User talk:Marine 69-71/Archive 9

RE: Maria Celeste & Diplomats
Can you help me label the picture of Maria Celeste outside the Today show? I just don't have an idea on how to do it.

Also, check out all the names in the diplomats section. They all now have biographies.--XLR8TION 19:20, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi marine i don't want to  bother you,but  if  you  ever read this message and  have  time  of  course,could you help me  to  translate the  nicky  cruz to spanish, i think you create it as far as  i  read in  the  history,and if  you  can make  the  necessary  corrections  to the  yiye avila's page thank you --Teknomegisto 07:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients revisited
Tony, A question and a comment: &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 23:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you consider someone of Portugese heritage to be Hispanic? This paragraph in the Wikipedia article "Hispanic" seems to say no.  This relates to the De Castro Civil War Medal of Honor.
 * It is pretty definitive that the 19th Massachusetts Infantry would be considered U.S. Army during the Civil War. So, De Castro's medal would be given by the Army.
 * By early next week, I hope to have some definitive information about Barkley's designation as the "first". One thing that we've not yet been able to find is who honored him as the first in 1989?


 * The De Castro surname could be Spanish or Portugese. But, it might be a red herring.  There just may have been a mistake in the recognition.  Still investigating.  I've made a contact and hope to hear back next week. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 02:22, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * De Castro is probably Galician/Portugese. A few hundred years ago no one was really checking at the border... ;-) Demf 18:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Loisaida
I'm guessing that you could answer the question at Talk:Loisaida about how to correctly pronounce "Loisaida". Also, if you could possibly add IPA or a sound file to the article that would be truly great. (And if I'm barking up the wrong tree, then my apologies.) - Jmabel | Talk 18:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Re pronunciation: the reason I was unsure was that Spanglish tends always to be written without accents, so it's hard to know from a printed version, and I last lived in New York before the word gained much currency. And so far we lack a Spanglish Academy (though maybe Ilan Stavans will start one for us...) - Jmabel | Talk 04:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the compliment on my Talk page. I also put some up on the Loisaida page, in case you're interested. Thanks also for serving. --DavidShankBone 01:12, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Alfonso Schomburg
Thanks for the message and confirmation. Actually those islands were under Dutch/Danish rule - Carl Andreas was German, but he was trading as a Danish national - his wife was a native from Skagen. Our family still doesn't know the real story behind the New York Schomburg branch - but the link we are sure of.

Thanks and happy sailing : )

T HE P ROMENADER 17:10, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I did read the German immigration to Puerto Rico and found it quite enlightening. Thank you.  T HE P ROMENADER  22:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks & take a look
Tony, Thanks for the admin"ship"! It came a bit early &mdash; seems that the time stamp went with when it was put on the RFA page. (My mistake for not completing that right away; but, you stepped in &mdash; thanks!) The official time has now expired, but I guess that the next step is for a bureaucrat to close it?
 * OK. It's official.  A bureaucrat has closed it and I've been promoted.  Many thanks to you for your encouragement, support, and complimentary words!  Now, you can expect that I'll be coming to you for tutorials in how to do admin tasks. ;-) &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 00:21, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

BTW. I've made some updates to the USMC Portal. General del Valle had a month on as the selected bio. It has changed... I think you will agree that the Sgt is a distinguished Marine. Check out the quote as well. The selected article and photo should be changing soon &mdash; Looper5920 has those. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 23:41, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations
Congrats Tony for getting your work on a House Bill. I am always gladdened that your hard work is recognized. I haven;t been very active on Puerto Rico articles this week since I am working on my newest article, Fauna of Puerto Rico (currently in my Sandbox). It has been more work than I expected (I am not an expert on biogeography so the Origin section has been arduous) but when it's done it will be one of the best resources on Puerto Rico's fauna on the internet. See you around. Joelito (talk) 17:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!
Tony, congrats on the José Celso Barbosa article appearing in the House Bill. How did it come to your attention? &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 02:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't want to be a party pooper, but the article could be much longer... Demf 18:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

2nd Battalion 9th Marines
This article will probably be hitting the GA reviewer desk within a week. Some areas of concern on it are red links and it needs a lot of in-line citations. I would appreciated it if you could watch the talk page and reply to any comments that the reviewer leaves. I believe with a little work this article could reach FA status.--Oldwildbill 06:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for you help
Tony:

I entered the information on my photo as you suggested. I hope it is now "legal."

