User talk:John Paul Parks

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That comment was from a user named "Sagbliss" who was off the charts in her misunderstanding of what wikipedia is for, and how it works. She was upset by other editors reverting her edits, and asking her to be more balanced. Eventually she threatened to sue the foundation, other editors, admins and the like. She was banned. Bruno23 (talk) 19:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't blame you. Thanks for responding. John Paul Parks (talk) 23:17, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Illustrations of the rule against perpetuities
Just saw your edits to the above. Do you have a reference for your statement that "This rule is based on the Biblical account of Sarah, whose [sic] bore Isaac, even though she was in her 90's. Genesis 21:2". Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 17:33, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it is an old law school textbook of mine, Casner & Leach, Cases and Text on Property (Little Brown). I will try to get more complete citation information. John Paul Parks (talk) 03:48, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts
I cut and pasted most of what you suggested onto the article. Bearian (talk) 20:57, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Please note, however, that individual lawyers were never permitted to keep the interest generated on trust account funds.   John Paul Parks (talk) 03:37, 7 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I've made some changes as suggested. Bearian (talk) 22:10, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Disagree re Too Much Jargon
I do not consider the terminology as jargon at all, but rather that the terminology is saliently pertinent to the subject. Understandably it may present as being considerably unfamiliar to those not conversant with this somewhat technical subject. The original contributor's information is well written and informative. Furthermore, John Paul Park's statement that "anulment" is Catholicism's term for 'divorce' is absolutely erroneous. There is a definitive difference between divorce and annulment. It needs to be clearly stated and understood that the Catholic Church does not recognise divorce and never has. In other words, where it considers a valid marriage exists then The Church cannot and will not grant an annulment. However, where The Church considers there are sufficient grounds upon which to prove that a valid marriage was not originally entered into, then an annulment is possible, on the basis that a valid marriage never existed - hence an annulment.

On this basis I would suggest that the above marker be removed from the original contributer's explanation. Dingerooz (talk) 16:33, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

RE: Your comment on Fannie Lou Hamer
I think that, although the inclusion of the information that her grandparents were slaves may or may not be relevant (although I would argue that it is), I would like to state that the ability of your Ukrainian grandparents to raise themselves to the point where their grandson has become a lawyer is hardly relevant, and, indeed, is vastly different from the experience of African-Americans in this country. I am not African-American, but just a cursory study of the hardships that they had to endure, especially in the south where Fannie Lou Hamer was from, would reveal that this specific subgroup in the United States not only had to push against economic constraints, but also psychological and, indeed, physical ones, as well. They were not only looked down upon, but also spat on, beat, and murdered. Should your grandparents had to endure and overcome such hardships in order to succeed, their grandson may not have had the opportunity to become a lawyer. Even with the inclusion of such as these, there are, I'm sure, attorneys practicing law whose lineage includes slaves. -F_N_Miranda@hotmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.22.104 (talk) 18:33, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

To properly justify inclusion you need to add something to the same effect in her article. -- Brangifer (talk) 02:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Anne Frank Diary
I share in your critical thinking concerning the authenticity, or lack thereof, of the Ann Frank diary, and I wanted to tell you that I think it SUCKS - for lack of a better term - that anyone who questions the veracity of the diary - or at least what we know of the diary today - is reflixively branded a Holocaust denier, or some kind of antisemite. Patently untrue. It is untrue in my case and clearly it is untrue in yours. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jros83 (talk • contribs) 08:07, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

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Your addition to Mutiny on the Bounty
Hello. Your recent good faith addition to the Mutiny on the Bounty plot section is really very long and overdetailed; the Mills/cheese episode winds up being as long as the rest of the plot. I'd like to suggest you give it a trim — a serious trim — perhaps summarizing the theft and the flogging in a sentence or two, and then closing it out with Bligh's remark about cruelty with a purpose is efficiency, which speaks volumes about Bligh in just a few deft words. It's easy to "go long" on a Plot section when you love a film (as we both love this one, I suspect), but the guideline is 750 words, which is probably a good length. Readers who haven't seen the picture probably wouldn't care about a detailed Plot section, and those who did don't need the detail. If I can be of any help, please feel free to ask. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 06:54, 22 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Good trims. I made a few more myself. Hope you approve. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 00:27, 23 April 2011 (UTC)


