my mind, the application of this graphic device works to the advantage of a goal you hold dear: presenting a "standard scholarly source" clearly and without ambiguity. The device sets off the passage of text as originating from a scholar in the field, and is not possibly the writing of a contemporary wikipedia editor. At present, testifying as someone who has just read the article cold, it is not abundantly clear where the Rhodes text begins and where it ends. I cannot imagine that you would find such uncertainty a source of comfort either.
You well and truly observe that the use of Rhodes in this article is akin to Wikipedia's frequent use of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica; such material lend weight in discussions where editors might otherwise quote from memory or some web blog. In granting you that, I also note certain guidelines surrounding the use of material that from that edition, documented in the Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica guideline for editors. First off, this guideline advises us to mark extensive excerpts from the 1911 EB with the {{ 1911}} tag. This automatically inserts
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
at the bottom of the article and places it in the Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Such pain in marking work from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is precisely in the spirit of my proposal: demark the passage as coming from James Ford Rhodes, citing his name, the source of his writing, and his publisher. The reader may then disagree with Rhodes, or find his prose antique, but he or she is in no doubt from where the words are coming from.
It is possible you may have been alarmed by my closing remark about (eventually) retiring the excerpt with a paraphrase, and thought, perhaps, that I would undertake that ambition next week. I grant you, that would be a hard row to hoe, given your (very correct!) observations concerning the passions some editors bring to this article. I plan not to undertake that particular adventure even though I recommend it, for reasons stated. No, I only intend to demark Rhodes as Rhodes, and nothing further, for reasons also just stated. I do believe that someone should, however, undertake a careful paraphrase because many of the cautionaries presented in the 1911 guidelines are also true for Rhodes: old references reflect old style of wording and attitudes that are no longer current, and some readers react to that rather than to the the underlying content.
Be good, be well; reply here or on my talk page if you care to. Gosgood 21:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
in my Social Studies textbook-a reliable source, in which-even if "Remini" is credible, that doesnt mean its right (or my textbook). by leaving it as a range of the lowest number (seven in my textbook, to twenty, you will be stating correct information (13 is in-between this range), and leaving the thought of the reader, unchanged. By using this range, a large number of historians can agree on it, rather than dispute the number they think it to be---Number2two2
P.S.: please take this into consideration.
1. The addition you made long ago to
Panic of 1837 has finally been erased:
[1]. I have mixed feelings about this: on the one hand, it had some valuable information, but on the other hand, its tone was quite inappropriate for here. Perhaps we can eventually work in some of the data it presented.
2. I recently enlarged
John William McCormack from his obituary. Overall, I think the article is improved, but in some parts the tone may be a little informal. I think it would benefit from proofreading by someone else, like, if you wish, yourself.
Biruitorul 02:34, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Fulltext in SwetsWise; Abstract: Introduces a theory to explain who will most likely support a challenge to an incumbent speaker of the House of Representatives and tests this theory for one such challenge in particular, that against Speaker John McCormack in 1969, using newly obtained archival data related to the contest. The results suggest that legislators are most likely to support a challenge when it promises to satisfy one or more "multiple goals." The findings also reveal that membership in the same entering class in Congress plays an important and previously unacknowledged causal role in determining support for a challenge to the speaker. Rjensen 02:51, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
You know, you could actually read what I had done rather than blindly reverting to the terrible text you did. Its not what you did, it is how you did it. Please read the text of the article and see that the version you reverted to mentions the Declaratory Acts, but does so a) in a really crappy way and b) without any reference. I understand that references to primary sources are deprecated and that references to experts are preferred. I also understand the importance of this article to Wikipedia, and want to see it improved. I did the best I could by fixing some TERRIBLE text and adding a reference. If you would prefer to delete the whole section about the Declaratory Acts, I AM OK WITH THAT, so please do not misunderstand my purpose in leaving this message for you. But it is bad taste to blindly revert an edit, especially when that edit clearly improved the language of what was already in the article, and provided a reference to boot. -- Jayron32| talk| contribs 05:04, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I am inviting all recent editors of Joseph McCarthy to comment on a current dispute. Although you do not qualify, you have commented at McCarthyism and I have some experience with you as an editor - we haven't always agreed but I am looking for a broader commentary. IMO User:KarlBunker, in his stated view out of concern for WP:NPOV#Undue weight, has reverted, deleted, and selectively reinstated factually accurate sourced information that I have added. I contend he is in error. Please see the discussion at Talk:Joseph McCarthy. Thank you. Kaisershatner 17:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you removed the globalize/USA tag I added to Bimetallism, saying "the debate happened inside USA" as a comment to the edit, but you didn't respond to my rationale for adding it at Talk:Bimetallism. I've added the tag back as I think there should be some time to debate this before it is removed (you removed it the day after I put it up).-- Eloil 19:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I've made a suggestion on the primary sources talk page. Rjm at sleepers 07:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
I think we had some bad timing of edits to the above article--I had reverted to a previous revision to get the format right, and then about 25 minutes later pulled back the new text Epignosis had added, keeping that format--but less then a minute later, you reverted back to before I had fixed the format. I believe my most recent edit is preferable, and more in line with Wikipedia:Style for U.S. presidential election, yyyy. Do you agree? -- Cjohnsonmn 14:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia recommends compromise and revision of edits, not unilateral deletion. The material is referenced (see Samuel Huntington wikipedia article). I think it's well explained and doesn't confuse the reader but I'll make it even more clear. Washington was the first president but there was also another first president, too. Dereks1x 19:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Please do not engage in edit waring. I keep modifying the language as a compromise and take the other guy (johnwae or whatever the name) suggestion. Do not keep deleting it. If you have a helpful suggestion, by all means say it. I ask you then "Who was the Head of State for the US between the Articles of Confederation in 1781 and 1789?" It was the President Huntington then 10 other guys. If there's an adequate explanation, nobody is confused. Having others as the head of state before Washington does NOT make Washington an evil man!!!
I even compromised and moved it to the end under myths and misconceptions.
The Articles of Confederation is relevant because it used the term United States and the British had been effectively kicked out by then.
If you don't like it, why not suggest compromise language? Dereks1x 23:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I by no means wish to challenge the established model for Presidential Election Pages but instead would like to offer some suggestions for possible modifications to the current format up for debate amongst the contributors to Wikipedia. The easiest and hopefully the least obtrusive of these would be to include the platforms of the parties who nominated canidates in the campaign as I have tried to do in this article. I believe there inclusion within the general election section of the page, due to the platforms inclusion of major sources of debate between parties within them, is a proper location but would be willing to listen to any other suggestions for their possible location. Many of these platforms can be found posted online and can be easily linked to these articles because they were creation was for dissemination into the public domain and therefore have no copyrights to be infringed. Including the platforms written by the party at the time of the campaign will not only offer a chance to verify the information on the article but will also increase the validity ofthe article through the inclusion of a primary source. The decision is up to a vote of course but I am going to stand up and complain about the deletion of the Know-Nothing Campaign info. If a party wins a state in the electoral college or at least a significant portion of the popular vote I believe we should include the party platform to explain what these people were voting for the sake of better understanding history and the people who lived during this time period.
