User talk:Jersey Devil/Archive 8

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This archive page covers approximately the dates between January 12, 2008 and February 2, 2010.

Good Article status of Shining Path
As someone who heavily edited Shining Path, you may be interested to know that the article's status as a Good Article has been put on hold as a result of a review of it. The review was part of the "sweeps" of all Good Articles. Talk:Shining_Path contains more information about the whole affair. --Descendall (talk) 10:11, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Blocking policy
As an admin, you should know very well not to throw your weight around until you've determined what is going on: see. Blocking is not to be taken lightly. Please check Blocking policy: Blocks are used to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, not to punish users. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 00:48, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Moving things to the discussion page did solve the problem. I probably deserved to go to time out! Thanks for your help.--Random Replicator (talk) 14:08, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Operation Pedro Pan
Dear Jersey Devil, You eliminated sourced information on this page that was placed there by me in an effort to balance the POV problem on the page. I reverted one of your edits and in condescension to your elimination of my work, I eliminated the sentences that were referenced to NOCASTRO.com. Right now there is one sentence that is left in the controversy section that is referenced to the USCG (United States Coast Guard). That is a valid third party reference that offsets the POV of the preceeding sentence. That sentence should not be eliminated or you make the entire section a POV problem. Please come to the discussion page of the article before you revert my work again and lets discuss. Thanks! NancyHeise (talk) 04:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Your block of User:Artsandopinion
Hello, a good-hearted admin has undone your block with the result that this user is now spamming talk pages lobbying to get his link installed; my comments on his efforts at Talk:Palliative care. I'm also posted a cease-and-desist request on his talk page. Please block this character again, if you are able to do so. Thanks, CliffC (talk) 15:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

McName
Surnames starting with "Mc" should be indexed as "Mac" to assist category sorting; this has been the case for a long time now. Surnames starting with O'M or O'H (for example) are indexed as Om and Oh. The latter reindexing (O's) has already been completed by other editors, so I stuck with the "Mc" names. I am holding off from doing any more reindexing until I get an admin OK. Yellow-bellied sapsucker (talk) 19:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

See from 22:45, 15 April 2006, where the note first appeared about the category sorting (Mac, not Mc). Yellow-bellied sapsucker (talk) 20:14, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I first became aware of the Mc/Mac situation on Martin McGuinness' article. I did the research back and found the entry (see ) from 22:45, 15 April 2006, where the note first appeared about the category sorting (Mac, not Mc). Yellow-bellied sapsucker (talk) 20:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Your warning on Talk:Barack Obama
Re:

Perhaps you should notify the user in question on their talk page as well? Since your warning is applicable to more than just the Barack Obama page, it might be a good idea to make it obvious to the person you're aiming the warning at in case they try to appeal a future block. But thanks for the info. --Bobblehead (rants) 21:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * FYI, please see Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents. I opened the thread completely without prejudice (in other words, I'm not saying you did anything wrong or that I disagree with the block) - I just think that, out of respect for a long-time user, this block needs to be reviewed by more than just a couple of people. --B (talk) 04:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Reason for unblock
There wasn't consensus. So based on 3 others opposition (I am not one of the three), I tried to craft a compromise. The compromise was to have the user show how good he or she could be by editing well for 7 days. Instead, you have denied the chance. You are potentially creating a sock problem because the user will have no recourse (other than the unwieldy ArbCom, who is too busy to effectively take on these cases).

I am now becoming more oppose to the indefinite blocking of this user because the process has not been completed. My opposition is not based on the user's behavior but the not following process. Essentially, you are refusing to address the compromise and substituting it for your own punishment. If you didn't want to discuss it, you could have offered a compromise solution, such as 7 day block. Archtransit (talk) 23:55, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

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My Rfa
I wish to thank you for being supportive of my effort to regain my adminship. Though it was unsuccessful, I'm deeply appreciative that you took some time to once again be supportive of me. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you.--MONGO 17:42, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Peruanismo
Hey, it's me again. I just wanted to say one last thing before I left. I think you might be interested in joining this listserv. While it's technically open only to members of the Peru section of the Latin American Studies Association, I'm almost positive that no one really checks to see if you paid your $8 dues. If anyone questions you, just tell them that you are an interested student. The listserv is extremely low traffic; only a couple of emails a month. Nevertheless, some of the most important Peruanista economists, sociologists, political scientists, and human rights workers (including members of the CVR) subscribe to the listserv. They often send interesting information about upcoming books, conferences, articles, etc. though the list. I've actually made some professional contacts through it. Join up, you have nothing to lose. As always, you have my email, so feel free to contact me. --Descendall (talk) 06:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * By the way, I see on your page that you recently read Weavers of Revolution. Is that a great book, or what? The last time I was in Chile I talked to an old Communist taxi driver who mentioned that the Yarur family is still as powerful as ever. They got out of textiles and moved into banking a while ago. --Descendall (talk) 06:31, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

