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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Ericl, 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! TMS63112 22:46, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Vice Presidents Dawes, Coolidge and Humphrey

Please read this policy regarding verifiability on Wikipedia. I'm going to quote the policy in a nutshell: "Information on Wikipedia must be reliable and verifiable. Facts, viewpoints, theories, and arguments may only be included in articles if they have already been published by reliable sources. Articles should cite these sources whenever possible. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed." I have underlined the last part since it is what pertains to this issue. Your research is not unappreciated, but it is simply your word and has no evidence to back it up. Please add citations per the page I linked to you (this guideline) and your additions are more than welcomed.

Also, be sure they have an appropriate tone for an encyclopedia. I have used the following paragraph that you had added to Calvin Coolidge as an example:

"In 1920 Governor Coolidge ran for president as a favorite son. When Sen.Warren G. Harding got the nomination he asked the delegates to nominate someone else for the second spot, but then something strange happened: The delegates rebelled! Coolidge was nominated after some heated arguments on the floor and he decided to accept."

The first sentence is a claim; there needs to be some sort of reference which says he was a favorite son. The second and third sentences, which describe "something strange" as happening, are not of an appropriate encyclopedic tone, which must remain neutral and even throughout the article.

That is just one example. Please understand that citations are extremely important if Wikipedia is to be a verifiable source of information. As I said earlier, your contributions are welcome, but please realize that truth doesn't matter at Wikipedia; verifiability does. Thanks. --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Walter Scheel

Please do not add false information to Wikipedia. Walter Scheel never was Chancellor of Germany, not even for a single day. He was Vice-Chancellor and as such Willy Brandt's deputy. Usually a Chancellor remains in office beyond his term until a new Chancellor is elected. Because of Brandt's condition Scheel, as VC, acted in his stead. But still he was not Chancellor. Another point: Helmut Schmidt never was leader of his party. Str1977 (smile back) 17:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your comment on my talk page

Ericl: Sorry, but regarding your comment here: [1] I'm not sure what you are talking about. Please provide a link to the diff or article, and I will reply to the content of your comment. WVhybrid 01:08, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

If you are talking about United States presidential election, 2000, my last edit was on that article was more than a month ago. [2], and as you can see, I didn't delete anything. If you are talking about another article, I don't have a clue about what you are talking about. Sorry. WVhybrid 01:16, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Acting Vice President"

Hi. I saw in a couple of your edits, you stated that a given person who was President pro tempore of the Senate at a time when the Vice Presidency was vacant (e.g., David Rice Atchison, Benjamin Wade) was serving as "Acting Vice President" and therefore was next in line to succeed to the Presidency. You are right that each of these people would have succeeded to the Presidency if something had happened to the President. You are also right that as President pro tempore, these people presided over meetings of the Senate, which would normally have been a Vice Presidential responsibility (in those days, unlike today, the Vice President actually did spend a fair amount of time showing up at the Senate and presiding).

However, I wanted to mention that the term "Acting Vice President" is not one that was ever used. Moreover, it's not the fact that the President pro tempore was acting as Vice President that placed him next in line for the Presidency, it's the fact that under the law at that time, the President pro tempore, in that capacity, was next after the Vice President in the presidential line of succession. Under later statutes, when other officials (first the Secretary of State, then the Speaker of the House) were placed next in line after the Vice President, they would come before the President pro tempore even though the President pro tempore continued to perform certain duties that a Vice President would ordinarily perform.

