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Welcome

I know that you've been here for a while but I welcome anyway

Welcome!

Hello, Beardo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-02-19 21:52Z

Donovan

In response to commetary at Dan Donovan I've created two working drafts of new articles here. Please check these against what you know and leave commentary at either Dan Donovan or my talk page. Thanks much! Dan, the CowMan 04:37, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I've pushed the changes out, relinked the related articles, and made Dan Donovan a disambiguation page.

>Are you looking to join the tribe of dans ?

I think that I'm already there. :)

Have a great day sir. Dan, the CowMan 08:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moa, Cuba

Can you add some context to the "culo del mundo" affirmation in the Moa article? (Or remove the comment altogether) As it it now it hardly seems encyclopedic... Qyd ^(talk)04:14, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, never made it past Marti. But I heard talk about Moa. Is it true that Sherritt sold its intrests in Moa to a chinese company? (this rumour circulated last autumn). Other places that would qualify for the description would be the red earth woods in Casillo, or the mosquito infested swamps in Majaguillar... That would be in Cuba, in the wide world, I'm sure there's far worse places. Qyd ^(talk)16:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About the Sherrit Bussines it's just a rumour here in Cuba, and I think it will be just that, no official talk about that... about the "culo del mundo" thats an offensive expresion here in Cuba and is common to call that way at any small rural town in Cuba, but is only used in an offensive way. I live in Holguín, ask me anything u wanna know KatKiller 07:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About Centro Habana

Hi, i'm from Centro Habana, Cuba, and i visited the article about San Miguel de Padrón, and found your nick... read the article that i made about Centro Habana municipality and tell me how you see it. It needs an extension. Bye

Sorry, i forgot to sign my post on your talkpage.. that was my first comment on wikipedia, but i'm learning fast ZorphDark

Hi Again!! I made the X-Alfonso cuban's musician page, if you know about he, please let's grow up the article, however, please, read it and make all change that you consider... Bye & thanks ZorphDark

Thanks for your reviews!!! Bye ZorphDark

Crab Key

Thanks for the vote, however, I wanted to let you know I broke etiquette a little bit and modified your vote. I moved the vote to where the others were; if you clicked 'discuss' in the merge header, it brought you here. Just letting you know. -- RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib Reverts} 10:48, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History Of Violence

I've since watched the film again. What strikes me is the contrast between the film's violent scenes and all those outside of it (I'm including the pseudo-rape on the stairway with "violent scenes"). Maybe I'm not used to watching candid small-town folk interact, but the reality of the intensely violent scenes (and even their dialogue) contrasts massively between everything else. You mentioned "mythic" - could you extrapolate on that?

Transfer of Power

Hi Beardo, I can't much on the response in Cuba other than the odd Alarcon quote. Any thoughts as this needs to be presented?--Zleitzen 22:42, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cayman Islands

Hi Beardo, I think I may have cured your concerns over the redirect, but I'm not sure. Have a look and see if you think I've done it. Budgiekiller 12:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Madrox

Nice catch on the Multiple Man creators and artists. Good call. Bhissong 16:05, 3 September 2006 (UTC)bhissong[reply]

Cuban matters

Hi Beardo

A Fresa y chocolate page is essential, Beardo. I can't believe it's taken that long to for wikipedia to get round to it! It would also complement a minor tussle I'm having on the Gay rights in Cuba page which I felt wasn't up to date or accurate on first viewing.
I think I replied on the Central Bank of Cuba page on that topic, feel free to start a banking in Cuba page.
I wouldn't worry about the El Benny article - as long as it's NPOV. But be prepared for a battle with the deletionists. I've had to rescue a few of these from those who believe non-English speaking movies are not important. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clase Z "Tropical".
I understand your points concerning the allegations of tourist apartheid in Cuba. I had to fight to get it to "tourist apartheid", it actually read simply "apartheid in Cuba" at first which was even worse! I think it was set up after a dispute over "Israeli apartheid" - anything that anyone could find that was described as "apartheid" somewhere got a page.--Zleitzen 03:22, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Z - you were up late if you're in the UK.

Sorry - I'd missed your response on banking. Yes, I am sure that the National Bank deserves a page.

