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National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Puerto Rico

Thanks for pointing out my error at National Register of Historic Places listings in southern and western Puerto Rico. I'm not sure how I managed to do that. The Casa Paoli listing was announced by the NPS this past Friday. I've added it to the list again, this time making sure not to mess up the rest of the page. Happy editing! --sanfranman59 (talk) 00:13, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Boricua Barnstar

I hope that you accept this "Boricua Barnstar" which I am presenting you for your exceptional work on Puerto Rico related articles, thereby "Poniendo nuestra isla en alto". Tony the Marine (talk) 20:05, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

New Templates

The following are new templates to be used for Puerto Rican related images:

1. For portraits of Governors, First Ladies, Senate Presidents, House Speakers and Military heroes: {{PD-PRGov-OfficialPortraits}}

2. For images from the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña - Institute of Puerto Rican Culture: {{PD-PRGov-IPC}}

Tony the Marine (talk) 06:55, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Wall of Honor

Mercy, you have been among the best people that I have ever interacted with. You have never hesitated to come to my defense when needed, therefore it is with great pleasure that I have placed your user name in my Wall of Honor. Tony the Marine (talk) 16:28, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Re:chat

Hello Mercy, you are more then welcomed to comment in my "chat". I suggest that the "See also" section with the PR Portal and a link to "List of famous Puerto Ricans" be placed on all Puerto Rican biographies. A "See also" section with the "PR-portal" can also be placed in the "barrios" with the intention of catching the readers attention as to the positive contributions made by Puerto Ricans, but that would optional. In the article that I wrote about the "Piragua" I only posted related topics of interest in the "See also" section. That is only my opinion.

• I believe that an article that has only one short sentence or paragraph should be considered a "stub". An article with more then a paragraph, but lacking full information and falling short of being a full article, should be considered as "start".

• Not all public records have DoB or DoD information. To give you an example, when I wrote the story of Capt. Ivan Castro, I could not find anywhere his date of birth, therefore I made an educated guess at the year that he was born. It wasn't until a couple of days ago when we spoke on the phone that he confirmed his real date of birth. I was off by one year. If you know the year that the person or subject in question entered the service, then you can make an educated guess that he/she was born 18 years earlier since the average age in which most people enter the service is 18. If the person entered the service with a BA, then figure that the person was born 22 years before he received his BA. When guessing the year of a person's birth just add a "circa", example: (c. 1962) and that'll do it.

• In regard to Joxel García, I don't know how the PHSCC works as to the release of information to the public. For one thing, he was an Admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) which is the federal uniformed service of the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and not of the military. Even though the PHSCC is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States, it is not related nor part of the five military branches of the United States (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard) and his PHSCC Admiral rank, which is temporary, has no bearing in the Navy or Coast Guard, it is more symbolic then anything else. The only two Hispanic full Admirals (four-star) so far have been David Farragut and Horacio Rivero. Tony the Marine (talk) 06:02, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Re: Money doubles

Money may double in recent years, but not during depressions. Please do research before reverting me. I have been editing Misplaced Pages for five years, I know what I'm doing.

In 1928, it was $50 million. Per this first hit on Google for inflation calculators:

• 1940: $42 million
• 1952: $77.6 million
• 1964: $90 million
• 1976: $166 million
• 1988: $346 million
• 2000: $503 million
• 2009: $620 million

Please do not revert me. --Hurricanehink (talk) 04:02, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Re:Images

• I agree with Pr4ever,

You should upload the images with the following for now:

• Description
• Source

http://bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/ Images are PD because of the following statement made by the University of Puerto Rico:

1. "Estos recursos están disponibles libremente para los estudiosos, investigadores, estudiantes y otras personas interesadas en la historia, la política, la economía, los asuntos sociales y culturales de Puerto Rico desde el siglo XIX hasta el presente."
2. These resources are available freely for the scholars, investigators, students and other people interested in the history, the politics, the economy, the cultural and social matters of Puerto Rico since the 19th century to the present.

