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[edit] Your edits on Eliot Spitzer

It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Eliot Spitzer. Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Take a look at our welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

Please avoid using abusive edit summaries as per Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Thanks and happy editing. Xiner (talk, email) 16:00, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

I am interested in speaking with you privately and discussing our common interests, but you have not enabled the "Email user" option. Please enable that option, contact me using that option, or provide an alternative method of contacting you. Thanks! (Email me) - Cornell2010 05:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Tobias

Hi Sly111, thank you for writing to me on my talk page. I do not know too much about Andrew Tobias, so I'll bring this issue up on Talk:Horace Mann School. It would have been better if you had explained this further in your edit summary or even on the talk page, as "Tobias isn't a peer of Caro or Barr or Carter" doesn't explain too much and actually gave the sense to me you had a personal dislike towards him. Best, Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 04:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Sly, if you disagree with the inclusion of Josh Bernstein, perhaps you need to bring it up on the talk page, or question the notability of him in his own article. However, because he is notable and a graduate of HM, he belongs in that section. If you don't think he's worthy of being there, then his article doesn't deserve to exist, and you should send it to AfD. --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 18:28, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Scroll and Key

you clearly think you know more than you know, and your speculative edits are a little ridiculous, no?

3/8/07 - what does that message even mean?

3/21 Thanks Sly111 for the nice comment. You also are very well informed on the society landscape, in this bulldog's humble opinion. BoolaBoola2

4/3. Hi Sly111, follow on to your knickrbock q. sorry to be awol. No, not WHS, but respect it as an historic and honorable peer here on campus. enjoy following your edits. best, BoolaBoola2

4/6 - thanks for your shout out just now, Sly. have been working on a wide range of articles today. keep editing yourself - great stuff at your end too!  :) BoolaBoola2

Did you ask Robin if he dined at the Knickrbock? I'll be at reunions this spring -- a good opp. to photograph facades so don't have to rely on links to the Yale facilities pages for pics to illustrate the wiki.BoolaBoola2

Hi Sly -- you're always a fine editor! I wonder if you'd be ok with reverting one of my thoughts, which was in the sentence: "...however it is not historically accurate that leadership of the CIA -- or any of the most senior positions in the U.S. intelligence Community -- ever hinged on being a Bonesman as the movie implies." -- As formulated originally, its a sly dig (pardon the pun) at the conspiricists (or even their own members) who persist in seeing S&B as the center of the universe. Also, would it make sense to incude Dean Winks' book as a reference somewehre (maybe it already is in references, I forgot). all in all though, a fine editing. I have had a good time visiting Harvard the past few days (on wiki) based on some road trips to Signet when I was last in Cambridge. they're screwed up up there, still have the all male system firmly in place. That's about as sustainable as the russian monarchy (or, I guess, Augusta National)...BoolaBoola2

No need to apologize to me, Sly! I didn't add Cornell to the S&B page. Cornell2010 21:45, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wolf's Head (secret society)

The article is much improved since last time I had a look at it. Thank you for correcting the problems I mentioned and adding a lot to the article. Like any article it has room for improvement. For helpful hints, see Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles. In particular, the article could use more citations and should convert to the <ref> system. See Wikipedia:Citing sources to find out how to do this. I probably won't be reviewing the article in the future because I've been on Wikipedia less lately and generally edit other types of articles. If you want other editors to give you advice, you may want to list the article on Wikipedia:Requests for feedback. Good luck. --dm (talk) 12:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

On quick glance, to make this a featured article it needs more citations. The lead and the history sections currently have none. I like to use the <ref> system, but any of the standard formats in wp:cite should work. The article should probably have an illustrative picture. A picture of the Wolf's Head Hall is most obvious and probably easiest to get, but a historical picture of the society's early days would be great if it exists and is available under a free license. Have you submitted the article to requests for feedback? Have you incorporated the suggestions received? If so, the next step would be submitting the article to Wikipedia:Peer review. They will be brutally honest and harsh so try to improve any obvious faults on your own before submission. See Wikipedia:Article development for still more advice. Keep in mind that few articles reach featured status so it will take a lot of work. Good luck. --dm (talk) 17:53, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hey ya!