El Benny - maybe I'll start with the director and star. (The star just won an award at Locarno Film Festival - so perhaps he'll be our first article on an actor who is still in Cuba. (Though Jorge Perugorria deserves one, too.)) Of course, short films tend to have a harder time than full-length features.

btw - a number of geographical pages have links to a Spanish language site www.guije.com. This seems to be referring to a pre-1976 (possibly pre-1959) status. I wonder how best to dscribe that.

-- Beardo 05:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for changing those damn film director categories that I messed up, I'm an idiot with practical matters as you may have noticed. As for staying up late - put it down to an erratic sleep pattern, a very demanding 6 month old bairn (and the other 3 monsters), and a welcome extended break from this place [1] with no work commitments other than to check emails! Editing this thing is a welcome diversion and keeps the brain ticking over. --Zleitzen 04:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Banned Films

Hi, Each Dawn I Die was banned in Australia - Banned films. Thanks. User:Lugnuts

Cuban Filmmakers site

Hi Beardo,

Thanks for adding Jorge Luis Sanchez. Here is the Cuban website's section for directors (they are in alaphabetical order on the right side)

http://www.cubacine.cu/realizad/index.htm

Dreamer 11:48, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Allegations of tourist apartheid

I don't know who rattled the anon's cage on that talk page! But there is an element of practicality about the comments in the sense of this: Having added the POV template, which is perfectly acceptable, you really would need to offer suggestions on how to make the page NPOV. I understand entirely why you believe the page to be POV, but how do you propose to change this?--Zleitzen 09:05, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move - Dame Simbae - Reply

I'll try, thanks for the vote of confidence.May the Edit be with you. T-borg (drop me a line) 21:11, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Madagascar and Other Cuban Films - Reply

Hi Beardo. Thanks for the welcome. I replied to you on my talk page before I could figure out how to navigate to yours. In response to your question, I think I will try to edit a couple of more pages on the particular Cuban films that I think have not received sufficient critical/public attention. I did a whole bunch of writing and research and interviews on this stuff as an undergraduate and am happy to find a place to publicize some of it. In particular, I'm planning to refine some of the Madagascar entry (add some links and stuff), add some stuff on Enrique Colina, and generally look through the piles of essays i've got sitting around in my hard-drive to see what else might be useful/interesting.

oh, and you're right. i certainly did not mean to flag that as a minor edit...newbie screw up. Aaronshaw 22:30, 9 September 2006 (UTC) [[2]][reply]

Question about the whole original research thing

So, I cited the two relevant sources for the vast majority of the stuff I put up on the Madagascar page. There are still a couple of details that I learned from a personal interview with the director, though. I could cut them, but am not really distressed to have them in the public domain...I'm sure they showed up in an interview in a Cuban newspaper at some point in the early 90's. However, I also don't want to evade the GFDL or Wikipedia's requirements in any way...

what would you recommend?Aaronshaw 04:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problems with Image:Benny+Aida.jpg

An image that you uploaded, Image:Benny+Aida.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

--JStalk 06:31, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion is ongoing on Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Other. Please come help us figure out what to do with this. --Robth^Talk 06:23, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cuban actors

Hi Beardo, when writing up a new piece on a Cuban actor - could you add the name to the List of Cubans page under the appropriate headings, that page needs beefing up. Thanks.--Zleitzen 16:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:List of Cubans. I had a go at moving obvious Cuban-Americans to the List of Cuban-Americans - these were people that were either born in the US, or had relocated so long ago at such a young age that they had made no impact on Cuban life, their careers were synonomous with the US. I maybe wrong. Beyond that I don't know and I don't feel like I'm a good enough judge to make the call, especially with the baseball players as I know nothing about that sporting culture. The occupations sections do need further sorting out. But it's a tedious task.--Zleitzen 22:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Poll on Syd Barrett re: keeping or deleting the mental illness paragraph

Please participate in the poll I've set up at Talk:Syd_Barrett#Poll_on_keeping_a_paragraph_on_Mental_Illness_or_deleting_it TheQuandry 17:20, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aust Ferry

I couldn't track down the original reference last night but will do so and tidy up when I can find time. Ghmyrtle 11:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mirta Diza-Balart in Cuba

Was just browsing through and looked this over.

Yes, this is true, as I have myself been relayed this information from family sources however, I think it would be rather difficult to provide citations as, Mirta's family is very hush-hush on this subject. She returned recently to be with Fidelito. I found it VERY interesting. Would never have guessed.

