User talk:Bcorr/Archive 200601-200606

January to June 2006

Happy holidays! and thanks

Hi Bcorr, maybe I was too late to thank you for your comments (after almost 2 years) but I think I owe you that. Please have a look at Cuisine of Morocco. I also borrowed your HLM pic! Cheers -- Szvest 07:58, 1 January 2006 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}[reply]

Wikipedia R/E

Please remember that there is an ongoing conversation at User talk:JCarriker/Wikipedia: Race and Ethnicity. Please add it to your watchlist and/or check for new posts regularly. Thanks. -JCarriker 19:09, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Links on Walmley

Hello Bcorr. I added some links on the Walmley page which you've removed. They were directly relevant to the subect - so I wondered why you had reverted to an earlier version? Createaccount 01:35, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2: ==Allotments==

Hi Bcorr, why did you remove the link to the birmingham allotments from the allotment (gardening) page? Richard Wiltshire who I note hosts the page is a well known and respected figure in the UK allotments movement quercus robur 01:40, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

3: You might think of me as a newcomer, in which case please take a look at http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers However I have contributed an article on the Frisch - Peierls memorandum whihc I added before creating this, my full account. I have re entered the Link to Uplands - which is one of the most active and important allotments sites there is. I wonder if you might review your other reversions? createaccount

Dear createaccount and quercus -- apologies for being over zestful in my cleanup attempts. After noticing one addition about podnosh.com I looked at createaccount's edits and all of them included adding (what seemed to me to be) advertising links ( [ http: //www.podnosh.com/programmes/bcen051222.mp3 Podcast About Walmley Residents] Direct link to and mp3 audio file-- and I missed that the edit to allotments also included the Wiltshire link.

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 02:24, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nick change

Hi Sir Bcorr, if you don't mind to change my nick from user:ems2 to user:ems, as I requested here: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username#Requests_to_usurp_an_existing_account_with_no_edits

user:robchurch recommended me to ask you, when referred me to wikipedia a few days ago.

Regards, Ems2 16:07, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but just like Angela, I don't believe accounts should be taken over in this way. Many users may have made an account here because they edit under that name in another language and want to make sure they maintain the same name on all wikis so they can keep that name when we get single login. No edits do not necessary mean the account is not in use. For example, readers may have accounts so they can use their Preferences to set a different skin. Also, the user might have only deleted edits, which won't show up in Contributions but will do elsewhere, and taking their account would mean you would be blamed for those past edits and activity in the Logs. If User:Ems had been blocked, and it was renamed User:Whatever so that you could move to User:Ems, the block log would still show that User:Ems, not User:Whatever, had been blocked. But that's not my main objection. My objection is that someone made that account for a reason, and it wouldn't be right to steal it from them just because they have no undeleted edits on this language version of Wikipedia, especially not so soon before plans to implement single login. BCorr|Брайен 16:24, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The single login proposal must provide a solution if the same nick is used in differernt languages, and all do. It is clear this use isn't using it on en.wikipedia. The user would of only registered it to hold it because there was no single login, but once one of the proposals have been accepted this will be obsolute. Ems2 16:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have a complaint about Ems2. Are you aware that he is signing his posts [Ems2|ems] which displays as ems ? He left a message on my user page signed like that. That looks like a blatant attempt to get around the fact that you wouldn't give him the other person's nickname. He also has a merge template on his user page saying it should be merged with ems ! Also, he is now using the name Ems2/06/03. On his Ems2 User page when you click on Discussion it redirects to that. Judah haNasi 07:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Milford and Woodmont (CT)

Hey, check out the discussion I've started on the Connecticut discussion page and let me know what you think. FreshTurkeySandwich

Invitation

You are invited to take part in Wikipedia_talk:Changing username#Dropping inactive user names. Ems2 17:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. I jsut got very angry.

