User talk:Cgingold

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[edit] Higginson

Thanks for adding to the biography. I have a great interest in ablotionists and other reformers of that period. I add an entry for Abby Kelley, being very surprised that no one else had. As you may note my wikipedia skills are somewhat limited, but I am trying to improve.

Peter Reilly 19:05, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US Spelling

G'day, I appreciate the changes you made to the waterbirth and Odent articles but please do not change English spelling to US spelling. It is against WP policy. Basically, you leave the spelling as you found it. If it is US you leave it that way and if it is English you leave it that way. And given that Odent is French it would be quite normal for labour to be spelt with an 'ou' rather than just an 'o'.

Cheers Henry Maustrauser 09:57, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. Somehow, I had acquired the (apparently mistaken?) understanding that US word spellings are preferred over UK spellings. Personally, I'm fine with either -- I read British papers regularly -- and besides, those charming UK spellings do lend a nice touch of colour. :) I may have changed one or two words in the water birth article as well -- feel free to revert them, too. Cgingold 10:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh there were some very nasty battles in WP over spelling changes until the policy of 'no change' was brought in. I do think it brings a sense of tolerance and internationalism to the project, which can only be good. And your work on the WB article has been great. It's much clearer. Cheers, Henry Maustrauser 11:33, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where do I report a missing page?

I tried looking in all the obvious places (Help Contents, Help Desk, etc.) to no avail -- so I hope somebody can direct me where to take this. In the "See also" section of the article on Hearing impairment there is a link to an article on Deaf history. But instead of "Deaf History," all I found there was the article on "Deafness", which I had already seen at its URL (I believe it was redirected). How do I find out what's going on here? Cgingold 04:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

At the top left corner of the article, there is a note saying it was redirected. Appearently there may have been an article entitled Deaf history at one point in time, but may have been merged with deftness. --Skywolf talk/contribs 04:54, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


Looking at the history of the Deaf history article, there appeared to be not much of an article. It was most likely blanked and redirected because the article did not need to be on a page by itself. You can look at the history here --Skywolf talk/contribs 05:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
For requesting an article, check out Wikipedia:Requested_articles --Skywolf talk/contribs 06:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] nice job

Nice job on Smedley Butler Travb (talk) 15:23, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Protecting articles

We generally don't do protection of large groups of articles. If there is a particular article that is a target of vandalism by several different users (anon or otherwise), let me know -- that would be a candidate for protection. If it's just one vandal, we can block them. Thanks, NawlinWiki 17:07, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Those articles don't look like they are current targets, so I'm not going to protect any of them as of now. Again, the criterion is if they are a target of rapidfire vandalism from different users (for an example, look at the edit history for San Francisco last Friday). Keep me posted, NawlinWiki 17:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

If you want a specific page or pages protected, go to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. NawlinWiki 02:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User StavK

"He's dead, Jim!" --Mhking 01:44, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

LOL -- no, I'm not an admin (though sometimes I feel like one with the all the reporting of vandalism I do). But you can take a look at the Block Log for StavK at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:StavK which shows that he's been completely blocked... --Mhking 18:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Carl Sagan

I should apologize for treating your edits roughly. However, what you have added to the article seems to me irrelevant. So, if I had edited it, my edits would have been almost the same as reversion. Perhaps I have misused terminology. Michaelbusch 16:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dangling Ref

Good catch on the Robert A. Heinlein page. Thanks! Hu 06:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the note. Yeah, that was really insane, first discovering an entire section stuck in there with the footnotes, then figuring out that the hugely-extended footnote preceeding it was really the second half of another section. How on earth did that get by everybody for a whole week?? :) LOL!
By the way - I am totally with you on using the "Show preview" button! (It occurs to me that the little mess I cleared up probably would have been caught if the editor had used that button... ). Is there anything more maddening than going through a whole series of successive edits where the person is just trying out tiny little changes en route to the final draft? I've recently started posting a friendly note on serious offenders' talk pages, explaining how to make good use of the "Show preview" button. I would love to find a way to promote this issue more widely. Any ideas? Cgingold 10:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Haitian Rebellion

Thanks for all your changes. Much improved! I'm over my head in that article and even went to the Language Help desk to get suggestions on "martial tradition". The final suggestion from there was to explain what that is and how it arose, rather than finding the right Wiki words for it -- those words are already taken by other irrelevant uses. But I think it is important that it be explained since it is still in process today. Thanks! Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 13:31, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Plus I have been afraid of changing too much since I don't want to offend previous editors who may actually know about the subject, although I did manage to put reference citations in -- there weren't any before -- and in the process did learned much more about Haiti. Mattisse(talk) 13:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neo-fascism and religion

You said:

Hi, Bob - I just now saw my edit summary on Neo-fascism and religion, and I just want to be sure you don't think I was "shouting" -- I used the ALLCAPS only because there's no bold available in edit summaries. (I hope my explanation was clear enough!) Cheers :) Cgingold 14:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't have read it that way, but that's really nice of you to be worried. Thanks! I think I'm persuaded too. BobFromBrockley 16:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lennon

Thanks for the pointer to the protect pages and also for your eminently reasonable suggestion regarding the "unsourced" statement that he was most famous for founding the Beatles. Yours is an improvement over the original, for sure, and I hope will satisfy. Have to say, though, that of all the unsourced statements in the article (which I dearly wish were better sourced) that's not the one I would have expected someone to focus on! (And I kind of like my idea of a survey.....) Tvoz 18:17, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kofi Annan

I've noticed the amount which was why I agreed, but after considering main page protection policy I reverted. That said its on my watchlist and i'll be around for another hour so if the vandalism starts up again I'll semi-protect and list at WP:AN with my reasonings. That said you may like to list there now with diffs showing the amount its getting, asking for discussion on whether its appropriate for semi protection. Gnangarra 15:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Kofi Annan

It's a noble idea, and I appreciate your care for such articles on Wikipedia, but I doubt anyone would actually follow through with your idea. I mean, it's not just African-related articles that get hit with vandalism; it's all sorts of articles! The purpose of Wikipedia was so everyone could edit, and by semi-protecting pages would hurt Wikipedia even more. Besides, it's not Wikipedia that's posting libelous material on articles, it's people like you and me. It's our job to stop these people from doing so. Basically, all the racial sentiments in the world (against Asian, Mexicans, Africans, Jews, etc.) carry over on Wikipedia, and it's tough to deal with it, but we're such a strong community that we have people who are constantly monitoring these pages so people won't see such racial epithets or slurs and think negatively of Wikipedia. We can only hope, but face it. It's human nature. People have prejudices and they'll take it out on others. Nishkid64 04:01, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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