User talk:Monkeyzpop
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[edit] Thanks
For all your good work on John Wayne especially keeping the politically slanted POV out. Thanks. --Xiahou 05:36, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- Looks like one of the articles worst POV vandals has bitten off more than he should have by attacking living persons in the same way so he is indef. Blocked. Reap what you sow I guess...--Xiahou 22:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Again thanks. Keep up the good work --Xiahou 21:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC) Again thakns. I like the clairfy edit, looks alot better. As far as the reoccuring sockpuppet guy his latest account is on last waring for personal attacks to other users. Hopefully when the admins review the sockpuppet case they can do something more than just block the names possibly the IP if its not dynamic. Since all he seems to do is just create a new acct. And repeat the same things. Even using the exact same statments. Though that does make indentifying him as a sockpuppet rather easy. Anyway thanks. --Xiahou 22:31, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Signing contributions
Hi. I've noticed that in a lot of your edit summaries, you include the four tildes that are used to sign contributions. The tildes are normally just used on talk pages - on the edit summaries it just looks like 4 tildes, not a signature. The thought of documenting your contributions so thoroughly is a nice one, though. Just wanted to give you a heads up. Verkhovensky 23:07, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bob Nolan (author)
I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Bob Nolan (author), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Leuko 02:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] John Wayne
You removed "Character deaths - deleting improper quotation marks". Why? The itaizing of the words shot in the back was used because a link didn't exist. The concept of shooting a person in the back is one of the most significant taboos in western lore. Considered the ultimate act of cowardice, back-shooters were despised in the west. Wayne was portaying a gunslinger who made his last stand. A man of honour. I would like to know why you consider emphasizing the fact (I call it significant) improper? --Jason Palpatine 13:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Blocked
Blocked: 12 hours for edit warring on Randolph Scott. Edit warring is prohibited; usually a first offense would merit a warning only, but this edit summary (your turn) shows that you knew what you were doing. In the future, please avoid edit warring and follow the dispute resolution process instead, particularly third opinion and request for comment would be useful in this case. Thatcher131 02:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] May 2007
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[edit] Ambiguous link
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[edit] DaveyJones
I saw your comments to my close wikipedian "Uber" about him deleting remarks made by DaveyJones. I am actually glad he has taken this action. Davey jones has called me a fagboy and generally been very insulting and homophobic. No1 has the balls to block him which is a shame.Realist2 19:58, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
I just found out myself one word "over the moon" ok make that three. still about time. Bigot. Realist2 20:56, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Bad news- CheckUser results came back, and DaveyJones is using AOL, so they can't block him. Just revert, report, and ignore any vandalism/personal attacks towards you. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 01:01, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
I've filed the 4th report[[1]] on HarveyCarter aka [[2]] all those guys about 1/2 I turned in in the previous 3 reports plus a host of others. Looks like he is trying to go out with a bang. Thanks for keeping on top of it. At least he makes it obvious its him througout the different accounts. Well if he was smart he'd be making decent contributions though. --Xiahou 21:14, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Well its case closed on 2 more of his accounts. Hopefully quite possibly he will learn and not do this (wouldn't bet money on it). At the very least take a break from it and actually let the articles be improved rather than fight his pov vandalism. See you around wiki --Xiahou 21:07, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tedious
Yes, it is tedious. However the hope is that it is even more frustrating to the vandals. If we revert their additions and block their accounts they usually give up eventually. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 00:28, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notification about the new accounts. Regarding archives, there's rarely a good reason to edit them, except to fix a link or change a username. Instead of continuing a thread, you can simply reference the archived discussion. Sections can be linked with the pound sign. For example, User talk:Will Beback/archive18#John Wayne sock. If that looks ugly you can use a pipe to rename the link, perhaps to say, "per our previous discussion..." Cheers, ·:· Will Beback ·:· 07:07, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Frank Borzage
I've added his filmography. There's films to be checked but I don't have more time. Rohmerin 10:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RE: Ben Johnson
I don't think I got enough sleep last night.... WikiDon 20:25, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, I guess someone will have to do some digging. Just because he was born there doesn't make it so. WikiDon 05:44, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- Well, the same person that changed Foraker to Pawhuska is the one that changed Cherokee to Osage. His obit says born in Foraker, I think he was born at home, on the ranch, near there. I emailed his nephew, Dale Christenson last night about the Osage/Cherokee question, but I did not ask about the birthplace. I think the obits are good unless there is something better. I don't have CENSUS account, if you do that would be super. If you want to call feel free, I don't. His niece, Ann Whitehorn, of Pawhuska manages the Gift Shop at Tallgrass Prairie Preserve.
