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Thanks for the welcome, Rune Welsh --

If you happen to see this, the only question I have (and as you can tell I am too lazy/busy to figure it out for myself) is whether it is possible to add my Potosino tag to an article that I wrote a couple of years ago, before I bothered to sign on as a Wikipedian. The article -- in case anyone wants to look -- is The Itching Parrot, though when I get around to it, I would like to move it to my own translation for the title, The Mangy Parrot (El Periquillo Sarniento).

I also created an article for the author of the Periquillo (Fernandez de Lizardi) at the same time, but it looks like that one got deleted. How or why, I don't know -- though I suspect it was because someone noticed that I later published the same information in the preface to the English translation (mine) of The Mangy Parrot and deleted it because of copyright concerns. Oh, well! I'll post it again -- one of these days.

Potosino 03:45, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Hola Potosino! Unfortunately right now it is not possible to change the attribution of an edit (it was possible before, but that was like a year ago). I saw the article on el Periquillo was moved to its original title in Spanish, as per convention. However, a mention in the article of the translated name of the book in English is not out of place.

Apparently your article on Fernandez de Lizardi was in fact deleted. You're welcome to recreate it with your preface if you still retain rights (depends on what the contract with your publisher says). Don't forget to cite references in your article and to mention in the article talk page that you're the original author of the preface and agree to license it under the GFDL. That should keep copyright watchers at bay.

If you need any help with editing, by all means please let me know. Happy editing! -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 19:52, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again -- I did spend some time (too much time!) today recreating my Lizardi article, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi. If you have a chance to look at it, please let me know if the note at the end is sufficient.... Potosino 20:03, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you once again!

For creating Plans in Mexican History. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 16:32, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciamiento

Thanks for the repair job! -- Picapica 22:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the contributions to Nitza Villapol

You added a lot to the article I started. Thanks. Interlingua ^{talk email} 00:31, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

You bet! My spouse is Cuban, and Nitza Villapol's Cocina Criolla is a kitchen essential for us (especially the recipes for frijoles negros and flan!). Potosino 04:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Etymology of Yucatán

Hey Potosino. I'm not sure if you've checked the Yucatán talk page recently; I just thought I'd let you know here as well that I did hear back from professor Campbell, and I've provided the text of his response on the talk page. Since you're the one who originally brought up the concerns about his proposed etymology, I'm particularly interested in hearing your reactions to his response, and in your thoughts on which possible etymologies should be included in the actual article. Take care, --Miskwito 23:42, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Godwins Law

Seems the old status has been reverted completely, are u ok with this? --Polentario (talk) 01:02, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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please, please ... at Culture. Over the years, thanks to too many cooks, this article turned into a disaster. Mixing up different POV's even from different disciplines, lots of redundancies, no distinction between fringe and mainstream theory. I just did a major overhaul (with explanations on the talk page) - basically deleting fringe materials, cutting repetitions, and reorganizing. My intention for now was to clearly lay out different approaches to "culture." I do not think this article should just repeat stuff in Cultural anthropology and in Cultural studies for example but it does need to explain the relationship and differences between their respective approaches to culture. But (1) my revision is incomplete, (2) I surely made mistakes, and (3) a lot needs to be fleshed out. I would really appreciate it if you would go over it and fix any glaring errors, see if you can improve the organization, and then perhaps flesh out parts that need developing. Wikipedia's article on culture was awful - yet it ought to be great! I'd appreciate your help, Slrubenstein | Talk 05:35, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Diezmo

I've recently created an article diezmo specifically about tithes (and, in passing, some customs duties also known as diezmos) in Spain and the former Spanish Empire. Among other things, I borrowed some content from a paragraph that you wrote about 4 years ago in the tithe article. However, you didn't cite any sources, and I'm not readily finding relevant sources for the Latin American material. Do you have any idea of a source from which this could be cited? - Jmabel | Talk 19:21, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

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I added some info and cites. Bearian (talk) 20:29, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

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No I kind of doubt that a writer in SciAm would lie, or that I would fabricate such a page. ResMar 01:49, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, buenos dias! Soy yo, "Potosino" acá y por el momento "Potosino1956" en es.wikipedia.org. Estoy tratando de unificar mis nombres de usuario y por lo tanto quisiera usurpar el nombre de "Potosino" en es.wikipedia, que por lo visto no se ha usado en unos seis años. Gracias! --Potosino (talk) 14:23, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

My question is: How is your edit of the "Cantinflas" 2014 film in ANY way a in-depth description of the film's plot? All you did was write a flowery Hallmark-esque tagline. You didn't in any way lay out the plot of the film, nor did you describe in any way what occurred in the film. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DoctorHoe (talk • contribs) 06:13, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

I didn't write it, just retranslated it because it had been badly translated from the Spanish Wikipedia page. --Potosino (talk) 11:38, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

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Alt Codes vs Code Page 437

The page doesn't contain a useful table as your change comment asserts. Its relevant content points back to the Alt Codes topic. TEDickey (talk) 00:48, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

That is simply not true! Did you even look at the page? Maybe it doesn't show up on your screen or something, but at the end of the article there is an entire table listing all ALT codes. Look at it here: Code_page_437#Characters and please stop reverting! I am adding this link because it is USEFUL to people who want to LOOK UP the codes and not just read about them in the abstract!! --Potosino (talk) 01:08, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

That's the code-page. Do a little reading to see why your comment is poorly-informed TEDickey (talk) 01:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

I don't need to "do a little reading" to see that it is a highly useful table containing all 256 Alt codes for Windows computers. I'm guessing you either have all the ALT codes memorized, or you never use them. Well, I do use them, and I don't have them memorized. The table is extremely USEFUL. That is why the link from the Alt Codes page to the table is USEFUL. Please don't delete the link any more. The only alternative is to include a table of Alt Codes on the Alt Codes page itself, which would be a good idea but redundant given that the table already exists and is easily linked to. So please, stop deleting the link. Thanks! --Potosino (talk) 01:38, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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