User talk:Lawrence Cohen

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AfD Word Choice

Hi there. Just a quick note: please don't use the word vanity in AfDs, regardless of how much the subject deserves it. It can be inflammatory, and there are usually other words that work just as well. See WP:AFD#How_to_discuss_an_AfD. (Or at the risk of using a argument ad jimboneum, see here). Best, --Bfigura ^(talk) 18:17, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, I won't do that again. Which did I do it in? • Lawrence Cohen 18:34, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Not entirely sure to be honest. I was just skimming through the AfD's and saw it. Not a huge problem though. --Bfigura ^(talk) 18:50, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Reply

I have replied to your query on my talk page. - Philippe | Talk 22:18, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Heh, back atcha. Thanks, Phillipe. :) • Lawrence Cohen 22:21, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Nickels Nicknames

Hi,

(Regarding your removal of my comments on Mayor Nickel's talk page.) You suggested that my post "...Could be seen to be defamatory or potentially libellous."

I'm not trying to be insulting to you, but defaming the mayor of Seattle is just about impossible. Mr. Nickels is what the law calls a "public figure."

I'm sure you were just ignorant of the law. You can learn more about libel law at the Hustler_Magazine_v._Fallwell page.

You might want to be aware of this info before deleting other user's comments. I certainly wouldn't try to censor you.

Cheers! 64.105.66.170 22:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. Thanks! • Lawrence Cohen 23:13, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Szwaja Fair Trade Coffee

It's cool! I noticed it a few days ago and was like... wha? I was just in a cleaning up mood tonight, I guess! Surfeited 05:48, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Peru meteor

I saw it: very nicely written! You should consider doing some work on Wikinews. Once you have some articles under your belt, you can apply for accreditation to do original journalism. --David Shankbone 16:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

copied from User talk:Josiah Rowe: Would you mind tweaking the wikilink on the ITN template to 2007 Peruvian meteorite event? We just renamed it from the old illness title; this one is much better. • Lawrence Cohen 23:54, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Done. Nice article! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 23:57, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. :) • Lawrence Cohen 06:12, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for the tip! --David Shankbone 14:22, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Stanley Dunin AfD

Hi there, I noticed you comment here that this person is notable. Can you find any independent verification of the claims made in the article? All I can find on Google are mirrors of this Wiki article and there is nothing of any note in the scientific databases on his supposed work. I'm starting to feel very suspicious as to if the core claims of this article are really true. Thanks for any help Tim Vickers 18:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atomic_Hooligan

Not sure if this is a glitch in your script, but instead of creating a new AfD, you've blanked-and-overwritten the previous one. I need to go to work now so won't have time to fix this, can you do so? — iridescent (talk to me!) 23:12, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, that was odd. I pulled it down, sorry. • Lawrence Cohen 23:24, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem - I know WP:TW is in the middle of a rewrite so it's probably a bug they haven't caught. Might be worth notifying them — iridescent (talk to me!) 23:26, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

2007 Peruvian meteorite event

This two category Category:Meteorites and Category:Arsenic is not important to the article. See in meteorites category for example it shows only meteorite i dont see any meteorite impact on that article and see in arsenic category. All this article to that category does not match. So i have deleted this two irrelevant category and you reverted. --SkyWalker 08:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:Perumeteorcrater.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Perumeteorcrater.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 13:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I replied on the page there... Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2007_September_24#Image:Perumeteorcrater.jpg. Thanks... • Lawrence Cohen 13:20, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Aeroflot terminated destinations

Hi Lawrence, terminated destinations list is not even part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists, however since its been created it should remain but in a manner that does not use too much space nor give unecessary details or compete/clash with the main airline destination article.

The current listing for Aeroflot terminated destinations is doing all of the above, what harm if its format is simplified and yet serves the purpose? the main aim is to just have previous destinations in there and not make it a formal "pomp and show" thing like the main destinations article, with countries and airports information.(inspector 16:44, 24 September 2007 (UTC))

Just so I'm sure, are you talking about this? • Lawrence Cohen 17:17, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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Sorry

Sorry i never got back to you before, about adding that article to my watchlist and copyediting again. Im back at college again which means i have a bit less time to get things done. I've added your article and will have a check on the article --Childzy ¤ Talk 14:00, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

No worries. I missed a couple of messages on my talk, as well. Hope the year goes well. • Lawrence Cohen 03:29, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Heh thanks it will go well, spending a little bit less time on wiki this year. Unfortunately so... Its a great hobby, its real achievement to contribute to something like. You seem to have come a long way on here in a very short amount of time, that's good to see. If you ever need any help for whatever reason just drop us a message --Childzy ¤ Talk 22:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

It is kinda cooler in Hungarian, but...

