User talk:MarsRover

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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Gary Howell 3 El Modena, California 4 Lue 5 Racist comments by User:NisarKand 6 Location Maps 7 Pat Tillman 8 Kabul map 9 Message for you at Meta 10 Population of Charikar 11 Kashubian Wikipedia 12 WikiProject The Clash 13 Reguarding Jonestown? 14 Update of List of Wikipedias by sample of articles 15 Re: Updated List of Wikipedias by sample of articles 16 Next update

[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Gary Howell

Why is this guy not notable? Has been on US National and Japanese National TV as a recognized credit card fraud expert. Is hired to speak on credit card fraud around the US. Has been on US National TV and in US National Car Magazines as a recognized car builder. Has been recognized by the US Small Business adminstration as an exporter of the year in 2003. Has recieved the Ronald Reagan medal from the NRCC. Was named one of the top 40 West Virginian's under 40 by the State Journal and Marshall University. Been on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. How well known do you need to be? --141.157.157.105 19:18, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Mainly because I never heard of him. And then I read the article which sounds self-promotional. Usually that makes people doubt the how notable the events are. I thought the living next door to John Kruk didn't help. You click on that article and the trivia says he lived next do to Gary Howell. The contrast between the two people's notability was the kicker. Anyway if you get elected I will support your article. --MarsRover 03:01, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] El Modena, California

Didn't you read my rewrite? At least according to my sources, El Modena, California is an unincorporated enclave within the city of Orange. I know that Orange County is trying to get rid of all of those oddball areas, but there are still some of them around. ^BlankVerse 21:05, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Is my latest rewrite an improvement? ^BlankVerse 07:07, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

There doesn't seem to be any sort of govt. recognition of boundaries for El Molino that I can find (i.e., no Census, no Post Office, no city of Orange) or even any sort of homeowner's association. I did found an interesting 1952 AAA map online showing the old city boundaries, and El Modena seems to be the inhabited area east of the city of Orange [1]. At that time, the eastern boundary looks like it was what is now Rancho Santiago Blvd. You can see on the map where the Southern Pacific's El Modena Station was located. ^BlankVerse 08:22, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lue

Ah, thank you for finding all that information on Lee Lue. Always nice to see someone expanding one of "my" articles, you know? DS 14:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Racist comments by User:NisarKand

Because of his racist comments, I have reported User:NisarKand to admins. Please take some time to have a look at this: [2]

Your opinion and comments may help to solve the problem.

Thx.

Tājik 17:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Location Maps

On the WikiProject Countries talk page, you had either explictly declared a general interest in the project, or had participated at a discussion that appears related to Location Maps for European countries.
New maps had been created by David Liuzzo, and are available for the countries of the European continent, and for countries of the European Union exist in two versions. From November 16, 2006 till January 31, 2007, a poll had tried to find a consensus for usage of 'old' or of which and where 'new' version maps. At its closing, 25 people had spoken in favor of either of the two presented usages of new versions but neither version had reached a consensus (12 and 13), and 18 had preferred old maps.
As this outcome cannot justify reverting of new maps that had become used for some countries, seconds before February 5, 2007 a survey started that will be closed at February 20, 2007 23:59:59. It should establish whether the new style maps may be applied as soon as some might become available for countries outside the European continent (or such to depend on future discussions), and also which new version should be applied for which countries.
Please note that since January 1, 2007 all new maps became updated by David Liuzzo (including a world locator, enlarged cut-out for small countries) and as of February 4, 2007 the restricted licence that had jeopardized their availability on Wikimedia Commons, became more free. The subsections on the talk page that had shown David Liuzzo's original maps, now show his most recent design.
Please read the discussion (also in other sections α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ, η, θ) and in particular the arguments offered by the forementioned poll, while realizing some comments to have been made prior to updating the maps, and all prior to modifying the licences, before carefully reading the presentation of the currently open survey. You are invited to only then finally make up your mind and vote for only one option.
There mustnot be 'oppose' votes; if none of the options would be appreciated, you could vote for the option you might with some effort find least difficult to live with - rather like elections only allowing to vote for one of several candidates. Obviously, you are most welcome to leave a brief argumentation with your vote. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 7 Feb 2007 20:24 (UTC)

[edit] Pat Tillman

I note your reversion of the Ralph Kauzlarich comments on the Pat Tillman article. I call on you to explain how exactly this information is not relevant to the article, esp. in light of the fact that it appears in the "Controversial criticisms" section. I would hope this is not a case of information supression. Aloha. Arjuna 05:00, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

