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speedy

I deleted the Peter Parker quote. Good catch! Uncle Ed 16:03, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Joe Harriott Project

Are you sure this band meets the notability policy? I was planning on PROD'ing Joe Harriot Project until I saw you changed it to a redirect. SquidSK 04:09, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I suppose you're right, I'll just move the information to Ken Vandermark's article. johnpseudo 04:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Reversion of Arthur Butz

Did you read the article before you reverted? The article's text would indicate that he belongs in the category in question. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 11:40, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

First of all, please don't take this revert to be support of Butz or his actions. Few would argue that Butz is not anti-semitic, but his actions and words are not by themselves proof of anti-semitism. Holocaust revisionists are almost always motivated by anti-semitism, but by itself, disagreeing with history does not classify a person as anti-semitic. johnpseudo 15:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I have no reason to assume that you would support Prof. Butz's actions, as I assume good faith. Nonetheless, Holocaust denial is itself a form of Anti-Semitism. His motivations are immaterial, we're talking about his actions here. His actions include writing a book which endorses an Anti-Semitic belief. A person who holds Anti-Semitic beliefs is by definition Anti-Semitic. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 15:39, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I would disagree with your points that 1. holocaust denial is a form of anti-semitism and 2. that holding a belief in common with anti-semites defines a person to be an anti-semite. Anti-semitism is defined to be "hostility towards Jews," but Holocaust denial is by itself hostility to a particular (in this case widely accepted) version of history. If you can find a quotation of Butz attributing this version of history to Jews, I think that would establish that his hostility towards history translates into a hostility towards Jews. As long as Butz restricts himself to the primarily academic activity of arguing the factual merits of one version of history over another, he is not being openly hostile to the Jewish people. johnpseudo 16:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

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I deprodded the above image for technical reasons, as WP:PROD is currently for articles only. Consider one of the options over at WP:IfD. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 15:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Optical fiber

My thinking was that fiber optic communications already has a whole section in the article, with a prominent link to the more detailed article. No one should be looking in "See also" for a link to Fiber-optic communications. Nor does the Manual of Style support including links in See also that already appear in the article. See also is specifically for the marginally-relevant stuff, the things that are somehow related, but not so tightly related that you can work them into the text. Optical communications seems like an example of this to me. --Srleffler 02:09, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Your recent AfD

If a nomination is retracted with no delete votes, anyone is allowed to close it as keep, including you. Next time, you can just close it. -Amarkov _edits 23:42, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

what?

you just left a note on my talk page, but did not tell me what category or whatever you are referring to. Thanks Hmains 19:04, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

please tell me more. I have not worked on these categories recently and do not, any any case, find any empty ones. Where are they? Hmains 19:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I see. To get anything deleted, there is a tiresome deletion process which I have rarely nominated anything to. I wonder what the creators of these categories had in mind? Hmains 19:22, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Good idea to work on. I hope you can add something about what to do after the deletion, such as the article/category to become a member of the higher category. Hate to let articles and subcategories becomes lonely, dangling objects. Hmains 19:47, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

List of marathon races

I left a response. Maybe you can help out. Thanks. --DJREJECTED 02:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Leon Sullivan vandalization

Hi, I noticed that somebody vandalized the Leon Sullivan page and that you fixed it. I'm curious how you knew it had been vandalized, did you just happen to be reading it? Thanks, Dov

Your reversion on Computer networking

You reverted my edits on Computer networking, stating "article is about computer networking, not the profession of network engineering". It appears that the article about computer networking is Computer network, which has a <<for>> which says "For the scientific and engineering discipline studying computer networks, see Computer networking". This caused me to prepend similar text to Computer Networking. Regardless, many people have been making edits on this assumption. --Porkrind 21:07, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

That's a very good point. The introduction does describe "computer networking" as an engineering discipline. I'm not quite sure this is an accurate description, however, and I disagree with your assertion that other have assumed the literal meaning of this description for their edits. To me, it seems that the the article as it is is about the technological field of computer networking, not about the engineering discipline, per se. Again, I think the article Network engineering would be better suited for your Cisco certification image and related information. That article as it is is very deficient for such a growing field. Let me know if you agree with changing the opening sentence of "Computer networking" from "engineering discipline" to "technological field". johnpseudo 22:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I understand your points, but I'm not sure about the differentiation between a technological field and a engineering discipline, but agree that the most correct name for the article I was attempting to add to would be network engineering. If that article was up to snuff, I'd probally advocate merging computer network and computer networking. Alas, the whole area needs a lot of attention from someone with more time than I. I defer to you. Porkrind 03:33, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Your reverts

Re - Could you please kindly explain your reverts? You're not reverting edits that were related to any category. Thanks in advance. — Instantnood 22:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

- Could you please stop and explain why? — Instantnood 22:19, 5 April 2007 (UTC)