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Contents 1 Welcome to the Wikipedia 2 Baltasar Gracián 3 Template:Fascism 4 Ward Churchill 5 hello, good sir 6 Template: Kurosawa 7 George Michael 8 Category:Scholars of Marxism 9 David Myatt references 10 Meaning of diaphragm and axis in WW2 context 11 Dutch fascists 12 Request for a vote 13 If you're interested 14 Da Ali G Show 15 Unblock 16 Reinrassig 17 Unblock request 18 Unblock request 19 Image:George-Friedman.jpg 20 Fair use rationale for Image:FromaNativeSon.jpg 21 Wikiproject:Terrorism 22 Kinship with All Life 23 Wikified Memetic Engineering 24 Template:LaVeyan Satanism 25 Richard-Wolstencroft.jpg 26 Speedy deletion of Template:Evola books 27 The East Came West (book) 28 Evola and the Jews 29 AfD nomination of Alice Sweet Alice 30 Wikiproject Terrorism Newsletter

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[edit] Baltasar Gracián

Do I understand that you deliberately dumped a bunch of Spanish language text into the English-language Wikipedia, so that either someone has to clean up after you promptly or we have to delete it? That seems rather unproductive. All you are doing is making work for other people. Yes, certainly a worthwhile topic, and if you want to do the translation yourself, great, but if you are making a translation request, the place to do that is WP:TIE (or even Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week) and let someone get to it when they have the time, instead of creating something that will be deleted in 2 weeks if no one fixes it. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:35, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

So do you actually plan to work on this where you put it, or do you just want to put in a request through a more normal channel (in which case I'll probably just turn Baltasar Gracián into a stub)? (Either approach is equally OK, just let me know which way you want to go.) -- Jmabel | Talk 02:03, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Fascism

While the actual template is a good idea (similar to Template:Communism for that series of articles), could we get a better image of the fasces for the template? I think it's a bit out of place to use an image taken from the U.S. Mercury dime. Firebug 15:52, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Absolutely! I've found a different image, but there might be one more directly relevant, to Fascism, available. — Morning star 16:30, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ward Churchill

Hi: I think that User:Zen-master's wholesale reversion of your edit was a bit harsh given the amount of useful material that you added and I have mentioned this to him. I agree with what he has to say about the importance of the essay controversy with quotations so I would hope that this material will stay in the main article. The reversion, however, deleted a lot of useful stuff that you added (the details of Churchill's degree topic and all the bibliographic data, for examples) so would you please add those back in. I would do it myself but it is after 01:00 local time and I must away to my bed. --Theo (Talk) 00:09, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the pleasant reply and good job on restoring the good stuff. I feel that the article is much improved by your intervention. Those page size warnings are grossly misleading now. But no harm was done. --Theo (Talk) 10:02, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, Theo : for your thanks, and your encouragement. —Morning star 12:51, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi there, I understand why you moved the text to a sub-article, but I would be careful about making major changes like this to controversial articles without raising it first on the Talk page -- and this has been a very controversial article as you can see from the page history and Talk page. Anyway, the 32Kb article size was a more important consideration a few years ago, when some browsers couldn't edit texts larger than that and truncated them, but that no longer appears to be a problem. That being said, it is worth asking whether articles longer than can be shortened, refactored as we say, because most people have short attention spans these days. -- Viajero 13:31, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

The apparent assumption of malice by one editor in the face of several assertions of good faith should not bother you. You seem to be doing just fine to me; and your ready recognition of areas for improvement is a strength that does you great credit. In my opinion there are at least three things that need no repetition on Wikipedia: 1. Reversion. 2. Apology. 3. Defensive explanation. Those who accept good faith do not need it (repetition, that is) and those that do not will be strengthened in their hostility. --Theo (Talk) 22:42, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks once again, Theo : sage advice. —Morning star 00:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] hello, good sir

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[edit] Template: Kurosawa

I took the liberty of "picking up the ball and running with it" on the Kurosawa template you created:

• I inserted it into all the Akira Kurosawa film pages (except of course the 3 that don't have an article at all yet: Scandal (film), Record of a Living Being, and Rhapsody in August)
• I twiddled all the things that needed to be twiddled in the template to get it to work "properly" (that is, if viewing the page of movie XYZ, then the entry for "XYZ" in the template should be displayed black and bold, and not blue as a clickable link). Usually this just meant adjusting the actual page name in the link to be correct. In some cases, xxxx_(movie) had given way to xxxx_(film); in other cases the name was slightly different (The One Most Beautiful --> The Most Beautiful, etc.). That was an issue because the template only works completely "properly" in the above sense if the title is an exact match, not a redirect.
• I hope the result was what you had in mind when you created the template.

--IslandGyrl 00:11, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] George Michael

I don't know how, but for some reason you made a mess of the George Michael page. (not on purpose I think). Many 's and other symbols were changed. Like Español turned into Espa�ol. Either way I reverted it but kept your new disambiguation part. Maybe you can figure out what happened. Garion96 (talk) 11:21, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

No problem. Garion96 (talk) 20:33, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Scholars of Marxism

Your wish is my command. Help populate it :-). Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 07:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Myatt references

:-) You're welcome! Jude (talk,contribs,email) 06:57, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meaning of diaphragm and axis in WW2 context

Hi there. About the article you added recently, The Rome-Berlin Axis, would you be able to help disambiguate two links you created? It is the title of chapter 4: This Berlin-Rome Line is not a Diaphragm but rather an Axis - you linked to diaphragm and axis, but both of these are disambiguation pages. Would you know, from the context of the chapter, what the author or the original quote means by diaphragm and axis? I have some ideas, but don't want to prejudice what you think. You could add your thoughts here if you wanted. Thanks. Carcharoth 15:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dutch fascists

