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I forgot to put this on your talk page earlier. Thanks for nominating the image. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 08:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Try alamone's NSAOut (). That should extract the music (in MP3 format) along with all the other game resources. — Haeleth Talk 00:58, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
A History of the USA that mentions nothing of the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812 & the war with Mexico? All are mentioned quite succinctly in that paragraph - which is not long. Removing @45 characters to reduce the length, while removing such important details, does not improve the article. If you are concerned to reduce the size, an easy solution is to take out just one of the 40 kB photos that fill the article --JimWae 18:14, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ryz05.
You may have other reasons for wanting the sentence about limits to the United States' power. (You: "it retains NPOV by countering the statement about US being the sole superpower". Me: "COUNTERING would be saying "it's NOT the sole superpower" (which would be to present 2 contradictory statements as fact)." You: "countering that the US is the sole superpower means to say that its influence is limited to constraints- not that it isn't a super power".) But, by most denotations of counter as an adjective, a noun, a transitive verb, an intransitive verb, an adverb, and a prefix, one would indeed have to say the U.S. is not a superpower in order to counter the statement that the U.S. is a superpower.
Anyway, I'm just being picky about your edit summaries. My message isn't really worthy of a response. No ill will intended; just wanting to make a point about your wording and possibly the thought process behind it. President Lethe 21:42, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Ryz05,
Thanks for your reply. I understood and understand the reasons that some persons have for keeping the sentence in the article. (I was a 'heavy' participant in one of the recent discussions of it.) I disagree with its inclusion. But, really, my note to you was more about your edit summaries than the actual sentence in the article. Anyway, I've kind of been withdrawing from most arguments about the U.S. article, at least for now. A lot of emotion involved (including my own, I admit); and I've seen some persons sometimes get rather rude to each other.
I feel torn about whether to work/bother with the article—that sentence or any other part.
Your "You can [...] help me" wording reminds me that sometimes people can get things done in a good way by first conferring one on one, or in little groups, before going to a larger group. Anyway, as I say, I'm kind of withdrawing—but your rather personal wording in your message to me makes me think to offer that, if you want, you can discuss those things (the ones you mentioned working on) with me. I might have a useful idea. ... I'm not saying that's what you had in mind; I'm just mentioning it.
I go back and forth between feeling happy and excited about Wikipedia and feeling rather disillusioned and annoyed about it.
Well, as usual, I'm rambling.
Thanks again. President Lethe 23:05, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there; thanks for your note. I disagree: peruse any other country and you'll likely find a general description of where a territory is in relation to neighbouring lands and waters. This overview article, given its content and the breadth of US territory on the continent (and given the fact that it has more coastline that it does land borders with its neighbours), deserves no less. E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 09:57, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy editing. --Randy 01:49, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
The demographics are explained in the sub pages but not on the main page which is misleading. I think for the main page we should include what is counted as white to add credibility to the article. Most Americans even admitted by the US census do not consider Arabs and latinos white. To say that America is 81 percent white is extremely misleading when you do not include who is counted as white. I think we should either remove it (I dont see a reason for it to be added when other pages go in depth) as it would encourage readers to go to the other pages. The alternative is to atleast include who is counted as white on the main page. I encourage you to think it over.
If you paid any attention to what my edits actucally were before reverting them, you would have noticed that I moved the relvant links inline. The Mao image is not discussed and does not have the necessary fair use rationale for use in this article, read WP:FUC.--nixie 01:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I have to say that it would be a useful feature if we could protect a section of an article in such a way that you had to read the "guidelines" for that section first.
That notwithstanding, I think you overreacted by reverting my first edit.
Now, when you say that there is a "iscussion page for how the intro to the U.S. article should look", are you talking about something other than the "Intro" section at the bottom of the Talk:United States page? If so, can you point me to it?
