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==Henry Dunant==

Hi there, the German article about Dunant made some good progress in the last weeks, with some joint work between another user and me. It's now in the review process, and I plan to submit it to FA status vote in the near future. Perhaps it reaches FA status before Oct 30 to have it as "Article of the Day" in the German Wikipedia on the occasion of the anniversary of his death. It's English counterpart should be brought in line to adequately reflect the historical relevance of Dunant - in other words, another translation is needed here :o). Unfortunately, I will probably lack the necessary time in the near future because of a new job from the beginning of October. Though I would of course check any work done by you. Sincerely Yours, --[[User:UW|Uwe]] 22:12, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

==Great minds...==
...think alike. I was going to ask you about "criticism" because I wanted to remove it myself. I can criticize my ford pick-up til I'm blue in the face but that doesn't make me anti-Ford; if I have a ''consistent hostility'' toward it, well that's a different thing :). The intro on A-A is becoming more important because I've noticed people using it as a kind of template on similar articles. I'm not sure if I actually like "consistent hostility" but I can't think of anything better. [[User:Marskell|Marskell]] 00:01, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

:Oh boy—on google I get wiki sites, wiki mirrors or circumlocutions ''around'' the fact. I haven't watched [[Anti-American sentiment in various countries]] though maybe I should as it comes up early. How about this: "an attitude of distaste, aversion, or intense hostility the roots of which may be found in matters unrelated to the actual qualities or attributes of American society or the foreign policies of the United States" from here [http://mtprof.msun.edu/spr2004/trart.html]. I like it if we can make it Wiki acceptable. 

:As indicated, I've jumped into various Anti-x country articles and this may have been a bad idea; I think a lot of them don't belong. But, of course, editor A thinks "hey if you're country is prejudiced against, so is mine!" And you can't halt that—such is the Wiki nature. Anti-Americanism ''exists'', even if I'm uncertain that other ethnic or national phobias should be given the same space. Given that people ''are'' going to look toward it as the grand-daddy page for other articles we should have a good definition. [[User:Marskell|Marskell]] 00:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

::OK. First I really hate topic sentences that say "this is controversial" or "this has no clear definition." ''Say it and mean it.'' That's what encyclopedias do. So, I removed the first sentence and just went ahead paraphrasing the quote. You're right the article does (to my glancing-around knowledge!) correspond to the literature. And this really is your work because of what you did with section two (I mean, this really is ''a good article'' if my opinion on that is not clear). 

::Regarding the intro, "distaste, aversion or intense hostility" really covers it even if you think a particular adjective is misplaced. I dropped "may be applied to Americans and non-Americans." A really obvious point. [[User:Marskell|Marskell]] 00:55, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

I logged out before I could respond last night. You would like a qualifier and as I see it "whether the term is distinct or a collection of..." provides one. I don't believe ''lead sentences themselves'' should be qualifiers. Honestly, I've never understood that. "Dislike" and "hostility" are fair. See for instance [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Anti-American]. The debate to my mind is not about the definition but about application and that's we have "use of the term." It doesn't seem right to make the intro redundant with the subsequent section. [[User:Marskell|Marskell]] 12:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

== Mumford ==

Thanks for cleaning that article up! I did it pretty quickly without checking over it really and then had to take a bit of a break. By the way, I'm excited about filling in some of the more unusual individuals and stories from the Civil War. I also did Champ Ferguson and Henry Hotze the other day. However, I would also really like to help with some of the important articles on the battles and regiments, etc. It's still a bit frustrating to me that we do not have articles for some significant battles and military units. As an experienced editor in this area, do you have any suggestions of where I can help the most? Tfine80 22:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

: You're welcome. I should have held back for a while, but my editing mind starts to itch when I see typos and I rashly jumped in. Yes, I can see you have some obscure topics, some of which I hadn't heard of previously, so congratulations for ferreting them out. As for future topics, that's pretty easy. Go to <nowiki>[[Category:Battle_stubs]]</nowiki>. Alternatively, I have a to-do list in [[User:Hlj#To-do List]] and you are welcome to get ideas from that. Do me a favor, though. If you pick one, drop me a note at my regular email (see the top of [[User:Hlj]]) so we don't interfere with each other by accident. And check out my style guide, [[User:Hlj/CWediting]]. Have fun. [[User:Hlj|Hal Jespersen]] 22:40, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

==German Wikipedia==
You may be interested to know that the Dutch Wikipedians (incl. me), who can read German and English consider the German Wikipedia of superior quality. [[User:Andries|Andries]] 23:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks for the kind comments you left on my talk page ==

(Please pardon any offenses against etiquette and proper formatting; I'm new here.)

