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Annie Easley

I placed the potential vanity tag there because it addresses a more specific problem than simply "cleanup." However, I respect your opinion that it is not, in fact, potential vanity; I would be interested to see what other users have to say as to whether or not I applied the tag properly. As for the page itself, I'm not certain if Ms. Easley meets the standards for notability, but again, I refer the question to the larger WP community. Paul 04:30, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Please see my comment at Misplaced Pages:Help desk in response to Paul's question. Best wishes. -Walter Siegmund 05:24, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

The story of this article is as follows. I had NEVER heard of this Annie Easley in my life, until one day my daughter came home with an assignment from school. It was during the African American day or African American week or something like that. She had to make an article about an important African American personality. One of the names in the list was Annie Easley. I am not sure if she chose to do that one or if it was assigned to her. My daughter asked for my help because she tried to locate references on the Internet and she couldn't find many. I told her to check in Misplaced Pages and there was no article, or if there was there was not much info on it. So, I helped her find some references on the Internet, and then also decided to start (or improve) the article about Annie Easley in Misplaced Pages and did some work on it gathering information from different sources I could find (very few at the time). I guess that if she was on a list of "important African American people" given to my daughter at school, then the people there are notable enough for a good portion of the population (African American people), which in turn means that those people are notable enough to be in Misplaced Pages. I would also recommend to User:PaulHanson and others like him not to be so "trigger happy" and avoid converting "clean-ups" into "destroy-ups" if they don't know enough about the subject. It is not nice to see our work of hours destroyed because somebody "thought" it was vanity or whatever. Regarding the question about the "potential vanity" tag, it is my opinion that it should be use when there are strong signs that the author of the article is writing about himself, when there are no other references to that person on the internet(not the case of Annie Easley...you can find several school essays posted on the Internet about her) and when the editor has no ID or has not written about any other article that that one--AAAAA 06:01, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

AAAAA, I've tried to add some information to make the significance of Annie Easley more clear to younger readers or those from countries outside the USA. I don't know how well I have succeeded. I'm a middle aged white male and I've lived in the NW United States most of my life, so I'm not the most well-informed person about life as a black female in the 1940's and 1950's in Alabama and Ohio. It was interesting to read her oral history. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. -Walter Siegmund 06:46, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Krop

No, I don't. Sorry, Go ahead and remove it PRueda29 11:52, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, it was a Miami Herald Story a while ago, I tried searching for it but couldn't find it, that's why I don't have a source for it. PRueda29 13:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

I've already been impersonated and vandalised. I feel loved... -- PRueda29

Puka Llacta

I asked a question about the proper translation of Puka Llacta from Quechua on the page you created. I wonder if you could shed some light on it for me. Thanks Descendall 08:42, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

VfD: Jews and non-Jews

Hello AAAAA: Please see and VOTE at two important Vote/s for Deletion (VfD): at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Contemporary persecution of non-Jews by Jews and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Ancient persecution of non-Jews by Jews. Best wishes and Shabbat Shalom! IZAK 06:54, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Abimael Guzman

I think this page should be unprotected. The solution is for you to add material, if and to the extent that such exists, countering or moderating any statements based on PCP claims. The page should be NPOVed. --Daniel C. Boyer 22:08, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:Zaklikow Map in Colors.jpg listed for deletion

Protected tag

Hey there, please don't just plop a protected tag into an article. You probably don't realize this, but just placing the tag in the article doesn't actually protect it -- only an administrator can do that; it requires a special button to be pushed. However, it gives that appearance, when in fact it's not true. The template is only intended to tell people, once the actual protection is done, that it's been protected. If there's a problem on a page and you think it needs to be protected, you should request an administrator review the page at requests for protection. Thanks. · Katefan0/poll 23:10, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Talk:History of the Ecuadorian-Peruvian territorial dispute

Hello there! a ew user in Misplaced Pages started a whole war against my person in this topic. I have reverted most of his editions (most of them were clearly Ecuadorian POV), and now that he does not have many resources to use in his favor has starting to attack my person. He now claims that I'm the problem. Cheers! and see if you can help me. Messhermit 03:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

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Links on the Certificate of Deposit Page

You say all links are helpful, but somehow I believe if I posted a link to our website it would be promptly removed. We have rates that are as competitive as bankrate.com and bankcd.com, but we don't make our income from ads, we make ours from transaction fees. I would even suggest that for that very reason we are even more accountable to the investors. If they don't get what we promised them, then they won't pay us. So please tell me why these ad based sites get a link, and ours doesn't?--Cdduncan 21:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I welcomed User:Cdduncan and referred him to the relevant guidelines just now. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 22:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Hughes

The fact that a writer explores anti-Israel topics and points of view doesn't make them an "anti-Israel writer". That description discounts all Hughes' other writings on topics unrelated to Israel. Snottygobble 00:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Factual schmactual. WP:LIVING. Snottygobble 02:32, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Veronica Varekova.jpg)

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Lilian Cristina Aya Ramirez

Hi, AAAAA. Your contributions to Lilian Cristina Aya Ramirez have been deleted (not by me :-) per WP:BLP (all criticism of living persons must be well-sourced), and WP:V, which says blogs aren't usually reliable sources. I've searched the intenet and El Universal, looking for reliable sources for the important information from Reconocelos, but have found nothing. I'm not very good at searches in Spanish, and don't know the press in Peru; perhaps that is the best place to look. I hope you're able to help locate information from a reliable source, so the information can be returned to the article. Sandy 18:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I haven't found anything useful on Google: maybe something else will come up. Regards, Sandy 00:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Hola, AAAAA. I have to agree with others that Reconocelos.com can not be used to support information in a biography of a living person, as it does not meet the criteria for a reliable source. I have no doubt the information is true, and I'm sure a journalist will report on it eventually. The truth has a way of coming out: patience is in order here. In the meantime, if you want to help out on the Venezuelan front, your input is much needed on the talk pages of other articles like Hugo Chávez, Criticism of Hugo Chávez, Súmate, and Israel-Venezuela relations. Hope to see you there, Sandy 14:28, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Shining Path

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