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Hi Hayford Peirce, you could have avoided that misunderstanding by reading the page a bit more attentively. I have replied to your comment on the talk page (as did someone else).

Here, I'd just like to remind you that your constabulary authority to "play Bad Cop" (as you described it in your comment) is restricted to Citizendium and certainly does not apply to Wikipedia user pages. I invited additions to the list, but I ask you to not to delete content from it without asking me, even if you do not like it because it paints Citizendium in an unflattering light.

Of course, your comments are still welcome on the talk page (even if they should be a bit "grouchy" - I don't mind a direct manner of speaking if someone has interesting things to say).

Regards, HaeB (talk) 03:00, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Seeing your remark here, I would like to note that the comment signed "HaeB 22 July, 2010" here and the one signed "HaeB 6 June, 2010" here were not made by me, but by an impostor. I do not endorse these personal attacks on you, although I find your frequent use of invectives ("cretins" etc.) not particularly helpful either. Regards, HaeB (talk) 17:33, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

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Hola
Thanks for the kind words and the shout-out (am I using that term right? I'm so OLD!)

The Heinlein bio was something I'd been looking forward to since before there was even any certainty that there'd be one. Patterson's big challenge is going to be that second volume, where he has to confront the less attractive sides of RAH's personality. RLetson (talk) 21:49, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, shucks [drags toe in dirt]. Thanks for the kind words, and glad you found the review an accurate description of the object in question. It has been, um, interesting to follow the reactions to the various reviews expressed on Patterson's Heinlein Society site. Patterson's own responses are pretty sane & adult, but some of the other folk do get het up a bit. RLetson (talk) 21:27, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

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About Waldo Peirce
Bonjour Mr Hayford. Je suis en train de traduire pour WP fr l'article sur Waldo Peirce, et je me demandais si nous pourrions bénéficier sur WP fr aussi de votre autorisation de publier le sublime (c'est mon appréciation personnelle) tableau Silver Slipper.

Par ailleurs je me pose à propos de ce tableau quelques questions : quel est le titre exact du tableau ? Quelle est sa date de création exacte ? Est-ce Waldo lui-même (homme barbu, avec gros cigare), que l'on peut voir dans le coin gauche ?

Pensez-vous que nous pouvons publier les noms des épouses de Waldo Peirce (celles d'Hemingway sont abondamment citées) ?

Enfin (vous savez qu'en France on est assez chatouilleux sur le chapitre des décorations) existe-t-il une référence exacte au sujet de la Croix de Guerre que Waldo Peirce a reçue après Verdun ?

En vous priant de m'excuser d'avoir pris la liberté de vous écrire, et en vous remerciant par avance de vos réponses, Arapaima (talk) 11:05, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Salut! Suis heureux de voir que quelqu'un s'interesse a Waldo!


 * D'abord, il y a un article beaucoup plus complete a http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Waldo_Peirce. Vous avez le droit de prendre tous les images et renseignments de cet article.


 * Je crois que le tableau est connu tout simplement comme "The Silver Slipper" ou "Dance Hall at the Silver Slipper", je ne suis pas absolument sur. Ni la date.  Oui, Waldo est le barbu.  Hemingway est au bar.


 * Les noms de ses epouses? Oui, certainment -- tous les quatre sont cites dans l'article a Citizendium.


 * La Croix de Guerre est cite partout, mais je demanderais a un type qui est expert sur ce sujet de me donner une reference exacte -- certes il l'a actuellement recu.... C'est possible que j'ai un photo quelque part...


