Matthew Fennell

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I liked your piece on that crim. Never heard of him -- interesting. Might be a good idea to expand it when you have a chance. --Mantanmoreland 21:05, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Mozart edit

Hi - I noticed your recent revision to the opening paragraph of Mozart. While I certainly agree that Mozart is one of the greatest composers (I would go so far as to say that he is *the* greatest) a while back we had a discussion on the talk page in which we agreed that "greatest" violates Wikipedia's neutral pov policy and consistutes what some people call a weasel word and hence we removed it. Would you object to a reversion? --Ggbroad 01:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

No, but on the articles for Bach and Beethoven it says they are considered to be among the greatest.Matthew Fennell 15:43, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

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Pere Ubu and Post-punk

Hi. I have inserted again the mention of Pere Ubu as post-punk band. Indeed, according to, for example, Reynold's Rip it Up and Start Again, many post-punk bands were actually formed before, or in paralel with punk movement (see movements like industrial music or no wave, which are stated as parts of post-punk ; recent Thurston Morore's book about no wave also insists on the fact that no wave is not punk at all, though both movements share common characteristics). I could give you many other references that confirm that point of view in critics dedicated to the area of post-punk. Encyclopaedia Britannica presents Per Ubu as follows : "American avant-garde art rock band generally considered to be a major force and influence in postpunk music.". Allmusic is also allright with that about Pere Ubu band and first album's review. The "post-punk" term itself is misleading, by supposing an anteriority that shall not always be verified in facts. Another good example is The Residents, formed in early seventies ([[1] also post-punk according to Allmusic). Sorry if my english expression is poor, I'm a french native speaker. Regards. Xic667 (talk) 20:11, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Slint entries help

Hi Matthew. I'm attempting to clean up and/or flesh out entries relating to Slint and other musical projects I'm associated with. I noticed that you have quite a logging history, and that you're familiar with the ways of Wikipedia. Please contact me if you wouldn't mind helping to make some minor edits + additions. Thanks. Bmcmahan (talk) 23:10, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

April 2009

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edit(s) to Hip hop music, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. — Σxplicit 06:11, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, as you forgot on your recent edit to Redditch. Thank you. Jenuk1985 | Talk 21:31, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Hip hop and dub

Hello. While toasting was certainly an influence on rapping, toasting was around in Jamaica long before the advent of dub, and it's toasting rather than dub that was an influence on American rappers - toasting and dub are not the same thing. The Jamaican toasters were themselves influenced by American radio DJs. If you look at the Rapping article you'll see that Rap has influences that pre-date the Jamaican toasters. I'm not aware of any sources that state that hip hop derived from dub music.--Michig (talk) 06:08, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

July 2009

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September 2009

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Mark Sanford on 2012 Republican Primary Page?

I think the Sanford debate will never end, lol. I have 3 sources that are still discussing Mark Sanford in conjunction to 2012 that are less than 6 months old, but JerzeyKydd is still insisting that discussion for him has ceased for 6 months. The sources I added are less than 6 months. I agreed to take down Ensign because no one is talking him in conjunction 2012, but why are people still talking about Sanford in conjunction 2012? I was wondering if maybe you wanted to add your feedback to this discussion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_2012. Thanks. --Diamond Dave (talk) 22:15, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Hip hop music

In regards to this, what exactly do you mean by "seemingly invented"? -Reconsider! 04:52, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Well either he invented the technique, or he didn't. 'Seemingly' invented doesn't really make sense in this context. However, since the references state that Theodore did indeed invent the technique then we should explicitly state it. (Reply here and use talkback). -Reconsider! 12:57, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

If you want to remove the word 'seemingly', then feel free to do so. Matthew Fennell (talk) 13:15, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Hirt des Seyns

Matthew Fennell, hello. I thought I'd drop you a note that I suspect Hirt des Seyns, an account that has edited the Martin Heidegger article recently, of being a sockpuppet of User:Jonathansamuel. I've had extensive past experience with Jonathansamuel, and the behavior of Hirt des Seyns (including edit warring, making changes without discussion at the Heidegger article, making abusive comments to me such as this, and writing in a pseudo-funny/weird manner) reminds me strongly of that now indef blocked user. I don't think this is at all a coincidence; I would request that you consider Hirt des Seyns' edits with this in mind. UserVOBO (talk) 22:17, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Matthew Fennell, please look here and here. Greetings --Hirt des Seyns (talk) 23:14, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Leonardo

I deleted your rather fuzzy citing of an opinion about Leonardo simply because it followed directly on from a definite statement that Leonardo's contribution to science was not great, since he failed to publish. There is no point in following a statement that he wasn't a great contributor with an opinion that he wasn't a great contributor.

