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That is, by far, the best Barnstar I could ever possibly receive. Thank you, and I must award your the same thing, not because you awarded it to me, but because I see you actively engaging in conversations related to Italy, reverting vandalism on Italian-related pages, and improving the overall quality of these pages.
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| I hereby award you this Barnstar for your equally tireless contributions to articles relating to the Italian people. Sicilianmandolin (talk) 20:46, 22 November 2007 (UTC) |
Mario, thanks for the invitation to join that discussion. Yes, that article doesn't seem to see much traffic. My problem with it is that it reads like a brocure for potential students and cites no sources. It needs a lot of {{fact}} tags.
Unfortunately, as an NCEES Model Law Structural Engineer I'm definitely of the opinion that one engineer really can't be qualified to prepare work in more than one discipline beyond the most rudimentary applications.
That said, there is value, I think, in an academic discipline that focuses on the application of electrical, mechanical, etc. in buildings. General EE or ME programs wouldn't necessarily focus on the application to buildings to properly prepare a practitioner in that arena.
Ciao and see you over there. MARussellPESE (talk) 00:52, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
hi
you recently replied to me regarding the differences between the northern and southern italians on the 'latino' discussion page. I have replied there...
However, some additional information for you (of which comes from the italian people page on wikipedia itself... not that I am unaible to find further reliable proof on the internet would you like it...):
The Italian peninsula has been populated by a number of people throughout history besides the original Italic tribes. The Celts in the north, the Etruscans in Central Italy (Tuscany and parts of Umbria and Latium) and the Phoenician Semites in Sicily and Greeks in the south preceded the Romans, who in turn "Latinised" the whole country and preserved unity until the 5th century AD.
After the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West in 476 AD, the Italian peninsula was invaded by Germanic peoples crossing the Alps, establishing settlements in north-central Italy and to a lesser degree in the south.
The northern italians and ther southern italians are very different... not only is this shown all over the internet... but many italians would be rather angered I can assure you if you tried to lump their ethnicities as one. I, myself am of partial italian descent, with the majority from the south, but a couple from the north... none of them have ever stated that the italians are 'one' race, in fact, all acknowledging that there is a big difference between northerners and southerners... you are the first person I have ever come across who has attempted to group them as one like this. It is as ridiculous as saying that the British ethnicity is the same as the Southern Spanish. That is the kind of difference we are dealing with here... I hope you understand it better now from reading that...
Iamandrewrice 20:35, 1 December 2007 (UTC)