Images obtained from the defunct newspaper "El Mundo" therefore said license also applies:

• License

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See Commons:Hirtle chart for further explanation. PD-US Public domain in the United States //en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Mercy11

Tony the Marine (talk) 18:16, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

I will respond on your page Tony. Please follow the thread there in case this develops into a long discussion (or else we could move it to the PR project page?). Thanks. Mercy11 (talk) 01:45, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

I have made a comment there.QuAzGaA 18:17, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

AWARD

		The Hats Off Barnstar
		I hereby bestow this Hats off Barnstar to User:Mercy11 for his outstanding and extensive contributions to articles related to the Category:Puerto Rican nationalists. Your dedication and fervor in improving these articles greatly contribute to the knowledge and contributions of that these Puerto Ricans made for their cause. My Hats off to you Mercy11. QuAzGaA 17:42, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Re:Destilería Serrallés, the Category, not the article

Done! Tony the Marine (talk) 23:50, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

• There's a "glitch". Give it some time and I'm sure it will fix itself, its happened before (sometimes the system has prob;ems with the accented letters) . If not, I'll re-do tomorrow. Tony the Marine (talk) 00:40, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Ponceweb.org

Hi, I see you added a lot of links to ponceweb.org (see linksearch). This site appears to have been taken over or something, but it is far from useful. I have removed about half the links. Could you have a look at the rest? EdBever (talk) 20:22, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Re:Leoncio Rivera or Pedro Segundo

I am sorry that I didn't answer your message sooner. I do not know anything about Leoncio Rivera or Pedro Segundo. You know, El Antiguo Cuartel Militar Español de Ponce is a goldmine and is worth studying. I will try to investigate both Leoncio Rivera and Pedro Segundo. At times I receive e-mails asking me about this and that. Yesterday, I recieved an e-mail asking me "who was the first Puerto Rican female Sergeant Major?". Caramba, I didn't know and I had no idea how to find out, but it made me curious and I did some research. The result is this article: María V. Martínez. Take care. Tony the Marine (talk) 20:15, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Ponce, Puerto Rico

Renominate it and I'll review it for you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:00, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Battle of Yauco

Hi Mercy, I'll check on LMM's ancestor later today. Now, the Battle of Yauco, occurred in the land that was part of the Mariani coffee plantation in Yauco and not in Guanica. Regardless of the fact that Guanica was part of Yauco then, the Mariani lands now border Guanica, but are in Yauco. The Mariani family still own the land in Yauco and went into the coffee business once again in 2008, except that now they will introduce their coffee as a gourmet product. There business is incribed as "Groupo Mariani, Inc."Tony the Marine (talk) 06:14, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Battle of Yauco 2

• I wish that I could someday go to Puerto Rico to carry out a full investigation on the Battle of Yauco. I don't have the answer to some of your questions, but I can tell you this:

• The picture came from a Spanish-American War wbsite written by Mark R. Barnes, Ph.D., Senior Archeologist, National Park Service, Southeast Regional Office. The picture states that the battlefield of Yauco occurred north of Guanica. The men who participated in the battle were entrenched in the Hills of Seboruco. Now, get this the Lomas de Seboruco in Carenero are part of the Lajara Hills (Cerro Lajara) in current Guanica. I believe that the hill on the picture is of La Lomas de Seboruco. This is important because even though that land was owned by the Marianis, it was at the time located in Yauco and therefore it was correct for historians at the time to call the battle "The Battle of Yauco". However, after Guanica became a municipality, it cou;d be coorect to say that the battle, occurred by the Lomas de Seboruco in Cerro Lajara, of modern day Guanica. All you have to do is look up the coordinates of the Cerro Lajara to get an idea of the exact location.

