User talk:RayBirks

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Contents 1 Initial welcome 2 Thanks 3 Gerber/Hart Library 4 Stubs and categories... 5 You helped choose Coffee as this week's WP:AID winner 6 History of Money and Banking in the United States 7 Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 8 P/E 9 Ron Paul

[edit] Initial welcome

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[edit] Thanks

I appreciate your work on expanding Democracy: The God That Failed from a stub. Let me know if I can assist you in the future. Dick Clark 18:42, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gerber/Hart Library

This article is not posted at WP:AFD it has been marked with a "prod" tag. "Prod" tags can be added by anyone, and if you disagree with the tag you can remove it witout discussion. If the person who added the prod tag disagrees, then the article may be listed at AFD. If you think the library is notable, and meets the standards listed at WP:NOTABLE, then simply remove the tag. It is at the top of the page and looks like this:

{{dated prod|concern = {{{concern|Non-notable}}}|month = August|day = 8|year = 2006|time = 15:54|timestamp = 20060808155424}}

You might also put a note explaining your reasoning on the article's talk page, and/or on the talk page of the person who added the PROD tag. Any questions? I'm happy to help. -- Samuel Wantman 19:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Samuel, I understood what you meant and concurred, but things seem to have changed in a short time. Thanks for your continued tutelage. -- RayBirks 01:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

If you want to get someone's attention, put a message on their talk page (like the way you got my attention). Some people will leave a message on a talk page and say "reply here, I'm watching the page". This often works, but there is no automatic notification, you have to notice the page in your watchlist or remember to look back for a reply. Sometimes, for the sake of keeping a conversation in one place, I'll reply on the original talk page, and leave a short message on a users talk page, saying simply "I've replied here. -- Samuel Wantman 06:53, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs and categories...

Wikipedia:Category and Wikipedia:Stub are the two natural places to start. If there's anything specific you're unclear about, please feel free to ask. Alai 04:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

• Will keep reading and pass along any questions here, if you watch for a while. :) -- RayBirks 04:52, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

• Here's a question about stubs in general. Set-up is, I've been adding stub categories to pages without stubs as part of the stub-sorting project. Sometimes, there are pages like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan that confuse me. It's a bit longish, but a long article can still be a stub, I understand. Yet, someone has assigned two categories to it. If I assign a stub, will it just be removed later as being redundant? -- RayBirks 04:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• As happened here.... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flag_and_coat_of_arms_of_Moldavia&diff=71447053&oldid=71432071

-- RayBirks 05:07, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Long articles are only really stubs if they're very short in text, but long on stats, lists, tables, etc; or if they're very obviously more-incomplete-than-not in a key manner. For articles that are longer, but still somewhat incomplete, there are other annotations, like the {{expand}} template, talk-page "classification" templates (like "start-class article", etc). Alai 05:15, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and Madagascar Plan isn't a stub, and doesn't have any stub categories: it has "ordinary" or "permanent" article-space categories, that are there for reader reference, as opposed to stub types, and other "maintenance" categories, which are there for the benefit of editors. Alai 05:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose Coffee as this week's WP:AID winner

– ClockworkSoul 04:04, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of Money and Banking in the United States

Hello, concerning your contribution, History of Money and Banking in the United States, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.mises.org/rothbard/salerno.pdf. As a copyright violation, History of Money and Banking in the United States appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. History of Money and Banking in the United States has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

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[edit] Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Hi. You recently reverted my edit to Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was an attempt to fix vandalism in the form of mass copying-and-pasting of the article. You therefore reverted back to the vandalised version; another anonymous user tried to fix it, and ClueBot, being stupid, reverted back to you... in short, thanks to you the article has now been like that all day, and I've only just fixed it again; please don't revert this latest edit as well otherwise we'll be going round in circles forever. Have a look at the page history: note how the article has been around 9,600 bytes for ages and then suddenly jumps to 355,000 bytes? That's not new content, that's garbage copies of the original, and it's quite obvious when you look at it. Please do so before jumping to the revert button in future. Thanks – Gurch 05:04, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] P/E

You wrote:

Does anyone have a link we could include that points to average market P/E ratios during various downturns? It would be very helpful to see real-life examples of where P/E ratios have ended up in the depths of a recession/depression.

Upon further thinking, I realized that you had a very good question. I have just added some data.--Chakreshsinghai (talk) 00:56, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ron Paul

Why so he is. Show's how much I know about US politics... Thankyou!Larklight (talk) 20:53, 10 June 2008 (UTC)