User talk:MartinUK

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[edit] Sources for John Cleland (racing driver)

Hello, good work on John Cleland (racing driver), and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. Can you list in the article any websites, books, or other sources that will allow people to verify the content in John Cleland (racing driver)? You can simply add links, preferably as the inline citations, or see citation templates for different citation methods. Thanks! best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 03:43, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 1% for major edits and 3% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 74 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 21:00, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Guidelines for Wikipedia lists of ethnic groups

Please may I draw your attention to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Guidelines_for_Wikipedia_lists_of_ethnic_groups

Your contributions would be very welcome. -- Brownlee 11:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate your contributions to the List of British Jews, and hope that you will continue to contribute to it and to the talk page. - Newport 10:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Laverty

Hey there. If you are currently working on this article and don't want people to edit it while you improve it, it's a good idea to use the {{inuse}} tag. Have fun! (|-- UlTiMuS ( U | T | C [] M | E ) 18:31, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject British Motorsport - Collaboration of the month

The British Motorsport Wikiproject which you are a listed as a member of has started a collaboration of the month. You can nominate and vote for articles related to Motorsport in the UK with a view to working to improve one article each month to Good Article status. Please take a moment to have a look at the project page here. Thanks! Alexj2002 13:24, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please cite sources

  1. Your change to the page Neil Patrick Harris [1] was determined to be unhelpful, and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. Thanks. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:22, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
  2. Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as David Burtka, but we regretfully cannot accept original research. Please find and add a reliable citation to your recent edit so we can verify your work. Uncited information may be removed at any time. Thanks for your efforts, and happy editing! Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:25, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
    It is especially important that you not contribute unsourced statements to the biographies of living people, please see our policy at WP:BLP for details. If you need any help attributing sources, please feel free to contact me. Thanks, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:26, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Radisich

Yes, Paul Radisich in Croatian would be spelt Radisić. The letter ć in Croatian sounds like ch...hence people add the h to get people to say it correct. Otherwise people would say RadisiCK. Adding the h is common all over the world by Croatian Immigrants but in saying that almost 60% don't add the h.

It was also popular for names to be Anglosized, Italianized ..something like Ivankovich became Evans etc...Pilic became Polo etc... The most popular non Croat sounding last name is Abbott. Dates back to gold rush days.

Jagoda 1 03:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC) Jagoda 1 03:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Courtesy warning

As author of the below article you should be made aware:

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Snooker (rule), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Snooker (rule). If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Kris 14:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please sign posts

Please remember to sign your talk page posts and indent responses, or talk pages become hard to follow. :-) — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 21:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sourcing

I and I'm sure many others appreciate the amount of sourcing of obscure facts that you do, but to be honest you are effectively also creating a lot of unnecessary work for other editors by not doing it properly. Please use:

  • <ref name="SomethingUniqueHere">{{Cite web | url=http://whatever.com/page| other details here...}}</ref>

instead of:

  • [http://whatever.com/page]

It would be immensely helpful. (The two blue links in the code example there will take you to the documentation for ref and for cite web (there are also {{cite book}}, etc.) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 17:04, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Again, please source articles properly, not by dumping bare URLs into the text of the article. This simply makes more and more cleanup work for other people to do. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:31, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good catch!

A Barnstar Point
Awarded for: Catching a subtle Masters Snooker error at Andy Hicks, due to my misreading an ambiguously phrased source. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 17:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

That error could have stayed in there literally for years! — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 17:33, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Joss Stone

I'm removing the Jewish singer and such categories from Joss Stone. I'm probably going to need some support showing how hysteric people become when you remove that stuff, so I'm asking for your help. The source http://www.liberaljudaism.org/education_anglo_jewry.htm seems to take additions from just about anyone and also thinks wikipedia is a good resource. Who knows where they got this stuff. Thanks.

[edit] WP:CUEGLOSS

Re: "why was this explanation deleted in the first place?)" – No idea; I hadn't even noticed. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 11:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sen. Jesse Helms

Thanks for trying to fix the Moseley-Braun / Allen bit in the "controversies" section, but your fixed version is also incorrect. Claude Allen had moved on long before she became a senator. Also, "Dixie" is not a "song about the good life during slavery." There is nothing in the song about slavery. (Note: I'm talking about the original version, not Tom Lehrer's parody.) NCdave (talk) 20:25, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jesse Helms: examples of Bigotry

1.Helms opposed the Martin Luther King holiday bill in 1983

2.After a protest during his 1986 visit to Mexico, Sen. Helms was quoted: "All Latins are volatile people": end quote


and lastly, i write in disgust!

3.As an aide to the 1950 Senate campaign of North Carolina Republican candidate Willis Smith, Sen. Helms helped create attack ads against Smith's opponent Frank Graham, including one which read: "White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races." :end quote


MartinUK,

Those three "examples" alone warrant the label of a Bigot.


Alvin A. Harris

[edit] Jesse Helms examples of bigotry pt.2

1.In columns, commentaries and pronouncements from the Senate floor, Helms sowed hatred and called names: The University of North Carolina was "the University of Negroes and Communists." (Capital Times, 11/22/94) Black civil rights activists were "Communists and sex perverts." (Copley News Service, 8/23/01)


2.Of civil rights protests Helms wrote, "The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights." (WRAL-TV commentary, 1963)


3.He also wrote, "Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced." (New York Times, 2/8/81)


4.when a caller to CNN's Larry King Live show praised guest Jesse Helms for "everything you've done to help keep down the niggers," Helms' response was to salute the camera and say, "Well, thank you, I think." (Wilmington Star-News, 9/16/95)


MartinUK,

Would you like more examples? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.232.153.118 (talk) 21:58, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


MartinUK, just so you know, Alvin (a/k/a 144.232.153.118 or GRANDEXTRAV) is citing "facts" that are really just unproven anecdotes, spread by Sen. Helms' political enemies. If there were provable examples of bigotry on his part, then Jim Hunt and Harvey Gantt would surely have used them against him during their multi-million dollar campaigns to capture his Senate seat. They didn't because they could find no such examples.
"Columns, commentaries and pronouncements from the Senate floor" are all very public forms of expression, which in most cases create lasting paper trails. So if Helms had actually "sowed hatred and called names" by calling UNC "the University of Negroes and Communists" in such forums, as Alvin evidently believes, there should be records to prove it. But there aren't. If there were, then Helms' opponents would have used them against him, during their Senate campaigns.
Unfortunately, Alvin seems to accept as fact any accusation against Helms that he reads, without bothering to see even whether it is plausible. Consider, for example, this "fact" that Alvin cites: "As an aide to the 1950 Senate campaign of North Carolina Republican candidate Willis Smith... Helms..." It is obviously nonsense, in part because in 1950 Jesse Helms was a 28 year old Democrat. NCdave (talk) 09:10, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Snooker

Hi MartinUK, i've noticed you do a lot of work on snooker articles, just wondering if you wanted to put your name down on WikiProject Snooker. Not that it makes much difference! Samasnookerfan (talk) 19:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Personal attacks

Please do not make person attacks in your edit summaries as you did in your edit to Jaime Camara. Doing so is expressly prohibited by Wikipedia policy. Also, please do not remove cited material without a good reason (which you did not provide, other than calling another editor a "moron". -Drdisque (talk) 13:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)