Hector Andres Negroni

Tony:

Thanks for your kind advise. I have added the tag as you suggested. I congratulate you for all the contributions that you have made to the Wikipedia. Hector Andres Negroni

Chat - a few topics
Tony, A few comments:

&mdash; ERcheck (talk) 01:07, 3 August 2006
 * 1) Thanks for the info on the Jose Celso Barbosa bio.  Very interesting.
 * 2) 2/9 article.  I've taken all of your inline inote references and converted them to the format.
 * 3) How are things?  I heard that TS Chris (or is it a hurricane now) might be headed toward Puerto Rico.


 * See this note on my talk page. GA tomorrow. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 02:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The response was directed to my page because I saw his note on the 2/9 page about references; noted your response; and wanted to make sure he checked back. So, I left him a note on his talk page to let him know the referencing had been completed and requesting that he review it again.  I don't think it was any slight to you. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 02:48, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, Tony.... Good writing! I wasn't watching which page I was on. I should have said "you all." 8-) Anyway, this is the first battalion level or smaller unit to be listed on GA. Congrats! Keep up the good work. Bob --CTS Wyneken (talk) 11:34, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Hector Andres Negroni
I just came across this while on NewPage Patrol. While reading it I realized you must be the author. I knew you had written it before I even checked the article's edit history. It had your style and high quality. Just what I've come to expect from you. I just wanted to say "thank you" for all the excellent articles you've contributed. Keep up the good work. SWAdair 08:11, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Lisette Nieves entry
Tony--

The page you have posted about Lisette Nieves, the Puerto Rican Rhodes Scholar, is actually a mix of information about two different Lisette Nieves.

The second paragraph contains accurate information about the Brooklyn College graduate and Rhodes Scholar (my wife). All of the other info, and the photo, is about the other Lisette. They are both very accomplished women.

My guess is that the edits made in January (that you thought were vandalism and removed) were actually an attempt by that Lisette to clean up her information.

Can you help us get this sorted out?

Greg
 * Sorted out. Man, did I get my Nieves' mixed-upTony the Marine 15:39, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject name commentary
Can you comment on this Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mexican-Americans/Chicanos? Thanks --evrik 18:51, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

De Castro, etc.
I called on Tuesday. They said give them until early next week. I'll be checking back.

Admin buttons are good. I've been spending a some time on speedy deletes. I'm finding it interesting how many articles are tagged that do not meet the speedy delete criteria &mdash; some that are close, but not quite and some that seem just because the tagger doesn't think they should exist.

BTW, did you check out the USMC Portal updates for August? &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 02:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

HR 3440
That is great! It is also an indication of the high quality of work you do here. Congratulations. Yes, I expect to be a regular here again. The next two weeks I'll be away on vacation, but after that I'll be back. Mostly I expect to do RC and NewPage patrol, helping to format and wikify the new additions, and reverting/tagging vandalism as I come across it. Minor, wikignome type things that I can do in my spare moments. I'll see you around. SWAdair 03:19, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