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Need your advice on something
Hey, I recently wrote an article, Ikhtiyar al-Din Ai-Taq. A central part of the article concerns the individual's governorship of the city of Ray. This fact is also mentioned in several other related articles that I wrote. The source for this fact normally has a good reputation for factual accuracy. However, after viewing several other sources, including the chronicles that the author of my original source used, I now have serious doubts that this individual was ever actually governor of Ray. I believe that the author of my original source was wrong here, but unfortunately I don't know for certain either way. Since a substantial part of the article, as well as several other articles, revolves around his governorship of Ray I can't just edit it out. Would it be inappropriate to put a factual accuracy tag on my own article? I don't just want to leave the article as is and give readers the impression that it is factual. If you could give some advice on an appropriate course of action for this article and the other articles affected by this I'd appreciate it.

Ro4444 (talk) 00:24, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

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Excessive zeal
You seem to have made quite a few overly eager deletions recently, such as deleting Rupert Murdoch from the CFR article... I suggest you be a little more cautious and deliberate. I have my eye on you. I'll be watching your contributions quite closely from now on, as I don't believe you are a fit administrator, and should this recent trend continue, I shall work toward deadminning you. It only seems proper that I mention it to you first, as assuming good faith requires that I ascribe no motive to you other than those in line with Wikipedia goals, which I suspect you are at odds with. I'd like to be shown otherwise. User:Pedant (talk) 21:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your quite simple, informative and respectful reply. Reading your policies regarding recall is reassuring.  In future it might be more suitable for me to merely point out what seems to be questionable activity, rather than warn you... overall, I feel that you have deleted bits that shouldn't have been, in your laudable efforts to remove what doesn't belong.  Deleting can have worse consequences than including, mainly because wrongly deleted material may not ever be noticed, and replaced... contrarily: Wrongly included material will still be there, asking to be deleted.  Please just bear this in mind.  Nice to meet you. User:Pedant (talk) 15:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

anti-Semitism, or oversensitivity?
Hi, Sometimes I am afraid I am over-sensitive. The Race and Intelligence article is obviously controversial and I have been highly critical of user:Jagz who I believe has been pushing for inclusion of a fringe, racialist (if not racist) POV in the article - this is just context, not the issue. The issue is, today he made this edit, creating a new section and providing no explanation or context:. If it is directed at me, I wonder if it is anti-Semitic.

I may be overreacting - it may just be one of several disruptive edits he has made, which I should not take personally, and I have left a note at AN/I concerning disruptive edits. But the possible anti-Semitism nags at me. I know that in general you take these matters seriously and that in this particular case you have objectivity I lack and if you think I am overreacting, well, I would respect and value your judgement. Thanks, Slrubenstein  |  Talk 13:07, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Philatelic deletions
I noticed that you made mass deletions of around 30 lists that are part of the WikiProject Philately without any apparent deletion notification of such a large number of articles. Such a large number of deletions should have at least been notified to the project that deals with such articles or at least to the assessment team to which those articles belong. Lists of fish on stamps are a very important and popular topic of topical stamp collecting as are other topical subjects which have list too, such as birds on stamps or even people on stamps. What's next, another 99 lists without any discussion or notification? You have decimated the category by your mass deletions. (I post in one place to keep a discussion together, so am watching this page). ww2censor (talk) 14:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes I deleted those articles quite a while ago as they were all lists made in 2005 with almost no content aside from tables. Since there were so many of them I felt that an AFD would be overly burdensome and so decided to delete them myself. Since you have objected to these deletions I will take this to WP:DRV in order for the community to decide on a suitable outcome.--Jersey Devil (talk) 23:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Let me consult someone else, a philatelic admin editor, before you do anything. 23rd March, but I only happened to notice when looking through the assessment log. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 23:38, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, these deletions were definitely not legitimate. Lists are a longstanding part of WP, and it is simply incorrect to say that they have no content. The multiple edits by a number of different editors should have been a hint that there was general consensus that they were valid articles. As an admin, you should know better than to delete this kind of material unilaterally. Stan (talk) 12:31, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I reviewed policy, and restored all the deleted pages. Feel free to nominate for AFD, although I note that Stanley Gibbons publishes a book on the subject, so I think they're likely to survive. As a note for the future, the fact that you had to separately delete talk pages, because they had assessments on them(!), should have been a hint that out-of-process deletions were going to be noticed and challenged. Stan (talk) 13:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Look, I don't want an edit war...
I can see you've been squatting on the Estate Tax article for a while. I'm going to appeal to your reason and ask you to stop relabeling it as a "pejorative term" created by "Republicans" when a huge nuber of people try to remove your wording. The term was used before republicans existed, OK? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.216.130.107 (talk) 03:27, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

