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Bias in Salomone Rossi

Hi.. just noticed you had put a biased template on the talk page of musician Salomone Rossi. Could you possible explain what parts you think are biased, it might help me to resolve the bias. Zargulon 15:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I simply moved it from the article page to the talk page. I have no idea why it was put on the article page to begin with. --mav

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Photographs of Georgia

I notice you have contributed some rather nice photographs to Wikipedia. There is a particular statue in Georgia that Wikipedia lacks a free use photograph of: the original Spirit of the American Doughboy is in Nashville, Georgia, facing East on the Northwest corner of Berrien County Courthouse Square – near the intersection of Marion Avenue and Davis Street, and can be seen on this page. A free photograph would be wonderful, I wondered whether you happened to have one in your collection or, if you ever happen to head out that way, you would be able to take one? Many thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, TheGrappler 15:31, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. I will be in that area in a month or two. --mav

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Proposed Georgia Move

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 03:53, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lincoln County War

Your article on this subject is great, it's obvious you really know what you're talking about. However, you may need more reliable sources.

Thanks. I only used one source (the Gunfighters by TimeLife), so yeah, other better sources are needed. -- mav

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Proposed revision of hypercomplex number article

Dear Maveric149,

I've added a few concerns to the discussion page of the hypercomplex number article. I'm currently soliciting comment from various parties, including you (since you'd initially created the article). Any feedback is appreciated; if you are in disagreement, or have a different suggestion, please respond on the discussion page of hypercomplex number, to simplify the discussion.

Thanks, Jens Koeplinger 15:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I've just posted a rewrite to this article which you initially created, and would appreciate any comment or help. Thanks, Jens Koeplinger 22:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Proper article titles

I see where you moved [1] Académie des Sciences to French Academy of Sciences with the reason: moving back to English name - this is the form most used in English.

I agree with you that we should adopt the form most used in English as there seems to be much confusion and contradiction with a number of Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia currently appears to have a large number of articles with their foreign language title, yet others that do not. Example: The University article Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala is in Spanish but the Spanish Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is labeled in English as the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

There are certainly rare cases where only the foreign name is commonly and exclusively used in English (here and elsewhere) such as the Tour de France. However, it seems somewhat ridiculous that the Wikipedia for the Tour de France links to the French Maillot jaune (Yellow Jersey), and the French Maillot blanc (White Jersey), but for the third "jersey" it links to the English titled article Polka dot jersey (maillot à pois rouges).

I found a "Category:Legion of Honor recipients" and used it but then found the article is Légion d'honneur and someone recently changed the Category to French titling. Both are French titles few would ever search for in an English encyclopedia, let alone attempt to spell. In this case, I did a little research to see what was being done elsewhere and note the following:

The Embassy of France in the United States official title is "Legion of Honor" : [2] and also uses "Legion of Honor" in referencing. [3].
The Consulate General of France in Boston uses "Legion of Honor" [4]
The United States embassy worldwide refers to it as the "Legion of Honor"
New York Public Library press releases and references refers to the "Legion of Honor" (See: Paul LeClerc, president and CEO of the NYPL who received the Legion of Honor in 1996).
I found that these English-language institutions also used "Legion of Honor"
- Washington Diplomat (newspaper)
- New York Times
- Time Magazine
- The Guardian
- Boston Globe
- PBS
- NPR
- WHSmith Books
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Harvard University
- Yale University
- Cornell University
- Columbia University
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- MSN Encarta
I do note that Spartacus Educational [5] uses "Legion d'Honneur" as the topic title but contradicts itself in several of its own biographies by referring to it exclusively as the Legion of Honor.

I would like to contribute to a variety of articles including those having Spanish origins but have been a little uncertain how to do it (SEE: Guatemala National Prize in Literature). Being new, I don't want to contradict or change the work of other more senior Wikipedia editors. However, it seems that mere handful of people can vote to change a category name so perhaps Wikipedia needs to enunciate a clear policy before it gets completely out of hand. As I'm not sure how or what to do, I thought because of your interest in the matter through your change in the Académie des Sciences to French Academy of Sciences, I would defer to your experience. Thank you. C. C. Perez 18:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Fundcom

Sure, I'd be more than willing. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 05:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great news. We need to meet at Wikimania. I will email you my cell #. --mav

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Requesting your opinion

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Your wise insight needed!

