User talk:Student7/Archive 7

Expanded infobox template: Infobox church/sandbox
Hi, you took part in the discussion at "Templates for deletion/Log/2008 February 21" where it was proposed that the templates Infobox church, Infobox churches and cathedrals and Parish church be merged. I've created a prototype merged template for discussion at Infobox church/sandbox. The documentation for the template is at Template:Infobox church/doc. Your comments and help with improving the template are welcome – please discuss the matter at the Infobox church talk page.

If everyone is happy with Infobox church/sandbox, then Infobox church can be replaced with that template and the templates Infobox churches and cathedrals and Parish church nominated for deletion. &mdash; Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 13:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

In re Euhemerus, it seems to me that Velikovsky is _the_ modern definition of euhemerism. The "nonsense" wasn't mine, it was Velikovsky's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.148.235.6 (talk) 13:08, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Gotcha. Sorry I wasn't more clear the first time 'round. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.148.235.6 (talk) 14:01, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Crusades
Why haven't you joined us yet? WikiProject Middle Ages/Crusades task force -- Secisek (talk) 18:09, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Requests for mediation/Sexual harassment in education
Hi - I appologise for the length of time it's taken to find a mediator for the above case, but an administrator has offered to mediate the dispute for you. He is not a member of the mediation committee (yet anyway), but has good experience of mediation in other areas. Could you please go to the above link and state whether you accept his offer to mediate your dispute?  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  23:46, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Why I add only in Turkey article
The reason that I add the only right beside the CIA, when it comes to classify Turkey as developed is because ONLY the CIA classifies Turkey as developed. By the way the same agency doesnt classify Turkey as an advanced economy. Who knows what the real meaning is. Of course NO other major organization i.e. World Bank, IMF, UN, OECD classifies Turkey as a developed country. Turkey has a GDP per capita of around $9,000 and an medium HDI, around 82nd in the world, behind countries like Albania, Colombia or Uruguay. Also it has a relatively high infant mortality and low life expectancy. In essense I dont think that with those stats a country could be classified as a developed other than what the CIA says. So that is why I stress it. That ONLY the CIA classifies it so.Hope that helps.Aee1980 (talk) 02:03, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, I couldn't help but notice the edit war going on. I'd just like to point out that the CIA lists Turkey as "developing" (in the big list right below), and further, says about the "developed" countries: "note - similar to the new International Monetary Fund (IMF) term "advanced economies" that adds Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan but drops Malta, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey'"


 * So instead of adding "only", or changing it to say they're listed as a "developing" country, I just removed it altogether. Krawndawg (talk) 06:09, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The CIA lists Turkey and South Africa both as "developed" and "developing" 151.57.199.32 (talk) 06:30, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, I noticed that. Point is that if we're going to go out of our way to point out that the CIA lists it as developed, we would have to go out of our way to point out that it's also listed as developing, which seems kind of silly. Better to just not mention it at all. Krawndawg (talk) 06:35, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Do you guys see "Common Carrier" at the top of the page? I'm charging a fee for carrying on further conversation between you two guys from now on. Five "Keep" votes each for my next Afd nomination per comment to each other (It's best to sign up for sockpuppets early  :)Student7 (talk) 02:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

CIA Developed Country list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country#CIA_developed_country_list 151.57.195.155 (talk) 06:38, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Tomb of Peter in Jerusalem
I have added a "Tomb of St Peter in Jerusalem" subheading and section to the St Peter's tomb article, also adding citations supporting the fact that the ossuaries were discovered by Franciscan Monks, that genuine archaeological excavating and examinations were carried out by Bagatti and Milik, who were experts in the field. It is a matter of personal conjecture where St Peter was really buried, and people should be allowed to make up their own minds without the interference of censorship. I personally do not hold an opinion on the matter. There was no justification to delete the paragraph relating to the tomb of Peter in Jerusalem. The issue has nothing to do with "atheism" or "ignorance" as suggested. Wfgh66 (talk) 16:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Gentle reminder ...
Great work on the vandalism warnings but you seem to have forgotten to sign them :) -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 22:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Please do sign in future. It makes it much easier for admins trying to piece together what has happened. You are identifiable anyway from the edit history. -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 05:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Monroe, NH
Hi Student7 -- I'm going through the New Hampshire towns, cleaning up a minor mess left by the Smackbot: it updated the geographic references in just about every town but didn't check to see whether a References or Footnotes section existed. So in checking up on each town, I standardized the reference format. If that bothers you for Monroe, I don't have a problem with you changing it back to what works better for you. The article is certainly much better documented than 95% of the other towns' articles in the state. Best wishes, --Ken Gallager (talk) 15:39, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Removed question
I was just typing a reply when you removed the question?

Why was that? --Kim Bruning (talk) 13:09, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, ok. :-) --Kim Bruning (talk) 13:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

What valdalism is not
Hi, regarding this edit. Please read WP:Vandalism, which is very specific about what is and isn't vandalism. That edit couldn't possibly be considered vandalism. Note that those figures that you reverted back to were not supported by any source. They were made up, ie. original research, which is not allowed on wikipedia. The new figures (that you called vandalism) are official, sourced figures by the IMF. Krawndawg (talk) 11:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Ahh I see, makes sense. Everyone makes mistakes! I should have made note of your huge talk page before giving you the ol' random new guy speech. :) Krawndawg (talk) 14:44, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Opinion
Your opinion, please? Nyttend (talk) 16:47, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

William Henry Gleason
Thanks for the clean up. Dloh  cierekim'''  23:29, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

thanks for adding information
hello Student7, thanks for adding more info to catholicos of the eastArunvroy (talk) 06:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Belen Jesuit
Thanks for your imput. I do find it hard to stay out of the fight, when I know the edits are not constructive. But I do appreciate your advise. Callelinea (talk) 14:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I ask you to intervene again in the Belen Jesuit article. It is important to maintain the integrity of the article via efficiency and standards. Please lock the article to eliminate exaggerated edits. Quixote09 (talk) 23:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Group
Thanks for doing most of today's cleanup on the OG article -- you just did what I was just now about to do, putting the focus back on the Group itself rather than criticism (without dumping the criticism), re-ordering & cleaning up the MRA & Buchman content. Still a lot more to go to clean up the abysmal grammar & usage, but nice job & exactly what I would have done so far. --Hipgnostic (talk) 03:13, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

