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[edit] Thanks yous and other nice things

Thank you notes and barnstars from other editors:

[edit] Lincoln Town Car

You are plainly a major Town Car fan! The number of edits you have put into the article is phenomenal. Your infoboxes are particularly good. Thanks for all your efforts. RivGuySC 03:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I sure am a Town Car fan. Thank you, I really apreciate it! Signaturebrendel 04:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hello, BrendelSignature. You too have made some good contributions. I made some minor spelling, punctuation, and grammar edits to the page to which you refer. Unfortunately, when you made a subsequent edit, you reverted the page rather than editing the page, perhaps inadvertantly. We did another round of edits versus reverts and here we are. Your ref is missing along with my edits, so the spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors remain. I recommend that you restore the reference in question and I will restore my spelling, punctuation, and grammatical edits. Perhaps a reminder is in order that neither of us should use the revert function or any derivitative of it to do so. I suspect we both want to be good citizens of the wiki community. Thanks for your excellent contributions. We obviously share a passion for similar subject matter. X-factor 20:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Brendel, I am simply overwhelmed by the barnstar that you awarded to me. Thanks so very, very much! Stu

Hey, wanted to say thanks for the welcome. almost got kicked out!!!See some of the stuff i put under US discussion!!THANKS!!!!>>>.--Coltbaby210 23:54, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another Thanks!

For another barnstar! My first one.  :-) RivGuySC 04:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] From bok269

Thank you, I didn't know which page to do that on. Bok269 15:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Howdy, Brendel. Just wanted to say danke for this edit. When I was reworking the Demographics section, I didn't mean to change it in that silly way. Good thing you caught my mistake. :-) — President Lethe 04:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Smile

Ginkgo100 talk · e@ has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing! 03:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you very much for the barnstar. --Sable232 03:14, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! Signaturebrendel 03:38, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nice

I like what you did with my 2G TOwn Car pic :) Karrmann 21:43, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Signaturebrendel 04:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

I took all the info I added from the main article. Feel free to trim it down if you think it is too long. Thanks for the praise, and sorry about the references section. I wanted to make sure all the refs worked, and i forgot to take out the section when i added it. --06:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Society Barnstar
I, zzuuzz, award you this barnstar for your considerable efforts on improving articles related to socio-economics with particular reference to the United States. -- zzuuzz (talk) 03:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for NPOV

Thanks for all of your hard work to keep this article NPOV! futurebird 21:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

And I thank you for your support! Signaturebrendel 21:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello Brendel, I like your photos! I would like to use your shot of Vegas at night inside an upcoming book on "green" cities. If okay with you, need to know how to credit you. "Photo courtesy Brendel"? Please email k150@yahoo.com Thank you in advance!

[edit] Your GA nomination of Average Joe

I am pleased to inform you that your good article nomination of Average Joe has passed. I enjoyed reading the article, and feel that it meets all of the requirements of a Good Article. As the primary contributor to the article, let me say that you did a fantastic job of putting it together. It is extremely well sourced, and well written. I hope you keep up the wonderful work, and happy editing! Kyra~(talk) 19:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Danke fur mein "autograph book" "gesignen". :-) · AndonicO Talk · Sign Here 20:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Gern Geschehen (your welcome/sure thing). Signaturebrendel 21:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
For your work on making and maintaining the Lincoln Town Car article at A class! Karrmann 23:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

Hello Brendel, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  HGB 08:31, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

I've been editing as an unregistered user for a long time. I've made improvements to hundreds of articles, corrected spelling and grammatical errors, and challanged POV for almost 2 years. I've never had any urge to register officially until I noticed your page, and your contributes. I then realised that I would like a record of what I've done, and perhaps a snappy, efficient user page like yours. I'm not 100% proficient in how to use this site, or it's opportunites, and think I might benefit from someone more experienced than I. Would consider helping me make a signature, and maybe even a small, non-complex user page? I've researched your contributes, and would be honored if you would assist me in becoming a more substantial contributor to this site. If not, or if you don't have time, I completely understand! I have a lack of time myself, thats probably why I've never registered. Just a thought I guess... Regards, smooth_operator, September 8

