User talk:Bletch

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need your help on two RFCs
Please visit these pages and post a comment in support with an example of how this is true. Thanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/User:Gamaliel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/User:Robert_McClenon 24.147.97.230 17:19, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Unicode
You accidentically deleted the Wikilinks to the alphabbets with your last edit. Are you still working on the article? If I see no update from you in the next 15 minutes, I'll clean up. Pjacobi 15:34, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * No permanent damage done. Everything is safe in the article history. But I have a question: Didn't you see that you were overwriting a newer version? There is some speculation, that for unknown reasons some users don't see the newest version and consequently tend to overwrite information in the articles. -- Pjacobi 19:55, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * I definitely didn't see the new version, but I am not sure if it Wiki's fault of a simple oversight on my part. It does seem weird that it doesn't look out for "Mid air colisions" the way that Bugzilla does though... Bletch 20:03, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * It does. That's the weird thing. You should get an edit conflict warning. I try to report to the developers, perhaps you can become tester for this defect, if we can reproduce it. -- Pjacobi 20:15, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Boston and NYC meetups
Hey Bletch,

There's a meetup in New York this Saturday, and another in Boston the following week. I hope you can make it to one of them. +sj + 00:24, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * There is a meetup in NYC scheduled for Sunday, December 12 as well. (same link)   – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)   23:29, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Abimael Guzmán
Hi, I noticed your name in the talk page of Abimael Guzmán in the discussion about the photo. I have just replaced it with a decent portrait of him; I agree that the "jailbird" image was pure gov. propaganda. I hope you will agree with this and some other edits I just made to the article. On a more general note, there seem to be several POV warriors haunting these pages (cf, Shining Path and others). Any help in maintaining editorial equilibrium would be most appreciated. All the best, -- Viajero 20:50, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi again, just a quick comment: I had integrated the location where he was incarcerated higher up in the text; I guess you didn't notice in the diff. -- Viajero 09:00, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Falklands
Hi Bletch, I reverted your edit of Lyndon LaRouche, as the Falklands-Malvinas was agreed as a neutral term for the war. It gets about 12,000 hits on Google, though some of those may be Wikipedia's mirror sites, but a lot seem not to be. Hope that's okay. SlimVirgin 23:05, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

Punctuation
Hello! Regarding your change, I must confess that I am confused. I have always assumed that the logical view on brackets should be that the sentence should remain grammatically correct when the bracketed expression is removed. That would mean that periods go within the brackets if and only if the sentences they terminate were also opened within the brackets. This is also the rule in my native tongue (which is Swedish). Now, seeing that you are a native English speaker I can only assume that you are correct and that the rules for this in English are less natural than I had thought. You don't happen to have a style guide for matters like these to point me to so I can learn more about a part of your language of which I have obviously been ignorant? Regards, Jao 17:19, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

Caps
Champagne should be in caps I think - it is a place name.
 * sorry, yes you are right, as the article is split by place vs drink. I do wish the initial caps thing on article names wasnt there - I just noticed I have accidentally capitalised lots of grape names by mistake (as have lots of other people...). Justinc 23:53, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

iraq election quoting not required
The sentence is already caveated at the beginning by stating "They claim..." so it should be clear the source itself is claiming that for the iraq elections to have meaning the U.S. should not be orchestrating the process. Adding quotes there, as you did, only creates confusion. The entire article is a summary of the official position on the iraqi elections, so why should criticisms require "quotations"? zen master   T  13:05, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda
Could you please vote on the proposed move Links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda &rarr; Alleged links between pre-invasion Iraq and Al-Qaeda? The vote is here. Thanks. ObsidianOrder 17:08, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

RfA
Thanks for supporting my adminship. Cheers, -Willmcw 05:26, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

William Westmoreland quote
Hi- I see you moved William Westmoreland's quote to wikiquote. I think it is fine to have quotes there, but I don't think that a single one-sentence quote on the wikipedia page clutters up the article. If we were talking about multiple quotes or a paragraph or more, that would be one thing, but I think this short quote says a lot about the man and should stay on his main article page.--Rogerd 17:42, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Gamaliel
Gamaliel has threatend a revert war on Joe Scarborough. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gamaliel#Joe_Scarbourough 67.18.109.218 18:06, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Hollywood accounting
Hey, remember that discussion you participated in, on the talk page for Forrest Gump, about how Winston Groom didn't get his fair share of the money? You described it as "one of those reverse-Enron situations where the accountants do tricks to make the movie have close to zero profit", and said you'd create an article if you knew what to call it. It's called Hollywood accounting, and do you want to help polish it up? DS 01:45, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Awp!
Yes. I did do that, and that was a screw up on my part. I had meant to restore your incident notice, but I had forgotten to. What you were supposed to do is copy and paste the template (User, article, difftimes, etc) ABOVE the first line. Not sure exactly what you did, but the template got destroyed.