Respectfully Epignosis
Please engage in discussion on the talk page if you wish to continue to place contested material such as 'historians agree' - see my comment on the talk page, regards sbandrews ( t) 11:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Rather than simply deleting well-sourced text in the article, please take whatever issue you have with it to the talk page. Thanks. WLD talk| edits 09:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
For your information, the Great Depression lasted 10 years. So, obviously the economy did not recover during the New Deal. You shouldn't be removing something that is sourced and replacing it with something that is unsourced. Instantiayion 16:04, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Please do not add unhelpful and unconstructive information to Wikipedia, as you did to True variance. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. In addition, claiming to "rv vandalism" while adding new material from a copyrighted book is, itself, vandalism.
Thank you for making a report about 24.213.182.10 ( talk · contribs · block log) on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, administrators are generally only able to block users if they have received a recent final warning (one that mentions that the user may be blocked) and they have recently vandalized after that warning was given. The reported user has not yet been blocked because it appears this has not occurred yet. If this user continues to vandalize even after their final warning, please report them to the AIV noticeboard again. Generally, final warnings are good for 48 hours on an IP address. Otherwise, we must consider them as expired because someone else may be using that address (e.g. a dialup user or someone in a school computing lab). Jesse Viviano 15:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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In reference to the Women's Army Corps article, thank you for adding information and expanding the article but cite the source of your information. -- Signaleer 13:38, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
This paragraph and the one that follows should both be sourced to the Blodgett book and the McFarland book of essays. I'm afraid I am miles away from a good academic library now. Since the 1970s, when I was a student, academic libraries in the USA have put armed guards and barriers around to keep the homeless out, including me (ha ha):
Seriously, I just don't have a student ID anymore that lets me in to find an older book that is not online. Looks like you probably do. -- Metzenberg 22:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you added quite a bit of info to Reagan's lead paragraph. THE LEAD SHOULD NOT BE THAT LONG. As I've stated on the talk page, please, please read WP:LEAD. There is too much info. Happyme22 04:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you have been a frequent contributor at several articles dealing with American History. I have been a major contributor to the article Plymouth Colony which I also nominated for featured status at WP:FAC. Several reviewers have requested that I get some other editors with similar interests to look over the article, make any changes they see fit, and make any additional comments at WP:FAC. If you could look over the article, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Jayron32| talk| contribs 16:48, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I wonder if we could shed a little more light on the decision to drop Henry A. Wallace from the ticket in 1944. Was it a decision made out of purely domestic considerations, or was there also an international dimension to it - perhaps a fear he would be too accomodating toward the Soviet Union? Thanks for any help you can offer. Biruitorul 22:45, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
It's essentially been decided to merge Democratic Party history section into the main History of the United States Democratic Party article to reduce the article's size (leaving behind a summary). I've produced a very rough chopping down of the existing prose into a draft summary, consisting of almost-but-not-quite 50 year intervals in paragraphs. Your input into polishing this rough cut draft but not really bloating the text much any further is welcome. Settler 01:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps you might be interested in this explanation of Oz as China during the Boxer Uprising of 1898-1899? As a link to my site perhaps? http://www.sexualfables.com/OzisChina.php
Hey, I want to thank you for the copyedit you gave to the article Plymouth Colony a few weeks ago. You made some good suggestions about additional sources of information. I went and got the John Demos book A Little Commonwealth based on your suggestion (I had actually read other works by Demos in Grad School; specifically Entertaining Satan, but I had not made the connection until you brought him up); I also made use of the James and Patricia Deetz's The Times of Their Lives. I have made some more extensive revisions and additions to the article, and I was wondering if you would be so kind as to look over the article again and give it some work? I have added sections on prior settlements, Social history, and economy and expanded the government section some. Your work has been very beneficial to the article, and I plan to take this to peer review soon, and would like to have your help in prepping it for that, and possibly reaching Featured status sometime down the road. Thanks again for your prior work, and thanks in advance for any help you can give in the near future! -- Jayron32| talk| contribs 05:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
The Hearst Ad from 1922... where is that from? How do we know it was from 1922? Many thanks... email lukashauser (AT) gmail.com if you can. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.86.42.195 ( talk) 17:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC).
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The infomation I added is 100% supported by the Texas Historical Society and in their publication "Texas Handbook Online." Additionally having grown up in the state. What I added is what I was taught prior to the sanitation of Texas history in Texas school textbooks, that I am guessing happened in the 1980s.
You embarrass yourself by stating what is written as fact by the Texas Historical Society, a keeper of a large selection of historical documents from Texas settlers, Mexico and the USA regarding Texas is merely unsubstantiated POV.
Where did you do your research? Where is the backup for your belief that my information is false?
What I wrote comes directly from their historically factual resources.
It is THEIR information. I only summerized. If cutting and pasting were permitted I would have done that.
What I put in is far LESS damning than the total sum of what they say.
Your own feelings and opinions are NOT valid grounds for deleting an improvement.
You need proof.
The Historical Association mentions many times the problems that arose with the settlers when Mexico tried to enforce the ban on slavery.
Eventually Mexico tried one too many times, and the settlers had it, and rebelled.
The difficulty Mexico had in putting down one rebellion (Fredonia) was all the rest of the settlers needed to press for independence, which the got a few years later.
If you find it impossible to find this information, or understand how I found it. I will be happy to find it for you, and highlight it. It is NOT opinion. It is NOT POV.
You abuse the rights of Wiki editors to attempt to dismiss what I added based on your clearly spurious opinion, based on your personal dislike of the history that is factually recorded.
What surprises me is you are quite familiar with the "The Texas Handbook Online." You use it as one of your references. Yet your article is devoid of any history regarding the origins/reasons for the settlers rebellion? Did you decide that the Texas Historical Collection was not a valid source of historical information, or maybe in your effort to write an article on the history of Texas, you didn't read theirs?
Perhaps you might want to spare a moment or two and take a gander at the fascinating "History" section, where I found all that neat stuff about what Texas independence was all about.
It is NOT a point of view, it is historical fact.
The fact that you dislike what happened historically, does not mean it's false, does not mean it's opinion.
It's reality of what happened back then. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Johnmorales@hot.rr.com ( talk • contribs) 17:47, 13 May 2007 (UTC).
