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[edit] Baltasar Gracián

Do I understand that you deliberately dumped a bunch of Spanish language text into the English-language Wikipedia, so that either someone has to clean up after you promptly or we have to delete it? That seems rather unproductive. All you are doing is making work for other people. Yes, certainly a worthwhile topic, and if you want to do the translation yourself, great, but if you are making a translation request, the place to do that is WP:TIE (or even Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week) and let someone get to it when they have the time, instead of creating something that will be deleted in 2 weeks if no one fixes it. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:35, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

So do you actually plan to work on this where you put it, or do you just want to put in a request through a more normal channel (in which case I'll probably just turn Baltasar Gracián into a stub)? (Either approach is equally OK, just let me know which way you want to go.) -- Jmabel | Talk 02:03, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Fascism

While the actual template is a good idea (similar to Template:Communism for that series of articles), could we get a better image of the fasces for the template? I think it's a bit out of place to use an image taken from the U.S. Mercury dime. Firebug 15:52, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Absolutely! I've found a different image, but there might be one more directly relevant, to Fascism, available. — Morning star 16:30, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ward Churchill

Hi: I think that User:Zen-master's wholesale reversion of your edit was a bit harsh given the amount of useful material that you added and I have mentioned this to him. I agree with what he has to say about the importance of the essay controversy with quotations so I would hope that this material will stay in the main article. The reversion, however, deleted a lot of useful stuff that you added (the details of Churchill's degree topic and all the bibliographic data, for examples) so would you please add those back in. I would do it myself but it is after 01:00 local time and I must away to my bed. --Theo (Talk) 00:09, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the pleasant reply and good job on restoring the good stuff. I feel that the article is much improved by your intervention. Those page size warnings are grossly misleading now. But no harm was done. --Theo (Talk) 10:02, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
Thank you, Theo : for your thanks, and your encouragement. —Morning star 12:51, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi there, I understand why you moved the text to a sub-article, but I would be careful about making major changes like this to controversial articles without raising it first on the Talk page -- and this has been a very controversial article as you can see from the page history and Talk page. Anyway, the 32Kb article size was a more important consideration a few years ago, when some browsers couldn't edit texts larger than that and truncated them, but that no longer appears to be a problem. That being said, it is worth asking whether articles longer than can be shortened, refactored as we say, because most people have short attention spans these days. -- Viajero 13:31, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

The apparent assumption of malice by one editor in the face of several assertions of good faith should not bother you. You seem to be doing just fine to me; and your ready recognition of areas for improvement is a strength that does you great credit. In my opinion there are at least three things that need no repetition on Wikipedia: 1. Reversion. 2. Apology. 3. Defensive explanation. Those who accept good faith do not need it (repetition, that is) and those that do not will be strengthened in their hostility. --Theo (Talk) 22:42, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks once again, Theo : sage advice. —Morning star 00:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] hello, good sir

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[edit] Template: Kurosawa

I took the liberty of "picking up the ball and running with it" on the Kurosawa template you created:

  • I inserted it into all the Akira Kurosawa film pages (except of course the 3 that don't have an article at all yet: Scandal (film), Record of a Living Being, and Rhapsody in August)
  • I twiddled all the things that needed to be twiddled in the template to get it to work "properly" (that is, if viewing the page of movie XYZ, then the entry for "XYZ" in the template should be displayed black and bold, and not blue as a clickable link). Usually this just meant adjusting the actual page name in the link to be correct. In some cases, xxxx_(movie) had given way to xxxx_(film); in other cases the name was slightly different (The One Most Beautiful --> The Most Beautiful, etc.). That was an issue because the template only works completely "properly" in the above sense if the title is an exact match, not a redirect.
  • I hope the result was what you had in mind when you created the template.

--IslandGyrl 00:11, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] George Michael

I don't know how, but for some reason you made a mess of the George Michael page. (not on purpose I think). Many 's and other symbols were changed. Like Español turned into Espa�ol. Either way I reverted it but kept your new disambiguation part. Maybe you can figure out what happened. Garion96 (talk) 11:21, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

No problem. Garion96 (talk) 20:33, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Scholars of Marxism

Your wish is my command. Help populate it :-). Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 07:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Myatt references

:-) You're welcome! Jude (talk,contribs,email) 06:57, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meaning of diaphragm and axis in WW2 context

Hi there. About the article you added recently, The Rome-Berlin Axis, would you be able to help disambiguate two links you created? It is the title of chapter 4: This Berlin-Rome Line is not a Diaphragm but rather an Axis - you linked to diaphragm and axis, but both of these are disambiguation pages. Would you know, from the context of the chapter, what the author or the original quote means by diaphragm and axis? I have some ideas, but don't want to prejudice what you think. You could add your thoughts here if you wanted. Thanks. Carcharoth 15:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dutch fascists

Could you please explain why you added Cornelis van Geelkerken, Anton Mussert and Meinoud Rost van Tonningen to List of fascists? I've removed them recently bacause they were no fascists, but national socialists.--Willem Huberts 12:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for a vote

Hi Morning star,

I saw you contributed to one of the articles (now I've forgotten which one -- was it Willmoore Kendall??) of a conservative. That page has a link to the "American conservatives" category page, which is now the subject of a vote on whether to delete it as a category. I thought you might have an interest in whether or not it should stay, so I invite you to take a look at the category page and click on the box up top to contribute to the decision, which could be made in the next couple of days. Right now the vote is tied.Noroton 23:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] If you're interested

Hi again Morning,

Thanks for your vote on keeping the American conservatives category, it won by a 2:1 margin. You might have an interest in an article I've just created Pre-Iraq War opinions on Saddam. It's poorly named (something I want to change) but as it stands now, it's essentially statements made by public officials and opinion leaders from across the political spectrum about how dangerous Saddam's regime was considered before the war. The article is being proposed for deletion, but I of course think it's useful. I'd be interested to know what you think.Noroton 01:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Da Ali G Show

That is funny timing. Gotcha. ;-) I'll put in screenshots soon (if it still needs it). What'll really be cool is making individual pages for the episodes and including a few funny quotes. One thing I was debating was how to order the summaries. I did mine in the same order as they appear in the episode, but it might be better to always do Ali G, Borat, Bruno, Interview or something. - Peregrinefisher 23:15, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I've added images to the filled in entries. If you'll finish the summaries I'll finish the images. There's a rule against images without summaries. Also, it looks better if the colon goes inside the bolding for interviewees. I've probably put hundreds of colons outside the bolding myself, but I finally decided to look at the result and it looks better inside. By the way, love the Umlaüts! - Peregrinefisher 18:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
If we add more to each episode, it should probably in a seperate page for each episode. - Peregrinefisher 19:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I went ahead and created a page for Law (Da Ali G Show). We could make it how we like, and then use it as a template for the rest. - Peregrinefisher 19:58, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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