Cuba

Hey man, do you have any photographs that you could release into CC or GFDL that would improve the 'healthcare in Cuba' article? Hospitals/Ambulances etc. - Francis Tyers · 12:05, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 21:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Simon Fraser (general)

Hi Beardo, I think their might indeed be a bit of a mix-up at Simon Fraser (general). I'd like your help in clearing up the matter, if you're still interested in the article. File:Icons-flag-scotland.png Canæn File:Icons-flag-scotland.png 01:36, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re; Bravedog (talk · contribs) and The Apprentice

It's not immediately apparent whether WP:RM is policy, guideline, or something else, but it's definitely bad form to unilaterally move a page like The Apprentice without discussion. The wording of my warning to him was not my own but that of {{MP3}}, a standard warning template for just such an occaision. Perhaps it is a bit too harsh in tone, but it does appear that he was attempting to promote "his" article over the original by redirecting the page to The Apprentice (UK). -Anþony 10:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re Pete Zarustica and Oliver Wyman

I guess it was because most of the credits on that page were fore Pete and I didn't know which ones were for Oliver. The Splendiferous Gegiford 14:19, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

World domination

Why? Please inform me beforehand.

Best regards, dear Dear Brit.

Yours truly, Ludvikus 17:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gong

Good work Beardo. Whenever I've tried to ask for protection, its been like pulling teeth. I have no idea why the Cuba page was semi-protected for so long before - nearly 6 months. Regardless of how noble some users believe the policy of allowing unregistered users to edit articles is, it successfully reduced stress levels to near zero, and allowed the page to improve gradually and organically for the better. For the above and other long term improvements to the Cuba articles - I award you with this brand new barn star created by my more computer literate daughter for such a purpose!

		The José Martí Barnstar
		For long service to Cuban related articles

By the way, have you taken a look at the Cuba portal yet? A work in progress.--Zleitzen 08:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tango TV

See Talk:Tango TV for my suggestion as to how to proceed, and let me know how I can help. Andrewa 15:42, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gerry Anderson

Ah, yes that's quite useful. I've put it in a subcategory of Category:Science fiction by franchise, but I'm not sure if that's the correct place or not. Feel free to change it. Bob talk 11:31, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, that's a good point. I don't know really, it was the closest I could find, but you're correct that it isn't really a franchise. I've placed it in Category:Categories named after people, so perhaps that could replace it. Bob talk 22:56, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed moves ot Tango TV articles

See Talk:Tango TV#Where to now. Comments welcome of course. Andrewa 19:43, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dying

Thanks Beardo. It seems self-evident to me that the category and its implementation were flawed. But as we learn here, everyone has a different view, and a different idea of what they expect to find in an encyclopedia.--Zleitzen 01:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Gray

Dear Beardo, would you mind helping me in correcting the links about Charles Gray the actor? Str1977 ^{(smile back)} 13:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All right, I have done it myself. Only a few ambiguous Charles Grays are linking to the disambig page:

one with a house in Colchester
one with a grave on Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave_famous_people/G/Gr

If you can solve these, please do so. Cheers, Str1977 ^{(smile back)} 14:42, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Cuba & Talk:Fidel Castro

Hello, Beardo. Check the 'edits history' of the Cuba & Fidel Castro discussion pages. There maybe an EJ imposter among us (I've notified 'EJ' himself, of possible impersonators). GoodDay 02:00, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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By this edit [3], you removed an anon user's comment on the talk page. That comment was actually an attempt to alert registered users of vandalism on the main page (which is semi-protected). --Beardo 16:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note Beardo and sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers. -- Szvest

^{Wiki me up ®} 16:44, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I hope (if it's EJ), he'll choose another IP address. The IP address in question is indanger of being possibley banned. GoodDay 19:06, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your suspicions were right, it is EJ afterall. Furthermore, he's begun his blogs again. If he continues, I just might report him again. GoodDay 21:53, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I understand 'EJ' is knowledgeable and a source of information. However that dosen't give him permission to blog the 'talk' pages. If he wants to blog, let him create an account & then blog on his own 'talk' page. I've nothing personal against EJ, but if everyone (registered & unregistered) blogged article 'talk pages', there'd be little room left for what they're actually for. Blogging on public 'talk pages' are frowned upon by Wikipedia. GoodDay 00:46, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