You were surprised, but I can't imagine why Wikipedians busy with other work would take any notice of me.  Certainly my few minor corrections to Wikipedia articles can't have attracted much attention.  But then, I was rather stunned to find an article here about my Political Graveyard.

I don't really have a detailed critique of Wikipedia in terms of advantages and disadvantages.  It seems to be successful at what it's about.  The scope of Wikipedia as to political data is both broader and narrower than that of Political Graveyard, and it makes sense that this would be so.

I started the site in 1996, and I'm somewhat defensive about the fact that I am still using the same technology that I had at the outset.  (My usual excuse is that I have 30,000 lines of code into this, and I certainly don't have the time to rewrite it all in some other language -- or more precisely, I'd rather spend that time developing more data.)  The gigantic, towering disadvantage of my approach is that everything has to flow through me personally, and I'm not available to work on the project full time.

In building the site, I did want to try to exploit the possibilities of hypertext in a way that just wasn't happening much in the 1990s.  I guess Wikipedia proves that a site doesn't have to be centrally controlled for this to work well. [[User:Kestenbaum|Kestenbaum]] 05:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

== Celso Daniel ==

Hi. Sorry for not replying your first message. Lastweek I sent an e-mail to Agência Estado which holds the rights of the photos that I attached to the Celso Daniel article. They replyed that I had to pay for them (and they are not cheap). Well, so I removed the last picture that remained at the article. There are still things being revealed about Celso Daniel case. This week, the magazine "Veja" (http://veja.abril.com.br/051005/p_064.html) issued an article about the judge João Carlos da Rocha Mattos, which was arrested for corruption almost two years ago. He accused the particular secretary of president Lula, Gilberto Carvalho, of being a key piece in the mistery that involves the death of Celso Daniel. But unfortunately things are not easy to be proved. As a dweller of Santo André and Worker's Party sympathizer it was very hard for me to deal with the death of our mayor. He had the gift of making everyone to believe in him. He made Santo André a more beautiful city, an example for the other cities in Brazil. I went to his burial and could see how helpless the people was. But the corruption in Santo Andre was already stinking, and his death brought us the evidence that something was deeply wrong in his administration. 
[[User:Massari|Massari]] 10:24, 3 October 2005 (Brasilia Time)

==DuckTales==
I was not the uploader of the image, I've been moving the copyrights to show a specific Disney Copyright for Logos.  I would think it fell under the Logo/FairUse clause. [[User:LordBleen|LordBleen]] 05:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)



== Mensalao scandal ==

Updated [[User:Carlosar\draft]]!

Mensalao in Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mensal%C3%A3o_scandal  here]. The material is extense (unfortunately I couldnt organize everything)  and you can find a lot more of in [http://www.radiobras.gov.br  Agencia Brasil].

Should we add the videos to the mensalao page? How?--[[User:Carlosar|Carlosar]] 12:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

==Le Shana Tika Tavo==
[[User:Scottfisher|Scott]] 02:57, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

