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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] Hi
I've admired your work on Super Power for a few years. Anyways, I also liked your signature. Hope you don't mind, but I used your signature for a model when I created mine. :) Thanks! DigitalNinja 19:11, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the kind comment; you are more than welcome to use my signature as a model. Happy editing, Signaturebrendel 19:15, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] United States presidential elections
Hello. We worked together for a brief period of time on the United States article. I'm contacting you because, as someone interested in American politics, I would like your opinion. I'm currently taking issue with the format for the U.S. presidential elections pages. I'd appreciate if you participated in the discussion on the 2004 talk page. As the changes in question have occurred to all the election pages it's hard to centralize the discussion, so the most recent election page seems like the best place to start. Here's my comment, thanks! SpiderMMB 04:52, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Winner/Runner-up
I have to voice my concern that this format is hurting the article. I will post this on a few notable election pages and hope that it's noticed. I have to admire the determination of whoever came up with this idea (it's apparently on every page) but ultimately, I think it should go. I think that having "winner/runner-up" displayed so prominently in the infobox overshadows the importance of the election. Some of these elections were not mere contests, but were epic events in American history where a variety of important viewpoints were symbolically represented and voted upon. Just in the last 50 years, the notable political climates of 1968 and 2004 came to a boiling point around election time. We should not be placing so much emphasis on the "winner" and the "runner-up" -- this is not a spelling bee. If we condense this into who "won" we are doing a disservice to the issues that drove these elections. SpiderMMB 23:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update, but I am not able to devote as much time to WP as normal right now. Signaturebrendel 06:40, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikibreak
I have been busy for a while and will be on a wikibreak for a week. I will likely not, however, be able to return to normal editing levels until early next year. Until then I will check my watchlist from time to time and undertake routine administrative tasks, i.e. Page Protection & some 3RR vios (3RR requires daily checking in case there's a dispute). Signaturebrendel 06:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I need help....
I need help deleting my account or at least making it so that my name doesn't show up when I type my name in a google or yahoo search. I really value my privacy and had I known your name shows up in those sorts of searches I would never had signed up. Can you please help me? I would really appreciate it if you can do something to help, thanks. Daniel Chiswick 12:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy
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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Prestige cars copy.png)
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[edit] Question regarding block of User:Eng rashid
The article this editor was accused of vandalizing was one that this apparent new editor had created and is the primary contributor of (Grid fabric). I tried leaving a comment in AIV (diff), but perhaps I was too late. I've left a welcome message on this editor's page in hopes that his editing practices don't trigger an anti-vandal bot in the future. --健次(derumi)talk 08:00, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- I too am concerned about this, as VoABot's setting mean it is warning users too easily.
I haveAnother admin has unblocked the user as they seem like a new editor who was just unsure about editing and image tagging. If there is any other reason that you blocked them, please contact me or User:Neil. ELIMINATORJR 15:38, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, I see your point - I will also rember to be more suspicious of VoABot's warnings. Regards, Signaturebrendel 18:37, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Red Terror
when protecting pages please don't forget to tag them accordingly. `'Míkka>t 01:12, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
- It tells you whether or not a page is protecting when editing. Is it really neccessary to put a big, distracting tag on the top. I suppose that reveals my bias on tags ;-) Regards, Signaturebrendel 04:04, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of Anglo-Saxon economy
An article that you have been involved in editing, Anglo-Saxon economy, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anglo-Saxon economy. Thank you. Pastordavid 17:44, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your vote on the New Zealand dream, it really helped. Sorry to take a different view on the Anglo-Saxon economy, however when I was living in Switzerland I was frequently confronted by these stereotypes. I am a New Zealander and our country is not part of the United States, but to my colleagues I was an Anglo-Saxon. They made no distinction between the two countries. If President Bush did something, they would come to me and say "look what your president is doing".
