User talk:David Schaich/Archives/Archive2006

Kiyomi Tsujimoto

Will you please point out any groundless descriptions about Kiyomi Tsujimoto to me. And it is not me that wrote about diazepam. I have no interest and knowledge in pharmacy.--129.120.103.223 06:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

As I said on the Tsujimoto talk page, I am glad to see that the stuff on the page was not blind vandalism. To have accusations of anti-Americanism and 'unwillingness to protect the lives of the Japanese people' thrown into a page (especially a page on a controversial politician) by an anonymous user without discussion or sourcing severely strains credibility. As I noted on the talk page, I am not an expert on Tjusimoto (I was only watching the page since I had run across it while researching Doi Takako and the JSP for a history class) and was eager for someone to provide more information, as you have done, albeit anonymously. Thank you for that.

If you would rather not be confused with the vandals using the same IP address, you should get a user ID instead of editing articles anonymously. If your IP is used for vandalism, whether or not you personally are responsible, it will be blocked. -David Schaich 18:55, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Sukhumi Massacre

Dear David, Thanks for correcting Sukhumi Massacre. Can you please tell me what was the official language of USSR according to USSR constitution? Thanks in advance. All the best. p.s I added sources, will add more.Ldingley 21:11, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

To my knowledge the USSR did not have an official language specified in its Constitution. Each Union Republic was probably able to establish its own official languages in its own Constitution, which always included Russian and usually the language of the titular nationality (Estonian, Georgian, etc). Starting around 1930, however, there was strong pressure for all Soviet citizens to learn Russian, which acquired the status of a de facto official language.

I took a couple minutes to browse a few USSR Constitutions. Article 45 of the 1977 Constitution guarantees that all students "the opportunity to attend a school where teaching is in the native language". Article 34 bans discrimination on the basis of language, among other things. Article 159 states "Judicial proceedings shall be conducted in the language of the Union Republic, Autonomous Republic, Autonomous Region, or Autonomous Area, or in the language spoken by the majority of the people in the locality." In the 1936 ("Stalin") Constitution, the latter is Article 110, which reads "Judicial proceedings are conducted in the language of the Union Republic, Autonomous Republic or Autonomous Region." I'm not finding much of anything else related to language. Many of these provisions were probably widely ignored, especially during the Stalin years.

I'm glad to hear about the sources. The Sukhumi massacre sounds like an important event and it will be good to have it as fully documented as possible. -David Schaich 21:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Dear David, Thank you very much for your help and quotes from USSR constitution. I just had an argument with some Russian guy about this issue and he assured me that Russian was given an official de jure status by some law which had nothing to do with constitution and therefore USSR based on that law had an official de jure language (Russian). This surely is a mistake. In Estonian or Georgian SSR the official language (de jure) was not Russian, it only existed as de facto language. Anyway thanks again. BTW how can I insert the citations? All the best David. Ldingley 19:23, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: citations. I'm not an expert on Wikipedia shortcuts, but if you have a bibliography at the end of an article, I would think parenthetical citations (Chervonnaia 13) would suffice. It's also possible to put in footnotes using the tags <ref>*Footnote goes here*</ref>. The notes can be printed by inserting the <references /> tag further down the article. I just found a rather lot of related info here that I haven't looked at yet. -David Schaich 20:07, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Dear David, Thanks a lot, i will do it on monday. If you have time please review the article Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia. Thanks again. Ldingley 21:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Sonnon

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My own fault for messing up a simple redirect. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Contrib 03:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

S. C. Babington

Hi David! I thought I should let you know I removed the {{importance}} tag from S. C. Babington. I left a note on the talk page there as well. To my knowledge, no Olympic athlete has ever been removed via AfD despite a number of attempts on some athletes with relatively unremarkable performances. I feel that this has demonstrated community consensus that Olympic competition is noteworthy in and of itself; if you disagree that such consensus exists, please feel free to nominate S. C. Babington for deletion. -- Jonel | Speak 01:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Simon Jordan

Hi could you please tell he why you deleted my comments on simon jordan as in you look under the rules of the site on giving a fair opinion and representation to all views, as my comments were in response to those under "Buying Palace" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Goodkarma84 (talk • contribs) 02:35, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I think you know, but I can be explicit if you want: your comments (and even more so, those of the person who edited after you and brought my attention to the article) were clearly unencyclopedic, violated WP:NPOV, and bordered on vandalism and attack. This is an encyclopedia, not a blog or message board, and respect for "all veiws" does not mean anything goes. Also, please sign your posts on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 02:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

the other posting was nothing to do with me and he is known as mr tango due to his fake tan, also he is well known for being jealous of charlton and richard murray as said this after the writ was issued which is stated in the article already.