AFD for Joseph Weber
I'm the original creator of the article, so obviously I disagree. But there's little point in adding an AFD tag if you don't create the entry on the Articles for Deletion page... If you don't do so in the next 24 hours, I'm going to remove the AFD tag. Just fair warning... -- Etacar11   06:51, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Third party
I'm not an administrator, so I could do anything like that myself. Policy doesn't actually forbid moving without discussion (in fact, it falls under WP:BOLD), and I don't know what policies or guidelines say about titles. If a consensus has already been reached, moving can be considered page-move vandalism, but this appears to be a new instance. I'd go with what you've done already- post at WP:RM and notify the other user that you've done so. You can then apply what is decided there to other articles with honorifics. If there is more moving after consensus, it can simply be moved back- when a page is moved, it leaves a redirect under the old name. If this redirect isn't edited at all, the page can be moved back (this is called a move-over-redirect). If it keeps getting moved back and forth, request for it to be move protected at WP:RPP. Just be sure that the requested move finishes first, so somebody doesn't think you're a vandal. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 15:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes WP:RPP is the place to make the request for move protection. Jeremy has covered it here better than I could. -- Finngall   talk  21:08, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Communism
Apologies! It was meant to say "today in the present" but I guess I am silly becuase I could have wrote "present-day". I have a habit of misspelling. I wanted it to show readers it was the present day state incase readers found it confusing about which time period the image was showing. I am very happy however that you took time out to point this out to me. That was very nice of you to do! Thank you! JTBX (talk) 22:24, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Moving articles
Hello Student7, I am sorry for moving some articles created by me.You may please note that I only moved articles created by me .I moved those articles just because some people tried to redirect those articles to some other articles which did not provide all information.For eg.One person told me that he would merge the articles 'Malankara( Indian) Orthodox Syrian Church' and 'Jacobite Syrian church' just because of the reason that it was mentioned somewhere in the Jacobite article that the church was also known as Syrian Orthodox church.Everyone knows that both the Jacobite Syrian Church and the Indian Orthodox Church are two autocephalous Oriental Orthodox Churches.Thus I was forced to rename it to Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church. Arun V Roy (talk) 05:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

reply
Very new at this, but in response to your comments:


 * only added vermonters that are already in wikipedia, or i am currently compiling a entry for --- thats why they lit up blue


 * religion certainly is relevent, the wiccans and pagans do not want to be counted, they fall into the 24% that said "none"

will try to find cites, there was an article in the Times-Argus about wiccans about 7 or 8 years ago

Friends moved into Vermont about two minutes after they got off the boats. The fanatical Puritans were too much for them. The Pilgrims were tolerant, but Puritans were not. and if the Friends hadnt planted all those sugar maples along the roads, where would we be now? handed out seedlings in fact, went door to door doing it. Or just plain did planted them, and went back one dry summer and watered them too. The Friends were/are really really really against slavery.

Again, will try to get cites, other than our own literture, so you know it wont be biased

Koibeatu (talk) 12:04, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Brevard County
Hey, so... what would you like us to work on the article? I've begun formulating a couple things... also, have you thought about archiving your talk page? I'm sure having 140 entries would be a pain to scroll through everything :D  User:MiszaBot III does a great job at automatically archiving for you.  - Jameson L. Tai   talk ♦  contribs  05:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

James, son of Zebedee
Hi, Student7. I just wanted to communicate with you about my reason for making the edit I did to James, son of Zebedee. If you will look at WP:EL, you will notice that we are not supposed to link to commercial sites. In Wikipedia, "Footnotes add material that explains a point in greater detail, but that would be distracting if included in the main text. Footnotes are also used to cite sources" (WP:Footnotes). I know that there was some useful information on that page, but a link to a commercial Website selling a picture of the subject violates WP:EL, and that's why I removed it. It appears that you are wanting to provide a cite proving the date of the saint's feast day. I'm not certain that it's the sort of thing that really requires citation. According to WP:Citing sources, a citation is needed (1) When adding material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, (2) When quoting someone, (3) When adding material to the biography of a living person, (4) When checking content added by others, and (5) When uploading an image. The date on which a saint's feast day is celebrated really doesn't seem to meet any of these criteria. However, if you would like to place a footnote there, you might want to do a Websearch for "Catholic saints" or something like that to find a non-commercial page that gives the information you are wanting to cite. Thanks for all your work on Wikipedia. Sincerely, MishaPan (talk) 16:46, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Categories:Cities named after saints/religious figures
Category:Cities named after saints in the United States, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 01:57, 24 May 2008 (UTC) Category:Cities named after religious figures in the United States, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 01:57, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Satellite High School
You recently edited my Satellite High School page. I'm a little puzzled why you deleted the President Bill Clinton quote about Bailey. You don't believe that it's notable? The quote is straight from the Preseident's archives. Also, you deleted all of the departments and the department heads. You honestly think that isn't notable as well? If someone were to come across the Satellite High School page here on wikipedia, isn't that something that would be relevant? I'm just a little dissapointed, for years there wasn't a Satellite HS page on wikipedia.org. The day after I create one and spend over six hours on it, a lot of content was deleted from the page. I know you're just doing your job, I'm just not sure why the departments section was deleted. If you could elaborate more on what you think then I would appreciate it. Respectfully, (321Baseball (talk) 07:32, 24 May 2008 (UTC))

Thank you for your words and constructive comments! For real, I appreciate it. Thank you for telling me what I need to do and your kind words! If you have any other advice to give me, I am all ears. Hope you have a great day, talk to you soon! Respectfully, 321Baseball (talk) 09:59, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Namesake Succession Boxes
I have gone to the liberty to request a deletion for your namesake succession box series. I am not quite sure how I found them, but unfortunately they do not qualify as succession boxes since they are not in fact a part of any real succession. What I recommend you do is create Infoboxes for these sort of lists, that way every city/town/etc will have the complete list of other locations with the same name. I believe that was your original intent. I apologize for the deletion requests and if there is anything I can do to help with creating the infoboxes, I would be happy to assist. – Darius von Whaleyland,  Great Khan   of the Barbarian Horde  18:19, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your support vote at Roman Catholic Church NancyHeise (talk) 04:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

List of sexually active popes
Can you explain what was wrong with my edit? 78.86.9.206 (talk) 14:50, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, I didn't know that some people had vested interests in this article. I just edited it because I believe lead paragraphs should be short (as mentioned in some policy guideline which I can't be bothered to find), and the grammar of the first sentence was so convoluted that it took a few minutes before I understood it. 78.86.9.206 (talk) 15:07, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * All right, go to talk page. Hmm, I'm not sure if you realized that I just moved most of the lead para into a new section below the TOC. 78.86.9.206 (talk) 15:32, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Requests for mediation/Contras
When filing requests for mediation, please remember to notify all the parties you have listed as parties. You can't expect them to be mind readers. Regards,  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  16:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to get in as a mediator. Let me know.Chimba (talk) 03:46, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello Student7. Sorry for the delay at answering, I didn't notice I had new messages. I don't have any knowledge about the Contras or any controversy surrounding them, nor I've been involved in any discussions regarding this topic. I've the feeling that, given that, I will not be useful (at least directly) in mediations or discussions regarding the Contras. If anyway I could be of any help, then count me in. Thanks! Alfredo J. Herrera Lago 19:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC) Alf

Note from Vandal!
Thank you for experimenting with my user page Wikipedia{{#if:| as you did with. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipediaas you did to the my user page. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.201.208.81 (talk) 18:23, 11 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The above is what happens when admins allow a vandal to get out of hand (admittedly this doesn't happen that often nowdays). Admins persistently refused to admonish this guy and (at the time of the message) he had essentially taken over the article Conrad Black. I had to give up! Let someone else handle him.Student7 (talk) 11:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Category:Pauline churches

 * I do not know what you are asking me.
 * What do you think was removed from what? --Carlaude (talk) 22:03, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I did removed Corinth.