El Jigue Amendment

Hello Beardo, I'm seeking your guys (Zleitzen, Polaris999 & Goatboy95)'s support in a request to Administrators to allow Blogging on public Discussion (Talk) pages. I've called on you particular users, as you've like me have conversed -positively OR negatively- with 'El Jigue'. IF Administrators consent to this proposal- blog away, IF not - then I'll seek a 1-year ban on EJ, who currently is begining to blog again. I too am pro-democracy, the sooner Fidel is dead the better. That's not the issue however. So, how about it? GoodDay 20:03, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How about focussing our attention and efforts on more important matters? -- Polaris999 21:13, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aren't WIKIPEDIA policies & rules important too? Help me guys; help me to help 'EJ'. GoodDay 21:59, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, Beardo. For futher discussion on this topic, go to GoodDay's Discussion page. GoodDay 22:49, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See Zleitzen. I've ended the debate, will go along with Consensus interpretation of rules. Also I've apologised to 'EJ' on his 'current' IP address Discussion page. GoodDay 01:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Holy independence, Beardo

Did I dream it, or did I read somewhere that you wrote that Cesar Romero was descended from Jose Marti?--Zleitzen 04:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed yes - see http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/funfacts/CesarRom.htm . It is mentioned in both the Cesar Romero and José Martí articles. As part of the 150th (?) anniversary celebrations, two ladies came to Cuba to visit, who were described as descendants of Marti through his daughter, without questioning - though it seems there is no confirmation that she was his. Oddly http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?secc=5&cont=stories/num11/01.htm describes them as Romero's daughters - but our article indicates that he was a confirmed bachelor. Perhaps they were his nieces ? -- Beardo 04:34, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Beardo:

There is an article (circa 1950s) in Bohemia on Cesar Romero in which this was accepted. What one would like to see is a DNA analysis of Marti's genome. From memory there seems to be an inference that Marti's family was from Majorca and the last name is included among the "San Benito" (e.g. of Jewish descent). One wonders if he had Cohenim sequences El Jigue 1-2-07

Founder vs co-founder

Doesn't founder seem to imply sole founder? I suppose it is more middle ground to say founder than co-founder, but it still has its own implications. I guess there's also "a founder", but I don't know if that's any better since it makes the implication he might not be the only one. Owen 11:51, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Christmas greetings

Merry Christmas!

Best wishes to my fellow wikipedian Beardo! From Zleitzen

Not apartheid in Cuba [4]

Can you prove what you're saying? If so, your observations are quite valuable. We're told that night-club bouncers in Cuba systematically block entrance to Cuban nationals - but do they ask for passports? If they're simply going by their own predujices, then the real state of affairs is "wealth apartheid", the same thing we live under. PalestineRemembered 12:12, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re welcome

thanks for your welcome on my discussion page~ I see that you live in cuba in habana!!! good I go two times in cuba do you work in cuba?

Felinafr 14:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

yes really? and what was the name of the video ? do you work there for a long time? and what do you do? (if not indiscrete) I really like Cuba you are lucky to work there.

Felinafr 19:10, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

excuse me an other question jejeje I see one video but bad quality on you tube of clan 537 - los pistoleros, I don't know if you can because of your connexion in cuba to internet, but if you cant put it in good quality on "you tube" or "dailymotion", I will be really happy.

Felinafr 22:43, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Answer for Cuba

Errr sorry I think I reverted one edit too much. My bad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esurnir (talk • contribs) at 19:00, 11 January 2007

Fabio Grobart

A mayor éminence gris of Cuban history is best known as Fabio Grobart (although his original name is Polish). His importance in founding the Cuban (Stalinist) communist party is/was(:>) recognized by Fidel Castro:

Castro, F. 1965 (accessed 1-9-07) Pursc Central Committ Presentation, Havana's Chaplin Theater -Havana Domestic Radio - Speech Report_Nbr- Fbis - Date- 19651004 -Text- Castro Refers To Cuban Refugees, Guevara {http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro/1965/19651004],

the Rand thinktank [www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM4994.pdf],

and Jewish History experts: Asís, Moisés 2000 (accessed 1-8-07) Judaism in Cuba 1959-1999 ICCAS Occasional Paper Series, http://www6.miami.edu/iccas/AsisJUDAISMCUBA-New.pdf. “By 1925, there were 8,000 Jews in Cuba (some 2,700 sephardic, 5,200 ashkenazic, and 100 Americans). Four ashkenazic Jews were in the small group that founded the first Communist Party of Cuba in 1925: Grimberg, Vasserman, Simjovich aka Grobart, and Gurbich. They opposed the religious and community life of the other Jews.”

