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Morris Hillquit
Happy new year, and thanks for all of your work on Morris Hillquit. As you can see from Talk:Morris Hillquit, I think this biography was long overdue for a revision, and in fact I unsuccessfully canvassed several socialists of various tendencies for help on something I felt unqualified to tackle, at least before reborrowing and rereading Loose Leaves (which I last used for my senior high-school history paper in 1966).

Regardless of one's opinion of Hillquit's opinions and activities, he occupied an absolutely pivotal linking position in the Socialist Party's history, from being an SLP stalwart and key rebel against De Leon, to being an icon of the 1920's to 1930's "Old Guard" that was challenged by not only the Communists, but by Norman Thomas, the Militants and the Clarity faction. And between 1901 and 1934, it's impossible to write anything about the Socialist Party without acknowledging Hillquit's position. If there's any way I can help or collaborate, please don't hesitate to drop a note on my talk page. Best wishes for the new year —— Shakescene (talk) 00:08, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

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SP of A
I know that SPA is sometimes used for the SP (especially in arcane academic contexts, like references to the Duke University collection), but it can mean many things and has always looked a little strange to me (although not positively wrong like "BLP" for "British Labor Party"). I think that S.P. of A., like A.F. of L. and U.S. of A., was just as common a usage at the time (if not more so), though it might look strange to modern eyes.

However, S.P. (or SP) has always, I think, been the most common abbreviation used among members and readers of the party press, so maybe we could just use that in the article. Some may say that risks confusion with the post-1972 SPUSA; but on the other hand "SP" applies equally well to the SP of A, the SP-SDF, the SP-DSF and the pre-1973 "SPUSA", which were all fundamentally the same organization.

Perhaps I could raise this question of most-common abbreviations at the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SPHistory SPHistory Yahoo! Group].

All the best. —— Shakescene (talk) 22:08, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Multiple use of a single inline citation
Hi. I just made some reformatting edits to the article you recently posted and I thought you might get some use out of this guide decribing how to display secondary uses in an article of a single inline citation. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:25, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

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Second et seq. Internationals
I see—in editing the international line (previously inexplicably "N/A") in the SP of A's Infobox—that the Leninist enthusiasts seem to have seen the socialist internationals in about the same way they have the Socialist Party of America, as a primitive, unperfected prelude to World Socialist Revolution. The Second International page refers to the ephemeral Two-and-a-half (International Working Union of Socialist Parties), which would be of passing interest to all but of much greater interest to Trotskyists, while it gives the much bigger Labour and Socialist International a pass. The latter is just a redirect to the Socialist International, whose own history section doesn't reach back much before its own foundings in 1951. So someone with the interest or knowledge could certainly do some good to Wikipedia, Wikipedia's readers and NPOV by giving the Labour & Socialist International of Léon Blum and Norman Thomas (ineffective though it often was) its just due. (And since you're the expert, please feel free to balance my post-1920 additions to the SP's intro with anything you think useful from Debs' era.) Happy New Year. —— Shakescene (talk) 10:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Victor Berger
Thanks for your contributions to the Victor Berger article. Please don't move his picture in the lead section to the left or add extraneous line breaks because they're not WP style. As long as you're working on this now, could you add an explanation as to why he was indicted? The way it currently reads, it sounds like he was indicted simply for being a Socialist, and while that may be the actual reason, a description of the legal charges brought against him would be helpful. Thanks again for your helpful additions to the article. -- Sift &amp;  Winnow  16:59, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

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Jānis Bērziņš
Hi, in relation to Jānis Bērziņš (military), which you expanded back in January here. Whilst the expansion is welcome, you have unfortunately expanded the wrong person. I am currently working on Russia's ambassadors to Austria, and the person you have included information on is not Yan Karlovich Berzin, but Yan Antonovich Berzin - his bio can be found here. Is there any chance you can split out the information relating to the latter Berzin and place it at Jānis Bērziņš (diplomat)? Cheers, --Russavia Dialogue 02:41, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Another source (in Russian) on the diplomat is here. --Russavia Dialogue 03:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

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Campbell Case
I note you're expanding this - I recently finished a massive rewrite (70kb-odd) of our article on Patrick Hastings, and have the Campbell Case on my list of things to do. Would you be interested in a collaboration at some point? Ironholds (talk) 21:38, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The Zinoviev letter is another I planned to work on out of a general association with the people I write about (Norman Birkett); I'll take a look at that as well. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 18:32, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The only legal expertise is my background as a law student and fanatic, I'm afraid :P. Seriously though, I've tried to find sourcing for that act, and I can't even find a copy of the original act. Ironholds (talk) 22:41, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

New York Communist -- common misspelling in New York Communist
Hi Carrite! The New York Communist article that you recently wrote lists the following title in the Vol. 1, No. 7 — May 31, 1919 edition:
 * "The Geneology of Right-Wingism" (John Everett).