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Sorry I haven't gotten back sooner. Uncle Ben and my mother are half brother and sister. My understanding is Granddad Ben was of Irish descent and Uncle Ben's mother Ollie was Cherokee. Mom's mother died when my mom was 2 years old. She said she was told her mother was "French Indian". Not real sure what that means, but that's about all the information I have.
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Dale Christenson (dchristenson@pawhuska.k12.ok.us)
[edit] On Victor Mature's father nationality
Hi, Monkeyzpop, thanks you for your interest in my edition on the nationality of Victor Mature’s father. I have checked through the Wikipedia and found 6 entries for the subject. The results are as follows:
1. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature (German)
(It says nothing about his ancestry)
2. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature (French)
(It says nothing about his ancestry)
3. http://ja.wikipedia.org/ (Japanese)
(Unfortunately I cannot read Japanese)
4. http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature (Norwegian)
“Victor Mature ... var en italiensk-amerikansk skuespiller.”
= “Victor Mature ... was an Italian-American actor”
5. http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature (Portuguese)
“Victor John Mature ... Seu pai, Marcellus Gelindo Mature(ou no italiano, Maturi), era um cuteleiro italiano que sabia falar alemão, que migrou da Itália para os Estados Unidos com sua família em 1912, para fugir da dominação Áustro-Húngara, e sua mãe, Clara Mature, era de origem suiça.”
= “Victor John Mature ... His father, Marcellus Gelindo Mature (or in Italian, Maturi), was an Italian cutler who knew German and emigrated to the USA with his family in 1912, in order to run away from the Austro-Hungarian domination, and his mother, Clara Mature, was of Swiss origen”
6. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature (Swedish)
“Mature var son till en schweizisk saxslipare, som invandrat till USA.”
= “Mature was the son of a Swiss scissors-grinder who immigrated to the USA”
There seems to be such a fuzz about the nationality of Mr Mature’s father. But I am afraid your statement that he was “Tyrolean” does not fit, as “Tyrolean” is not a nationality. You are right about the current division of Tyrol, but all Tyroleans were Austrian nationals before 1918, when the region was divided between Austria and Italy. From then on, North Tyroleans went on being Austrian, but South Tyroleans became Italian citizens.
If we are to trust the Portuguese version, which is the most detailed one, Mr Mature Sr could have more probably been South Tyrolean but, as he emigrated in 1912, possessed Austrian nationality yet. Irrelevant for the case, but would you kindly note that, no matter how many times one crosses a border, comings and goings, one’s nationality remains the same?
Nevertheless, I am not at all convinced about this stuff. The lack of verifiable sources is absolute. I greatly appreciate your contribution.