Evidence has been presented to link Grobart to the Leon Trotsky assassination, and less strong evidence to the Julio Antonio Mella assassination.

Although the party Grobart helped found was not the first Cuban communist party, it is considered as such by the present Cuban government.

His son(?) Fabio Grobart Sunshine has a number of publications and is highly placed among the Cuban Nomenclatura.

I am preparing a major footnote in my book on Grobart and I am will to share some (but not all (:>) citations) to this major figure in Cuban history. Could somebody be so kind as too open such an article El Jigue 1-12-07 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.65.188.149 (talk) 19:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Beardo did quite and bit more then took a rest from Fabio Grobart you may want to take another look at it. Thank you. El Jigue 1-14-06

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting/Translations

Have you see this Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Scouting/Translations#Project_mediator_offer? English Subtitle 22:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maureen Starkey and Barbara Bach

Thank you for removing the boxes from those articles - as you can see in the history I've been trying to remove them for a while now but kept getting reverted and eventually blocked for it.--90.240.140.197 00:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Havana

Hi Beardo, can you check syntax of images captions that I upload and posted on Havana page? Thanks a lot... ZorphDark

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I, A mcmurray, hearby award you, Beardo this Barnstar of Diligence for your due diligence in ensuring the accuracy of the information in the article Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County Thematic Resources and all of its realted sub-articles.A mcmurray 07:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About Moa

Beardo, I think you must delete that reference to Moa as "el culo del mundo" it means in English "the arse of the world" and it's pretty offensive if any wikipedian user from Moa see that article maybe will get very angry, because you are ofending them telling their town is called the arse of the world, and that's not true, as I know. KatKiller 08:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Holguin tree & ataxia

Hi, thanks for your talk, go and check 4 my answers, first I think that the Holguin tree section in Holguín article must not be there, it have nothing to do with that Cuban city or province and it is not consistent... and second I'll try to contribute with some scientific information about the Ataxia in Holguín... I'll try to help w/ a good article ... another thing: I can see you're interested in Cuban Cinema, I know someone who could help you w/ some good info, she is a kind of Cuban cinema specialist but can only talk in Spanish and basic English: Here is her link, she is completly new in Wiki... but knows a lot about Cuban cinema....well... hope you'll be in touch...KatKiller 07:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Live through This

WP:Album specifies that "prepositions ("to", "over", "through")" are not to be capitalised. Spearhead 10:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Something for your mantlepiece

Here's something for your mantlepiece, Beardo. Add to it if you can!

I have a challenge for you also, Beardo. To find as many interesting facts around the Cuban articles as possible to add to the rotating content section of this page Portal:Cuba/DYK. If we get enough we could have 5 for each day of the month on automatic rotation. Are you able to rise to such a challenge?-- Zleitzen^(talk) 04:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gracias por escribir

Hola! Gracias por la bienvenida, puedes escribir en inglés o español, pero preferentemente en el último, veo que tienes varias cosas de cine, ya veremos como intercambiar ya que dedico gran parte de mi carrera al estudio de cine cubano, así que cuando quieras nos ponemos en contacto. Saludos BethFK —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.220.222.140 (talk) 04:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Abogado-Notario

Hi.. I was wondering if you could get me a definition of ABOGADO-NOTARIO.. I know the literal translation is Attorney-Notary, but what is the difference between that and a plain lawyer? Since you are in Cuba I thought maybe you could inform me or maybe you could make an article on it? My family is full of abogado-notarios (pre-1960), but I was wondering what were the duties or powers they had and the process one had to go through to become one. Is there a listing somewhere in the Ministry of Justice of all the abogados-notarios in cuba? I know its a lot to ask, but I was curious. Callelinea 15:19, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Elizabeth Stuart

hello there, thank you for your message. That's odd, the talk page did not get moved along with article back then, I thought it would always do so automatically. I have moved it to Talk:Elizabeth Stuart, I hope that is what you asked for. Thank you for bringing that problem up. sincerely Gryffindor 22:58, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Meissen as controversial

I notice that you have moved Meissen to the controversial section of WP:RM. I left the following comment to support that it is not so and was a move done in error (I have changed some of it with clarifications):

There was no consensus for a move to Meißen nine months ago (that cannot be applied to a restorative move to Meissen since using the non-consensus only rationalizes the "argument" that the move to Meißen is wrong). Also, this current move to Meißen is erroneously attributed to a convention. The use of Meissen in English is dominate and if anything, suggesting that a restoration from a move in error is controversial is itself controversial :P If the opposite were the case (moving Meissen to Meißen), that would not be supported by any of Wikipedia's conventions, not even the current conventions for German place names.