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Please strike your comment
On this, you stated, incorrectly, ". Just went through the user's blocklog. It appears that he has been blocked in the recent past (last month) for making legal threats against users and the Wikimedia Foundation". That is incorrect, and that is obvious from even the block log. Of you read, it says: "22:09, 21 March 2008 Shell Kinney (Talk | contribs) unblocked Ottava Rima (Talk | contribs) ‎ (wait, sorry, he threated to take legal action against me with the WM Foundation, changing back to original length)". Notice "unblock". She improperly blocked me for what she claimed was a legal threat, and it was not. Furthermore, it has nothing to do with the ANI. Adding such information, especially inaccurately, is rather rude. Please remove your comment now that you know it is incorrect. Ottava Rima (talk) 03:47, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Imagens de Los fabulosos cadillacs
Hola soy un contribuidor mexicano y estoy trabajando en los articulos referentes a los fabulosos cadillacs, note que las imagenes de los albumes que hay las habias subido tu, asi que utilize el mismo metodo, todo hiba bien hasta que me indicaron que la imagen de El Leon sera borrada, pero no hice nada diferente a ti o a las otras imagenes que ya habia subido, podrias por favor aconsejarme al respecto que puedo hacer para que no sea borrada. Por adelantado gracias hermano latino Zidane tribal (talk) 23:19, 26 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Te agradesco tu respuesta, y sobre el retraso no te preocupes. Si se que la imagenes requiereun una justificacion para ser usadas pero me declaro neofito al respecto, nunca he podido subir una imagen sin que me llamen la atencion por ella, asi que lo que puedas hacer para que las imagenes no sea borradas te lo agradecere. Zidane tribal (talk) 17:42, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

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Long time no Talk, request for article assistance, and talk page help if you can.
Working on Libertarianism page. The entire thing is factually incorrect ignoring the majority of history on the topic. I've always found you particularly reasonable when it comes to arguments. If you have any knowledge on the topic, or would otherwise monitor the events, I would appreciate it. Thank you. q (talk) 18:08, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I was talking more about the edit warring. I had every edit reverted in a weekend (over 30) by one person. Finally she agreed to stop reverting me after a lot of discussion and reverting of her reverts on my part. You don't really need to be familiar with the topic, I am adding cited and sourced information, citing sometimes twice within one sentence. The majority of the article is uncited and factually incorrect.


 * I had never seen an article more POV on wikipedia. A group has taken it over, and refused to allow the real history and context to be displayed. This is evident from the talk page and archives as many people have complained about this issue. I started finally taking it on in a very historical way, and have been reverted. Right now, Some of the more important edits have existed for a couple days, so that's promising. I want to add more, but am trying to give some time in between expecting that someone is going to revert the whole thing once more. It takes a lot of time to research and fine meticulous sources on an issue like that, and I don't want all this work to be removed by people who are not concerned by the accuracy of the information, but in that it detracts from their intention of spreading their message of "libertarianism."