Hi Mav! It has been quite a while since our editing paths haven't crossed. Seems like last time was back in the days when Wikipedia was still an obscure website and we all seemed to know each other. I hope that you are well. I am contacting you because there is something strange going on. If you have time, look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cast of Saving Private Ryan. I am very seldom involved in AfD discussions, but this time, I seem to be fighting alone against the "deletion squad". This is pretty much a random case, but I feel that it is quite important because if the article is deleted (or rather if the material of the article is erased), then it goes in spirit against what I believe Wikipedia should be, and would create a precedent. I had "created" this list last year and put it in the Saving Private Ryan article. Someone trimmed it down one day and I created this extra page in order to keep the information without making the main article too long. Now some users are voting to delete it. I consider this information as relevant and deleting it would be a strange precedent leading to a voluntary decrease of (relevant) information. I guess that a substantial portion of the content of Wikipedia could be deleted if the logic promoted by the advocates of the deletion was strictly followed. I could not find much about this topic in pages like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precedents. I respect your opinion. Maybe you could bring your perspective into the discussion: I think that it would be helpful. Thank you! olivier 06:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Welcome!

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Crushing by elephant

Way back in August 2004 you voted to de-feature Crushing by elephant ([6]) due to a lack of sourcing. It's now been substantially rewritten and expanded with much new material, and I've proposed it for restoration to FA status - see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Crushing by elephant. I'd be interested to know what you think of the revised article. -- ChrisO 19:02, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

silane

Thanks for the Silane article start. do appreciate it. wunder in what distant galaxy "silicon based life forms" exist. Now isnt that silly!!!! mlhooten(AT)gmail.com michael.hooten.name.

You Started It

... the article on the Gold Standard, I mean - subsequently a Featured Article. That article (now huge) has become rather a football, presumably between "gold bugs" and people opposed to their views. I expect it has come to your attention a few times since that fateful day you began it.

I don't go back very far, either with the article nor with Wikipedia (but I AM old), but I had occasion a month or so ago to consult it, and I find it's become a cesspool of extraneous material that combines attacks on the (resurrection of the) gold standard with other, unrelated agendas (POVs of WP:NPOV Type 2). The article has also acquired an "owner" in the form of a user (not administrator) who peremptorily reverts any changes to the article not made by him. You'd spot him/her readily on the History page.

If the rather remarkable fate of this "baby" of yours interests you, check it out. I'll be happy to provide more details if you're interested.--Joe 22:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nope - I was not the person who started that article. I just moved it at one point. --mav

Wikitext

Thanks a lot for your complement on the Geology of the Grand Canyon article. When you say "please cite that in the wikitext," are you referring to just citing my sources in the article, references? I looked over the wikitext glossary and am not sure what you mean. I'm really a stickler in citing references but in this case I wasn't able to because the dates and boundary locations of the two island arcs (Yavapai and Mojave provinces) that collided with the Wyoming craton are still being disputed, so everything was in my own words, but summarized from the numerous journal articles that I have been reading. I also went up to the Grand Canyon to look at it personally and talked with the geologists there.

I plan on revising and updating the Vishnu Group further as soon as I can get more accurate data, and then these references will be cited. I will also be writing an article on the Wyoming craton and updating the Canadian Shield and American Craton articles. These will be more difficult because of uncertainties in the dates and boundary areas but they will be extensively cited.

A major drawback that I have in writing these articles - the craton articles - is the maps and diagrams. Do you know what programs I could learn to draw my own? Also, we seem to have common paths: I studied geology but am now taking courses in biology, microbiology, and genetics. I'm trying to gather more info on the isoprene signatures left by archaea microbes in early Archaean rocks, such as the Isua greenstone belt, ca. 3.83 Ga. --Valich 19:14, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Kingdoms

Mav, I've just started work here, and I can only admire the wide range of your interests--I am limiting myself to things I already know something about , primarily biology and libraries (yes, I am a biology librarian). I've been working tonight on the "Kingdom" page, and I've put some talk there, but without changing the article. It seems that I need to look first at the overall organization of the biology pages, because they are of course all interrelated. There's a point to dividing up the work,, but not to working at cross purposes--and it does seem to me as a relative outsider that the WP method is extremely susceptible to cross purposes. The practical way of handling multiple points of view or multiple levels of knowledge seems to be multiple groups of pages with different titles.

 I'd like to talk further with you--you can email me from my page  DGG 06:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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b:WB:RFA

Hello Maveric149. I just wanted to inform you that en.wikibooks has created a new policy that asks all admins who have been inactive for a year or more to relinquish their admin rights. This is not a punishment of any sort, we are only trying to clean house and take stock of our resources. If you do not plan to return to wikibooks, we ask that you give up being an admin there. If you do plan on returning, we would be more then happy to have you back. If you have any questions about this, please let me know on my wikibooks talk page: b:User talk:Whiteknight. --User:Wknight8111 (WB:Whiteknight) 18:16, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's OK. I helped found the project, that is enough for me. --mav

Who should I ask?