In summary:

The Meissen → Meißen request nine months ago did not occur because there was no consensus
The Meissen → Meißen move occured recently but is not supported by any cited convention
The Meißen → Meissen request cannot surely be argued against on the basis of a failed move request of Meissen → Meißen when the current request is restorative and non-controversial in that Meissen is the dominate English usage.
And indeed, the argument that the non-consensus outcome of Meissen → Meißen nine months ago precludes a restorative move of Meißen → Meissen makes no sense: Meissen → Meißen should not have occurred anyway if that was the case :P

Cheers! Charles 01:46, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Conversely, the present move was done with no discussion and is not supported by any convention. A restorative move is in order. If it had still been an issue, it would have continued to be discussed. Controversiality cannot be said to have permanence. Charles 02:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Currency Image:Cuban 3 peso note.gif

Hi, To assist global anti-counterfeiting efforts you may wish to consider marking images of banknotes you upload as "Specimen" in some way, if those banknotes represent legal tender.ShakespeareFan00 17:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Thanks for your note. The image came from the Cuban Central Bank's website, so I guess they aren't worried about forgeries. The image quality is not really good enough to copy, and anyway 3 pesos are worth about 13.5 cents US money, so it would probably cost more to forge one than it is worth. -- Beardo 02:48, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. OK. If it's from an offical site. You might want to add your comments above to the rationale though, Your discretion :) ShakespeareFan00 09:38, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Marianao

I added a comment on the talk page re the reputation of Marianao (Havana, Cuba) in case you are interested. --121.209.163.1 13:11, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Challenge

I respectfully draw your attention to my recent comments at horse slaughter, whose title change you opposed. BrainyBabe 16:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Osmany Cienfuegos

Honestly, even I am not sure how it is spelled.. If I look it up on the internet I find it spelled both ways.. I'm going to go with the y at the end now because I see it spelled that way more often from actual Cuban government sources. Callelinea 23:48, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Echobinary

Just wondering why you tagged this article as db-author, since the original author of the article neither blanked the page or requested its deletion. It was already tagged as db-bio anyway. Darksun 17:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Koyampattur

According to The World Gazetteer, Koyampattur or Koyampatur are alternate names for Coimbatore. [5] Reinis^talk 16:24, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maytag

All those Maytags are confusing, I hope we have them all correct. My family lived in Cuba from 1910-1914. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, before my time. Here is the story: [6] Do you know if it is possible to get birth certificates for Cuban births, I have several family members that were born there.

Ha! Americans still cannot travel to Cuba, unless they were born there. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 05:27, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Would like your opinion on a subject

Heya Beardo,

As you and Duggy are the most active contributors to the Conan the Barbarian Talk Page, I would like to solicit your opinion on the subject of cutting or revamping the "In popular culture" section of the article.

Regards,

Flask —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 23:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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rear admiral and/or Rear Admiral, but Rear admiral?

I posted the following on the talk page, but as yet have had no response. Perhaps you can explain it to me?

I've read the above discussions with interest, and I can understand how it could be titled "rear admiral" or "Rear Admiral", but I can not understand how the above discussion resulted in "Rear admiral". The most quoted example is "Rear Admiral X is a rear admiral". "Rear admiral X is a Rear admiral" was never justified, or even advocated, yet that's what the article ended up being called. Can someone explain this to me please? Pdfpdf 14:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks in anticipation of your reply, Pdfpdf 12:25, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cuba in Africa

i've recently put in a lenghty article on Cuba in Angola and put additions to that end into verious other places (cuba history etc). i'm long from done, my article raised a lot of opposition, and i'd appreciate your help.Sundar1 (talk) 18:32, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Havana page Vandalism

Hello Beardo, the Havana wikipage lately has seen an increased number of vandalism, is there any way to temporarily lock it? Await for your help, Thanks. DanishWolf (talk) 02:32, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A new Oxbridge user box