Tony the Marine (talk) 23:28, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

• About "La Lomas de Seboruco" check out this website Spanish-American War. It is hard to get an exact location of the battle because of the lack of information. That is why I wish I could have the oppurtunity to varry out the investigation in the island. By the way, I plan on finishing the year with an article about Law 53, better known as "Ls Lety de la Mordaza". I believe that the world should known about the repression that Puerto Ricans were subject to when their civil rights and the right to Freedom of Speech were violated. The interesting thing is that the law was approved by the Senate presided by LMM and controled by the PPD. It was signed into law by Jesus T. Pinero. Tony the Marine (talk) 01:11, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Re:LMM

In regard to your question about who was the true Great-grandmother of LMM, Rosa or Candida. I sent an e-mail to a friend of mine, Dr. Delma S. Arrigoitia, the first person in the University of Puerto Rico to earn a Masters Degree in the field of history, asking her imput on the subject. Tony the Marine (talk) 23:36, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Guanica

If I go, you'll be the first to know. I have updated my Puerto Rico's Gag Law and did an article on Vidal Santiago Díaz, Albizu Campo's barber whom I had the pleasure of knowing. Tell me what you think of those articles. Tony the Marine (talk) 23:42, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Yauco

I wish I could go, but I can't. Some of the best summers of my life were spent in my uncles farm in the mountains of Yauco. I remember gathering coffee beans with my brother and then my aunt would grind them to make fresh coffe. I also remember climbing on the cink roof of my uncles house for quenepas. He had a "Letrina" outside the house and we had to take cold showers outside in a makeshift shower thing. It was great.

Right now. I am waiting to hear from the "White House". Yesterday, I received a phone call from the White House asking for ny correct address. I know that it has to do with a request that I made to Pres. Obama in regard to PFC Guy Gabaldon, one of five Hispanics who deserve the Medal of Honor. So, let's see what happens. When you go to Yauco, take a lot of pictures. It would be great if you could find out where the old train station was. Tony the Marine (talk) 15:44, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

• It would be great to pin-point the exact location of the battle. By the way, in regard to my message above, Obama forwarded my letter and request to the Navy Department. They got in touch with me with the usual bureaucratic red-tape bull---t. Tony the Marine (talk) 15:48, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro

On 2 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro, a multi-sport complex currently being built in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is named after Emilio Navarro, the first Puerto Rican to play in Negro league baseball? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

A well-deserved award

	The Defender Barnstar
	Thank you for sourcing and defending the Jorge Otero Barreto article, and for your efforts to improve the encyclopedia for the public! Nelsondenis248 (talk) 06:33, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

AWARD

		The Hats Off Barnstar
		I hereby bestow this Hats off Barnstar to User:Mercy11 for his outstanding and extensive participation in the Jorge Otero Barreto discussion. Your dedication and fervor in improving this article is greatly appreciated. You are a true patriot, therefore my hats off to you Mercy. Tony the Marine (talk) 18:31, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Hello. I never gave thanks for your contributions in the Mexican Drug War articles like I did with BatteryIncluded. Anyways, thanks for your kind approach and contributions. It's good seeing you around. ComputerJA (talk) 21:31, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Re:Passport

I think that everything that has to do with the little known facts of Puerto Rico should be looked into and made known. I was thinking, if you go to Ponce, take pidtures of all the historical buildings, such as El Hotel Melia, and then create a "Gallery of Historic Structures in Ponce" section in the article of Ponce similar to the one I created for the town of Glendale, Arizona: Gallery of Historic Structures in Glendale, Arizona. Tony the Marine (talk) 21:08, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

• That is the thing, that there are many historical buildings that haven't been declared as such, yet they are. For example, if I am not wrong, General Miles stayed at the Melia. Then you have the building contected to the Ponce Massacre in Calle Marina, the Banco Credito building and so on. It would be great to create a section because you will be helping to promote turist interest and you will be creating a social conscience as to these old, if not historical structures for the good of our bueatiful Ponce in Misplaced Pages. Tony the Marine (talk) 22:46, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Even if a structure has not been degsinated as historical, we can add it has a point of interest in Ponce. I think that we can start a section with some of the Ponce Photos already in Misplaced Pages. It would be interesting to find out if Albizu Campos house is stilll standing. Tony the Marine (talk) 18:57, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