RfM Header

I just wanted to let you know I did a bit of fiddling with your change; I switched the h2 tags out with the < big > tags because h2 caused the Table of Contents to render funny. I also moved the big line above the intro line, so that there isn't a dramatic break in the text flow. Have a look at it and make sure I've maintained what you were going for. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 19:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Arthritis Critic

Wow, I didn't want to jump in that too quickly, but I blocked the guy for 24 hours (probably not good enough, I know, but I was going to leave a message at AN/I). I see you blocked him before I did, so I hope that doesn't undo your indef block? CanadianCaesar The Republic Restored 17:33, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ford

Hi there -- do you believe it is untrue that the Ford family retains complete control over the company? I didn't think that it was a controversial point. Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 20:07, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Your tone was all wrong. The family controls 40% of the Non-Voting shares in a Class B stock arrangement. They do not have "complete control over the Company" by any means. It is a publicly traded company, controlled by a Board of Directors. Your tone suggests something completely different. -- T-dot 20:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Strike

Hi. I finished disambiging Strike yesterday and I can tell you of the 215 links to Strike, over 90% referred to Strike action. Hence I created a redirect to that page with a clear notice at the top linking to Strike (disambiguation). Would you reconsider your objection? Mark83 20:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to misunderstand what I have done. I went through all the links to strike and disambiguated them, i.e. piping strike in articles to the relevant page, which is what you say would be better? I fully understand you wish to leave Strike as a disambig but I haven't reverted your edit, i.e. it is still a disambig — I happen to disagree that most people will have a wider meaning in mind (the principle of least suprise could apply), but not strongly enough to make it a redirect again. Regards Mark83 00:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, although I have absolutely no problem about how you raised your objection. I can understand how you may have been confused, after all it took me three edits over two days to turn a disambig into a redirect which isn't up to my normal standard of working! Regards Mark83 02:07, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Hi again. If this is not the appropriate place to post this can you please remove it or else move it to where it belongs on your pages? I wanted to thank you for your support today. Nikkicraft 06:55, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ACLU

You keep removing the ACLU membership section. Why do you feel compelled to do it? It is factual verifiable information from a legitimate source. I see no reason for it to be removed. ACLU releases their membership info and they talk about it in the book. Please do not remove it.

Thanks,

71.131.205.182 06:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please give a citation and/or reference for the ACLU membership being "2/3 Jews", etc. on the article's talk page. I have not been able to find any verification or justification for it. Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 16:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added a legitimate book that discusses Jewish politics in the further reading section. You can pick it up at your local library it's on page 81.

Thank you for your support, 71.131.205.182 20:10, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by citation? I added the source in further reading. Do you want me to add it in the body of the article?

JJstroker 08:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

google ad links

Hi Bcorr. Thanks for your edit on the American Civil Liberties Union article. I have seen a huge increase in these types of google ad links in the last few weeks on tons of articles. Monkeyman^(talk) 21:33, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ebonics

i dident mean any vandalism ...

it's just a way of talking ...

Thank's for mentioning this to me .

The neutrality flag on Christianity

I want you to know that I appreciate your removing the neutrality flag from the Christianity article and from the subsection within the article. I have approached other administrators about what I and some others have felt was an unreasonable singling out of Christianity for labelling as non NeutralPointOfView. I admit that I come from the Christian POV, but I am committed to NPOV. I am convinced that the people working on this article and the one on Jesus are trying to be as NPOV as they can. People have to remember that POV is not a bad thing: it just cannot be in an article or formulate an article to the exclusion of all others. They need to remember that NPOV does not mean "no point of view" but "neutral point of view." The removal of these tags from these articles is in keeping with the good faith of editors who want to make the article NPOV. Thank you for your concern. drboisclair 16:36, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

on racial reality

No worries. I had a rush of blood and then had second thoughts, only to see them removed. Cheers Provocateur 04:03, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Luther King Jr.

You need to stop reverting my edits to Martin Luther King Jr. I have justified my edits with citations. Can you say the same? And never make threats of banning me from edits. That is a serious mistake on your part.

I think the problem is you are unable to check your race at the door. I suggest you re-read your own profile again and live it.