I moved the annonymous essay from Redemption (United States history) to Southern opposition to Reconstruction. This text may have been WP:POV as a description the Redemption, but I certainly is a accurate description of the Southern opposition to Reconstruction. I do not see any reason to merge this with Redemption. Unless you are able to improve it, please stop the POV pushing and leave the article alone! -- Petri Krohn 23:01, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
I am interested in psychoceramics, but my familiarity with propaganda of the Reconstruction era USA is limited. Can you, please, give me a brief overview of the POVvishness of the essay in relation with the matching events on North American ideosphere on the time?
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The Mexican government working harder to send its citizens to its northern territories after the Mexican-American war is not a "folk myth." Where do you get that from? This is common knowledge to anyone who has studied Mexican history. The United States government encourage its citizens to move west through land grants and various other means. Is that a folk myth too? Griot 21:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, you taught me something new! I guess that answers the question of why there was an Economic Union Party during the referendums. - Royalguard11( Talk· Review Me!) 22:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, Rjensen, been sometime since we worked together on any article. You've helped out in the past with the American System page - much of the material was moved to the American School page leaving American System to American System (economic plan) covering Clay's program alone. Was wondering if I could have your honest perusal of the material at the American School, and any advice, help, or improvements you could offer to make the article more Wikipedia reliable. Further, your input at the Progressivism page might also be needed if your willing to help out, in the near future to format that page correctly. Thanks. -- Northmeister 01:14, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Please stop implying Walter Reuther was a Communist or a supporter of "the Stalinist Regime" in the Soviet Union. It is slander and dishonest. Walter Reuther spent his life rooting communist elements out of the UAW and was villified in the Soviet Union for his criticisms of the Communist regime. He also fought to lower the prices of automobiles, as Victor Reuther made clear in his memoir, which I cited in my edit. As for Union contracts forcing consumers to pay high automobile costs, as you have implied, I'll need some evidence. It is clear to me based on the other Wikipedia pages that you have edited that you have an agenda. That is fine, but slander and dishonest implications serve no one. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nighttrain38 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
My sources: "The Brothers Reuther and the story of the UAW/ a Memoir" by Victor Reuther and an artilce by Lichtenstein himself. Here is a link to the article: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/51/lichtenstein.html It doesn't matter if Walter worked closely with Communists, the same comment is true of President Ronald Reagan, what matters is the implication that he was a member of the Communist Party and a supporter of Stalin. Please read the book you have cited and you will see that no one has ever proven that he was and, if you read Lichtenstein's article that I just gave you a link to, you will see that Reuther was expelling Communists in the thirties as well as the forties. Lichtenstein also disagrees with Devinatz' assesment that Reuther was a member of the Communists in 1939. Alas, Reuther wasn't a member of the Communist party and your very source agrees. You have tried to imply otherwise and that is the point. There were also other falsities at issue that you wisely did not decide to rehash. Stick to the propaganda, facts are obviously not your forte'. Also, please define "former leftist." Walter Reuther remained committed to his ideals until his untimely death. Did you even read your own source, or were you merely copying propaganda of a far right website, please tell?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Nighttrain38 ( talk • contribs) 18:34, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
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I was curious to know if H.W. Halleck and W.T. Sherman ever reconciled after their spat in April 1865. Judging by the fact that Sherman barely makes mention of Halleck in his Memoirs after retelling that episode, I suspect not. Do you know much about the incident? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Khan singh ( talk • contribs) 02:44, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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I am interested in seeing that data showing the real compensation per hour in the US. I've searched and searched the BLS website for employee compensation data, but I can only find it back to the year 1986. I'll like to find the data going back to the '60s, at least. A few months back, I saw an chart in Economic history of the United States that showed the real compensation per hour from 1947 to 2005. The chart has now been deleted from Wikipedia (apparently due to license issues), but I tracked you down as the person who originally uploaded it. Can you tell me where I can find the data? -- SirEditALot ( talk • contribs) 21:39, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
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I have a question that perhaps you as a former historian can answer. Some background: The best research on the Morgenthau plan I've found so-far is this paper: Frederick H. Gareau "Morgenthau's Plan for Industrial Disarmament in Germany" The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jun., 1961), pp. 517–534 Here Gareau explains how the plan was longterm policy, it won the day at the Potsdam conference thanks to the political bent of the U.S. delegation, and then gradually was watered out, although its effects lasted well into the 50's.
There were two main turning points, one was the September 1946 speech which most reputable historians have rightly labeled as the primary turning point, see also John Gimbel "On the Implementation of the Potsdam Agreement: An Essay on U.S. Postwar German Policy" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 2. (Jun., 1972), pp. 242-269.
The second main turning point was Hoovers March 1947 report where he candidly stated "There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations can be reduced to a 'pastoral state'. It can not be done unless we exterminate or move 25,000,000 people out of it.", as for example used here. This report in a convoluted way led to the occupation directive being rescinded.
I found this paper, released in 2006 on the UK government secret discussions from 21 October 1946, where they pretty much prove that the historians who saw the Byrnes speech as one of the pivotal point were right. I.e. "b) U.S. policy was pastoralising (Morgenthan) until Stuttgart speech. They supported R. & Fr. case - to point of reducing steel prodn to 5.8 m. tons. And during Loan talks, cdn´t oppose them too strongly." "...They forced us to 5.8 m. - but all experience has shown we were right on APW Cttee in our figure of 11 m. " "Before this was completed I had seen Byrnes (before Stuttgart speech) & asked wtr. this meant he wd. overthrow Morgenthau policy. He said yes - with Truman´s authy."
What buggs me is that I would like to know more about the "And during Loan talks, cdn´t oppose them too strongly." Which loans was it that the U.S. so strongly opposed? Any ideas on this? i presume they were some sort of reconstruction loans for Germany that the Morgenthauers in the U.S. administration wanted no part of? Regards-- Stor stark7 Talk 22:51, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
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I seem to remember that you had a role in creating the list at History of Illinois#Famous Illinois People which formed the basis of List of people from Illinois. I was trying to de-redlink some of them, but I haven't found much information on William Kohlsaat, newspapers or Benjamin Rusk, medicine. Could you elaborate on the "newspapers" and "medicine" descriptions for those to help narrow down their role in the History of Illinois? People don't like to see redlinks in those lists because anons like to add themselves or other non-notables to them. Could you please clarify those two before they are deleted again? I'd like to keep them if they are notable since the list seems to be trending towards recent musicians and actors. Thanks. -- Dual Freq ( talk) 03:20, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
HI; I JUST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF SOME HOW I CAN GET A COPY OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE NEWS PAPER DATED TUESDAY APRIL 16/1912 AND IF SO FOR HOW MUCH ETC.ETC. ALSO,IF BY ANY CHANCE YOU CAN RPOVIDE ME WITH ANY INFORMATION ON HOW TO GET A COPY OF THE BOSTON POST DATE;THURSDAY APRIL 19/1906,THE EVENING STAR,APRIL 12/1945 AND THE HERALD CHICAGO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6/1933. I REALLY APRECIATE VEERY MUCH ANY INFORMATION YOU CAN PROVIDE ME WITH REGARDLESS TO THIS INQUIER SINCE I DON'T KNOW WHERE ELSE TO GO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN ADVANCE.