I don't really know who to ask... you left me a welcome message on my talk back in 2003, and you seem to be around and informed about how things work around here. At least maybe you can point me to somebody else.

I have noticed a user who seems to be here with the sole purpose of promoting himself and his business. The account has less than 50 edits, the oldest one from December 2005. All or almost all of the edits are related to one specific real-life person and/or his business. The text on the user accounts also hints this is the same person as the only article about - not directly, you have to do a bit of searching. Some of the articles have not been created by this user, but by another user who is not here anymore - and whose contributions show exactly the same pattern, regarding topics. One might suspect that this probably the same real-life person. This is to old for a checkuser to be of any help, of course.

I have been thinking about this for months. Then, somebody else brought the article about himself, or the real-life person that I am confident is this user, to AfD. I put some links there including a link to his contributions etc, but it seems very few people have even looked at that AfD. If they did, they did not check it very thoroughly. I recently noticed he has created a separate article about a municipal election that will take place in November, very detailed with pictures of some of the candidates. Of course, he is one of the candidates.

I could have dropped half a dozen of links here on your talk, but I feel I will soon be accused of being a wiki-stalker and I suppose it might be better to wait until I find someone who feels this is worth looking into. // habj 05:32, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:AUTO and WP:VANITY. --mav

[[== Please cease and desist on inote == 62:pleasedonoaddanmoratreferenWikipedAs time permits,pleaseremoveanyinotefeoued or any others that you are aware of as you see fit.Unlespaddfiner-grain reference information to Wikipedia references (such as not merely the page but also the paragraph) that you have also developed a consensus about, the finer-grain reference information that does not appear within the regular text of the article (i.e. while not in edit mode) is helpful to very few other than yourself and is intrusive on the larger collaboration effort. Given your special status as an early contributor to Wikipedia, I ask also that you never again attempt to defend your (or anyone else's) use of inote. The templates inote and explain-inote are now unwelcome complications to the collaboration process. I now deem your use and defense of inote as an understandable but unfortunate habit. My advice to you is: you would do well to simply rid yourself of this habit.--User:PinkCake|PinkCake 22:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC):Watch your tone and do a little research before you make rude accusations. You also have no right to make demands on me. That said, inote was developed before we had a cite.php ref system. The idea was to convert to a true referencing system once one came along, but in the meantime to make sure detailed referencing information was captured. It was a kludge and something I haven't used as a normal referencing system since cite.php came along. I do sometimes, however, use it to add very detailed reference information, such as adding section and paragraph info but only after I insert a page-level cite.php ref. That way, readers get the book and page while editors can get even moreassdetailed reference information. Cease and desist indeed. I'm an admin, steward, have madeover50as the Wikimedia CFO for 3 years and helped raise nearly a million dollars for the foundation. Who the hell are you? Now, go do something productive and stop wasting my time. –mav::62usinginotewhichisdeprecated.Iunderstandtheproblem: your psychology. You have a old habit that I intend to break you of. Try not to let your prestige and prior contributions blind you to the correctness of my assessment. Cease and desist. -- 17:23, 6 October 2006 (UTC)::Can you read? If so, re-read what I said (hint, I already said the inote is mostly obsolete but it still has its uses). Oh, and being rude and demanding is not the way to get policy changed around here. Again, who the hell do you think you are? --mav:Naturally, there are other ways to get the policy changed, but they tend to cause more damage in the area of goodwill, etc. You are a smart person: I will give you another five days to recognize the hopelessness of your position and conceed this minor point. inote is going away. Your cooperation in this matter will speed the process, but not by much. ]]

request for editorial help...

...on Evolutionary developmental biology, if you have the time. A few editors have recently put a good deal of work into it and I think it is turning into a very well-researched, accurate, sophisticated article. The problem is, I think most members of the general audience will have trouble following it, or may even be turned off by the technical prose. Not having any formal training in biology I do not want to edit it because I fear I will screw something up. You however have a very long history of making articles on scientific thmes both accurate and readible. Perhaps your intervention now would be very helpful ... Slrubenstein | Talk 12:49, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds interesting. I'll take a look next week. --mav

Thanks, SR

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Another proposal to move Los Angeles, California

Another proposal to move Los Angeles, California is being debated. You particpated in a previous discussion and may be interested in giving your opinion. Talk:Los Angeles, California#Requested move #3. Cheers, -Will Beback 19:00, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy (Talk) 03:16, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Featured picture delisting

I've nominated your Featured Picture Image:Zabriskie Point at sunrise in Death Valley NP.JPG to be delisted. Please see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Zabriskie Point at sunrise in Death Valley NP.JPG delist for the discussion. Regards, howch e ng {chat} 22:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Featured picture candidate

Amusingly enough, I've nominated your replacement for the above picture to be a feature picture since it's larger and more distinctive. Follow the nomination at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Zabriskie Point Panorama. Do you have a taller version of the picture? Not only would the added size/detail be good for the candidacy, but also I'd quite like to make this photo into my desktop wallpaper!