I see the bird flu outbreak just East of me has popped up here. It is cool stuff indeed, good find! Pete.Hurd 05:40, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Ouch, hope that doesn't get out of hand! • Lawrence Cohen 18:45, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I donno, apparently that strain is only a danger to poultry, plus, the little yellow bird icon is no where near as scary looking as the throbbing red "Technological Disaster" icon in China (which turned out to be the floor giving out in a house built over a 2m deep lake a cyanide... nine dead, more pulled out alive...). How completely surreal, it belongs in an art gallery. Pete.Hurd 19:53, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Letters To Jenny

Hi. I noticed you posted a message about workign on the Letters To Jenny article. I've slapped up an {{inuse}} tag on the article which is a better way to let editors know that major rework is going on. You can remove it when you're done with the najor work. And thanks for taking in the article! Regards. -- Whpq 17:59, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I totally missed this. I'll take down the hangon, it'll be a good while before I get back to it (but it's watchlisted). Thanks, • Lawrence Cohen 03:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Ataturk

If you have such dislike of violation of wikipedia rules, ı think you should be in protest of extreme racist language used by the user Cleander in the talk page of that article, instead of arguing for the inclusion of some silly materials he and his sockpuppet IPs keep adding..There isnt really an edit warring going on, there simply is one user who is somehow still unblocked.. "Seeing the materials in the internet by google search" is not making anything accurate..--laertes d 15:45, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I have no idea yet what is even happening there, I just found the article while I did a glance at Recent Changes, and reverted what appeared to be removal of a sourced paragraph. I then asked for the page to be semi-protected, as it appeared that lots of IPs and new users were going back and forth aggressively and given the page's protection history. I then discovered one IP was an open proxy and reported that... Who is Cleander? I see he hasn't edited the page in 2+ weeks. Could you give me an idea of what is happening? • Lawrence Cohen 15:49, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I think no admin have yet noticed his presence otherwise i dont consider that such comments in the talk page would be tolerated: "You are schoolmasters of genocide and barbarity and Mustafa Kemal just added a "modern" facade to your murderous national character. You have given to humanity nothing else than horror, massacres, barbarity and ottoman backwardness. You will always be our enemies until Nemesis throws you back to Mongolia and Ulan Bator where you belong." it is the talk page, with the heading: " Reply to my fellow Mongols Deliogul & Laertes"

User is a hard core natıonalist, he keeps addding the same paragraph again and again..All the IPs who are adding this paragraph into the article are single purpose accounts, they dont make any other edit but just to show up adding this one..That leads me to consider that all those mysterıus IPs do belong to hım..That is my short summary of the situation..--laertes d 16:02, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Reply to Lawrence Cohen concerning mustafa kemal

I think it is no good to listen to turkish agent provocateurs such as Laertes d or Delioglu who are getting paid by the turkish government to safeguard the memory of Mustafa Kemal, the perpetrator of the genocide of Greeks, Armenians and Kurds in Asia Minor. The TRUTH hurts them a lot and like neo-nazis try to hide the Genocides that their beloved Kemal and his thugs did. I asked them for dialogue and THEY REFUSED! Instead of arguments they only offered slurs! So why are they offended when they really behave as Mongols??? Lawrence, you can check for yourself the validity of the paragraph that the turkish agents hated. I include it here so that you can check if it is "silly material" or the plain TRUTH about the inventor of "modern Turkey". Go and ask any Greek, Armenian or Kurd about the facts described in the paragraph or check Wikipedia!

"---Controversy--- Mustafa Kemal is however remembered both by Greeks and Armenians as the one who continued and brought into conclusion the process of extermination of the Christian populations of Asia Minor which started by the regime of the Young Turks and culminated in the Armenian Genocide (around 1.500.000 victims) and the Pontian Genocide (aprox.700.000 victims). Moreover Mustafa Kemal is accused by many (see George Horton: "The Blight of Asia", 1926) as the instigator of the Great Fire of Smyrna that destroyed the Greek and Armenian quarters of the city (now known as Izmir) that erupted after the entry of the turkish army at late August 1922 and also for the indiscrete massacre of many Greek and Armenian inhabitants of city, including the Greek Orthodox bishop Chrysostomos of Smyrna who was lynched by turkish mobs and soldiers (see Horton and Dido Sotiriou: Matomena Homata -eye witness account). Recently a lot of articles in international newsmedia have explored the issue of Kemal's sexuality, implying that during his early life he was engaged in homosexual activities." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cleander (talk • contribs) 13:27, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Please knock it off with the hostile attacks or else I will report this, if it happens again. Do you have any sources I can look this up myself on, for the allegations? • Lawrence Cohen 13:32, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Just check on the terms: Pontian Genocide, George Horton, Great Fire of Smyrna, Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Armenians. These are all well attested FACTS that are included in Wikipedia with external sources. The turkish agents Laertes and Deliogul are REFUSING them. So who is really making "hostile attacks"? Me or these turkish nazis??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cleander (talk • contribs) 13:42, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I’m lucky that I don't need anybody’s payments to live my life. By the way, I'm a social democrat with a humble interest in history. You even started to carry this useless discussion to the talk pages of other Wikipedians. What are we going to do with you? Deliogul 17:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Deliogul, just do to me what your ancestors did to mine! Exterminate me! That's the turkish way of dealing with non-desirables! By the way, don't try to trick me with "social democrat" labels! Your Bulent Ecevit that invaded Cyprus in 1974 was "social democrat"... but as all Kemalists he was rather "national socialist" (nazi). I will only stop if the "controversy" paragraph is included indefinitely in Mustafa Kemal section. As I told you earlier, I am open to a dialogue for suggestions and modifications on this paragraph but I am firmly in favour that a paragraph for Pontian Genocide, George Horton, Great Fire of Smyrna, Chrysostomos of Smyrna, Armenians SHOULD be included in Kemal's biography otherwise it is very one-sided, a mere praise. No matter how many times you delete the paragraph, you cannot erase TRUTH. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cleander (talk • contribs) 09:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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Krongard