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I've requested a reassessment of the good article status of the Milton Friedman article based on lack of neutrality, and have added a POV tag to the article. Please join the discussion, if you are interested. Thanks. Jdstany ( talk) 03:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
In regard to the intro on this article. First of all, the fact that the desertion rate was the highest in U.S. history for a foreign war is actually just that, a fact. It is statistically accurate and it really isnt any editor on wikipedias place to make arbitrary assessments based on numbers for other wars. Also I'd like to point out that the figure of up to 4,000 U.S. military defectors is in the reference given(I think I made that clearer in my latest edit). ʄ!• ¿talk? 03:14, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
Rjensen, seriously. If you want to talk about POV there is only one person pushing one here — you(a misguided pro-american one). It's a very well etablished fact, and whats more you are even trying to say I am being misleading about something I have actually included in my edits! I made it clear it was a figure for foreign wars, not including civil wars, etc. And whats more it is high, the highest ever in fact, that's why its notable enough to be included in the intro. As for giving you the "exact quote", that would be an infringment of copyright. I can easily find other idential references. There are a million other things to edit war over, don't do it over known and easily verifiable facts. ʄ!• ¿talk? 05:49, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello--I appreciate your tweaking the Milton Friedman lead. I was really just giving that as an example, not meaning to put too much weight on the one sentence. In any case, I think your tweak still leaves the wrong impression. Much of what Friedman supported is still considered radical (legalizing recreational drugs, eliminating the FDA...), and recognizing that kind of thing is what's missing from the article.
It's not a big deal to me right now, if I find a good source I'll likely implement such a change myself. I was just trying to clarify why the article could be considered to have an overall POV problem. CRETOG8( t/ c) 05:10, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
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In this article, you wrote "He launched numerous studies but had no major successes by the time World War II came and anti-trust was deemphasized so corporations could concentrate on winning the war." In this context, the writing seemed vague and ambigous. Who is "He" -- Arnold or Roosevelt? What were these studies about? Why were they not successes?
In Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources you changed the phrase "OK (sometimes)!" written by Blueboar to "marginal", and the position of the change made it appear that "marginal" was written by Blueboar rather than yourself. I regard this as a confusing blunder at best, forgery at worst. -- Gerry Ashton 22:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
If this procedure fails I suggest we take it up to Arbcom -- Isolani 09:37, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
The article is titled chemical industry, no chemical businesses. Therefore, it would seem logical that it relates to those terms and should cover such material. Oldsci 05:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
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Given your remarks about older encyclopedias (1911 EB=Fun!), I thought you might be entertained by the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_January_18#Template:Catholic-link. Given recent charges, I understand perfectly if you prefer not to comment, but if you think I am wrong then please do comment. Robert A.West ( Talk) 03:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you for the article on Frank L. Owsley. I have put in a few "citations needed", for quotes that I feel really should be verifiable. nut-meg 08:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I'd added the OR tag on the Al Smith article, more because there wasn't any verification, not because I thought there was any actual OR. I just couldn't find a more appropriate tag.
Also, I changed the cite format - I find the current format saves more space, it's more organized, and it's more standard for Wikipedia articles I've worked on in the past, but I'd be happy to talk about what works better. Mosmof 14:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
My complements to you on your comments. I suggest you replace the reference to AH's anti-slavery position in the early paragraph discussing diffferences with T. Jefferson. If I do it, I suspect it will only be summarily removed. Shoreranger 16:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I've noticed you prefer direct links to works at questia.com to ISBN links. Unfortunately, such links violate Wikipedia's guidelines on external links, which state that sites requiring registration (as questia.com does) should only be linked if they are the topic of the article itself, or provide relevant information unavailable elsewhere. Moreover, as a pay site, linking directly to questia.com also runs into problems with Wikipedia's guidelines on spam.
A much better set of links all around are ISBN links, automatically generated by Wikipedia's software. Even better, individual users can make ISBN links point to whatever site they want -- Amazon, Google books, LibraryThing or Questia -- by editing their monobook.js file accordingly. You can find more information about that at WP:ISBN. Using these links makes it possible for everybody to easily get to where they want to go, without running into WP:EL or WP:SPAM problems. - David Schaich Talk/ Cont 19:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC) Questia has two levels--one is completely free (no registration)--and is therefore not NOT forbidden by Wiki rules, the other is a pay site. The Free Questia allows several powerful features: 1) complete information on a book; 2) table of contents; 3) first page of every chapter; 4) Boolean searches in the Questia Library; 5) listings of Questia research guides to specific topics (like the American Revolution). Users doing research need this information and can get it nowhere else. This is far more free information than available anywhere else. Questia claims the largest online library (although Google may now be larger). Questia is very valuable for users. In terms of Wiki rules Questia: "provides relevant information unavailable elsewhere" and is therefore allowed by wp:el. That is Questia links to their free services do NOT violate WP:EL I have no link whatsoever to Questia and there is no question of spamming for their pay site. I am trying to provide users with valuable information they need (especially if they are trying to assemble a bibliography or getting a book through a library). Rjensen 22:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
still today....why delete that? WillC 13:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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I'm a little confused about this edit, specifically, the part where the text "In 1775 he was appointed the chief judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court." was taken out of the article text and placed inside ref tags with no other citation content. Was this intentional? -- Fru1tbat 20:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for continuting to work on this :-)
The Rhur Basin stuff was something I was NOT aware of :-)
Keep going on it :-) ShakespeareFan00 00:57, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Great links but they came out in text instead of hotlinks...can you retry? HJ 13:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
The other ones work 4.0 and worthy addition to any article. HJ 13:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
My inclination was also to remove the sentence about Douglas MacArthur from Robert Taft's article ( your edit). However, a Google search provided an apparently valid source for the info, which I instead added.
Did you check the source before your removal, and note its quote from a book by Pennsylvania State University historian Stanley Weintraub?