The fact is, we don't really know what he contributed, because history hasn't told us. Hargreaves Spinning Jenny revolutionised cloth manufacturing. Turnip Townsend's crop rotation revolutionised farming. Watt's parallel linkage revolutionised engineering.

I am not 100% certain that one of Leonardo's numerous small and practical inventions did not have a similar effect. People get so carried away with ideas like the helicopter and the tank that they ignore the machine for grinding convex lenses and other such practical stuff.

James Franklin comments that he was an excellent painter, and that this disguises his lack of skills in other directions. What Franklin doesn't get is that it was Leonardo's extraordinary knowledge of a number of diverse subjects that made him such an excellent painter. When one looks at the Virgin of the rocks one sees the work of a scientist who has profound knowledge of topographical anatomy, light, geology, and botany.

One also sees the work of a man who was prepared to push the artistic, religious and philosophic boundaries of his time to the outmost. Leonardo's paintings are so familiar that they are not challenging to the average modern viewer. They don't strike the average viewer as extraordinary, but they are. They are amazingly inventive, and were at the time, not simply good, but profoundly challenging.

When Franklin says that Leonardo is overrated as a scientist, he probably doesn't realised that at 18 years of age Leonardo painted the refraction of light through water in a way that it had never been painted before, and that at the age of about 22 he gave the world an extraordinary study of the human shoulder girdle, and that a little further down the track he revealed the precise process of the erosion of Apennine Red Limestone by the action of wind, water and abrasion. Franklin possible didn't know, when he wrote his comment, that although Leonardo may not have been a profound mathematician, he was a superb cartographer.

To suggest that he was tremendously influential as a scientist is wrong. He wasn't.

But on the other hand, there is a very good possibility that one of the numerous inventions of that brilliant mind simply found its way into industry, and changed our world. As I have just pointed out, it isn't the "big" things that make the big difference, ultimately it's the parallel linkage.

Amandajm (talk) 14:56, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Alexander Grothendieck

Regarding your question at Alexander Grothendieck, it may because he's often reported as being stateless rather than French or anything else. That's how he is described in the infobox and via categorization. I'm not sure that he actually is still stateless. I vaguely remember seeing something about his stateless status ending sometime in the 1980s but I think that was probably why someone removed the category. Either way, it's something that needs clarifying in the article with reliable sources given that it's covered by WP:BLP. Sean.hoyland - talk 14:40, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Ladyhawke

Hi Matthew, I'll answer your query at the article's talkpage, there might be other editors interested.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 22:27, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Discussion on Ashkenazi Jews talk page - should Sholem Aleichem be in the collage

Hi :-) Due to the fact I saw you interested in the topic, I thought you might want to take part in it.

There is a discussion on the Talk:Ashkenazi Jews regarding should Sholem Aleichem and Mikhail Botvinnik be in the collage or not. The discussion is called "Ones and for all, should Sholem Aleichem and Mikhail Botvinnik be in the collage".

Please take part in the vote and state your opinion on the topic. Thank you! 90.196.60.197 (talk) 15:52, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

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Empire Awards edit

For some reason the edit message didn't appear as I wrote it, so I'm posting it here also. As per Wikipedia:Categorization#Articles: The order in which categories are placed on a page is not governed by any single rule (for example, it does not need to be alphabetical, although partially alphabetical ordering can sometimes be helpful). Normally the most essential, significant categories appear first.

In this case, the Empire Awards category is the main category of the article and should be first. Its also like this in all of the other pages which breaks consistency for no good reason.

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	For improving the article Reconquista (Mexico), I present to you these tacos de pescado. May they fuel your continued edits of WikiPedia. Condolences to the family, friends, and loved ones of late Charles Truxillo. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:12, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

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