==EU?==
if I understand the comment on your userpage correctly, you are infuriated because America is not considered part of Europe and (a fortiori) of European culture? This doesn't have anything to do with the EU surely? Bosnia and Switzerland are considered part of Europe witout any doubt, without being in the EU. America is simply not part of Europe geographically, and even if major parts of American culture derive from European culture, it has ceased to be European for several centuries now; even more recent emigrants, like the Jews fleeing the Third Reich to the USA will by now be somewhere between "European emigrants in a foreign continent" and "USians with European roots". By "America" I mean "the Americas", btw; I find it much more infuriating to have "America" used as a synonym of "USA" all the time. While "un-American" is used as a near-synonym of "barbarian" in the US, you are aware, of course, that most Europeans are very glad to remain un-American if at all possible. Not that I disagree with your point about spelling, this is certainly not a point that should be belabo(u)red overmuch :) [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 15:06, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
:fair enough; I think your points about Europe go almost without saying for any attempt to tie "culture" to a landmass. There are no clear lines between Europe and Asia, and there are no clear lines between Europe and America, short of the Atlantic fault, nor are there clear lines between Europe and Northern Africa; but that doesn't mean that there cannot be meaningful differences. Superficially, Western Europe may look closer to the US than to Bulgaria. But then, the same holds for Japan. We can talk about cultural differences, focussing on either communalities, or on differences. The important thing is to keep chauvinism out of it, which really isn't a position at all, but what you call toddlers' behaviour in adults :) the "Transatlantic relations" may be strained at times, not because of objective differences, but due to overdoses of chauvinism, from either side, with relative quantities fluctuating over time. take care -- dab 09:30, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

== Jew Smurfs ==

The colors of the [[Israeli flag]] are blue and white - clearly the smurfs represent Judaism! [[User:BDAbramson|<font style="background: lightgreen">&nbsp;BDAbramson</font>]] [[User talk:BDAbramson|<sup><b>talk</b></sup>]] 05:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

== Celso Daniel: 7th witness found  dead ==

Carlos Delmonte Printes, the doctor who examined the body of [[Celso Daniel]], was found dead in his house, on Wednesday (12).
More information in Wikinotícias. --[[User:Carlosar|Carlosar]] 02:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

== Dallas Business Journal article ==

Curious if you would post your thoughts on the article. http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2005/10/10/daily47.html [[User:Tfine80|Tfine80]] 01:20, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

: Hah!  I wonder if I could wrangle some free Southwest tickets out of this!  Just kidding.  I do think it's kind of bizarre that the Dallas Business Journal would be giving a play-by-play of the edits on Wikipedia, but I think it's even funnier that the guy adding the anti-Southwest POV was posting from an American Airlines IP address.  All I can say is, I think my edits improved the article by reverting it to its previously NPOV state.  (I also think the new additions to the [[Wright Amendment]] article on "Repeal Efforts" are a good start to talking about this issue.) —[[User:Cleared as filed|Cleared as filed.]] 00:43, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

== Another strange IP ==

Did you notice this guy's edits that were mentioned in the AP article? http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=67.166.193.202

I wonder if he was some sort of agent to discredit Wikipedia. Or maybe from Legend Airlines himself. [[User:Tfine80|Tfine80]] 03:07, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

: I hadn't noticed that article until I got your message.  Yeah, it is too bad that the article takes kind of a negative view towards Wikipedia, but on the other hand, we don't try to hide the fact that it's user-maintained and edited, and it does provide some amount of publicity for Wikipedia, which can only be good.  And it makes it even more important to get the [[Wright Amendment]] article in good shape, since in a way, it has the same kind of visibility from this publicity that featured articles on the home page have. —[[User:Cleared as filed|Cleared as filed.]] 21:56, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

==German cities==

Hi! I think that all cities with "disambiguated" names (e.g. Rothenburg ob der Tauber) should at least have links or redirects from the "ambigu" name (e.g. Rothenburg), the rest is less important. But go ahead if you like. Notice that some cities get "X, Saxony", while others get "X (Saxony)". I don't know if there's a rule for that, but it looks a bit funny/amateuristic. BTW I think we should keep the old list (cities with population over 100.000, Großstadt) somewhere, that was informative too. [[User:Markussep|Markussep]] 16:15, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

I just found this [[:Category:Lists of cities in Germany]]. They're not nearly as complete as the German wikipedia list, but they do have population figures and districts. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to combine the lists [[User:Markussep|Markussep]] 19:03, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

==[[Frédéric Passy]]==

Good morning from Germany and thanks for a phantastic translation of the Dunant article. I just followed the link to the article about [[Frédéric Passy]] and found a weird amputation of much of the article which happened recently. To me, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Frédéric_Passy&diff=24768766&oldid=24403142 edit on 23:44, 4 October 2005] by anonymous user 69.163.43.56 amounts to nothing short of vandalism so I decided to revert it. Could you please check this article and its history to see whether there was any reason (which I missed) for such a drastic shortening? --[[User:UW|Uwe]] 07:49, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

