User talk:Dinopup

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Greetings! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you have questions or doubts of any sort, do not hesitate to post them on the Village Pump, somebody will respond ASAP. Other helpful pages include:

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Have fun! --Jiang 03:20 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

As an NJIT student, I thought your article on Newark, New Jersey was pretty spiffy, and much needed. The raw demographics in the article before were just not doing it for me, now there's a real article. Thanks for writing it! If you ever open an account at Wikipedia:WikiMoney, let me know and I'll give you 2 or 3 ψ (Wikis). :-) --cprompt 08:55, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Newark citations

I have to agree with your last comment; the citations do look a little bad in the actual body of the text. Perhaps you could use some form of footnote style, or otherwise just list the pages that you're citing at the bottom of the article. From my experience on Wikipedia, I've found that most articles -- even in the coveted "featured" category -- tend to just list the books/websites that they gleaned information from, rather than using a more academic citation style. Darkcore 01:51, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC

That doesn't mean its the best way. Few articles on Wikipedia are cited properly. Being slightly better than bad isn't good :) - Taxman 22:34, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

To answer your last question: I don't live in Newark, but I'm pretty close -- I'm in Jersey City. (I like contributing to NJ-related articles.) Darkcore 01:51, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Newark

I wanted to add that I think you've done a great job with the Newark and Newark-related articles. Darkcore 23:47, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image Copyright Tags

Hello! I've come across Image:Riots.jpg which you've uploaded with no copyright tag. If you get a second please tag the image with the correct tag, or let me know on my talk page where you got that image and I will tag it for you! Currently I have tagged it as {{unverified}}. Thanks. --MaxPower 20:10, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC)

[edit] Image:KibbutzDan.JPG

Thanks for getting that image. However, there is a slight problem with it. If it came from here, we cannot use it as the terms of service say "User may not copy, distribute, transmit or communicate to the public protected material, or prepare derivative works from it, without receiving prior written consent from the Office or from the owner of the copyright in the protected material, if said owner is not the State of Israel. ?". Can you shed some light on this? Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 22:33, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

• Basically, and IANAL, unless the copyright explicity says we can use it under a free licence it is non-free, which I suspect those images falls under. Sorry, but copyright law generally sucks. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 01:21, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks. If you could mark which images are foreign affairs on WP:PUI, then I will delay them until I hear from you. Cheers. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 22:48, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dahl book

How Democratic was a very interesting book. Based on the title, I thought it was going to be a trashy radical constitution-bashing piece, but it was actually quite thoughtful, if provacative. Dahl has a rather narrow definition of democracy and injects a bit of his personal politics into his discussion, but he does raise some interesting issues. I think I was already supportive of electing the President by straight popular vote before reading this, and somewhat dissatisfied with non-proportional, non-IRV electoral system. A interest-based rather than geography-based allocation scheme for the House of Representatives would be interesting, though I wonder what would be lost in the change. Maybe not much, considering people can run local-interest candidates if they want.

Working on this issue has been quite educational, especially with regard to how parliamentary systems work, and what electoral arrangements other countries make - two subjects which seem to be largely missing from the typical American civics class.

With regard to the Senate, Dahl makes a strong point when he asks why we are trying to protect the rights of states - artificial entities - when the only thing that really matters are the rights of people. He said there wasn't any interest of the people of small states that needed protecting, but I can see at least one - a sort of right to association and self-rule. The constituency that Washington serves is much different than that which say, Montpelier, Vermont serves. I can see why the people of Vermont might want to be able to have things in their own state a certain way, without interference from the federal government, because they feel differently about things than does the nation as a whole. This is especially relevant right now, considering that the Presidency and both houses of Congress are controlled by the same political party. Of course, the states have a lot of federalism protections that accomplish this; being able to hold up legislation in the Senate is an additional tool. It's certainly plausible that this arrangement does more harm than good, but it might be better to look at how things work in practice, rather than rigidly applying, "one person, one vote" as Dahl does. There are many reasons the federal budget process is messed up; perhaps Senate representation is one of them, though it seems that the House is worse about putting pork in the budget. It's an interesting theoretical question, though as Dahl points out, it has about zero chance of being changed, at least in the foreseeable future.