For you


Tony, I don't give to many of these out but I think the work you did on 2/9 more than rates it. Hopefully the article will achieve GA status and with some more digging and research you never know..... Your work wition of my userpage contains quotes; however, the bottom quote does not align to the right with the quotes above. Do you know how to fix this? I appreciate your time. -FateSmiled&amp;DestinyLaughed 22:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, I'm starting to think it'd impossible but I'd like the Quillen quote to align with the Nietzsche quotes abouve it, to the left. -FateSmiled&amp;DestinyLaughed 02:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Pablo Casals
I definitely will keep an eye out for it. I am not sure why he was removed, but apparentlty the person is an idiot. I have listed more names on the list in the past few days. I just have been keeping an eye out on issues relating to topics such as Dominican emigration to the island. Someone post that PRs are racists and that is why they dont like Dominicans. They said that ALL PRs have Black (I don't; my grandfather immigrated to the island at the age of 2 from Spain, and my mother's family are all lilly white; Sila Calderon is my cousin, twice removed; her maternal grandfather and my great grandfather were brothers) and my mom looks alot like her. I have explained over and over again the black emigration to PR was very minimal due to the island's ecology and its' inability to produce sugar like Hispaniola and Cuba which have a complex river system. Yet ignorance does still exist.--XLR8TION 01:23, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Humbert Roque Versace
Tony, thanks for asking. All is well I should start moving soon and will not be able to connect back up until next week-end.(OPSEC you know) Again another good article and I amaze at this achievements of these people and how little history there is on them (Hopefully wikipedia will expand thier achievments and allow others to see). It will probably need a little more citing in it - they are big on having a lot of in-line citing as you probably deduced from the peer review on 2/9. Just for you knowledge 2/9 Infantry is the army regiment that I still hold dear in my heart (so I am partial to that set of numbers - HA). I might put a few fact tags on where I think some more cites are needed and I will let CT know that the article is in for GA nominee. Talk to you in about a week.--Oldwildbill 06:16, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Tony being delayed a little bit. Looked at the article. They should be happy with all the citing that you done. You might let CT know that you took care of it; he has it on hold at the Nominee process awaiting cites. I also tag the article talk page with WP Biography. As stated in the newsletter the two projects are joining efforts. You might like tohese sign up on the military group since you write very good articles about all these different and interesting people-sure are expanding my knowledge. Let me know of any more on I will help it along. This little group that we have seems to be working well. Waiting to see the real world --Oldwildbill 20:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, Tony. Looks good. I'll promote it when time permits. --CTS Wyneken (talk) 22:11, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Pedro is in the backlog awaiting an interested reviewer. By weighing in myself, I disqualified myself from the review. I do not think it will have any problems once someone gets to it. --CTS Wyneken (talk) 22:38, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Tony I have put this article up for peer review at both Military History and Biography. Congrats again! Hopefully I start movement in the next few days so I will not be able to watch it.--Oldwildbill 18:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Tony I put blockquote in the the MOH section. I also put the awards/ribbon up in the infobox - see if you like it like this. It seems that the peer reviewers are more against having the ribbons down in the section - they wish to have it in prose form. See if you like it - if not just delete. Also make sure you read the comments from the Bio group.--Oldwildbill 20:13, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Absolutely - Its just peoples opinion. Thats why I tagged it for both of the Wikipojects. Hey if can - look at my talkpage towards the bottom - Wandalstoring needs some help on a marine's page (British) and I thought I would mention it to you and your Marine buddies. Got to do some re-intergration this week, but hopefully I will have time to help out the articles, I will rate an article up to B class - After that I will assist in helping out and leave the higher rankings to the powers to be.--Oldwildbill 20:54, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Another photo
I came across this link and thought you may interested in one of the individuals in this picture. Don't know if you can use it but I thought I'd send you the link either way. Take a look...it's PD as well. --Looper5920 11:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue VI - August 2006
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Hello
Hi Tony,

Thanks for the note. It is good to hear from you.

Great news on the GA articles. Hopefully del Valle's article will be promoted in the near future.

August has been a particularly busy month. In my spare time, I've been learning some of the admin ropes on Wikipedia. I hope things will settle down in a week or so.

