User talk:Guettarda/Archive5

BC/AD
I'd like to explore your argument that BC/AD is POV here in user space where there's not as much noise. I disagree with your claim, but I'm interested in a rational debate about it, and maybe you can convince me (or I can convince you). At the very least, we can come up with things for you and/or me to muse over. Let me know if you're not interested in discussing this here, but if you are, feel free to respond either here or on my talk page, whichever suits you best.

You continue to state unequivocally that BC/AD asserts the deity of Jesus, yet faced with the parallel problem in Thursday, you say that Thursday is not a problem because few, if any, people worship Thor. It seems to me that you're effectively suggesting that BC/AD would be sufficiently NPOV if very few people believed in Jesus. Is that a reasonable conclusion to draw from your argument? Alanyst 06:34, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I think the dilution argument is precisely where I'm coming from. I don't think anyone seriously argues that "Before Christ" and "Anno Domini" express no POV, but since the initialisms "BC" and "AD" have been used so extensively in so many contexts without reference to their expansions, they no longer mean what they originally stood for. In essence, they have become new words: "beesee" and "ehdee". Their modern meaning is nothing more than "before the start of the current era" and "after the start of the current era"&mdash;not what the letters stand for, to be sure, but what they now mean.

It is difficult to provide evidence for (or against!) my argument that the meaning of BC/AD has changed enough to dilute the original POV such that BC/AD is acceptable for Wikipedia's NPOV policy. I guess I would cite as evidence the fact that BC/AD is so widely used that, statistically speaking, among those who comfortably use the term are probably millions of people who do not espouse a Christian POV. So your conclusion as a child that "non-Christians can't use that term" was naïve (no offense intended) because you did not recognize that the original meaning, which you had just learned, could be diluted by time and by the diversity of those who use it&mdash;in other words, you thought the original meaning was necessarily the current meaning, which is a very forgivable yet mistaken conclusion for a ten-year-old to draw. Since many non-Christians comfortably use the term in an identical manner to how Christians use the term, one cannot tell whether a particular usage of BC/AD is, by itself, expressing a Christian POV or not; the context in which it is used must be known to gauge whether it lends to a POV or not. (On the other hand, if I saw someone write "500 years before Christ" or "Anno Domini 300" then I could more readily conclude that a Christian POV is being expressed, since non-Christians are much less likely to express dates in this manner, and the trouble taken to go beyond the common abbreviations is indicative that the author is trying to make a rhetorical point beyond the mere expression of the date.) So, writing "500 BC" in Wikipedia cannot reasonably convey an endorsement of the Christian POV by itself or in an otherwise neutral context. But in contexts where use of BC/AD would be unusual, its appearance would in fact be indicative of POV. Does this make sense, or do you see problems with this argument? Alanyst 15:44, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You said: ''As I see it, POV or NPOV is not a function of the intention of the writer, but in the possible interpretations of the readers...What the writer meant to say is irrelevant. What the writer said is all that matters...Majoritarian POV (like BC/AD) would only work if we circumscribe our audience.''

I'm somewhat persuaded by this reasoning, although I'm not entirely satisfied. Let's suppose for the sake of argument that the author's intentions don't matter; only the readers' interpretations are of concern. Under that assumption, consider the problem of "Thursday". (I don't mean to keep harping on this example but I haven't really been satisfied with past attempts at refuting it.) Almost nobody considers that "Thursday" is POV&mdash;but, if the Thursday article is to be believed, some Quakers do in fact eschew the term because they feel it communicates a pagan POV. Let's compare the possible interpretations of BC/AD and Thursday: Now, under what principle do we allow "Thursday" in Wikipedia, despite knowing that a Quaker might find an unacceptable POV in that term, but ban "BC" and "AD" from Wikipedia because some people find an unacceptable POV in those terms? In other words, what are the criteria for establishing that a particular term carries an unacceptable POV? Because the mere fact that someone can find an offensive POV in a particular term doesn't seem to be sufficient. Does it matter how many people may or may not subscribe to a particular interpretation? Alanyst 15:43, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * BC/AD interpretations
 * Original meaning unknown; "BC" and "AD" are simply letters that tell us the era.
 * Original meaning known but most modern uses of "BC" and "AD" do not convey that meaning.
 * Original meaning known and most modern uses of "BC" and "AD" convey that meaning.
 * Thursday interpretations
 * Original meaning unknown; "Thursday" is simply the name of a day of the week.
 * Original meaning known but most modern uses of "Thursday" do not convey that meaning.
 * Original meaning known and most modern uses of "Thursday" convey that meaning.