Kind regards,
Zack Holly Venturi 12:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- Zack, thanks for your comments. I should point out that you're on shaky ground, using other Wikipedia articles to determine the accuracy of something in a Wikipedia article. All those articles could change tomorrow and may have changed two days before you looked at them. One really needs to look outside the Wikipedia format for citations. Now, I got my initial information from Mature himself in an interview I did several years ago. But I can't use original research in Wikipedia, so I took what he told me and looked up verifiable sources, including the census records of the United States, obituary notices for Mature's father, birth notices and census records for the town and area the father lived in, and so forth. I don't have all the information easily to hand, but the area Mature's father came from was an EXTREMELY transitory area, falling back and forth into Italian and Austrian rule over the years. And while the Tyrol is not, as you say, a country, "Tyrolean" IS a legitimate way of describing someone, just as Arizonan or Latin American or Mongolian is. Given that it's the ONLY certain thing about where Mature's father was from (and Mature's father lived there long enough to be Italian and Austrian several times over), I used it as the most accurate depiction. Also, it's what Mature himself used to describe his father when I talked to him. I said, "So your father was Austrian?" and he said, "No, he was Tyrolean. I mean sometimes he was Austrian and sometimes Italian, depending on where the border was that week." By backing that up with other sources, I felt justified in stating it the way I did. All the best. Monkeyzpop 03:20, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RE: User:SueBrewer
Please see: Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets#User:HarveyCarter
Please leave input there. Thanks, IP4240207xx 20:47, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Irving, Texas
Well, I'm glad you agreed to "former residents" to describe people who are dead (smile). I'm not going to edit-war over the "alleged" about Oswald, though this adjective carries a strong overtone that his guilt was questionable. Which I think is pretty silly. Of course, Oswald wasn't convicted because his own assassin got in the way. But there's never been convincing evidence exonerating him, and there have been thorough investigations establishing his guilt. Casey Abell 01:36, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your question on my talk page
Thanks for your question. First I want to apologize because I may be telling you several things that you are already aware of, but, if your not this is based on a few things that I have been through before (just as a coincidence this last weekend was the most difficult example). First, if you look at the edits that have been added by this IP [3] it is a single purpose account as the only edits that they have added are books published by the Univ of Mississippi press. Wikipedia has several rules against this kind of self promotion, most notably here [4] and in the section just below it. Even though this specific edit was not an external link it was added so that readers would be aware of its existance. Please note (and this is highly important) that nothing from this publication was added to the article to enhance its information. This anon IP is from Mississippi (which is easily checked at the WP:AIV) making it highly likely this it is someone who is trying to get these books known to a wider audience. Again, this is one of the things that the guidelines of Wikipedia is strongly against. This is not a value judgement about the work itself but Wikipedia is not a sales platform. It would, most certainly, be wrong to ask you to trust my judgment in this situation (and I could be wrong), but, I have gone through this a few times. If you disagree then I will be happy to file reports at WP:COIN (update: which I have just done) as well as any other areas that you might wish me to and go with what other editors and admins decide. The information contained in this edit can exist at many places on the web, but as it stands now I just don't think that it is a legitimate wikipedia entry. MarnetteD | Talk 03:45, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for your followup note. I want to apologize for the lateness of my reply and for the rudeness in my last edit summary. The last 16 hours have been stressful off-wiki. Your point about it being in the references section as opposed to an external link is well taken. I just want to let you know that I have been an admirer and a student of Kurosawa's films for a long time now and I have not heard this authors name before as someone who is an expert on him. As noted above I am leary of the source due to it being a single purpose account. This said if you want to put it back in I am not going to kick up a fuss. You may want to refer to our discussion here in your edit summary so that others do not think that this is an escalating edit war. Based on the rule that Wikipedia is not just a series of lists I just wish that either of us had a chance to read the book so that we could judge whether it had any real value as a resource about this fine (POV I know but I can't help it) filmmaker. Thank you for your time and, again, my apologies for any rudeness. Cheers and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 20:28, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] John Wayne
The Wikipedia style is to include punctuation only if it's actually part of the quoted speech. See WP:PUNC for a full description. Colonies Chris 21:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
- "come sprang" back-to-back is incorrect! Call your English professor. ~ WikiDon 23:13, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
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- It's a fine sentence, grammatically, and I personally (as the guy who wrote it) like the style and flow of it, but I've rewritten it in simpler terms. Hope you like! Monkeyzpop 01:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
- When I said that they were independent, I didn't mean that they were finished, but could be parts of separate sentences. Can we re-write that sentence? It just seems bad to me. ~ WikiDon 01:48, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] User 67.83.176.54
It has become apparent that user:67.83.176.54 is just a vandal here to stir the poop. I have expunged all traces of him in John Wayne and Talk:John Wayne. I suspect he is one of our familiar sockpuppets. IP4240207xx 17:46, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
- Agree. I checked his "reference". It has nothing what-so-ever to do with Wayne's military issue. Please double check it and help me out on this guy:
- This might be our old friend Robert Seager, who has been banned. ~ WikiDon 00:10, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
- Apparently the entire contribution (Wayne, though a leading tough guy on screen and qualified to perform military service during World War II, managed, with the help of his studio, to avoid the draft.") was a footnote and re-quoted from:
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[edit] WikiDon attack you?