 * Amities! Hayford Peirce (talk) 17:06, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Voici deux photos de Waldo en uniforme avec la Croix de Guerre, l'un etant sa carte d'identite du Crois Rouge. Mon ami va m'envoyer un "link" a l'American Expeditionary Forces site officiel, ou ils font mention de Waldo et la Croix.... http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/File:Waldo_in_Uniform,_with_Medal_and_Red_Cross_Band.jpg et http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/File:Waldos_Red_Cross_Identity_Card_2.jpg Hayford Peirce (talk) 22:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Grand merci pour tout, Mr Hayward ! Comme j'ai commencé la traduction de l'article de WP en Islands in the Stream, je ne pourrai pas utiliser vos excellentes références immédiatement. Encore merci. Pourrais-je copier votre réponse sur la PdD de l'article sur Waldo Peirce ? Truly yours Arapaima (talk) 10:35, 28 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Oui, bien sur, vous pouvez le copier! Amities! Hayford Peirce (talk) 16:34, 28 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Encore merci, Mr Peirce ! Un problème cependant : le tableau "Silver Slipper" ne peut apparaître sur WP fr tant qu'il n'est pas déposé sur Commons (Commons ne contient que la fresque peinte au bureau de poste de Troy). Auriez-vous la grande amabilité de le déposer sur Commons ? Par ailleurs, je m'occupe de demander que le nom de Waldo Peirce figure sur la liste WP fr des détenteurs de la Croix de Guerre, il l'a bien mérité. D'avance merci encore. T.y. Arapaima (talk) 07:50, 30 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Je l'essayerai demain -- je n'ai jamais mis un photo sur Commons mais cela doit etre faisable.... Hayford Peirce (talk) 23:49, 30 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Il semble que je ne peux pas. Je me suis enregistre a Commons et puis j'ai decouvert que Commons ne permet pas des photos de "fair use", bien que ces photos sont deja a Wikipedia sous "fair use". Dont je crains que je ne peux pas vous aider.  Peut-etre il aurait un autre moyen de l'incorporer dans le WP francais.... amities! Hayford Peirce (talk) 19:10, 31 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Dommage ! Merci quand même, Hayford..."Peirce, Waldo" est maintenant (c'est bien le moins que nous Français ayons quelque reconnaissance envers quelqu'un qui a assez aimé notre pays pour y vivre et le défendre sur le front...) sur la liste de WP fr des décorés de la Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 : voir http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cat%C3%A9gorie:Titulaire_de_la_Croix_de_guerre_1914-1918&from=P. J'ai aussi ajoûté son nom dans un article de WP en sur la Croix de Guerre (il y a 2 articles sur WP en, d'ailleurs, c'est curieux...) . Encore merci pour votre aide, et, comme on dit, "au plaisir de se revoir"...Arapaima (talk) 08:33, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

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P. Hal Sims married Dorothy Rice Sims, aviatrix and author, is this ex-Mrs. Waldo Pierce ?Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 08:48, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I believe so. Only the name is spelled Peirce, hehe.... Hayford Peirce (talk) 13:37, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * From left to right: Waldo Peirce; his wife Alzira Boehm; Polly F. Peirce, the wife of: Hayford Peirce (Sr.) Hayford Peirce (talk) 17:43, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for all the informative info. I used to do a lot of stuff at WP and I was aware of most of these standards. Those at CZ are/were somewhat different. The CZ article, as long as it is, was actually never finished, so I hadn't done a final clean-up on it. If you would sandbox it here at WP, then I will get into it eventually and clean it up. Thanks! Hayford Peirce (talk) 16:38, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

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 * All it looks like to me is that I'm saying that anyone can USE the picture, BUT that they have to say that *I* took the picture. I don't think that that is too much to ask. So, no, I will NOT agree to changing that.  Otherwise, go ahead and use the picture. Hayford Peirce (talk) 04:59, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
 * , FYI, there is one commons:User:KirstyLaura going round editing photos you took to include "Kirsty Laura Pennant as Hayford Pierce". I've reverted them. -mattbuck (Talk) 10:22, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * My goodness, the evil that lurks in the hearts of man/woman! Why on earth would she be bothering? In any case, many thanks for the reverts! Cheers! Hayford Peirce (talk) 14:30, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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Vertigo (film)
Hello Hayford, many thanks for reverting my silly mistake on the above article. I must confess to rushing around and got my facts wrong. With best regards, David, David J Johnson (talk) 12:26, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I've done a lot worse than that over the years! Cheers! Hayford Peirce (talk) 16:43, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

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I'm shocked, shocked, that you'd even consider saying "an hachis" -- it is, after all, an aspirated h ("h" aspiré) -- double checked in TLF, Wiktionary, Petit Robert. --Macrakis (talk) 18:34, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I would be even MORE shocked if I ever got this right! To ME, it simply SOUNDS better when speaking English to say "an 'achis'" so that it really comes out as sounding like "an nachis". But, of course, like most people, there are probably MANY words that I mispronounce. Years ago it took a Chinese girl from Beijing to correct my pronunciation of "pharmaceutical". And I used to argue with people about the pronunciation of Cyborg and Caucasus. But at least, unlike a number of our revered Presidents, I DO know how to pronounce Nuclear. And the esteemed Gore Vidal admits in the introduction to his book Palimpsest: A Memoir that until he started the book itself he had always grossly mispronounced it. Sigh, so much to learn, so little time! Hayford Peirce (talk) 19:15, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