Paul founded a church in Ancient Corinth, hence the change. I guess if you feel strongly I you can have both articles in the Category:Pauline churches, but it does not seem really necessary. --Carlaude (talk) 22:47, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of material
Please note that your deletions of material fromRoman Catholic sex abuse cases by country can be construed as vandalism. Please dicuss in talk and seek consensus. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 01:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Requests for mediation/Contras
Please could you pop over to the above page and state whether or not you accept as the mediator of the case?  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  15:54, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for agreeing. Please read my opening comments at the mediation workspace and then keep an eye on that page for further developments. Many thanks. --Dweller (talk) 09:49, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * We're off and running for real now. Sections dealing with 2 of the 5 issues are now posted. Please read carefully and respond appropriately. Thanks so much for being part of this process. --Dweller (talk) 15:05, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. The RS subpage is working well. To help me out, please reply in every subsection, indicating your opinion, or that you have no strong opinions, or agree etc. That way, I'll be able to assess the parties' thoughts as a whole and know where the contention is or is not lying. Cheers! --Dweller (talk) 13:55, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

USAA
I saw you undid one edit by User:68.10.153.138 to USAA but not the other, which I would revert myself, but I'm at two reverts on this article today on something that's a borderline content dispute. Would you mind checking on that and consider undoing that too? Thanks --Matt (talk) 02:51, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Invite
Jccort (talk) 22:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Seventh Generation and Jeffrey Hollender
What is your reason for marking these pages to be deleted?Daniellealexander23 (talk) 22:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC) I'm sorry i'm new to wikipedia can you please explain in further detail and i was also wondering what that has to do with the Seventh Generation page Daniellealexander23 (talk) 22:12, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I made some formatting changes to Articles for deletion/Jeffrey Hollender so that the log page would display properly, and changed the reference to Seventh Generation to Seventh Generation Inc. I hope that is okay. You may want to take another look at Jeffrey Hollender, as I think both articles now demonstrate notability. --Eastmain (talk) 23:24, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Contra mediation
Hi,I dont know if this is the proper venue to tell you this but I would very much like to be included in the mediation process at the COntra page, thank you Jpineda84 (talk) 19:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

South Park link
Thanks for your previous comments regarding the addition to the SouthPark link on Catholic sex abuse cases. That editor is at it agin, adding that silly link. You may wish to contribute to the issue. Regards, --Anietor (talk) 22:58, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Ira Allen
Thank you for adding land ownership information to the Ira Allen article. Please be aware that the author-date system of giving citations is just acceptable as the footnote system, and an article should not be changed from one system to the other without a good reason. See Citing sources for more information. --Gerry Ashton (talk) 02:24, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

RE: Lovebug
Yeah, I kinda screwed up on HG, so i tried to revert my own edit, but I then screwed up on that as well. Sry about that.Montgomery&#39; 39 (talk) 14:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Discgolf
Curious on your opinion on the Burlington discgolf: to me it seems altogether trivial, without need to be mentioned in an encyclopedia article on the city — at least as long as the only reference is from the website of the sponsoring organisation. Nyttend (talk) 23:29, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Notables
What I've seen is that people without articles aren't considered good enough for articles, unless they undoubtedly fulfill notability criteria. Since founding a community doesn't necessarily make a person notable (unlike being a professional sportsperson or a legislator), if there's no article, the person shouldn't be listed. It doesn't matter where in the country s/he is from. Nyttend (talk) 12:30, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Kenan Evren
Why did you change the tense? Nothing has changed the fact that he was the seventh person to become the president, thus he still is the seventh president. --Adoniscik(t, c) 16:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Request to move article H.H. Moran Mar Baselios Geevarghese I incomplete
You recently filed a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves to move the page H.H. Moran Mar Baselios Geevarghese I to a different title - however your proposal is either incomplete or has been contested as being controversial. As a result, it has been moved to the incomplete and contested proposals section. Requests that remain incomplete after five days will be removed.

Please make sure you have completed all three of the following:


 * 1) Added    at the top of the talk page of the page you want moved, replacing "NewName" with the new name for the article.  This creates the required template for you there.
 * 2) Added  NewName  to the bottom of the talk page of the page you want to be moved, to automatically create a discussion section there.
 * 3) Added  PageName  to the top of today's section here.

If you need any further guidance, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves or contact me on my talk page. - JPG-GR (talk) 02:52, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Origen
Student7 I do not understand you. Would you please fix it for me. I do the best I can. I took it for granite (no spell checker) the reader would know "Contra Celsus" by Origen presented Celsus' charges. I think people should know what Celsus said. The Dodds thing was an attempt to show how "magically irrational" the Greeks were. So you could understand Celsus. You can see this again (my last entries) when I brought up the Christian persecution as the blame for the Antonine Plague. [After the plague books were destroyed and higher learning became suspect. Books were dangerous they contained magic and sorcery.(And most likely some of them did). But to those frightened uneducated people, Christian and Pagan alike, you just destroyed books and those who read them. People who read and studied books were not to be trusted]. (This still goes on today) If you "can see where this is going" you are doing a lot better than I am. I think it is important to explain things as best you can.Kazuba (talk) 03:51, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: (please don't spam articles)
This is In response to you removing the link I posted in Athens, Georgia.

Athens Exchange covers local music, movies, and politics. I don't see why you find it inappropriate. It is no more inappropriate than Athens Stuff Guide or Kingpins Bowl and Brew. Athens Stuff exists merely to provide publicity for 100.7 FM, and Kingpins is a damn bowling alley, for crying out loud. This doesn't seem quite fair. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashicus (talk • contribs) 09:20, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

History of Confederate States Army Generals
Ran across a summary that was done in Journal of Mississippi History, August 1977 by Haight and Burns (no not that one! :). It claims 425 total generals. 20% of total generals were killed in action (77). 40 of Field generals (whatever that means) were killed in action. I thought that nearly everybody was on the field in those days. No remote staff.

It claims (slight differences from this article) 8 full generals, 17 lt generals, 72 maj generals and 328 BGs. 125 had been professional soldiers before the war. The largest supply came from former "lawyers, jurists" = 129! Student7 (talk) 01:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * There were seven full generals, as John Hood's appointment was temporary and never confirmed (stated in the article), but would bring the total to eight. "Field" refers to line officers, as opposed to staff, men such as Samuel Cooper, who never saw combat and held administrative/war department positions. The source I used for referencing the total no. in each rank is Eichers' Civil War High Commands, and the generals killed info comes from Foote's Civil War: A Narrative third volume. Do you possibly know what Lt. General or any of the Major Generals not included in the lists of your source? What records or methods did they employ in their research? A lot of the Confederacy's official records are long gone, so info at times can be sketchy, but Eichers' work is used quite a lot on the ACW pages here. I have found a few instances of Foote's work using inaccurate data, but never used it if I knew. Perhaps more eyes on this are needed. Kresock (talk) 02:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Anatolia connection
The categories Cilicia and Galatia are in Category:Roman provinces in Anatolia, and/or Category:Achaemenid satrapies in Anatolia, the most specific categories for them. Sorry for the no edit summary - I don't usually leave one every time I edit an article I'm actively working on, but I try to remember when I edit in other projects. Historicpastime (talk) 13:46, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Catholic Colleges
I'm not sure if you ever got a response to this question, but I do have at least one place for you to look. Try The Newman Guide. It is published by the Cardinal Newman Society, and rates colleges according to their faithfulness and quality of education. I hope this helps, and if you already have this information, please disregard. :)

