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Ok... Here's the thing...

I never meant to delete your comment, I thought you had deleted mine... As far as I understand... New comments go on top, not at the bottom... Anyway, I've got an answer for yours and I will put it there after sending thisUndead Herle King (talk) 06:46, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Oregon

Take your time settling in, there's lots of little nuances to Wikipedia, and starting small will help you understand what its all about. Along with reading the above items. If you like we have something called a WikiProject for Oregon content. Its a loose group of mainly Oregon editors that focus on Oregon things, though not exclusively. But once again, welcome and let me know if you have any questions, and I'll try to help. Aboutmovies (talk) 00:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

ethnic group

thanks for clarifying things, I will be more careful, Slrubenstein | Talk 11:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Afro- pages

For a start, I wasn't changing all of them; just the ones that were redlinks from the Brazilian article I edited. There are of course many that don't need changing anyway, such as Afro itself or Afro-jazz.

(In a similar vein, there are still (or were the last I checked) many pages which still used the nonexistent word "impliedly" instead of the correct spelling, "implicitly" — far too many for me to fix single-handedly, so I did a few and left the rest as Somebody Else's Problem.)

And in any case, it's wrong to say that "Afro-" is the "correct" or "accepted" term, because it isn't in at least some parts of the world.

Always remember that Wikipedia is supposed to take a worldwide view, and also that there's no "safety in numbers" -- any number of people can be wrong, as shown by the Tulipmania phenomenon among many others. Not that I'm saying I "must" be right on this or anything else, of course. -- Korax1214 (talk) 05:39, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Afro-American

The term means "a black American who's a descendant of African slaves who suufered through American slavery." Try calling a black person from the Carribean that. You would be wrong. Fclass (talk) 23:22, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Spain map

I know that we weren´t in the US on 1976, but its an ANACHRONOUS MAP, and else we weren´t on Mexico, Argentina or Italy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emiliojcp (talk • contribs) 16:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppet report

Hi there, just letting you know an accusation of sockpupperty has been made against Fonez4mii here. Jack forbes (talk) 14:57, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Turkey

Turks are considered European.Orginal Turks would be Europid/turanic(in asia) but it would be very foolish,because People in Turkey arn't Turanic but europid :D:D.As for mid-east,Turkey is not related Mid-east.I could NOT see anything in common.Also i CAN'T say that Turkey is absolutely European but i can say that Turkey isn't mid-eastern.After taking everything into consideration,Turkey is geologically,historically,POLITICALLY in Europe.Culturally Eurasian because of religion(if u say"Europe is christian").As for race,i think u should travel Turkey because Turkey is whiter than southern European countries,because we did NOT mixed africans or mid-easterns.We only mixed with former Anatolians(greeks,armanians,etc...),slavs,iranians and people in balkan peninsula.Therefore,you shouldn't say Turkey is mid-eastern because its very funny :D and don't forgat it europe isn't geographic continent.It is politic continent and Turkey is inculuded.UEFA,EU(candidate),Council OF Europe,Western European Union(member),Nato-Europe,OECD,etc...In UN is'nt inculuded because Anatolia is considered asian(it is like a bridge also) but Turks arn't.

you can debate here"http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=440155"

                                                                                      Aegeanfighter  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.230.50.109 (talk) 14:25, 17 June 2008 (UTC) 

Turks are considering European(ethnicly), http://www.coe.int/ and http://www.europeanamericansunited.org/index.php?categoryid=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aegeanfighter (talk • contribs) 15:48, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Constituent country

There has been a long centralized discussion at Talk:United Kingdom, in which it was decided with 83.33% consensus that constituent country would be used to describe England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. However, users at Scotland are saying that they will not accept a consensus made on another page, so I would like to inform you that there is now a similar vote on the Scotland talk page. Cheers --fone4me 20:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-06-22 United Kingdom#Table

Hi, I notice that you provided many references for the backing of certain views on constituent country/country before. I was hoping you may be able to put some of these into the table, that you are aware of? Cheers --fone4me 17:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Balto-Slavic languages

It is a hypothetical language group just like, for instance, Italo-Celtic. There are many prominent critiques of the hypothetical Balto-Slavic language group, among them baltologists who insist that the proponents of this idea are incompetent, have made only superficial analysis including only, for example, the Lithuanian language as a part of their researches which should be ignored. There are no place for such controversial hypothesis's here. The Balto-Slavic language group should be ignored just like the other hypothetical language groups which aren't placed in the main language page templates. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.180.97.70 (talk) 23:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Canary Islands

I dont know why you are whit you obsolet theory about dogs. What do you know about canary islands, what you read in a touristic guide? Hahahaha

There are sources about Canarii origin of Canary, but that sources are in spanish. And specialized magazine like "Tabona" published by La Laguna University, where you can find how many rest of dogs there are in caves, and the proportion is very low. In canary islands there were a few of dogs and where little dogs called "Water dogs".