[edit] Signaturebrendel

This is my new Signature! Signaturebrendel 06:46, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I like it! I do have a question about how you managed to post this nice signature each time you sign. Surely you don't write all of the code out each time? Nhprman 07:16, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
And of course, I just did three seconds of research and discovered on my own that the "nickname" line in My Preferences does this just fine. Thanks! I'll be working on a nicer one, like yours. User:Nhprman UserLists 07:23, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm glad you like my new signature. Thanks. Signaturebrendel 07:35, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Race Income.png

What year are the data used in this image from?futurebird 06:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

The data for the Image:Race_Income.png taken from here (personal income stats) and here (household income). Regards, Signaturebrendel 06:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm having trouble adding that information to the caption of the image. I think it is important to show a date with this kind of information. The image is in a template and when I added the caption it's messed up the formatting. Can you help out? it's here Template:Race and income in US --futurebird 06:56, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, quite frankly I don't know why the picture is in a template. I need to figure the syntax out myself but as it is 11:00 pm here in California that will have to wait until tomorrow (sorry). Maybe you'll beat me to it- if not I'm going to take another look at it tomorrow. Happy editing! Signaturebrendel 07:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion of project

Please see the WP:PIIR talk page for a discussion on the expansion of the project to a Project on International Relations theory. — Nobleeagle [TALK] [C] 03:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Germany officially no great power

http://www.welt.de/data/2005/03/05/605209.html the term is Mittelmacht. That is beneath a Großmacht(great power).

http://www.zeit.de/2006/45/Schulz?page=4 (lower part of the page)

http://www.internationalepolitik.de/archiv/jahrgang1995/januar1995/deutschland-zaudert.html

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/tso/sonderthema10/nachrichten/impulse-21-berliner-forum-sicherheitspolitik/79202.asp

So all the recent German governments used the term Mittelmacht (Poland for example is also called a Mittelmacht in German, but there is huge gap between the power of both countries) Wandalstouring 15:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

There is no definite answer on the issue. Some may argue Germany to be a middle-power, others to be a great power. There is no "official" list of great powers. Both ideas have equal merit. Signaturebrendel 23:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
This is not about arguing someones position. The official position of the German government is: Germany is no great power, Germany is a middle power (I quoted even an official speech of the former head of state in the Ministry of Defence) Wandalstouring 23:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
This is not official- it's a non-factual issue. If you quoted the "speech of the former head of state" than you couted his opinion, his argument. Signaturebrendel 06:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great power

You may wish to look at the many new edits to this article—there's a lot of POV, at least at a glance. CRGreathouse (t | c) 00:49, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I will, thanks for notifying me. Signaturebrendel 03:55, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Emerging superpowers

Emerging superpower articles are up for deletion. — Nobleeagle [TALK] [C] 06:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank for notifying me. Signaturebrendel 06:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Lincoln-aviator01.jpg)

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[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:1981-Lincoln-Town-Car.jpg)

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[edit] Response to WP:Civil

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"you're simply a European going into a hissy-fit because your subcontinent does not seem to be set for greatness in the predictable ("foreseeable") future" ” “

"Look at you people; you automatically take what Renegadeviking typed at face value because it went along with your own anti-American views." ”


Both statements are inappropriate for Wikipedia as they are directed at your fellow editors. So please comment on the issue, not the editors! I am a liberal who quite frankly disagrees with most of the views and assumptions you expressed on the page, but would never direct any commentary at you personally. We all have different opinions and ideas. So please let's keep it civil and not comment on each other. Best Regards, Signaturebrendel 08:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

How about if the "you're simply a" was replaced with "a lot of Europeans to to go into...." and "Look at you people; you automatically take what R typed" was replaced by "a lot of people automatically take what others type at face value because it goes along with their own anti-American views?" Would that work? Chiss Boy 00:47, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

The first was changed, the second didn't need to be. There's a response on the page. Chiss Boy 22:10, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Household income