Take care, Pax85 (talk) 03:50, 14 August 2008 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. Sorry I couldn't find one that was free on the net. :) Pax85 (talk) 19:00, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Pope Urban I
Hello there, I noticed you did some editing to Pope Urban I. As the editor largely responsible for the current state of the article I was wondering if you had any feedback, what it needs to be improved etc. I have requested feedback before but no one responded. Gavin Scott (talk) 22:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Pope
Template:Pope has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Bazj (talk) 21:56, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Pope before 376
Template:Pope before 376 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Bazj (talk) 20:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Contras
I must have missed something. Sorry, I thought it was on hold still. I'll get to it tomorrow, my time. Apologies if I've caused a delay. --Dweller (talk) 16:17, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Annoynmous hasn't edited for 12 days. We can't progress unless and until he wants to be part of the process, which, apart from saying he doesn't like the start point, so far he hasn't done. I'm trying to engage him, but we may have to be patient here. --Dweller (talk) 14:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Template talk:Pentarchy
Please see the above talk page. Thank you. ~ Troy (talk) 01:49, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Third Opinion on Saladin
Hi there, I saw a filing requesting a third opinion for the Saladin article. I left a note on the article's Talk Page to that effect. Hope this helps! Regards, Lazulilasher (talk) 00:51, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I received your email. My advice would be to be certain that both of you are attempting to assume good faith regarding the other's edits. It is clear you both have a passion for the subject. Lazulilasher (talk) 13:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, actually I don't have a passion, but thanks (I think). I just happened to stumble on that article. The difference between that editor and myself is that I am not copying (savoring) his remarks on my page! Sorry, but I find that creepy. 13:08, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Bennington Triangle
204.167.92.26 (talk) has been deleting a bunch of stuff related to the Bennington Triangle; as I don't know much about it, and as most of what was removed was unsourced, all I've done is restore links to the Triangle to some See also sections. I've never heard of this idea before; can you check into it a bit? Nyttend (talk) 20:51, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've never even noticed those sections before; with all Vermont communities on my watchlist (which includes over twelve thousand articles) I don't have enough time to read all my watched articles, so I didn't realise that they'd been there without sources for a good while. Thanks for working on it; you didn't miss the point :-)  Nyttend (talk) 23:41, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Pope test
Template:Pope test has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Bazj (talk) 13:44, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Catholic sex abuse cases
Pls remove your TOPIC discussion & OR from this page. (Talk page guidelines) Thanks for your work on the article. Sturunner (talk) 18:39, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

…Noting your value on responce.Thank YouDavid George DeLancey (talk) 22:20, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

…It is not always do we need to respond, for why my issue here is of your concern Thank YouDavid George DeLancey (talk) 22:22, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Environmental commissioners
What exactly does the Vermont Commissioner of Environmental Conservation do? Is it a state cabinet position, which is good enough to confer notability, or is it some minor office? Nyttend (talk) 12:54, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

how do we know what we know
Dear Student7,

I was very interested in your comments on the Habbush Letter article. You ask, how do we know that blogs have not been faked?

It reminded me of something in a library once.... digging out old versions of Mein Kampf, and looking in the index for 'Henry Ford', you would find that in some editions of Mein Kampf, Hitler's praise of Henry Ford was missing, while in other editions, it had been preserved.

Even books, it seems, cannot be fully trusted.

On the other hand, i would trust old paper copies, stored in libraries, more than a website.

On the third hand, is that an issue of the medium on which the information is stored, or is it an issue of the institution that stores that information?

Example: Consider 'Being is Free', the website by Rielle Hunter, the lady that John Edwards cheated on his wife with. archive.org quickly 'blocked' that page, with vague notices to users, that the page wasnt accessible. no reason why, no explanation. just blocked.

Now,old libraries, they store multiple copies of Mein Kampf. . . . who knows all the old stuff lying around in libraries. In attics. In paper. Very hard to fake.

Web pages? Not so hard to fake... unless... the original article gets copied around the web dozens of times.... then it becomes, hard, to alter the original article on your newspaper/blog website, and somehow claim that you havent altered it. . . when there are dozens of other copies sitting around in cyberspace.

Too bad we can't really count on archive.org to preserve these things. Perhaps the library of congress should team up with the NSA, not to spy on people, but to actually preserve the internet for future generations.

I dont know.

Keep on truckin.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.5.140.145 (talk) 02:59, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is was in the past tense
Querry: you wrote in Thessaloniki that everything in Wikipedia is in the past tense. At first sight I find that 'rule' illogical, especially since wikipedia is peppered with the present tense. For instance, one phrase in the main article is 'Thessaloniki is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial...'. My question is what are the Wikipedia rules for tenses, when to use past, present, future, etc. Thanks. Politis (talk) 13:42, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I will try to find out how printed encyclopedias handle the tense issue. For a moment, when I saw your Crystal link, I thought you were referring me to David Crystal who, as far as I can tell, has covered most aspects of the English language but not txtin and wikipedia... Politis (talk) 13:27, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Lake Champlain reverts
Uh...just so you know, the Two Brothers Islands exist (think Young Island aka "Bird Island). And, the Cumberland Head Lighthouse is privately owned. I live on Cumberland Head, and knew the former owners. So, if you have no idea whether something is untrue or not, don't say it is. Oh, and since you think Providence and Stave Islands also are "untrue," you can very simply click the link right above them "Carleton's Prize" and see a very plain and simple reference to the islands. 66.109.49.200 (talk) 17:16, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Four Brothers . This is just one of many references. Feel free to furnish a reference to the "privately owned." I did figure, without researching it, coming from an unregistered editor, that it was probably as valid as the "Coupla Brothers." Student7 (talk) 00:07, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Roman Catholic Church
Hello, you are receiving this message because you voted in the last FAC for this article. Currently, it is undergoing a peer review and I invite you to come view the page and offer any suggestions for improvement here. Over the past three months, the page has been improved with additional scholarly works, trims, two new sections suggested in and attention to concerns raised during the last FAC. Thanks in advance for your time, attention and help to bring this important article to FA.  Nancy Heise    talk  23:35, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Thessaloniki
You could well be correct, that the RfC was necessary. But in the meantime I think it is better to edit him than to either revert or argue. He could get bored, without the 'big fight.' Or he might see that the items that he puts in look quite different after they've been rendered into acceptable English, and start to wonder. If he continues to revert-war, the RfC may have proven needed (if it actually draws comment). But in any event, this is far easier than dealing with nationalist PoV pushing. In the meantime, thank you for your patience. Jd2718 (talk) 03:03, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I liked major as a calm alternative for heartland! but I see your point. Yes, the one word is povish, but I don't think horrendous. I'll think more. And the rest of your suggestions, bit by bit, absolutely, we'll clear up. That list of players bothers me. I think I will ask him to shorten it! See if we get something constructive... Jd2718 (talk) 14:23, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Rochester
Sorry that I can't give you a substantial answer at the moment; I'm having Internet problems (my college wireless won't let me sign on!), so I have to use a public computer currently, and don't have much time. Nyttend backup (talk) 13:08, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Why did you warn me?
My edit was not a test, i have reverted it back to the way i edited it. I removed a uncited fact that was blatently false. The battle box stated that there were only 10 american soldiers involved in the entire barbary war. I removed that. Next time please comment on the talk page before deleting good edits and warning good editors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by XavierGreen (talk • contribs) 21:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Right-to-work
The point is that the National Institute for Labor Relations is the research arm of the National Right-to-Work Committee (you wouldn't know that from the name, would you?). A responsible journalist would have been up front about the source he was citing. The problem isn't that the reader might think the institute in question is pro-union. The problem is the reader might mistake the benign sounding "National Institute for Labor Relations" as an unbiased source. The qualifier enhanced NPOV by letting the reader know the institute is openly anti-union (not a neutral labor relations institute that might study arbitration and look for win-win solutions). MoodyGroove (talk) 21:51, 7 October 2008 (UTC)MoodyGroove