Since you're interested in this topic, you might want to take a look at United States presidential line of succession#History of succession law set by Congress and Presidential Succession Act if you haven't seen them before. Regards, Newyorkbrad 21:34, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Newyorkbrad, is correct. Never in the history of the US Constitution, did a position called 'Acting Vice President' ever exist. GoodDay 23:03, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] signature

Hi Eric; could you please modify your signature to link to [[User:Ericl|Ericl]] rather than [[Ericl]]? Right now it's trying to point to a redlink in articlespace, which I'm sure wasn't your intent... also, you may want to create a redirect from your userpage to your talk page, if you're not going to put anything there (or like me, you can make your signature link to both). Let me know if you have any trouble working out how to do this... -- nae'blis 16:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Eric; I was going to ask you the same thing. I got your post on my page (which I'll answer just below) and I needed to fix your sig to hop over to this page. Are you signing your name with four tildes (the tilde is the ~ character) rather than typing it manually? In any event, User:Ericl would be your userpage (when you set it up); just "Ericl" would be an article about you in the encyclopedia, which there isn't one (maybe someday :) ). Regards, Newyorkbrad 20:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Acting Vice President"

Thanks for your message about this. I appreciate the information you provided. If you have any sources or documents that use the term "Acting Vice President" in an official context before 1886, could you please let me know what they are. I've done research on related areas and have never seen it used in the U.S. Thanks, Newyorkbrad 20:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Impostors

This quirk fascinated people of the 17th century, then Schiller, Pushkin, etc. For my part, I'm not so sure that he was an impostor. There is always some chance that he was the real tsarevich. Ivan IV's wife acknowledged him as her son, for instance. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:07, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Block

My sincere apologies for blocking you by mistake. Let me know if you are still autoblocked, but it should be removed. Have a nice night. alphachimp. 06:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Block

it hasn't. please unblock me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ericl (talk • contribs)

It should be now. alphachimp. 07:14, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. Congress ending date

I saw your edit summary at the Speaker of the House of Representatives article. Please note that terms of U.S. Congresses end at 12 noon on January 3rd, as indicated in the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution. Hope this clarifies, let me know if you have any questions. Newyorkbrad 03:09, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

By the way, you are absolutely right about there being a "technical gap" in the terms of Speakers, my only point is about exactly when the gap starts. Newyorkbrad 16:24, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 25th Amendment

I saw your edit to Acting President of the United States which mentioned that the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate are constitutionally included in the line of succession of the 25th Amendment.

I reverted that change because you are incorrect. While it is true that those officers are mentioned in the 25th amendment, they are mentioned only because those are the officers to whom the President and Vice President/cabinet file written declarations about presidential disability.

The 25th Amendment does NOT specify a line of succession except for Vice President.

The text of the 25th is even included in the article and available online at Cornell Law School for your review. JasonCNJ 19:02, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2012 Democratic National Convention

I nominated 2012 Democratic National Convention for deletion. If you are trying to build a reputation for yourself as a serious contributor, creating articles of this type and tone (Nothing of importance will happen. The speeches will be for the most part forgettable, and heroes of yore, such as former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton will be trotted out to blow the delegates a kiss or two. The ratings will be very low, even for a convention with no suspense at all.) is probably not the best way to go about it. Please see WP:NOT (particularly the Crystal ball section). A lot of your other contributions look good. Savidan 20:16, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Acting Vice President

The article is facing a deletion vote. Thought you might like to know. GoodDay 23:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sassanid Empire

Please explain your addition to Western Wall: “The Sassanid Jewish "state" has always been forbidden knowledge”. I am confused! Chesdovi 13:07, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Carl Albert

Hello Ericl. I've put back Presidential Succession Act in this article. The 25th Amendment only mentions the Vice President as the offical to succeed to the Presidency or the Presidential powers & duties (Acting President), no other officials are mentioned. GoodDay 18:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citing sources

My point in adding the {{fact}} marker to United States presidential election, 2008 timeline wasn't that it's controversial now. It's that adding the references as you add the material is much easier now than it is down the road after all of the news links dry up. Please cite sources in the article rather than only in the comment in the change history. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to do it. Thanks! -- RobLa 05:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

And a request from me on the same subject: thanks for adding the numbers on United States presidential election, 2008 timeline; would you please also add references to where those come from? Thanks. Peterbr 15:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Codey

