User talk:JStripes

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[edit] Hi

Welcome!

Hello, JStripes, 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 need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Vizjim 16:14, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PhD, what a wonderful phrase

Please see Wikipedia:Credential ban. JStripes 01:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi! For the thesis I'm working mostly on fake Native texts - stuff like Carter & Chief Red Fox - but using Jace Weaver and Gerald Vizenor as my theorists. Previously I've worked on Vizenor, Diane Glancy and Sherman Alexie. Cook-Lynn is powerful stuff. I exchanged a couple of emails with her once and she scared me rigid. Were you looking at her critical or fictional writings? James. Vizjim 16:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Take a look for yourself: James Stripes, "We Think in Terms of What Is Fair": Justice versus "Just Compensation" in Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's "From the River's Edge" Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 165-187 http://links.jstor.org/journals/07496427.html --JStripes 17:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

  • It's telling me that my university has not subscribed to either Wicazo Sa or AIQ, which is just bizarre as I've used both quite recently. Urgh. Will have a look once that's sorted out.
I seem to recall Robert Warrior telling me that Columbia University did not have these journals either, although perhaps that has changed. He told me this about 1993 or 1994. JStripes 00:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Native writers

I certainly don't agree with all of Diane's thought - some of the stuff in The Cold-and-Hunger-Dance is just off-putting. I did get to interview her recently, though, and certainly came away with much more sympathy for her work. Have you read The Man Who Heard the Land? It strikes me as her most interesting work even though some of the things she's playing with - creationism, for example - aren't ideas for which I have much time.

Your comment on Sherman A made me spray tea: dead on! I had some small contact with him in the '90's on an old listserv and he smacked me down hard for referencing Hyemeyohsts Storm. Mind you, I get to use that smackdown as the start of my thesis, so it's all to the good.

In terms of Wikipedia, by the way, could I ask you to cast your eye towards List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas at some point? Every red link there is a bio-bibliography crying out to be written (Simon Ortiz for one...) Vizjim 17:37, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

There's a lot to do there.--JStripes 18:04, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chess Informant

Don't worry, I'm not planning to take it down. I just want to make sure that it cites sources (WP:ATT) and establishes notability (WP:N). — coelacan — 23:21, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

It will.--JStripes 23:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

No worries then. Hope my tagging didn't stress you out. — coelacan — 00:03, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to have tagged Chess Assistant as spam. But if you look at the state of the page when I tagged it you'll see that it did look that way. Wikipedia gets a truly enormous number of new articles every day that just have one of two lines of text on a company or product plus an external link and no indication whatever of the notability of the product, and that's the state your article was in when I saw it. Have a look at the new pages list and you'll see what I mean - it's horrible! Anyway, I've marked the talk page to say I want the deletion notice withdrawn.

andy 16:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks--JStripes 16:16, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chess article

I only made some small changes to the article, I'm glad you added it. Are you in Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess?

I looked at the Chess Assistant article. (I use ChessBase but I've looked at info on C.A.) The spam tag was put on pretty early. The reason was that at that point, the article didn't look like much. To avoid that, it would be good to either prepare the initial version of the article in a text file off-line and then put it up when you have enough for a reasonably good article or work on it in your user space or the sandbox and then move it over when it is reasonably ready. Bubba73 (talk), 17:55, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I'm in Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess. Thanks. Good suggestions.--JStripes 18:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
When you add new articles, it is good to add them to List of chess topics. I added the Informant and Assistant articles to the list. Bubba73 (talk), 18:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV tag at Singular they

If you think the Singular they article does not display NPOV, you need to explain why on the talk-page, or else the {{POV}} tag you added is pointless and will be removed. —RuakhTALK 00:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. I've added my explanation to the talk page. JStripes 01:29, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Cool, thanks. :-) —RuakhTALK 16:15, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Viz'ner

The source for that department being "failed" is the man himself, who corrected me on a few points of fact concerning this entry. Obviously, either the department has been reconstituted or he meant something else by "failed" - either way, I'll reword it. Vizjim 13:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Ever the trickster, he is! Have you read Kim Blaeser's book on him? Unfortunately I have not, with the exception of an early version of one chapter that she sent me many years ago. JStripes 13:57, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
  • One of my professors in graduate school was a colleague of his at Minnesota. She had a very different perspective on many things. I recall his discussion in one of his books--I'll try to track it down tomorrow--of the hiring of a historian in the department in which he discusses three candidates--none by name--and how they ended up hiring a "white woman." She later moved to Washington State University, where she brought me into the field of Native American studies and was duly punished (being forced to serve on my committee). Perhaps the word "failed" is appropriate if the context gives it an accurate meaning, and there is an appropriate reference. JStripes 13:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
  • My diss chair's own diss committee included on who had been instrumental in the hiring of Vizenor at Santa Cruz. I'm tellin' ya there are stories! Of, the stories. One of his former colleagues from Berkeley told me stories that sounded too much like traditional trickster tales (Radin style). See chapter 11 in Interior Landscapes if you're not clear on the meaning of "Radin style". JStripes 14:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
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