--Richard 01:41, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I would like why is every Chinese name transliterated to pinyin by you? There is no convention for doing that in Wikipedia and it makes reading a chore. The pinyin transliteration belongs to the first line of the article and not later. If you want to do that you have to propose at the Chinese messageboards first, and get consensus. Thanks. Mandel 03:16, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm just the messenger -- Raul654 makes all the FAC calls -- but it's not unusual at all for a nomination to fail after five days if it has a number of objections and doesn't seem to be making a lot of progress overturning them. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 18:03, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. Will (E@) T 13:16, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
About the Google search results ... I took a few minutes to look at how 'United States', 'United States of America', 'United States of Europe' and 'United States of Mexico' fared at The New York Times, London Times and a few Australian dailies; then I realized that big results for 'United States' cannot be interpreted as meaning they all refer to 'United States of America', though they most likely do. The fact that the semantic ambiguity can't be resolved without specific inspection plays right into the hands of the folks who would say that there's confusion between America, Mexico and Europe in use of the 'United States' term. Sorry, but I felt it best to share my thoughts on the matter with you considering your comments. Regards, User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I've responded to your comments on Talk:United States. Cheers! The Disco King 13:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
The relevant part of my objection is copied below:
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Image problems in "Largest cities". Please have a look at "Largest cities" in 800x600 screen resolution. One advice: It is better to have a reasonably big image rather than 5 tiny ones. Images are there to provide visual aid for the readers to understand the subject. Seeing one representative skyline is enough to fire the imagination of a casual reader. There is no need to fill the page with images as additional images aren't very helpful. | ![]() |
I think its pretty clear from it that I NEVER objected to the table. My objection is regarding the use of 5 images that overlap over the table in 800x600 screen resolution. Please do it yourself to see what I mean. Also noting that the problem exists because of multiple images, I suggested removing most of them (images, not table). I haven't acted unfair as I have also suggested the remedy (the straw poll says nothing about images, I believe). My other objections include in-appropriate captioning of images and inconsistant use of reference placing. Both of these stand on their own and are not content related disputes (like people wanting some information being added according to their whims). -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:52, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'd rather you found someone among the multitude of good US editors here to run through it carefully; preferably you need someone who's unfamiliar with the text.
Then I'll have another look.
Tony 03:28, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Ugh. I thought it was considered a bad idea to discuss current events. Was this a response to a criticism from the FA process?
--Richard 18:01, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
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Umm, first, people are kind of sensitive right now about folks putting notes on user pages aiming to increase turnout for a particular outcome to votes and polls - I'm ok with it, myself, because I don't subscribe to the 'thou art sheep and shall follow thy shepherd's lead' line of reasoning implied by opponents of talk page requests for vote/poll participation, I'm just passing along my perception of the current climate. I'm also not implying you are asking me to vote a particular way - you explicitly did not do that (thank you) ... I'm just saying to be careful in the current climate.
Second, I'm not really a supporter of the FAC system as it currently stands. I think there are better ways of achieving the same end through the WikiProject system. This isn't anything I've proposed because I've not had the time to follow it up with a good supportive campaign but I believe the current FAC system should be replaced by a WikiProject activities review group that would look at articles currently being intensively worked on by WikiProject groups and pull 'featured' articles from this pool. This would have the knock-on effect of giving the WikiProjects, one of the major sanctioned personal networking mechanisms in Wikipedia, some much needed recognition.
As a result of my second point, I don't engage in nomination or voting in the FAC system.
Regards, User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I wish there were a good way to take care of long articles by doing whatever can be done to make them short, but United States sounds hard. Georgia guy 01:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
My user talk page now has over 1000 lines. Anyone know what to do?? Georgia guy 01:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
My no vote is related to the quality of the prose (2a). I merely identified size as another crucial issue. I think that you should go ahead and flag on the talk page that you're "strengthening the summary style" of the article to get it through FAC. Invite objections from other contributors on the talk page "before they revert", and go ahead and do it.
As for what to move into daughter articles, aren't there lots of examples on the FAC page?
Tony 01:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
But I did a nice job on that paragraph. There are lots of good American copy-editors on WP; can you network them? I'm sure you'll get help at such an important stage. I edit for a living, so here, I ration my input, I'm afraid—mostly it's just examples, to keep the standards of FAs high (well, to raise them, let's face it). That way, I can maximise my impact.
