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Eva Perón

Welcome to Misplaced Pages, Andrew. I wanted to ask you to try to make big edits altogether instead of many small ones, in order to keep the history of the article compact. Otherwise it makes it difficult to check on your modifications. Thanks a lot, and good wiking, Mariano(t/c) 10:10, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Anais Nin and merges

Hey there. Just so you know - if you suggest two pages be merged, and nothing gets done, you can do the merge yourself if need be. Plus, a relatively low-content article such as Anais Nin: A Biography doesn't need to be deleted in favor of the slightly-longer, properly-named Anaïs Nin: A Biography; rather, it can be easily converted into what is called a redirect.

To convert page X into an automatic redirect to page Y, the content of page X must be replaced with the following text (which must not be preceded by anything): #redirect ].

No harm done; this is just so you know if you find yourself in this situation again (which you probably will).

Furthermore, pages that are wrongly-named can be moved to new names. This is a very simple procedure that is restricted to users who've been registered for more than a month, because it's a feature that vandals with throwaway accounts have severely abused in the past. Since you've got three weeks to go before being granted move-page privileges, you can make a post on Misplaced Pages:Requested moves. DS 13:32, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Conversations with Chomsky

Hello!

I ran, almost accidentally, into the Eva Perón article's talk page and found the transcripts of your e-mail excahnge with NC about Peronism. I'm no expert at all on the biographical details of Eva Perón or Perón, but deeply interested in the social and political singularities of Peronism. Mr. Chomsky falls into a very common mistake of leftwing intellectuals around the world (including a large number of the Argentinian ones): their inability of understanding a complex phenomenon as Peronism. In more general terms, it seems they are unable to understand something that, for simplicity's sake, I'll call "national-populism", and uncritically identify it with rightwing governments. It would be curious indeed that a supposed "rightwing" government had gained such a support from the left. The appearance of Peronism broke the Socialist and Comunist parties; many of their supporters changed sides, criticizing their former parties attitude of joining a rightwing alliance, the "Union Democrática" (fostered and fueled by the then US ambassador, Spruille Braden), agains Perón in 1946 elections.

Let me point out that those curious conservative-communist alliances against the national-populism were very common in Latin America in the 40's and 50's. Gabriel González Videla (who ended his days as and advisor to Pinochet's regime) became President of Chile with the support of the Chilean Communist Party. Same for Fulgencio Batista in Cuba. Other national-populist leaders in Latin America were less successful than Peron: Jorge Eliecer Gaitán was assassinated in Colombia; Eduardo Chibás (Cuban) commited suicide after losing the 1952 elections; Jacobo Arbenz (Guatemalan) was thrown by a bloody US-backed coup in 1954, etc. In some sense, current Venezuelan leader Chávez could be included into a similar "np" ideology.

Just scattered thoughts :) Thanks for your contributions, and if you want to go on ith the talk, do not hesitate in contacting me. Cinabrium 18:37, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Images

When uploading an image, do so at commons:, so that its available to all the wikipedia project, and not only to the English on. Good wiking, Mariano(t/c) 15:25, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Parodi abundance

Hi, my name is Silvano. I wrote the article about the little village of Parodi Ligure, which you were interested in. At the moment I don't have any more information about the village, you know, it is very small (less than 800 inhabitants) and scattered. So, I can't promise anything but let me have a look at some of my books about local history and if I find something, I'll send you. Meanwhile, I suppose you know that "Parodi" is a very common surname near here, especially in the city of Genoa, where there's plenty of them. If you are interested in everything concerning Parodi, here it is a website where you can find information about Filippo Parodi, genoan sculptor in the XVIII century . http://www.wga.hu/html/p/parodi/ (in english) And did you know? you can even find a pier in the ancient port of Genoa named "Parodi" http://www.ponteparodi.com (sorry only italian it seems, have your traslator at hand)

Bye Silvano a.k.a. Silvo from Misplaced Pages Italy

P.S. I suppose your translator is very useful to understand from a foreign language but if you use it the other way round it looks quite weird to an italian eye...

