User talk:Mark K. Jensen

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[edit] Henry James

Thank you for giving Wikipedia an adult reading here. You'll be a very welcome addition. --Wetman 02:52, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind welcome. Mark K. Jensen 09:08, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Carib

Hello Mark! Your changes vastly improved the Carib text and I have gone in and continued where you left off. I hope you agree with my changes. I`ve a feeling more could be found on the pre-Colombian geopolitical stuff but I`ll stop there for today. Mona-Lynn 22:13, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi again. I agree that it's too bad the new facts on Caribs weren't referenced. I don't have any particular knowledge of this culture, just general Latin America knowledge, so can't shed any light on its veracity, but it didn't seem too biased "et rien ne clochait". I generally stick with editing on Wikipedia for which there seems to be a great need, and reserve it for sleepless nights. Mona-Lynn 11:06, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Freemasonry

Mark, I just wanted to let you know I liked your latest edit. The "in that period" puts it at the proper historical remove, IMO. --SarekOfVulcan 02:38, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Mark K. Jensen 06:31, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Third Republic's Presidents...

I have re-written a part of Thiers and added a section to MacMahon, please take a look and tell me want you think (reply on this page), thanks --130.161.31.80 11:20, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi -- Almost everything in the Thiers piece is from the 11th ed. of the Ency. Brit. article -- of historical interest, but IMHO not appropriate for Wikipedia. I have no special knowledge of Thiers myself, I'm afraid. Thanks for your interest! Mark K. Jensen 06:48, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

I took information from the Marxists.org#Encyclopedia_of_Marxism and worked it in the article (both articles). I don't know anything about Thiers and MacMahon too but I couldn't leave those two articles without clearly showing the roles these men played during the end of the Empire and the Paris Commune. --145.94.41.95 15:47, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies

I guess we just have a different idea of what is readable. Take a look at the following sample. Seems like far, far, far too much information (page numbers?!) and an absence of context or meaning. "Epigraphs from Ludwig Boltzman, Leslie White, and Isaac Asimov (9). Energy and earth; conservation and entropy (10-11). Systems, isolated and closed (11-12). Fuels (12). Earth as closed system (12). Solar energy: 1,372 watts per sq. meter (12-13). Producers (autotrophs) and consumers (heterotrophs), depending on source of energy (13). Herbivores; primary, secondary, and tertiary carnivores; photosynthesis; aerobic respiration; anaerobic respiration (13-14). Ecology: study of food cycles or webs, and energy flows (14-15). Liebig’s Law on population limits (15). " To me, this is an index not a synopsis. Regards --Lee Hunter 12:24, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Great job on The World Is Flat

I just bought this book, and you added a ton of information to the article, great job! Keep up the good work. MicahMN | Talk 00:35, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago Blackhawks page

You've been around the block a while, so kindly refrain from further vandalism in the hockey pages. RGTraynor 12:19, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

My apologies; Virgil Johnson certainly was a real player, as I can see. Nevertheless it's quite inappropriate for the Blackhawks' page. The "Hall of Famers" list you see is for the Hockey Hall of Fame, not for any local or regional halls, and there are no circumstances under which a fellow who played just 76 NHL games (most of those in a single season on a war- and injury-ravaged Chicago defense) would qualify for -- or be worthy of -- inclusion under the Team Pages Format. RGTraynor 23:58, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Changes at Template:User cal

Hello, we changed the settings for the Cal userbox to allow you to personalize the text. Please check out the talk page for more info. ~ trialsanderrors 21:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How dare you!

How dare you write such an unbelieveably great précis at Imperial Hubris and not make précis the focus of your editing from then on! What a fantastic job you did! It's the best summary of a book on wikipedia I've seen. You deserve a barnstar or some other such recognition. Well done. You are a serious contributor to the encyclopedia who puts my penny-ante political editing to shame. I am going to seriously consider changing to focusing on précis. Please do more! Thank you!  :-) Lawyer2b 00:46, 3 August 2006 (UTC)