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Welcome!

NOTE (28 July 2006) - all of our discussions before 1 July 2006 have now been archived. See: 2004 archive, 2005 archive and 2006 archive.

Welcome to my talk page! You are very welcome to comment on any articles that I have authored or edited, or just to pop in and say Hello. Whenever I think this page gets too long, older conversations will be moved to my archive page.

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George Speight

Thanks for you comment on the talk page. It makes a certain amount of sense. Another question that I have of the article, I think Speight's undergraduate degree is from an Australian university. I can't find which one. At the moment the article reads in such a way as to suggest both degrees are from Andrews University. Fermion 04:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problems with Image:Fletcherchristian.jpg

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Proposed Georgia Move

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 03:53, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

July rankings

Hi, sorry for the delay. I was abroad with no access to my computer and programs. I updated the page today :-) Alfio 19:16, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

David Levy Yulee

I suspect Senator Yulee would disagree with your statement. He clearly became a practicing member of the Episcopal Church in the United States in 1846. What third parties wish to "claim" him as is immaterial and wholly ahumanistic; everyone, including Senator Yulee, has the right to make his own determinations as to his own beliefs and personal identification. He To say otherwise displays a non-neutral point of view. He was not a "Jewish senator," because he changed his religion at the time of his marriage. He called himself an Anglican and his personal beliefs were in step with Anglicanism, so therefore he was an Anglican. The statement I included, that he was the first senator to at one time have practiced Judaism, was far more accurate, and I respectfully request that it be changed back. 65.28.2.218 13:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please be reasonable

Angela Beesley AfD'ed her own year-old biography of herself. Why? Because she does not want people to see this video, because she is a little nervous in it, or something. OK, fine, so she got her article about herself taken out. However, Daniel Brandt, who does not want an article about himself, has to put up with his because these children say: Aha! I can annoy this adult. Nail him. Flo is less notable than Angela. Angela has been high visibilty and is an executive within Wikia. Now she gets to disappear AND display the hypocrisy of saying: "Oh! But not my friend, Florence!" This is not fair. It is not consistent. It demonstrates much about what is wrong with Wikiepdia. How it lacks objective standards and how it is failing to raise itself about the quality of typical American daytime TV: Oprah, games shows and Jerry Springer. -- 75.26.3.87 18:39, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal on Notability

Because you're a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians, I'm notifying you that the inclusionist proposa Wikipedia:Non-notabilityl is in progress to define the role of notability in articles. Please help us make this successful! Also note the proposal Wikipedia:Importance is a deletionist proposla that seeks to officially introduce notabiltiy for the first time. --Ephilei 04:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maori

Hello, David. You may want to look at http://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotearoa_Tuatahi to see an example (close to your heart) of recent "work" by our best contributor, who is getting impatient with red links. Robin Patterson 20:14, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still around

Hi David, I'm still around, as you can see by my contribs. I've been having a hard time here lately and it's not fun for me to be here, but I'm not actually gone. You can get an inkling of what went wrong for me here by reading user:woggly/Israelbeach. Thanks for touching base though, its nice to feel there are still friendly faces around too. --woggly 12:09, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Requesting your opinion

I wrote the article Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act, the first bill in history that contains an article from Wikipedia. It appeared on DYK and right away somebody "tags" it for deletion. I inviteyou to express yourself here:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act. Thank you Tony the Marine 16:25, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Friendly Chat

David, it's always nice to hear from you. I've been dealing with my wife's health problems. She was on a wheelchair due to problems with her spinal cord. But, thank God, with some medical treatments she is back to her normal self once again.

Anyway, today (Yesterday) I tell her "Let's go out to eat and take in a movie just you and me". Well we did, except that my son Antonio, my granddaughters Isabel and Nina, my daughter Nilda and her husband Nick, my other son Jose and his wife Heather and his stepchildren Christie and Logan went with us. What can I say! I love my family. God bless you and your family always. Your friend Tony the Marine 05:37, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

please do not abuse

your admin rights. please revert the Serua deletion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Serua

Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

please respect correct capitalization: [1] Tobias Conradi (Talk) 23:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Naming

Hi David. You might like to get involved in the conversations at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (places) and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (city names). You can help to make sure that Fiji (or anywhere else) is properly represented. Naming conventions appropriate for one place are not always appropriate for other places, but we may not know if no-one tells us. Thanks. --Scott Davis ^Talk 12:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use images and templates

