User talk:Alex V Mandel

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Bzuk, Thank you for your kind reply and attention. Sorry, alas I am really not very good in Web-design and these things about use of computer instruments for editing the webpage... just wanted to share the factual info on the topic i have.. so, sorry if it caused any inconvenience. I will appreciate it if your would find a possibility to consider this information (about National Geographic movie, their expert, the Bolam theory etc.) and include it somehow into the article... just "for the benefit of the truth and factual correctness", nothing else.

Also, please note that the little chapter about the "paranormal" things disappeared at all from that section of fringe and paranormal theories.. i guess it can be just some casual technic mistake of somebody who also tried to edit the article? Merry Christmas - kind regards, Alex Mandel, PhD.

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Alex, the comments were not chaotic, it was the presentation format that you chose that made them very difficult to read. There is a style or format to writing Wikipedia articles that is the normal convention adopted by editors. For example, observe the section headings and use of reference citations in the body of the Amelia Earhart article for a "common" style. Forgive me for seeming testy, but this article has been under attack for the last few weeks by people who can charitably be called "vandals," so I was merely ensuring that the article was able to be developed in a systematic way. I welcome your very valid comments and will try to incorporate them along with other submissions so that the Amelia Earhart article is a well researched and accurate document. BzukSunday, 2006-12-24 T 04:23 UTC

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Bzuk, Just saw your last updates on the AE page, including the reference to the "USS Amelia Earhart" project... Again, thank you very much for your kind attention to my "inputs"! Kind regards - sincerely, Alex Mandel, PhD.

Bzuk, Please are you also the author/editor of the "Irene Craigmile Bolam" article in Wikipedia? If yes, please look there... i just posted some research information about this person, and maybe you would consider as possible/worthwhile to include it into the article, and in "civilized way" - not like I did (very sorry again for my stupidity in Web-design things!) Happy New Year! - with best wishes, sincerely - Alex Mandel, PhD.

Contents 1 Reply to question 2 A request for assistance 3 Userpage 4 Snook 5 User page

[edit] Reply to question

Alex, no, I am not the author of the "Irene Craigmile Bolam" article in Wikipedia. I can look that up for you (it is ProfessorPaul). Bzuk 16:13 2 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] A request for assistance

BTW, would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 16:15 2 January 2007 (UTC). Bzuk, thanks for your kind message and kind attention to my material and propositions! About the separate page for Earhart-related myths - the idea is interesting... however, i can see a sort of "special aspect" here, that prompts me to be a bit cautious about this. Because of the high authority of the Wikipedia - and the huge number of people using it - to devote the specially created page for this kind of things, i'm afraid, may automatically "grant" these myths with additional "promotion", possibly even some seeming "credibility" (at least in the eyes of some readers who can be too fascinated by all these "mystery theories".. and then, they can became a "sources" about Earhart for other people, etc.). So, i'm somewhat afraid it may attract to these "fringe theories" the unnecessary public attention - attention that this anti-historic, anti-factual, just confusing stuff simply doesn't deserve. As result, it may lead to unnecessary "prolongation" of the public life and circulation of these misinforming myths and legends... and that's a reason of my "concerns"...just the concept of "public responsibility of the historic researcher" that i am subscribing under. I do support completely - and enthusiastically share! - your goal to make the article as scholar and historically accurate as possible... so hope you easily can understand the motives "behind" my somewhat "cautious" attitude to the "Earhart myths" webpage idea. Kind Regards! - very sincerely, best wishes - Alex V Mandel 18:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Bzuk, please did you receive the material on Amelia Earhart that i send for you (to your personal Email) a few days ago? [ I did not receive any "confirmation" that it reached you, so just thought it could be "filtered out" by your spam protection or so... If something like this happened, of course i can try to send it again]. Please let me know... Kind Regards! - sincerely, Alex V Mandel 16:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage

It appears another editor accidentally created a userpage for you at User:Alex V Mandel, then another editor tagged it for deletion. Since it was nonsense characters, I deleted the page... but if you for some reason intended that as your userpage, let me know and I'll restore it.--Isotope23 20:25, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Isotope23, Thank you for your attention. No, this attempt to create the new userpage was not mine, for sure. Possibly, i suspect, it was somebody's attempt to use my name for vandalism or some silly jokes... so, many thanks for deleting it! Kind regards - sincerely, Alex V Mandel 11:21, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi. As far as I am aware, you can write on your user page, if you wanted to. A notice might pop up saying; "Do you really want to recreate a deleted page?" but just continue. Occasionally, pages are "salted" to make it impossible to recreate a page with the same name, but there is no reason to think that your user page has been salted. By putting Wikipedia:Userboxes on your userpage, you can say what your first language is, and what other languages you know. I expect there are hundreads of wikiboxes to cover all sorts of hobbies and statements. Sometimes when I have seen an appropriate wikibox on a user's page, I use it for my page. Snowman (talk) 12:58, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Snook

Hey Alex, thanks for commenting over at Neta Snook. Cheers! Gwen Gale (talk) 11:04, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User page

It would be good if you could say a little about yourself (not too much) on your userpage. It is not a home page, but it is for wiki users who might want to know a little about editors. Perhaps first, look at other peoples' user pages. Snowman (talk) 14:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Snowman, thank you for your message... I checked the "Userpage" but discovered that it was - apparently - illegally used by some vandal, that was noted by another editor who deleted it (having my agreement to do it.. i just forget this story already! - please see our dialogue above). Anyway... I am working as As. Prof. of Biophysics in Odessa State Medical University in Odessa, Ukraine... having a PhD on physics. Also i work on Naval and Aviation history (2 published books - on Russian - about the history of development of designs of the early US Battleships), and - particularly - the history of Amelia Earhart (since 80s). A member of the US Naval Institute and the US Association of the Naval aviation. Kind Regards! - Alex V Mandel (talk) 11:50, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Is this userbox any good? Copy it to your userpage if you think it might be useful. It is in Russian and I do not know what it says, but I guess that it says that you are a native speaker of Russian. Wiki mark up is a little tricky at first, but I am sure you can become efficient with it. Snowman (talk) 19:46, 6 January 2008 (UTC)