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Afd for Alonso R. del Portillo

Hi, I was wondering if you could give your imput on this article. Thanks. Callelinea (talk) 23:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:Jim Steinman productions

Notability of Lucy Russell (actress)

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Respect Thread Conversions

I'm looking for folks to help convert Respect Threads to wiki formatting on Project Fanboy: WikiFans. Respect Threads, showcase scans of feats performed by comic book characters and have gained an audience on several comic book message boards. A few other wiki editors and myself are trying to convert them from the unprofessional look of a bunch of posts on a message board to the formatting common with WikiMedia wiki's. To view an example of what we're doing, here is a link to Respect Silver Surfer.

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Jeremy Theobald

The article Jeremy Theobald hasn't been copied from anywhere - I wrote most of it from scratch. Fences and windows (talk) 00:22, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Cuba

— Navy Blue ^{formerly iDosh} 20:56, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ben Mullany

Hi. I've altered your "merge" template so that when you click "discuss" it takes you to his talk page where we have already posted, rather than the "honeymoon murders" talk page. I was inclined just to do the redirect, but I checked with the closing admin from the AfD and was advised to post on the talk page and give it a week to see if there were any objections. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hurricane Gustav

I've changed the redirect back to Hurricane Gustav (2008). Among other things, Wikipedia should follow the "principle of least astonishment". 99% of readers typing "Hurricane Gustav" into the search box want information on the hurricane that is happening now. Let's send them directly to that article, not force them to click again, after scanning down a disambiguation page.

In October or November, assuming that this Hurricane Gustav doesn't become as famous as the 2005 Hurricane Katrina, then I have much less objection to changing the redirect back, to point to the disambiguation page. But at the moment I have a very strong opinion that we should not punish readers by forcing them into disambiguation pages out of some sense of fairness for a bunch of Wikipedia articles, or a desire to give equality to all hurricanes named Gustav. (You might take a look at WP:DAB, which says that the most important things get treated differently than less important things.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:29, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Cuban cuisine question

Sorry if I was a bit snippy in the edit summary - I hadn't read yours at the time. Potaje can be pretty much any Cuban or Spanish soup that includes potatoes as a major ingredient, while sopa is Spanish for the more general "soup". Thus sopa is the correct term for black bean soup, as potatoes are generally not involved. Zeng8r (talk) 19:28, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cuban housing

Re Culture of Cuba#housing: Can you give a reference source to support the present version? (for example, a reference to the present Cuban law on property). Can you clarify what 'owns' means in this context? For example, in some countries there is a distinction between freehold and leasehold ownership. Although space is at a premium in these overview articles, the topic deserves a slightly fuller treatment than it has at present. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:10, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Andrea Marino vs Moreno

I do not know ~~your~~ the reason for changing Moreno to Marino, but I presume because the name "Marino" was used once in one of the episode. However I put the source in (a book written by the producers Ian Sander and Kim Moses), because it officially stated "Moreno" in all parts of the book. If you change that, that would make the reference I put in as incorrect, therefore please change to the reference that says her name is "Marino". I am done with reverting this (it was several times changed and reverted), so I'll leave the others to decide. Please see the talk page. w.tanoto-soegiri (talk) 08:53, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive me for blaming you too early. Very rude of me. just checked the edit history and it was not you who changed it to Marino in the first place. I noted that you changed "Andrea Marino" article redirect. However a help would be appreciated to decide whether to use Marino or Moreno. Apologiesw.tanoto-soegiri (talk) 08:58, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please ignore my earlier message. I found a solution. The problem is that in the episodes, it uses Marino, while in writings such as book and internet, it uses Moreno. w.tanoto-soegiri (talk) 09:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Music in We Own the Night

I thought you might be interested that I answered your old question at Talk:We Own the Night#Music. Hoof Hearted (talk) 20:18, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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re your article American Prayer (song)

I had the article you created, American Prayer (song), merged into American Prayer (Bono song). It appears that you accidentally created an article on the same subject using a slightly less disambiguated title. The other article is about a year older and even before i edited it it was larger. Also as there is a Jim Morrison song & album that while not exactly of the same title is commonly known by the same title the disambiguation to the principle songwriter is done. If you have anything more to add please do. Your previous edits are retained in the history of the merged article. I would like to thank you for your reference to wired.com as it does counter the otherwise overly praise-filed comments from other media outlets and it is not somewhere i would have thought to look for a reference. delirious & lost ☯ ^~нuɢѕ~ 04:26, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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ArcelorMittal Orbit