Greetings! Re your edit summary at [2] and similar: the rationale at {{Coatofarms}} is insufficient. That template is essentially a 'no license' template. There's been considerable debate regarding the very existence of that template, as its use creates a very muddled situation with regards to the copyright status of the image in question. In this particular case, we have no idea what the status of the image is, other than it is the coat of arms of Fiji. In such cases, we must presume that the image can only be used here under terms of our fair use policy. I've reverted your re-insertion of the image into the various templates. Please note that having the image on the templates serves a purely decorative purpose; such a use under fair use is not allowed. The usability of the template is in no way compromised by not having the fair use tagged image on it. I recommend you use Image:Flag of Fiji.svg in replacement where appropriate, as that image suffers no copyright concerns. If you have questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. All the best, --Durin 15:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Please intervene in Jews for Jesus Article

Humus sapiens has been using his Administrative powers to forward his agenda of making the Jews for Jesus page a biased attack against the organization. He with the assistance of other editors hostile to Jews for Jesus, have added many statments that are designed to influence people against jews for jesus, adding tons of references to biased websites that do not meet the criteria for relable sources, and have reverted every attempt to make the article more neutral. I know its been your policy to err on the side of caution in dealing with Jewish objections to Jesus, but in this case intervention is clearly needed. Personally I lack the Wikipedia skills for dealing with his abuses of power, but I believe that he needs to be held accountable for his blatant violation of Wikipedia policy, an I ask you as an administrator to intervenme and bring this article into compliance with Wikipedia policy. I am requesting that you revert this article to the last version by Moishe Rosen and lock it until such time as you can get Humus Sapiens to agree to comply with Wikipedia policy or until there is some ruling by an authoritative Wikipedia body about what is appropriate for this article.

Thanks!

Thanks for your support and your kind comment! (And I have seen your name around, myself...) Cheers and take care, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:02, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Please get rid of those side burns, and the beard when your at it. Culverin ? ^Talk 10:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry mate. Bit of a joke. Didnt mean to offend. Thanks for your understanding. Good hunting and best regards Culverin ? ^Talk 12:14, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS NZ lost to south africa in the tri nations.

Fiji Hindi

Recently you have redirected a page on "Fiji Hindi" into "Fijian Hindustani". I believe this to be a totally wrong decision.

Firstly, contrary to your reference to the Fiji Constitution, there is no such Language as "Fijian Hindustani". The Fiji constitution does mention "Hindustani" as a language that can be used for official purposes. For your information this is a compromise between "Hindi" favoured bu the North Indian Hindus in Fiji and "Urdu" favoured by the Muslims. THe above three language variations are all formal forms of almost the same language and are also spoken in India.

Almost all Fiji Indians speak "Fiji Hindi". This language(or dialect) is unique to Fiji. Only recently have some people started wrting in "Fiji Hindi". You may be pleased to know that recently, the Bible was translated into Fiji Hindi.

You may want to search for "Fiji Hindi" and "Fiji Hindustani" on the internet to realise the correct term to use.

I have included below links to the Fiji Constitution and a travel guide explaining "Fiji Hindi"

Just one further point - the Fiji Constitution does not use the term "Indo-Fijian"

Fiji Hindi is not Hindustani

Hi David,

You are correct that the Fiji Constitution recognises Hindustani as a language that can be used for official purposes. Hindustani is used in Fiji on formal ocassions and is very different from Fiji Hindi. Hindustani, if spoken by a Fiji Indian, can be understood by other people of the Indian sub Continent who speak Hindi or Urdu or Hindustani. On the other hand, Fiji Hindi is the language spoken by the people of Indian origin in Fiji in their day-to-day conversation. Because Fiji Hindi has involved by the coming together of a number of North Indian dialects, with a liberal number of English and Fijian words, it is not comprehensible to Hindi (or Hindustani or Urdu) speakers in the sub-Continent.

Fiji Hindi had been compared to pidgin and creole languages. It was not until 1977, when the language was analysed by Professor Rodney F. Moag and a book written by him (Moag, Rodney F., Fiji Hindi: a basic course and reference grammar, Australian National University Press, Canberra)that people began to realise that Fiji Hindi was a language with structure and grammar of its own. Since then others have written about the language.

Despite this awareness, Fiji Hindi has not been taught in Fiji schools and is not used on religious or formal ocassions. Recently a few books have been witten in Fiji Hindi. The most notable of this (as I stated earlier ) is the Bible. The University of the South Pacific has only recently started offering courses in Fiji Hindi.

If you require any more information, to help you understand the differences, Please let me know.

A Fiji Indian

Writing in Fiji Hindi

Thank you for making an effort to understand the language of the Fiji Indians.