SEPP
For information about participants in SEPP, you might try asking SEPP. There is an infrequently updated list of participants. The Virginia State Corporation Commission Clerk lists several officers/directors: CORPORATE ID: 	0400828		              CURRENT AR# 204-69-1330 DATE 09/24/04 CORP NAME: 	SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT, THE STREET: 1600 S EADS ST                STE 712 S         CITY:  ARLINTON                 STATE:  VA  ZIP:  22202 S C                                               DIR REQUIRED: N  E  A             OFFICERS/DIRECTORS DISPLAY FOR AR#  204-69-1330 L T              NAME                                   TITLE         SIGN B  S F SINGER                                       PRESIDENT D  MARK BRANDSDORFER                                DIRECTOR D  CHARLES GELMAN                                   DIRECTOR D  FREDRICK SEITZ                                   DIRECTOR

(SEWilco 08:11, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC))

Sorry to hear about this
I'm sorry to hear about your disillusionment with Wikipedia. I think you are a valuable contributor, I would rather have you around. On the other hand, it isn't important enough in the grand scheme of things that is should cost you that much stress. Wish you all the best, whatever path you take. Guettarda 16:59, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I dont enjoy leaving wikipedia but users keep harrasing me. Their edits concentrate on reverting my edits only. No one so far have taken the mesures to stop this.
 * When I give govermental data thats pov because "governments have been known to lie" some sane looking reverts dont quite have a basis. They are an expert on any and every issue I write.
 * If they could make Star Trek POV they would. Which is the only thing they havent interfered.
 * Even for articles I wrote such as Ranks and insignia of NATO Armies was bad . I was "abusing" templates. I can go on forever.
 * In sum its pointless for me to edit wikipedia. They find ways to bother me. They are obsessed with my edits. Their lack of edits rather than reverts is the living proof of this. Two users work together and get involved in revert wars in almost any article I edit. They have 6 reverts while I have 3. There always is a concensus against me by the same users on almost any article I touch. --Cool Cat My Talk 21:31, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Wow, that's terrible. You seem like a dedicated editor and decent person; why are these users targeting you? I hate to see people leave this great project just because some jerks are ganging up. If you would like me to mediate or something, I'd be happy to. Bratsche talk  5 pillars 21:41, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * I am not really sure. My theory is: my "futile" attempt to NPOVise Armenian Genocide. I requested sources so that my counterpart prooves genocide etc... I asked him to use sources that are not specilised with the event only. You know standard stuff... It wasnt a very pleasant discussion overall. Their edits are on average minor things, which is fine, aside form that they revert me, the less I edit the less I get reverted obvliously. They keep reverting untill I "give up" no discussing in talk at all. Meanwhile I write entier articles. I dont know what you can do to stop their obsession with me. I dont want regular users in the crosfire as they may do what they do to me to you as well. Admins on the other hand can handle any harrasment like I recieved better. They wont intimidate me with their harrasment. But its rather pointless me to write anything as everything I write is pov, regardless of its contents quite frequently. Its just one revert war after another. --Cool Cat My Talk 22:08, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Lakes in TT
OK, so I'll remove Pitch Lake from this category, but I'll leave the category for future. Really no natural lakes on Trinidad and Tobago? - Darwinek 14:50, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
I nominated you for an admin. Just go to accept nomination and answer few questions. I like you, so I wish you good luck! - Darwinek 15:58, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

edit summaries
Well, I was mainly talking about edits like this. For your own user space, as well as new articles, I guess it doesn't matter much. For talk pages, it may help some watchlisting people if you were to say 'respond to ' or something like that. But if you're willing to promise that, I'd be happy to support. Yours, Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 12:45, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Bhojpuri
I don't know Bhojpuri. I've heard it a few times and all I can say is that a few words are different, but not very difficult to understand from Hindi. I'd just created a stub as there was a red link. Regards, =Nichalp (Talk)= 10:31, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)


 * If it means something else, then I really don't know. I'm sorry. You could ask around in Wikipedia Talk:Notice board for India-related topics. Not many watch that page though. =Nichalp (Talk)= 14:59, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)


