User talk:JohnSmithbubba

Klondike Dredge photo

Thanks for adding info to this historic photo. I never really thought it through...

Nice old photo, more valuable now. Best, Pete Tillman (talk) 19:49, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Wording deletion

I know your wording deletion in the Kulak article http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kulak&diff=311341875&oldid=308443922 was well-meant and in good faith. While the phrase does have two unusual meanings in English, it is actually also a word meaning "Having a large endowment or amount of money." http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/well-endowed IE, inherited assets of land and/or money. It's also possible that the writer was not a native speaker of English, and used a close translation of a Russian phrase, I don't know. However, I think we are obligated to substitute some equivalent wording for the phrase removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkech (talk • contribs) 05:31, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Tkech, you are correct regarding the definition. I made the edit on September 01, 2009 to the Kulak article to remove instances of "well-endowed" quite a long time after I noticed some sneaky vandalism. Please take a look at the Revision as of 00:20, 22 April 2009 (edit) (undo) 139.62.149.244 to see what I mean. I noticed the vandalism, but I did not correct it at the time. "well-endowed" trickled into the article, and since I knew its origin, I deleted all instances of it.JohnSmithbubba (talk) 09:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I see your point on the 22 April edit, it definitely was vandalism. Thanks very much for explaining that part. However, the addition of the term in the first paragraph was made on 22 October 2008, by editor Zlerman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zlerman who appears to have some real life qualifications on this subject. Please take a look and see what you think. Tkech (talk) 07:47, 17 September 2009 (UTC)