 * The very quick of it is, Libertarianism meant one thing for 200 years. in 1955 a guy with an ideology opposite of it took the word. Now an opposite ideology spreads that no one else can be libertarian except them. It meant anti-capitalist (and still does everywhere in the world but the u.s.), and pro-capitalists took the word in 1955, and the media has been quite open to them because they prefer radical capitalists to anti-capitalists. q (talk) 18:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Pat Robertson
Charlatanism applies to the See Also section because he's been associated with the word since the Hugo Chavez incident. --Ragemanchoo (talk) 07:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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User Cali567
Dear Jersey Devil, As you being an administrator and reverted this user edits, I wanted to ask your help in reference to this particular user who is adding a controversial study on every argentine article refering to demographics even though it was a consensus, eventually creating severe edit warring nearly every day (look at her contributions). I have requested the block of the user if the vandalism continues but until now no one has answered my request. Could you do something if the edt war continues? Regards, --Fercho85 (talk) 06:23, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Argentina Articles and User:Fercho85
Greetings, I have been involved in many articles having to do with Argentina's population and Amerindian ancestry (Argentina, Argentine American, White Argentine, Demographics of Argentina, White People, etc.)

User:Fercho85 reverts my many edits every time, even though they are backed by sources. Our problem, I suspect, is that he doesn't want to acknowledge the Amerindian ancestry of many Argentines and insists that the just about the whole population of Argentina is only White/European. I agree that Argentina has one of the largest pure-European/part European descended population (After Brazil, and before Mexico) in Latin America (Or all the Americas, for that matter), but there are many studies that show a large population have Amerindian ancestry.

My source, in Spanish, http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/01/16/sociedad/s-03415.htm states that 56% of Argentines have Amerindian ancestry. This, to me, should be added in all articles having to do with the Argentine descended population as the European population is always referenced.

Thank You in advance. Cali567 (talk) 07:08, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I do not wish to put that 56% of Argentines are Mestizos, and of course its not widely accepted. I want to put that 56% of Argentines have Amerindian ancestors... that is not sayiong they are all Mestizos. Argentine/Chilean users are not letting anyone put any information on these subjects that debate the "Whiteness" of Argentines, etc... User:Fercho85, your friend, has been reverting everything I put in... and he is allowed to keep it that way... If that is what you stand for, we may need to get help elsewhere. Cali567 (talk) 08:39, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for allowing me the freedom of doing as I wish with my talk page (?), hopefully, next time, it won't have to turn into a revert/edit war, which you warned us from engaging in. You may paste it on any of your pages you wish... Have an excellent night Wiki User! Cali567 (talk) 09:06, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Response to User:Cali567 (removed from user's talk page)
I have reviewed the situation and read the statements made by yourself and the other users. In order to remain a neutral third party in this discussion I will refrain from commenting on the content other than that the claim (that is the claim that "56% of Argentinians are meztizo or amerindian") is not widely accepted and hence requires general consensus in order to be placed into an article. From what I have seen, rather than seeking this consensus you have participated in and incited revert wars across a span of several Argentina-related articles. There are venues for dispute resolution which include seeking consensus on talk pages of related articles, taking straw polls to seek consensus or using requests for comment to seek input from the wider Wikipedia community. Instead from your statement on User:Fercho85's talk page you have said that "This will be added in this article. It may reverted by you, but it will be added, despite your fake "consensus", as long as I am a Wikipedia User." This indicates to me that you intend on continuing to revert war on those aforementioned articles. I will say that if you do not seek consensus via dispute resolution policy and continue to revert war despite my warnings I will use my powers as an administrator to temporarily revoke you editing privileges on Wikipedia.

Furthermore I will make a comment on your edit summaries some of which are in violation of WP:NPA policy. For instance, in one edit summary you state "Excuse you, Please learn Reading Comprehension. That is not What it Says." and on the edit immediately following this one you state "Simplified Wording for Users....". Reviewing your block log I see that in the past you have be blocked for "incivility, racial puns/trolling" after which you apparently apologized and were unblocked. You should have learned then to avoid making personal attacks but it seems the behavior still continues. If I see a similar personal attack in the future on edit summaries, comments, etc... I again will use my role as an administrator to temporarily revoke your editing privileges. Thank you.--Jersey Devil (talk) 08:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Please do not remove or alter my comments. This is meant as a warning for fellow administrators and all parties involved to view. With regards to your comments on my talk page, please to not refer to User:Fercho85 as "my friend". It is incivil and I have never known this user before I was made aware of this dispute today.--Jersey Devil (talk) 09:00, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

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The information you have removed from that article is relevant and it should stay on. I did see (before I reverted your edit) that someone had objected to the phrase, but upon further review of that particular line, it’s not hard to notice that the objection was drawn under the wrong premises. In fact, the argument used to remove the line is a straw man. The commentary it’s used to describe Chomsky’s great influence on the field of linguistics and it’s completely unrelated to his “controversial” or "not well received" views, as the other user argues. I also discussed this particular point on the talk page before I reverted your edit, and perhaps I should have noted it on my edit description so that you could’ve seen it as well. Likeminas (talk) 22:06, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Bunk Article
yea man no problem i read the deletion policy and that article fell in line of deletion criteria, so rules are rules. thanks bro —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elbigger1 (talk • contribs) 08:14, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Disruptive editing on Hispanic and Latino Americans
You are not in the right to condemn the updates to this particular article. What has been added is necessary and highly informative material complete with valid citations in addition to updated statistics, corrected terms and labels, and tags for unsourced and clearly partisan content.