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[edit] John Barrymore
Near as I can tell, that IP address is engaged in pure trolling behavior, since he continually ignores our requests to cite things properly and to sign with 4 tildes. He's got an admin watching him now, so I recommend we not engage him directly in any further discussion, until or if he decides to do things the right way. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 16:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kurosawa
Hi again Monkeyzpop. I noticed that you put several books in on AK's page including the one that we have discussed before. I am a little surprised at its inclusion since I received a message from someone at the Univ Of Miss press that the book hasn't even been published yet. Based on our earlier discussions I would appreciate if you would rethink its entry until you have actually seen it but I am not going to edit war over it.
Of more importance I wanted to pass along two pieces of info. I know that you may already be aware of them but, just in case, here goes. Drunken Angel is coming out on a Criterion Collection DVD the last Tuesday of this month. Then I received a newletter from them yesterday showing that next mointh they will be coming out with this boxed set [7] I found this to be very exciting news. These Eclipse series DVD's only have one drawback. They do not include the fine extras that are available on the single film release DVDs. I have found the "Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create" series that they have included on their releases of the last three or four years to be a marvelous learning tool about this master filmmaker. I hope that you are looking forward to these releases too and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 01:51, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
- Hi again. I just want to point out that when you made this edit [8] I "assumed good faith" and trusted that you would follow through on your proposal before adding this book back to the further reading section. Since the book hasn't been published yet you can't have read it and there is no way to judge its value. Please remember that wikipedia is not just a series of lists and adding this book without being able to verify its value flies in the face of wikipolicies. I admit that this has hurt a bit but I will get over it. I wish you happy editing in the future and keep enjoying AK's films. MarnetteD | Talk 05:14, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
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- It isn't your fault that I have had a couple of bad experiences with assuming good faith with other editors here who abused that. The most recent one became so ugly that I have some lingering angst over it and I probably took some of this out on you so I can only offer my apologies. As to your question there is no way to know entirely. If I had known (a most unlikely situation I admit) that it hadn't been published yet I would have been inclined to take it out no matter who had put it in. But, as you so rightly point out, there are scads of bad publications in the other reading sections of many pages here at wikiP. It was me who provided the link in my above message that informed you about the new AK set that is coming out next month and it is very exciting news. For one thing it will give me my first ever opportunity to see The Idiot. I don't know if you have seen them but I have an affection for No Regrets for our Youth and One Wonderful Sunday which are two of the films that he made before hooking up with Mifune. Of course, if you have seen - or when you do see - them, you may not like them as much. I am also looking forward to the Drunken Angel release. While Kurosawa and Mifune are one of the great director/actor combinations I find myself marveling and the wide range of characters that Takashi Shimura played over the years. He often gave such an interesting contrast to Mifune's characters and I just feel that he is underated by critics and scholars, in the West at least. But that is just my feelings and I may be in the minority in this. Thanks for keeping me up to date on your research and, once again, happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 19:40, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] John Wayne
Some editors at John Wayne have brought the matter to Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets#User:Rms125a.40hotmail.com. It seems like a content dispiute to me. Would you give John Wayne a read through and make any needed changes. And if you can bring the John Wayne talk page under some control, that would be great, too. Thanks. -- Jreferee t/c 23:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Drunken Angel
Hi again Monkeyzpop. I just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know about the new Criterion Collection DVD of this film that came out today. The film looks great although it may not have gotten the full restoration treatment as the are still a few scratches that appear film. The new subtitles add much to appreciating the full scope of the film. The Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create documentary has, as always, some great interviews with those that worked on the film and some marvelous pictures of the young Mifune in the years leading up to his working with AK. There is also an interesting documentary about AK's dealings with the US censors between 1945 and 1948. Of course, if you have already puchased this DVD you may be aware of all of this.
I have one question about your last note to me. If you and your wife had had a boy, and if she had let you live after naming him Takashi, would you have bought him a Kurosawa motorbike for his 16th birthday? :-) MarnetteD | Talk 01:13, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] You may say "theatre"
But let's be real for a minute.