 * My pleasure. Thanks for making the page better! — HarringtonSmith (talk) 04:07, 23 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Aww, John Paul, it's repeating the "difficult" that gives it the rhythm and makes it a good sentence! — HarringtonSmith (talk) 04:38, 23 April 2011 (UTC)


 * John Paul, if your English teacher had had her way, The Beatles would never have created "Paperback Writer": "It's a dirty story of a dirty man, and his clinging wife doesn't understand." Variety of words is the least important consideration in putting together good sentences! Listen to your own ear, 'cause it'll never steer you wrong. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 12:19, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Season's tidings!
To you and yours, Have a Merry ______ (fill in the blank) and Happy New Year! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:12, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

RE: King Willem Alexander
Hi, in response to your message :

While Denmark might have a state religion, the Netherlands doesn't have one officially - although one could say that the officious state religion is Protestant Church in the Netherlands / (Dutch Reformed). The general term "Protestant" is used in the same way in the Netherlands as it is in the US - denominating any non-Catholic Christians. Please feel free to adjust the link in the infobox to "Protestant Church in the Netherlands" if you think it would be clearer to US readers - I think the current version was put there mainly for brevity's sake. Regards, Niels? ennl 22:55, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Christa McAuliffe
I am removing your tag for clarification on the remains. Divers found the crew compartment of Challenger. A large number of sources from the period mention this, including. The remains were processed at Dover Air Force Base and those that could be identified were returned to the families. I didn't include this level of detail on the McAuliffe page as it seemed beyond its scope. Details of the remains, processing ceremony, and distribution seem more appropriate for the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster page. - Thanks, Jh12 (talk) 01:31, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

RE: Baseball
Well thank you for your kind words! I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the documentary's bias towards teams from the Eastern United States and I imagine that it must piss off basball fans west of the Bos-Wash corridor.RatdePatinoire (talk) 17:02, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

"table"
Thank you for your edit to quorum call. The confusion about the competing meanings of "table" comes up more frequently than one might imagine. ("Table" is one of the few English words with two meanings that arguably mean the opposite of each other. Two other examples are "sanction" and "cleave.") Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 02:14, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Pluto
You need to be clearer about what you want. "According to whom" isn't much to go on. Do you want me to quote the source directly? Or are you asking whether the Observatory actually had the right to name Pluto?
 * The answer is the International Astronomical Union; not sure that needs to be included though, since it's true of every astronomical body discovered since 1919.  Serendi pod ous  18:18, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Peary Channel (Greenland)
For now I set a wikilink to Peary Land which has a brief mention; This could be expanded. There seems to be material available, but it's more than I can take on right now. If you are interested, go ahead, otherwise I will probably get to it sometime. Enjoy. Dankarl (talk).

Regarding your edits to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
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James Buchanon
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September 2008
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December 2008
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Response from comment on my user talk page - I reverted your edit for being OR, not for being incorrect. Frontiero v. Richardson split 4-4 on whether to apply strict scrutiny to sex distinctions in the law reviewed under the Equal Protection Clause. So no decision was reached on the correct standard. Three years later, in Craig v. Boren, the Supreme Court decided on intermediate scrutiny (a less strict standard) as the standard for reviewing legal sex distinctions. The ERA would at least require the application of strict scrutiny (the standard for legal race distinctions). SMP0328. (talk) 01:05, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Robert Spencer
Greetings. I'm glad to see any attempt to impart some balance to the RS article, but please provide a source for something that "obviously confirms Spencer's assertion." For those who would like to use the article as a platform to bash Spencer, something like that, sans source, invites "tit for tat" edits and emboldens them to hack at the article some more. Kebert Xela2906 (talk) 20:10, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

World Series
Be careful. Obvously inappropriate entries, even when immediately withdrawn, are typically considered to qualify as vandalism. It wouldn't likely come back to haunt you... unless it becomes a habit. :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 13:41, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Francis Wilkinson Pickens
Hello! I removed part of your edit to this page and added a for the remaining portion. The article's talk page explains my reasoning. If you have the book, I can easily cite this edit or show you how to yourself, just let me know either way here or here. Mainly I would need the page numbers. Thank you. Kresock (talk) 00:41, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

February 2010
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March 2010
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November 2010
I was just looking at your posts on the Franklin Prophecy - do you realise that talk pages aren't for general discussion of the subject, speculation, etc, but just for discussion of the article? You were treating the talk page a bit like a forum. Dougweller (talk) 06:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