In its best light the information is simply an opinion that’s only notable in that insulting someone's religious beliefs is rare nowadays. Bring it up in the discussion page if you honestly believe it’s a major bit of info. I found including the full obnoxious quote and the blurb at the end about a conspiracy a bit too much. Can't you summarize it to a sentence or two and include all that in the Ralph Kauzlarich article? PS. make sure to include a trailing "</ref>" in references otherwise the rest of the article disappears. MarsRover 06:37, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kabul map

Here, please download this map. I marked all the main units. Of course, you're not obliged to show them all in your map, but you can take only the main units, like Min. of Defense, Min. of Foreign Affairs and ARG.

As you can see, there is the Ministry of Defense in place of Min. of Justice. And there is a Main Road between the block (in which Min. of Foreign Affairs is situated) and between the block in which Prime Minister's Office is located. So If you can mark in your map a Road just next to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (like in the map, I uploaded), it will be great. Plus, you can remove Spinzar and Park Hotels, they have lost their popularity in recent years. And instead, you can mark "Shahr-e Naw" which is very important to be shown on the map. And check this map, edited by AIMS. It will help you mark the important areas of Kabul in your map. -Ariana310 09:57, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed that in the map which I uploaded for you, I have marked the locations of US Embassy and Radio Afghanistan in a wrong block. Their location in your own previous map is correct.Ariana310 10:08, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Message for you at Meta

Ironic that I'd be leaving you a message about this, too. ;) EVula // talk // ☯ // 05:43, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Population of Charikar

[3] Do you have any source for this number of population as it differ from german and other wikis and other sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hogne (talk • contribs) 14:14, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kashubian Wikipedia

Earlier this month, Kashubian Wikipedia came up for deletion (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kashubian Wikipedia). The discussion ended up as a "no consensus" keep. I noted that you were among the leading "keep" recommenders, but I'm not sure I understood your argument in favor of the article. Could you take another look and clarify that for me? Thanks. --Metropolitan90 04:50, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject The Clash

Hi! I've seen you around on Clash articles... Would you consider becoming a member of WikiProject The Clash, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of The Clash on Wikipedia? Please feel free to join us. – Pjoef 13:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Reguarding Jonestown?

"This collection of paraniod fantasies should deleted. Pretty decient article until you get to these crackpot suggestions. MarsRover 07:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)"

This doesn't sound crackpot to me, however I am interested to hear why you believe it should not be included in the article? It is encyclopedic, and the issue is valid, I don't believe there was any plot by the CIA against the citizens of Jonestown, however, it is likely that the CIA had some sort of interest in Jonestown. After all, within the scope of the CIA mission, they may have been percieved as a threat, and therefore worthy of supervision. Perhaps that can explain why documents reguarding the issue remain classified. I would llike to discuss this with you further. Sephiroth storm (talk) 06:36, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Maybe "crackpot" was a bit harsh. But, editors trying to prove something with their lack of knowledge should be reverted. (Its true because I cannot read the classified documents). I saw a special about Roswell and the government early on tried to explain the situation (its just balloons and testdummies) but that just feed the situation. Now the government just completely ignores it, which some people then use as proof. So, I believe editors have to add references to prove challenged claims and if its not possible then they shouldn't be able to include it. --MarsRover (talk) 21:00, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update of List of Wikipedias by sample of articles

Hello,

I'm Meldor (also Meldor, in meta). I would like to ask if you used the List of articles in List of Wikipedias by sample of articles/Source code to update the list; I'm trying to see if there are incorrect interwikis to catalan language, because we can't find which articles we are missing.

I think it would be a good idea to keep the List of articles used in a more visible place, because the original list in meta seems to be changing constantly.

Thanks for the update! For further updates, I can help you if you wish (I compiled your code but it just made the first group of articles). --161.116.143.97 (talk) 09:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Updated List of Wikipedias by sample of articles

That's nice. Thank you! :) It seems that all articles listed there have been properly interwikied already, so zh should have 0 absent articles next time. -- Kevinhksouth (talk) 14:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Next update

For when are you planning the next update of your m:List of Wikipedias by sample of articles? --Roland2 (talk) 20:09, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow! :-) Thanks --Roland2 (talk) 14:13, 18 April 2008 (UTC)