Google searches return the following counts:
- "coming soon to a theatre" -- 37,600 hits
- "coming soon to a theater" -- 152,000 hits
- "my favorite movie theatre" -- 7,680 hits
- "my favorite movie theater" -- 18,600 hits
- ""liberty valance" theatres -theaters" -- 24,800 hits
- ""liberty valance" theaters -theatres" -- 54,500 hits
So, you're pretty much PWND. Don't revert my simple improvement to the encyclopedia, since you are very clearly outnumbered. - Vividraise (talk) 19:31, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- I brought it to WP:ANI. It's so clear to me that the link in that sentence should be to movie theater (a structure) and not to theatre (an arte forme), I will be interested only in seeing how you respond to "Wikipedia" seeing things my way, and not yours. -- Vividraise 03:22, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of sourced material
Hi, I notice you've commented on a couple of talk pages about an anon removing information that perhaps is personally offensive. I agree with you, although I am a bit dismayed that some articles discuss the person's sexuality in some detail, and then briefly skims through the career. I think some of the material could and should be removed just to keep the balance, but just deleting the whole section is counterproductive and suggests a bias. To answer your question, the only way I can it being prevented is to first warn the anon on their talk page. If this is ignored, a second warning, and then I would suggest listing the article/articles at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. A semi-protect would restrict editing to registered users, and as has often happened in the past, the anon gets bored and moves onto something else. Mind you, requesting semi protection doesn't guarantee it will be semi protected and you would need to demonstrate that you've been unable to stop the edit war with standard warnings. I'll keep an eye on these articles also and see if they continue to be vandalised. Hope this helps. Rossrs (talk) 08:08, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Vandal
Report him at WP:AIAV- IP addresses can be reported there, along with usernames. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 23:04, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Supernatural Stars
Hey, I saw your note on the Supernatural talk page about the two new stars. However, a vandal keeps reverting the changes I make. If you don't mind, could you please help me with him? Thanks Ophois (talk) 04:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] No longer HarveyCarter
The latest sock has been blocked... and appears to be the banned user, Primetime. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 00:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] George Russell & Gail Russell
Thanks for your quick resolution of the (non-)relationship link which had been added yesterday. AllyD (talk) 10:39, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Some overdue recognition
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | Awarded for your sterling work in battling trolls and other vandals; back to the ramparts! Keep up the good work! Bzuk (talk contribs) FWIW Bzuk (talk) 20:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC). |
Whoops, should have explained a bit more. A barnstar is a Wiki invention to recognize accomplishments, both major and minor. See: Barnstar and Wikipedia:Barnstars for a further explanation. Needless to say, I have noted that you were greatly involved in trying to curb some of the vandalism that can be rampant on celebrity articles. FWIW Bzuk (talk) 23:59, 7 January 2008 (UTC).
[edit] Crittenden
I'd welcome any help you could provide on this article. I've been meaning to get to it for a while now. I just picked up a copy of John J. Crittenden: The Struggle for the Union at the library today, and will try to get to another library this weekend to get Kentucky Governors by Robert Powell and see what I can find in there. Of course, there are also the sources I've already linked in the references and further reading sections. My intention is to get the article to at least good and possibly featured status. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 18:33, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rollback
The request was removed because you were granted rollback permissions [9] Your request was malformed so I fixed it for you, and another admin approved you for the tool. Pedro : Chat 16:30, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
- It was malformed because you didn't use the code as detailed at th etop of the page, which auto generates links etc etc - see [10]. It's no biggie so don't worry - enjoy the tool! Pedro : Chat 16:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Alan Ladd
Please do not rollback an entire edit simply because you personally feel the edit was not justified as you did on the Alan Ladd article. In addition to deleting unsourced content (which is the only content I removed), I added metadata and information regarding Ladd's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. All of that content was erased. If you feel the inclusion of the information I removed is paramount, please provide a reference. Also, please be aware of what section you're adding content under. As it stands now, information about Ladd's personal life is under the "Death" section. As a show of good faith, the content I originally removed and you added back will remain in the article, but I have tagged it in addition to adding back the information that you removed. Pinkadelica (talk) 02:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Jack Larson