Goodkarma84 02:56, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: SP and IWW linkspam

Hi David. Unfortunately, I don't know how to contact that user beside the IP address and username listed in the Boxcar Betty AfD (which I see you've already done). It doesn't look like the user has been active since January and I doubt they set up their email address. Also, the IP address is in a large network allocation in the UK ("Telewest Broadband"), so you won't be able to go through the network contacts like you could if it were a small university or something. I wouldn't know to do anything more than you already have. Sorry. Mike Dillon 18:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

redirects

Please don't change redirects to pipes. The cost of following a redirect is negligible, and (while I can't imagine this would happen in the case of your recent edits at John R. Steel) once in a while the redirect is split out into its own article. If that happens, the link will usually point to the "right" article if left as a redirect. --Trovatore 17:49, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Will do. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 17:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

ISBNs

Dear David,

I see you've been changing the newer 13-digit ISBNs into the 10-digit ones. Does Wikipedia have a policy on this? From the end of this year, 13-digit ISBNs will be the norm for new books, I think. Do let me know

Thanks!

--Duncan 09:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC).

So far I've only replaced one 13-digit ISBN (on Leon Trotsky), since a bot had tagged it as invalid. (To be honest, I barely looked at the ISBN, I just googled for the author/title and copied in and checked the 10-digit ISBN I found.) I'm not sure whether it was tagged because it had 13 digits or because the checksum didn't work out. It may also be necessary to use {{ISBN-13|9780415232517}} instead of plain old ISBN 9780415232517, though they seem to produce the same result.

I've now tested the 13-digit ISBNs link with Amazon and LibraryThing, both of which break, so it might cause headaches to start using 13-digit ISBNs at the moment. At some point, however, those problems needs to be taken care of...

Sorry I don't have that much info. The bot that objected to the ISBN is run by Rich Farmbrough, so he might have a better idea of the issues (there's some discussion of the digit issue on his talk page). WP:ISBN is not really helpful, but Template:Auto isbn is intriguing. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 19:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

ISBNs redux

From User talk:Jeffq#ISBNs:

On the subject of ISBNs, I've noticed that the ISBN you put into many articles on Firefly episodes ("Firefly — The Complete Series DVD set (ISBN 6308024716)") has been flagged as invalid. I'm just curious as to how a DVD set has a "book number" -- I was going to remove the ISBN, but I thought I should check with you first.

As for adding dashes, I tend not to bother trying to figure out where they go. I figure I can just put it in without dashes, the bot can add them properly if it wants. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 23:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

DVDs often have ISBNs as well as UPCs, just like books do. For example, the Serenity DVD I'm holding in my hand is UPC 025192632723 and ISBN 1-4170-3050-X. However, I noticed, too, that the Firefly DVD boxed-set ISBN was being flagged, and took a look. I must say I have no recollection of where I got that number from! I don't think I got it from the boxed set, because my copy has a vendor barcode slapped on top of the published barcode, and I hadn't tried to remove it. I will have to do some digging to find out where this comes from, or else we'll just have to remove it. (I don't know why it was flagged, as it appears to have the correct checksum, using Morovia Barcode Library's web form.)

One problem I'd forgotten about when I started doing ISBN updates was that the new ISBN-13 system is in place in the publishing industry, and is supposed to be the official primary numbering system for books as of 1 Jan 2007. The transitional ISBN-13 codes (which are valid permanent EAN-13 codes) take the first 9 digits of the old codes, prefix them with a "978", and add a new checksum digit. That's why many recent books have two related book codes in addition to their 12-digit UPCs. (More info is available at isbn.org.) Now that I recall that, I'm thinking that some of the updates I did were in the wrong direction; i.e., 978 codes should be left in place. The problem is that, just like with HDTV and the U.S. broadcasting industry, booksellers (like Amazon.com) and other organizations (like Wikipedia) seem to be dragging their heels on adoption, unwilling to invest the effort in supporting the new system until they absolutely have to.

I'm a bit preoccupied with some major policy revision over at en:Wikiquote right now, but I hope to look into this a bit more, find out what SmackBot and other ISBN updaters are doing and why, and resume my work once I understand the WP situation better. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

ISBN info, Amsterdam's Magna Plaza

The ISBN information is useful, thanks. I will now clean up some mistakes in formatting I have left. I went to your travel pictures on your site. Great shots, and I wanted to tell you that yes, you guess right, Magna Plaza was not built as a shopping mall. It was built as a headquarters for the Dutch post office. Like many European countries, post, telegraph and telephone were run by a single government organization. In the Netherlands it was, and a part of it still is, called the PTT. Magna Plaza was not all bureaucracy offices though. At one time the building had huge mail sorting areas and telegraph/telephone switchboards. It was designed by C.P. Peters, and completed in 1899.CApitol3 14:09, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info! -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 15:12, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Socialist Party

Thanks for changing that for me, I guess I never actually read the purpose of the article. In regards, to the list of social democratic parties, Quebec Solidaire wasn't on there so I added but Bloc Quebecois and Parti Quebecois which I don't see them as social democratic parties but I didn't change anything User:Whoneedspants 23:35, 15 September 2006 (UTC-6)

Kaplowitz etc.