As I have stated earlier, it is only recently that efforts have been made to write in Fiji Hindi. So far Roman script has been used to write in Fiji Hindi. I do want to empahsise here that Fiji Hindi was looked down on by the Fiji Indian Religious and Political leaders and was for a long time referred to as Broken Hindi. In schools in Fiji, Hindu students learn to read and write in standard Hindi in the Devanagri script whereas in Muslim schools students learn to read and write in Urdu in Persian script ( almost same as Arabic script).

Fiji Indians speak to each other in Fiji Hindi (It is also used as the lingua franca in the districts of Fiji with large Indian majority) but rarely use it on formal ocassions. On religious ocassions standard Hindi or Urdu will be used but a politician adressing a meeting will use Hindustani.

Thank you for the work you have done on Fiji in Wikipedia. Perhaps at some stage we could also have a discussion on what to call people of Indian origin in Fiji. Indians in Fiji have long wanted to be called as Fijians but successive constitutions of Fiji always referred to them as Indians.

Queen of Fiji

Hi Davidcannon........much of what was on the above has been deleted as opinions. However it is a documented fact that Rabuka did indeed present a "soro" or whales tooth to her majesty the Queen in 1997 and when interviewed by the local papers at the time expressed his reason for doing so was to apologise for not only abruptly ending Fiji's union with the British crown but also breaking his oath of alligence to the Queen when as an officer of the Royal Fiji Forces lead the uprising in 1987. Maybe I worded it incorrectly but these are documented facts.

Also note in the local Fijian dialect, Queen Elizabeth is referred to as Na Ranadi Ilisapeci. As the recognised paramount chief of Fiji, as declared by the Great Council of Chiefs she therefore has claim to the title Tui Viti or King of Fiji, which was symboilically given to her ancestor Queen Victoria by the then Tui Viti, Ratu Seru Cakobau. The wording in the Deed of Cession further supports this claim, stating Queen Victoria's rights to Fiji and her succesive heirs for perpetuity.

Also note Fiji's government system is modelled on the Westminister system, the Great Council of Chiefs are therefore in fact similar in function to the House of Lords. Their position not suborninate as mentioned, as national bills have to gain the GCC's approval before becoming law. Contratry to what outsiders think the tradional hierachy is alive and well in Fiji and chiefs still wield a lot of power, even Mahendra Chaudrys standing in Ba has been boosted because of the Tui Ba's backing. I think its very hard from other former British colonies to comprehend why indigenous Fijians apprarently revere the British Royal Family, but if you have studied Fiji history one realises the Deed of Cession in 1874 essentially united independent chiefdoms under one banner, which we now know as Fiji. Fiji has been a republic for 19 years but isnt it funny that Fiji's mission in London is being directed by government to secure an official visit by the Queen to Fiji for the opening of the Great Council of Chiefs Building in the capital this year. If Fiji was pro republic we would have the president, who is a high chief himself open it instead

In regard to retaining the affection of the Fijian people. It is interesting to note that the small turn out in Australia and New Zealand during Prince Charles visit was in no comparision to the large crowds he pulled during his visit to Fiji soon after. During his visit, majority of high born chiefs and almost all senior govenrment people were present for traditional functions and accorded him precedence, even over the president himself. I seriously doubt this would have happened if chiefs and the people of Fiji felt otherwise. Senator Atu Bain has been the main person in government pushing for a complete break from Fiji's British links, but she has been in the minority by far, the repeated calls for stripping all royal vestiges from Fijis national life havent met with much support, the union jack is still on the flag, parades still happen on her birthday and her face is still on the currency.

Just sharing some thoughts on why I wrote the article the way I did....cheers

20,000th edit

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I notice from your userpage that, as of today, you have made 20,000 edits on the English Wikipedia. This is an extraordinary effort, and I am happy to present you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar for your unwavering additions to Wikipedia, which are of both the highest level of quantity and, most importantly, quality. Daniel .Bryant 09:46, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

B.D. Lakshman

I know that Prince Gopal Lakshman is the son of B.D. Lakshman, but I don't know about Chaiynaya Lakshman. By the way Gopal Laksman is NOT a Prince. 'Prince' is just part of his name.

Consistent format for name Fiji Election articles

Hi David, I have noticed that articles on Fiji elections have names in two different formats, for example, Fiji Election (1972) and Fiji election of 1992. Can they be made the same format. It makes it a lot easier to link to it.