Working on Wikipedia The Four-way test from Rotary International

   * Is it the truth?
   * Is it fair to all concerned?
   * Will it build goodwill and better relationships?
   * Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

--> Working with Wikipedians Queries from the Religious Society of Friends

   * Do I approach others with respect and concern?
   * Am I concerned with community and its needs?
   * Am I an agent for tolerance and acceptance?
   * Can I forgive others easily?
   * Is there harmony between what I believe and how I act?

I (and others) have repeatedly restored the older (and consensus) version of the info on his name and removed the following:

Birth records for Martin Luther King Jr. list his first name as Michael which was his father's birth name as well. Even though there are no records of the name change, Michael King Sr. changed his and his son's name in honor of the sixteenth-century German church reformer Martin Luther. "The New Georgia Encylopedia". 2004. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help) King's family background was multiracial of African-American, Native American, and Irish (his paternal grandmother was Irish-American) mixture.^{[citation needed]}

While some is this is cited from the online ref "New Georgia Encyc." this is one of many varying versions on the Internet, and I could find no corroborating info to back it up.

Please see the Snopes.com page on this controversy which makes good use of source material and is well-referenced. BCorr|Брайен 01:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BibTeX Parser

Bcorr (→External links - - →External links - rm www.Chaaban.info link (blog google ad revenue generator with no real content))

i really don`t know what to tell you , did you at least checked the site ? its a BibTeX Parser that more than 5000 persons downloaded and used on there web site .

if my site contain google ads it dont mean its a bad site , if you have problems with google go fix your problem with them .

and stop lying to just remove a links . this project took my a lot of time and your response it not accepted .

Shame on you .

i`m refering to : BibTeX --> BibTeX Parser

Thank`s

Overall, what you're doing by adding links to your personal blog is against Wikipedia policies about link spam and self promotion. If you can find other links for the same information, that would be welcome, in most cases. Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 01:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you plz tell me why you consider it as a spam ? when it contain real contents and its about BibTeX Parsing , so its related to BibTeX and its usefull .

The problem is the site — www.Chaaban.info — rather than the information. If you can find other links for the same information, that would be welcome, in most cases. BCorr|Брайен 01:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is this kind of racism to my site ?? a lot of sites published the informations

http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?filter=bibtex

http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Admin_Tools

why should i add other links for the same information , if the real pers who made it is me ??

Because we have a policy against self promotion. I would suggest using this link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Admin_Tools -- I don't think people will have a problem with it. I'm not denying the work you did on it. Wikipedia simply isn't the place to promote your own site. BCorr|Брайен 02:25, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Even if it's an open source project ? , its just not a good idea to insert the link you said about , people will have access to 1000 links and only 1 is related to BibTeX .

Yes -- definitely. We like open source. The MediaWiki software that this site runs on is open source. BCorr|Брайен 02:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your help requested

I was asked to help Christianity with it's discussions on becoming NPOV... there is a debate on Talk:Hermeticism#Reason_for_reverting_Infinitysnake's_changes_2/22/06 on whether it should be stated that some scholars believed Hermes Trismegistus to be a real man. In my arguments I have noted the Christianity article, and I feel that the contributors of it may be able to give some view on how a religion article should be NPOV. I don't know if you will agree with me or not, but your help is requested.

KV 06:29, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverts of User:Justforasecond

It appears that you logged out to revert several edits of User:Justforasecond today from an IP rather than having them associated to your account, using the edit summary 'rvv obnoxious edit by user:Justasecond'. Regardless of your opinion of that user, reverts of anything other than pure vandalism should be accompanied by an accurate edit summary. In my quick opinion, none of these seemed to be vandalism. While I grant that you may have simply become accidentally logged out, it at least left the appearance that you logged out to avoid associating these actions with your username. Please don't do that. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 10:46, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Morven -- thanks for your note. It was me, but I didn't log out -- I was at work where I shouldn't log in due to policies there -- that's why there's the little note on the IP's page that it might be me (since others there use Wikipedia regularly). In terms of the edit summary, I admit it was overly terse and I was probably doing it too quickly, but this user seems to delight in editing articles to attack people s/he thinks are hypocritical (see the person's user page), and has a history of provoking and jumping into conflicts (see their talk page). Their current project is trashing Ron Dellums for his percieved hypocrisy.