Talk to you soon. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 11:12, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Pedro del Valle
Greetings. I'm looking over Pedro del Valle now. So far, it looks just great. – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 14:19, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I've now looked it over thoroughly, and left comments at Talk:Pedro del Valle. – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 15:17, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I added a few more concerns about missing content. Even without that, I would say it qualifies as "good" -- it would just need that to be "featured", in my opinion. Good work with the article, by the way! – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 15:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations to you and all contributors to the Pedro del Valle article on its Good Article status! &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 22:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * It slowed down approval when I couldn't review it, but I thought it simpler to just wade in and fix them. One of the things I do at my day job is reference check. --CTS Wyneken (talk) 00:58, 29 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Tony I also put this article up for peer review at both Military History and Biography. They might suggests some ways to deal with the controversial side of this subject.--Oldwildbill 18:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Incorrect photo of Alejandro Tapia & Rivera?
We're having the final manuscript of our new book "Buscando Nuestro Cuatro"--into which we dropped the illustration of Alejandro Tapia from his Wikki--reviewed before publication by a couple of Island UPR intellectuals that are knowledgeable in music and history. They seem to agree that the illustration is of Agustin Stahl, not Alejandro Tapia & Rivera. What is the source of that illustration, please?

Best wishes,

William Cumpiano Puerto Rican Cuatro Project william@cumpiano.com


 * William,

Thank you for witting to me at my talk page. The source of the image was: http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/escritores/Alejandrotapia.htm from the article Biografías de escritores puertorriqueños Por: Antonio Gil de La Madrid.

However, I found your inquiry interesting and compared it with an image of a younger Tapia from El Nuevo Dia. I also compared the image with other images of Agustin Stahl and when I saw the similarities in the style of mustache and beard in the pictures, it convinced me that your friends may be right.

What I'm going to do, to play it on the safe side, I'm going to upload the image of Tapia from El Nuevo Dia which is a reliable unto his Wikipedia article right now. You can use that image.

Take care amigo,

Tony Santiago a.k.a. Tony the Marine

The mishap happened
Here is the video showing the mishap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO0B9kKNqME

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.4.189 (talk • contribs)

Greetings from England
Hi Tony - Brookie here in England - flying by and wishing you well! Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! (Whisper...) 16:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

USMC Portal &mdash; see September's Selected article
Tony, Check out this month's Selected article on the USMC Portal. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 23:19, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Dear Tony,

Thanks! Prpolicy 14:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

vote for me
im nominated for system operator (sysop) or admin vote for me please! here Qrc2006 16:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

The Monument
Very cool! Congratulations! --CTS Wyneken (talk) 02:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Another honor for the Marine
An article in Claridad mentions you as "el boricua que más ha cooperado con Wikipedia". Here's the link. Joelito (talk) 21:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I have a delete box on
I have a delete box on Chino Rodriguez I just put info in - I am part of Salsa History, as well as the booking agent for many of the artists listed - what did I do wrong that the file has been flaged for deletion... can you help correct. Chino

Could use your help
Tony, my Floyd Abrams articles have been nominated for deletion. I explain the point behind them on the deletion page, but if you think this is important information I could sure use someone backing me up. I have spent so many countless hours working on it, that if it's deleted I'll have to taken an extended vacation from contributing, because I think it is very important. I'm all for deleting useless and vanity-fuelled articles, but this man is living history, and I took it upon myself to do this (after I read the book he gave me when I went to take his photograph for Wikipedia). I am writing a grant-proposal around the project; if it's deleted, well, that would hurt me a lot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Floyd_Abrams_and_the_Pentagon_Papers_case --DavidShankBone 03:05, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration re: Jessica Lunsford
Unsure if Im supposed to notify you or if the arbitrators are but I listed you as a party of interest in Request for Arbitration: Jessica Lunsford. You were the one who suggested I do this... it has been hard to figure out! Cumberbund 07:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey Tony
What is your e-mail? I'd like to privately tell you some of my ideas and get your input. Dave --DavidShankBone 12:44, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Or drop me an e-mail: davidshankbone@gmail.com

Thank you for the message!
Tony,

I thought I'd stop to say hello. I've been working on my first major contribution to Wikipedia. It's about the city I currently live in Rice, MN. Any feedback on how to improve it would be welcome. This is kind of fun.

Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vaslittlecrow (talk • contribs)

References Section
Thank you Tony, that really helped a lot. I cleaned the links just a touch, but it is a really super feature!

505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Hey, Tony:

Would you take a look at 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. I've got it on GA hold for very minor reasons and no one is fixing it. I'd love to pass it. --CTS</b> Wyneken <sup style="font-family:Andale Mono IPA; color:maroon;">(talk) 15:39, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

About an anon edit
Hello tony:

I hope your doing fine, will you clear my doubts on something please? User:69.65.75.69 has been editing the Radio Shack article a lot recently and he keeps adding a link to the www.radioshacksucks.com website. I'm wondering if i should leave the link or remove it. What do you think? I thought you should notice that he sometimes adds the link more than once.Nnfolz 21:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Congrats
Congrats on the success you achieved. Dogged determination always succeeds.--Oldwildbill 00:40, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Tony
Thanks for the Congrats. I did a lot more work over the weekend on Floyd Abrams and the Pentagon Papers case. Tell me, as a former Marine, what do you think of another former Marine's actions -- Daniel Ellsberg -- in releasing the Pentagon Papers? Just curious. Your friend, Dave --DavidShankBone 16:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Puerto Rican Women in the Military
I've added the question of the portrait gallery to WP:3O for some outside input. It's not really worth a revert war :-) Fram 18:30, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history Newsletter - Issue VII - September 2006
This is an automated delivery by Grafikbot - 20:23, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi - responded
Hi Tony,

Sorry it's been so long since I've said "Hi". I've been so busy in real life and have spent spare Wikipedia time on admin tasks (which definitely have their share of challenges).

I've neglected to congratulate you on your Presidential invitation. Congratulations!!!

I've responded to your request for a third-party opinion.

&mdash; ERcheck (talk)

Puerto Rican Women Military Dead
It was my pleasure to support that. Thank you for not asking me to just support your position; what I wrote I felt. McBride had mentioned on my Floyd Abrams battle he thought it was dodgy to alert other editors to these things, but I think the opposite. The fact is, none of us are beholden to the other. We are all here doing what we are doing for our own personal reasons. We believe in it. I, personally, on a deep level. I would never support something that hurt WP. I think you had the soundest argument. I also would never ask you to support something I believed in if you thought it hurt WP. Maybe I'm not seeing things clearly (always a possibility). I think people are afraid of the war dead because it highlights the cost of war--I can't see how we expect people to make the ultimate sacrifice, and then try to hide that they were one of the unlucky ones b/c it may prevent others from...making the ultimate sacrifice... That's such a a sad, cynical idea. I'm not saying that was what was behind Che's comment, but it certainly seems to be behind the war supporters wanting to hide the dead. Those women deserve recognition. I'm glad you found a way to provide it. Once again, I'm humbled by Wikipedia and its contributors. --DavidShankBone 01:22, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Puerto Rican women in the military
Tony, I have a suggestion for the article's introduction:


 * The third paragraph in the introduction is where you finally get to the military information. I suggest that this become the first paragraph.
 * The first and second paragraphs feel out of place. Perhaps have your first section be "Background" and move those paragraphs to that section.  You could then place a short "summary" of the intro paragraph, concerning women in the military as the last paragraph in the background section.

&mdash; ERcheck (talk) 03:53, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Two other items:


 * 1) I do agree that the pink background is distracting.  A neutral color, or none at all, would be better.
 * 2) The article lacks footnote references.  Most notable, could you add a references for the "El Monumento de la Recordacion"?
 * &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 03:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Tony-tone-tone - I agree about the Peptol-Bismol pink background too. But what amazing women.  I don't have the bravery they do, that much I now.  But I think the pink background should be changed to something more neutral and less Tiger Beat-ish.  Dave  --DavidShankBone 04:09, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Tony, I like the change of the intro, etc. and the background color change. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 10:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your kind reply. Keep up the good work! It's a pleasure dealing with a minor dispute on a good article once in a while instead of constantly nominating bad articles for speedy, proD, or AfD! Fram 19:14, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Puerto Rican women in the military
In the section "Revolt against Spain", I indented the two paragraphs "Lola" and Mariana", thought it looked better, then saw the later paragraphs where the women's names were bolded. You might want to undent and bold the two ladies, or indent and/or bold all of them? Your article, your style ...