Europe has economic troubles and they are constantly debating how to fix the problems, usually the reformists favor the neo-liberal Anglo-Saxon modelBadenoch 22:26, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
- Well, reasonable people can disagree - I do not hear the term commonly used, but perhaps that's becuase I'm in the U.S. By American standards, however, Canada and the UK is "to the left" in terms of economics, i.e. unviersal health care, etc... Social liberals in the U.S. often refer to Canada as an example can having a bigger well-fare state does not neccesarily inhibit economic growth. Talking about an Anglo-Saxon economy is too much of an over-simplification IMHO - which is why, I assume, I do not hear the term much in the U.S. Anyways, you do great work and I appreciate your continous efforts on the household income template! Regards, Signaturebrendel 02:33, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
No Anglo-Saxon country completely fits their Anglo-Saxon stereotype. The Anglo-Saxon policies they discuss don't normally include the US health care system, which is generally understood to be the most expensive and least effective in the OECD [1]. Europeans are more interested in America's strengths. Often the Anglo-Saxon policies that they are interested in relate to free-market competition and labor laws. In terms of free-trade they normally use Australia and New Zealand as examples of advanced free-trading countries because America is more protectionist (less economically liberal). Badenoch 06:58, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
- I know about our health care sytem's abysmal preformance - something many liberals here point to as proof that the free market has limits. Nonetheless, my problem with the term as you have pointed out is that it is is a "stereotype" which leads to me to question how many European economists actually use the term in their dicussions and publications - in the U.S. it is rarely used. From you are telling me the term is used by continental Europeans (economists?) to cherry-pick economic policies of the rather heterogenous English-speaking countries they beleive ought to be part of economic reforms. You have given something to think about, though... I will think about deletion vote once more. Regards, Signaturebrendel 10:06, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Income news item
I thought the following income article may be of interest to you.[2] Regards Badenoch (talk) 06:34, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WP:USA Award
I have updated the award on the WP:USA talk page if you want to take a look and see how its turned out and feel free to tell me when you wan it put on the project permanantly, cheers (♠Taifarious1♠) 01:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] MORI poll entries on UK newspapers
Hi, I notice you've added this info. to a number of UK newspapers with a number of errors. I've corrected the entry for The Times as an example - [3]. Please can you correct, and for balance, I'd recommend including the 3 main parties in each case. Thanks -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 18:13, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, I thought I had included all three parties in each entry. As for the mistakes, tyicall INTJ, big picture oriented w/o much regard for details. Signaturebrendel 05:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RE:SF Left-Wing
Happy New Year to you too! I know you are not a wildly left-wing socialist/communist person. Don't get me wrong you are obviously liberal politically just as I am obviously conservative in most ways. You are a very nice, reasonable, and intelligent person and have given me a new found respect for liberals every where. I always respect and consider your opinions, and as you know, you've even taught me a thing or two about several things in the past. My recent edits have nothing to do with you.
You as an individual do not represent ALL of San Francisco's political views however. Left-wing as I use it in the "San Francisco values" article is not supposed to be used in a negative way, I just think the page in which it links to better describes San Francisco's political views than simply "liberal" or "progressive"; I think it's a broader term. Just reading the left-wing article from top to bottom I think describes San Francisco's political views very well. Read the article and tell me if you agree. Needless to say, it is common knowledge that San Francisco is also quite possibly the most liberal area of the United States. In addition to all this, the word "right-wing" is used numerous times in numerous articles in Wikipedia. I as a conservative think it is being used in a pejorative way but I also think it is the best word to use.--Lucky Mitch (talk) 21:26, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Why would San Francisco be so "left-wing"? Maybe because it doesn't have much of a "classical" but creditable Hard Right. With its ethnic and religious diversity it would be a miserable place for a white racist or a religious bigot of any kind. A strong LGBT community would likely drive off homophobes. San Francisco has -- urban as it is -- no landed aristocracy and no romanticization of one that no longer exists (contrast the American South). Educational standards are high, so blatant superstition is rare. For its size, San Francisco has plenty of cultural opportunities.
