User talk:Tim1965/TalkArchives3

Jackie Presser indictment scandal
Hi Tim1965. You are off to such a great start on the article Jackie Presser indictment scandal that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. Appearing on the Main Page may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the "Good" articles proposed by bot list. Again, great job on the article. --  Jreferee  (Talk) 18:44, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Category:Labor law of the United States
Hi Tim, I noticed you were adding court cases to Category:Labor law of the United States. We already have a category for these at Category:United States labor case law, so I went ahead and made the latter into a subcategory and reverted your edits to the case articles. I also moved a bunch of articles from Category:United States law into the Labor law category, because they fit better there.

I don't like to revert people's edits, but I just thought the articles would be organized better this way. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. --Eastlaw 18:46, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Joe Glazer
I tried to follow up on some suggestions you put in the Discussion page to this article. Would you be willing to check 'em out and reply to my question on the discussio page there, at your leisure. Thanks. David in DC 00:39, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

AOTD
Hey Tim, nice work setting up the September AOTDs. Chris--Bookandcoffee 08:21, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, thanks. I don't think I did a terribly good job finding September-related articles.  But it is certainly a month with many diverse topics now! :)  I wish there were more non-U.S. articles to choose from.  Many of the articles I'd like to put up there are just four-sentence stubs and (I don't think) able to go up as AOTDs. But, as articles improve, the AOTDs will change, too. - Tim1965 13:14, 3 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, you've made me blush. Thank you. :) - Tim1965 23:42, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Chinese Staff and Workers' Association
Another user has removed part of the article you created at Chinese Staff and Workers' Association. I reverted this edit since it appears to remove a bunch of sourced materials in favor of unsourced materials. The user left a message on my talk page after he undid my revert stating that he volunteers with the CSWA and that those events never happened. Care to examine further? Thanks, Metros 01:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Corrected it and put the links to the CSWA website--Geekattack10 05:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm Working on CSWA's Website and when it goes live it will updated and be corrected. That should clear everything up. the one about the bomb outside the office is definitely wrong but i will leave it up until i update our history on CSWA's website sometime by the end of the year--Geekattack10 21:13, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Bruce Nelson (historian), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Spa toss 19:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Klaus Gerhart
Hi, Tim1965,

(This is my first User talk entry, so please forgive any format errors.)

It amused me very much to find that you undid my correction to Klaus Gerhart's biography. I changed it to reflect the fact the he and I moved from Chicago to Los Angeles together, in September 1989. We made the drive in my 1975 Dodge pickup truck, pulling a U-Haul trailer with two motorcycles - his a Honda 750 Blackhawk and mine a Yamaha 650 Maxim - and all our earthly belongings. We had been friends in Chicago and shared an apartment on Fairfax Avenue for a few months before cabin fever set in.

Anyway, I wonder what makes one so sure of the dates to which you re-edited Klaus' page.

-Clay —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Clayrr (talk • contribs).


 * Hi Clay. Wikipedia's policy is to cite sources. Sadly, Klaus Gerhart's never been interviewed (that I can find). We have to go by the brief synopses that his publishers have written. I admit, I'm guessing at the dates. But that's because in both references cited in the article, the publisher either says outright "he moved to L.A. in 1994" or because the source says "he created the Naked Art Gallery in 1995, a year after he moved to L.A."  I fully realize you may be more accurate.  But Wikipedia says we can't go with personal knowledge; sources have to be cited (even if everyone knows they are wrong).  Plus, this is cyberspace.  You could be some schmo from Missoula, Montana -- not Klaus Gerhart's ex-bf.  No one can tell for sure, can they?  I don't doubt that you are who you are, but others will.  And lastly, you can't believe how many idiot high school kids think it's funny to go into an article about a gay person and start f**king with the dates, places, etc.  Since no one can tell who you are, I had to do the undo.  Had you had a citation, I wouldn't have cared less.


