Phoebe13

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Regarding D. T. Suzuki

Hi Phoebe13, I added more info on my comments regarding Kapleau's view about Suzuki on Suzuki's discussion page. Sorry I took so long to read your questions about that. The edition of the pillars I used was the 35th Anniversary Edition. Cheers --Zen Mind (talk) 15:51, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

-- I am not sure what would the best way be to add Kapleau's alternate comment without creating confusion with the comment already there. Do you have any suggestions? --Zen Mind (talk) 20:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Wendell Berry

Hello. I have reverted your recent edits to the Wendell Berry article because the information you provided was unreferenced. I assume you have a source for the information, so please add the source to the article. If you need any help, please do not hesitate to ask me. Thanks. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 01:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. My suggestion is to put the reference in, as best you know how, and then I will go in and correct any errors. As to your question, everything should be referenced. I know that this is often not easy, but we must strive to make it so. Please ask if you have any questions. I am glad to help. Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 22:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

ISBNs are always helpful, and, where possible, should be listed for all titles. On Wikipedia, though, all you have to do is add the number and it will be "live" as soon as you save it. If you click on one of the ISBNs already present, you will see it connects to a very helpful link to WorldCat. Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 22:56, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I cleaned up the reference (all it needed was for the title to be italicized), and I linked the academy. In order to link to another article, all you have to do is put brackets [[ and ]] on either side of the word or phrase you want to link. If there is anything else I can do to help, just let me know. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 03:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Black advance

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Proposed deletion of Oppo dump

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Deletions in the Philip Perry article

Hi Phoebe13. I was going to wait for a week before making the deletions that you made, but it is perfectly fine that you did it right away instead. In fact, immediate deletions are the correct way to go, as per Wikipedia policy, and I had been questioning myself in retrospect as to whether I really should be waiting a week. So, in the end I'm glad you went ahead right away :-)

If you would like to make any more changes (deletions or otherwise) please go ahead and do so. For my part, I'll wait for a few more days, then read the newly revised article and make any edits I feel might be necessary (hopefully my last batch of edits to the article!).

Regarding the style of references and the wikitext to implement it, I did feel the citation templates to be kinda overwhelming at first, but once I used the templates for two or three references I got the hang of using them right away. I definitely recommend their use for the sake of style and uniformity, and if I can be of any help please do let me know.
- idunno271828 (talk) 23:36, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Barry_hannah.jpg

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Nomination of Gary Maloney for deletion

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Perception management

I removed the "Health" section from perception management because it seems to fail every content policy we've got. It's unsourced or poorly sourced (failing WP:V); it's mostly an essay expounding on editors' personal points of view (failing WP:NOR); and it doesn't adequately convey a balanced picture of the topic (failing WP:NPOV). You've restored the section (albeit shortening it), but haven't addressed any of those concerns as best I can tell. Do you think the section meets this site's content policies?

As a secondary issue, I'm pretty sure that naturalnews.com is not what this site has in mind as a reliable source. At least, it certainly shouldn't be used to present opinionated beliefs as if they're fact. MastCell ^Talk 19:16, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

(Moved from User talk:MastCell) Thanks for your comments and insights on the "perception management" page. The additions of the past few days are a university class assignment; students only get credit if their posts go unchallenged and undeleted. So we will be addressing your concerns in class. Students are on holiday for a week; we will be back a week from now to start cleaning up this Wiki. Thanks again, and feel free to talk to us, or me about the various issues. There will be a few more new posts that you may wish to take a look at. --Phoebe13 (talk) 19:16, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I think we cross-posted at the same time... I hadn't seen your note until I posted the above. Anyhow, there's no deadline so I'm happy to wait for your class to work on it further. But if that's the case, why did you restore the material? If you recognize that it's problematic and you're saying that it won't be improved until a week from now, why put it back in the encyclopedia?

(And as a secondary question: that seems like a strange way to apportion credit. Some of my best edits to this site haven't survived, for various reasons. I'm not a professional educator, but perhaps students should receive credit for finding good sources or doing other constructive work? It seems a bit arbitrary to base their grade on whether other anonymous editors take issue with their additions. But that's just my 2 cents.)

MastCell ^Talk 19:21, 21 November 2011 (UTC) I didn't restore it; I thought you did! It's a lesson in using vetted and acceptable source and NPOV. Thanks to you, students can see that sourcing is not my personal neurosis, but a kind of tribal thing. Addendum: At any rate, I removed it just now, parked it on the discussion page. Thanks again.--Phoebe13 (talk) 20:05, 21 November 2011 (UTC) --Phoebe13 (talk) 19:41, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Opposition research

I see that you aren't really active at this time, but I'm curious what you were planning to do with the article opposition research, which has an unusual format and unconventional approach to our standard article layout. Viriditas (talk) 03:26, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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