Could you please explain why you added Cornelis van Geelkerken, Anton Mussert and Meinoud Rost van Tonningen to List of fascists? I've removed them recently bacause they were no fascists, but national socialists.--Willem Huberts 12:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for a vote

Hi Morning star,

I saw you contributed to one of the articles (now I've forgotten which one -- was it Willmoore Kendall??) of a conservative. That page has a link to the "American conservatives" category page, which is now the subject of a vote on whether to delete it as a category. I thought you might have an interest in whether or not it should stay, so I invite you to take a look at the category page and click on the box up top to contribute to the decision, which could be made in the next couple of days. Right now the vote is tied.Noroton 23:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] If you're interested

Hi again Morning,

Thanks for your vote on keeping the American conservatives category, it won by a 2:1 margin. You might have an interest in an article I've just created Pre-Iraq War opinions on Saddam. It's poorly named (something I want to change) but as it stands now, it's essentially statements made by public officials and opinion leaders from across the political spectrum about how dangerous Saddam's regime was considered before the war. The article is being proposed for deletion, but I of course think it's useful. I'd be interested to know what you think.Noroton 01:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Da Ali G Show

That is funny timing. Gotcha. ;-) I'll put in screenshots soon (if it still needs it). What'll really be cool is making individual pages for the episodes and including a few funny quotes. One thing I was debating was how to order the summaries. I did mine in the same order as they appear in the episode, but it might be better to always do Ali G, Borat, Bruno, Interview or something. - Peregrinefisher 23:15, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I've added images to the filled in entries. If you'll finish the summaries I'll finish the images. There's a rule against images without summaries. Also, it looks better if the colon goes inside the bolding for interviewees. I've probably put hundreds of colons outside the bolding myself, but I finally decided to look at the result and it looks better inside. By the way, love the Umlaüts! - Peregrinefisher 18:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

If we add more to each episode, it should probably in a seperate page for each episode. - Peregrinefisher 19:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and created a page for Law (Da Ali G Show). We could make it how we like, and then use it as a template for the rest. - Peregrinefisher 19:58, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock

Sorry for the confusion. —Morning star 19:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Autoblock of 208.54.95.1 lifted or expired. Request handled by: —— Eagle 101 (Need help?) 06:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

—— Eagle 101 ^{(Need help?)} 06:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reinrassig

Looking for help from a knowledgeable editor - came across this page Reinrassig while adding categories. See from your profile you might know this stuff. Is it right? I couldn't see it in German Wiki or German Wikitionary so thinking maybe the word was not spelled quite right or something. Any idea (or know who would know)? Obina 10:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock request

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Autoblock of 208.54.95.1 lifted or expired. Request handled by: Yamla 19:53, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the problems. --Yamla 19:53, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Error: Block ID not found. It may have been unblocked already.

There's no block for you, it's just the IP. I'll see about getting things changed to allow logged-in editing. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 10:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I've changed it to a softblock, so you should be ok again. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 11:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock request

[edit] Image:George-Friedman.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:George-Friedman.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:FromaNativeSon.jpg

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[edit] Wikiproject:Terrorism

Greetings,

I was hoping I could get some input from you, about the proposed mergerof Wikipedia:WikiProject Terrorism and counter-terrorism with Wikiproject:Terrorism. It seems there's a lot of overlap between the two projects, and if we spent a few days merging the lists of articles, sharing ideas and collaborating on improving the same articles which both projects are focused on improving...we could really make some headway. Whether you're in favour, or against, the idea of a merger - I'd appreciate some feedback regardless. Much thanks. Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 21:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kinship with All Life

Your additions have been challenged; please provide a citation where requested or remove the material in question. Thanks! Richard001 09:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikified Memetic Engineering

Good looking out on wikifying the article. I was so focused on researching I forgot to do it... Thanks --Gnosis 04:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:LaVeyan Satanism

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[edit] Richard-Wolstencroft.jpg

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:Evola books

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[edit] The East Came West (book)

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[edit] Evola and the Jews

Hello Morning star. In one of your edits,[1] you added this statement: Evola differed from main anti-Semitic position (that Jews are responsible for what is wrong with the world), but agreed that they had a tendency to denigrate lofty "Aryan" ideals (of faith, loyalty, courage, devotion, and constancy) through a "corrosive irony" that ascribed every human activity to economic and sexual motives (à la Marx and Freud). This needs to be sourced. — EliasAlucard (Discussion · contribs) 10:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Alice Sweet Alice

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[edit] Wikiproject Terrorism Newsletter

	The Terrorism WikiProject April 2008 Newsletter
News 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was made a Featured Article Omar Khadr has an ongoing peer review as it begins the slow crawl towards Featured Article status Trials have begun this month in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, Benbrika affair and 2006 Toronto terrorism case, each article could use a good vetting, and the articles on specific alleged terrorists are desperately in need of some clean-up. Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein had his case overturned by the Iraqi courts and was ordered released, although the US military says they will not release him. China announced that they had disrupted a plot targeting the 2008 Summer Olympics, while detractors claim it was fabricated. The bail hearing for Abdullah Khadr, fighting extradition to the United States, is scheduled for April 29 Former Turkish Member of Parliament Leyla Zana is sentenced to two years imprisonment for praising Abdullah Öcalan. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list needs votes on whether or not it should be kept on Wikipedia.
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