Having said all that, I appreciate your note here and next time I will just wait until I get home to go back and undo other edits that are IMHO "obnoxious" or needlessly provocative.

Thanks again, BCorr|Брайен 12:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is no note on that IP's page, Bcorr. It's also a comcast IP, I believe. This usually means a home user. It doesn't look like anyone else has ever used it to edit on wikipedia. The two other edits appear to be in your area of interest (Detroit and New Democratic Party)[1]. Even you rarely use it, which isn't consistent. Why would you go out of your way to edit from work and remove my edits from the Gummy bears article[2]? Justforasecond 16:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Justforasecond, it's because BCorr is a pussy, who reverts edits not based on validity, but his own personal beliefs. He thinks Wikipedia is his own personal dictatorship, and he is wrong. The members of the site have already scolded him in the past. He's just as guilty as the people who make idiotic edits for fun. He is hindering the knowledge of others due to his own personal vendettas/beliefs. His IP address needs to be blocked. Let's start a petition!

User: Prasi90 abusing talk pages

User:Prasi90 has already been blocked but continue to abuse talk pages (Talk:2006 Varanasi bombings#Who is more of a threat to India-the LeT or the VHP? as chat pages), and on being reminded, responded aggresively to me on my talk page User_talk:AshishG#Re:This.7Btalk_page.7D is not_a discussion forum.. I asked for information in this regard at Wikipedia:Newcomers help page#Blocked user and was informed that you are planning to unblock this user. I have no personal problem but I would like to request you to consider this behaviour before you proceed to unblock. AshishG (talk • contribs)

Ron Dellums

I notice that JustforaSecond has reverted, for the third time in 24 hours, his tacky emphasis on Dellums' incarcerated son. Would you care to return it to its proper wording? Thanks. Deeceevoice 16:59, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey. It just dawned on me who you are. Listen, the stuff I wrote explaining Dellums' support of Castro has been deleted. I don't have a source that specifically traces Dellums' affinity for Castro to Cuba's involvement in the liberation struggles on the African continent (when the U.S. was still in bed with South Africa). But, of course, that's at the root of it (notwithstanding a general longtime affinity of African-Americans have had for Castro, in general, since his trip to the U.S. in the late 1950's -- maybe early '60s -- when he visited NYC and eschewed the fancy hotels to stay at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, because he said he felt most comfortable there). Clearly, JFAS's edits are politically motivated -- possibly with an eye toward alienating the Latino community. So, if some credible source can be found to explain Dellums' support for Castro in terms of the anti-apartheid/liberation struggles in southern Africa, that would be useful. Peace. :) Deeceevoice 22:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Noting your introduction

I have been a Wikipedian since June 2003, an administrator since December 2003, and a bureaucrat since August 2004. I am also a member of the Mediation Committee and am a former chair of that committee.

I am wondering how the following appears as your contribution to the article on George Waller.

Revision as of 13:21, 12 February 2006 Bcorr (Talk | contribs)

(?Life & career - copyedit, misspellings, as per Boston Globe ref)

added the following: The couple had one child (and Weller also had a second child with another woman[3])

The couple had two childs, a boy, Anthony, and a girl, Ann Tagge,

Thanks. skywriter 03:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I made this edit to George Weller (not "Waller") based on this Boston Globe article on errors in Wikipedia. If you have a citation that proves this wrong please tell me what it is, as you clearly have a lot of information on Weller -- but this is not an attempt to claim that he did something wrong by "having a child out of wedlock.". I will note that your use of "two childs" for "two children" is exactly what the Boston Globe cited as an error in the article:

Wikipedia says: In 1946 he met Charlotte Ebner [sic], when the two were in a group of correspondents held for three weeks in Manchuria by the advancing communist Chinese army. They married two years later. . . . The couple had two childs [sic], a boy, Anthony, and a girl, Ann Tagge, and were married for 42 years."

In fact: Weller's two children had different mothers. His wife was Charlotte Ebener.