: Sorry, I just found out from the discussion page that the text is a verbatim copy from the Nobel committee's website, in other words a blatant copyright violation. So unfortunately, the amputation was justified. That leaves two issues: first, it would be necessary to inform an admin to delete the "contaminated" version from the history, and second, it would be nice to have the article rewritten (the bio on the Nobel Committees page is probably a good source of information for doing that). As you are much more familiar with the English Wikipedia, could you please take on both tasks? --[[User:UW|Uwe]] 07:55, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

== Edit on the Anti-Americanism article ==

Hi! You edited out one paragraph that I added to the Brazil section of the above mentioned article. Could you tell me why? This is not a flame, I'm just new to wikipedia and was wondering. Thank you for your time!
--[[User:JullyJ|Jully]] 18:22, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

== Administratorship? ==

grüß Dich Tfine80, wie gehts? Wie ich sehe hast Du bis jetzt gute Arbeit geleistet und ich gratuliere Dir. I was wondering if you are interested in becoming an [[administrator]]? mit freundlichen Grüßen [[User:Gryffindor|<font color="red">Gryffindor</font>]] 19:35, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

: Grüß Gott Tfine80. Eine kleine Frage, ich habe ein Template für das Wikiproject Wien kreiert, kannst dir gerne hier anschaun. [[Template:User Vienna-member]]. Think it's ok, should users be able to carry this if they contributed? lg [[User:Gryffindor|<font color="red">Gryffindor</font>]] 13:47, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

==Translation==

Good morning, you might be interested to translate my newest work, an article about a famous American in Red Cross history: [[:de:Henry Pomeroy Davison|Henry Pomeroy Davison]]. Best Regards, --[[User:UW|Uwe]] 10:26, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

== Kulturkampf ==

Thank you for your interest. If the influence of Molobo and me (I don't want to pin blame here) is shifted to a third party, I think there's still hope for the article, especially with you having knowledge of the history of Germany. [[User:Nightbeast|NightBeAsT]] 23:20, 2 November 2005 (UTC)


==Brazilian Gun Vote==
Sure, my Portuguese is incredibly poor. My grandparents were Portuguese, and I know a few words here and there and would like to learn more, but alot of my translating was going to be bits and pieces from my memories of talking with them as a kid and babelfish. [[User:Karmafist|Karmafist]] 03:53, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
:[[2005 Brazil Arms Sales Referendum|I took a swing at a few of the first paragraphs]]. Let me know what you think. [[User:Karmafist|Karmafist]] 22:44, 4 November 2005 (UTC)


I know I've been slow in saying this, but thanks for supporting my [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Alabamaboy|request for adminship]]. It was an honor to be both nominated and approved as an admin. If there is ever any adminish (is that a word :-) things you need help with, please let me know. --[[User:Alabamaboy|Alabamaboy]] 16:40, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

==Bushido==
Hallo Tfine80! Freut mich, dass du über sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse verfügst und dich für den Rapper "Bushido" interessierst. Ich denke, wir sollten den Text weiter bearbeiten, bis er so gut ist, wie auf der deutschen Wikipedia-Seite. Bitte melde dich auf meiner Diskussions-Seite. --[[User:CaptainMiller|CaptainMiller]] 16:43, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Wenn wir den Text von der deutschen Wikipedia nehmen und übersetzten ergäbe das bereits bestimmt eine gute Lösung. Neben Bushido kennst du wahrscheinlich noch weitere deutsche Rapper. Wir könnten nebst Bushido einige weitere Artikel, welche mit dem deutschen Rap zu tun haben, verbessern. Mir persönlich gefällt Bushidos Rapstil zumindest teilweise recht gut, wenn auch er nicht unbedingt der beste Rapper im deutschen Hip Hop ist. --[[User:CaptainMiller|CaptainMiller]] 20:57, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

== Thanks for supporting my RfA ==

==CfD==
If you got a minute can you take a look at [[Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 7#Category:Soviet spies to Category:Aed Soviet spies]].  Thanks.  [[User:Nobs01|nobs]] 18:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)