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New Soros Poll

Hey I wanted to let you know that I put up a new poll over on the Soros page. I appreciate your older poll, but I thought that this other one would more accurately reflect the "compromise" solution that Crockspot and I had been working on. Let me know what you think. |3 E |_ |_ 0 VV E |) 14:47, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I've posted my thoughts about this on the Soros page, in which I hope I've accurately referenced your concerns. Please let me know if I got it wrong. Thanks! Eleemosynary 06:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Apparently frustrated by his inability to build a consensus, Bellowed has decided to resort to untruths. He is attempting to state the 5-4 divided vote on the George Soros Talk page as an overwhelming consensus for including the O'Reilly material.. Please stop by the Talk page; your help would be greatly appreciated. Eleemosynary 00:54, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Bill Moyers

Hi again. Would you mind stopping by the Bill Moyers Talk page and weighing in with your opinion? The same situation on the George Soros page--wherein two editors are claiming that attacks by Bill O'Reilly should be included as legitimate "criticism" of the article subject--is breaking out on the Moyers page. Any thoughts you have on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --Eleemosynary 05:18, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:CarlsonFederalReserve1987.jpg listed for deletion

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North/East/South/West Jersey

Hi. You reverted my removal of the mention in the East Jersey article of how the East/West Jersey split is "roughly" the same as the North/South Jersey split. The entire northwestern quarter of the state, with the addition of Ocean County, is not an insignificant detail. —Largo Plazo 14:57, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Appreciate the feedback on admin candidacy. I have a reciprocal respect for your work as well. Ronnotel 14:03, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

RfA # formatting

Hi. When adding comments, please place a # before the colons to preserve the number formatting. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 16:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

why do you remove vamist.com from the Forex article?

It doesn't violate any policy. Is not a forex broker and it doesn't sell anything.. There are just pure informative articles written by Romanian people in Romanian and English language. I will add this link back because I think it was removed without a reason.

Stefanvaduva 11:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Please see my talk page and tell me the final verdict regarding this website. I will respect your decision and I will not add it again if you still consider that http://forum.vamist.com/forums.html link should not be there. I just want you to know that I don't agree with your first decision and you can see the arguments on my talk page. A community where people can talk about forex trading can be a very valuable ressource.

Thanks, Stefanvaduva 06:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Ronnotel's RfA

I'm limiting thank you spam to just those contributors who made an extra effort on my behalf. I am truly grateful for your support and I hope to live up to your expectations. Ronnotel 13:26, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I regrefully missed participation in your RFA. However, my full support for you, Ronnotel, should be noted. Both you and Smallbones have been valuable and knowledgeable contributors to this project, particularly in the areas of finance. Congrats and thanks--Hu12 14:53, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I do seem to have scrapped by, but a pass is a pass. Appreciate the support. Please note my immediate action plan. ;) Ronnotel 15:27, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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Link spammer User:74.94.23.253 blocked

The next time you see someone like this coming along, drop me a note - the admin rollback feature is pretty handy. I also indef blocked as per WP:SPA. Ronnotel 20:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

OK, I appreciate the support in this. User:HU12 does a lot of prevention/cleanup along these lines. But just a warning - this stuff is a bottomless pit - see foreign exchange market for example.

As always, Smallbones 13:34, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much

I will take a look at Brandywine Creek in a few days (fairly busy IRL now) and see if there are any suggestions I can offer. Thank you very much for your kind words about Larrys Creek. I appreciate them very much, Ruhrfisch _><>° 19:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Just saw your comment on Ruhrfisch's page. Let me know if you want any photos of a particular location along the creek, as I'm within striking range of most of it. (OK, so north of the Main Line gets to be a stretch.) I also have a copy of Henry Seidel Canby's Brandywine, which has some useful cultural information on the stream. Choess 04:14, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Bad Axe

Thanks for your comments on Battle of Bad Axe (the "there" thing was a typo, I do know the difference:-)). It seems Helena does still exist, see comments on talk page. IvoShandor 21:37, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Mark Twain picture

First, even though the MOS says to the contrary, it is debatable whether or not the lead image of a person must face right or left. This is especially true considering the rising prominence of infoboxes, which are always aligned on the right side of the article. Second, a photograph is nearly always preferred over a painting as paintings have creative license and are not precise representations of the individual. As for the "old man stereotype", I believe what you are saying is that the image I added is how people commonly perceive him; that sounds like a reason for keeping it as the lead as it is familiar. And finally, I'm sure you agree that the image I added is of high artistic quality (unlike the one you replaced, which I agree was poor in quality), and therefore should serve as the "premier" image in the article. At any rate, I re-added your sketch as it does provide a representation of Twain as a younger man, though I put it in his biography section. I think it fits in nicely there. --Tom (talk - email) 14:33, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm willing to meet common ground. How about the photo to the right? --Tom (talk - email) 15:14, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Topic ban violation

This edit of yours to Elliott wave principle was in violation of your topic ban from Prechter-related topics. Please make no further edits in this subject area, or you will be blocked. Picaroon (t) 03:39, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome

<from my talk page>

Just to be clear. "Topic banning" was never mentioned before the arbitration. "edit warring" and "incivility" were mentioned by outsiders, but these seemed to be aimed more at Folsom than me.

Thanks for the offer, but I'll contact Jimbo by myself. I'll let you know (in brief) what happens here, and if I think there is anything that you can do. Thanks again. Smallbones (talk) 12:50, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Perfect (re: Topic ban), that's what I was hoping. :)

Rereading what I wrote below, it occurred to me that you might think I condemn your behavior towards the other editor. I personally don't think you have broken WP:CIVIL, or any of the other allegations, but since the idea of civility is subjective I can't argue effectively against other's perception of what it means to be civil.

It's very important to keep the topic ban totally separate from the incivility debate, because they are two totally different things. Because even if the community feels you were breaking WP:CIVIL or WP:NPA (who knows what they'll say?), any punishment should be regarding how you edit article talk and user pages, not articles themselves.

Whatever happens, good luck. :) Anynobody 23:55, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Finance project

Thanks for the welcome. Don't know about "experienced" or "respected," but am definitely an editor. Will look at the articles/Afd you mention.--Samiharris 18:44, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

On the options article, I think the article, now that it has covered call writing, fits the bill on GA. But if you disagree, feel free to remove.--Samiharris 19:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Your note

Not sure who George is, but thank you. Jayjg 03:17, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Am greatly honored! I humbly accept your magnificent award.--Samiharris (talk) 14:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

One thing that would help

If you could point me to a template that is usable for creating a "genealogical tree" of a company. I'd like to create a genealogy for JPMorgan Chase.

Roadrunner (talk) 03:34, 6 January 2008 (UTC)