Howdy Sly: Sorry to have dropped out of wiki-world for a while. I've no info. whether maya was in one or another soc. She's marvelous, wish she was ours. Thanks for your comment re. recent events but we didn't participate, my group's been in autumn for some years. Reciprocal wishes for yours. The colony quote of sokrates was from their website but the rest was copied from their recent newsletter, so couldn't obviously provide an accessible cite. How's New York? BoolaBoola2

[edit] NY Library IP blocks

There is an ongoing active vandal operating from the New York Public Library system open terminals. We are forced by those circumstances to keep blocking those IP addresses on a regular basis.

This should not affect your existing login account. Those blocks are supposed to be anonymous-only, so you only need to log in to edit. Georgewilliamherbert 18:13, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

I assume you mean on the Wolf's Head (secret society) page. I fixed your problem. Whenever you use the <ref> system, you have to put <references> or, preferably, {{reflist}} somewhere in the page. --D. Monack | talk 18:54, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Details on the <ref> system can be found at Wikipedia:Footnotes. --D. Monack | talk 18:57, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Saw you had a problem with references in this article. There was a typo in the tag. You put <ref/>, when it really needs to be </ref> with the slash in that specific order. If it's misformatted, then the article may "disappear". Cheers. --Aude (talk) 17:16, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] October 2007

With regard to your comments on User:Fbv65edel: Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Gscshoyru 21:03, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

First of all, post your comments on my talk page. Not my user page. Second of all, personal attacks are not allowed. Period. Third of all, if he did attack you, advise him to calm down, just as I did to you, and warn him. Fourth of all -- I see no evidence of attacks. Could you please show me some diffs? Gscshoyru 16:21, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of Charles W. Harkness

A tag has been placed on Charles W. Harkness requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, 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. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. 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.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

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. Kannie | talk 20:55, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Skull and Bones

Generally, it is not a good idea to remove references from articles, even if you think the information referenced is common knowledge. Gamaliel (Angry Mastodon! Run!) 22:00, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huh?

I have no idea what you are talking about on my talk page. Care to clarify what you meant? I thought my edits to Kurt Schmoke were pretty noncontroversial. I have no problems with your recent edits though. --D. Monack | talk 22:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Charles Bartlett

I added an entry in the Charles Bartlett disambiguation page. Just click on his red link and start editing. --D. Monack | talk 20:01, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wut?

First off, my name is not BARBARIAN, and second i have no idea what you are talking about. and it seems like from other comments on your page, you have made this mistake before. please clarify what edit you meant.the juggreserection IstKrieg! 21:08, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

still not making any sense. leave me alone, please.the juggreserection IstKrieg! 15:20, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
do not edit my user page.the juggreserection IstKrieg! 15:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Editing userpages

Constructive contributions are appreciated and strongly encouraged, but your recent edit to the userpage of another user may be considered vandalism. If you are the user, please log in under that account and proceed to make the changes. Please use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Take a look at our introduction page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you.the juggreserection IstKrieg! 16:21, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Benno Schmidt