To clarify, every time the governor leaves the state or is unable to perform his duties, Richard Codey has been Acting Governor. While I'm sure that you could get an exact count, this has happened likely dozens of times since Codey became Senate President, so this is NOT the Codey's third stint as Acting Governor. On the List of Governors of New Jersey, Acting Governors are listed only if they are serving due to a vacancy, not due to the temporary incapacitation of a sitting governor, as in the current case. Alansohn 18:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hello eric

sofi abu taleb wasn't a president, it was a transitional period after the assassination of Sadat because he was the head of the parliament, and this is what happens at the emergency situations according to the constitution, he wasn't chosen by the people and he wasn't able to do what the president can do.

u know ? it happened again when the current president went for a surgery in Germany and he delegated the prime-minister some authority, but he couldn't assigns a minister or makes a war decision and so on, i live in egypt and i'm sure he wasn't a PRESIDENT and thanx for ur co-op

Realman208

[edit] George Washington

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to George Washington. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. John Jay was Chief Justice. —Adavidb 21:08, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please use edit summaries

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. The Mathbot tool shows your usage of edit summaries to be extremely low:

Edit summary usage for Ericl: 17% for major edits and 7% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 00:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of Slumdance Film Festival

A tag has been placed on Slumdance Film Festival questioning whether the article meets Wikipedia content criteria. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real organization, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Russ (talk) 14:04, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] David Paterson "Ascension to governer"

Please see WP:CRYSTAL. Yes, all US news outlets are talking about Paterson's likely ascension to governor in the coming hours or days, but it hasn't happened yet, and since Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, Wikipedia can't say that it has happened. I believe the article already says that he is likely to become governor, so I think that is all that is needed. Thanks, and happy wiki-ing! --Jaysweet (talk) 14:47, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, if you want to create a Sandbox page that has a version of the article where you can "get ready for the big switch," I can help you do that. Please do not edit the actual article to say he is governor, though. --Jaysweet (talk) 14:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Your reorg of the sections was not complete. "Stem cell research" under "Governor of NY" is wrong. Why make the page worse just when so many people are reading it? Make your edits correct and complete, it is a live page. Maybe wait a little while. Thanks, it is a team effort. Colfer2 (talk) 14:51, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Okay, first of all, please do not put messages for me on my user page -- those messages belong on my user talk page. This is a common confusion with new users, so don't worry too much about it. But anyway, I moved your comment to my user talk page.

Secondly, we have to be very careful here. Every US news outlet is reporting that Spitzer's aides have said that he will resign at 11:30AM EST. If you want to put that in the article, that is fine. But it hasn't happened yet, and until it does, Paterson is not governor. The aides could be lying. Spitzer could change his mind. Neither of these things are likely, but again, WP:CRYSTAL is very clear about this.

And even if we take for granted that the aides are correct and that Spitzer will resign at 11:30, Paterson does not become governor until that time, and his Wikipedia article should reflect that.

I hope this makes sense to you. As I said, if you want to start working on a version of the Paterson article that names him as governor, you can do that in Sandbox space (e.g. create a page called User:Ericl/David Paterson that you can edit yourself) and then, when Spitzer announces his resignation, you can copy that page into the actual article.

Until then, do not continue to say that Paterson is governor, because he's not. Not yet. Thanks! --Jaysweet (talk) 15:01, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

And David Paterson will probably become governor effective Monday. Hold your horses! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Colfer2 (talk • contribs) 15:26, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Source for revotes?

Hey, Ericl, do you have a source for the revote thing you just added to United States presidential election, 2008? I see lots of articles talking about all the hand-wringing about the possibility of revotes, but I haven't seen any breaking news saying they are actually likely to be held on such-and-such a date. I was wondering what you source was for that?

(Incidentally, I am not Wikistalking you, I just happen to have both David Paterson and United States presidential election, 2008 on my Watchlist. I promise! :) ) --Jaysweet (talk) 16:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I found a ref for "june 3", and will add it to the articles: http://www.newsweek.com/id/107872 - Colfer2 (talk) 16:24, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Okay, so as not to clutter up Ericl's talk page, I am moving the discussion to Talk:United States presidential election, 2008.  :) Thanks Ericl and Colfer2! --Jaysweet (talk) 16:27, 14 March 2008 (UTC)