What associated event(s) do you believe did not happen? -- Adavidb 08:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
While not a declared presidential candidate, MacArthur did receive ballots for nomination as the Republican candidate during the 1952 United States presidential election process. -- Adavidb 09:35, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
I submit that Taft's promise/tentative decision to run with MacArthur is worthy of inclusion in Taft's article; it's already in MacArthur's, though it didn't 'happen'. -- Adavidb 14:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
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I appreciate that some of the information you have been removing is not as relevant as other parts. But it is relevant, nonetheless, and there are readers who will want to know these things. I therefore am asking you, politely, to not revert it back, or remove information from that article on that basis. This is particularly important because of the FA status - first, the article had all that information in it when it was passed as an FA (meaning that nobody saw any problem with it), and second, its FA status may be jeopardised if it is removed. I thus suggest that you formally raise the issue on the article discussion page, and go through it point by point - try to get editorial support from other contributors. This issue needs careful consideration from all concerned, rather than our unilateral decisions. I hope you will not make any such major changes to the article for the time being, and will be willing to try to get support. I don't want an edit war - I do want to prevent the article being damaged. Michaelsanders 00:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I recognized your username but for a sec there I thought it was vandalism, with so many characters cut. I agree it was wordy, but the point of that intro section was to set up the debate over having a BOR, which was in part a result of the powerful central government designed at the Philadelphia Convention. I reverted your changes, but am more than willing to hash it out at talk, so please don't be insulted by the reversion. I see where you're coming from, I just think you went farther than I would have. Thanks, Kaisershatner 03:33, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
If someone doesn't read past the intro, too bad for them. We don't have to write for the ADHD set. Gazpacho 04:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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I'm curious why you think links to book reviews should be included in external links. This seems to run contrary to both #1 of important points to remember and #15 of links normally to be avoided. I would agree on including reviews on an article about a book or an author, but not on the topic of the book. Some reviews do include a discussion of the topic, but the main focus of a review is on the book. I could see perhaps including a review on a book that was considered the authoritative source on a topic, but none of the removals you reverted seem to fall in that category. There are a significant number of books on these topics & probably a large number of reviews on each book. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 20:46, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Just a little style/etiquette note — when you combine an edit and a revert, it'd be nice to mention that you reverted vandalism too in your edit summary. I had a brief moment of "oh no! someone vandalized, and the next editor didn't notice! I can't use my simple rollback!" before I checked your edit and saw you'd done both at one go. Thanks for cleaning up the mess, though. -- John Owens | (talk) 10:18, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey I was wondering if you would form a concensus with me on the Southern talk page involving Kentucky's cultural variation section. If you can remember back on the old talk page user 70-68/Gator was ingorantly arguing that Kentucky is a boarder/Midwestern state, and now he is going against the SOuthern Focus Study's findings to incorporate his opinion in the Article. Please form this concensus with me. Louisvillian 17:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rjensen. Sorry about that dust up about the WWII industrial production table. In retrospect it all seems a little silly. I've been encountering some of your edits in other areas and usually agree with what you're trying to do and appreciate the contribution you're making.
Of course I wouldn't be writing unless I had a little problem. I'm a little concerned about this edit. You deleted a section on Ottoman treatment of POWs, but described "(small fixes; terser language)" in the edit summary. I'm sure it was just an oversight, but I would appreciate it if you were a little more careful. WWI is one of the articles I like to watch and it makes it much easier for me to keep an eye on things if edit summaries are accurate.
Anyway good luck with your editing and I look forward to collaborating with you in the future. Haber 01:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm feeling a little miffed about your removal of my edit to the Cold War page. I posted a suggestion about what I was about to do on the Talk page and received no comments for 5 months. I went ahead and added Shapiro's theories with the appropriate citation. You may not agree with Shapiro (and, I admit, his theories aren't popular or common). However, his book is masterly in its scope and directly cites numerous historians (e.g., Ambrose, Gaddis, Paterson) and politicians (Harriman, Stalin and Truman themselves) for the source of 80-90% of his material. In addition, this book is cited by Gore Vidal as a critical source of 20th century history. I strongly recommend that you find or offer some way to edit or improve this material rather than unilaterally removing it. 99th Percentile 16:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you have removed Lincoln's actions in Maryland from the Confederate States of America article, the reason being "Maryland traitors can thank Lincoln for not being hung". This is blatantly POV and please refrain from doing so. Thanks! Wooyi 23:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for removing the link to the Paris treaty from George Washington's Presidency. It was obviously put there in good faith, and I'm too much of a newbie to trust my judgment to simply remove it (I raise the question in the talk page). Fordsfords 00:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Rjensen. I have some questions about your edits (from last year) to this article; see Talk:Annexation Bill of 1866. Regards, -- Saforrest 21:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Your reversion to William Howard Taft re-inserted some vandalism! I've tidied up after you, for no extra charge! Best wishes, Bencherlite 21:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Professor Jensen,
It is not my personal intention to modify the Rhodes quote. My intention is to mark it clearly and distinctly as a quote from Rhodes, both as a service to Rhodes and to incautious readers.
My motivation arises from the experiences of a first time reader of the article — coming in cold, as it were. I was struck with the queasy feeling that some middle chunk of the article came from a distinct author writing under nineteenth century conventions. Glancing up, I belatedly saw the advisory about material being drawn from James Ford Rhodes. Still, it was not clear to me where the excerpted passage began or ended. Indeed, later investigations of article histories showed me that the marker is misplaced, grouping three paragraphs composed by various contemporary editors with the material you provided from Rhodes, with no other clear dividing line. Such uncertainty is a disservice to readers, in that they are given an incorrect impression of who is writing what, and to Rhodes, in that his contribution to the article is blurred with works of others. Properly blocking the quote off in a box, as I illustrated on the talk page, puts that ambiguity to rest, both to the benefit of Rhodes and the readers. To my mind, the application of this graphic device works to the advantage of a goal you hold dear: presenting a "standard scholarly source" clearly and without ambiguity. The device sets off the passage of text as originating from a scholar in the field, and is not possibly the writing of a contemporary wikipedia editor. At present, testifying as someone who has just read the article cold, it is not abundantly clear where the Rhodes text begins and where it ends. I cannot imagine that you would find such uncertainty a source of comfort either.
You well and truly observe that the use of Rhodes in this article is akin to Wikipedia's frequent use of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica; such material lend weight in discussions where editors might otherwise quote from memory or some web blog. In granting you that, I also note certain guidelines surrounding the use of material that from that edition, documented in the Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica guideline for editors. First off, this guideline advises us to mark extensive excerpts from the 1911 EB with the {{ 1911}} tag. This automatically inserts
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
at the bottom of the article and places it in the Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Such pain in marking work from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is precisely in the spirit of my proposal: demark the passage as coming from James Ford Rhodes, citing his name, the source of his writing, and his publisher. The reader may then disagree with Rhodes, or find his prose antique, but he or she is in no doubt from where the words are coming from.