March 2011
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Wizard of Oz
You may have noticed they reverted your changes. The reason is that it's unsourced, so it appears to be original research. And besides which, the following counterarguments can be made:


 * 1) Dorothy runs away from home, taking her dog, Toto, with her, so that Miss Glutch will not be able to return and take him to the sheriff to be destroyed. At some point in the movie, Dorothy's reason for running away from home is subtly re-characterized as evidencing Dorothy's wish to pursue her heart's content. - She had already been persuaded, by Prof. Marvel, to go back home. The tornado put a crimp in those plans. The film's wrap-up comes full circle with the song "Over the Rainbow", as she discovers that she's already there in some sense.
 * 2) After Dorothy is in Oz, and is following the Yellow Brick Road on her journey to see the wizard, she comes to a fork in the road where the Yellow Brick Road continues in three different directions. After interacting with the scarecrow, she and the scarecrow head off in one of the three directions, but it is never explained how or why they made that choice or where the other potential routes would have led. - One can infer that all the yellow brick roads lead to Oz.
 * 3) Dorothy and the wizard attempt to leave Oz in the wizard's balloon, but Toto goes after a dog in the crowd and jumps out of the balloon's gondola. Dorothy goes after him, and the wizard leaves without them. As it turns out, Dorothy still had the oil can with her, which would have left the tin man without any way to remedy his chronic rusting problem. - They're in a city, so locating some more oil should not be a problem.
 * 4) The fate of Miss Gultch is never explained; thus viewers do not know whether Toto was safe or not. - True, although it's inferred that she was swept up by the tornado. But if not, presumably they would have dealt with it. Dorothy defeated her in Oz, she could stand up to her in real life.←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:16, 22 April 2011 (UTC)


 * When you say "source information for a list of inaccuracies", are you referring to things like the questions you've raised above, or "continuity mistakes"? The most glaring of those is probably the witch talking about "sending a little insect to take the fight out of them", which of course refers to the deleted scene about the "jitterbug". That movie has been sliced-and-diced for generations and there are countless web sites and books that talk about oddities in Oz. The tricky part would be to find reliable sources, as many of those sources tend to be personal opinions and/or user-input (i.e. like wikipedia). ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:27, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Pointing things out based on observations of the film can take you into "original research" territory. It's much safer to take comments from the specials and commentaries that come with DVD's, since those are the presumed "experts" talking. Just an aside: This film having become a classic due to so many TV appearances shows the value of the "small screen", which can hide some details. I'm thinking specifically of maybe a dozen years ago, probably one of the "anniversary" releases, when it was shown in movie theaters for awhile. At least two things jumped out at me. One was that the "hanging munchkin" was a product of seeing a small and ambiguous image. On the big screen, it was obviously one of the birds in that set piece, flapping its wings. However, that nifty backdrop when Dorothy was dancing away from Munchkinland was very obvious also... like they yelled "cut" just before she ran into it. (Either that, or it was poorly-executed matte-painting work.) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:34, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

RE: List of Waltons Characters
Hi John Paul. Just a courtesy heads up to let you know I reverted your recent edit to List of The Waltons characters and why. Basically why was because there is no Wiki for Ashley Longworth and doubtful ever will be. While of course mentioned dozens of times over the course of the series, Mr. Longworth was never seen and would have a hard time qualifying as even a minor character on the show, let alone one deserving of a dedicated Wiki. Hope you understand and don't take offense. Have a great Wiki kind of day! Sector001 (talk) 04:11, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Sexual intercourse
Hello,

Please provide a reliable source for your addition to the duration section of the article, or I will revert it as original research. Please avoid signing your additions of content to main space. Sign your comments on talk pages and other discussion pages. Thank you.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  06:33, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I already reverted it, with the following edit summary: Reverted unsourced, oddly-worded "attack" paragraph. Why use the word "attack"?


