User talk:Vidor

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Hello, Vidor, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Thank you. And seriously, the Designated Hitter is terrible.Vidor 01:23, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


Hey. Regarding The Amazing Race, I had removed that info because a) it was already covered on The Amazing Race trivia page, and b) you had stated that no female team had made it to the final episode, when that is not true. I see that you have corrected your own error, though, so I hope there are no hard feelings. --HansTAR aka --66.110.220.74

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[edit] Fandorin

Many thanks for your useful contributions. I'm still in the process of getting a bit of inspiration, so I'm not doing that much, but I feel it's getting close to GA-grade. Errabee 15:35, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Erast Fandorin passed GA last night! Thanks for all your help! Errabee 11:04, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New baseball article improvement drive

Baseball Greetings fellow WikiProject Baseball member! Just a quick note: there is now an article improvement drive just for baseball-related articles at WP:BBAID. Please take a look and vote on an article or add one of your own. Once an article has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate! —Wknight94 (talk) 01:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Black Sox

Hi. Do not take my other comments personally. My position is based on the information set forth, sometimes referred to as facts. What you will quickly learn about the Black Sox is that the facts just don't exist. It's a great topic and ripe with information and content. You might want to start at the black sox yahoo group. Cheers and happy editing. // Tecmobowl 03:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Returning your message: while I do agree with you on the larger point that many of the facts of the Black Sox scandal will never be known, such as just what did Shoeless Joe know and when did he know it, Gedeon's suspension is a matter of the public record. As he was the only active ballplayer to be suspended for the scandal other than the Eight Men Out, the page should mention him, in some manner. Thank you for responding personally. Vidor 05:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
    • I'm happy to respond personally. Both Gedeon, Chase, Attell, Burns, Marharg (and perhaps even Graham) deserve a mention in the article. The Chi v Philly game that rekindled this perhaps merits mention. I would suspect that an article on Speaker/Cobb, and more to the point, one dedicated to the gambling "epedemic" of the early 20th century is worth an article on its own. However, I try to encourage people to fix "problematic" articles before they add information to them. Speaking from my own personal knowledge, as an extension of the Landis discussion, Landis never banned anyone from life that i am aware of. I'm not an expert on his career outside of the black sox scandal, so I could be wrong. He simply said they weren't allowed to play games. Other rules and such have come into play. This topic is full of hearsay, speculation, and innuendo. Sticking to the documented "facts" is probably the best way to go. I certainly did not mean to insist that you shouldn't edit the article b/c you are not "capable". I would think a great way moving forward would be for you to raise the issues you see on the talk page for the article. I am watching this page, so if you want to respond, you can do it here and i'll stop in next time i'm by. //Tecmobowl 07:17, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
      • Regarding the issue of "banning for life", that is the common parlance--we say that a baseball player who has been kicked out of major league baseball is "banned for life". The actual term that baseball uses is the "permanently ineligible list". (Speaking of which, I was unable to find such a list on MLB's official site). As far as the rest of the article goes, I have no plans to add to it further, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to go into further depth over how the scandal broke. Vidor 08:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks re Zaisan

Vidor--thanks for the great job on Zaisan Memorial Nhrenton 18:30, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I have been trying to soup up some of the Mongolia articles and, where I can, include photos that I took on my visit in July 2006. I made an original article on Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, and have expanded and added photos to articles for Tsagaan Sar, Naadam, Orhon River, and Tuul River. Check those out if you liked my edits to the Zaisan Memorial. Vidor 19:57, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Migjid Janraisig golden statue image?

Do you have a photo (or can you secure an image) for this article--saw it on Googol--pretty magnificent. It's at the Gandantegchinlen Khiid (sp?) monastery in Ulaanbaatar.. Thamks Nhrenton 14:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, my photos of the statue were kind of out of focus. Here is one of my photos. I added a photo of the temple to the article on the monastery. Vidor 19:17, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Mongolia Parliament Building.JPG

I wanted to let you know that I've uploaded Image:Mongolia Parliament Building.JPG to Wikitravel to be used on Wikitravel's Ulaanbaatar guide. -- Sapphire 08:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, I'm flattered. Vidor 22:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stalin Article

Vidor, please get the facts strait... Wikipedia is not afraid of calling Stalin a dictator, for it has done so in the past and still does in many articles... we are discussing another issue. Depending on perspectives, Stalin may or may not be refered to as a dictator, and what we are trying to do now is correct the article and change it in a way in which both perspectives are represented... If you believe that Wikipedia is worthless because it demands a NPOV policy, which in turn means to represent every point of view then I suggest moving on to a different encyclopedia... and as a side note, there are other perspectives apart from your own and not because they are different does it mean that they are wrong, and not because wikipedia displays it does it mean it is worthless... We have been battling over this issue for quite a while, so please, if you are not really aware of what is going on, stay away from it, and stick with articles which you are more familiar with. Kiske 04:43, 11 December 2006 (UTC)