1928 vs 1933 - If it were 1933, he would have been only 18 when he made the first Adventures of Superman series. I'm not a good judge of ages, but I don't think he was quite that young. So your 1928 would make more logical sense. Now, I have to ask you, since you say you've talked to him directly - what is his take on suicide vs. murder of George Reeves? The more I've read about it, the more I've become convinced that it was, in fact, suicide. But I wonder what Larson thinks about it, as I've heard different interviews where he has seemed to lean different ways. Thank you for your time. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 23:33, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the good info. I think that what I'm thinking about is an interview in which he acknowledged some of the questions about Reeves' death, and it could be that the editing made it seem like he believed it could be murder. However, that would have contradicted a statement quoted in Superman: Serial to Cereal, in which I think the quote was that he "accepted" suicide right away... which means that in Larson's mind, it was perfectly logical that Reeves could have done himself in. A year or so ago, a researcher on the George Reeves page pointed out to me that every question raised about the suicide story has a reasonable explanation that's within the framework of the official report, and that the murder theory requires the hit man to somehow get into the house and out without anyone knowing about it. That pretty well convinced me. Many people want to believe it was murder, because it makes a presumably more interesting story and/or they just don't want to believe that their hero was so flawed. However, there is no question in my mind that Reeves was hanging around with too many shady characters who resembled the villains his TV character would beat up on, and that certainly didn't do him any good, but it helped to feed the conspiracy theorists. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 01:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] A question
Hello again Monkeyzpop. Have you had a chance to pick the Postwar Kurosawa DVD set that Eclipse and the Criterion Collection released last month? When I got it I decided to watch all of the 27 of his films that I have in the order that they were made. I have done this once before and it is a wonderful journey. I had never seen The Idiot before and the only thing that I knew about it is that it was an adaptation of Dosteyevsky's novel. Through a piece of sheer serendipity I watched it on a day that it was snowing here (though not as heavily as in the film). It was fascinating to see but it left me wondering what the original cut must have been like. Last Saturday I watched Ikiru and Seven Samurai on the same day and I don't think that there has ever been two such different and extraordinary performances back-to-back as Shimura's in these two films.
I have a question for you. When I saw No Regrets for Our Youth at the Denver Film Festival back in the late 80's the line that was a mantra for Yugie and Noge was always subtitled as "No regrets for our youth". The new DVD translates it as "No regrets for our life". As the film went on this started to bother me. Now the reasons why it bugged me would take too many words to describe and it may not make sense to you anyway, but briefly as possible, for me,
- "Life" means no regrets for anything that is happening now.
- "Youth" means not having any regrets about their idealism as students in spite of the vagaries that life has put in their way that has tempered those ideals. The contrast between the choices that they made as opposed to Itakawa's betrayal of those ideals is the best example.
I was wondering if the Japanese word that was being translated was ambigous enough to encompass both English words or do neither of them convey the full meaning of the Japanese term. Any ideas that you can give will be most appreciated but if you are too busy, or if any of this doesn't make a lick of sense, please don'e feel obligated to respond. MarnetteD | Talk 22:15, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] User Overjoyed...
...has been blocked indefinitely. What do you think of simply reverting his changes? He's about the only one (besides me) doing any work on the "Superman" (and "Gidget") articles recently. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 23:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
- I filed an ANI case against him for several reasons [11] and they zapped him, officially for being disruptive, and unofficially for being a probable sockpuppet. He spent a lot of time on the episode list page, to cover the fact he had lifted it from a wiki-banned website. The dilemma, as you say, is that he might have actually improved the main page. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 00:23, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- Looks like they found a sockpuppet. [12] And the senior citizens' home story is a new one. Usually it's a roommate or a sibling. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 14:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- Defending his other self [13] is also typical sockpuppet behavior. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 14:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- Looks like they found a sockpuppet. [12] And the senior citizens' home story is a new one. Usually it's a roommate or a sibling. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 14:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] User:TimmyTruck
Suspiciously similar behavior to the blocked User:Overjoyed, apparently including some of the same uploads as per a note on my talk page. Also, his claim to be 99 years old squares with Overjoyed's dubious claim of being in an old folks home. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 11:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
- And of course extending to deleting notifications from his talk page, without comment. The admin that blocked Overjoyed recommends taking this to an RFCU. Maybe I'll just let the user have his way this time and see how things go. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 11:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Puerto Peñasco transportation
Hello Monkeyzpop.