The fact that you are blindly reverting everything shows that you are either failing to read all of the changes or that you are forcing illegitimate point of view, in addition to outdated, misleading, and unsourced material.

The probable reason as to why no administrator has followed your request is perhaps that they are all aware of who is correct in this particular situation. M5891 (talk) 01:29, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Question
Hi Jersey Devil, I noticed that you've been involved in editing Peru-related articles. I'm not sure if you know the answer to this question, but I'm somewhat confused over whether two political parties are actually the same. According to Peruvian general election, 2011 (specifically the "Main Political Parties" section), the Spanish name for the National Renewal party is Solidaridad Nacional. However, I assumed that Solidaridad Nacional was the National Solidarity party. Are these two parties actually the same, or completely different? Also, there appears to be some dispute when it comes to the where the 2011 presidential candidates lie politically. Would it be accurate to say that Luis Castañeda, Lourdes Flores, and Keiko Fujimori are right-wing (or at least right-leaning), Alejandro Toledo is centrist, while Ollanta Humala and Jorge Del Castillo are left-wing—or at least left learning? Thanks in advance. Khoikhoi 04:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * BTW, please reply on my talk page. Khoikhoi 04:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

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Latin America
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This is a wikipedia article. Your exclusion of brazil was improper based on another wikipedia article that was referenced. Also your exclusion of French was improper based on the referenced. There is no disruption. The best I can say is change the article to Hispanic American it would avoid the Brazilian and the French that you seem to want out. CashRules (talk) 05:48, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Re:Hispanic and Latino Americans article
Thank you for inviting me to participate in making said article a better one. I would like that very much. Right now, I have an article up my sleeve which I am working on. I suggest, for starters, that you assemble a team of editors, who have been positively active in the article and who can be trusted as unbiased contributors, and assign a section of their particular interest to work on.

You know something, I find it incredible that some people feel offended when referred to as Latino or Hispanic. I have heard some people say "I'm not Hispanic, I am Latino" and recently actors Andy Garcia and Jessica Alba have flatly refused to be identified as "Hispanics".

The root of the problem and confusion as to the usage of both terms comes from the 1970s invention and definition of the newer term "Hispanic" by the United States Census Dept. According to the U.S. government a "Hispanic" is any person who can trace his/her roots to a Spanish speaking country south of the border. It has become so confusing that a lot of ignorant people in the U.S. believe that "Hispanic is a race and not an ethnicity.

The older term "Latino", which was more commonly used, referrers to any person who has his/her roots in "Latin America" (Caribbean, Central and South America) which includes Brazil, Surinam and so on. You can be a Hispanic and a Latino, but you can also be a Latino and not a "Hispanic" in accordance to U.S. definition. In my humble opinion, I think that maybe the tittle should be better defined. See you later Tony the Marine (talk) 19:45, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Ambassador to People's Republic of China
Amb. Randt is not the current ambassador. He left office on the day that President Bush left office and the office has been vacant since. Please see http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/7555.htm for confirmation of this. Please stop reverting this. The office is indeed vacant. Yezn0r (talk) 17:54, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Revolutionary Coordinating Junta
You may have started this page - some time ago - but this material is very controversial it would be better served if it was referenced and footnoted. I also noted that the external links don’t lead to material on the subject of the page’s topic. I've placed a reference and inline citations tags accordingly._Regards_Moshe-paz (talk) 13:42, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