I guess your comment relates to my edit of Wolf's Head (secret society). The problem is that there are two notable Benno Schmidts (father and son: Benno C. Schmidt, Sr. and Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.), fairly close in age as notable fathers and sons go. Failure to use the Jr. and Sr. has made hash of their separate identities. I am trying to sort out the links before creating a disambiguation page. I have no objection to your restoration of piping to remove the "Jr.", as long as we distinguish the two. --Orlady (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm glad you are interested in taking on Benno C. Schmidt, Sr. as a research project, but I'm afraid I can't offer much help. I backed into that disambiguation issue when trying to properly caption and link the image that appears in the Benno C. Schmidt, Sr. article (an image that I found while trying to illustrate Robert A. Good).
I think I have successfully identified the correct Benno Schmidt for all but one of the articles that linked to Benno Schmidt. The exception is The Brook (an article has a lot of unsourced information, in spite of my recent efforts there) -- I can imagine that either or both of them might have been members of that club. --Orlady (talk) 21:28, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Did you find evidence the Benno Schmidt Jr. is the one who is or was a member of the Brook Club? If anything, I would have guessed that the father was more likely to be the member. (Have you found any more references to cite in that article?) --Orlady (talk) 18:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Again, did you have a source for your decision to point that link to Jr.? --Orlady (talk) 15:02, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
You wrote "When the society celebrated the conclusion of the campaign he chaired, The Brook was host." Which society was that (Wolf's Head?) and where is the source? --Orlady (talk) 19:41, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply. I'm satisfied that we have the right Benno (although I still think it possible that his father was also a member, and the info is still subject to deletion for being unsourced). Currently there are source citations for only 4 or 5 of the numerous members mentioned in The Brook; presumably someone had a source for the article when it was first created... --Orlady (talk) 20:24, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
  • I guess I should have told you when I ran across that source that documents the coinage of the term "venture capital." There's a lot more material where that came from regarding Benno Sr. and the origins of venture capital. (There's even some good stuff regarding the thinking behind the coinage.) --Orlady (talk) 18:05, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
  • You made some interesting observations on sourcing at Wikipedia. I don't guess there's much controversy regarding lists of members of Yale secret societies (and it's a subject that is not publicly documented and that arouses much curiosity), so you may have experienced less pressure to stringently follow WP:V than I've encountered in my Wikipedia experience. Suffice it to say that the requirement for citations to support all content is Wikipedia policy. A lot of seemingly innocuous (and undoubtedly valid) content gets removed for lack of citations, or at a minimum gets plastered with "Unreferenced" templates or "citation needed" tags. --Orlady (talk) 18:05, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Doctor of Humane Letters

See my reply at that article --AW (talk) 16:52, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Per this comment:[1]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors, as you did on Doctor of Humane Letters. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --AW (talk) 21:28, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Taser Incident

How exactly was the question irrelevant to the proceedings? It was a college forum where the students were allowed to ask Kerry questions. You really think it's ok to rig the presidency? LMFAO! You really think the police only enforce laws when they have been broken? Have you been living under a rock? One of my best friends got pulled over a couple weeks ago and he took a drink while the cops were coming up to the car and the cops rushed him, said he had drugs, and beat him. Badly. And I'm sorry but I think if any society is rigging the presidency the fact that they're rigging the presidency is relevant.Psykoticslumber (talk) 07:22, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Yale prize

Because nobody is perfect and sometimes we make mistakes. Anyway, I am sorry for bothering you --Hellahulla (talk) 12:23, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Just re-read. You are telling me that the prize was first awarded 8 years before the son of J A Porter graduated? Although in the Yale prizes website it says B.A. 1842 (The year the Father graduated?)
Am I missing something here? I reckon you're an American (No derogatory comment intended, its just because of your interest), perhaps you can call the university and find out for sure, I live in Finland, costs are too prohibitive for me to do that.
Here is my rundown - From the wikipedia article: "Porter graduated from Yale College in 1842"
From the Yale site: "JOHN ADDISON PORTER (1872). Kingsley Trust Association in honor of Professor John A. Porter, B.A. 1842. "
Son's details: "They had a son, also John Addison, born in New Haven, Connecticut on April 17th, 1856, who also graduated from Yale (in 1878)"
Seriously, what did I miss here?
I will revert to my wording, won't get into a reversion war here though, just because I am sure I am right, I can read and the numbers don't work if its the son's award.
I'll also post this exchange on the discussion page, for others to mull it over.
Thanks. --Hellahulla (talk) 13:00, 1 March 2008 (UTC)