User talk:Cjs56

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Hi Katefan0,

The reason I described Mark Assini as a "Conservative" on the Randy Kuhl article was because he was the nominee of the "Conservative Party." After this was changed to Republican I added the word "independent" to point out that despite being an enrolled member of the Republican party, he was running against their endorsed candidate on a third party line. I would prefer that the page be reverted back to my terminology, but it's really not worth dithering on over semantics in this case.

-cjs56

You're right, it isn't, but this is all information that really is more properly the subject of an article about the challenger himself, if you feel like doing it. Also, you can just type four tildes in a row (~~~~) to sign your comments, it'll automatically fill out your username and a time/datestamp. Best · Katefan0(scribble) 20:41, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] NY-29

No problem, my pleasure. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DemiFL (talk • contribs) 21:03, 6 May 2007 (UTC).

By the way - what do you want to do with the 2008 thing I just put up?

[edit] Randy Kuhl

Hello! I have reverted your recent changes to the article. Just wanted you to know why. Some feel that "conservative" is a pejorative descriptor, so I changed it to Republican, which is what he is. Also, I removed "independent," because there is no such thing as an "independent Republican" -- independent is a discrete political identifier meaning aligns with no party. If you think that there is more to say about this defeated politician than is represented on Wikipedia, why don't you start an article on him? That way you could get more into his political positions and perhaps demonstrate why he is not a lock-step Republican. Welcome and hope you enjoy yourself here. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or trouble. · Katefan0(scribble) 19:56, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] user page

Check my user page, I think you'll like one of my userboxes and one of the special categories i have below, and you should add them to your user page.

[edit] Hello

Hi Chris, it is indeed me! And I'm quite addicted to wikipedia. It's nice to see a familiar face here! --Varco 00:41, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jack Davis

Your corrections are wrong, and I have reverted back to an edited, earlier version. I have also written about this on the discussion page. If you are from Buffalo, then you certainly know that the storm was not a blizzard. You have changed that twice, and you are incorrect. Further, you should read the media reports where FEMA's Regional Representative gave Reynolds the credit, and said the designation was highly unusual. Major disaster declarations are a given only with major infrastructure damage. You assertion is incorrect, however, I edited slightly. Further, your accusation that Reynolds was part of a cover-up is, as ABC News wrote, "not supported by the facts."


[edit] American Legislative Exchange Council

An anonymous user has been engaging in large-scale deletions on this article. I've reverted a couple of times, but don't want to breach 3RR. As you've edited it recently, I thought you might want to take a look.JQ 01:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Twindom

How bizarre. I thought of doing something akin to urban studies as well... -Cjs2111 20:23, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arch of the Immaculate Heart...

Cjs56, if this reaches you (I have no idea where your talk page is if not this), I see no merit at all to your article on the Arch project. Your relationship with Bruce Jackson, please? I assumed you were he, but maybe you are just pals--?

You are a fetus, grown larger, do you know that? It is Latin, it means, "young one." How did you put it, the fetuses terminated by abortion? Now, that is the MEANING of tendentious! How about straight talk, that your parents would have understood before PC arrived: Unborn children killed by abortion. It is not a clinical, detached experience, to be aborted, so why use sanitized euphemisms to refer to it?

The contributions you want to preserve are mostly just snipers, having a good sarcastic run at this beautiful project. Not worth the pixels they are printed on.

I cannot see any chance of agreeing on an edit of your article, since clearly you are not at all favorable to this enterprise. I think articles should be written by LOVERS of the subjects, don't you?

I hope you will agree, and let it be.

GabrielUrsa


[edit] Roycroft

Your discussion of the Roycroft movement in the American craft article is a very helpful addition. The section on early pioneers certainly could use more development, and I think your piece on Roycroft is a great start. Klmarcus 01:30, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sandhurst

I have added some comments, I hope that helps. I see you've gotten some flack over protecting the encyclopedic nature of the article on the Arch of Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary yada yada. Heh heh heh. Cornell Rockey

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[edit] my user page

Thanks for gettin' my back, yo. Cornell Rockey 23:30, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] check out my newest nerdyness

