User talk:Offenbach

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Carla Katz
This is a great article created for a subject I am astonished did not have oner already, given her frequent press appearances. Keep up the great work! Alansohn (talk) 04:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Walter G. Alexander
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Karl Weidel.
Can we take the last sentence back to my wording? The current version seems to a bit too tabloidy for an encyclopedia. -- Jeandré, 2008-10-11t17:53z


 * Do you have a ref for his birth date, not just the year? -- Jeandré, 2008-10-11t17:55z


 * I've received an email questioning the McGraw article's accuracy. Do you know of another source for the things referenced to it in the article? -- Jeandré, 2008-10-11t18:12z


 * What exactly is in dispute? If it's the circumstances of his death, I've added a few extra sources. --Offenbach (talk) 20:33, 11 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Challenged is age at death: 72, not 73; and from that the entire McGraw article. The Hunterdon article also states 73, and eventho it may just be copying an incorrect age from the earlier McGraw article, it's still a newspaper article which trumps an contradiction in an email. I'm leaving the disputed tag for now, but if within a few days I don't get a source for 72, or a source for a birth date showing it to be 72; anyone can remove it.


 * "The source should be cited clearly and precisely to enable readers to find the text that supports the article content in question." - wp:v
 * I've commented out the http://www.ancestry.com/ ref for birth and death dates because I couldn't find any results when searching for
 * karl weidel
 * or
 * karl weidel iii
 * Also "no matches" searching in "Historical Records" for
 * Karl
 * Weidel
 * Death Year: 1997
 * USA
 * New Jersey
 * Also "no matches" searching in "Historical Records" for
 * Karl
 * Weidel
 * Death Year: 1997
 * Also "no matches" searching in "Historical Records" for
 * Karl
 * Weidel
 * Also "no matches" searching in "Stories and publications" for
 * Karl
 * Weidel
 * USA


 * Same problems with Factiva and AP ref.


 * I've put in direct URLs for the McGourty and Hunterdon sources - it's better than just linking to a search page.


 * The biggest problem however from the complainer is the mention of suicide. I said that since it's referenced and the notable kind of thing an encyclopedic biography entry should have, it will have to stay. What I'm asking for is the removal of the how and place of the suicide - it's fine for newspapers trying to sell ads, but not for an encyclopedia which is a tertiary source and should have a different tone. -- Jeandré, 2008-10-12t12:15z


 * I've looked at it again and removed the disputed template. -- Jeandré, 2008-10-12t12:28z


 * I've restored the reference for birth and death dates. In the footnote I've added the information from the SSDI record, which is available here for Ancestry.com members. --Offenbach (talk) 14:50, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

John DiMaio
I guess the news regarding Marcia A. Karrow's replacement had not hit North Jersey, and I wanted to thank you for taking the time to create the article for John DiMaio, including updating appropriate templates. Thanks for all of your efforts. Alansohn (talk) 20:38, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

John Dyneley Prince
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DYK for John Dyneley Prince
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David Friedland and related articles
Thanks for cleaning up after me on the David Friedland and other related articles where I had copied some of the same text, along with some of the same errors. My appreciation for all of your efforts on behalf of New Jersey articles, including their creation, revision, updating and vandalism fighting. Alansohn (talk) 19:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

List of Phi Beta Kappa members column formatting
I restored the prior column formatting for List of Phi Beta Kappa members because, at least on my computer, your edit resulted in one very, very long list of names running down the left side of the page. I'm by no means an expert on column formatting, and perhaps there's some other way to handle it. Best,--Arxiloxos (talk) 18:52, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, didn't realize Template:Div col only works in Mozilla browsers. &mdash;Offenbach (talk) 19:16, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK Nom Concern
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DYK nomination of Kim Guadagno
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Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum
I found the information in the American Jewish journal Forward, in the article Scandal Sparks New Debate Over Specter's Organ Legislation: "While human organs trafficking of the sort allegedly conducted by Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum is widely condemned". The article was published on 5 August 2009, so I guess if the information was wrong they would have corrected the article. This was on the other hand not mentioned in other articles. --Pylambert (talk) 08:25, 31 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The coverage of the arrests (such as articles from the AP and the New York Times) said there were five rabbis implicated. The New York Times said the five were Saul J. Kassin, Mordchai Fish, Lavel Schwartz, Eliahu Ben Haim, and Edmund Nahum. Rosenbaum is not called a rabbi in that article or in others that I've read. The Star-Ledger calls him "a self-styled real estate dealer from Brooklyn." Similarly, the criminal complaint against him says he is "a resident of Brooklyn, New York, [who] was purportedly involved in the real estate business." The five rabbis are identified as such in the criminal complaints. &mdash;Offenbach (talk) 12:27, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Disputed English Grammar
Dear Hon. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Offenbach,