You noticed that put the NRHP table in the Ponce article. What would be nice if you could take pictures of the places which are missing in the article, plus we could post a "Point of interest" section with pictures of the Melia, the corner of Calle Marina, Teatro la Perla and so on. Tony the Marine (talk) 04:59, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

• You know, I can't exactly remember where I once read that about Miles. The thing is that according to the "Hotel Melia" it states this: "El Hotel Meliá fue fundado en 1895 por Don Bartol Meliá." See: . Even if he did not stay there, it is still one of the few hotels 100+ years remaining that is still in use. The process to have it in the National Register of Historical Places is a long especailly if it is privately owned, but in my book it still historical and a point of interest in Ponce. Do you agree? Tony the Marine (talk) 18:45, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

For removing some garbage from IPTV ~KvnG 12:24, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

	WikiProject Forestry
	Thank you on behalf of WikiProject Forestry! We appreciate your contribution(s) and invite you to join us in further improving Misplaced Pages's coverage of topics related to forestry. Feel free to ask questions or make suggestions on the project's talk page.

Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 10:37, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Great job with Toro Negro State Forest! Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 10:59, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Nice article (Prunus occidentalis).

Matthew (talk) 00:47, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

GA: El Chapo

Hey, Mercy11, hope you're doing well. I was thinking of promoting El Chapo's page to Good Article status in the next months (I'll probably do Osiel's article first and then jump to his). Since you are the main contributor of the page, I thought I'd let you know–I'm sure you know a lot more details about his life than I do. Some chunks of his early life and probably many details of his criminal ascension are probably in offline sources. If you wish, I can supply photocopies of where I'm getting my information. Thanks in advance. Have a great start of the week. ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 05:25, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Go for it - I actually think of you as the editor with most current knowledge for that and similar articles. I have been quite busy in real life recently, but will try to upload his pic to English Misplaced Pages if I have one - I think I do. It has to be done with a Fair Use license (the same with the other 10 or so related narco pics that got deleted about 2 mths ago from Commons). I just haven't had the time. Thanks for letting me know and for your contributions! Mercy11 (talk) 13:23, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. A free image of El Chapo (and other narcos, if possible) would be very useful. Take care, ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 04:21, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done - so far for El Chapo only. Mercy11 (talk) 04:47, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

NRHP - Puerto Rico

Those new listings in PR were based on information from the NPS Weekly List:

• 22 February for Casa Vives
• 6 September for Edificio Empresas Ferre and Edificio Municipal de la Playa de Ponce

The Weekly Lists also provide links to PDFs of the National Register nomination files. I've added other new listings in Puerto Rico as well - you might browse through the Weekly Lists in general. The index to all weekly lists is at http://www.nps.gov/nr/nrlist.htm.

Thanks for checking! I'm glad I'm not the only one paying attention to this stuff. (BTW, we'd have had a mild problem if you asked yesterday. The NPS web site was down because of the government shutdown. Just came back up this morning.) — Ipoellet (talk) 19:43, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the info plus the tip. I will take from here! Mercy11 (talk) 19:51, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Barrios of Ponce map request

I thank you for taking my Barrios of Ponce map request. I was thrilled to know it's going to get done. To me getting maps done via a computer is a real mystery! If there is --anything-- I can do to help, please let me know.

