User talk:Italo Svevo

Welcome to Wikipedia! In case you haven't already found them, some useful links are Welcome, newcomers, Naming conventions, Manual of Style, and The perfect article. Most questions are answered at Help; if you have a question not answered there, then you can post it to the Village pump.

A word of warning: when comments are posted, the raw text appears without vocal inflections or body language; the lack of these nonverbal cues tends to make the raw text appear to be more terse/rude than the sender actually intended. This is stating the obvious, but people seem to forget it in the heat of the moment. So my word of warning is this: don't be surprised if someone makes comments to you that seem unnecessarily brusque; and try not to take it personally. It is a side-effect of the medium.

Clara Ward
By letter to me yesterday, Willa Ward, Clara's surviving sister confirmed that Clara was born on April 21, 1924.

Regards--Agriffinny 15:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Cyan 23:02, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I'm curious about your note that one of the Gingers' kids practiced civil rights law... More information? --Jose Ramos 09:57, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Tom Ginger
Worked in Mississippi and for Legal Aid in Arkansas; I knew him in Arkansas. As for Mississippi, all I can recall is

? he worked for a civil rights lawyer whose first name was Sebastian; once, while arguing a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court one of the justices asked him, "Now just what did Sea Bass have in mind when he wrote this complaint?" I don't recall Tom's reply, but you get the picture.

? Judge Cox, the worst federal judge in the twentieth century, asked every applicant for admission to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi to explain a particular rule picked at random from the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. In Tom's case he picked Rule 52, to which Tom replied, "That's the clearly erroneous rule that the Fifth Circuit cites when they're reversing you." Cox huffed and said "Admitted."

He suffered from MS, which eventually killed him. Had a thiiiick Mississippi accent, despite growing up in Berkeley; don't know if he kept it when he moved to Detroit. Could name all of the counties in Mississippi in alphabetical order, but now we're digressing. ..


 * Thanks for the info... --Jose Ramos

I'm eternally grateful for your wonderful articles on the Flint strike and the CIO. I look forward to reading more of your work! DanKeshet 19:08, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi, you need to set up a user page on Meta for your vote to count. It should have a link to your user page here, or redirect to it. Angela 00:18, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)

hey, good job on the Kerala page ! Jay 16:54, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Re Revisionism - thanks for pointing that out. If this is an area you are interested in, I would welcome your comments on User:Adam Carr/Zionism. Adam 07:20, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hey there Italo Svevo! I took out the "pacific northwest" part from the "yurt" page because I knew so little about it. And I changed the paragraph before it so much, I could not fit it in like that! Go ahead and do that if you can find a good way to do it. Dawit

Dred Scott
As far as I know, Supreme Court decision citations include only surnames, not first names. There are two ways to refer to the case: "Dred Scottcase" or Scott v. Sandford. So the article could be at Dred Scott case, since that is what most people know it as. But Dred Scott v. Sandford, I think, is incorrect and unused. I leave it to your judgment to determine if the article should be at Dred Scott case or Scott v. Sandford. -- Emsworth 12:27, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)

Thought of the day
I don't understand why you posted that on my Talk page. Can you explain? And you can sign your name with four tildes -- ~ RickK 20:42, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

The Communist Party and Black America
Wouldn't it be better to title your article The Communist Party and African Americans? "Black America" sounds as though American blacks are a monolith -- though I certainly don't believe you think this, your title seems to suggest it. Thank you for the thoughtful article. It is a good addition to the Wikipedia.Zantastik 05:44, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Edgar Nixon
Looks very thorough. I'm sorry, I don't remember making a request for expansion, probably was about 6 months ago when I was working on some related material; I don't know where that request was, and you don't say, but feel free to remove it! -- Jmabel | Talk 06:14, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

Union stuff
A bit ironic on my part, too, as I've been using Wikipedia to procrastinate writing a thesis whose due date is creeping up on me. So it is with some hesitation that I propose the creation of a WikiProject for the labor movement. As I'm sure you've noticed, Wikipedia's coverage of unions is extremely uneven, but there's now a reasonable number of contributors with an interest in the subject who might benefit from a venue for coordination. What do you think? RadicalSubversiv E 07:36, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * One more note -- the addition of Category:United States labor unions to AFL-CIO unions is unnecessary/inappropriate, as we already have Category:AFL-CIO (which should probably be renamed Category:AFL-CIO unions), which is a subcat. See Categorization. RadicalSubversiv E 07:39, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * It could potentially do all the things you mention, though I think the initial value would just be having a venue for people to coordinate work, consolidate notes, etc. WikiProject best practices has some tips on gettting started, but basically I think it's a matter of creating the page and recruiting people. I really need to stop editing for the evening and get some "serious" writing done, but I'll try to put some initial text together tomorrow. RadicalSubversiv E 02:49, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) P.S. Interesting stuff about Mexico, though I'd be pretty useless on that front -- I know very little Spanish, and my Mexican history is mostly limited to what I picked up in a class studying the Zapatistas.