2nd Rhode Island Infantry Pretty fucking sweet, eh ? God I'm a nerd. Cornell Rockey 23:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not a huge civil war person, true, but Sullivan Ballou's letter that is read in Ken Burn's miniseries always stuck in my mind. While tweaking his article and checking the sources I noticed that he was in the same unit as Elisha Hunt Rhodes, another primary source for the Civil War miniseries, and figured that unit needed an article because two of its soldiers were the authors of primary sources that many people have heard excerpts from. Too bad sullivan ballou went to that safety school in Providence.
As for the straphanger article, yea, it needs work, but I'm just not sure what it needs. Cornell Rockey 13:38, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matt Urban

Nice work finding a Polish-Cornellian-war-hero! Cornell Rockey 21:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License IFDs

There are two questions that need to be kept separate - (1) can the image be used freely, meaning, without significant copyright restrictions and (2) if it cannot be used freely, can we use it under a claim of fair use.

In looking at the first question, works of the United States national government are public domain. Works of state governments are subject to whatever laws the state has. Some states may, for example, specifically exclude their flags, seals, etc, from copyright. Also, if the flag or seal was created before 1923, it is public domain anyway. In the case of an official document that contains the seal, but the document is otherwise public domain, I would say that is ok to use. It's the same thing if you take a photo of 20 of your friends and one of them happens to be wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt. Commons:Commons:Derivative works puts it best - what is your intention - are you using the photo to try and get around Mickey's copyright or are you really wanting to show a picture of your friends? In the case of the former, no, but in the case of the latter, it's fine to use. The same would be true of the document. If the document was a court ruling and you are using it in an article about that court ruling (assuming that court rulings are public domain), that's fine.

As for the question of whether or not it can be used under a claim of fair use, it is perfectly 100% a-ok to use a non-free image in its proper context. The problem is the GALLERY of non-free images. We can use copyrighted seals, flags, cd covers, movie screenshots, etc. We just can't have galleries of them.

As for discussions, there is one right now on the talk page of WP:FAIR and there are a number of them in the archives of that talk page. There's also a long ongoing discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Removal of images from lists of episodes, though it's focused on the manner of enforcing the policy, there's no real question on what the policy is. The most important thing to see, which trumps anything else is the foundation's resolution on images. I hope this long-winded reply helps. --BigDT 16:27, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] zombie outbreaks

Thanks man! Cornell Rockey 19:25, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Politics

Hi Cjs56. I believe you and I approach U.S. politics from a very similar perspective, given some of your edits that I have seen lately. That said, edits like this one really really really need a damn good source attached. Not only does it not comport with the verifiability policy, but it has potential BLP problems as well. On top of that, we have to be careful to adhere to NPOV. Statements like "who has never served his country", while something you or I might say in casual conversation with likeminded friends, cannot possibly adhere to NPOV on Wikipedia. Please do your best to keep these considerations in mind when editing political articles. I don't mean to discourage you from contributing to these articles, quite the opposite, please keep up your good work. Cheers. · jersyko talk 03:15, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Ivy League

You should put your vote here > Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Ivy League. Cheers. Cornell Rockey 20:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

Hello. Regarding your comment, I have started doing that. I understand that it is sooooo much easier to leave a comment, then to have too look for what that edit was.

Thank you for your suggestion,

Politics rule 22:11, 14 June 2007 (UTC)=)

[edit] Naming

My original research, done when I didn't know any better, has been incorporated in name. Thanks for the heads up. Fred Bauder 04:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: ALEC

On an anon user Talk page, you asked:

Have you ever seen any of the "model legislation" that ALEC churns out? I spent some time arguing against an "eco-terrorism" bill which defined "eco-terrorism" so broadly that serving on a town planning and zoning board would make one an "eco-terrorist"-- with ridiculously steep penalties to boot. Am I biased on this issue? Yes I am, because, unlike ALEC, I give a rat's ass about freedom. They're entitled to call themselves "Jeffersonian" (unless one of their model bills eliminating the First Amendment passes) but that does not make them Jeffersonians. --Cjs56 09:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I've read rather a lot of it. And while I don't agree with all of their choices (and sometimes think that they are making political compromises), for the most part their model legislation lives up to their stated Jeffersonian goals. Based on both the written evidence and on conversations with people I know to be members, I believe that they care passionately about freedom and individual responsibility.
One thing worth remembering is that the organization does not draft its model legislation in a vacumn. It is usually drafted in response to what they perceive are even worse bills or proposals - bills that would inject the government even more deeply into private affairs. Do they overshoot the mark sometimes in their zeal to fix a perceived problem? Certainly. Do they sometimes undershoot the ideal when they think that's the only way to get a bill through? Of course. Those are occupational hazards for political advocacy groups of all political philosophies.
At least here it's only a model for prospective law. Our respective legislatures can and should still fix sections that are poorly worded if/when they choose to take up the bill. And unlike most other policy-making processes, private citizens like you and I have the opportunity to see the model bill and to prepare our objections and comments ahead of time. I'd much rather have a fighting chance against a bill I don't like than to try to get a bad law overturned after the fact. ALEC's approach may not be perfect but it's a lot better than most of the alternatives.
By the way, yes I am the same editor - just working from a different machine today. I've tried to elaborate on my specific edits to the article on the Talk page. I don't consider myself particularly pro- or anti-ALEC but do think that we need to be precise and fact-based in our description of the organization. Thanks. 12.168.68.11 16:56, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gibellina pictures

The pictures were missing (at least I couldn't see them) so I followed the link to the Commons where I saw that all pictures were protected by copyright and not in the public domain. Zello 02:43, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sage Chapel

When you get a chance, please check User:Cornellrockey/sandbox out and see if I have made any errors before I deploy it? Thanks cOrneLlrOckEy 15:52, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greg Ball

Hello.

Fine edits to the Greg Ball article.

A few comments/notes:

  • Courage cup controversy to Courage Cup Controversy—I think we're both incorrect. Subheadings should be lowercase after the first word, with exceptions for proper nouns, so I suppose it should go to Courage Cup controversy?
  • Ranking member vs ranking minority member. I am not sure why you pipelinked it... isn't the Ranking member always in the minority?
  • I agree that sentence on Pataki should go, the 99th was Patrick Manning's seat. It was left over from when I transposed the old article which was extremely unbalanced.
  • As for the sentence about 10,000 doors, I think it is notable because it was mentioned by the Times, also, the phrase "Ran hard" alludes to the controversial race on both sides without violating NPOV.
  • I tried to make the Courage Cup section as NPOV as possible. In the previous article it was suffering from WP:UNDUE and NPOV concerns, which is why I went for the rewrite. I think the sentence you added is fair. It's a difficult phraseology here without defaming one side or the other, but I think it gives a good description as of now.
  • The term "national prominence" I got from the Journal News, dtd 2/14/2008, "Greg Ball joins national lawmakers against alien ‘invasion’" by Leah Rae. There are also numerous national political blogs concerning the 19th CD, e.g. Congressional Quarterly, Cook Political Report, Roll Call, and Rothenberg, which have mentioned Ball and his stances on immigration. We also have the sentence "The issue of where to house detainees is one that Assemblyman Greg Ball, a Republican from Carmel, wants to address. He will conduct a symposium about 287 (g) in April, inviting law enforcement officers from counties in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania." from today's New York Times, which would at least convey regional prominence, if there is such a thing. I reverted the sentence but left out the term "national", what are your thoughts on that?

MrPrada (talk) 05:46, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] re:

Thank you. I've placed the article up as Good Article nominee. The article is also undergoing a peer review at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Gregory R. Ball, I would appreciate any and all contributions you may have there. Thanks again. MrPrada (talk) 06:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Twilight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Just a friendly note on Twilight (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). I see you removed the notability tag on this article, with a reason of "major character in a comic book". However, the article still doesn't meet the notability requirements of WP:FICTION, specifically the part that says "fictional concepts can be presumed notable if they have received significant real-world coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Since this hasn't been met, I've re-applied the tag. However, I'd be thrilled if you cared to find and add independent, reliable sources that show notability. Thanks! --Fabrictramp (talk) 20:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

You have a couple of valid points.

My initial placement of comments as regards uniforms was not well chosen. I think that I am accurate, but placement in a seperate paragraph was a better choice.

As regards sourse, I will have to stand on the fact that I am the sourse. As earlier stated, I am a senior officer in the NYG, have access to senior, mid-level and junior NCOs as well as the full spectrum of the officer corps, enlisted personnel, etc. As a former, carreer army officer, the think that this provides my bona fides.

Thank you for your comments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.84.98.124 (talk) 10:50, 30 April 2008 (UTC)