I noticed you said you would work on the base map, and then added I might then look at template powered solution for highlighting the individual barrios. Let me be totally honest here, I have no clue what that means or where to start. One thing I can offer is my time and dedication. In exchange, (and in preparation for learning my part) if you would be so kind as to point me in the direction of where the template you allude to is located that would be great! I don't mind spending the time performing repetitive task of filling in with a yellow color the boundaries for each of the 31 barrios...hopefully it will be something like what I have done in Photoshop where I fill in with color of my choice the boundaries of a closed geometric figure with the click of the mouse. Again, if I sound totally lost, then it's because I am. Could you then point me in the direction of where I can get started with the template in question? Thanks! Mercy11 (talk) 01:33, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Your original plan of making a map for each Barrio will still work fine. The alternative of using a template is done for many of the more basic locator maps on wikipedia. The idea is that a bunch of articles can share the same map and elements like dots or labels can be added on top via a template. For examples take some time to browse Category:Dynamic_map_templates. If you went this route you'd probably just mark the Barrio of interest with a pin rather than filling it in. I actually haven't done much with the templates directly, if you want to experiment with them User:Ruhrfisch may be able to help. I should have a map for you today or tomorrow, it will probably be SVG, so you may want to download Inkscape if you don't already have it. Kmusser (talk) 16:08, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Ok, map went quicker than I thought - you can find it at File:Ponce barrios map.svg. If you do just want to fill in the polygons it works the same in Inkscape as it does in Photoshop - just zoom in first, I don't know why the zoom level affects the polygon fill in Inkscape but it does. A couple of map notes, the island is part of Playa. The little sliver in the center-right of the map is part of Sabanetas. Kmusser (talk) 16:55, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

• Awesome. I just have a question: The Sabanetas "sliver" is news to me. Never heard of such thing. I don't see it shown here , here , nor here . Can you remove that to make this map consistent with the other three? Thanks. Mercy11 (talk) 01:58, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Got it, looks like an error in the Census source, I fudged the border to get rid of it. Kmusser (talk) 02:33, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• I will use the yellow highlighting method. Already have Inkscape. My plan is to download a copy of your map into my pc. Then make 31 copies of it, w/31 different names (the names of the barrios). Then use Inkscape to fill in the ward borders with the yellow color. And finally upload them to wikipedia commons...However, I cannot select Machuelo Arriba and Sabanetas wards for coloring. There must be something locking them. Any ideas? Thanks Mercy11 (talk) 03:02, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Checked it out, looks ok. The wards aren't defined as polygons, the borders are just individual lines, but you can still fill them, you don't need to select anything. Pick the paint bucket, choose your color, zoom it to the polygon you want, and then click anywhere inside the polygon and it should fill. The zooming in is important, should be at least 200% to fill properly, if it fills more than it should, undo and zoom in further.

• Kmusser, I have colored 29 wards, but the other two (Machuelo Arriba and Sabanetas) I cannot color. Here is the process I use in Inkscape:

(1) Launch Inkscape

(2) File > Open > Select one of the .svg files from my PC, say, Ponce_barrios_map (01Anon).svg,

(3) Click on the second of the options on the left hand side, to change the pointer to the "Edit paths by nodes" pointer,

(4) Click inside the area delimetered by the borders of barrio Anon (the borders of Anon will show squares at the end points of all straight lines on the borders)

(5) Expand the window so the color palette across the bottom of the window will be visible

(6) Click on color RED (or yellow or whatever) (the area gets filled with the red color)

(7) File > Close > Save.

(8) Now the file is ready for upload to Misplaced Pages Commons (I haven't done this step yet (only for Anon - see below), pending our fixing of the Machuelo Arriba/Sabanetas problem.)

Do you have a different process? Following your process above, I never see what you call a paint "bucket". Anyway, my procedure worked beautifully (and quick!) for all 29 wards...taking only about 20 min. for all 29 wards. In the meantime I have added the map to the Anon ward for your perusal. (I decided to color all wards in red - it stands out better than yellow.) They look good to me. Please advise on how to get Machuelo Arriba and Sabanetas colored. BTW, I noticed that the Anon ward, onced colored, does not appear to be within the municipality of Ponce. I think this will also be true for all the other wards that are located at the outer edges of the munnicipality. Perhaphs you might want to consider drawing the border around the municipality in a thicker black line to better differentiate the Ponce municipality from the neighboring barrios of outlaying municipalities and from the neigboring municipalities themselves. Sorry about the length of this, but I wanted to get it right and avoid confusion. Thanks! Mercy11 (talk) 03:59, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Ok, at the risk of making you redo your work, I've uploaded a new and improved basemap. I went and fixed the Machuelo Arriba/Sabanetas issue in the source Census Bureau file, so that should be fixed in the SVG now. Also added a bold border for Ponce itself which should look better. As for your process I'd stick with what you're doing, the paint bucket is the 5th tool from the bottom along the left side, but I think your method actually gets a nicer result than what I was suggesting. Kmusser (talk) 17:20, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