 * Actually, I don't know the word. =Nichalp (Talk)= 15:04, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support
Hi Guettarda! Thanks for supporting my adminship nomination! Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:09, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My Rfa
Thank you for supporting me! --Kbdank71 13:20, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re:Category:American dependencies
Hi, there Guettarda. In regards to the "American Dependencies" Catagory for Anguilla I thought it was honestly a mistake? Did you happen to have something in mind with Anguilla? As far as I knew, it was apart of St. Kitts/Nevis/Anguilla (Now just St. Kitts & Nevis). Then, they had voted to rejoin the UK. Were you accidentally thinking US dependency? but meant UK? Let me know if otherwise. You may know something about Ai. that I have no idea about. CaribDigita 18:45, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh- I see now, yes-yes-yes good point! I mis-took that completely. I thought it was "American Dependency" as-in "U.S.V.I, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa", etc.  As far as a renaming, I'm wondering if you perhaps had anything in mind??? The only thing I could think of is rather long. "Dependencies (of/in) the Americas" too long??
 * P.S. I wish I knew you were up for adminship status before, I fully support that switch. **Small joke- I think you're going to reach there long before Mannings' vision 2020. :-) Hope you're having a great day. CaribDigita 19:08, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi, I just got your message. About your suggestion, I must say I do like what you've come up with, on the Cat-renaming Esp. the one "Category:Dependent territories in the Americas". I think that one is quite fitting, but honestly both of your ideas are great... Which one do you like better?  I'd back the idea of namechange on either of these names....  CaribDigita 15:55, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I definantly back the change. Let me know, I'm still learning the art of the "diplomacy's" on here. hence why I didn't change anything myself. :-) Actually while I still have something fresh in my head. From what you've seen has any wikipedia areas made any decisions on wheather "country infoboxes" are a good or bad thing to have on country pages? CaribDigita 16:34, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for intiating the 'Categ' name change processs. I did make sure I backed your proposal on the shift to a new title.

About- the "infoboxes" I was refering to, that would be the "Countryboxes". Sorry to run these together in the same section of your talk page. I Just wanted to ask this quickly while I did have an instance of your attention. Thanks on this as well, your answer did answer my question. I'd been updating a few of the country profiles and realised that many (in the Carib'n) had the "Countryboxes" cropped from it's own separate template and pasted 'within the country' profile. I just wanted to ask and make sure I wasn't doing anything 'bad' by firstly: by relaying any new information onto these templates as well, and then secondly: refering the articles back to getting their country info from the "Countryboxes" --with-- an easy "Edit this template" link also included and visable on the Countryboxes. Thanks again, as always you remain an asset to the wikipedia community. CaribDigita 10:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Caribbean stubs
Please feel welcome to add to my list at User:ScottDavis/Caribbean. You look much more qualified to look for them than I feel. I interpret you feel it's a useful stub category that's currently missing? --ScottDavis 00:52, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * It's interesting that in the caribbean, I'm finding lots of bio-stubs. At the same time looking to populate Oceania-stub, I'm finding lots of music, culture but not so many people. Thanks for the help. Incidentally, some of my contributions overlap yours at the moment - I've been trying to populate all the Governors of South Australia, and many early governors also served in the Caribbean countries and Canada. --ScottDavis 02:55, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thankyou for your help. I've created Caribbean-stub and Category:Caribbean stubs and populated them from the list. --ScottDavis 12:39, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * A quick glance shows about 60 bio-stubs and 65 non-bio. I guess that makes it just qualify for the lower bound of splitting off a separate stub category. I'd be inclined to leave it for now, and see how the category stabilises. However, I'm not a stubs expert. (I made just over 200 edits in just over 2 hours populating Oceania and Caribbean stubs) --ScottDavis 13:15, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Adminship JoJan
I thank you for supporting my nomination. Another two days, and you'll most probably will be an administrator yourself. Good luck ! JoJan 15:08, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sn0wflake
You added Snowflakes' nom within JoJan's. I have moved it to the proper place.
 * Oops - thanks. You're proving your worth as an admin already ;) Grutness...  wha?  01:08, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RfA thanks
Thank you for your support for my adminship. PS, it looks like the entry for "category:Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago" on your user page might be "live". Either that, or we should refer to you as "your excellency." Cheers, -Willmcw 21:38, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship support
Thanks! - I'll let you know later - MPF 23:17, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
My pleasure; I just hope that you don't come to resent those who helped push that bloody mop into your hand... Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 23:41, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! Enjoy your new mopping powers and don't let 'em overwork or stress you too much :-) -Vsmith 23:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Congrats from me too. It was my pleasure. SlimVirgin (talk) 00:09, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)