Kerosene
Regarding this edit, have you any idea what the cost per litre is? Thanks, Pdfpdf (talk) 07:14, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. (I had been reflecting on the subsidised price in India quoted in the article, and the cost-related references cited ... ) Maybe I'll have a look at it next week. (Income tax returns are due on 31 Oct, and I have "quite a bit" of data collection & analysis to do in the next 4 days!) Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:18, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Carlene King Johnson
Thanks for working with Johnson: you may note that my edit summary was "Rv: there's nothing on her article about Rutland, unless I'm really not paying attention". I looked at that article yesterday and saw nothing about Rutland, even though it's not been changed since early September; apparently I simply wasn't paying attention. Nyttend (talk) 12:21, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Melbourne, Florida
Hey, I'd like to start restructuring the article with you some time. should be a good tool for instant collaboration. Please let me know if you're interested.  - Jameson L. Tai   talk ♦  guestbook  ♦  contribs  15:29, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah you'll need to download the IRC client, like ChatZilla for IRC functions.  - Jameson L. Tai   talk  ♦  guestbook  ♦  contribs  15:04, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * yay... hurray for archiving... :D  - Jameson L. Tai   talk  ♦  guestbook  ♦  contribs  18:04, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

thanks.
Thank you for your Vatican link. As a Church observer, I've been familiar with the Joint Declaration since the day it got issued. FYI, only theologically-Liberal churches recognized this statement and even none of the Confessional Protestant churches accepts such document.

WELS: LCMS:
 * http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?1712&cxDatabase_databaseID=1&id=192&magazine=Forward%20in%20Christ
 * http://www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/media/CTCR/justclp.pdf

Thanks again for your information - 219.79.253.123 (talk) 16:03, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Library
I'm curious about this edit: is the Fletcher Library not the only one in Burlington? If I understand right, you say that the name shouldn't be given unless it's a landmark or unless it has a blue link; if it's on the NRHP, as the section seems to claim that it is, it is a landmark. Or am I completely misunderstanding something? Nyttend (talk) 13:34, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Catholicos of East
Student7,

At present there are two catholicos in the Orthodox church in India. They differ only in one point ie., on the relation with the Syrian Orthodox Church.

All other materials stated in the article is useless. The is no difference between the two parallel fractions of one church. If u want know more refer to AIR 1995 SC 2001, decision of Supreme Court of India in this matter.

Thank u —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexyalex (talk • contribs) 16:17, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
For your vote at Roman Catholic Church. I am sorry to inform you that we failed FAC but will again be at peer review in a few weeks to sort things out. Hopefully we will make it through next time. We will be contacting all supporters and opposers of the article when we open the next peer review to hopefully get all issues addressed and hashed out before the next FAC try. Thanks again for your time and attention to this important article.  Nancy Heise    talk  01:07, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

GLB Act
Student7,

Which other entries for financial companies start off by referring to legislation (created after the company had already been structured and in business)? State Farm? nope. Progressive? nope. GEICO? nope. Bank of America? nope. New York Life maybe? nope. Fidelity Investments? nope. Charles Schwab? uhuh. Etrade? no. Vanguard? nope. Wells Fargo? no.

You guys just make up stuff... Give me a break. GLB doesn't even officially apply to anything but publicly owned companies... Most mutuals and privately owned companies voluntarily comply!

HillCountryGrump —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.195.26.170 (talk) 16:47, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Florida
I'm not inclined to disagree with you on the length of the article (which is still burdened with way too many embedded lists), but the prose size is only 40K, which is within the readability guidelines. Kcf06751 was right to remove it based on that, but it's a bit of a gray zone.

There is a handy tool to gauge page length, available at User talk:Dr pda/prosesize.js. It plugs into your monobook.js and adds a couple of extra links to your toolbox (on the Wikipedia sidebar). You might want to add it to your profile; it comes in handy for anything regarding page length, including meeting minimum size requirements for new articles for DYK submissions. (grin)  Horologium  (talk) 01:41, 17 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the information! Student7 (talk) 13:57, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Vermont community categorisation
The basis on which I was going was "If, however, the topic article and the similarly named category come to be placed in the same parent category, the fact that the article is a member of this subcategory is not a reason for it to be excluded from the parent category," from the "Topic articles" section of Categorization and subcategories. I'm not clear on why it's less helpful to remove the county level category: as that page states, it can occasionally be helpful to have duplicate categorisation, both for the above statement and for the reason that virtually all community articles that are placed on county templates nationwide are listed in their county categories: I think it's more helpful to have them included in the county category for consistency alone.

All that being stated: please be aware that I've always been a little confused by the way in which almost every Vermont town has its own category, so I'm fully aware that I might be getting in the way of your doing something quite sensible :-) Nyttend (talk) 16:39, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * About the categorisation: would you like to take the issue to the Village Pump? Since you created these, and we're in the middle of discussing how they work, I don't want to try to rearrange them or to get input without your agreement (or at least your awareness that I'm going to do it), especially as you're already trying to get help.  Just one thing to say, otherwise: I've always wondered if most of these town-level categories are too small, as (for example) Glastenbury, Vermont only has three articles, and isn't likely to get many more.  Check it out, and make your own choices: remember that I'm not going to try to call for other editors to come to consensus unless you agree :-)  Nyttend (talk) 01:54, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Killington ski resort
Sorry; I accidentally bumped this off as I was editing some of the other material. Best, --Pgagnon999 (talk) 20:52, 2 December 2008 (UTC) P.S., part of the problem may have been the lack of reference to Vermont as the qualifier, which you provided when you re-introduced the material. --Pgagnon999 (talk) 20:55, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

100k templates
Maybe we should have a discussion at WP:CITY.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Let's talk here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:58, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I just looked up Special:Contributions/Student7 and am not sure where you commented. Please join us here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 17:50, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Cities over 100K
I'll get back to you in a bit, once I look into this. With few exceptions — including Vermont cities, as there are so few of them — I don't watch cities larger than about ten thousand people, because they get edited so often that I can't keep up, and because enough other editors work with them that vandalism is easier to fight. Nyttend (talk) 16:27, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. Checking Cleveland, I realised that this was related to the same note as the previous thread on your talk page, so I've already left my opinion on the CITIES talk page.  Just one question: what you mean by "I put an attack there"?  Nyttend (talk) 16:49, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks wasn't aware of that. First time contributing :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dotsbh07 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism: warning
Don't use reverting vandalism in edit summaries unless it is; it wasn't. To do so is incivil William M. Connolley (talk) 21:33, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Your criticism