Why not research the user and talk pages of the participants at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team; but don't tell anyone I said that. Tony 15:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I've reverted your post on Talk:Apollo 11; it really doesn't seem appropriate to spam talkpages of tangentially-related articles to get people to "cast their vote ... pass the nomination" of an article on FAC. Shimgray | talk | 14:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Well, let's compare to some other country FAs. Canada's history section is 200 words shorter, Belgium's and South Africa's are about 400 words shorter, Australia's and Pakistan's are about 500 words shorter, Bangladesh's, Nepal's, People's Republic of China's, Sealand's and Nauru's are about 700 words shorter, and India's and Cambodia's are both almost 1000 words shorter. Only Bhutan has a longer history section. All of these countries (particularly China, India, Bangledesh, etc.,) have very lengthy histories. The point of summary style is to pare down the history to the bare bones, and leave the bulk of it in the daughter article, History of the United States. If you ask me, India overdoes it with paring things down, while Bhutan and Canada have bulky history sections. China's approach is just about right.
As for particular criticisms, the history section is overly focussed on the twentieth century. More is written about the twentieth century than is written about the nineteenth, eighteenth, and everything before. Yes, a lot happened in the twentieth century, but a lot happened in the nineteenth that you're leaving out as well. Some statements that could be cut:
And so forth and so on. Trim without mercy; you just need to give the bare bones of American history, touch on all of the important points, and leave the rest to the daughter article. Cheers! The Disco King 17:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I've been observing your improvements to the United States article and think your doing a commendable job. If there is anything in particular you may need help with, let me know. --Northmeister 04:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
You're right, I have realized that my flipflopping on the vote has been unfair. It's simpler for everyone if I just neutralize my vote altogether. --Golbez 04:21, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Please do not leave messages irrelevant to the article topic, as you did with Talk:Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor. Your original message was
"Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/United States
Cast your vote! The more responses, the more chances the article will improve and maybe pass the nomination.--Ryz05 t 22:57, 3 June 2006 (UTC)" MickeyK 19:31, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello:
I stand by my vote. Please see my response to PDXBlazers on the FAC page. No one has responded to that response. --Coolcaesar 20:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Please, my response is that featured articles must be good in that they are:
Georgia guy 23:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I have explained my objections in the first FAC and extensively in the peer review, I have no intention of doing so again.--Peta 01:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks...it went very well with my Mars Milk..Thanks. Amaas120 23:24, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
I'll give it a shot as far as revamping the geography section...I'll work on it later tonight.--MONGO 05:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
I made a huge expansion to the geography section. I think all the fuss about making the article small is dumb...look at Retreat of glaciers since 1850...it is huge and was featured and on the main page too. Anyway, I didn't add any references for my additions but they should be easy to locate...I do know my info is factual....edit what I have added as much as you wish.--MONGO 11:28, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
I've been looking at other articles that made the grade such as Canada mentioned and also Australia and my edits have been attempts to fit this mold. Now that I've made such edits, I am interested in your comments and observations. I reduced the text a bit to fit the bytes complaint, and would like you to look over the article and make any changes you feel necessary to improve the article. Looking at the Canada and Australia articles the opening is wholly inadequate and needs expansion I think. The rest just needs fixing up and organizing which I trust you would handle fine. I still approve of your work, and don't let my edits leave the impression that I disapprove of your version prior to changes. If there are any points of contention you feel need addressing from the FAC, I feel the best approach would be to start with each paragraph on the talk page (one by one on contention), have each editor offer their version - then work out a solution to the best version from there which would be a collaborative version - pretty much as the Founding Fathers worked on the Constitution. Just a suggestion. --Northmeister 23:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
I am editing a film article, Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui, and all it needs to get GA status is the plot trimmed down to like 4 paragraphs. I am not the best at copyediting, but I see that you do it a lot, so could you maybe help me out? Thanks! Judgesurreal777 20:22, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
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With almost 750 edits, you are the biggest contributor to the third most revised article!
(User • Talk) 02:11, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Are you a socialist or a communist supporter? I was looking over the article Deployments of the United States Military and I noticed that you added a sentence and two reference articles (one socialist and one communist) that are very anti-US. It is the policy of Wikipedia to be NPOV so I am removing these reference articles and rewording the sentence.
Previous unsigned comment by me. Pretender2j 14:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC) I forgot I wasn't signed in :P
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