Girmitya

Getwiki

You voted keep on the deletion vote. Cyde deleted it when the votes for either opinion were equal which is quiet bbizarre. If it is ok with you then let's take it to deletion review? Hope to here from you asap. Unitedroad 06:30, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could you take it to deletion review because somehow I am not very clear about how to do it , wiki always seems to have weird rules which I can not understand. If you do then also give me the link to it just in case I can not find it myself. This article deserves to be brought back. Unitedroad 11:39, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I told Cyde that it was wrong of him to delete that article and also that if it seemed that I was attacking him then sobeit. Some admins here are very opinionated about how WP must be run. What is the threshold needed to delete an article? One of the articles I contributed to was deleted because there were three votes for deletion and none in favour of keeping it so I am just curious if deleting it was an inappropriate action on that admin's part. I'll ask some of the people here that I am on good terms with to vote in the DRV , I think they will be interested in this. Unitedroad 04:44, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimapia discussion

David, thank you for pointing some ideas about Wikimapia, you may continue the discussion at http://meta.wikimedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikimapia (I thought I wrote this already, maybe it was just a preview). Waiting for your ideas. --Alexandre Koriakine

David, hello! We've opened registration. When you register, I'll high rank you (reload Wikimapia, you will se in drop-down menu under Wikimapia). Is somewhere I can read of user levels in Wikipedia? -- (is there autodate.. ah yes, 4-tilde) Alexandre Koriakine 22:10, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

David, hello. I think you are in NZ? True? Are there any sharks? I expect the nature is amazign? Have you ever read The children of Captain Grant?

Thanks for correcting my English :)

What do you think if we have a place with some information (approved place), say, in 10 sentences. Then we show to user a button 'Create a new ************ Wikipedia article ' pointing to http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=*************&action=edit with already generated text from ***********? What do you think?

Also is there now a real necessity that we must choose a 'licence' for the project? Probably a kind of http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ or http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/? Just wondering must we think about this more closely? Alexandre Koriakine 22:12, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Davis, good day. I've created a bot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Wikimapiabot, I think we have to go this way to create pages from Wikimapia?

By the way, what do you think, http://wikimapia.org/#y=-18077979&x=-178857422&z=8&l=0&m=a&v=2&show=/1479813/ (Matei Airfield is the only airport on the island of Taveuni, off the coast of Vanua Levu) is places like this have to be in Wikipedia, or they need more info? Alexandre Koriakine 11:17, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, David, I point to some good templates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Geolinks-US-cityscale and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Geolinks-US-streetscale, which is protected and where wikimapia placed with satellite imagery providers, so I think it needs to be not with Google and Live. And it's strange we are in city but not street scale. Moreover, if we will have approval to insert new articles with our bot (if not - we will have another system to open user with text to edit, but this is not user-friendly), they will be well-formed and they will automatically have Wikimapia template you made and other needed links. Alexandre Koriakine 12:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Parliamentary Speaker - Sir Vijay Singh

Good question - i really have no idea about where Sir Vijay sits in the list of Speakers. Everyone says he was speaker but i haven't got a set of dates. Let me make a few calls and find out more about this --Xorkl000 02:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Girmitya tells me to see the Fiji Government site: [3] on this - i suppose that confirms it. --Xorkl000 05:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Turaga Na Rasau

Bula David

your input is invaluable my research on the subject has brought much information the challenge is arranging it in a cohesive format.

everything from 1840 onward when the British and the missionarries started documenting things is easy but prior to this Fiji History was preserved in stories by our elders, chants and dances collecting this information and cross checking it with other sorces available and doing this on a limited budget is challenging especially when it is not my full time Job.

so thanks again, your input on the web has helped me also arrange my own research in a more cohesive form.

the saddest thing in Fiji we learn our history only based on what the British recorded other information exists but it needs to be recorded formatted cross checked and taught in more detail in schools, anyway I am ranting on bit, the point of the note was just to say thanks very much or in my language VINAKA VAKA LEVU.

MAIKELI

Piet Duvenage

David. But surely the guy has to be worthy of an article before there is any need for one?. For your information, he was an obscure Cape Town doctor who broke his neck in a rugby scrum in 1946. He was then aged around 25. His only claim to fame is that he was married to one Janet Watt. Surely Duvenage does not merit an article in his own right, so why the red link in the Ian Smith article?. best wishes. Bob

Hello

Just want to drop a Hello. Hope everything's working great, Cheers. CG 17:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: Administrator?

Hi David - wow, thanks for the kind words :) I have definitely considered adminship, as I do a bit of vandal patrol and I think the extra, shiny buttons would help. However, the RfA standards are becoming so stringent (and quite rightly so) that I doubt I'd get in. Maybe, once you see my WP:space edits hit around 1000, you can ask me again!