War of the Pacific
The article War of the Pacific needs attention from more people of Wikiproject Peru. The article has practically been under a monopoly of Chilean editors, and any attempted improvement done to the article is accused of "Peruvian POV." Since you're a member of Wikiproject Peru and a Wikipedia administrator, it seemed to me that you were the best candidate to attempt to contact. As of now, I'm currently holding a discussion against 3 other users who accuse me of pushing "Peruvian POV." I've been attempting to be completely neutral by heavily improving the article with information, summarizing sections, and other such things. However, these three people constantly accuse my edits of being biased. As of now, they've made a "list" of the "POV" in the article, and apparently now are trying to use consensus from themselves in order to continue pushing their POV. I don't know what else to do, and I really need your help.--$%MarshalN20%$ (talk) 17:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Please be so kind to look into the issues Marshall calls "improvement". Look at the revision history, the talk page and more recently his constant use of personal attacks against other editors. Thank you. Likeminas (talk) 18:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Go right ahead Jersey Devil. Look at the version that Likeminas proposed (He deleted 34,000 bytes of sourced information) and the amount of improvements that have been done to the article in comparisson to Likemina's proposal. What's worse, he's now wikistalking me; looking at who I have written to in order to attempt to persuade you not to look at all of the terrible things he is attempting to do.--$%MarshalN20%$ (talk) 20:36, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * My knowledge of the War of the Pacific is not that of an expert so I wouldn't really be able to comment substantively on the issue. Furthermore I haven't been on much because of studying for my actuarial exams so I wouldn't even have the time to take care of it. I do suggest you guys try and cool down and stop edit warring in that article though. In addition I will ask the user User:Victor12 to keep an eye on it. He is a Peruvian military historian and I trust his judgment on such issues.--Jersey Devil (talk) 22:26, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: Venting
Hello, JD.

You asked me "What is it about that article and that subject that seems to attract them?" I'd say it's because it is an important article. On the second question I say that there are of course a few of us who do want to improve the article.

It's too bad that I chose to take this break at the same time you were busy with school. I was afraid of that. But I was spending far too much time at WP and neglecting some very important work I need to do.

I'm back for a few days and then I'll be away again. But I'll try to come by more regularly and help out.

Now, if I may "re-vent":

While on break, I welcomed not having to deal with the chronically unconstructive editors for a while. You administrators are too lenient with them. That's a disservice to this project. It makes some editors leave for good and makes others contribute less. And that's on top of the fact that WP ends up saddled with all the bad content courtesy of those unconstructive editors! It's sad that only a few admins seem to get that. I'm starting to see how someone could come up with a different encyclopedia of this type that's more sane in how it deals with unconstructive editors; So I'm not sure that WP has staying power. WP's overall quality will not improve enough for WP to fend off a challenger.

Anyway... I hope you did well in the exams. SamEV (talk) 22:16, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, I added the userbox {User Wikiproject New Jersey}* to my user page and only the "This user is part of the New Jersey WikiProject." part shows up. Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey (under participation) it shows "This user lives in the state of New Jersey." and "This user grew up in the state of New Jersey." I live in NJ and grew up in NJ so I would like those user boxes too. How can I get them?

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Discussion at WikiProject New Jersey
Hi, Jersey Devil, User:Nightscream and I had a disagreement over certain parts of NJ municipality articles; because the discussion could potentially affect hundreds of articles, we decided to bring the discussion to WikiProject New Jersey. I would value your input in the discussion, which you can find here. Thanks, A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 14:54, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Postal codes in Peru
Hi Jersey Devil,

can you write anything about the postal codes in Peru?

The topic is currently missing, see others:

TrueColour (talk) 19:13, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

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I wasn't gloating. I listed Corzine as the "outgoing" Governor because someone inserted "former" within minutes of Christie's victory being declared, and I changed it to acknowledge the election result while trying to prevent the article from falling victim to the frequent Wikipedia fallacy of declaring that you've left office as soon as the polls close. Best, JTRH (talk) 14:22, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

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IP addresses constantly change so several unrelated articles edited by various individuals may link back to the same address, though you and your socialist comrades are so full of venomous pro-brown, anti-white hatred and paranoia that what I just stated will probably never register in your feeble Raza mind. Stupid wetback, you're just preserving and creating more resentment against your kind. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.70.104.60 (talk) 20:41, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

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Enjoy being a subserviant token wetback while you still can because the entire bloodthirsty lying tan klan and your dirty machismo are getting deported. Adiós diablo mojado. M5891 (talk) 01:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.67.229.37 (talk)

Oops, didn't revert enough
Apologies about that, was meaning to revert both bits, not just sinebot. billinghurst  sDrewth  11:46, 1 February 2010 (UTC)