Hi, Beland. This edit was quite uneeded. I obviously confused mean and median. I write a lot of articles (good article) here on WP, so I am bound to make some mistakes. I do appreciate you looking after so my many of my edits of the past year. Signaturebrendel 19:02, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

It was really the Census Bureau that made that mistake; I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for faithfully reporting their data. And thank you for your many contributions on this topic; it's nice to see Wikipedia has good coverage of it. I've gotten interested after listening to NPR's series on income inequality this week. There's a bit more consolidation I'm going to do, just to streamline presentation...I'm sure you'll let me know if I accidently chop anything important. -- Beland 19:11, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
I will ;-) Regards, Signaturebrendel 19:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Affluence and upper class

I am in the process of replying to your message, but you keep editing it and triggering the "You have new messages" box for me. -- Beland 00:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Professional and working class conflict in the United States

I am in the process of explaining the tag on Talk:Professional and working class conflict in the United States, but have not had enough time to finish writing the paragraph. -- Beland 02:24, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Signaturebrendel 02:26, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes with religion as a parameter

I see from your contributions that you've been removing religion as a parameter in certain infoboxes. Consensus is required before altering infoboxes with high usage. Changes to them can effect hundreds or thousands of articles. Unilaterally removing certain parameters is unacceptable without first gaining consensus. I've reverted the changes you made to Template:Infobox Senator and Template:Infobox Congressman because of this. Thanks. --MZMcBride 02:33, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Was there consensus before adding the religion parameter? If so, I sure can't find it. On both talk pages I see serious debate over whether or not religion ought to be mention. If anything there is no consensus to support the religion parameter-thus I removed it. It seems to me that the religion parameter got to being part of the infobox through "unacceptable" uni-lateral action as well. I will, however, wait for further discussion before doing so again. Signaturebrendel 02:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
As you probably noticed on your watchlist, I've begun a discussion on the Senator infobox to try to gain consensus one way or the other regarding the religion parameter. A dispute tag can be added to templates using <noinclude> tags, however I think that should wait to see where the discussion heads. Cheers. --MZMcBride 04:09, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I see, I have added my argument to both talk pages and will wait with adding a dispute template. Regards, Signaturebrendel 04:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Social class in the United States GA nomination on hold

On Hold — Notes left on talk page. --Nehrams2020 08:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I was appalled that nobody had reviewed the article for an entire month. There are now several editors who working to remove the backlog so hopefully an article will have to wait no more than a week to two weeks to be reviewed. I know I included a lot of suggestions, but I guess I'm a nitpicker when it comes to approving GAs. But it does improve the article, which you did do a great job on. I will try to look over the article when you finish as soon as I can, but I do have some midterms that may delay my time a bit. I will definitely pass/fail it though within these seven days, so do tell me when you're done. I'm off to bed as well, but good job on fixing so many of those suggestions already. --Nehrams2020 09:11, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I'll look it over tomorrow some time, right now I'm studying for a test for early morning. I'll let you know then how it is. --Nehrams2020 07:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I reviewed it again and there are still some things that need to be fixed that you didn't address. I crossed off the completed suggestions, but the rest need to be corrected before I'll pass it. Let me know if you have any questions. --Nehrams2020 22:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I failed the article for now since it exceeded its seven days deadline. Just let me know when you finish everything and I'll look it over again to pass it. Good job so far, you only have a few more things to fix. --Nehrams2020 09:11, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Sounds good. I'll review it as soon as I can once you let me know. --Nehrams2020 19:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] American Upper Class

Please see my comments on the talk page. I don't disagree with the page's contents per se, but rather that the page seems overly simplistic. I think it lacks the depth of viewpoints on the term that would make it proper encyclopedic comment. That said, I am not very invested in the article, so I will look to others to improve it. Phil Bastian 17:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

The "Social class at a glance" image has a spelling mistake (treshold for threshold in the Lower Class section of the text). If the source image used layers or some kind of separation for the text then it would be easier to change than an ordinary user like me trying to alter the image from its png form. Furby100 03:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. Census Pages

