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:

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!  --Kitty the Random 03:29, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

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] 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)


[edit] Thanks!

I've been looking everywhere for a copy of "Feldzug in Polen" and was just about ready to buy the DVD after the holidays. You just saved me $20!

Also, its nice to know that somebody is actually reading the articles that I write, and watch the footage that I dig up about the internet. Merry Christmas--Dudeman5685 04:34, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, per your post on my homepage, I've foung two Nazi training movies on google,and 2 of 3 parts of Manner Gegen Panzer on Youtube that I'm planning on making articles for. I've also sent off for Sieg im Westin, the great German triumphalist account of the Blitzkreig, from International Historic Films, and am going to see if I can't put it on line myself. Incidentally all the Nazi films, and many of the Allied films, I've found on the net come from IHF, so they don't seem to have a problem with it...yet.

Oh, and if you want to contact me, remember to leave your messege on the talk or disscussion page, that way I can get back to you sooner. (I rarely check the homepage)--Dudeman5685 03:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bundy

I think that was a good compromise what you wrote there. Best.

Mister Jinxy 14:12, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I'm reading "The Only Living Witness" and I see where they make a point of emphasising the speculum. I see where you're coming from now.

Mister Jinxy 22:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page moves

Hi Vidor, thanks for your continued contributions to Erast Fandorin. I had one question and a hint. To start with the latter: if you need to give a page another name, you can use the "move" tab (on the top, to the right of the edit and history tabs). That way, the edit history is preserved. I'll ask an admin to take care of the history of The State Counsellor. And the question: why did you remove the information about the selection of the translator? Errabee 22:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, as far as I can tell (which isn't very far, since I haven't read The Diamond Chariot/Vehicle yet), dbachmann sounds as if he's right. And don't forget, the German translation has been published and since dbachmann is from the German speaking part of Switzerland, he has an advantage over us. Errabee 22:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ted Bundy

I think I might have mistaken one of your edits to Ted Bundy as vandalism. Sorry about that. --Midnightcomm 03:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Project

Hello Vidor! I saw you have edited Ted Bundy so I assume you are interested in serial killer articles. Here is a project WP:CRIME that you might find interesting. If you are willing to join and help please do so, thank you! Wooyi 03:33, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 St. Louis Cardinals season

"I like it right where it is."
Perhaps you don't understand. This isn't your article. It can be edited by anybody to make it better. And perhaps you should look at other articles, maybe the 2006-07 NHL season articles (you can find that from my userpage) and look at the game logs. Do you see any summary on the months there? The game log should be just for that, the games. If Pujols hits a home run one day and not the other (just an example) nobody cares. No other page has something like that on it, so it shouldn't be included there either. if you have any questions, go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball#2007 Chicago White Sox season game log and 2007 Cleveland Indians season game log and state your case, and we'll see what other people say about that. Until then, please try to keep it the same for all articles of the same kind.
Everything else is perfectly fine, however. So congratulations on doing a good job on the intro and the playoffs. We just have to fix "your" game log. Ksy92003 talk·contribs 18:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
You are probably the most hard-headed person I know. You really don't understand. Just because you created an article, and because you are the one who mostly edits it, that doesn't mean that you own the article.
"You are, however, continually editing it to make it worse." Tell me how I am making it worse. Clearly, I am making it better. Sorry if I sounded conceited, but that's exactly how you're speaking.
"Perhaps they should look at mine. In any case, I don't know what what some other poster did with an NHL season page and don't know why I should care." Again, you don't own the article. You are the only one who does an article with including stuff like that prior to the game log. When I created the MLB team season project, I modeled it off of the articles for the 2006-07 NHL team season articles.
"I suspect you could find quite a few St. Louis Cardinal fans who care, and you would further fine that an article on the Cardinals' championship season will be of most interest to them." I'm not saying that nobody cares about that. Over the course of a 162-game season, not even the biggest St. Louis Cardinal fan in the world would want to come here to look at an in-depth description about the most basic details over every single baseball game (you don't have that there, I know, but I'm just trying to make a point).
"Still don't care about other articles, still don't see why all articles have to be exactly the same." All articles should be the same. Look at the 2007 MLB team articles. Each and every single one of them has exactly the same format. How can you not understand that it would be best if every single article of similar kind should have a similar format?
"Still think my version is perfectly fine and that you change it for the worse every time you take out the text." Of course you think your version is the best. You think it's perfectly fine; I might think it's not. A donkey might think that some other version is the best. In any case, the article should be left the best way, which is one that is easy to understand for everybody. And the way that we can find out which way is the best for everybody is to ask them what they think.
I'm gonna leave a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball#2006 St. Louis Cardinals season and ask the question "Should month-by-month summaries be included prior to the list of the games in their respective month in the game log for MLB team season articles?" Feel free to voice your opinion over there, and we'll see what everybody else says. Ksy92003 talk·contribs 01:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