Read that articles. There are not any serius publication that actually accepts dogs theory. That theory was obsolote 15 years ago or 20.

http://www.mundoguanche.com/portada/articulo.php?id_articulo=77&idtipo=16&id=

http://www.mundoguanche.com/portada/articulo.php?id_articulo=42&idtipo=16&id=

Canarias were the habitants of Grand Canary, that come from Canarii tribe, like I explain you.

That happends in other islands Ghomera, that come from the Gumara tribe, in Rif, north morocco. Benahuare (La Palma) that come from tribe Wen-Hwara, in south Morocco, near Wester Sahara. Bimbaches - Wen-Bachir, in Rif, near Argelia, North Morocco.

Or maybe look at spanish wikipedia, that use that theory for Canarias. --Tinerfe (talk) 09:10, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Belize Intro Redo

Thanks. The mention of language there seemed off, so I searched for the articles on the first two countries that occurred to me: Poland and Russia. As I expected, they both had simple openers on where the country is, which strikes me as more sensible. On another note, in the list on your user page, did you mean to place Macau where you have Hong Kong? DO56 (talk) 21:27, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

No problems, did see it on recent changes and used rollback to fix it. --> Halmstad, Talk to me 01:00, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Alternative adjectives for U.S. citizens

I just noticed you undid my revision. I must apologize for my bad english, but I think it would be better if you had fixed it. Look at this [1] Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 (talk) 21:53, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

No worry! This is an article we must be careful for not be misundertood. And I am the onhe who must apologige. I didn't noticed that.Mizunoryu 大熊猫❤小熊猫 (talk) 22:36, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

El Salvador

In response to my addition of "Salvadorian" as a demonym for El Salvador you sent me this message:

"Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to El Salvador, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Kman543210 (talk) 23:09, 25 July 2008 (UTC)"

However, before today, the demonym "Salvadoran" had no citation either. In fact, there are other pages on Wikipedia without citations for the demonym(s). The page for Costa Rica is an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica

I happen to be from El Salvador, and I have called myself "Salvadorian" before I learned "Salvadoran." I did manage to find, however, two sources defining "Salvadorian," one of which is on Wiktionary, the other which is on Word Reference. Here are the sources:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Salvadorian http://www.wordreference.com/definition/Salvadorian

Thank you. 75.182.97.59 (talk) 00:19, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the explanation. Not completely sure what you meant here: "By the way, if would you call yourself salvadoreño rather than Salvadorian?" though I assume you didn't mean to put "if" there. In Spanish, I call myself "salvadoreña," in English Salvadorian. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.182.97.59 (talk) 16:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Is the United States a corporation or a country?

Hello Kman!

Since you undid my edit of the United States entry - even though I clearly added footnotes to the relevant law code - I ask you to research this matter, and not blindly trust what you (and most people) have heard in school or at university.

Here's some points to start, if you dare, which may question your current reality a bit.:

USC (United States Code) Title 28 § 3002: Definition (15) states: (15) “United States” means— (A) a Federal corporation; (B) an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or (C) an instrumentality of the United States.

UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) Article 9, § 9-307. LOCATION OF DEBTOR (h) states: (h) Location of United States. The United States is located in the District of Columbia.

So the law clearly says that the "United States" is a federal corporation located in the District of Columbia. If you want to know how this came to be, google for "United states corporation". There are also numerous documents, house resolutions, and whole documentaries available on this subject. For example: The United States Isn't a Country — It's a Corporation! or The Bankruptcy of the United States If you're interested, I can recommend you some documentaries, which is certainly easier than reading through all the laws and articles about this complex subject. A well made film is Aaron Russo's 'America: From Freedom To Fascism' best regards, --Rittmeister (talk) 18:46, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey there

Hi Kman! I'm not questioning your edit at all, but could you tell me the rules when I should use the latter rather than the former? [2]. Thank you for your time! --mboverload@ 05:53, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Consistant accross the entire 'pedia? You're in luck. I'm a user of AutoWikiBrowser and the founder of RegExTypoFix and TypoScan, which would provide the framework for making such a mass change. Of course you would need some consensus with some others who edit Argentina articles before changing everything on Wikipedia.