Bradley Nowell

I love what you've done with the Bradley Nowell page. Keep up the good work. --Snafuu 03:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, you've done a terrific job there. Keep it up! --Cuchullain 16:52, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Bradley Nowell edits

Thanks and no problem. Alex 101 16:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Supervolcano (documentary) vs Supervolcano (tv movie)

I'm not going to risk a wheel war over the move, but I think it's more of a documentary (which I think BBC classed it as), than a TV movie. There really should've been a request on WP:RM, so I'm going to move it back, and put it on Requested Moves Sceptre 16:15, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Your image

Hi, Andrew. I noticed you left a comment for the Roomba bot about your image getting tagged for deletion. As Roomba is merely a bot operated by User:Gmaxwell, I'll take the liberty of responding. :-) We don't allow users to have images not under a free license (such as the GFDL or certain CC licenses) on user pages. If you would like to keep your picture from getting tagged, you can relicense it under a free license according to the Misplaced Pages:Image use policy. This does not mean that you give up the copyright to it. (In fact, in many jurisdictions, you *can't* give up the copyright to it.) It does mean that you would allow it to be redistributed freely under the terms of the GFDL or the allowable CC licenses, as with the other free image content on Misplaced Pages. (In practice, very few people ever want to reuse personal photos of Wikipedians, lovely bunch as we may be! Particularly not if you license as GFDL -- the terms of this license are somewhat unwieldy for image licensing, though someone determined to have that particular picture may still wish to use it.) See Misplaced Pages:Copyrights fpor more information. If this is not acceptable to you, let me know or tag the image with {{delete}} and someone will come by and delete it for you.

Since we do delete images used under fair use that are not being used in article space, the Roomba bot goes and tags these images so that admins may more easily find them to delete them; it will continue doing so every time it is run as long as the image has a fair use tag and is not being used in article space, as this is done automatically. Hope this helps; ask me or User:Gmaxwell (who runs the bot) if you have any questions. Thanks, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 02:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Pretty funny. I was arguing with a "bot." I'm not exactly sure what a "bot" is, but I take it that it isn't a human being.

Yeah, I don't want to give up copyright to the picture because I don't want to see it with a mustache somewhere. :) I'll look into finding another tag for it, then. Thanks. -- Andrew Parodi 03:04, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Hm. All of the licenses that Misplaced Pages allows require that you allow derivative works—which, I note, include putting a mustache on your picture. (Though, you know, the right sort of mustache probably wouldn't look half bad, but I suppose it's not your thing.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Block

I'm sorry, I know exactly what you mean. I too am often blocked by the shared IP problem, so yes, it is because I must have blocked the IP you share. Apologies. Are you still blocked? Banez 11:40, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Glad to hear it. Lol, I get blocked on average twice a day, same problem. Cheers Banez 11:59, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Not AOL, but South African Internet Exchange, for some reason, it all comes from the same IP. Rather irritating. Banez 08:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome, and thanks for the compliment. As it happens, people of all ages become admins, I think the youngest is about 12! Cheers Banez 10:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it isnt so much about intelligence, but rather gaining people's trust. To me wikipedia is the best site around, useful, friendly for the most part, and just all round nice to read. Banez 10:54, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Image tagging

Hi, I noticed Image:Namastelodge.jpg was uploaded with no source or license information. Note that all images need source information and a so called "copyright tag" template, even images you have created yourself. I have tagged Image:Namastelodge.jpg as {{GFDL-presumed}} based on it's use on your userpage and such, but please include additional source info (such as "taken by me <username> at on <date> at <location>" or some such) and a more apropriate copyright tag (follow the copyright tag link for an exhaustive list). Hopefully this was just an oversight, if not please check all other images you have uploaded too and make sure they have the required info. Thanks. --Sherool (talk) 01:25, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

New Thought Ministries of Oregon

New Thought Ministries of Oregon has been proposed for deletion. Please see WP:N for general concers and improve the article if possible. NickelShoe 05:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Afd process

Hi Andrew. I noticed you nominated List of illegitimates for deletion. In the future, Template:AfD in 3 steps might be helpful guide when nominating an article for Afd. The nomination process is not intuitive at all, so don't feel bad for not completing the nomination on your first try. I completed the nomination of the list of illegitimates article. Happy editing. - Jersyko·talk 18:44, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Oregon

Wikiproject Oregon is now up and running! I invite you to join at WP:WPOR PDXblazers 22:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Delia Parodi

About your question in the Spanish's article talk page:

Spanish:

Delia Parodi fué una política argentina que trabajó con Eva Perón en el Partido Peronista Feminino, y fué elegida diputada nacional por ese partido, siendo una de las primeras mujeres en ingresar en el congreso.