Hey.. maybe you can help me. I would like to make the U.S. Cnesus pages below part of the U.S. wikproject. I know how to do it. I just was wondering if there's some sort of nomination process I should go through before putting the tect on the related discussion pages.--Dr who1975 05:54, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

United States Censuses
1790 • 1800 • 1810 • 1820 • 1830 • 1840 • 1850 • 1860 • 1870 • 1880 • 1890 •
1900 • 1910 • 1920 • 1930 • 1940 • 1950 • 1960 • 1970 • 1980 • 1990 • 2000 •
2010 • Census Bureau

[edit] Ethnic relationships

Hi there, I'm not sure you know anything about ethnic groups, but I need some help...and you seem to be a well rounded person. There is a big to-do going on in the Filipino people article, and some (actually, one fanatic) want Hispanics to be in the Filipino's "related ethnic group" category (alone with other Austronesians only) Now, I do see the relationship with Spaniards, as the Islands were conquered by Spain, through Mexico (New Spain)...but if only around 3.6% (I'll give them the benefit of the doubt) have Spanish blood, can they be a related ethnic group, as a whole? He argues that blood has nothing to do with it! He doesn't seem to understand ethnicity...I gave him this example:

If Latin American music is influenced by German Polkas and such -does it mean Cubans, Mexicans, and Chileans, for example, are ethnically related to Germans? I know there are Hispanics with German ancestors...but the whole population? This is what he's doing with Filipinos. I even added that Filipinos have very much influence fom China and, to top it off...America! Probably the biggest contributor to their modern-day culture. He refuses to put all three (Chinese, Hispanics, and Americans) and opts for only Hispanic!

I apologize if you don't want to be bothered by a petty problem...Thank You for your time. Cali567 05:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll look into to it tomorrow. Sorry for the delay but I'm currently quite busy in non-virtual life. Regards, Signaturebrendel 06:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for trying to help smooth things out...I don't understand why he treats the word 'ethnic' so liberally?when people speak of ethnic groups it's usually a blood related thing? right? It's commonly used as a 'racial' or 'related' thing (actually related, not the meaning he thinks it means). I think one of the problems is that word...people have a thought connected to it -yet that's not the exact dictionary meaning (he tries to point out). I think he found a loop-hole becuase that state of mind isn't the one people use when thinking "ethnically related". It's very confusing because Chris Sundita argues Filipinos have many Hispanic attributes and they are "truly" a part of Hispanidad (?), yet he firmly denies they are Hispanic??? I may be naive, but things are not always that gray...I'm sorry to rant, but I'm really confused. Again, I appreciate your help when you have other things to do -We all have a life, and it's so easy to get lost on-line!... Cali567 04:03, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 'North America (Americas)' ... again

Thank you for weighing in on this prior AfD. Even though an apparent consensus supported the prior AfD in some way, and the article has been deleted, this has reared its head again -- please peruse and weigh in. Thanks! Corticopia 22:31, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Whill look at it soon. Thanks. Signaturebrendel 06:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Las Vegas Strip.png

Just a thought.. Image:Las Vegas Strip.png, at 1744 × 1240 and over 4 MB could use some downsampling. -- drumguy8800 C T 09:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Fashion WikiProject

When I was assessing designer label for the newly-created WikiProject Fashion, I noticed you had left the (now susbtantially revised) {{maintained}} template there on the talk page.

I was curious if you were interested in affiliating yourself with our project — we need a lot of experienced editors to work on a horribly neglected category of articles with a sprawling scope. It seems to me that you could contrinute a little on that article and perhaps a couple of other upscale brands. Daniel Case 05:53, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lincoln articles

Sorry, but those rainbow images you used on the Lincoln pages are brutal. Just stick to a street picture like 99.9% of all the car photos on wikipedia. No need to take it up a notch, cause it doesn't look very encylcopeadic. 06:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

That is why I will replace these images w/ white backgrounds. Whether or not the multi-color backgrounds are "burtal" is your opinion-and that's fine. I maintain that they are far better than street pictures-which are the worst possible choice. Signaturebrendel 06:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
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