I do apologize for not restoring or atleast notifying you. That was a major mistake on my part. My only excuse is stress and lack of sleep ^_^;;;

--Tznkai 15:18, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I have restored it now 2 days on Administrators' noticeboard/3RR, and he has been blocked. Can't see what the problem was, SqueakBox 03:01, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Johnny Barnes
I'm sorry I didn't respond to your message on Johnny Barnes, I thought you had gone ahead and changed the stub, since I was clearly wrong.--Carabinieri 13:43, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Thought you...
Thought you might want to see this:
 * Flying Humanoids
 * There is a Aztec or Mayan pix of these things, and people have shot videotape of these things.
 * To see this videotape link, see this link:Click on the RED videotape link Warning, this videotape may have language issues. Martial Law 23:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Corrected a bad link. Martial Law 23:41, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Flying humanoids
I know you probably meant well but in this edit you removed the AfD notice, which is not supposed to be removed until the deletion process is finished. --Cyde Weys votetalk 23:57, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Third World vote
Hi Bletch! I saw that you voted for the inclusion of Southeastern Europe as "Maybe" on a Third World map, while you voted "No" for so-called Eastern Europe (including the former Soviet Republics of Europe). I'm curious to know why you consider the Southeastern European countries as "maybe Third World", and the other countries, particularly Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, as definitely not Third World. I'm not trying to get you to change your vote or anything, and definitely not asking for any justification, I'm just curious about people's perceptions of Southeastern Europe in particular, and post-Communist Europe in general. Thanks, Ronline ✉ 11:29, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Warning
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. --Scott Grayban 14:40, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Cuba
I see that you have been edit warring with User:Comandante. Instead of edit-warring, please use the talk page of the article. If you continue to revert the article for any reason other than to remove vandalism, you will be blocked for violation of the 3RR rule.--Shanel 14:48, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

RfC help and Civil Commitment
Need your help/support on RfC on Adam here and would like to get the info on civil commitment in the Human rights in the United States article. Civil Commitment certainly violates rights even if it meant in good faith to prevent more crimes. It affects the ones that wouldn't. --Scott Grayban 12:48, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

*** Important - Your input requested ASAP ***
Please see this Deletion review.

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Cuba
I saw your edits there and I think you are doing a good job. That article seems to attract trouble. Keep up the good work. 09:17, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Jim Shapiro
Please see Articles for deletion/Jim Shapiro and AN. Tyrenius 08:12, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

There's always waybackmachine. Old web articles can be referenced, if you have exact URL and date accessed. They would have to be acceptable ones though. Tyrenius 11:32, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Perhaps, but I for one don't know of any articles that fully convey the audacity and (local) ubiquitousness of his advertising practices or his cult following, other than this one . I'd love to be wrong on this one. --Bletch 11:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I have replaced the AFD notice on the article, seeing as the discussion is ongoing. Kevin 14:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Re. commentators. They can be referred to and quoted directly, provided it can be verified from a reliable source, which a newspaper would be, or a known individual on the internet, but not just an unknown blogger. Tyrenius 15:11, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

It's entirely up to you what you do. It was deleted as SPEEDY A6 attack page, namely: You can accept that, or, if not, your option is at Undeletion policy], namely to request a Deletion review. This should not be taken as any comment by me on the deletion itself, but is just to acquaint you with procedures. Tyrenius 18:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Attack pages. Articles that serve no purpose but to disparage their subject or some other entity (e.g., "John Citizen is a moron").  This includes a biography of a living person that is negative in tone and unsourced, where there is no NPOV version in the history to revert to.