It is possible you may have been alarmed by my closing remark about (eventually) retiring the excerpt with a paraphrase, and thought, perhaps, that I would undertake that ambition next week. I grant you, that would be a hard row to hoe, given your (very correct!) observations concerning the passions some editors bring to this article. I plan not to undertake that particular adventure even though I recommend it, for reasons stated. No, I only intend to demark Rhodes as Rhodes, and nothing further, for reasons also just stated. I do believe that someone should, however, undertake a careful paraphrase because many of the cautionaries presented in the 1911 guidelines are also true for Rhodes: old references reflect old style of wording and attitudes that are no longer current, and some readers react to that rather than to the the underlying content.
Be good, be well; reply here or on my talk page if you care to. Gosgood 21:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
in my Social Studies textbook-a reliable source, in which-even if "Remini" is credible, that doesnt mean its right (or my textbook). by leaving it as a range of the lowest number (seven in my textbook, to twenty, you will be stating correct information (13 is in-between this range), and leaving the thought of the reader, unchanged. By using this range, a large number of historians can agree on it, rather than dispute the number they think it to be---Number2two2
P.S.: please take this into consideration.
1. The addition you made long ago to
Panic of 1837 has finally been erased:
[1]. I have mixed feelings about this: on the one hand, it had some valuable information, but on the other hand, its tone was quite inappropriate for here. Perhaps we can eventually work in some of the data it presented.
2. I recently enlarged
John William McCormack from his obituary. Overall, I think the article is improved, but in some parts the tone may be a little informal. I think it would benefit from proofreading by someone else, like, if you wish, yourself.
Biruitorul 02:34, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Fulltext in SwetsWise; Abstract: Introduces a theory to explain who will most likely support a challenge to an incumbent speaker of the House of Representatives and tests this theory for one such challenge in particular, that against Speaker John McCormack in 1969, using newly obtained archival data related to the contest. The results suggest that legislators are most likely to support a challenge when it promises to satisfy one or more "multiple goals." The findings also reveal that membership in the same entering class in Congress plays an important and previously unacknowledged causal role in determining support for a challenge to the speaker. Rjensen 02:51, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
You know, you could actually read what I had done rather than blindly reverting to the terrible text you did. Its not what you did, it is how you did it. Please read the text of the article and see that the version you reverted to mentions the Declaratory Acts, but does so a) in a really crappy way and b) without any reference. I understand that references to primary sources are deprecated and that references to experts are preferred. I also understand the importance of this article to Wikipedia, and want to see it improved. I did the best I could by fixing some TERRIBLE text and adding a reference. If you would prefer to delete the whole section about the Declaratory Acts, I AM OK WITH THAT, so please do not misunderstand my purpose in leaving this message for you. But it is bad taste to blindly revert an edit, especially when that edit clearly improved the language of what was already in the article, and provided a reference to boot. -- Jayron32| talk| contribs 05:04, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I am inviting all recent editors of Joseph McCarthy to comment on a current dispute. Although you do not qualify, you have commented at McCarthyism and I have some experience with you as an editor - we haven't always agreed but I am looking for a broader commentary. IMO User:KarlBunker, in his stated view out of concern for WP:NPOV#Undue weight, has reverted, deleted, and selectively reinstated factually accurate sourced information that I have added. I contend he is in error. Please see the discussion at Talk:Joseph McCarthy. Thank you. Kaisershatner 17:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you removed the globalize/USA tag I added to Bimetallism, saying "the debate happened inside USA" as a comment to the edit, but you didn't respond to my rationale for adding it at Talk:Bimetallism. I've added the tag back as I think there should be some time to debate this before it is removed (you removed it the day after I put it up).-- Eloil 19:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I've made a suggestion on the primary sources talk page. Rjm at sleepers 07:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
I think we had some bad timing of edits to the above article--I had reverted to a previous revision to get the format right, and then about 25 minutes later pulled back the new text Epignosis had added, keeping that format--but less then a minute later, you reverted back to before I had fixed the format. I believe my most recent edit is preferable, and more in line with Wikipedia:Style for U.S. presidential election, yyyy. Do you agree? -- Cjohnsonmn 14:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia recommends compromise and revision of edits, not unilateral deletion. The material is referenced (see Samuel Huntington wikipedia article). I think it's well explained and doesn't confuse the reader but I'll make it even more clear. Washington was the first president but there was also another first president, too. Dereks1x 19:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Please do not engage in edit waring. I keep modifying the language as a compromise and take the other guy (johnwae or whatever the name) suggestion. Do not keep deleting it. If you have a helpful suggestion, by all means say it. I ask you then "Who was the Head of State for the US between the Articles of Confederation in 1781 and 1789?" It was the President Huntington then 10 other guys. If there's an adequate explanation, nobody is confused. Having others as the head of state before Washington does NOT make Washington an evil man!!!
I even compromised and moved it to the end under myths and misconceptions.
The Articles of Confederation is relevant because it used the term United States and the British had been effectively kicked out by then.
If you don't like it, why not suggest compromise language? Dereks1x 23:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I by no means wish to challenge the established model for Presidential Election Pages but instead would like to offer some suggestions for possible modifications to the current format up for debate amongst the contributors to Wikipedia. The easiest and hopefully the least obtrusive of these would be to include the platforms of the parties who nominated canidates in the campaign as I have tried to do in this article. I believe there inclusion within the general election section of the page, due to the platforms inclusion of major sources of debate between parties within them, is a proper location but would be willing to listen to any other suggestions for their possible location. Many of these platforms can be found posted online and can be easily linked to these articles because they were creation was for dissemination into the public domain and therefore have no copyrights to be infringed. Including the platforms written by the party at the time of the campaign will not only offer a chance to verify the information on the article but will also increase the validity ofthe article through the inclusion of a primary source. The decision is up to a vote of course but I am going to stand up and complain about the deletion of the Know-Nothing Campaign info. If a party wins a state in the electoral college or at least a significant portion of the popular vote I believe we should include the party platform to explain what these people were voting for the sake of better understanding history and the people who lived during this time period.
Respectfully Epignosis
Please engage in discussion on the talk page if you wish to continue to place contested material such as 'historians agree' - see my comment on the talk page, regards sbandrews ( t) 11:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Rather than simply deleting well-sourced text in the article, please take whatever issue you have with it to the talk page. Thanks. WLD talk| edits 09:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
For your information, the Great Depression lasted 10 years. So, obviously the economy did not recover during the New Deal. You shouldn't be removing something that is sourced and replacing it with something that is unsourced. Instantiayion 16:04, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Please do not add unhelpful and unconstructive information to Wikipedia, as you did to True variance. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. In addition, claiming to "rv vandalism" while adding new material from a copyrighted book is, itself, vandalism.