If it will make you happy, I have removed my question at the talk page. We can put that information above in the article, just not in the game log. A detailed description for April does not do what the game logs are there for, and that's to show every game, who won, the score, winning/losing pitchers, etc., information that you can not show in paragraph form without the article being yea long.
Second, I followed your link to the St. Louis Cardinals game log on Retrosheet.com, but I can't seem to find how to get to the game log of my team, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. So could you please direct me there, and by that I mean show me how to get there from <Retrosheet.com>, to prove that this is a consistent source and can be used on all article pages?
Third, I have changed the spelling to Cincinnati.
Fourth, don't worry about the OT column. There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball#2007 Chicago White Sox season game log and 2007 Cleveland Indians season game log regarding the format of these game logs which will end around late March. After that discussion, depending on what everybody over there feels is the best way. We have decided to remove the OT, and I'll get right on removing those from all the game logs, as well as Division Standings and anything else we have agreed not to include. Ksy92003 talk·contribs 15:41, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for that. But still, as far as I'm concerned, right now it doesn't matter which website we get the information from as long as we get the information we need and that we list it as a reference. Personally, I prefer ESPN.com because I am familiar with that website, have been using it for years, and I know that it's updated as soon as a game is finished. Other sites like Yahoo!, or other sites, don't necessarily edit those schedules until after all of the day's games are completed. So ESPN.com is easier for me, but do what works best for you. And it's nice to have you working on the project. I hope to see good articles from you in the future. Ksy92003 talk·contribs 16:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 St. Louis Cardinals season

Hi. I can clearly tell that you are a big St. Louis Cardinals fan. I was wondering if you would like to contribute to the 2007 article. I was looking at the page, and saw that nobody has signed up to work on that one yet. So if you wish, you may work on it. Here is the link to the signup page. Ksy92003 talk·contribs 16:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images to Commons?

Hi, you uploaded a number of very nice images about Mongolia (and possibly others). Would you mind transferring those to Wikipedia:Commons? That would make them available for the other language Wikipedia projects as well. Thanks! --Latebird 11:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know how to send the images to Commons. How do I do that? Vidor 20:51, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons --Latebird 01:05, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 12 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Erdene Zuu monastery, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--ALoan (Talk) 14:16, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TED BUNDY ARTICLE

Hi, Vidor. While I appreciate a number of the changes and additions you have made to the TB article, I can't help but notice that you seem to be using "The Only Living Witness" as your only editing source. A couple of weeks ago, the article was fairly concise and accurate - now with your references coming only from TOLW, it is no longer balanced. The fact is that TOLW was a good clinical read but not always accurate. Along with growing up as a teenage girl (with long dark hair parted in the middle) in NW Washington during TB's time of terror, I've read every credible TB book out there, met some of the authors, and have known one of the victims' parents and friends. I know for a fact that TOLW is NOT the best book on TB out there and really feel that you are making a big mistake by relying so much on it for your edits in this article.

Just wanted to put in my two-cents worth (for what it's worth). Kelly A. Siebecke 20:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My, my

Maybe I'm reading some attitude that's not really there, but you seem a little testy about your belief in TOLW as they best source available on TB. I don't think that Rule's TSBM is necessarily better than TOLW, merely different. The truth is, when it comes to certain facts, Rule's book is more accurate. Everything you listed as making TOLW a better book than Rule's are all matters of opinion. For instance, the 100+ possible victims: Rule's personal opinion; your opinion that Rule wasn't as important to Bundy as she believes she was: again, Ann Rule's personal opinion. As far as the quality of writing goes, it was her first book - and a bestseller nonetheless. Then again, what in the world does one person's style of writing have to do with getting the facts straight? You have made a number of factual errors from (what I assume) TOLW, right? Two I pointed out, others I've let go.

The truth is, Vidor, no matter how meticulously you work at this article, it's all eventually going to get changed and snipped and reworked by someone else. That, of course, is the nature of Wikipedia; you just may be wasting a whole lot of time and effort.

Kelly A. Siebecke 02:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] (heavy sigh)

I'm totally not interested in getting into a pi***ng contest with you about this. Do what you will with the article and enjoy it while it lasts. Oh, and I hope you have the latest printing of TSBM (anniversary edition) complete with revisions and epilogues.

Kelly A. Siebecke 02:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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