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Hey just wanted to let you know that our topic is protoglobalization. We will need to meet to discuss how we will divide the article into sections- I like the points you made (which I pasted below):

Overview of the "state of the world" in 1600 (leading to a 'world system'

starting to develop that century) maybe the technological, social, economic statuses of the main countries, china, middle east, europe?

Travel and Trade between countries (merchants etc)

trade routes, standards of currency, 'world economy'

Treaties, agreements, government-communication between nations

hostilities...imperialism....wars...stuff.

Let's meet on Wednesday at class and discuss it more thoroughly. Accgail (talk) 18:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good start but more work needed

Re: [1]. Good start, but you need to add more references (each para and preferably each sentence should have them). Also, you need wikilinks (see WP:BTW). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:57, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For now, "World Events and Changes Leading to Proto-Globalization" will do. The first para needs citations, and it is not that clear how it is tied into the newly titled section. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 21:27, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I actually have a similar way of writing, so I can understand how you work. But on Wikipedia, it is a good idea to reference info as quick as possible, as WP:V policy supports removal of unreferenced content (hence if I add unreferenced content to Wikipedia, in my writing of an article here, I try to reference it on the same day). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 21:53, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

editing while not logged in

Yes, provided you can show me which edits were yours. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 02:28, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nominating Proto-globalization for GAN

Please note your nomination is not complete. You need to add a template to Proto-globalization talk page. See "how-to" at WP:GAN for details. You can see the proper nomination template at Talk:Polyethnicity (for example). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:27, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just add it at the very top of the page. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:38, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You found it now, that's what counts. Good job, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 18:02, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

November 2009

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re:proto-globalization

I'd suggest both: if you can, rewrite/refocus your section (please note you can move existing content to other articles for extra credit, if it is related to them and referenced, so your effort to date is certainly not wasted) and also if you can help improve other sections of the article, that's certainly is a good thing to do. PS. Regarding "no original research", I think you are fine, but do see WP:OR. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 07:12, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Rick Smolan

Looking over the page, I noticed that the section outlining his works appears to be largely copied from this biography page. It didn't seem to really add a lot to the article anyway, so I just removed it. --Azure Anteater (talk) 06:28, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine. I'll leave the article alone and let you to it. --Azure Anteater (talk) 06:32, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

I am unsure why a moderator has accused me of abusing multiple accounts. I have had this Wikipedia account for 11 years. I was just accused of being another account for user:Fbrody. I created and worked on the page Florian Brody which may be the source of the confusion. I recently attempted to create new page Marc Lesser. I know that user:Fbrody attempted to create a page for Marc Lesser a while ago and it was deleted and I guess had several tags and blocks placed if anyone tried to create a new page with the same name. I was not involved in the original page creation. I worked up a new page for Marc Lesser and attempted to post it but it was deleted, and I was blocked. I have created several pages for Wikipedia over the years and this is very upsetting.

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You appear to be deliberately skirting around your actual relationship with User:Fbrody, who has specifically stated that you worked with him on his autobiography and that he asked you to create the Mark Lesser article. We regard this as a form of abuse of multiple accounts. Yunshui ^雲 _水 23:36, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

I apologize if it seemed like I was trying to mislead anyone; I was simply trying to be concise. Several years ago I was put in touch with Florian Brody ( Fbrody ) by a co-worker in a start-up company I worked for. As someone with some experience creating Wikipedia articles, a recent degree in Nonfiction Writing & looking to gain a wider breadth on online writing experience, I offered to create an article for him as he seemed to meet notability guidelines. We communicated a little via email but I never met him & do not have any sort of personal or business relationship with him. Since that time I have created several other articles, including one for Pegi Young that seems to have held up well even with the publicity of her recent divorce from Neil Young & more recent death. A month ago Fbrody contacted me & asked if I might be interested in creating an article for a colleague of his, Marc Lesser, who is the co-founder of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. He said he had attempted to create an article himself but it was deleted. I researched Marc Lesser and thought there were a decent amount of sources online to justify notability, so I created my own page for him, which was deleted, and then I was accused of sock puppetry and blocked. I am still unclear of how this is “sock puppetry” or “meat puppetry”. The page for meat puppetry states that it involves soliciting another editor to gain support in a dispute. Would the “dispute” be the deleted article Fbrody created for Marc Lesser? I was not trying to take sides in his deleted article; I created my own, entirely separate article, based on what I perceived to be at least moderately decent sources to support the content. The article creation was my own independent decision and my own work. I did not get involved in the dispute over Fbrody's original article for Marc Lesser. I understand that sock puppetry is a serious issue, but I don’t believe it should apply to the creation of valid articles. If you believe the issue is the creation of the Marc Lesser article then fine, I will not attempt to post or otherwise be involved with that article. But I'm not sure why this means I should be punished with an indefinite block from ever posting on Wikipedia with this account ever again, which I have used to create several articles that have had no issues. Thank you.

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Thank you for being upfront. It would be worth your while reading up on Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy if you have not already done so, but I see no reason to keep this block in place any more, and am therefore lifting it. Yunshui ^雲 _水 22:33, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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