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 14:41, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for providing the correct link. I changed the copy to reflect the Globe sidebar as source for the second child factoid. skywriter 20:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jews/Saudi Arabia

Hello. This has been a very controversial issue (just see the talk page). Don't you think you should discuss the edit before making it? - Eagle^talk 01:01, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that this has been controversial, but this is simply a fact. Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 01:08, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great Sphinx of Giza

What is "full (page) protection"? Does that speak to who has (or, in this case hasn't) access, or to length of protected status (indefinite?)? Deeceevoice 07:49, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Большое спасибо

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my talk page, and for blocking the miscreant. (I've identified the school that originated from and labeled the ip's talk page accordingly.) I see in your contribs list that you do your share of vandalism repair, and it looks like you usually leave warnings, which is great. You might find this tool that I wrote useful. I've received some good feedback on it. --Kbh3^rd talk 16:06, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See above re Nick change

Berkeley Marina

Please explain why you removed the unreferenced tag on Berkeley marina. The article lacks cited sources and I'm not sure why you'd be interested in a pier across the country from yourself. I'd like to assume good faith on this but a note on the talk page would help me out.

Thanks Justforasecond 16:46, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Many, many, MANY articles lack cited sources. This tag is specifically for articles that are generally preceived to be in need of citation -- so that people attempting to use the article as a reference or to find references can do so -- for example, Peremptory norm should indeed have sources cited. However, rather than add the tag, could you find a few sources to cite?

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 00:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for the explanation. I guess we disagree on this but no harm done. Would you mind if I reinserted the tag? I'll google for a http citation or two to get things started. Justforasecond 21:24, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I won't revert you in this particular case, if that's what you're asking. Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 01:32, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How would I cite this article?

How would I cite the publication that this article is in? I have seen printed copies of Living Torah at temple. It is sort of a "monthly newsletter" from the Union for Reform Judaism that congregations make available to members. Apparently this is a Web archive of back issues. I am looking through the citation templates and I don't see anything that seems appropriate. Perhaps a new one needs to be created. If so, there would need to be something about "Don't use this for private company newsletters of small companies, etc. It would be okay to cite a Microsoft company newletter but not a newsletter of a company with 20 employees."

Thanks for your help. Judah haNasi 05:54, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there -- I would just place in a Sources section at the bottom of whatever article this: Our Lives: Our Choices, Rabbi Joel R. Schwartzman, Union of Reform Judaism.

I hope this is helpful.

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 12:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Arlington County, Virginia

Hey Bcorr, I wanted to let you know that I have nominated Arlington County, Virginia as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week. The article is in need of much help and with a little group effort, it could be brought to Featured Article status! I brought this to your attention as I have seen you have contributed to the article in the recent past. Please cast your vote with your signature at the US Collaboration of the Week page under Arlington County, Virginia. --Caponer 02:10, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from the Mediation Committee

Dear Mediators Emeriti:

I'm writing to all former/inactive mediators (now called "Mediators Emeriti" to emphasize the ability of any mediator to return at will to active participation on the Committee), to encourage each of you to share your wisdom and experience on the Committee by commenting on requests by new individuals to join the Committee.

There are five current requests to join the Mediation Committee:

The current Committee respects and appreciates the time you spent on the Committee, and the insight you can provide, and encourages you to take part in these discussions. Additionally, any mediator emeritus who has the time and would like to return to active mediation would be welcomed with great enthusiasm.

Yours respectfully, Essjay (Talk • Connect) 02:26, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(I recognize that many of you left the Committee to go on to other responsibilities, particularly Arbitration and the Board, but we still welcome your input on new committee members and encourage your participation. Please don't feel guilty if you cannot participate; we just want to remind everyone that they are welcome to do so.)

Drinks tomorrow night?

Hiya Brian, free for a drink tomorrow night in Cambridge? Drop me a line... +sj + 19:04, 17 June 2006 (UTC) (617 529 <> 4266)[reply]

Sorry I didn't respond sooner -- I just got your message today. Unfortunately I wouldn't have been able to do it anyway -- but let's try to set up a time. I'll give you a call.... BCorr|Брайен 11:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]