 * Sounds like the paragraph was about some type of wild non-human mating. Flyer22 (talk) 12:58, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I replied on my talk page. Flyer22 (talk) 19:37, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Margaret Thatcher
Hi. This edit introduced an inaccuracy into the article. Thatcher was never a pharmacist. Could you please be more careful? Thanks a lot. --John (talk) 22:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Then the article needs clarification. The English use the word "chemist" when Americans would use the word "pharmacist."  If she was a research chemist, then that needs to be stated explicitly, in order to avoid confusion.  In my view, Wikipedia should use American English and not try to put on airs with British English.John Paul Parks (talk) 05:20, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * See WP:ENGVAR. You might as well say that we should standardise on British English. Our actual policy is to use whichever dialect is appropriate to the subject. As Thatcher is English we use that version on her article. --John (talk) 08:22, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

May 2012
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Women's Equality Day
Hi. I'm sorry, but I reverted your recent additions to this article. You added a section claiming that the resolution 'falsified history' by stating that American women were first given the right to vote by the 19th Amendment. While it's true that before it was passed, most states permitted women to vote in at least some elections, it is accurate to say that they did not have the right to do so: as women's suffrage was not protected by the Constitution, any state that permitted it could theoretically have taken it away. Only when the Amendment was passed did women's suffrage become a Constitutional right, guaranteed for the first time to all American women (well, except those who were disenfranchised for other reasons, like black women in the South). Hence the language of the resolution. While you could say it's overstating the importance of the 19th Amendment, you'd have to be wilfully misinterpreting it to say it 'falsified history'. Such a claim is not consistent with WP:NPOV. Robofish (talk) 20:17, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, fair comments, I take the point about the 19th Amendment also being potentially open to repeal. I doubt that Bella Abzug was as ignorant as you suggest of the history of women's rights, though; I still think the meaning of the resolution is clear, that it was commemorating the first time women's suffrage had been constitutionally protected across all states. In any case, the reasons I removed your criticism from the article are that it was non-neutrally written and not sourced. If you can find a source demonstrating that the resolution has been criticised as historically inaccurate, then you can say so in the article, as long as that criticism is written fairly and neutrally. Robofish (talk) 21:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

September 2012
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December 2012
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RE: Political status of Puerto Rico
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Tea Party movement and the Constitution
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Multiple problems with editorializing

 * This edit at United Nations Security Council veto power is editorializing.
 * This set of edits at Metrication in Canada is childish editorializing.
 * More editorializing at Roger Mudd.
 * Still more at Candid Camera.

Wikipedia is not your blog. If you can't cite a reliable source, you should probably not make the edit.

I'm going to be reviewing all of your contributions as this appears to be an ongoing problem. If you feel is unfair or unwarranted, you're welcome to take thus up at the dispute resolution noticeboard.

Garamond Lethe t c  18:28, 2 November 2013 (UTC)


 * I've also reverted the following:
 * Original research see WP:OR at Voter turnout in the United States presidential elections.
 * This at Jimmy Carter. This is even more problematic, but has already been reverted.
 * Problematic, but already reverted (Roots: The Saga of an American Family)
 * Editorial, already removed (The Four-Way Test).


 * I've gone through your past year of contributions, and the further back I go the better the edits get. You've done some really solid work here, and I'm hoping we see much more of the same.  Garamond Lethe t c  19:00, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Original research/editorializing
Please watch the original research and editorializing. This edit to Girard College puts forward an opinion unsubstantiated by any source provided. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 21:02, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

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April 2014
I reverted an editorializing edit on Andrew Greeley. You've been warned about this for 6 years or so...one of these days, someone's going to decide you've done it enough. -- Jay Maynard (talk) 23:43, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

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Greenwood High School (Mississippi)
Thanks for pointing out that the external link to the school website was incorrect. I took 30 seconds and fixed it. I'd like to share with you, from WP:DRIVEBYTAGGING, that "if you identify a issue with a page, and yet the issue is trivial or has a straightforward solution, it's usually best to fix it yourself!" Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 15:17, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your note back. I'm not sure what you mean about having your edit reverted.  You only made one edit to the article, and it wasn't reverted.  All I was trying to say is, this was a simple fix.  Part of the fun of editing is adding new information.  By doing this fix, I got to read the school's website.  It can't be much fun adding tags to articles.  Anyway, take care.  Magnolia677 (talk) 16:03, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

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Faithless Electors
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Carolyn Hax
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I reverted your change of the word "killed" to "kilt" on the page Investiture of the Prince of Wales, "kilt" is not a British way of spelling "killed", it is a Scottish item of clothing.Dabbler (talk) 17:24, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

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Reppy (1985)?
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