But it's also a good place for fostering optimism. One is never far from a nice view -- contrast some place so bland in view as Dallas, Houston, or Indianapolis, where nobody can have a good view of anything. The climate is chilly but surprisingly sunny; the famous fog usually is a night-time phenomenon. It's just moist enough for beautiful foliage. Sure, there's rain; when it rains, it pours. The rain comes swiftly and disappears fast, unlike in Seattle. Snow? Heat waves? Both are common in Chicago in the expected seasons, but not in San Francisco.
The chilly climate is just cool enough to preclude the tacky display of flesh that one expects in... Florida. It's just too cold for tank tops or hot pants on women -- or short-sleeve shirts. It's a difficult place in which to get a suntan with early wrinkles. It's warm enough even in the winter that one need not wear one of the fashion disasters known as the overcoat. A suit and tie won't overheat one, and it is adequate. So it is with a sweater and jeans. Add to this, the mountainous terrain requires people to get fit and stay fit. Every walk is a hike... and think what that does to human physiques. I've been other places, and I see fewer obese people in San Francisco than anywhere else, even if the restaurants are great. It's also among the least car-friendly places in America.
People seem to look better in San Francisco, on the whole, than almost anywhere else for the same age, ethnicity, gender, or even social class.
All of that, I think, fosters optimism. Even if one is a conservative, one tends to lose one's grouchiness so that one's conservatism is restricted to supporting classical standards in culture and competition in economics.
"San Francisco values"? It's really a slap at a city for having so many LGBT people and so few fundamentalist Christians. That people like Reverend Pat Robertson depict it as a sort of Sodom and Gomorrah which God might strike at any time with "The Big One" should recognize that a place where people must get along with people who don't look like them, don't pray like them, have wildly dissimilar names, or have different economic backgrounds look the other way about something like homosexuality. San Francisco has been a place of diversity from the time that the 'Forty-Niners' got there -- and I'm not discussing the football team. --Paul from Michigan (talk) 03:11, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] US culture/society
Replied on my talk page. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Balham station
Thanks for the protection. Could i ask for the page to be reverted to the disambiguation page until this merge is sorted?
Secondly, your rfa promotion picture is blocking out the toc on your userpage. Simply south (talk) 11:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Attachement Europe.png
Do you have a source for Image:Attachement Europe.png? - S Solberg J 22:48, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, the 2005 Eurobarometer survey as found on the Pan European Identity article. Regards, Signaturebrendel 00:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image:DSC07505.JPG listed for deletion
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[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:User Monterey County
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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Median household income
Hi Brendel,
A problem has arisen with Figure 2 in median household income. Kelvinc wants it deleted as OR [4]. As you are the original creator of the graph I thought you may be interested.
Kelvinc is a self described cultural absolutist, a Chinese Candian into Anglo-spherism and Sino-spherism. He also has a history of trouble making[5]. His first ojection was to brain drain where he was concerned with Europhobes, having made no progress with that he moved to New Zealand dream, and then median household income in Australia and New Zealand. Yesterday he raised objections to median household income.
Thus far he has no other support from anyone.
I don't know the best way to deal with him. Should I ignore him or give into his wishes. If I give in to his wishes, he may be happy, but then again he may want delete other things, such as Template:International median household income, which is used in many places on the wikipedia.
As you have more experience than me, I was hoping that you may might be able to offer advice.Badenoch (talk) 00:20, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation
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[edit] Int. Median Household Income
Hey Brendel, I found this excellent source of information known as the Luxembourg Income Survey which happens to collect data on equivalent median household income on all countries. Yes, they have many countries we can use. All you have to do is post the data on the "intenational comparisons" section of US household income article. Speaking of which, the PPP rates you use are outdated. According to the latest World Bank/OECD/IMF report (as of this year they will standardize PPP indices), the PPP rate for the UK is .65 and not .618.