 * My suggestion: You know him.  Go tell Klaus Gerhart do an interview with "Blue" or some other magazine so that the record can be set straight.  (Hell, even "Frontiers" or "Bay Area Reporter" would do it! :) )  And while you're at it, tell him to publish some more books, damnit!  My photobook collection needs some new additions, and yet another Sam Carson hack-job ain't gonna get added to it. - Tim1965 01:12, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, Tim.
 * 1) 1 Lord, no, I wasn't his bf! Just friends.
 * 2) 2 In fact I fell out of touch with him four or five years ago and don't have a clue where he is. And frankly, his page was so complimentary I was half assuming he'd had a hand in writing it, and hoped my edit would make it back to him somehow. Alas, no...Clayrr 01:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Damn. I was hoping you could get in touch with him! Oh well. The article is laudatory, but then that's the only stuff I can find out there on him. (Photography criticism is particularly prone to ass-kissing. And not in the good ass-kissing way, either.)  My own view is that about half his images are good, and the other half "jocks on rocks" trite/Tom Bianchi wanna-be. (But that's just my personal opinion; I'm not easy to please, photography-wise.)  But his work impressed me enough to write an article about him. (I've written other articles about gay photographers, but there's so little information out there about any of these guys. It really is depressing.) One alternative is for you (and others of his friends) to get interviewed as a group by a journalist or writer who'd want to do a piece on Gerhart.  I know the writer; you tell me if you wanna do it. (Yes, I'm serious.) - Tim1965 01:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Free Association of German Trade Unions
Hi Tim, I've been putting a lot of work into the article about the Free Association of German Trade Unions recently. I would like to nominate it to become a good article soon. Considering the great job you did on the Fritz Kater article a few weeks ago, I was wondering if you could have a look through this one as well, copyedit it as needed and also check if it is thoroughly NPOV (I have to admit a bit of sympathy for the organization) and eligible for GA in general. I will still be expanding the "Radicalization and expulsion from the SPD" section just a little and adding bits and pieces about the union's ideology throughout the whole article and another image or two, if I can get my hands on them, but other than that I think it's more or less finished. Other than that, thanks for all the great work you do on Wikipedia.--Carabinieri 04:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, not a problem! - Tim1965 12:27, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I finished my review of the article. Please look it over.  I'm sure I misinterpreted your intent on several things, but I hope they can be corrected.  That article is exhaustively researched and quite well-written. If you need me to take another look at it, let me know and I will do my best. - Tim1965 18:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Organized labour?
Hello. I noticed today that you recently added an article I have worked extensively on, André Morell, to Wikiproject:Organized Labour, placing that template on its talk page. I'm just a bit curious as to how he fits into that category? He was an actor, and for a time a soldier during the Second World War, so I'm not entirely sure how it fits? Angmering 10:58, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

It fits because of this:
 * In 1969 he became the vice president of Equity, the trade union for British actors and performers. He then served as president of the organisation for a year from 1973–74. During this time he was involved in a dispute in which Equity threatened to expel Laurence Olivier as a member due to comments he made in a newspaper feature about the possibility of forming a breakaway union. The union also suffered from financial problems, and Morell continued to warn against destructive divisions amongst the members when he stepped down as president.

After all, he was the national union president of Equity. And during his tenure, the union went through a major controversy. That's why he got the Organized Labour tag. - Tim1965 17:37, 13 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Aha, I see. I suppose I hadn't really thought of acting as "labour"! Angmering 21:17, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

 * You're making me blush. (Notice I didn't say stop.) - Tim1965 18:30, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Hero (novel)

 * Things go pretty well, thank you. D.C. has rain, the temperature finally feels like fall, I saw a bunch of good films at film festival, and Halloween is around the corner. I could complain, but I won't. Hell, my screwy PC monitor even came back online after a worrisome two days fiddling with my creaky Windows ME. My friends Ban and Duc are back in town and we're headed to Firefly to have drinks. I could complain, but I won't. :) - Tim1965 13:43, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Webb Miller
Great article! (I was editing Salt Satyagraha when you added the link). I hope it joins your DYK collection. ~ priyanath talk 20:45, 3 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh geez, I hope I didn't screw up your edit!!! (I hate it when that edit conflict thing happens!  Especially if you've got a lot of edits, and the other person just has one piddly little one...) - Tim1965 20:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)


 * No, I just happened to see your edits in the history, stuck in between a bunch of mine. ~ priyanath talk 20:56, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Boys in the Sand
Hi. I noticed that the above article has been labeled "under review" for some time now. Might I suggest that you either pass, fail, place the article on hold or remove the tag so that others may review it? Cheers, CP 00:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Reel Affirmations GA on hold
Just a short list of things to do to pass it, on the article talk page. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 20:06, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Boys in the Sand GA fail
I'm confused by a nummber of the points in your GA fail of this article:


 * Point 2) What is the specific problem with the references' compliance with the MoS?
 * Point 3) If the topic is covered reasonably, I don't understand why not citing one specific reference or another is relevant.
 * Point 4) Not understanding the issue with the references section as each reference appears complete in the references section.
 * Point 7) There is no spot in the infobox for either an IAFD link or an AFDB link and I don't understand what you mean about including citations in the infobox.

Would you clarify these points for me? Thanks. Otto4711 (talk) 07:37, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Cornelius Shea
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Catagories for Aust PMs
I would appreciate if you do not catagorise non-free fair-use images (Hawke) so as to minimize their exposure to deletionists. As for free images, go for your life. Ta. Timeshift (talk) 22:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK
Great work on this article, Tim! I hope you're thinking of taking this to good or featured articles eventually. --JayHenry (talk) 22:21, 23 December 2007 (UTC)