It appears that the article has not been moved, but rather that most of it has been spun off into a new article. I don't think there's any hard rule about not having abbreviations on article titles. The spin-off seems fairly reasonable to me, since little of the article was about Franklin himself, and most was about the scandal. Do you feel differently? Jayjg (talk) 21:42, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Interesting addition to the article, hopefully it won't just get edited out. See you on the talk page! :-) illWill 17:00, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Done. Jayjg (talk) 00:53, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Blocked for 24 hours. Jayjg (talk) 20:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Sure. I'm not in Welland right now, but will be starting in mid-August. I'll try and get something in. I've actually seen the maple before, but I doubt any pictures of artistic/informational value were taken. (I keep on meaning to write the remaining Welland Canal articles, but never get around to doing so. I have the data, I just need to sit down with it. Hopefully in mid-August as well.) --Qviri (talk) 05:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I don't know anything about the site, I was only writing it as a peripheral matter to another article, please stop wikistalking me as it is beginning to become tiresome. I really do not want to go through dispute resolution and AN/I as I would hope you would be mature enough to not follow me around out of revenge for some percieved spite you think I inflicted upon you.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 04:04, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello Uncle Bugle, I am letting you know that you are in danger of violating the 3RR policy, if you revert more than 3 times in 24 hours, you can be blocked from editing.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 21:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello again Uncle Bugle, I'm just letting you know that gaming the system is a blockable offence, you reverted the 4th time just a matter of minutes after the 24 hours of the 3RR expired, I would advise you to revert yourself to prevent a possible temporary block.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 19:15, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Look I think we got off to a rough start, I generally pride myself with being able to have a good relationship with editors of differing viewpoints as long as they are reasonable. You seem to be reasonable so lets just both accept that we acted disrespectful and unreasonable towards one another and be polite to each from now on. Deal?- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 04:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Anyways this is not going anywhere so please consider this conversation over and do not write any more messages on my talk page.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 05:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Just a friendly note: You're not going to let them bamboozle/beat you down, are you? This business about categories needing to be ... what was it, both verifiable and "truthy"? I forget, but anyhow, these jokers are just making up the rules as they go along, as usual. I can't believe they're kicking up this much of a fuss over the mere categorization of a controversial figure. Don't think it's a case of rampant Zionism here, maybe? Nah. +ILike2BeAnonymous 05:50, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Do NOT start an edit war. --Eiyuu Kou 22:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your solution to the edit warring over on Allegations of Apartheid. Brilliant solution it seems like everyone could live with. -- Kendrick7talk 06:59, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Relevance is certainly an issue in Wikipedia articles; people often complain about removal of "properly sourced material", but that's pretty silly, as "properly sourced" is just one hurdle material must overcome to be included in a Wikipedia article. There's no point in discussing pottery in an article on penguins. Another issue, which you allude to, is the quality of the sources; different sources, even if reliable, have different degrees of reliability. Thus, for example, a newspaper might have a certain degree of reliability, but an academic writing in their field of expertise on the same subject would have more reliability. Another issue relating to quality of sources is whether or not someone is writing in their field of expertise; thus a chemistry professor might be a reliable source when it comes to chemistry, but not a reliable source when it comes to religion or history. In addition, presentation can matter; something stated as fact requires stronger sourcing that something stated as opinion. A variation on this is the "proponents say X, opponents say Y" section of an article; in that case, one might have somewhat looser requirements for inclusion, since the article is only documenting what different sides of an issue or debate say, rather than trying to state that one side or another is correct. In the latter case, we would still have to have reliable sources, though; we can't include every argument found on every blog or personal website.
Another issue that often arises with quotations is the issue of original research; people seem to like to pick various quotations from an individual, and put them in their article, usually with the intent of finding the most "damning" ones. This, of course, is original research; who is to say that these particular quotations are significant? In this case one needs to find reliable secondary sources that indicate that these quotations are significant.
It's hard to say which specific guidelines or policies apply to a specific situation without seeing specific examples; can you provide some? Jayjg (talk) 16:10, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
In response to your post on my talk page, to Talk about West Bank and Palestinians is to accept only one Point of View, according to which the land west of Jordan, and East of a pre-67 demarcation line belongs to the Arab people who live on it, while the Jews living there are settlers who invaded the land to try to steal it from the Palestinians. While it is a very popular point of view, and certainly one that the US government and current Israeli government is promoting, is is not the only point of view, and wikipedia cannot pick and choose POV's to hold by.
In response to your post on my talk page, to Talk about West Bank and Palestinians is to accept only one Point of View, according to which the land west of Jordan, and East of a pre-67 demarcation line belongs to the Arab people who live on it, while the Jews living there are settlers who invaded the land to try to steal it from the Palestinians. While it is a very popular point of view, and certainly one that the US government and current Israeli government is promoting, is is not the only point of view, and wikipedia cannot pick and choose POV's to hold by. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doom777 (talk • contribs) 03:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
While you are having fun stalking me please note some major mistakes. Several times statements were treated as uncited when the source was present. Also, please note that my change on Developed country was a revert--I added that section a while ago and it was noted originally that Pakistan would be removed from the list on June 2008. Somewhere during editing, someone changed it (a similar thing happened to the Greece footnote). However, please refrain from rude comments like those when you clearly do not know the whole story. Even so, very quick and simple research (i.e. one try at Google) can be done on your part before you revert, add a needless fact tag, or make a rude comment. And by the way, if you looked at my edit carefully, it was the Jewish exodus from Arab lands that I removed along with other ones, some of which were intertwined with the greater picture of the joint Arab invasion of the Jewish state (1948 Arab-Israeli War), which I kept. This is really simple stuff. Please think before making another rude and unnecessary comment. --Shamir1 (talk) 06:51, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for resizing the image - I'd saved without preview and was about to do it myself! Mostlyharmless (talk) 23:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I added the tortilla lithograph to another article that had no previous illustration and where it appears to be very encyclopedic. Would you like to review nixtamalization? Regards, DurovaCharge! 21:01, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the George Washington map, the file I worked from is very high resolution but it isn't taken directly from the original--it's taken from a reproduction the Massachusetts Historical Society made in the late 1920s, probably a photolithograph. The reproduction duplicated 180 years of decomposition and was printed on a paper with a distinct vertical shape to the grain. Also, the map wasn't lying perfectly flat when they reproduced it. So instead of correcting individual lines (as we would with a document laid on a scanner bed), there are whole areas of shading that connect logically to those fold lines. Running through those shaded areas we have map lines and text. So in order to get in and do as you suggest, it would be necessary to go up to 800% resolution and retrace the outlines of a very large number of pen strokes--not just where the fold lines themselves intersected, but in all the related areas where the light fell differently. And as you can probably imagine, that's very slow work. I went in and did work like that for this restoration and this one, but those were digitized from the original documents rather than from a reproduction and the paper in both of those cases had a randomized grain. In this instance you'd also have to line up the vertical striping. I don't think there's a way to avoid that dilemma because the original ink varies so much in tone: adjusting the contrast enough to diminish the striping also renders some of the text illegible. You're welcome to a copy of the .tif if you'd like to play with it, though. I found this an interesting challenge. Best, DurovaCharge! 22:37, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated Larry Franklin (musician), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Larry Franklin (musician). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 16:29, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
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