I felt the need for a little more about how and when the revolt against the US got resolved, but if all the uprisings were put down in October 1950, then I guess it's all covered.

I thought of you earler today while cleaning up Reinaldo Deliz-Santiago. You weren't involved (a mild surprise), but is this guy notable enough to have a wikipedia article? All the best. Chris the speller 01:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

List of Puerto Ricans
There has been a lot of recent deletion and adding of non-famopus names to the list. Raul Julia's name was deleted and then placed after the "Z" last names in actors. Many rap stars who are not even Puerto Rican were added to the list. Same goes for local artists who have not garnered international recognition. Please comb through the list and delete only names of people you have never ever heard of. I will do the same this weekend. --XLR8TION 03:27, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Military history of Puerto Rico
I have taken this article at WP:FARC because I believe it no longer meets the FA criteria. I wanted to let you know so you can have time to work on it and improve it. Normally FAR lasts two weeks. After that, the article is either nominated for deletion or left alone if significant additions and improvements have been made.UberCryxic 02:49, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey Tony don't stress over the Featured Article Review. The process is meant to improve and polish Featured articles. We have two weeks to cite and source and clean up the prose of the article. When the two weeks are up it will be decided if it's moved to a vote for removal. If the article improves in the first two weeks the FAR is closed and that's that.
 * I will be helping to maintain the FA status if this article. I do not believe the nominator had any personal agenda with you. He simply felt that the article was below present standards. Joelito (talk) 16:28, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

It's ok, don't worry about it.UberCryxic 21:21, 1 October 2006 (UTC) Tony, like I said in the FARC page, after you guys are done making your changes, let me know so I can go through and give the article a thorough copyedit. It will read much more smoothly afterwards.UberCryxic 00:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Sandy, I think the article is now ready for copyediting. Do your thing, you have my blessings Tony the Marine 04:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Epa, heading there now. I'm not a great copyeditor, but I can at least give it a first run-through.  Sandy 16:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Here's what I've done so far: please see if it meets your approval before I continue. Like I said, I'm not a great copyeditor like User:Tony1, but if the work is a good enough first pass for you, let me know, and I'll keep going. Sandy 17:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I kept going. Just a note:  I'm finding some uneven wiki-linking.  I've left a lot of inline comments that you'll need to look at.  I found Bolívar discussed before he was "defined" and Wiki-linked, so when the text is all ironed out, you may need to go back and check that terms are Wiki'd the first time they're used.  Also, left you a note about Santander in line - the Colombian Santander?  Watch for my inline comments. Sandy 19:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Confusion between Bracetti and Bracetii, and many of the names don't have accent marks. I added an í to García  - plese doublecheck that, and several other names, which I'm not sure on, but it seems accents are missing.  Sandy 19:30, 3 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I pooped out around World War I: will leave a note to UberCryxic to keep working from there.  There are some sources that seem to be personal website, but I didn't note them all.  Might have a closer look at whether all of the sources meet WP:RS.  I'll do more later.  Sandy 19:49, 3 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, LOL ! I'll do some more digging around in a few days:  for now, Uber has left a long comment on the FAR page, and I (very regretably) have to agree with him.  I know it's hard to part with content dealing with those who paid the highest price (sobre todo para nosotros de los paises hispanos, donde mucho nos importa y con mucho orgullo hablamos de los que primero hicieron cosas importantes):  on my article (Tourette syndrome), it's the personal stuff that people cared most about, but I turned it into something separate and good at Sociological and cultural aspects of Tourette syndrome.  It allowed the main article to be more encyclopedic, while separating the stuff people really wanted to know into its own article.  It might be a good way to satisfy Uber's concerns.  Sandy 02:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