I'm sure there's far more productive things to get on with. Doubtless in future you'll be nailing those references in! Tyrenius 22:35, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Obviously I spoke too soon! By the way, I tried to send you an email when the RfA first appeared to tell you about it, and you weren't on wiki, but you don't seem to have that option enabled? Tyrenius 03:11, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Main Sources
Old files of Shapiro’s web site

Here’s a sample page:

Promotional site making claims for Shapiro + give him a ring + more background & nice things 

Legal Ethics Resources on the Web, prepared by Brad Wendel, Associate Professor of Law, Cornell University School of Law – includes Shapiro

Litigation online – Canadian Medical Association 

Shapiro in Motor magazine, 2002

From Buffalo News NY 2006 – restrictions on advertising, mentions Shapiro 

Brand Week 1999 – “a one-second TV spot that gained him national media attention” 

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – good stories, but you have to pay =

The Daily Orange – S.O.B. Lawyer validates his title (+ Robert Williams quote) 

Overlawyered   

Lawyer Ads get loud on prairielaw.com

Shapiro’s books
“Sue the Bastards” – book by Shapiro 

Chapter 1 of “Million Dollar Lungs” book by Shapiro 

Shapiro in web culture
(Blogs show people still talk about him)

Song about Shapiro! 

Poem mentions Shapiro

A poet mentions Shapiro

Syracuse uni student – people who have influenced me – Shapiro 

A blog: “(The mind reels that Wikipedia has an entry on Jim "The Hammer" Shapiro. Wikipedia knows all.)”

Blog on Shapiro

Shapiro mentioned on Rochester designer web site

Someone fakes Shapiro on friendster – Rochester City News 

Jim the Hammer Shapiro (fake page shut down as can be seen in Friends section) on MySpace.com – again showing his continuing appeal 

“Who I’d like to meet section” for Kirsten on MySpace – Jim the Hammer Shapiro (only in cached version)

Associated Press story
Below from www.nylawyer.com story credited to The Associated Press (renowned international news agency). NB you can get the story by registering free on this site and searching for the title) ‘’’NY Lawyer Known for Ads Suspended’’’ New York Lawyer May 3, 2004 By The Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Attorney James "Jim the Hammer" Shapiro, known for his television advertising, has been suspended from practicing law in New York state for a year. The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court said Shapiro's commercials were misleading and he impermissibly tried to solicit business from a comatose accident victim. The suspension resulted from a petition by the Grievance Committee of the 7th Judicial District. Shapiro said from his Florida home that the ruling is "unfair and unconstitutional" but has little effect. He sold his Rochester-based law firm six months ago, he said. The court faulted Shapiro's ads that said he will take certain actions on behalf of clients "when, in fact, respondent has not practiced law in a number of years and intended to take no action on behalf of any client." Shapiro said clients who responded to his ads were told up front that he wouldn't be representing them personally. He said the letter to the comatose woman told her to call for information only when she was better.

Use or delete as you wish. Tyrenius 06:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

DRV
Bletch, I noticed your vote on the Jim Shapiro DRV was moved to the subpage. You might want to replace it onto the main page so that it gets counted. Powers 12:22, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Eastern world
Hi, thanks for the message. I really have no idea what happened there. I remember nothing. Must be the drink. Paul B 21:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

SmartGenealogy appears to be freeware, but not free software
Bletch, you are right I saw freeware and equated it with well free! Gioto 01:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Albigensian Crusade
I'm contacting you out of courtesy as you have contributed to the page and may wish to supply your own citations. If you feel this doesn't matter to you, please ignore it. This page was rated as a Good Article, but has been downgraded because nobody did the donkeywork of listing the attributions to the various statements provided, which is after all a fairly serious dereliction of duty in what's suppoed to be a historical record. Having discussed the withdrawal of GA with LuciferMorgan, I give notice that I am sitting down with the three classic original source texts (Puylaurens, Vaux-de-Cernay and de Tudèle - the last in the Livre de Poche edition as the Martin-Chabot is long out of print) to add the missing inline citations to this page. I do not intend at this point to make any textual alterations, but if comments are made which are NOT justified, be prepared to state your sources now. Jel 20:39, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Robby Todino
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AfD
Please see: Articles for deletion/Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 (2nd nomination), which you contributed to. Steve Dufour (talk) 03:13, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Nomination of James Chanos for deletion
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Deletion discussion about Park Sang-hak
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I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Park Sang-hak should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Park Sang-hak.

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Thanks, Travelbird (talk) 04:17, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Peter Coffee for deletion
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Nomination of Pizzeria Napoli (Baghdad) for deletion
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Proposed deletion of Glock 3


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Left-wing terrorism
Hi, I've listed Left-Wing terrorism in Articles for Deletion. You were involved previously when it was discussed and you may be interested. AlanStalk 09:08, 29 July 2023 (UTC)