I am the one who so-called "contributed" the "Sound" part in the article for Disputed English Grammar. You had dismissed it as "no basis" in your reasons for undoing my so-called "contribution".

I don't [pardon my informal written style] know which world you come from, but perhaps one in which people acquired languages by beginning with a study of the rules of grammar as or before they start to speak.

In my world, and in almost every world I know of in this world, people acquire languages by listening or, if you would like, "studying" sounds in speeches. And as such, native-speakers' minds think phonetically when speaking.

All of us in this world except probably yours, and except also some of those who acquired languages as a non-native speaker, tend to employ this form/methodology of language-acquisition, -development, and/or -expansion until the day we pass away.

That is why those who never had any education could seemingly speak well but could not write well. And why I won't be making "any future contributions" [note the clear grammatical error but which just sounds bloody nice to hear and perceive] to this wild worldipedia.

As a mother-tongue speaker of English, as well as being a native-speaker of two other languages (one of which is spoken by approx. 1.3 billion [not including the others who are wandering around the world with other nationalities] of the total population in this world), I have NEVER needed to train my mind, nor strain my mind to consider the rules of grammar when speaking any of those three languages. You could say that I speak as if I am singing a song.

Anyway, I am "user-talking" to you because you had stated that my so-called "contribution" has "no basis".

Perhaps if you'd think harder before making "no basis" comments, I wouldn't have bothered you and about you. Perhaps you have a basis for why people could speak and write so differently.

And perhaps I should end this "user-talking" now.

Good day!

Yours, Prescriptivist

DYK nomination of Lucius Horatio Stockton
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Middle name
I will add the source and the document. I think it was from his passport application. Once you find it, it is easy to confirm, you just put the whole thing in quotes in Google and you find it was there all along, hidden. It is frustrating to find, and once known, easy to confirm, You can also put the name back to E. if you want. I prefer making the redirect that way, and if you move it back to E. the redirect is perfectly formed. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:30, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It looks like when you type his full name in quotes into Google you DON'T find him, that's a first. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:16, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Paula Dow
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DYK nomination of Paula Dow
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DYK for Ogden H. Hammond
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DYK for Irwin B. Laughlin
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Thanks for creating Daniel R. Benson
I had intended to create the Daniel R. Benson article for months and just never got around to doing it. Thanks for taking the time to create the one outstanding article among the 120 members of the New Jersey Legislature and thanks for all of your work on New Jersey-related articles. Alansohn (talk) 01:54, 4 May 2011 (UTC)


 * No problem... but there were actually two other NJLeg entries outstanding -- Kevin J. Ryan and Patrick Delany. Took care of those too. --Offenbach (talk) 20:40, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Gregory P. McGuckin.
Greetings, Offenbach! Just letting you known that I've nominated Gregory P. McGuckin for DYK. Cheers! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:02, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Chris A. Brown
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DYK for Christopher J. Brown
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Malloch Building DYK
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Re: Frederick William Danker
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DYK for Arthur Kober
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Thanks
Great New Jersey biographies, thank you for writing them. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 01:14, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Thomas Puccio
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De La Soul Is Dead Edit
I can send you a pic of the J card from the cassette which I still own, showing my edits as correct. Let me know how I can get you this information, so we can accurately display this historic album's information correctly. Thank you. 172.5.16.234 (talk) 02:40, 16 February 2023 (UTC)


 * https://www.discogs.com/release/14643016-De-La-Soul-De-La-Soul-Is-Dead/image/SW1hZ2U6NDM5MjIxMzQ= 172.5.16.234 (talk) 02:41, 16 February 2023 (UTC)


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 * The edit conflict has been resolved, as there were different tracks omitted on the LP and cassette versions of the album. Offenbach (talk) 05:03, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

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