No problem! I was finally able to return to complete the project (and you can click on any of the 31 Barrio names to see the results!), though I had tested it with Sabanetas first to make sure your new map did in fact solve the problem. It did!!! Your work was awesome, and I want to THANK YOU for working with me on this so tirelessly.

Something odd happened, though, with the new map for barrio Anon, which would not let me color it. But after many tries, I gave up and used your Bucket method instead; it worked! So barrio Anon's map looks different from the others (a yellow border around the red).

Finally just wanted to point out that that I had left out one important note in my list of steps above -- the result to be expected after performing step 6. For completion, and for the record, I edited there adding that after step 6 is done, that's when the area gets filled with the red color. But obviously you had figure that out before. Thanks again! Mercy11 (talk) 20:09, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Great, I don't know what the deal with Anon was - I went in and was able to take out that yellow border, but I could not select the barrio boundary either. I think it looks ok though. Let me know if you're planning on doing more like these - the files I downloaded were for all of Puerto Rico, so similar maps for other municipios wouldn't be hard to do. Kmusser (talk) 13:03, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Wow! I hadn't read this response before...someow I missed it yet it was sitting here for a week. Great, and thanks for the offer. I do have a question/request,,,but since it is related to the Municipalities map, I'll post there. Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 23:31, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I responded on my talk page

I would like to know the FBI files thing as well. DAQ - which is in many ways a counterpoint to BOLD - is also a counterpoint to the point I'm making to you, which is you need to stop pushing a Puerto Rican nationalist POV in your edits by aggressively reverting anything that differs from your preferred version of the article. Andrevan@ 05:15, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Update Puerto Rican people

The article Puerto Rican people needs to be updated, particularly the infobox where it shows world wide PR populations. There are now 10,981 Puerto Ricans in the US Virgin Islands, according to the 2010 US Census. http://stthomassource.com/content/news/local-news/2013/02/05/us-census-shows-vi-aging-growing-more-hispanic And 4,416 Puerto Ricans in the DR, according to the 2012 Dominican Census. http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias/2013/05/01/i381577_mas-medio-millon-inmigrantes-residen-pais.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.239.162 (talk) 02:39, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Guanica, PR

Mercy, today I spent Veterans Day with my family outside of my home. When I returned home I found out that I was honored in a speech in Guanica, which kind of made a special day. Here is the link:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kenneth-d-mcclintock/mensaje-d%C3%ADa-del-veterano-guánica-2013/10151716515001338

Take care. Tony the Marine (talk) 03:36, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Was busy moving and couldn't get back to a lot of things. I am glad about this additional honor you received - It certainly must have made your day! Congratulations and belated Happy Veterans Day to you! (though it could hardly have been happier for you any way!!!) Mercy11 (talk) 00:08, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

For a small but meaningful change to our verifiability policy page. Well done. Wifione 14:51, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

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Asi es la vida, pero pa'lante siempre

There are certain people in Misplaced Pages who have made my work here an enjoyable task. That is why I would like to share with you the reason that I have slowed down a little in my contributions. Two weeks ago I was hospitalized because of some breathing problems and it turns out that only 15% of my heart is working. I spent a week in the hospital and now I have to wear a "Life Vest" in case my heart fails. "Asi es la vida, pero pa'lante siempre". Tony the Marine (talk) 20:51, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