 * Student7, I am an experienced editor. I am familiar with policy, including WP:REVERT.  I never add any facts that cannot be referenced.   Very often, I do include references the first time.  It's very unusual that someone summarily rolls back my contributions on sight. The correct procedure in this case would be to use a  tag.  The editor who rolled back my hard work, at first claimed that he did not believe there were ever any Native American settlements within the District, and claimed he had never heard of Nacotchtank.  I realize it is asking too much for people to take 5 seconds to enter "Nacotchtank" into google.  Once references were added, they were again rolled back on grounds that they were not "verified" (ie because they were not hyperlinked).  Once the hyperlinks were made available, other pretexts for rolling the information back were quickly found. I am glad that they reconsidered what they were doing.  But your criticism of me seems unwarranted, and you are holding me to a higher standard than the project standard, by demanding that I spoonfeed you the references for every single thing I write.  Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 12:59, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Bethel, Vermont
I wasn't paying attention and accidentally got into an edit war with an IP about Jessamyn West, who lived in the town for a while. The IP thinks that there should either be a nonstandard header (rather than the WP:CITY ideal of "Notable natives and residents"), because she's not a native or a current resident, or that she should be removed because she's not a resident; I've disagreed, but we've both accidentally gotten into 3RR so I'm definitely not doing anything more on it for a while. Could you look at it and either (1) put it how you think it should be, if you disagree with how it is now, or (2) agree with the current format and let me know? And either way, would you please leave a note on the IP's talk page, telling him/her your opinion on this section? Nyttend (talk) 17:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Student7, the change you made to Bethel,VT seems good. Thanks for taking care of it. 174.158.92.250 (talk) 22:28, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Template talk
Hey, I've left a question for you over at Template talk:Current U.S. Lieutenant Governors. Hope to hear from you. Un sch  ool  22:16, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments. I have left a reply under your post.  Un  sch  ool  03:41, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Catholicos of the East
The Page Full Protected for the time being. So no more reversions. Sorry for the troubles caused by the silly arguements --ܠܝܓܘ Liju  ലിജു לג&quot;ו (talk) 07:12, 22 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. I said the truth. Anyone can enquire of the reality. The above said people are discussing of churhces, but the article List of Catholicos of the East is of those individals who uses the title Catholicos of the East. Lijujacob is purposely trying to make it a church based article. It has nothing in connection with which denomination or fraction it belong. It is only connected with the persons who uses the title.Further, i like to point out that with a simple example. How can a Catholicos take the name of Baselios Paulose II with out a predecessor with name Baselious Paulose I . For ur kind information, the reality is that there exists two adminstrative parallael fractions in the Orthodox church of India. One call itself Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and other Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church. There were civil disputes for authoirty and power. The matter was heared in the Supreme Court of India and decided in vague in 1995 and is reported in AIR 1995 SC 2001. For clarification and execution of this judgement there are various cases existing in several courts in India today also. As per the Court order, Patrairch of Antioch is the supreme spiritual leader and the Catholicos cum Malankara Metropolitan is the authoritative and temporal leader of the whole of orthodox church in India. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexyalex (talk • contribs) 12:05, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Trouble at Knights Hospitaller
We need your help moderating a dispute at Knights Hospitaller. Some SMOM diehards keep inserting text that SMOM is the only successor of KH. We've already gone through this nonsense once already. Thanks, Il Castrato (talk) 20:52, 24 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi S7! Thanks for your kind note of support. One thing that would help is if you were to change the KH page back to the non POV version and reinstate the "freeze". This might give them some time to reconsider their positions.  Cheers Il Castrato (talk) 02:09, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Criticisms of Marxism
First off, Michael Gove is not a source to be used for anyone interested in a serious, non bias analysis of the economic faults of the Soviet Union or the Classical Socialist States in general. Second, as you will probably not agree with the former after having looked at the litany of quotes on your profile, the criticism used explains nothing for the intelligent, inquiring mind. Simply put, I may easily critique any system of governance or economic system on their actions at some point in its history. For simple examples, most forms of Capitalism in the industrialization periods and before were relatively much worse than the Soviet Union for the environment and the betterment of human beings, not to mention the United States treatment of the Native/African Americans. You must look at what they were attempting to achieve, and if not achieved ask why it failed. This quote is a clear indication that you view Wikipedia not as a place for academic inquiry but for bias propaganda. Either that or you have not thought about it that much and just like to cut and paste, which equally disqualifies you. So, to conclude, I will once again delete this garbage. If you are unable to handle this not being here, then I will simply add onto it with my own input..."However, Michael Goves criticism is highly bias and not nearly relevant to the greater question of why the Soviet Union and other Classical Socialist States failed because...."

-Tanthallas01 (talk) 18:36, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

DC airports
Hey there. I think you're taking too literal of an approach. The airports should be left as is. They are intrinsically related to DC and are therefore proper under the scope of WP:TOPIC. Further, the article's consensus is that the airports be included, which overrides any other policies or guidelines. Best, epicAdam(talk) 20:16, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Your edits about airports
You should really consider going to talk pages before you remove things like this. The airports serve the area and as such should still be listed. I am personally going to every article where you seem to have made these edits and i am simply reverting because of the aforementioned reason. if these edits say they are in the city, i have no issue with rewording to say that it serves, but to remove entirely is not in the best practice and should be thoroughly discussed...Cheers!--EmperorofBlackPeopleEverywhere (talk) 20:08, 28 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I think Epic's statement about the issue says it all. You are taking too literal of an approach to it.--EmperorofBlackPeopleEverywhere (talk) 20:19, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Clearly you are not understanding what is being explained to you. I, for one, am not willing to engage in a discussion with you that seems to be going nowhere so please refrain from leaving messages on my talk page and I will also do the same.--EmperorofBlackPeopleEverywhere (talk) 03:35, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Additionally
I apologize for not explaining my reasoning earlier. I am new to Wikipedia.

-Tanthallas01 (talk) 03:20, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Catholicos#Definition_of_the_RC_church

72.48.48.129 (talk) 04:29, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Revert of edit to Killington Ski Resort with Twinkle
Although the reversion you just did to Killington Ski Resort appears to be justified, it doesn't appear to be vandalism per se. Twinkle automatically labels things as vandalism; it might be better not to use that tool when there's a question of a good faith edit, however poorly done. Best, --Pgagnon999 (talk) 03:15, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

No; the editor did not change the location of Killington; take a closer look at the diff.--Pgagnon999 (talk) 14:09, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem. --Pgagnon999 (talk) 03:12, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi!
Saw your note on RCC. Sorry I am not much help but it sure is nice to hear from you again! How are the grandkids? Are they letting you use the computer at this time of year? I have been kind of absent from Wikipedia throughout the holiday season, just enjoying it all. I hope you had a Merry Christmas and a terrific New Year and 2009!  Nancy Heise    talk  01:01, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Mr. Tabor
It's duplicate and improper categorization. If he's already in Category:People from Orleans County, Vermont, then he doesn't go directly into Category:People from Vermont too, and people are never supposed to be filed directly in a city category — if there isn't a "people from city" category for that place, then one can be created if there are enough people to warrant it, but people don't go directly in the city category as a substitute. Bearcat (talk) 16:26, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

RE: Killington
That's quite all right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.44.15 (talk) 21:58, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Possible RFC bot error
The RFC was removed from the page because it expired. The bot appears to be fine with the fact that it was restored. &mdash;harej // change the rules 03:22, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

New England, East, West Jersey
How can my edit possibly be considered "vandalism?" I added information that's provided in the sourced link!