Thank you for making a report about 24.213.182.10 ( talk · contribs · block log) on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Reporting and removing vandalism is vital to the functioning of Wikipedia and all users are encouraged to revert, warn, and report vandalism. However, administrators are generally only able to block users if they have received a recent final warning (one that mentions that the user may be blocked) and they have recently vandalized after that warning was given. The reported user has not yet been blocked because it appears this has not occurred yet. If this user continues to vandalize even after their final warning, please report them to the AIV noticeboard again. Generally, final warnings are good for 48 hours on an IP address. Otherwise, we must consider them as expired because someone else may be using that address (e.g. a dialup user or someone in a school computing lab). Jesse Viviano 15:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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In reference to the Women's Army Corps article, thank you for adding information and expanding the article but cite the source of your information. -- Signaleer 13:38, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
This paragraph and the one that follows should both be sourced to the Blodgett book and the McFarland book of essays. I'm afraid I am miles away from a good academic library now. Since the 1970s, when I was a student, academic libraries in the USA have put armed guards and barriers around to keep the homeless out, including me (ha ha):
Seriously, I just don't have a student ID anymore that lets me in to find an older book that is not online. Looks like you probably do. -- Metzenberg 22:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you added quite a bit of info to Reagan's lead paragraph. THE LEAD SHOULD NOT BE THAT LONG. As I've stated on the talk page, please, please read WP:LEAD. There is too much info. Happyme22 04:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you have been a frequent contributor at several articles dealing with American History. I have been a major contributor to the article Plymouth Colony which I also nominated for featured status at WP:FAC. Several reviewers have requested that I get some other editors with similar interests to look over the article, make any changes they see fit, and make any additional comments at WP:FAC. If you could look over the article, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Jayron32| talk| contribs 16:48, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I wonder if we could shed a little more light on the decision to drop Henry A. Wallace from the ticket in 1944. Was it a decision made out of purely domestic considerations, or was there also an international dimension to it - perhaps a fear he would be too accomodating toward the Soviet Union? Thanks for any help you can offer. Biruitorul 22:45, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
It's essentially been decided to merge Democratic Party history section into the main History of the United States Democratic Party article to reduce the article's size (leaving behind a summary). I've produced a very rough chopping down of the existing prose into a draft summary, consisting of almost-but-not-quite 50 year intervals in paragraphs. Your input into polishing this rough cut draft but not really bloating the text much any further is welcome. Settler 01:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps you might be interested in this explanation of Oz as China during the Boxer Uprising of 1898-1899? As a link to my site perhaps? http://www.sexualfables.com/OzisChina.php
Hey, I want to thank you for the copyedit you gave to the article Plymouth Colony a few weeks ago. You made some good suggestions about additional sources of information. I went and got the John Demos book A Little Commonwealth based on your suggestion (I had actually read other works by Demos in Grad School; specifically Entertaining Satan, but I had not made the connection until you brought him up); I also made use of the James and Patricia Deetz's The Times of Their Lives. I have made some more extensive revisions and additions to the article, and I was wondering if you would be so kind as to look over the article again and give it some work? I have added sections on prior settlements, Social history, and economy and expanded the government section some. Your work has been very beneficial to the article, and I plan to take this to peer review soon, and would like to have your help in prepping it for that, and possibly reaching Featured status sometime down the road. Thanks again for your prior work, and thanks in advance for any help you can give in the near future! -- Jayron32| talk| contribs 05:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
The Hearst Ad from 1922... where is that from? How do we know it was from 1922? Many thanks... email lukashauser (AT) gmail.com if you can. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.86.42.195 ( talk) 17:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC).
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The infomation I added is 100% supported by the Texas Historical Society and in their publication "Texas Handbook Online." Additionally having grown up in the state. What I added is what I was taught prior to the sanitation of Texas history in Texas school textbooks, that I am guessing happened in the 1980s.
You embarrass yourself by stating what is written as fact by the Texas Historical Society, a keeper of a large selection of historical documents from Texas settlers, Mexico and the USA regarding Texas is merely unsubstantiated POV.
Where did you do your research? Where is the backup for your belief that my information is false?
What I wrote comes directly from their historically factual resources.
It is THEIR information. I only summerized. If cutting and pasting were permitted I would have done that.
What I put in is far LESS damning than the total sum of what they say.
Your own feelings and opinions are NOT valid grounds for deleting an improvement.
You need proof.
The Historical Association mentions many times the problems that arose with the settlers when Mexico tried to enforce the ban on slavery.
Eventually Mexico tried one too many times, and the settlers had it, and rebelled.
The difficulty Mexico had in putting down one rebellion (Fredonia) was all the rest of the settlers needed to press for independence, which the got a few years later.
If you find it impossible to find this information, or understand how I found it. I will be happy to find it for you, and highlight it. It is NOT opinion. It is NOT POV.
You abuse the rights of Wiki editors to attempt to dismiss what I added based on your clearly spurious opinion, based on your personal dislike of the history that is factually recorded.
What surprises me is you are quite familiar with the "The Texas Handbook Online." You use it as one of your references. Yet your article is devoid of any history regarding the origins/reasons for the settlers rebellion? Did you decide that the Texas Historical Collection was not a valid source of historical information, or maybe in your effort to write an article on the history of Texas, you didn't read theirs?
Perhaps you might want to spare a moment or two and take a gander at the fascinating "History" section, where I found all that neat stuff about what Texas independence was all about.
It is NOT a point of view, it is historical fact.
The fact that you dislike what happened historically, does not mean it's false, does not mean it's opinion.
It's reality of what happened back then. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Johnmorales@hot.rr.com ( talk • contribs) 17:47, 13 May 2007 (UTC).
I moved the annonymous essay from Redemption (United States history) to Southern opposition to Reconstruction. This text may have been WP:POV as a description the Redemption, but I certainly is a accurate description of the Southern opposition to Reconstruction. I do not see any reason to merge this with Redemption. Unless you are able to improve it, please stop the POV pushing and leave the article alone! -- Petri Krohn 23:01, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
I am interested in psychoceramics, but my familiarity with propaganda of the Reconstruction era USA is limited. Can you, please, give me a brief overview of the POVvishness of the essay in relation with the matching events on North American ideosphere on the time?