When is this being completed. The article says by December. It is now December so we should either have an exact date for this month or something for next year. Sorry that I did not put a specific comment, but I manually tagged about 50 -100 articles for this same problem while fix the categories on about 10,000 articles. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:34, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Lurex (attractant)

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Virginia Poe

Hi there! I removed a fact tag you added to Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe because a source has already been provided (not in the lede where it was tagged, but in the main part of the article). I see your point, however, that "Ligeia" was published a bit early for it to be heavily influenced by a then-healthy Virginia. I suppose one could argue that the frequent revisions and republications, including the addition of the poem "The Conqueror Worm" were influenced by her illness. With that said, however, I would not oppose its removal from the article as an example. --Midnightdreary (talk) 11:08, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Peaks and Mountains

Are the same thing of course but have different names. Hence my disambiguation page over redirect for Taylor Peak. GNIS database indicates about a dozen Taylor PEAK and more than 50 Taylor MOUNTAIN so we use correct title for these according to GNIS and topographic maps. I can ensure each disambiguation page has the correct data and perhaps link with a see also each of the two disambiguation pages to each other.MONGO 11:44, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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A belated answer

Do you remember asking this [7]?

I have an answer for you but it may be disappointing. I visited the Piscina Mirabilis last week while on holiday in Campania, and my guide convinced me that it was never a cistern in the first place. In his view, it is much more likely that the vast concrete pillars that are the most prominent feature are nothing more than foundations for a villa, or an extension to a villa. The place is very hilly, and anyone with enough money and grand ambitions for his villa might well have resorted to such construction. The pillars seem far too massive if all they had to do was support a roof.

So far as my guide and I are aware, there is no reference to such a cistern in any contemporary sources; apparently the name was coined in the C18th. Certainly there are several holes at the top of the uphill side that could have admitted water from an aqueduct, but the course of the Aqua Augusta has never been traced. Equally, there is a hole in the middle of the bottom of the opposite wall that could have been an outlet, but there's no evidence that it was - no pipes or channels to a castellum aquae. In my view, one of the most damning facts - I'm sorry now I didn't take a photo, but I was short of space on my camera's memory card - is that the supposed outlet is right at the bottom of the wall, not some way up as it should be for a cistern that would be expected to function as a settling tank. Finally, there is, I was told, another similar structure not very far away on the other side of the hill.

I'm sure that such a large, dark, cool space would have been a useful storage space for the inhabitants of the villa above, but I have seen no convincing evidence it was ever a cistern. I'm keen to get to the bottom of this and update the article accordingly, but right now I'm struggling to find suitable sources. Philip Trueman (talk) 15:48, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

of course it was a cistern. The waterproof cement used everywhere and the architecture is identical to Roman cisterns elsewhere. Hope that guide is not still spreading fake news.Rjdeadly (talk) 08:29, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Eisner - Wonderman

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A cupcake for you!

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Category:Wikipedians who like Black Mirror

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In re: the Luke Rhinehart title change (move) to George Cockroft

The referenced earlier discussion is in that talk section, dated in 2011. It was just never acted upon. With those two discussing editors, and my vote, there are three in favour (at least). But as an unregistered editor, per Jimmy, while I have a voice, I haven't the right to take the action. Please do, thanks. 2601:246:C700:9B0:882C:FD18:E946:D29E (talk) 04:30, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Progressive rock/symphonic rock

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for keeping us informed regarding Cuba since 2006! RenaatPeeters (talk) 23:09, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Links to disambiguation pages

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Neil Young template

If we're going by the discog page, Rust Never Sleeps should be categorized as a studio album as well as Life, no? The attributes of the two (all new material, mostly live with two studio tracks) are quite similar. Personally, I'm still of the mind that each is a live album simply because greater than half of their content was performed live, but I'm interested to hear your thoughts. 24JGM (talk) 01:07, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of D. C. Thomson (disambiguation)

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Disambiguation page is not required: David Couper Thomson is linked in the lead of DC Thomson

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Proposed deletion of Ben Gunn (guitarist)

The article Ben Gunn (guitarist) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not meet notability requirements of an individual band member per WP:BANDMEMBER. Article is almost entirely unsourced.

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