User talk:Fbarw

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Revisions to "abandonment" article

On 20 September, Coolcaesar deleted my edits of this article, explaining: “Reverting edits in clear violation of official policy Wikipedia: Wikipedia is not a dictionary (or a thesaurus or usage guide), please go to Wiktionary”. Here is my reply:

Thanks for your guidance. I have revised my edits accordingly, eliminating all non-legal definitions while maintaining improvements in the original. These changes do the following:

1. Revises the cover paragraph to make it clear that the article deals only with legal and quasi-legal uses (with other meanings to be sought in Wiktionary).
2. Deletes the images, as they all pertain to non-legal uses.
3. Amplifies the general legal definition of “abandonment”, and inserts a link to “waiver”.
4. Adds a mention of “taciturnity” in Scots law.
5. Adds brief references to “dereliction”, “derelict”, “abandonee”, “relinquishment”, “res nullius” and “squatting”, with links where they exist. As these are all legal terms directly related to abandonment, they seem appropriate to this article.
6. Adds a sentence defining “abandonment” to an insurer, a reference and link to “constructive total loss”, and an additional definition relating to carriage of goods.
7. “Abandonment of trademark” is moved up to follow copyright and a paragraph on patents is added, bringing the three paragraphs on intellectual property protection together.
8. A sentence is added to cover abandonment in transport regulation, preceding the existing sentence on English practice.
9. A link to “dereliction of duty” is added to the paragraph on military law.
10. Sentences on “desertion” and “malicious abandonment” are inserted preceding the existing sentence on child abandonment, to which is added the terms “exposure” and “exposition”.
11. The paragraph on “abandonment of an easement” is given greater precision.
12. Reorders paragraphs to group paragraphs related to property at the top of the article.
13. Removes headings, as the article now deals only with legal aspects.

There is one point on which I would appreciate help. The paragraph on “abandonment of an action” deals solely with practices in the United Kingdom. Can something be added to make this more universal, like the sentence on transport regulation?--~~

external links

Thank your for your contributions. PLease keep in mind that not all external links are velid references in wikipedia. Please see the guidline, wikipedia:Reliable sources. In particular, this link is not good: there is no evidence ha this site is maintained by an expert in subject. `'Míkka >t 01:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hotshot

I linked "hotshot" on the shit page to Hotshot (stock character) because that seemed like the closest definition to the usage of the word. If you think another definition is closer link to that, but surely it does not mean all 17 definitions listed on the disambiguation page¹.--Naughtius Maximus F@H Woof! MeowMUN 07:37, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good point: "hot shit" refers to only one meaning of "hot shot". But as far as I know, its use to praise a person is the commonest meaning. I restored the link to "hotshot" but revised the "hotshot" disambiguation page to place this meaning at the top, followed by your "stock character". Unfortunately, since paragraphs are not numbered, I can't think of a better way to single out one meaning, except by the phrase "said of a person". See Urban Dictionary: Hot Shit - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hot%20Shit, which cites only this sense of "better than the rest".Fbarw (talk) 20:44, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good work!

Hi Fbarw, I've noticed you've been doing some really good work on the fiduciary page, and I just wanted to drop a line to say, well done! Why don't you give yourself a user page? And if you wanted to be ambitious, I think that the English trust law page (I'm assuming you're British, or maybe from the Commonwealth) wouldn't mind some attention at all! But keep it up, and drop me a line if I can help. Wik idea 14:55, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your encouragement. Hate to disillusion you, but I'm not a lawyer, only an American (but thanks for the compliment) in New York City, and a retired editor and writer for a large intergovernmental organization. I'm developing procedures allowing me to edit articles on almost any non-mathematical topic without knowing much about the subject. I try to be conservative, so as not to mess up a perfectly good text. What many of the articles need is modest reorganization so that one paragraph follows logically upon another, as well as a few definitions and a hefty dollop of external and internal links. I intend to do a little more with fiduciary and, taking advantage of your offer, I hope you watch closely to pick up any errors.

While I have visited London twice already (in the previous century), I don't think I'm ready to tackle English trust law. Fbarw (talk) 02:54, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, well maybe I read the revision history wrong. Anyway, it's always good to see someone doing a bit of cleanup work. All the best Wik idea 11:50, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arabic equivalent at Abacá

From your question at the Helpdesk, I took a look at the Arabic equivalent of the article Abacá that you added: http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/موز_النسيج. It doesn't look like that article exists on the Arabic Wikipedia, however; did you mean a different article? -- Natalya 18:57, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You looked at the right article. I was just informed that this list is for articles in other editions, not a simple list of language equivalents. Therefore I'll delete my erroneous changes to Abacá. Fbarw (talk) 19:03, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cool - thanks for taking care of it! -- Natalya 19:07, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bacteria

Thanks for the edits. Tim Vickers (talk) 21:39, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation in Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission

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I have copyedited and reinstated this article, which was deleted by Orange Mike. --Geronimo20 (talk) 00:56, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks. It's better than the original. Fbarw (talk) 21:15, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. You're doing good work. Hang in there, and don't let the odd editor who bites newbies get to you! --Geronimo20 (talk) 02:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cochlear spoon?

What's up with this? Is it mentioned in one the articles you linked from Cochlear? It needs to be, or it's not a proper disambig entry. I've removed it again. Did I miss something? Dicklyon (talk) 05:23, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You couldn't find it in the linked articles because I didn't properly link them. The cochlear spoon is actually in the List of types of spoons rather than in the spoon article. Also, I just added it to the Eastern Orthodox Church article in the Holy Communion section. But best of all, I just discovered the Spoon (liturgy) article, where cochlear was not mentioned until I added it. I've now returned this spoon to its case among the other cochlears, with the proper links. Thanks for calling attention to this matter. Fbarw (talk) 21:41, 8 January 2009 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cochlear"

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