User talk:David Foster

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Hi! I'm David (Dave) Foster. I live in South Florida. I am in college majoring in Political Science. I also have a website, which the server just crashed but should be up soon! I'll put a link. See you in Wikiland


Hi David, welcome to Wikipedia. I notice you're marking some edits as minor even though they're more than changes such as spelling corrections or formating changes. Please see minor edit for a discussion of when an edit should be marked as minor. Please also cite the source for your material in the edit summary. Thanks Tom 2:14 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Done and thanks!--David Foster 06:08, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Seattle demographics

I see that you've changed demographic statistics for Seattle, still attributing them to the U.S. Census of 2000. I believe the previous numbers correctly reflected that census. Do you have a different source (in which case please cite it), or is there an updated revision of the census, or what? -- Jmabel | Talk 21:29, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

So can I assume that you will sort this out in the article? -- Jmabel | Talk 07:30, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

No --David Foster 12:41, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Global warming.gif and Global warming2.gif

David, you recently uploaded Image:Global warming.gif and Image:Global warming2.gif, marked them as GFDL and stated "The original version of this figure was prepared by Illinois State Museum (http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/) from publicly available data. The figure may be used under the GFDL."

I suspect that both of these images are copyright problems. While the fact that the data is public is good, the copyright in such cases vests with the person or organization that prepared a particular style of presentation for such data. In this case, that would appear to be the not-for-profit Illinois State Museum Society. Unless you have their explicit permission, you would not have the authority to release these images under the GFDL.

Unless you can give me a good reason why the GFDL should apply, I intend to list both these images on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Dragons flight 18:40, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Noted and accepted--David Foster 10:03, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

(William M. Connolley 13:34, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)) DF is perhaps to modest to point this out, but the new pics are also largely unneeded, because there are nicer ones at User:Dragons flight/Images.

[edit] Source for information on L.A. page

Hi there:

CIS is hardly a solid source for such a controversial point. All of the well-established, well-respected think tanks on both sides of the political spectrum (Cato, Heritage, Hudson, Hoover, Manhattan, Brookings, Urban, AEI, etc.) are not afraid to list their trustees and their experts. They also prominently display their experts' education and backgrounds.

Without any listing of its personnel or any description of their qualifications, CIS could easily be three ordinary guys in a one-room office making up numbers off the top of their heads. When you've actually got hands-on experience with political battles, you'll realize there are way too many wannabe think tanks all over the U.S. that have fancy Web sites and not much else.

While you're still an undergraduate, you might want to consider taking courses in epistemology and critical thinking.

--Coolcaesar 10:40, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Al Gore controversies

Thank you for your work on the Al Gore controversies page. It is greatly appreciated--The great grape ape is straight out of the know 16:50, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Sienna Miller

The definition of English is not based on place of birth or whether she has English parents or not. She has lived in England since a rather young age, considers herself English, and, quite importantly, is considered English by her peers (in this case, other English people, which is really what matters). Having been born in the States myself, and having an American mother and British father, I am quite content to say that I am English, without having any need to say 'Culturally, I consider myself'. I could consider myself a rabbit, but if the other rabbits do not consider me one, it makes absolutely no difference. Similarly, I've known Americans who've faked our accent and no English person would consider them anything more than an American faking our accent (and similarly, visa-versa for us faking an American accent). Thus, while consideration is important (if she doesn't feel English, you can't force her to be) her peers must ultimately have some say in the matter, and I don't know any English people (including myself) who consider her anything other than English. As previously noted on the discussion page, we're discussing English, not British, and thus her passport and citizenship status are not important in regards to her nationality. Roche-Kerr 12:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps this should be explained this way on her page since most people think that when someone calls themselves 'English', that they are a British citizen.

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[edit] Lindsay Lohan

With all respect, is there a purpose for this sentence? It does nothing other than repeat the sentence immediately prior (which is already sourced) while introducing a reference to an image that seems to be little more than an excuse to get US Weekly (a poor excuse for a source) into the article. What am I missing? RadioKirk (u|t|c) 21:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what the problem is. It is not repeating the information from the last sentence, it adds to it by updating the information. I don't see how US Weekly would be a poor source if it is an actual fact they are stating. I do agree though that Ms. Lohan is not a important article to be reporting on.--David Foster 17:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
To be honest, I didn't see anything that improved on the previous sentence. More importantly, Us Weekly fails as a reliable source since, like other tabloids, it relies on unnamed "friends", "insiders", "sources", etc., to create its "stories", often demeaning and salacious. If you can't trust the source, you can't trust whether something is an "actual fact", and Wikipedia's verifiability standards state, incontrovertibly, that the "threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth" (emphasis from the policy page). Please also read policy on biographies of living persons. Thanks. RadioKirk (u|t|c) 18:58, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Actually if you look at that issue of US Weekly, it shows a photo of Ms. Lohan smoking at that date, so it is a little more than a 'friends word', but an actual fact. --David Foster 00:19, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


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