Here is the link for you to work on household income:
http://www.lisproject.org/keyfigures/full_kf.xls
The info. is on where it says median equivalised income. In reality it means household income which is equivalised.
Here is more info:
http://www.lisproject.org/keyfigures/methods.htm
The LIS is a very well known org., which the Census has worked with.
By the way, this Swiss M.H.Income data should not be there, because it does not include renters, which obviously pushes the median much higher, because renters tend to be much lower on the income scale.
If you can email me with a response, that would be great: fonseca33@aol.com
Many Thanks,
Forest.
[edit] Nicholas Barr
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[edit] Poke
Hey, are you online right now? Khoikhoi 05:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- I guess you aren't online. I just wanted to notify you that I've change the protection level to semi on Karmapa controversy, because the user who started the conflict in the first place has been blocked as a sockpuppet of a banned user. However, it should probably stay at semi for awhile in case he/she tries to come back. Ciao. Khoikhoi 06:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of United States
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[edit] New voter registration stats
FYI The Ballot Access News updated stats (for the states that have party registration, anyway) is now online. Settler (talk) 05:16, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] New Income/Education graph
Hey BrendelSignature, I created a graph of education vs. income for personal income, which is similar to your household income graph. Since you're the arbiter of every income demographics page on wikipedia, I thought I'd show it to you. Feel free to do whatever you like with it, or ignore it too. Thanks :) --Lalala666 (talk) 03:31, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Great graph, I will incorporate in many of the articles soon. Great job! Signaturebrendel 03:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Photos
Brendel, in January of 2006, you uploaded various photos of sculptures. I hope you've stopped doing this: the copyright issues for photos of sculptures are... tricky, and we've already received one complaint. DS (talk) 18:20, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- I did not know that there were copyright issues with uploading pictures of sculptures, since the law states that one is free to take photographs of any structure so long as one is standing on public land. But I haven't uploaded any more sculputre pics since, anyways. Signaturebrendel 06:17, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fuel economy
The discussion about fuel economy is being reopened on Infobox Automobile. You had an opinion once, are you still of the same mind? Skyemoor (talk) 01:33, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Edit breaking ref's
Hi, I notice that you have made an edit to Welfare state where you added a table and some references, however the references don't look right and they made some big red warnings come up down in the "References" section. I reverted your edits temporarily, just so we can fix the referencing issue. It's no big deal, it's a minor pain that when you preview your edit, you can't see what's happening down in the section where the ref's show up, and I've broken a few myself. I'll be glad to help you get the <ref> tags to work right, and as I say, I'm not reverting your addition of content. Let me know if I can help! Franamax (talk) 06:48, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Jack Kemp
You are amontg those who has edited supply-side economics at least 20 times and at least once this year. You may want to participate at Wikipedia:Peer_review/Jack_Kemp/archive1.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:34, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Hi from Badenoch
Who do you think will be the next president? Do you have a favorite yet? Badenoch (talk) 06:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
- Well, I was in favor of either Obama or Hillary; but since the "gas tax holiday" idea supported by Clinton and rather casual dismissal of expert opinion have me rooting for Obama. Considering the mood in the country as of now, I would say that my pick has the best chances as well. Signaturebrendel 21:56, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
- PS. Once I'm not as busy, I'll revist the income article series, I saw your comment on Household income in the United States, but didn't have time to respond or edit the article yet. Regards, Signaturebrendel 21:58, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bill Moyers RfC
Hi, given your political stance, I wonder if you have a moment to give some input on an issue please. I respect your opinion so I'm asking you to shed light on the issues. There is a dispute and RfC at Bill Moyers about weight given to an issue. The RfC section is here. Hope you can make a comment. Thanks. ► RATEL ◄ 10:05, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I need to complain about the threats and inexplicable arch-hostile behaviour of user LUCPOL towards me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:81.106.128.119 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.128.119 (talk) 10:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Modern liberal American magazines
I have nominated the discussion page. Thank you. Loonymonkey (talk) 23:20, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Lincoln 1970
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