Either way I can give you a list of every article on Wikipedia that has the word "Argentinean" or any misspellings of it if you would like it.

Also, thank you for the movie recommendation. I have added it to the top of my NetFlix queue. --mboverload@ 06:45, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Multiracial

Hi. I see that you just added Tiger Woods to the article. The caption says that he is "1/2 Asian, 1/4 black, 1/4 white, and 1/4 Amerindian". I don't know a lot about Tiger Woods but I'm a math specialist, and that adds up to 5 quarters, or more than 100%. ;-) Could you double-check your facts and fix the caption. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 04:49, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem. :-) — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 04:55, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Aragonese language

SIL 14th edition code of Aragonese language was AXX (uppercase letter). SIL 15th edition, better known as ISO 639-3 code, is changed to arg (lowercase letter) as to be unified with ISO 639-2 standard. If you have doubt please click the link in that page.--✉ Hello World! 12:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I intended to test which articles still have the out-dated SIL 14th edition code. Actually, 724 languages have their code changed when SIL adopted the codes from ISO 639-2 and abandoned the 14th edition code. --✉ Hello World! 15:37, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Your revert on Caucasian Race

Hello,just a word of caution, as I saw you called an edit "vandalism". While it may be argued whether this was really vandalism (the author may have genuinely believed what he wrote - in which case it isn't vandalism), it most surely was some sort of rant. I'm not the one usually splitting hairs, but it looks like some admins are coming down hard on people who mislable editors as "vandals" in less than obvious situations. ok, I'm done soapboxing for the day - have a good one! :) --Ramdrake (talk) 16:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Didn't see that; in such a case, you're probably right, however it seems the word should be used with care. Regards!--Ramdrake (talk) 16:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

You beat me to it! I wqas just about to warn User talk:216.164.143.61 about vandalising Wikipedia!. Cheers, Alun (talk) 10:11, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Respond

Can I please respond to the person who didn't sign his (or her) comments? Noble12345 (talk) 15:55, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Forget that. I have a question. I tried to undo an edit on the article on the word Nigger, but it didn't work. Why? And why does the article sound like it's a good thing? It's a racial slur. I think people who edit the article to make it look nice are whites who don't like or care for blacks or blacks who are historically ignorant. Noble12345 (talk) 18:04, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Why does Alternative adjectives for U.S. citizens exist? The Western Hemisphere is called the Americas because it's made up of two continents, not one. Try calling a Canadian that. You would most likely get a slap in the face. The only Americans are people from the United States of America. Period. This article shouldn't exist. Noble12345 (talk) 18:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

hi

no es vandalismo, es la verdad ¿o creen que estados unidos es america? estan equivocados y eso no es vandalismo, son los unicos que lo creen bye--Argentumm (talk) 23:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by User:88.251.178.86

I have reverted two more instances of gross vandalism by User:88.251.178.86 in Talk:Armenia and Talk:Europe. You may wish to activate a stronger warning on his talk page. --Zlerman (talk) 16:02, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

East Africa vandal

Hi, There's a vandal on the East Africa page that keeps reverting the sourced map and introduction for some other version. You've already warned this user about his reversions on the Americas page. Can you please ask him to refrain from disrupting the East Africa page as well? Thank you in advance. 70.24.196.120 (talk) 02:52, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

These are good-faith edits, not vandalism. This editor invokes consensus and says the map is sourced, but it isn't. The current version is more inclusive regarding the definition of the topic at hand and, despite accusations, no references have been removed; they've been retained. Given the passion of the reverts and positioning, I suspect this is User:Causteau editing as a sockpuppet. 69.158.149.30 (talk) 03:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Those are not good faith edits. They are unjustified reversions of a referenced map and introduction. This 69.158.149.30 IP is the same IP from the talk page, blocked user E Pluribus Anthony. He is also conducting reversions across several different pages at a time including Americas and East Africa, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting). 70.24.196.120 (talk) 03:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Of course they're good faith edits; I also don't know what or who this user is talking about. Feel free to double-check my IP; I'm certain a check of the commenting anonymous IP will reveal it to be User:Causteau (Bell:Montreal), currently under duress. 69.158.149.30 (talk) 03:34, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

European American

Well i have already suggested discussion, and as it stands by the article's own explanation and definition, there's no reason for Halle Berry not to be placed there. It helps to indicate the differences between the definitions such as caucasian and white etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Invertedzero (talk • contribs) 00:35, 6 September 2008 (UTC)