 * Congrats! BTW - I take it you are mainly responsible for the fact that there are more geography stubs from Trinidad and Tobago than any other Caribbean country? :) Grutness...  wha?  00:12, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Well done! And I pop "Calypso Breakaway" (Rounder) into the CD player as an aural salute to you. -- Hoary 05:28, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)


 * Congrats for a well-deserved successful adminship! :) -- M P er el ( talk 06:05, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * A deserved promotion, as reflected by the comments on the RFA page. violet/riga (t) 13:52, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your User page
Hey there, Guettarda. I just thought you might want to know that your User page is broken on 800x600 displays. The table containing the flags is overlapping the text and rendering it unreadable. Might I suggest that you adapted the table to the div HTML element, which overall is easier to manage? Or you could simply place it below the image to fix the layout. Also, congrats on the succesful RfA. Best regards. --Sn0wflake 00:28, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your RfA
No worries - Good luck and happy editing! --Silversmith Hewwo 00:44, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 04:15, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks :-)
I appreciate the kind words on my RFA! - Ta bu shi da yu 05:08, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

FAC
I have changed my vote to support for Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)'s FAC. In-line cites are not necessary to become a FAC, though they would be nice. This article, though, is fine without them now with more refs and more comprehensiveness. Keep up your excellent work! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 21:33, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I can't miss this chance for promo! :) Mind Benders (which I am the maintainer of) has now opened pre-round one, a creative artistic competition. ALso, round one, which will be a competition consisting of ten or more creative, logical, and rhetorical questions, will open soon! So why not check it out and have some Wikifun! Hope to see you there!

table of contents

 * Thank you for your opinion about table of contents . Now could you point me to the wikipedia policy so that I can read it for myself?--CltFn 03:47, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago
Looks pretty good to me, although I know nothing about snakes - only saw one Tigre and several tree boas (the latter all at Caroni. I've fixed a typo, and make a couple of other minor changes. It would look better if the tables were all the same width, but I don't know if this is possible. Would it be more user-friendly to put English family names as well, where they exist, eg coral snakes, boas?

Hope this helps, jimfbleak 16:48, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Howard Wolpe
The Congressional biography says Wolpe lives in Lansing.

Thanks...
...but how did you know I wanted to make a subpage? --Wack'd About Wiki 18:13, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Okay
Go ask Usther your question. My talk board isn't the place to do it, his is. --Wack'd About Wiki 19:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't know. What I ment by the message above was that I didn't want you to ask your question to Uster on my page. I misunderstood. --Wack'd About Wiki 21:11, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! --Wack'd About Wiki 21:18, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not an admin
Yeah, just lazy, I guess. Also I haven't been seriously editing any articles for quite a while now. I'm more of a "contributing editor" than a "managing editor" these days. Graft 05:17, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Evolution
We're being trolled again. I'm beginning to think that it may be better to simply not respond to the comments on talk, and only address any changes made to the article proper. It is at least apparent that the intent is not to further discussion but to stir up controversy. siafu 23:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You may be right, but whether it's intentional or not, it has certainly made me very frustrated in the past. Hopefully we all can better expend our energy elsewhere. siafu 23:19, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oops?
Er, what? Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 14:45, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Re: your thanks
Sorry for the delay...i am still very new to editing and communicating on wikipedia. as a result i have only just viewed your two messages to me. Firstly, your are most welcomed. My support for your candidacy seemed appropriate. Secondly, I am Trinidadian. I was born there and moved to NYC when I was about 12. I have never been back since but cherish all my memories even though through a child's eye.

I came to Wikipedia looking for guidance on the usage of the term "West Indies". A friend of mine along with the support of his "learned friend" (an elementary school teacher) conspired to challenge my definition of "West Indies" which to a large degree, I understand to be nations formerly governed by the British Empire. Their understanding was the initial one relating to the Chris Columbus expedition to find the East Indies by venturing westward... of course he came upon the West Indies as we know it today. They were unrelenting in their arguement which was based on the original meaning of the term and I argued that words/terms change meaning over time. I offered the etymology of the word aweful as a paradigm but they discarded my arguement as an emotive retort from a local. So I came to Wikipedia for some consolation. I'm not sure that I found it but I am certain that I found a much more agreeable body for discussion and exchange of knowledge.

