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Revision as of 09:39, 22 April 2006

Please Note

1. Please add new items at the bottom of this page.
2. Whenever I write anything on another User Talk page, I will Watch that page. Replying there instead of here will make the exchange much easier to follow. (I got this idea from User:Plugwash.)

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Brian Leiter

Hi Chris. I agree with your revision. As it stands, the links section looks fine. Sir Paul 08:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

(Responding to this comment, before I added the "Please Note" section above.)

US vs. U.S.

Hi, Chris. Check out Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style#Acronyms and abbreviations. It specifically endorses the "U.S." usage over "US". —Cleared as filed. 00:07, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh. So it does. I should have looked there. -Chris Chittleborough 03:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi! Thanks for your support in my request for adminship (did you know that "adminiship" is not an English word? Unbelievable!). It ended with a tally of (51/0/0). As an administrator, I hope to better help this project and its participants: if you have any question or request, please let me know. - Liberatore(T) 12:43, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

VDH

On Victor Davis Hanson talk page, I wrote a bit about why his response to Gary Brecher's article wasn't particularly noteworthy. Since you re-added the link, I wondered if there should be a better explanation on that talk page of why to include it? Ojw 14:14, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. I should have responded to you, but I never got around to it. I apologise. My view is that VDH was not trying to rebut Belcher, nor even to reply to Belcher's essay, just responding to Belcher.

Incidentally, the main reason that 26-Aug-2005 essay stuck in my mind was the second footnote.

While writing this reply, I realised what I did wrong a month ago, and fixed it: the 26Aug2005 NRO essay is now only mentioned once, with a parenthetical note tying it to Gary Brecher's essay. I hope you approve. (Of course, this now means that anyone who deletes that link to Brecher's essay, like User:71.103.214.70 did, will "break" the article.)

—Chris Chittleborough 16:07, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I probably don't know enough about Hanson to comment, I just noticed that the article was all extremely complimentary, and that an essay with a whole string of very good critisisms was hidden away in the final paragraph, complete with a note that VDH had "responded" in a way which might make people think the link led to a compelling well-reasoned piece-by-piece rebuttal of Brecher's claims, which it didn't.

So I don't want to be editing the page too much in my ignorance, just pointing out some parts that might need further investigation by the experts.

Incidentally, if half the stuff in Brecher's essay is credible, then VDH would appear to be a much more contraversial character than the Misplaced Pages article indicates.

Of course, when the critisism comes from a pseudononymous rant, it's hard to separate facts from opinions but I tried to list a few in that talk page. Ojw 17:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, Brecher's essay struck me as aiming for controversy rather than accuracy, but YMMV. I'm happy with the way we mention Brecher now; it's certainly better than my Feb 19 edit, which was a stuff-up. —Chris Chittleborough 03:19, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

The Game

Thanks for the heads up about the vandals. I'll try to keep on the ball about it. Bkkbrad 22:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Scheme pages

Hi. There's still improvements that could be made to Matthias Felleisen—what I did was almost entirely cosmetic. Still, I think that Misplaced Pages is nicer to use when pages look good. I don't really have much to say about the PLT Scheme family, but I can certainly take a look at the articles. I see you've already improved the DrScheme page. Thanks for contributing to Misplaced Pages. 165.189.91.148 16:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Vandalism

is a good place to start.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Chris: in response to your note, yes, I remember that one well. Looks like that one attack-sockpuppet account was left unblocked so I changed that. Happy editing! Antandrus (talk) 20:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

DECUS

The revised article didn't contain any inaccuracies I saw, although my knowledge of the subject is pretty narrow. Thanks for asking. Coll7 01:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Euston Manifesto

Thanks. In addition to summarizing it, what else do you think we should add? I'd like to make it a featured article --Tjss 04:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to thank both you, Chris, and you, Tjss, for covering the emergence of the Euston Manifesto (EM) online so fairly. As one of its authors, there is an obvious conflict for me in my editing its page.

The manifesto will be launched in the "real world" in about a month. It would be very good for the debate---and we do want a serious and high-quality debate---if this launch could be made a current event and the quality of the entry by then is sufficiently high for it to be featured on Misplaced Pages's front page. I think the EM's sections on open source and freedom of ideas should make the document of particular interest to Wikipedians. Counsell 13:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Chris

I am aware of Dr Eric Salter because of this: ... I'm a medicolegal enthusiast. Thanks for saving the Amiga software piracy article from extinction. It's a good article! - Richardcavell 09:39, 22 April 2006 (UTC)