Ralph thingy
Hi. I did wonder if it was a misspelling. I'll sort it out. Deb 19:17, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Fidel & Vicente
Can't really get too excited about writing a Fidel Velásquez Fidel Velázquez article, but I'd be happy to take a look at anything you managed to put together (and probably include some of the more outrageous quotes he came out with in his long years of senility, for which he has not, and never will be, forgiven in the mens publica). Now, an article on Cananea -- that would be a different matter. Cheers, –Hajor 22:27, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

La Cantuta
Sharp eyes; gratifying to have such a close reader. Thanks. –Hajor 17:47, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Requested pictures
Hi. Glad you liked the photos. Feel free to add any requests to Requested pictures. I occasionally work trough the list, trying to add what i find. Pre-1923 stuff is especially easy, since the copyright is expired. See Finding images tutorial (which I wrote ;) Happy editing -- Chris 73 Talk 11:33, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

Daisy Bates
Do what you think is best, but generally a person's profession, not nationality, is used to disambiguate. --mav 02:09, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Greetings
Thanks for the note. The Juan Soldado thing sounds like it could be a lot of fun; I hope the library gets the book for you. I also note with some sadness that I never succeeded in sourcing any of Fidel V's nastier quotes, and that Cananea is still but a pipe-dream. Oh well. Cheers, –Hajor 02:39, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
Thanks for the correction on the UE nomenclature. I noticed there were a few dead links around and wanted to tighten them up. Guess I should have checked the real name first. The textile union pages will probably come in a few weeks. 15:39, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Causing a furore
Nothing on this good green earth amuses me more than a man stupid enough to call someone else a "knownothing" when he himself demonstrates no sign of knowing his arse from his elbow. Thanks for making yourself a laughing-stock. Without butts, there would be no humour. Grace Note 06:14, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Touchy
I'm sorry. I was in one of those moods. I have had a couple of moments recently with aggressive editors and thought I had come across another. I was unfair to you. Grace Note 23:24, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Amen to that! Grace Note 00:04, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Teamsters
I appreciate your rewrite of the Teamsters article as a comprehesive history. It must have been a huge task. Congratulations. DJ Silverfish 16:47, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

COINTELPRO
The COINTELPRO entry is currently going through some whiplash changes. I would appreciate any help you could give in suggesting routes to a POV conclusion. DJ Silverfish 21:05, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

TWU experience
I just posted over to your alternate user talk page, not realizing it was you. Regarding the recent additions you made to paragraphs on African-American experience in the TWU, ILWU, and the UE: Could you cite an article or book which has further information on this topic? If you could cite a specific reference for the discrimination accounts you mentioned, I would appreciate it. DJ Silverfish 16:47, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Re: CP and African-Americans
Thanks! I'll get on that tomorrow. --TJive 03:42, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

LPMCOTW
Hi,

have a look at Leftist Parties and Movements Collaboration of the Week. --Soman 20:47, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Project
Hi. I noticed your work, and thought you may be interested in WikiProject Organized Labour. Thanks for your contributions.--Rockero 00:27, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Quick Note
You do great work here. Keep it up. ANONY 2 Apr 2007

History of Los Angeles
Five years ago, you wrote a great section on the history of Los Angeles. By any chance, do you recall what you might have used as sources? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 08:35, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Your reply was helpful. I was surprised to see that you were still editing here at all, after five years. Thanks for your contributions, sparse though they may be. ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 21:58, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Adamson Act
Some1 added that the Adamson Act was repealed. Is this true? Thx. 70.108.88.150 (talk) 03:43, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for January 6
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Johnny Torrio, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Black Hand (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:50, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for January 24
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Dan Duryea, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Western (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:16, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:52, 23 November 2015 (UTC)