history of women in the military
Thanks for the kind words, nice of you to say so. You're welcome to make your own, most likly better, changes to the article. --SGGH 20:04, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Military history of Puerto Rico
Tony, I will take a look, though it might not be until tomorrow. Thanks for asking. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 22:36, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Tony, I've made some changes to the Vietnam War section, though I believe that the expert copyeditors who are reviewing should have another pass at it. I'm not sure which article you are referring to for a "Military installations" section.  I looked in both the Military history article and in the Puerto Rico article.  Please elaborate.  Thanks. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 01:24, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

military history of women
You asked to be notified when I felt the article is complete, and I have to say I have reached the end of my list of changes that I thought ought to be made, and I guess that means for the time being my work is done until I find more to do with it. Just letting you know, --SGGH 11:09, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * That's very kind Tony, thanks very much! Thought I admit It's getting harder to organise my user page! Much appreciated, kind regards--SGGH 21:06, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Carmen Durnier's husband
Old pal, was Carmen's husband's name actually Dumler, or is that a typo that looks a lot like Durnier? Either way, he was a lucky guy. Chris the speller 15:44, 5 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I looked over the French and Corsican and German immigrants to Puerto Rico articles &mdash; very nice! There wasn't much to fix. The Durnier/Dumler thing jumped out at me as a result of my experiences with scanners and optical charater recognition, where "rn" and "m" often get mixed up, as do "l" and "i". I also fixed "List of people by name: Du". Keep in touch. Chris the speller 02:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Luis Palés Matos
On 15 August 2006, you added an external link to the Luis Palés Matos article that links to a El Nuevo Dia short biography of Ana Maria O'Neill. Did you intend instead for this to be a brief biography of Luis Palés Matos from El Nuevo Dia? I will be replacing the link O'Neill with Matos. Bejnar 19:58, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

List of Puerto Ricans
I went through the list and readded names of famous singers/actors that you probably deleted when you cleaned the list. So far the list concise and clean. I want to know if the names of bands such as Sweet Sensation, TKA should be added to the list. Their members were Puerto Rican and helped spin freestyle music into mainstream. --XLR8TION 20:13, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

PR Music Groups
Thats a great idea. It will help save a lot of space on the list and I think it is a wise idea in lumping several Singers into this group subgateory. For Example, we can list Menudo:

Menudo etc....
 * Miguel Cancel
 * Angelo Garcia
 * RIcky Martin
 * Charlie Masso

This well help create an easy to view list. What do you think?--XLR8TION 17:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

PR Women in Military
I did check it out. It is definitely an original article and well composed in format. Have you heard any criticism from anyone?--XLR8TION 23:29, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Deirdre Connelly - PR Businesswoman
Just entered a bio using text and rephrasing words to look original. Can you select the appropriate photo label for her.

Deirdre Connelly

Many thanks! --XLR8TION 23:50, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Joe Negron
Could you also take a look at his page and select the right photo license.

Joe Negron

Many thanks! --XLR8TION 23:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Miguel Enriquez
Tony my friend you disappoint me, I thought that you where an objective historian, but judging from your attitude on the Enriquez page I understand that you have a hidden agenda with history. Now I'm convinced that you have not study the Enriquez history, and only seems to me that you have been picking road talk about it. Your references, besides that from Lopez Cantos, the authority on Enriquez, are third references; for instance: Laguerre and Jose Luis are using the Enriquez story to prove the point in their respective works one a paradox and the other a call to the duty of men. The Atlas is kids stuff and no where is the citation from Cantos. One can clearly see this in your stubbornness about pirates and corsairs, just read the title of Canto's work CORSAIR. In Puerto Rico the only pirate that there ever was is Cofresi. If Enriquez started as a pirate he wouldn't have gone so far. But I see, after some time, you admit that he was one of the richest men in Puerto Rico; congratulations you have managed to take a step forward.

In terrorem fidei defenso 01:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)