User talk:Best O Fortuna

Ely, Nevada > Vandalism from User 84.50.98.7

{{Help}} In the article Ely, Nevada, it looks like User 84.50.98.7 put back some things that another editor removed. In reading the tutorials on here, those items shouldn't be here, Trivia, or worked in to the article. They also repeated things twice, like they copied and pasted the info, Pat Nixon was in the History and Trivia section, there was an ATTRACTIONS section in both History and Geography, with the same information, and images were repeated twice, with two Wildlife sections. Could you tell me what to do next? It looks like vandalism. Thanks for now. Best O Fortuna (talk) 02:13, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just revert it and warn the user for adding unnecessary info. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 02:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks fine to me. You removed a lot, but it wasn't really appropriate info for an encyclopedia anyway. I'm sure there's an encyclopedic way that some of the info could be re-added, but for now it's good. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 02:51, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly. You seem to know what you're doing. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 03:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Lea

About Tom Lea . . . I can't remember where I got the "classics of southwest literature" blurb for Tom Lea. It is mentioned in "The Brave Bulls" article, but it may have been from a prologue to his book or maybe from the Encyclopedia of Texas Online. Nice work on the article, though. I was in El Paso on business when I wrote the entry and was surprised to see only a single sentence or so, so I expanded it. Deatonjr (talk) 19:02, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar!

		The Original Barnstar
		For exceptional contribution to articles about Tom Lea and family Deatonjr (talk) 19:01, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Discouragement

Hey, don't get discouraged about attacks from other wikipedia editors. It's usually just a misunderstanding. Editors who have put a lot of work into a particular article get that way when edits are made, especially if they've worked it up the quality rating to a high level. When this happens, I look for a new topic. I enjoy creating the foundation of new articles and seeing how they develop from there. That's why it was exciting to see you pick up the Lea articles from there being nothing before. I really only actively edit or update a couple of articles on a regular basis. Deatonjr (talk) 18:44, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Humboldt Bay

There was never a statement that Humboldt Bay was the deepest. In fact not a single word on any of the pages referring to the bay have ever claimed that Humboldt Bay is deepest. In reality the Bay is dredged to a depth of something like 40 feet. That would be quite shallow compared to some. Perhaps you may want to re-read the statement to which you were referring. Norcalal 16:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Searchers

Having grown up in West Texas, I have a different definition of "West Texas" than you, I guess. Though your post to me read as ultra-patronizing, I choose to think you were being lighthearted and friendly. If you want the article to read "West Texas" whether the FILM says West Texas or not, that's fine with me. It's no big deal to me nor do I feel the need to throw reams of documentation back your way. My point was merely that the film makes no mention of West Texas, and there were lots of Comanche in areas my neighbors in Midland and Snyder would never dream of calling WEST Texas. Most of them think Fort Parker is in Central Texas, not West. But I concede the point. It doesn't really matter what I think. Monkeyzpop (talk) 02:05, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery

I do know how to drive there (the photographs of the cemetery were taked by me after all). Why are you interested in that cemetery? Have you lived part of your life in Taiwan? Allentchang (talk) 17:11, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eh, Homer Lea died in 1912 and has nothing to do with the post-1949 Republic of China. All the military people buried there lived for some time in Taiwan. It doesn't make sense to place Homer's grave marker in that cemetery just like Sun Yat-sen doesn't have a grave marker there. Additionally, the cemetery has a room with potraits of all the ROC generals who are buried there. There is no picture of a non-ethnic Chinese general there. You would be better off checking 忠烈祠 Martyr's Shrine, which does cover "martyrs" who tried to establish a Republican government in China. I have no idea if they placed Homer Lea's "Spirit tablet" in that shrine and even if it is there, it would probably be very difficult to take a picture of it given the number of spirit tablets over there. Unfortunately, I don't where is the official website for the Martyr's Shrine. Allentchang (talk) 18:56, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If knew there was such a website or e-mail address, I would have already given it to you, so please stop asking like a prosecutor. I am trying to give you alternatives here to help your search because if one path leads to a dead end, one has to try other paths and see what happens.

Thanks for providing me the link that has a picutre of the grave. Based on the picture and caption, Lea can't be buried on the Wuchih Mountain Cemetery. Although the Wuchih Mountain Cemetery is legally located near the borders of the Yangmingshan National Park, it is located far from the region that most residents of Taipei would psychologically consider to be Yangmingshan. So let me recommend a possible alternative in your search for Homer Lea's burial place. Democracy activist Linda Arrigo has been giving residents of Taiwan a tour of various graves in Taipei to let them know about Taiwan's past: [1] [2]. Unfortunately, I don't know how you can contact her.

I could also try to ask my father, who is a history professor. Allentchang (talk) 03:02, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re that reference tag

I would have fixed it but I didn't actually know how to. I'm OK with regular references to external links but that one was of a sort that I hadn't encountered before. The only reason I noticed it was that there was a large section of the text missing, resulting in the paragraph not making much sense. I saw that the text was there but not displaying when I opened the edit page and realised that the reference tag was the cause of the problem. I removed it so the article would read properly and labelled my action clearly with the implied understanding that somebody with more experience would probably look at the article and would be able to repair it. If you look at my contributions you will see that the vast majority are spelling and grammar corrections plus a few fixed links and added external references- not very technical stuff at all. I hadn't encountered a reference tag like that one before and simply didn't know how to fix it. I see, however, that it has been fixed now and that the missing text is displaying properly. Thanks.IrishPete (talk) 11:01, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Homer Lea Part II

My father doesn't even know who Homer Lea is, which probably means that from his perspective, Homer is historically irrelevant. I've searched everywhere on the web for the exact burial place using the terms "國父孫中山的軍事顧問荷馬· 李" (Military Adviser to the Founding Father Sun Zhongshan (aka Sun Yat-sen), Homer Lea) and "李荷馬" (Homer Lea), but the results turn negative. I speculate that Homer is buried near the Kuomintang Party Archives in Yangminshan because I know that a famous Kuomintang general Hu Zongnan (Hu Tsung-nan) has a grave there. Perhaps you should go to the Kuomintang website at http://www.kmt.org.tw and ask someone there about this. Unfortunately, I can't find an English contact page. All I can find is this e-mail address on the Chinese contact page: od_ningpeng@kmt.org.tw Allentchang (talk) 16:30, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Incredibles with the the incredible Robert McGinnis

Hi Best O Fortuna. You could well be right. A still of McGinnis's poster for the film is at http://flickr.com/photos/9teen87/with/2478652544/ To be fair it doesn't look exactly like the one in the art work illustrated so to be safe I'll make the change to err on the side of caution. Thanks for your concernFoofbun (talk) 23:42, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]