David! Thank you so much! How embarrassing (I got a phone call and completely lost my train of thought) and I very much apologize. I wanted to thank you for your work in this article, even though I challenge the "wiki importance" of it. As someone who has tried in the past to pump up odd stubs to preserve them, I admire your work and want to tell you to please feel that you can advocate for it in the AfD if you feel its important. I know that TFA has too few critical voices, and as someone who completed the program, I do wish that more of them were heard. I just think that Kaplowitz is a bit of a hack, and probably a pretty bad teacher. I would rather, and should really, work on an article for Linda Darling Hammond et al. to provide that criticism. Sorry this is so long! Again I really apologize for leaving it hanging, and thanks for finishing it. Yours, H0n0r 03:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

People's History of the United States criticism section

Please explain your mass deletion of content from the People's History page. I plan to revert but wanted to give you the chance to justify your "clean-up" activity. Skywriter 18:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello,

I removed much of the criticism of the criticism. If I recall correctly, the main content I removed was (1) two or three paragraphs on whether or not George Washington was the richest person in the early US, along with (2) an extended quote from a review of Voices...'. The first struck me as a strawman, since Flynn discussed much more in his article. I replaced the discussion of Washington with a summary of his criticisms. The second I replaced with a summary that contains much of the same information, but more compactly and without borderline copyvio.

I think the best course of action would be for you to add in what you think needs to be in the section instead of simply reverting. Hopefully after a couple rounds of constuctive contributions we'll be able to reach a consensus on the best form for the section.

I hope you don't mind that I altered the title of this section for my reference.

-David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 18:22, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, I see I was too slow for you. I should also mention that I went through and converted all the ugly inline links to references. Since those have now been reverted back to their unformatted state, I'll probably not bother going through the article and rewriting them, but will revert back to my version. Since you have objected to that version, I'll see if I can find a way to include another paragraph or two in the criticism section. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 18:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

A.N.S.W.E.R.

Dear David:

Do not presume because you disagree with my assesment of ANSWER that is incorrect. I have stated the C-Span references to confirm my edit. Do not remove you are the one engaged in vandalism

MagicKirin (MagicKirin (talk · contribs))

Accusing an organization of supporting terrorism against the United States and Israel needs real, cited, reliable references, not off-hand remarks about C-Span. Thanks, David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 16:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC).

Thanks for dealing with this David. Kalkin 17:35, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Both of you need to check my ADL refrence of 8/2006 but someone already erased it. That should be sufficent reference. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MagicKirin (talk • contribs) 17:38, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Organized Labour

Hi David. I saw your name on the project page, and thought I would say hello and welcome. Always good to see another editor interested in Labour. Cheers.--Bookandcoffee 01:01, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your welcome. I'm not an expert on many labour issues, but I am somewhat handy with writing and formatting, so I expect to focus on gnome and fairy work. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 17:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Alexandru Marin

David, There is no copyright on the material I wrote on the Alexandru Marin page (I know its available on Steves page but he aproved the page). Anyway, I accept your editing. Thanks. - Valentin Oct 12, 2006

I'm glad my edited version works for you, because the page the text seems to have been taken from says "Copyright CERN 2006 -- ATLAS Experiment" at the bottom.

PS -- Do you mean Steve Ahlen? I'm actually taking his E&M course sequence right now. Small world. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 17:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Republics of the Soviet Union

Ooops! Thanks for catching my overzealous fix of the disambiguation link at the start of the Republics of the Soviet Union article. I had been keeping an eye out for dab links in templates, and missed this one somehow. Thanks again! --Kralizec! (talk) 19:09, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks but no thanks.

You left me {{anon}} on my user page. I appreciate the welcome and the suggestion that I get a username. As you can see from my contributions I'm not new around here. Indeed, I used to have a username and edited that way. Editing anonymously is my way of limiting the amount of time I spend on Wikipedia, and it prevents me from getting inmeshed administrative disputes (like AfD, etc) that I got involved in when I edited with a username. So thanks, but no thanks. 71.77.12.236 00:33, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank You

Thanks for the help on Reverting pages, I was doing my usual rounds in the "Recent Changes" Category and it is always being vandalized during school hours. Again, Thank You! Regards Carlo V. Sexron Carlo V. Sexron 22:00, 11 December 2006 (UTC)�

user name

Thanks for the info. User:DGG directs properly. I suppose DGG worked before because there was no article of that name. But I think this is the inevitable result of using a short abbreviation as my name. If there are nuances that I do not recognize, please let me know.DGG 18:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the good advice--I had done just that and fixed it as you indicated.--I hope it works. I imagine we have some special interest in common--perhaps socialism?User:DGG 19:06, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I imagine so. I saw your remark on Talk:Debs Tendency and wondered why the German Geophysical Society was editing Wikipedia. Your signature points to the right page now, and if you want to be fancy you can further change it to [[User:DGG|DGG]], which will link to the right page while displaying just the DGG part. -David Schaich ^Talk/_Cont 00:18, 30 December 2006 (UTC)