Delia Parodi fue electa en 1951 por el peronismo de la Capital Federal. El 25 de abril de 1953 fue designada Vicepresidenta 1° de la cámara de diputados, cargo que por primera vez se le asignaba a una mujer. Ocupó su cargo hasta 1955, momento en que fue apresada durante la Revolución Libertadora, siendo liberada el 7 de marzo de 1958.

English translation:

Delia Parodi was a female politician who worked with Eva Peron in the Peronist Women's Party, and she was elected national deputy of the party, becoming one of the first women to be a member of congress.

In 1951, Delia Parodi was elected as the peronist representative in Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires. On April 25, 1953, she was designated the Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, the first time this office had been occupied by a woman. She maintained this role until 1955 when Juan Peron was overthrown in a military coup.

My english is bad so I am not able to fix that paragraph, so I will explain the points and you will be able to fix it yourself.

• Delia Parodi fue electa en 1951 por el peronismo de la Capital Federal: This means that she was elected in 1971 as one of the many representatives of the peronist party in the Chamber of Deputies but representing the Buenos Aires's (Capital Federal) branch of the party. In argentina each province (state) has an amount of representatives to send to the Chamber of Deputies. Buenos Aires is not a state, but it is considered an state for the election of representtives.

• The Chamber of Deputies authorities are:
  • Presidente (President)
  • Vicepresidente 1º (First Vice President)
  • Vicepresidente 2º (Second Vice President)
  • Vicepresidente 3º (Third Vice President)

The was Vicepresidente 1º, which I thing it could be translated to English as "First Vice President" (attention: not THE first Vice President).

• I'm not sure if there was a "Peronist Women's Party" or it wast just an internal branch of the "Peronist party".

But I'm not sure what the last sentence means: "siendo liberada el 7 de marzo de 1958." Can someone translate this for me? I want to edit the English page according to this page. Thanks. Andrew Parodi 06:42 4 abr 2006 (CEST)

fue apresada : she went to jail (when the military coup took place) siendo liberada: being freed (from prison) on March 7th 1958. So she stayed from 1955 to 1958 in prison.

Barcex 08:56, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

talk:Jody Watley

Would you mind coming into the current discussion, to weigh in on the legitimacy of the "facts", saying that Midori is Watley's sister. A reliable source has contacted Misplaced Pages's OTRS system, saying that this is untrue, but we've got into an edit war anyway. -- Zanimum 01:30, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikproject Oregon

I would like to see some sort of collaboration or cohesion with respect to the Oregon Wikiproject so that we can see some sort of progress toward a goal. Please give suggestions on the talk page. PDXblazers 20:02, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message about the Jesus Christ as source of"A Course In Miracles" article

Thanks for your recent comment regarding the Jesus_Christ_as_source_of_"A_Course_In_Miracles" move. A followup comment/ reply to your comment has been posted at my discussion page.

-Scott P. 13:18, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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WP:WPOR : Oregon

Thanks for being a part of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Oregon. Our first article we'll be improving to FAC status is, oddly enough, Oregon! Please visit Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Oregon to discuss the contributions you can make to improve Oregon to a FAC level article. the iBook of the Revolution 04:50, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

CCCh

I just wanted to let you know that I've been keeping an eye on your progress on the Colegio Cesar Chavez article. It has come a long way since I first encountered it, and the pictures are very illustrative. Any idea who the poet at the reading is? Anyone of note?

I suppose your interest in the college is rooted more in geography than in alternative education or ethnic history, but I thought I'd ask if you have ever heard of Deganawida Queztalcoatl University, the Native American/Chicano institute of alternative higher education? I believe it had some affiliation with UC Davis in the 1970s. It may be something to look into...