You undid my contribution to the Puerto Penasco tranportation section, stating that the airport is not yet open, and the Aeromexico has recently cancelled flight to that town. I believe you are mistaken. My primary reason for believing this is that I currently have a reservation to fly into there on Aeromexico this Tuesday, March 18, 2008.
Do you have access to some information that contradicts this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hdwriter (talk • contribs) 17:17, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Leadbelly
Sorry mate I slipped up ther. Thanks Walking the blues (talk) 19:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Curious: Heston Talk RV
Hello Monkey: Just wondering about your revert of 92.11.146.196's two comments on the Talk page regarding Heston's alleged homophobia. Seems to me that 92's use of the Talk page instead of just going right into the article and inserting unsourced stuff was an invitation to discuss and not an overtly hostile or aggressive edit of the article itself. 92 seems to have an agenda, and that's not good - but if independent sourcing can establish a pattern of homophobic speech in CH's utterances, might that not qualify in terms of notability for inclusion in the article? Isn't that what 92 is asking on the Talk page? Wouldn't a response of "source it and present it in a balanced manner with counter argument" be more in keeping with the collaborative nature of Wiki article creation?
I have no regard at all for PC and detest it when it creeps (or charges) into Wiki articles trying to disguise itself as fact -but my questions above are genuinely informational. I don't know and hope that you do. Cheers Sensei48 (talk) 00:00, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the prompt response, Monkey! You wrote "He has been banned under several dozen identities and now edits without a Username in order to escape the bans" - after I posted the note above, it occurred to me that that might be the case. I've been heavily involved in a number of articles (most notably Battle of the Little Bighorn)where the principal figure is like Heston a flash point for political agendas from both extremes of the spectrum. I agree with your assessment of Heston - but I hope you understand that to me, without knowing the background of said sock puppet, the dismissal of the questions appeared possibly a bit peremptory (if such a thing is possible). Thanks for filling me in, and I will take a look at that editor's other disruptions.Sensei48 (talk) 05:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Another Heston Comment
I suppose I assume that other editors are too quick to assume that edits made by anonymous users are unproductive, and I especially don't want to scare legitimate anonymous editors away by silencing their concerns on talk pages, however ludicrous they may seem. If, however, I had known when I made the second revert about the identity of the original editor (i.e., the HarveyCarter sockpuppet issue), I wouldn't have had a problem with your original revert- if there had been a note to that effect in your original edit summary, I'm sure I wouldn't have reverted it. Thanks for filling me in. QuixoticKate (talk) 17:00, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Grammer
No offense taken, I am no great speller. I rely heavily on my spell check which does no check my edit summaries! :( I will try to be careful. Now that I think about it I probly have about 500 edit summaries now where I have mispelled grammar as grammer. Thank you for pointing that out to me! Charles Edward 19:01, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bad actor is back
See: [14]. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 12:14, 25 April 2008 (UTC).
Be on the look out for any edits from these IP addresses:
- AOL NetRange: 92.8.0.0 - 92.225.255.255
- AOL NetRange: 172.128.0.0 - 172.209.255.255
- AOL NetRange: 195.93.0.0 - 195.93.255.255
~ IP4240207xx (talk) 05:58, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- If you see an edit from 92.x.x.x on any of your watch pages, after reverting, check the users CONTRIBS and if you see the same pattern (they all have been), revert all edits please. Thanks. x IP4240207xx (talk) 17:52, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Acceptable for Encyclopedia
Is this really acceptable for an encyclopedia:
Is this still not the rule of thumb:
Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided
And if this part is not, then what part of Boze Hadleigh is? Our standards are slipping. IP4240207xx (talk) 09:07, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Toni Mannix
It's a difficult one. I'm absolutely sure that the claimed confession is deeply unreliable, for reasons inferrable from the background about her Alzheimers. But WP:SYNTH stops us from explicitly creating that argument if nobody else has said it.