Can you check to see if that Geneology / Genealogy is a typo on your part or was it misspelled in the publication? Thanks. -- ToET 06:47, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Geneology is how it is spelled in publication. Carrite (talk) 02:58, 10 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you for checking. I don't feel the need for a "[sic]" added to the text but perhaps it would be worth adding a "  " to the source in case the question arises in the future. -- ToET 03:42, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

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Rakovsky
Thank you. I'm honored that you approve of it. Dahn (talk) 03:48, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

MOPR?
Hi. I saw your edit on the IRA article. I'm not sure whether MOPR was the Russian name of the IRA, my understanding had been that it was the name of the Soviet section of the IRA. --Soman (talk) 06:38, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * ===MOPR v. MezhRabPom===


 * Hi. MOPR was Russian acronym of the Comintern's Legal Defense organization (International Organization for Aid to Revolutionaries), commonly known in English as International Red Aid (IRA). The organization you ask about, Workers International Relief (WIR) was started as a Comintern arm to channel famine aid to Soviet Russia in 1921 and later became a humanitarian aid organization elsewhere (as well as a propaganda arm, under which the Friends of Soviet Russia was encompassed). The Russian acronym of this was MezhRabPom (International Workers Aid). The former started in 1922, the latter in the fall of 1921. Confusing, I know, I finally figured it out for myself very recently. Hope this helps. Carrite (talk) 18:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Fellow traveler
Hi - That's fine to take down the POV banner. I think what had gotten to me were so few references and the reliance on Hoover. The talk page discussion makes sense, and other people have worked on it. As you said, it still needs more cites. Thanks for checking and sorry for the delay.--Parkwells (talk) 02:06, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Redlinks at NYC Mayoral Elections
Hi, I've already put in red links for all those guys (except perhaps Sanial) at the main tables for each election. No need at present to create new ones, which will just confuse readers. Fraternally, —— Shakescene (talk) 22:26, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Date formats
Regarding your date format changes on Jacob Panken, can you explain your reasoning? There is an ongoing debate about this, I realize, but the current discussion is running about 2:1 against changing that formatting (see Mosnum/proposal on YYYY-MM-DD numerical dates). Frank |  talk  20:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

More on Panken...
...FYI, I've submitted a DYK nom for Jacob Panken. Frank |  talk  14:26, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Ruthenburg
In order to avoid a possible edit war, i just like to clarify some things about the Charles Ruthenberg page: Ruthenberg, Communist fighter and leader was a brief pamphlet of about 18 pages published by Workers Library Publishers in 1927. Lovestones biographical introduction takes up about the first 10 pages, followed by brief excerpts from Ruthenburgs writings.



Voices of Revolt: Charles E. Ruthenberg was a full book of over 100 p. that was published in 1928 by International Publishers and contained complete examples of Ruthenburgs writings. We still friends? --Dudeman5685 (talk) 18:59, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

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Good edits
Seeing that you are interested in socialism, communism and other left-wing groups in the US, i'd advice you to join the WikiProject Socialism, which is a newly founded project. Its just a suggestion, but seeing that you have written a bunch of well-written socialist related articles, i felt i should mention it to you. --TIAYN (talk) 23:03, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Just a question, being that you have uploaded many images of socialists here on Wikipedia, i'm wondering if you have any images of American socialist, Frank P. Zeidler? --TIAYN (talk) 18:46, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Hehe, i never new wikipedia had this problem. Thanks for your help on this issue ;P --TIAYN (talk) 18:58, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --TIAYN (talk) 19:16, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I know, i've already asked you favour, but i'm working and looking through all my sources and i've only found two socialist mayors. To clear things up, i'm been working on the List of elected socialist mayors in the United States, and i'm having a hard time finding any information and/or names of SPA mayors in the US... Can you help with this? if not, i understand. --TIAYN (talk) 21:53, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Just noticed your comment, and i hope you'll find more socialist mayors, i found information about some lesser known mayors through the Google News archive. Thanks for you helping me. --TIAYN (talk) 22:40, 5 February 2010 (UTC)