Thanks for your hard work, --Rockero 04:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I asked about the poet because I thought it might have been Alurista, but I suppose that is unlikely considering the geographic discrepancy. I put a Daniel Desiga poster at the top of the article because it was more colorful than the course catalogue, and I thought it represented the college well (trees for OR, grapes and the huelga eagle for Chicanismo). If you disagree, feel free to move it elsewhere or discuss. Hope you like it, --Rockero 02:18, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

And I thought it was a longshot. I guess I know which article I'll be writing next!--Rockero 06:45, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Someone started the Alurista article just before I did! Well, I'm pretty much done now, except for photos. All the ones I have are copyrighted. Can you help?--Rockero 19:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikisource

Pertaining to your question at Talk:Misplaced Pages, I think the depository you are looking for is Wikisource. Johntex\ 01:38, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration offer

Hey, AP...On the Talk:Jesus Christ as source of "A Course in Miracles" I offer to help arbitrate your edit dispute...I look forward to your response...--The Editrix 21:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

AP, you're up! <smile> The Editrix 05:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

A good West Coast morning to you, AP. Mind answering Q2 this fine summer morn? The Editrix 13:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Importance of article.

Ste4k wrote: Hi! Is there a reason you used my talk page to discuss some article? If you think that your points are important to the article then you should share them with everybody. Please use the Discussion areas on articles for that purpose. Thanks! :)

Yes, I used your talk page to discuss (not "some article") Authorship of A Course In Miracles, because you are the one who keep saying it's not important. Besides, I'm tired of arguing on the talk page. As this is primarily an issue YOU are concerned with, I thought I'd go direct. Not entirely unheard of, you know. -- Andrew Parodi 03:13, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Ste4k wrote: How about we have this conversation all in one place, okay? That's what the discussion areas are for. Per your comments I have the following to offer you. As far as I am concerned, all topics are equal, I found this article during a recent maintenance sweep which included about eighty other articles. I couldn't care less about the topic matter, neither for nor against. All articles are required to be compliant or they may be removed by another editor. You had spent a lot of work on this article and I wasn't really interested in reading through it all since at that time it's topic was supposedly an "argument". Now that topic has changed to the "authorship" of some book. If you are having problems finding a topic matter for this information, maybe you should merge it with something else if you think it's important. About importance itself, you say here, "you are the one who keep saying it's not important". The facts are clear here, on the contrary, that I am the one whom is asking WHY this is important. You should be aware that it is a valid question and that which the article itself is required by policy to develop within the article and establish. Your usage of the word 'keep' I find odd. I asked the question one time. I do find it odd however that you would say that you are tired of arguing. I haven't done any arguing, all I have done is ask a question. Based on your contributions, however, if you are tired of arguing about an article, maybe you should move on and do a little maintenance. Have you seen the WP:Backlog?? Thanks, and again, if you want to talk about articles then use the discussion areas to do so. If you want to discuss me or my behavior for some reason, or just say Hi, then please feel free to use my talk pages. Okay? I get the feeling that you must have some personal attachment to this article. You should try and avoid that sort of thing, in my humble opinion, and try to use your talents to develop a better encyclopedia for everyone. Thanks! :)

HUH? Can you please cite your statement? Thanks

I'll be brief. I am not posting on the talk page anymore because there is a great deal of arguing there that I am not interested in.

I posted to your talk page because you are the only one who has voiced the concern that the article is not important.

I'm not going back to the talk page of that article because it's too ugly. If you want to talk about it, we'll have to do it via our respective talk pages. -- Andrew Parodi 03:00, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Ste4k wrote: I really don't have any clue why you make such subjective statements, but especially without doing any research on the facts. Specifically speaking, have you SEEN the talk page on that article lately? Perhaps you should get some ice and chill off, okay? Thanks! :)

"Minor edits"

Hello! You recently made an edit to the Authorship of A Course in Miracles page that you marked as "minor", but that actually made some nontrivial changes to the page. Please be careful about only marking truly trivial edits as minor; with tempers already running high on that page, it would be good to avoid giving anyone the (probably false) impression that you're trying to slip something by. And please remember to give an edit summary. Thanks! Kickaha Ota 22:16, 26 June 2006 (UTC)