your questions about Ahnoneemoos

Hello Mercy11, you can call me 74 -- you had a lot of questions about Ahnoneemoos, maybe I answered them all.  :-)   If not, or if you would rather chat informally outside the noticeboard environment, please ping my talkpage. I do fully understand that you (and CaribbeanHQ and Jmundo and Silktork and so on) are acting entirely in good faith. You have the interests of wikipedia at heart, from what I can tell, and I thank you for that. But I do disagree with your take on Ahnoneemoos, and in particular, with your take on banning as the answer. Happy to keep the discussion to the noticeboard, if you prefer, but figured it might be easier for you and I to work out a two-way consensus on our user-talkpages, first, and then summarize what we come up with there, later. Hope this helps, thanks for reading. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 23:42, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

p.s. Also, forgot to mention, Ahnoneemoos and I are trying to figure out a faster chat-technology, to discuss usernames and retention and who knows what. You are welcome to join, you need a browser that supports Flash for this site (no iDevices methinks is what that means). User_talk:Ahnoneemoos#tested_out_the_site.2C_at_least_the_text-chat_works. We might fall back on IRC, if this is non-workable; my hardware does not want to make voice-connection possible, at the moment. Anyways, drop in if you like, I have joined the 'room' there now, and will be around for a bit; Ahnoneemoos got tired of waiting tho.  :-)   74.192.84.101 (talk) 00:13, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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War?

If you still disagree, you can follow WP:DISPUTE, and open up a RfC,. Start an RfC over what can be handled with consensus building on the talk page? That seemed very premature. Alatari (talk) 20:12, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

The Further template you added is about what I'd say is needed. Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 20:17, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

¡Feliz Navidad!

Igualmente a ti y a tu familia. Mi compatriota, tu eres uno de los poco buenos que todavia quedan. Tony the Marine (talk) 02:41, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

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Closing a discussion you're part of

Hello. While you're welcome to disagree with me in discussions (that't the point of discussing), I don't see the point of declaring a discussion closed after you have made your point, without allowing me to make any rebuttal (or even to complain about what I perceived as unnecessary harshness). --damiens.rf 14:47, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Damiens, there was a 3-day wait for your "rebuttal" and it never came; unfortunately, we are not mind readers. Equally important, the consensus leaned convincingly towards that which it noted in my closing note. If you still object to the determination, you can follow WP:DISPUTE. If you want to complain about harshness, you can use WP:RFC/U. If you need anything else, let me know. Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 15:25, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Why the need to CLOSE the discussion? I have not been active on the Wiki at the time (hey, that was Christmas!) and article had already been reverted. Why are you so uncomfortable with a slow-paced discussion? Maybe you're been over-protective of that biography. --damiens.rf 15:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

As I said, if you want to appeal, you need to follow the policy. Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 15:43, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

And you're free to act with rudeness to defend your friends. You know any complaint I make about your stupidity will evolve into a block-count dispute between me and the others in the army of Marine-fanboys. As an alternative, I prefer to just save everyone's time and just suggest you to go fuck yourself with a chainsaw. --damiens.rf 18:45, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

I see you are still not satisfied, so let me summarize your options with the appropriate links to facilitate your work:

(1) Appeal it via the WP:DISPUTE process

(2) Complain about my lack of competence via WP:RFC/U

(3) Complain about my rudeness via the WP:CIVIL (instructions are there and they include WP:ANI and WP:RFC/U as venues as well)

(4) Per the closing instructions ("Subsequent comments should be made in a new section"), start a new Talk Page section at Tony Santiago

(5) If you wish to make suggestions you can write your own Misplaced Pages essay. Instructions are at WP:ESSAYS

Meanwhile, I suggest you refrain from the use of four letter words as they may be considered offensive, a violation of policy, and can lead to a block or ban as described HERE.

As I have already allude to, you will be wasting your time here. If you are still unhappy, you need to follow the appropriate link above. From this point forward, there will be no further interaction on this subject. If you wish to appeal communication block, take it to WP:ANI. There it will be attended to by administrators, who can overrule me.

Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 22:40, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Theroy of Evolution

Hello Mercy11. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Theroy of Evolution, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a recently created redirect - consider WP:RfD. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz /_Stalk 03:38, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

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