User talk:HiFiGuy

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-HiFiGuy 20:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Recede vs cede

  • re:Treaty of Shimonoseki - the correct term was definitely receded - not ceded... in context, as the result of the triple intervention. The treaty with Japan ceded the Liaodong to Japan. I've fixed it. 24.61.229.179 14:19, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] VfD Nominations, voting, etc

Please remember to sign your name after you nominate an article for deletion or vote! :)

(from my talk page welcoming me as a new user: Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.) Jawz 06:39, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Look (policy)

You're welcome. Glad you approve. It hit me on Feb. 3 that I might be able to recast a 30-year-old paper into an article. Then I found that you had split off the New Look (policy) entry into a stub article only a couple of days before. I wanted to do the article in a single sitting, but it wasn't feasible. I've also been trying to update my earlier work with new information, which has led to some errors in aligning dates. I plan to keep fine-tuning it. I've decided that the New Look was real, but that Massive Retaliation was mostly dangerous blather. Also, Ike was a lot more hands-on that he generally gets credit for. -- Cuppysfriend 24:18, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canola

I've replied on the cottonseed oil page to your comment re GM canola. In short - the assertion wasn't (to my reading, at least) that Canola was invented by genetic engineering, but that it is now widely subject to GM - a fact that's not really contestable. Waitak 15:02, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I was also wondering if there could be a citation as to "who says it's one of the big four GM crops?" -HiFiGuy 17:18, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Found a reference for you. Take a look at cottonseed oil now and see what you think. Waitak 11:32, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Academic fencing

I saw on the talk page of Academic fencing that you were interested in completing and/or improving that article. Apparently User:Kresspahl did not dare to do so. I have just started. It would be nice if someone who is interested in that exotic subject would polish up my English (it is not my native language) and check if this can be understood by someone who was not born in Central Europe. Best regards, --Rabe! 20:18, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Founders College

I'm sorry if you were disappointed that the article was deleted. However, let me explain the procedure. A user called Angusmclellan had placed a notice on it saying "(prod: crystall ballism, even the site of the college is not decided)". When such a notice is placed and remains there for five days, administrators have a duty to decide whether the article should be deleted. I looked at the article and decided, on the evidence in front of me, that it seemed worthy of deletion. I was influenced by the fact that in the six days since the notice had been placed, there had been no edits attempting to address the deficiencies in the article (indeed, no edits at all other than an automatic one by a robot editor). If you feel that you can now write an article worthy of retention on Wikipedia, please do so. If you want me to extract the text of the article and send it to you as a basis for this, I am happy to do so.--Runcorn 13:23, 17 February 2007 (UTC)