User talk:Kissedsmiley

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081002 Dividends []fix-inaccurate and misleading charn of dividends as not double tax ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_tax#History []add history section per Saez, aka Piketty 2007, who thinks top1% is wrong, pg84 shows dividends were 12% for the 'poor' and 60% for tip-top thru 1970. Then 1983 to 1987 another big drop and after 1991 everyone made less than 10% which is likely interest not div; 1999 2% and 6% 1984 6% 17% 1982 7% 30% 1974 7% 40% http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/piketty-saezOUP04US.pdf

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Jello salad
Hi. I wanted to thank you for the improvements you made to the Jello salad page, and to tell you that I agree that the article is now encyclopedic enough not to be deleted. Good work. If there's anything I can tell you or help you with, please let me know on my user talk page. Happy editing! –Sommers (Talk) 17:31, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

080909 fix- add-cite re islamic slavery
//not sure if this cite had been lost due to vandalism or neglect. I could only find it on the very first revision 2007: cite#1 as edited by Elijahmeeks (Talk | contribs) at 02:05, 28 June 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa#cite_note-11 Imam El Hassan Ould Benyamin of Tayarat in 1997 expressed his views about earlier proclamations ending slavery in his country as follows: "[it] is contrary to the teachings of the fundamental text of Islamic law, the Quran ... [and] amounts to the expropriation from muslims of their goods; goods that were acquired legally. The state, if it is Islamic, does not have the right to seize my house, my wife or my slave."[12]

12 Segal, p.206, in "Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora," quoted by Suzy Hansen of Salon.com on 5 April 2001 - http://archive.salon.com/books/int/2001/04/05/segal/index.html. The book cite is Ronald Segal (2002) http://www.amazon.com/Islams-Black-Slaves-Other-Diaspora/dp/0374527970/

080921 add-cite to YB []howto cite formatting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act#Criticism

Economist Yaron Brook concluded succinctly, "The Government Did It:" through the stick of the CRA [and] the carrot of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the fed created the mortgage market debacle.

081114 chg-weasle word re Hitler's legacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Legacy now; properly regarded as immoral was whitewash word; 'typically' instead of 'properly'

Note that the quote re Hitler is abysmal, portraying him as having colossal strengths: "who has performed these superb toils." Particularly in that context I think the phrase "typically regarded as immoral" serves to belittle his evil.

I came across this problem in checking via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

the assertion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tendentious_editing our article on Adolf Hitler does not portray him as a sensitive and misunderstood individual who was kind to his mother

I think that starting out with the 'typically' idea is a whitewash. Also, I think the length of the article detracts from the main point, such as the Holocaust, which was given about 5% of the total article. I disagree that Wikipedia needs to have an exhaustive study of Hitler's battle plans on its main page... perhaps there should be a family of war history pages.

081219 add- c# needs no line continuation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages_(syntax) - Line_continuation

FIXED: License tagging for Steve Charnovitz.jpg
//This was 3rd of 3 posts they sent me; fix was I had asked Steve to explicitly give his approval, since it did not work for me to submit directly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Charnovitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charnovitz_in_2009.jpg Thanks for uploading File:Charnovitz.jpg I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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