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The Mexican government working harder to send its citizens to its northern territories after the Mexican-American war is not a "folk myth." Where do you get that from? This is common knowledge to anyone who has studied Mexican history. The United States government encourage its citizens to move west through land grants and various other means. Is that a folk myth too? Griot 21:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, you taught me something new! I guess that answers the question of why there was an Economic Union Party during the referendums. - Royalguard11( Talk· Review Me!) 22:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, Rjensen, been sometime since we worked together on any article. You've helped out in the past with the American System page - much of the material was moved to the American School page leaving American System to American System (economic plan) covering Clay's program alone. Was wondering if I could have your honest perusal of the material at the American School, and any advice, help, or improvements you could offer to make the article more Wikipedia reliable. Further, your input at the Progressivism page might also be needed if your willing to help out, in the near future to format that page correctly. Thanks. -- Northmeister 01:14, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Please stop implying Walter Reuther was a Communist or a supporter of "the Stalinist Regime" in the Soviet Union. It is slander and dishonest. Walter Reuther spent his life rooting communist elements out of the UAW and was villified in the Soviet Union for his criticisms of the Communist regime. He also fought to lower the prices of automobiles, as Victor Reuther made clear in his memoir, which I cited in my edit. As for Union contracts forcing consumers to pay high automobile costs, as you have implied, I'll need some evidence. It is clear to me based on the other Wikipedia pages that you have edited that you have an agenda. That is fine, but slander and dishonest implications serve no one. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nighttrain38 ( talk • contribs) 02:46, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
My sources: "The Brothers Reuther and the story of the UAW/ a Memoir" by Victor Reuther and an artilce by Lichtenstein himself. Here is a link to the article: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/51/lichtenstein.html It doesn't matter if Walter worked closely with Communists, the same comment is true of President Ronald Reagan, what matters is the implication that he was a member of the Communist Party and a supporter of Stalin. Please read the book you have cited and you will see that no one has ever proven that he was and, if you read Lichtenstein's article that I just gave you a link to, you will see that Reuther was expelling Communists in the thirties as well as the forties. Lichtenstein also disagrees with Devinatz' assesment that Reuther was a member of the Communists in 1939. Alas, Reuther wasn't a member of the Communist party and your very source agrees. You have tried to imply otherwise and that is the point. There were also other falsities at issue that you wisely did not decide to rehash. Stick to the propaganda, facts are obviously not your forte'. Also, please define "former leftist." Walter Reuther remained committed to his ideals until his untimely death. Did you even read your own source, or were you merely copying propaganda of a far right website, please tell?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Nighttrain38 ( talk • contribs) 18:34, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
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I have a question that perhaps you as a former historian can answer. Some background: The best research on the Morgenthau plan I've found so-far is this paper: Frederick H. Gareau "Morgenthau's Plan for Industrial Disarmament in Germany" The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jun., 1961), pp. 517–534 Here Gareau explains how the plan was longterm policy, it won the day at the Potsdam conference thanks to the political bent of the U.S. delegation, and then gradually was watered out, although its effects lasted well into the 50's.
There were two main turning points, one was the September 1946 speech which most reputable historians have rightly labeled as the primary turning point, see also John Gimbel "On the Implementation of the Potsdam Agreement: An Essay on U.S. Postwar German Policy" Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 2. (Jun., 1972), pp. 242-269.
The second main turning point was Hoovers March 1947 report where he candidly stated "There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations can be reduced to a 'pastoral state'. It can not be done unless we exterminate or move 25,000,000 people out of it.", as for example used here. This report in a convoluted way led to the occupation directive being rescinded.
I found this paper, released in 2006 on the UK government secret discussions from 21 October 1946, where they pretty much prove that the historians who saw the Byrnes speech as one of the pivotal point were right. I.e. "b) U.S. policy was pastoralising (Morgenthan) until Stuttgart speech. They supported R. & Fr. case - to point of reducing steel prodn to 5.8 m. tons. And during Loan talks, cdn´t oppose them too strongly." "...They forced us to 5.8 m. - but all experience has shown we were right on APW Cttee in our figure of 11 m. " "Before this was completed I had seen Byrnes (before Stuttgart speech) & asked wtr. this meant he wd. overthrow Morgenthau policy. He said yes - with Truman´s authy."
What buggs me is that I would like to know more about the "And during Loan talks, cdn´t oppose them too strongly." Which loans was it that the U.S. so strongly opposed? Any ideas on this? i presume they were some sort of reconstruction loans for Germany that the Morgenthauers in the U.S. administration wanted no part of? Regards-- Stor stark7 Talk 22:51, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
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I seem to remember that you had a role in creating the list at History of Illinois#Famous Illinois People which formed the basis of List of people from Illinois. I was trying to de-redlink some of them, but I haven't found much information on William Kohlsaat, newspapers or Benjamin Rusk, medicine. Could you elaborate on the "newspapers" and "medicine" descriptions for those to help narrow down their role in the History of Illinois? People don't like to see redlinks in those lists because anons like to add themselves or other non-notables to them. Could you please clarify those two before they are deleted again? I'd like to keep them if they are notable since the list seems to be trending towards recent musicians and actors. Thanks. -- Dual Freq ( talk) 03:20, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
HI; I JUST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF SOME HOW I CAN GET A COPY OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE NEWS PAPER DATED TUESDAY APRIL 16/1912 AND IF SO FOR HOW MUCH ETC.ETC. ALSO,IF BY ANY CHANCE YOU CAN RPOVIDE ME WITH ANY INFORMATION ON HOW TO GET A COPY OF THE BOSTON POST DATE;THURSDAY APRIL 19/1906,THE EVENING STAR,APRIL 12/1945 AND THE HERALD CHICAGO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6/1933. I REALLY APRECIATE VEERY MUCH ANY INFORMATION YOU CAN PROVIDE ME WITH REGARDLESS TO THIS INQUIER SINCE I DON'T KNOW WHERE ELSE TO GO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN ADVANCE.
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I've requested a reassessment of the good article status of the Milton Friedman article based on lack of neutrality, and have added a POV tag to the article. Please join the discussion, if you are interested. Thanks. Jdstany ( talk) 03:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
In regard to the intro on this article. First of all, the fact that the desertion rate was the highest in U.S. history for a foreign war is actually just that, a fact. It is statistically accurate and it really isnt any editor on wikipedias place to make arbitrary assessments based on numbers for other wars. Also I'd like to point out that the figure of up to 4,000 U.S. military defectors is in the reference given(I think I made that clearer in my latest edit). ʄ!• ¿talk? 03:14, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
Rjensen, seriously. If you want to talk about POV there is only one person pushing one here — you(a misguided pro-american one). It's a very well etablished fact, and whats more you are even trying to say I am being misleading about something I have actually included in my edits! I made it clear it was a figure for foreign wars, not including civil wars, etc. And whats more it is high, the highest ever in fact, that's why its notable enough to be included in the intro. As for giving you the "exact quote", that would be an infringment of copyright. I can easily find other idential references. There are a million other things to edit war over, don't do it over known and easily verifiable facts. ʄ!• ¿talk? 05:49, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello--I appreciate your tweaking the Milton Friedman lead. I was really just giving that as an example, not meaning to put too much weight on the one sentence. In any case, I think your tweak still leaves the wrong impression. Much of what Friedman supported is still considered radical (legalizing recreational drugs, eliminating the FDA...), and recognizing that kind of thing is what's missing from the article.
It's not a big deal to me right now, if I find a good source I'll likely implement such a change myself. I was just trying to clarify why the article could be considered to have an overall POV problem. CRETOG8( t/ c) 05:10, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
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