But thanks very much for the thought. Of course, my work is nothing compared to yours, my jaw dropped in surprise when I saw that all the Fiji-related articles I had been repairing were written by you, alone! Have you ever considered adminship yourself? riana_dzast a 13:22, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello David, Alphachimp just informed me that you are an administrator. Whoops. Should've guessed! Sorry if that was rude, I didn't mean it that way. riana_dzast a 14:13, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that was a rather black-and-white way of viewing the situation, I agree. And I guess if someone as experienced as yourself thinks I'm doing the right thing, chances are good that I actually am :) I'll just take a little more time, that's all, it's an important task and I don't want to be seen rushing into it. riana_dzast a 00:20, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David, I hope you've been keeping well. I just thought I'd let you know that Glen S has offered to take me under his wing in the admin coaching program. I think this should provide me with a good knowledge of the areas administrators are most involved in, how an admin should interact with people, etc. When this is complete and if I'm satisfied that I'd be more of an asset to the project than a hindrance, I'll get back to you. :) Cheers, riana_dzasta 09:48, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikitravel

My understanding is that only WikiMedia wikis should use boxed or logo'ed styles of cross-references. IMDB, Wikitravel, and Wikia websites must use relatively plain text. See Template talk:Wikitravel#Wikitravel is not a Wikimedia project. I've reverted your change to the template in order to move back to approved way of doing things. -- Cjensen 22:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm uncertain if it's just custom or not, but it caused some heat last time someone switched it to boxed-style, and it does seem vaguely reasonable to not link to website using the same style normally used for WikiMedia projects, especially when the website uses "wiki" in its name. Checking out Wikipedia:Template messages/Links, it looks like there are only two extlink templates which use a boxed-logo look out of several dozen extlinks templates. I suspect it's just a matter of time before they get the beatdown too. :-) -- Cjensen 23:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see now. It came up during TFDs for Memoryalpha and Uncyclopedia. -- Cjensen 23:20, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Stats on October

Hi David, saw your edit to Wikipedia:Announcements about the October numbers. Can you tell me where you got the stats? Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 05:48, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Again

It is good to hear from you again. I was going to contact you to see how things have been going after my wikification process. Wikipedia has come along in leaps and bounds since I was last here. I still remember the days when wiki was plain white with less than 50,000 articles. It is good to see your Fiji project is still going strong and it is still being ported to Polish. I may even chip in a bit on Fiji, as I have an interest in Oceanic football.

The content I am putting up at the moment is all stuff I wrote and was registered with US copyright office, but that project has also collapsed now :P It has been sitting around doing nothing, so I thought I'd put it up here. After it is all up I will start writing aritlces here. Like yourself, I am very busy and have been working 80-90 hours a week for at least the last three months; so I don't know how quick it will all be happen. Most of that time has been spent working on a website, which is currently the same as the one as i am using in my link tag [4].

Incase my name sounds too ... sinister it is indirectly inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy

All the best Doom-chronicle 23:21, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics of Korea

Hello Mr. Davidcannon. Could you look at the discussion for the article Demographics of South Korea? Thank you very much. (Wikimachine 00:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks for the warm welcome

I thought getting content from the LoC was a widely known practice. I got that impression because I saw many articles with the "loc" tag, and you can see from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Country_Studies and http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Loc&limit=500&from=0 that there are countless other articles that do exactly this, many consisting entirely of LoC content. There's also two Wikiprojects to incorporate the Country Studies into Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies_assimilation and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies. See also WikiProject Japan. They say "Wikipedia includes all texts from the US Library of Congress: Country Studies Japan" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Japan_update. So I thought I was trying to help fill an overlooked hole here. I didn't overwrite any existing content, and did not add chunks to well-developed articles, like "History of Korea". I thought the work would be welcomed and improved (including by moving parts to more appropriate articles, if necessary), not deleted and attacked. WikiWitchWest 17:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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 Hello Mr. Davidcannon. Could you look at the discussion for the article [[Demographics of South Korea]]? Thank you very much. ([[User:Wikimachine|Wikimachine]] 00:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC))
+== Thanks for the warm welcome ==
+I thought getting content from the LoC was a widely known practice. I got that impression because I saw many articles with the "loc" tag, and you can see from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Country_Studies and http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Loc&limit=500&from=0 that there are countless other articles that do exactly this, many consisting entirely of LoC content. There's also two Wikiprojects to incorporate the Country Studies into Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies_assimilation and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies. See also WikiProject Japan. They say "Wikipedia includes all texts from the US Library of Congress: Country Studies Japan"  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Japan_update. So I thought I was trying to help fill an overlooked hole here. I didn't overwrite any existing content, and did not add chunks to well-developed articles, like "History of Korea". I thought the work would be welcomed and improved (including by moving parts to more appropriate articles, if necessary), not deleted and attacked. [[User:WikiWitchWest|WikiWitchWest]] 17:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)