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History of the Los Angeles Lakers

Thanks for having put that article together. Just wanted you to know it's truly appreciated. Mwelch 20:10, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Image of the kikuyu woman

I appreciate your contribution to the 'Kikuyu' page. Would you mind adding a little more info about the image? I am interested about when and where the image was obtained - such as a tourist site, a festival, or other. In present day, one does not often see 'traditional dress.' Thanks --Kimathi 22:12, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

The photo was uploaded by wayfaring stranger. - Cybjorg 14:14, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

SPBW

Thanks. It was apparently listed twice, under two different days. I should have checked the talk page. Thanks for fixing it. All the best, – Quadell 19:20, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Edward Winter biography

Once again, Misplaced Pages is being used to publicize an unverifiable attack. In this case, the target is Edward Winter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Edward_G._Winter

Some sample ridiculous statements:

(1)  "For the past more than 30 years, every time a new book by Keene has come out or a new article by Keene has been published, Edward Winter has written articles attacking it."
(2)  "Kingston is from the same part of England that Winter is believed to be from."  ("Wow, I didn't know that ... San Diego, California (where I was born and lived until 1980)  part of England." - Taylor Kingston comment)
(3)  "Edward Winter filed an ethics complaint with the FIDE Congress accusing Keene of unethical conduct in writing books almost exclusively about opening theory, whereas Winter said there should be more books about chess history."
(4)  "Keene's opponent was Florencio Campomanes who Winter supported."
(5)  "Chess Notes ... contains brief commentaries usually not more than one or two paragraphs in length attacking usually insignificant errors and spelling mistakes made by this or that chess writer."
(6)  "If a book by Keene contains a spelling mistake, Chess Notes will point it out."

At rec.games.chess.politics, samhsloan@gmail.com has referred to this as "my biography". Sam Sloan is the one who contributed the subsequently deleted supposed USCF blacklist. See discussion at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Chess_Life#Authors_Banned_or_Blacklisted_by_USCF_Sales

He also contributed the subsequently deleted Tom Dorsch "biography". See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tom_Dorsch

It should not be necessary for anyone to do a point by point refutation of the Edward Winter "biography". The "verifiable" sources do not exist and the author will not be able to produce them, as even a minimal amount of inquiry would reveal. I apologize once again for not being acquainted with the details of Misplaced Pages procedure. I have no interest in Misplaced Pages beyond the hope that those in charge will take measures to prevent its use for the promotion of garbage. I am posting this note here because you have some past experience with Sam Sloan. I imagine that you will know the best way to procede. - Louis Blair (March 3, 2006)

Robert Elsie

You can follow the links and see that Elsie holds the copyright on those picture. However, I won't object any decision that you may make.--Pjetër Bogdani III 04:41, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Tom Dorsch

Sam_Sloan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has taken Tom Dorsch to WP:DRV. I guess you've looked at Sam Sloan's web page? this is an example. This goes some way to explain why the article was so very bad - Sloan evidently bears considerable personal animosity toward sthe subject. This Google search is also instructive. Expect some crap from Sam Sloan, feel free to ask me (email or Talk) if you need additional backup, but I have a feeling you can handle a POV pusher well enough :-) Just zis Guy you know? 10:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Permissions from Robert Elsie

Give me a couple of days to prepare email etc. As you can see, I got permissions to incorporate into Misplaced Pages all Elsie's articles (including three different sites!), not books. This is not so small amount of articles. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 20:04, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Misinformation on Sam Sloan's talk page

I hope that you do not mind too much if I trouble you once again. Sam Sloan has taken to repeatedly asserting, "User:Howcheng ... called Randy Bauer and Louis Blair my 'meatpuppets'." (See, for example, the "Third Opinion" section of Sam Sloan's talk page. http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Sam_Sloan) I had absolutely no involvement in the Dom Dorsch article discussion (http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tom_Dorsch), so I assume that you never called me a "meatpuppet". Would you be kind enough to make a statement to that effect on Sam Sloan's talk page? - Louis Blair (4 March 2006)