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I appreciate your nice words regarding the tennis issue. -- James26 (talk) 23:54, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed your edits to American folk music revival. You changed some url-status parameters to deadurl, but that parameter has been deprecated in the citation template. The correct parameter is url-status=dead or url-status=live now. A bot was approved last September to make the change (see here. Could you change deadurl back? Thanks! Schazjmd   (talk)  17:31, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was belatedly wondering what was going on, I didn't mean to do ANY of that stuff. weird! Hayford Peirce (talk) 18:15, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Shepherd's pie
Yes, there are people who think they know THE TRUTH and apparently don't check the existing sources to see what they say. Another case like this was on the whipped cream article, where some people insist that crème chantilly must include sugar and vanilla, though there are plenty of sources in the article showing that that's not true.

As for the box formatting, apparently someone decided that the cute formatting with the big quotation marks wasn't sober enough. But having no framing at all makes it hard to read the page. --Macrakis (talk) 16:18, 27 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes, PEA '72, MIT '77, Harvard Phd. We did exchange some messages a while ago. Best, --Macrakis (talk) 18:04, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks
Thanks for all your Ross Thomas edits. I've read a few of his books over the past couple of years...have long considered starting a stub for one of them, as more than a few meet notability requirements...curious if you would favor one book over the others. Thank you. Caro7200 (talk) 14:39, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

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Waylon Jennings
I have been doing alot of work on the Waylon Jennings page. I have have been putting on a few new pictures and some new info but...there is only so much that I can do. So I thought that I would ask you if you know any info on the late great Waylon Jennings if you do that would be great and help alot! - Alakey2010 06 August 2006, 08:04 p.m.

George Jones
Hey, I was wondering what you thought was wrong with my edit. I changed it from a solid page and a few indexes to a sectioned entry. I don't think I deleted much, but if I did it would be best if you posted it on the new page. I'm in the middle of adding references I also added a section on his drinking and substance abuse and a section on his marriages.

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I kept some of the praise, but removed the excessive Monroe quote. The introduction was about 15 paragraphs long when I started.

Why, may I ask, do you need to remove the section on marriage, most of the section on drinking, and keep the useless subtitle under "recent albums?"

I'm working on a re-write with sources. Tell me what was cut from the original that you would like in the final, and I'd be glad to include it. (Ultramontane)

Nero Wolfe
I'm content with your editing of my Wolfe additions of the past few days. One glaring omission from the text is any extended discussion of Wolfe as a gourmand. I hope to post additional material on this topic within the next few days although I don't regard myself as a qualified "foodie."

Amelia Earhart article
This is the current introductory paragraph: "Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – missing as of July 2, 1937) was a noted American aviator who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight attempt in 1937. She was an influential early female pilot and the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross."

I had submitted the following: "Amelia Mary Earhart' (July 24, 1897 – missing as of July 2, 1937) was a noted American aviator whose aviation career included many milestones. She became the first woman and second pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic, on the fifth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing. She was an influential early female pilot who was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, a women's pilots' organization. Among her many awards and achievements, Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. After setting numerous records, she disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight attempt in 1937, sparking a near-mythical public fascination with her life, career and ultimate disappearance." Word count: 116 words.

It was removed by another editor who indicated: 1. Introductory passage is too long 2. Citing wordy headers in other flawed articles doesn't solve the PoV and clarity issue here at all 3. It's far too long and sounds like a promotional blurb. When you've finished expanding the article body I plan on discussing the cheerleading PoV there too. If we need to start citing WP policy that's ok.

Hayford, I value your opinion, what do you think about my edit? FYI the Wikipedia articles on Thomas Jefferson was 250 words, Abraham Lincoln: 147 and the Wright Brothers: 199 words. Bzuk 12:40 22 January 2007 (UTC).

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Note
Porting your stuff over from Citizendium, sure, but for works about fictional characters, please try to include some external sources — i.e., more than just the works in which the character was featured. DS (talk) 18:07, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
 * A) I was indeed referring to the Colonel, yes. B) Somehow my eye slid right past the "Sources" section; I perceived only the "References" section (which has no external sources). Oops. C) That said, ideally we would show that someone other than Gilbert has written about these characters. Articles can always be improved. DS (talk) 23:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

The Mischief Makers (novel) moved to draftspace
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Nomination of Colonel Charles Michael Russell for deletion
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News
. Utjpfzyi (talk) 15:24, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hardcore bro. Thinking of you all. 2A02:C7F:BE04:700:D12F:AE20:8195:515E (talk) 18:16, 21 November 2020 (UTC)