User talk:Stangoldsmith

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1001 nights
Hello, I did NOT delete any thing from the article I only added one photo from wiki media. I appreciate your work and timeline because simply it is relible and not based on national pride. plz don't blame me chick the history then you will see the other user delete it (he/she summerized his deletion). BTW there was a war of edits on that article (and others)that's why I don't really trust every thing here because someone else will come and delete your work because of some reason !! thanks --Aziz1005 09:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Dont worry.Plz don't give up editing . I got mad as well because of those users they are trying to hide some facts "for some reason" so plz keep editing then your work will stay .Salam--Aziz1005 18:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Stan, I took a look at your edit, and the majority of it that wasn't timeline was speculative, and you did not source some of your changes properly. For problematic articles, it is best to discuss changes on the talk page before you make them.  You've been here on  WP for quite a while, so you should be aware of things like this. MSJapan 19:19, 26 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I disagree with your assessment. Can you please provide solid evidence?  stan goldsmith 22:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Sinbad's name
Hello. I was looking through the ercent editors on the Sinbad pafge and found user Aziz, whicvh brought me to you. So you're doing PhD work on the 1001 Nights! In that case, can you have a look at the Sinbad article, and, most especially, do you have anything more recent than Richard Burton as an authority on the etymology of Sinbad's name? We have all sorts of offbeat theories being added, but need something definitive. PiCo 06:50, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of references to marijuana in popular music
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Discovery! citation
You had placed this paragraph on my user page (instead of my talk page), so hope you don't mind if I transfer it here:


 * Barte - re: discovery! - you wrote "Barger said that Aramco would never agree to the publication of Stegner's original draft" but it never says that in the article you listed, which is why I changed the text, do you have issue with it saying : "Barger said this manuscript is likely never to be published"?  This is more in line with what he said in the article, he didn't say anything about Aramco not publishing this manuscript.  stan goldsmith 01:33, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

The Washington Post story I cited reads as follows:


 * Barger replied in an e-mail that "the 1958 contract concerns a work entitled 'The Story of Aramco and Its Pioneers' " (the title of the original Stegner manuscript, now held at the University of Utah). "This manuscript was never published and never will be," he added.


 * Barger said yesterday that what he meant to imply was that Aramco would never agree to the publication of Stegner's original draft. He also said that Stegner was paid an additional sum for the Aramco World serialization, which the author had reviewed before publication.

So seems to me that my version is closer--in that he seems quite emphatic about the point. But I could be missing something. Barte 01:59, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Discovery! talk thread--relocated
I've copied the thread over to the article talk section, together with a comment on your comment. Thanks! Barte (talk) 01:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Stangoldsmith! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

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