I hope this is good for now. I will try to add more to my page once I figure out how to structure it. I have tried to make some additions in the areas of Classics which is my field of study and passion at the moment. Maybe you could give some advice on how best to modify and add information. Thanks.

--rkstaylor 16:44, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

belated thanks
Thanks for supporting my RFA nearly a month ago. Unfortunately a sad event occurred at that time in my family, and I have not been able to participate in Wikipedia as much as I would like. I hope to get back to active contribution soon. Congratulations on your own promotion, too! FreplySpang (talk) 01:35, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you very much for your vote of confidence on my RFA. I'll keep trying to make the Wikipedia great! Thanks, Bratsche talk  5 pillars 13:18, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

RFA/MARMOT
That's a good question. Use the talk page and make a proposal; I'm sure you would get some great feedback. I'm all for it, but at the same time I want to make sure I know what IP addresses MARMOT is using so we can send an abuse letter to NTL. Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 18:22, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Mezmerize
Thank you for protecting the page to avoid this user (66.36.136.123)'s vandalism. We are sorry about violating the 3 revert rule though. -- Mike Garcia | talk 23:53, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

No worries on the block. These disputes tend to get very out of control, so I think you did the right thing. When it is discussed and decided upon, feel free to update that infobox, or let me know and I will do it. Thanks again! Cbing01 (talk) 00:06, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My animals
I simply have no idea what that one was about, SqueakBox 00:14, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * It was high on my list, and I have no doubt that was it, SqueakBox 00:20, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

mesmerize
I know nothing about the subject of the article (I did a 10 second google search to aquire those links), but I'd like to see mike garcia not get banned. Ergo, I'd prefer the page stay protected for awhile. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 01:26, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mike Garcia
First of all, splendid pictures all over the user page. The flowers at the top of the talk are absolutely delightful.

Secondly, if you're interested at all in pursuing action against Mike Garcia I'm looking to start coallating evidence for an Arbitration Committee case, as you are at the moment just the latest of his many victims. Get back to me if you're interested. Wally 07:00, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Anonymous admin nominations
The last line of the Nomination standards block under the About RfA section states "Anonymous users cannot be nominated, nominate others, or vote. They are allowed to comment." Hope this clears any confusion. --Allen3 talk 17:16, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * ...Okay. I'll let it be :-) Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 17:17, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago
I like your lead. If I may make a few more suggestions: I'd like a "See Also" section with related articles (eg, snake- and T&T-related articles). That way the reader can navigate both more specific (ind. snakes) and more general (see also). Also, some external links would be helpful. It is a good list though! --Dmcdevit 20:14, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Christafari
It is still a redirect. Maybe you could do the honours. Interesting document. I don't like the sound of them at all. This group have been very active in Trinidad, a[pparently, where their founders wife comes from, trying to convert Rastas to Christianity, SqueakBox 00:55, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, the redirect works so it's fine, SqueakBox 01:16, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

snakes
looks good - T&T is the only place in the tropics I've ever seen snakes - on the whole they try to avoid us, I think. Seen two of the three UK ones, third is rare and local - maybe I should do snakes of the UK -wouldn't take long! your page looks good now, jimfbleak 05:01, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

my talk page
Thanks. It seems a lot of people have me watchlisted. -- Uncle Ed (talk) June 28, 2005 18:59 (UTC)

Hello
Yes. I'm back - although if Votes for deletion/Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire 26 June 2005 goes the wrong way it will mean the deletion of the whole of our coverage of the 2005 English cricket season and that I won't be staying long. Your "keep" vote on the VfD page would be very much appreciated. Kind regards, jguk 28 June 2005 22:21 (UTC)

admin. nom.
If you would like to make the nomination I would accept. It would be nice to revert vandalism with one click :-). I'm not sure what other admin duties I would want to jump into, guess I'd best do my homework. As you know I was a bit involved in the climate wars, mav referred to me as one of the other edit warriers, so some may object. Thanks, -Vsmith 28 June 2005 23:44 (UTC)