As it happens, I discovered in the course of all this that the European Union is creating a similarly "unequal" system (see Treaty of Nice). And of course the UN General Assembly already has one. -- Beland 13:39, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rename? & WP:WNBI

Hi Dinopup, what do you think about what I think at Talk:Arab League boycott? BTW, consider youself invited to WP:WNBI and WP:Israel. Spread the word. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 09:32, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Quotations

It would be my opinion that quotations generally do not belong in articles. The author of the article should be able to explain clearly in his or her own words. I feel that quotations are more appropriate for Wikiquote. -- Emsworth 8 July 2005 12:45 (UTC)

Upon reconsidering these particular quotations, I would have to admit that you are correct. I have added back the Wilson quotations. As far as the Senate article is concerned, I have glanced at the history and note that (as far as I am aware) I did not actually remove any quotations by any other editors. -- Emsworth 12:55, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User categorization

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/New Jersey page as living in or being associated with New Jersey. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in New Jersey for instructions. Al 15:34, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image source/licensing for Image:Bridge-summer.jpg

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[edit] Image:Bridge-summer.jpg has been listed as a possibly unfree image

--Sherool (talk) 19:40, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Newark

Hi there. Sorry to inform, but Newark is an FA removal candidate at the moment. Check: WP:FARC Someone there pointed out that there is actually no record of it having gone to a feature vote in the first place. You tagged it Featured, quite a while ago now, and the tag was subsequently formatted by Maveric149: [1]. The FA logs show no record of it going to a vote in March, Feb or Jan of 2004. Perhaps the rules were different then or you were unfamiliar with them but it seems to me this was made an FA out of process and as such should probably be speedily de-featured. Marskell 13:53, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

My apologies. I was informed by User:Raul654 that once upon a time any one could add feature tags which were confirmed later. Marskell 10:08, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Here's a suggestion for you. Why not remove the Newark feature tag for the time being and then actually send it to WP:FAC, the candidate page? This page gets a lot more traffic than the removal page and after a week you'll have a much stronger article. It would be somewhat unusual to move a page from FARC to FAC but given that it's an old feature and never had the full vote there is some sense to it. You can check with User:Raul654 that this would be in order; I started a thread on his page regarding this page. Sorry again for suggesting you had done something wrong. I notice it was listed as feature as early as Dec 2003. Marskell 07:46, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Wingedbull.jpg has been listed for deletion

DreamGuy 07:57, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I see you left a message on my User page (and not my Talk page, where messages should go) claiming that you got permission from the University of Chicago to use this image and that it should be removed from the list to be deleted. Unfortunately, while you did get permission, the license that the univeristy insists we use in order to have that permission is incompatible with the legal conditions we need in order to keep the image here. Please read the info on the page for the image itself or on the deletion page. DreamGuy 04:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] [Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sturmgrenadier]

hi, there is an organized campaign to save the above self-promotional vanity games-club page from deletion.... i'm wondering if you'd be willing to take a look and voice your opinion? normally i wouldnt care but (a) i hate organized campaigns from groups of users (especially when they have vested interests but dont declare them) and (b) when challenged about it, they suggested i try it myself! so here i am.... cheers! Zzzzz 20:43, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Riots.jpg

hello, may you please update the copyright tag for the following image: Image:Riots.jpg. Thankyou --ZeWrestler ^Talk 00:51, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:006 1.jpeg

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[edit] Tom DeLay citations

I'm trying to find citations for some things in the Tom DeLay article. Based on this diff, it looks like you added the statement "In the 104th Congress, which met from 1995 to 1997, DeLay successfully whipped 300 out of 303 bills." Do you by chance have a source for that number? Was it in The Hammer, by chance? Thanks. NatusRoma | Talk 04:09, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:P7220069.JPG listed for deletion

[edit] Image:Telaviv founding 1909.jpg

Hi. Could you please tell me where you found the above photo? /Lokal Profil 13:46, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks /Lokal Profil 21:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] History of the United States Constitution

I noticed an unsourced statement in this article, and after checking the history, traced it back to you. It was placed in this edit, and still lacks a source. Since it is a contrary statement which hasn't had a reference for over a year, I've moved it to the article's talk page. If you can find a source for this statement, then please reinsert the statement along with the reference. -- VGF11 01:02, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Image:Shavuotcelebration.jpg

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