User talk:Tfine80

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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, --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. 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 [1]. 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. 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. 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 [2]. 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. 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 [[Category:Battle_stubs]]. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. LordBleen 05:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Mensalao scandal

Updated User:Carlosar\draft!

Mensalao in Commons here. The material is extense (unfortunately I couldnt organize everything) and you can find a lot more of in Agencia Brasil.

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