T&T snakes
Excellent work with getting rid of red links and reformatting - you'll see I've happily changed my vote on WP:FLC to support. My only comment is that you've created the snakes' articles at their Latin names and I'm fairly sure (though I must admit I haven't checked) that standard WP policy is to use common name. But I appreciate that might be a bit of a job, given that most of them seem to have more than one common name. Good work, anyway. OpenToppedBus - My Talk June 29, 2005 08:48 (UTC)

All the existing regional bird lists have the same general format as the T&T one, so I'm reluctant to change the style. It could do with more images, and, as you suggest some references, but my main priority is to actually write up the ones I've seen. jimfbleak 30 June 2005 18:43 (UTC)

Caribbean Wikipedians
I like your idea, count me in. Here are some other Caribbean Wikipedians whom I believe would also be interested. Wrote to them and tell them I sent you. They are: Cjrs 79, Joseph,<> and User:AntonioMartin, Let's keep in touch. Tony the Marine 1 July 2005 00:45 (UTC)


 * I'm in as well.   &mdash;Joseph | Talk July 1, 2005 02:56 (UTC)


 * Count me in1 Hey, thanks for inviting me. I love everything and everyone Caribbean and Latin American. What country are you from? I originated the article Deaths in Ciudad Juarez, and a person e-mailed me in an insulting way telling me since Im Puerto Rican I shouldn't care about Mexico, which, by the way, geographically speaking is also a Caribbean country by way of Cancun and Isla Mujeres. That rwally got me wonder about this person's mental health, because I believe all Latinos and Caribbeaners are brothers and sisters and I want to thank you for trying to organize this group. Im definitely there.

Once again, thank you and God bless you! Sincerely yours, Antonio El Cheveron del Caribe Martin


 * Hola Trinidad!!! Como estas?? Im happy to know you're from Trinidad. Beautiful country! Ive seen it on brochures only, through :(. I know only a couple of things from Trinidad: Maurice Hope, a fabulous, fabulous world boxing champion (you should have seen the beating he put on some European top fighters!) and BWIA, the airline. I hope you dont get mad at me for saying this like the Mexican person did, but I used to see them every saturday, back when their planes where white and yellow with a girl and a flower on the tail. I loved them! Now that they are green with an orange or lime drawn on the fuselage I love them even better!

Well, I agree with everything you said about some people trying to divide us Caribbeans and Latinos. I think its sad specially since all the things we have in common unite us as brothers. I was impressed one time to learn there are about 50 nations in the Caribbean alone, roughly 25 percent of the world! When you think 100 percent of these countries speak either Spanish, English or French, that should bond us even more. What you are doing here is excellent.

Well, I will say adios now, I hope to hear from ylu soon!

thanks, and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Caribbean Fiesta Martin


 * I'm in!!!This looks like a great idea. I'm also from Puerto Rico, and I'm willing to help and collaborate on this proejct in any way. Let's get it on! I'll keep in touch!:D <> 1 July 2005 07:23 (UTC)


 * Hi Guettarda,

CaribDigita here, I think that's a neat about Notice Board for Caribbean Wikipedians. I think a lot of 'common' regional good could be brought about by it. I am all for it! Count me in! CaribDigita 2 July 2005 17:55 (UTC)

Landscape ecology
I'm trying to winnow the geography category, but maybe got carried away. I've added the category back to Landscape ecology. Maurreen 1 July 2005 16:19 (UTC)

Single Info Boxes
I'm somewhat (well, relatively) new to Wikipedia and it seems to me that one of its virtues is that nobody's preference as to the content of an article stands higher than anyone else's. (From a statistical standpoint, I guess it adds to the accuracy of the information.)  That said, who arbitrates which style single infobox is "standard"? Would it be the writer of the article, or... just User:Cbing01? I'd be very grateful if you could shed any light on this matter!


 * I'm not exactly clear what you are asking, but I suspect you could find the answer at WikiProject Songs, WikiProject Music or WikiProject Albums. Inofoboxes tend to be standardised by individual WikiProjects, based on consensus.  I'm guessing that would be the place to discuss alternatives.  Guettarda 4 July 2005 07:03 (UTC)

This user posted a similar message on my talk page as well. I am not clear what they are asking, or implying (as it seems). If any of this is made more clear to you, would you please pass it along to me? I would be very grateful. Cbing01 4 July 2005 07:16 (UTC)