If that's considered "vandalism", then I guess my contributions to Wikipedia aren't welcome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.218.250.193 (talk) 05:18, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * (He was correct! I reverted my edits!)Student7 (talk) 13:33, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

response
Well it's wiki policy that we report what the sources say. If the sources don't call it a criticism, then neither do we. If he doesn't respond in a few days, then I'm just going to take his edits out completely and let him complain to someone instead.Farsight001 (talk) 02:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Requests for mediation/Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church
Hello there Student7. I've fixed up the above mediation request - the reason you were having problem was because for some reason you had quite a lot of unneeded "subst's" in place (not sure why!) but it was easily sorted! Could you please post notifications to the other participants on their talk pages to let them know you've filed the mediation request and ask them to say whether or not they agree with the mediation? Thanks,  Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter 09:14, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for making the notifications. Regards,  Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter 13:46, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Burlington television
Great edit summary :-) Nyttend (talk) 19:59, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Request for mediation accepted
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Laurel wilt
Can you elaborate a little more on what you're looking for in your edit to the Laurel wilt page? The primary source calls the beetle the "redbay ambrosia beetle." Is the cite problem with piping "redbay ambrosia beetle" to "ambrosia beetle?" I've taken "redbay" out of the link and changed it to read "a fungus transmitted by the invasive redbay ambrosia beetle." Is that better?Athene cunicularia (talk) 21:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks!Athene cunicularia (talk) 22:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Horacio Rivero, Jr.
Today I sent an e-mail to my friend Ad. DeLoach in regard to the SCALANT question. As soon as I hear from him, I'll let you know. Cheers! Tony the Marine (talk) 04:37, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Update - Admiral Rivero was vice chief of naval operations from 1961 to 1968 at the Pentagon. Tony the Marine (talk) 18:26, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * World's record? I know. Ad. DeLoach, sent me the following New York Times source on the subject: . He is still looking into it. Tony the Marine (talk) 21:55, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Melbourne, Florida
Hey, I placed the information in Melbourne's article (will do so for Palm Bay too later) because the study did not include Titusville. It would be relatively weird to have Titusville included in a statistic when it's not supposed to be in there. :) Please let me know your thoughts on this.  I was looking for a better place to insert the sentence too, so if you've got suggestions, let me know.  On a different note... I still think that link is quite disturbing... we're only behind Reno...  - Jameson L. Tai   talk  ♦  guestbook  ♦  contribs  02:15, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Union Institute etc.
Are you at all familiar with Union Institute etc.? I was quite confused by it, and if you looked at the edit history you can see that I reverted the recent edits as being rather promotional: in part, it was because I didn't know how to improve what had been there previously. Nyttend (talk) 14:11, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Montpelier
You changed the link just today for the Union Institute etc.: thanks for getting to it, as I didn't realize that anything more needed to be fixed than removing spam. Nyttend (talk) 14:07, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Merritt Island, Florida
The removal of information from this article was my fault. I accidentally removed it during one of my recent edits. Thank you for fixing it. --Dromioofephesus (talk) 03:02, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Need more recruits?
I don't have any good suggestions about getting more volunteers for RFCs. I don't even check the RFC list very often myself, although after your kind words, maybe I'll start checking it more. But it's already on the Community portal.

The next time you have an RFC, one technique I have seen used is you might try going through the History list of some pages related to your topic to identify other editors who seem to know what they're doing and who are neutral, and ask them to comment on your RFC.

Adam_sk (talk) 03:33, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Chios temperatures
Hi,

the temperatures came from one of the "Official" Chios Web sites - www.chios.gr - however I agree they do look high. Please feel free to revise them.

AlekH —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlekH (talk • contribs) 21:13, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Mediation for Criticism of the RCC
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Point Barrow
I have moved the paragraph up that show Point Barrow was occupied about 1,000 years prior to the arrival of any Europeans. It appears to have been inhabited by the Birnirk culture people as a burial mound in the area, Birnirk Site, would indicate and was occupied by the Thule people that came after them. As to there being no people that far north this map shows that the Thule and the Dorset culture both lived much further north than Point Barrow. Eskimo/Inuit were and still are for the most part a marine culture and occupied almost all the costal lands that they could survive from. The few places that they didn't live were in the extreme northen parts of Canada but they were in most places long before the Europeans got there. Point Barrow would have provided them with an excellent point for bowhead whale hunting using a Umiak, a tradition that is still carried on today in Barrow. It would also provide easy access to the sea ice for seal hunting in the winter but I couldnt find anything for that. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 21:44, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Communism
Hi,

My name is Caleb Turner. I do not believe Communism is a help to the government. If it were a help,people would be begging for Communism in America. Though it is realy already used, it should not be used as a way of govermnment.CBT96 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Calebturner96 (talk • contribs) 19:48, 11 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Er. Okay.Student7 (talk) 21:56, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Count of Free Staters
Reckon that anonymous user is going to see the comment you added in-line at Politics of New Hampshire that we need a count of Free Staters? I put a note on his talk page two days ago and nothing. www.FreeStateProject.org says it's over 660 (I know, that isn't good enough!) and I don't know who else would be counting, nor how they would count except by going back to this same web site. --Spike-from-NH (talk) 14:49, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

you
dont know who i amm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.234.122.115 (talk) 18:24, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Let me take a guess - a Key Clubber from Cal-Nev-Ha? (Was I close?).Student7 (talk) 21:27, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Business directory
?????

Now I'm a little confused: why the question marks? Nyttend (talk) 04:00, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I just see this as an outworking of WP:NOT, not a directory #3, which concludes with "Wikipedia is not the yellow pages." Aside from anything else, you didn't add a source for it.  Nyttend (talk) 15:01, 15 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree I did not have a reference which would be pretty lame anyway - probably some .com site. Or several.


 * I don't agree that it was the yellow pages - the link "summarized" the NN retail places. I was not trying to give them needed publicity but to sketch the local economy, which can be done in small part by summarizing the retail establishments. And all economy reporting tends to be in glimpses. Not easy to describe. No village domestic product statistics, and it would be hard with even that as a reference.


 * For the record, it was this article that set me off on this line of thinking. I was horrified when I first saw it and was seriously considering an Afd when I realized they had a WikiProject, rules, and everything! Student7 (talk) 15:32, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi!
English speakers pronunce the city of Florence in a certain way, because it is written in a certain way. San Diego is not the case, it is written in Spanish. --Againme (talk) 14:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I see your point, a very good one. Just a tip: Spanish pronunciation of San Diego has been the same since centuries ago. Regards. --Againme (talk) 21:57, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, I´m an historian, not a linguist. The thing is that Spanish language is almost completely phonetic in its writing system, and we know that most of the letters´pronunciations haven´t changed since centuries ago. The ones that did change, we know how and more or less when (for example, the ´´x´´ in Mexico is like a ´´j´´ in the rest of the Spanish-speaking world). On the other hand, the words that have changed, did it only in spelling, not in pronunciation. We cannot know how people used to speak in different regions, but we do know what the proper educated pronunciation has been over the last centuries. Greetings. --Againme (talk) 23:15, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Simple vow
Not me, not guilty.... andycjp (talk) 12:46, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Greenland
Not sure why the material was deleted in Greenland. I assumed that it was vandalism until I saw this page. I assume you had a reason but don't know what it was. Student7 (talk) 01:29, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Each country has an alphabetical list of topics located at List of Country-related articles and a hierarchical list of topics located at Topic outline of Country. We try to encourage contributors to place all links to related topics in those articles rather than clutter up the See also section with a random subset of those topics.  (Note the  request.)  --Buaidh (talk) 15:13, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