Hardly your fault, the article itself wasn't entire clear either. --Bfigura ^(talk) 21:17, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Blackwater articles overnight

There was a problem overnight. See the User contributions page for User:Haizum.--Pleasantville 10:08, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

After I pinged ANI again (see the main Blackwater USA talk page) it seems to have calmed down thanks to Haemo, or he just gave up being contentious for the sake of contentious. Hopefully. • Lawrence Cohen 03:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

He's deleted all Blackwater-related items from his talk page. --Pleasantville 15:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I won't be responding to him again. I have no idea why he's going out of his way to try to bait everyone, but it's disruptive, as he simply won't edit the article. • Lawrence Cohen 16:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

copyediting

Hi! I noticed you had a ton of featured articles. I have two pages nominated for GA, would you mind taking a pass at them? They are 2007 Peruvian meteorite event and Joe Szwaja. Thanks! • Lawrence Cohen 23:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

I reviewed both articles and made some comments under "Peer review" on the talk pages for each. Great work on the articles. Cla68 00:26, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Cla! I'll start going back over them again. • Lawrence Cohen 03:24, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Good edit

On this one. That wording about nails it for NPOV I think. • Lawrence Cohen 20:00, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That's the original wording I had suggested in the talk page. I didn't notice the omission right away, but I also think it's a good way to address the issues regarding Blackwater's title. BTW, good job getting the article in the news feature. --Sawyerkaufman 03:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, the guys over there on ITN are really nice. And yes, it's probably the best way to go about it for now. • Lawrence Cohen 03:26, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Blackwater

It would be great to get an interview, but I have a feeling they aren't speaking to the press right now. --David Shankbone 18:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Signature

I like your signature:

• Lawrence Cohen

…but the red font may cause some Wikipedians to believe that your talk page does not exist, please change it. Thanks, —Lights 17:43, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! And sorry, I never thought of that. Is this better? • Lawrence Cohen 17:45, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's much better. —Lights 17:48, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Regarding User:Hopiakuta

My advice is to ignore him. Take a look at his user page, and at his various postings. He's just playing with the system and trying to get a rise out of people. --RenniePet 21:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I think that is good advice for now, yeah. After I asked him the second time I saw all the oddness on his pages. • Lawrence Cohen 21:16, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

FaG

Szwaja page

I strongly encourage you to use the talk page to discuss changes in a conversation. • Lawrence Cohen 20:44, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I used the talk page. I justified every change I made. The Eat the State thing is totally inconsistent with NPOV. I qualified it, and you deleted it. You also cite a questionnaire filled out by Szwaja as a source. Again, this is a bogus source and you know it. And yes, the inclusion of a Mcdermott vote from 2005 was also irrelevant. Feel free to explain where I'm wrong. 216.162.198.214 20:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I set up a request for review on this noticeboard: here. Please reply on that noticeboard page in regards to this--I prefer to not discuss this here, but on the noticeboard at this time.

As the questionnaire is a primary source for non-negative information, about the subject, I believe it is fine. I fail to see how a source for a simple comment (which is not a negative comment) like calling someone "progressive" conflicts with NPOV. I have also brought that passage to light in that posting. I removed the McDermott sentence about CAFTA. Remember, the purpose of the article is present all valid views and facts about Szwaja. • Lawrence Cohen 20:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

The new Iraq private security group scandal

BBC has identified the group, [1] Unity Resources Group don't have a page on Wikipedia yet, but they are mentioned as member of International Peace Operations Association. Here's their web sites: [2] and [3]. Something for you and/or User:Pleasantville to dig into? --RenniePet 23:44, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Could you let her know too? She may have more time to have a go at it, I'm going to be less active (possibly) the next 1-2 days. • Lawrence Cohen 00:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)