All the best, CountdownCrispy ^{( ?} 22:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, an edited version of the panorama has been promoted to featured picture status. Thank you for your contribution! --KFP (talk | contribs) 16:47, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Survey Q

Have you ever been to the southern hemisphere? Respond here Deadline for entries is December 15th, PST. AstroBoy 03:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Debate about (US) vs (U.S.) vs (United States) disambiguator re-opened

Yes, sorry, it's reopened for a fourth (!) round of debate. When can we ever close the debate on this? :-(. Anyway, sorry to pester you, mav, but I thought you'd want to (again) weigh in, this time at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (abbreviations). Thanks! hike395 07:34, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Titanium

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The New York Public Library

I LOVE the NYPL.

So I wanted to move it, so as to include "The" in its name.

But I am having trouble. Can you help? Ludvikus 20:49, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikinews

Hi, i see you're a long time contributer. I would like to know what your take on Wikinews is, it seems its not getting off to a start. I think we need a major jumpstart with the help of some wikipedia traffic diversion. We need amongst a small list of things; a new interface, more contributors, cooperation of wikipedia admins. I'm sure with these things, it could grow triple its size within a few weeks. Chavatshimshon 21:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Debatepedia.com

Hi, I noticed that you went to the DC Meetup, and that you're a dedicatd Wikipedian. I'm the founder of Debatepedia.com, the new wiki debate encyclopedia, and am working out of DC with a group of Georgetown students and professors. I was hoping to get your suggestions, and maybe meet up in person, if you'd like. Brooks Lindsay 19:35, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Image:Supernova-1987a.jpg

Could you please put source information in that image? It may be deleted from Commons in a week if you don't do that :(. A.J. 10:05, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As I stated when I uploaded, the source is NASA HST. --mav

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A request for assistance

Would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 02:50 3 January 2007 (UTC).(UTC)

Saint Lawrence River

Hi Maveric149, can you maybe tell me, what the source for this edit was? He mentions nothing about it, while this fansite mentions the date one day, one month and one year later. Strange thing! --Flominator 23:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Meanwhile I deleted the part mentioned. If you want to react to this message, please leave a message on my de.wp-talk-page. Regards, --Flominator 20:48, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Living persons worry

Hi Mav, sorry to bother you. If you have a moment (haha, I know) could you please have a quick look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Muswell_Hill#Litvinenko_address_-_privacy_issues.2C_violates_policy_on_living_people.3F.3F.3F.3F

- and suggest a way forward. The issue is this horror story about a poisoned Russian spy, and whether it is OK for the article to give his address, where it's thought his widow and child/children still live ... living persons. privacy etc etc?? No strong feelings and no edit warring but just a concern about what is OK under policy - and my feeling that people like you probably know! Thanks. 138.37.199.206 12:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC) (long-gone ex-user)[reply]

Thank you so much for the clarification - very helpful indeed. Cheers. 138.37.199.206 15:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Judging article importance using links in

Hi mav,

I seem to recall us chatting at the Boston Wikimania conference about judging importance of articles using an algorithm based on the no. of links in to that article. Was it you who suggested this idea? I am working with User:Martinp23 and User:eyu100 on this problem, and we are currently testing out importance assessment by bot using this approach. We hope later to refine the results based on the importance rating of those links-in. If it was you who suggested this, could you take a look at my initial proposal, and also at our project page and our bot trials, then give us some feedback? Thanks, Walkerma 21:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oldest still active

Just to say i have moved this conversation to Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Oldest still active. Simply south 15:17, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:180px-Yellowcake.jpg

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April Fool's Main Page 2007

Hi Mav. April Fool's Main Page 2007 project affects all five changeable sections on the mainpage. To have an April Fool's featured article appear on the mainpage on April 1st, some of the SA mainpage rules may need to be bent. Thus, the project may need the approval and agreed upon cooperation from those running the SA main page section. If would be great if at least one of the SA administrators agreed to be a point person for the SA aspect of the April Fool's Main Page 2007 project. Mostly, this would involve deciding which SA mainpage rules could be bent, reviewing proposed SA mainpage content to ensure it meets SA mainpage requirements, and ensuring that this content made its way to the mainpage on April 1st. Please respond here. Thanks. -- Jreferee 18:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XI - January 2007

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