No worries
Peace andycjp (talk) 13:02, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Climate of Florida
Did you want this fact doubly referenced? It's already referenced in the article below under African dust. Thegreatdr (talk) 03:37, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It is done. While I agree with you that many wikipedia articles don't have adequate referencing, Climate of Florida has been a GA for a year or two, and would have faced reassessment if important facts were left unreferenced or any tags would have been left on the article.  In other words, tagging it forced my hand.  Thegreatdr (talk) 18:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I found a line or two that was unreferenced in the body yesterday. Don't worry about it.  Everyone has a different idea of what well referenced means.  Thegreatdr (talk) 17:03, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Alumni notability
Hello, I see you keep reverting the addition of Joe Gayton as an alumnus on Merritt Island High School. Please keep in mind that notable alumni do not follow the same WP:N guidelines as Wikipedia pages. That is to say, some alumni may be notable without Wikipedia pages. This is an error I once made myself. If you review WP:WPSCH and WP:WPSCH/AG, which are more pertinent for school pages that will give you an idea. Basically, any alumni with a Wikipedia page is inherently notable. If they do not have one, that does not disqualify them from the list. However, it does mean that they must be cited by reliable sources as having some notability and being an alumni of the school. In this specific case, Gayton is clearly listed in Wikipedia for his projects, which I believe demonstrates his notability. If you disagree, perhaps you would be willing to defer to WP:PRESERVE and take your issues to the Talk page where we can try to get others' input. -- Lucas20 (talk) 13:45, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:New York State Judiciary
Template:New York State Judiciary has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Muboshgu (talk) 16:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Philistines
Hi, I see that you rated some of my additions to the Philistine article as vandalism. That wasn't very nice. I only made a few changes who make sence, such as labeling Canaanites as Hamites, not Semites. Arabs, Israelites etc. are Semites, but Canaanites, Egptians(Copts) etc. are Hamites. I also added that both Philistines and Canaanites were uncircumcized, again unlike Ismaelites and Israelites. How is this incorrect? Mhusoy (talk) 21:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

why are you spoiling the church page.. Dont you have any other job —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.22.97.34 (talk) 04:20, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

why do you always want to change the church population —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.22.97.34 (talk) 10:38, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

WWBI-LP
If a channel broadcasts on the same frequency as another channel, then it should be common sense that the two channels will interfere and that the more distant channel will be difficult to receive. The source I linked to proves that there is another channel 27 in Montreal, that should be enough. --Noname2 (talk) 03:28, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Malankara church
All the data collected are from the church official website. why arent you doing this in other churches pages with hundreds and thousands of delibrate false history... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.22.97.34 (talk) 08:33, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

For Church History : http://malankaraorthodoxchurch.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=150

At present the Church has over 2 million faithful with 24 dioceses all over the world. - read this .... and how do you know its only 1 million, do you have any proofs?????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.22.97.34 (talk) 08:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks good. why don't you use it?Student7 (talk) 15:05, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Vermont
Thanks for your edit of 21:23, 8 March 2009; it's a definite improvement in the placement of the tax info, and thanks, too, for pointing me to that Guideline.

Regarding your 19:26, 9 March 2009 edit's citation, I suspect a typo: Should "pool" be "poll"? Also, is it really a book, as indicated by the template that you used, with a publication date of March 9, 2009? If, instead, it's a news article, then perhaps you could cite a specific publication in which it appeared, and a link if it is online.

For your 21:37, 8 March 2009 edit to other text, I felt that some compromise was needed. You left the sentence, "There are exemptions" sort of hanging; it's almost tautological to say that a tax law will have exemptions, so I restored some of the more significant inclusions & exclusions that shouldn't require a trip to the Government of Vermont article. I'd welcome your review, though.

Thanks, --LottsoLuck (talk) 08:02, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Smyrna and Bodrum
Hi S. I saw your edits on Smyrna and Bodrum, two places which are dear to my heart too, although I notice that your range of interests is wider than mine. Both articles still need a boost on solid and knowledgable ground and I must say that your brand of logic of the absurd is not helping for advance in that direction. Please just don't tag and let's keep the articles tidy and the contents serious. There is no logic in the absurd. Cretanforever (talk) 09:49, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Vacaville, CA
Hi. I saw your recent edits to Vacaville, CA and I noted that you agreed with me in that the notable residents (not sure how the section was phrased, but something like that) should be included. Would you care to weigh in on the section that is discussing that on the talk page? Thanks :-) Regards, Killiondude (talk) 05:25, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

citation templates
If you are citing articles in the newspaper (Florida Today), use the cite news template, rather than the cite book template. The news template has different fields, and displays differently. Also, if there is a URL, link to it along with the title, and use the accessdate; sometimes it is possible to use the wayback machine to pull up dead URLs, but without a URL it's not possible.  Horologium  (talk) 19:39, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

St anselm's abbey school revisions
Whether or not the school actually is successful in actually attracting academically gifted young men is certainly up for debate, but given the fact that in numerous places throughout the website (including the school mission) they claim to be an institution for gifted and talented boys, or boys with demonstrated academic achievement, I think it seems pretty clear that that is in fact the demographic that they are targeting. I do agree with you that the school does "attempt" to offer a challenging academic environment, and whether they do or not certainly is up for debate.

My real issue, however, is with the wording you employ in those two sentences. To use the same word in two consecutive sentences (attempt) is sloppy and reads poorly given the nature of wikipedia; the entries in this website are neither prose nor poetry, so the use of repetition is unnecessary and should not be employed. Think of a research paper that one would submit to peers or write in a class - repetition would only be used in a place where it is acceptable to drive home an opinion, otherwise it would be considered poor writing.

Given the facts above, I felt that my revision not only improved the grammar and syntax, but also gave the reader a fuller understanding of the nature of the school. Please respond with your thoughts.

98.233.0.80 (talk) 02:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

What means revert?
What means revert?

EoGuy (talk) 17:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Valletta
Hey there! Great to see some of the good work you've done on Maltese interest articles. However rather than simply removing various facts and such, maybe working to contribute sources or further information could be just as fulfilling. Just a though :-) Pietru (talk) 21:34, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for fixing what I can only call a brain fart of mine on Fulton Sheen, messing up the chronology big time even though that was one of the things I actually was trying to improve. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 04:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Abby Hemenway's history of _____
Once I clicked the link, I found it obvious that it wasn't spam; however, because the name meant nothing to me, I thought it better to rename the link to something we non-locals could understand. I don't know why I labelled Derby as "Orleans County Historical Society" and the rest as "Local history" or something like that; I've now renamed Derby.

On a somewhat different tack: do you consider Hemenway a reliable source? Or Child's? Nyttend (talk) 13:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Confused, where does the NYPL come in? At any rate, we have an article on Merriam–Webster, but not on Hemenway.  Nyttend (talk) 20:41, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Washington and Lee University
You added a fact tag to an entry about Donald D. Hook in. He has posted to New contributors' help page. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:47, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Barton River
Hey, Just made the disambig page for the Barton River and linked that on the Vermont River article. Since there are the only two articles I'd reckon it really doesn't warrant changing all the links etc. So I'm happy if you're happy. Cheers, thanks for the message and keep up the good work. --Hughesdarren (talk) 01:22, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Cut from Kim
I am surprised by your decision to cut the reference to Italo Calvino's Path to the Nest of Spiders that I added to the entry for Kipling's Kim. It is difficult for me to believe that Calvino is, as you write, of "[p]eripheral interest to this major work" while writers like of Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, etc., are worthy of mention. Within world literature Cavlino's importance far surpasses the work of any of these writers, and his reference to Kipling is both clear and consequent for his novel. Perhaps my addition could have been shortened, but I must express my displeasure at its having been cut completely. I ask you to reconsider. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.23.87.63 (talk) 04:56, 8 April 2009 (UTC)