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Vicente Huidobro

Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism").

Early years
Huidobro was born into a wealthy family from Santiago, Chile. He spent his first years in Europe, and was educated by French and English governesses. Once his family was back in Chile, Vicente was enrolled at the Colegio San Ignacio, a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago, where he was expelled for wearing a ring that he claimed was a wedding ring.

In 1910 he studied literature at the Instituto Pedagogico of the University of Chile, but a good part of his knowledge of literature and poetry came from his mother, poet María Luisa Fernández Bascuñán. She used to host "tertulias" or salons in the family home, where sometimes up to 60 people came to talk and to listen to her talk about literature, with guests including members of the family, servants, maids and a dwarf. Later, in 1912, she would help him financially and emotionally to publish his first magazine "Musa Joven" (Young Muse).

In 1911 he published Ecos del alma (Echoes of the Soul), a work with modernist tones. The following year he married Manuela Portales Bello. In 1913 he published Canciones en la noche (Songs in the Night). The book included some poems previously published in "Musa Joven" as well as his first calligram, "Triángulo armónico" ("Harmonic Triangle").

In 1913, along with Carlos Díaz Loyola (better known as Pablo de Rokha), he published three issues of the magazine Azul (Blue), and published both Canciones en la noche and La gruta del silencio (The Grotto of Silence). The next year, he gave a lecture, Non serviam, in which he reflected on his aesthetic vision. The same year, in "Pasando y Pasando" (“Passing and Passing”), Vicente explained his religious doubts, earning himself the reproach of both his family and the Jesuits.

The same year, he published "Las pagodas ocultas" (1916), and signed it for the first time as Vicente Huidobro.

Move abroad
In 1916, he traveled to Buenos Aires with Teresa Wilms Montt, a young poet whom he had rescued from a convent. While in Buenos Aires, Huidobro outlined his creationism literary theory, later a literary movement, and published "El espejo de agua" (The Mirror of Water).

Also in 1916, he moved to Europe with his wife and children. While passing through Madrid, he met Rafael Cansino Assens, with whom he had exchanged letters since 1914.

He settled in Paris and published Adán (1916), a work that began his next phase of artistic development. Huidobro met and mixed with most of the Parisian avant garde of this period: Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Jacques Lipchitz, Francis Picabia, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Paul Éluard, Amedeo Modigliani and Blaise Cendrars.

In 1917, he contributed to the magazine Nord-Sud edited by Pierre Reverdy, along with Guillaume Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, André Breton, Louis Aragon and Max Jacob, until a disagreement with Reverdy forced him to leave the magazine. That same year he published Horizon carré, including poems previously shown in "El espejo de agua" translated to French with the help of Juan Gris.

In October 1918, Huidobro traveled to Madrid, making the first in a series of annual trips to that city. There he shared both Creacionismo and his knowledge of the Parisian vanguard with the artistic elite. In Madrid, Vicente met with Robert and Sonia Delaunay, refugees in Spain, and resumed his friendship with Rafael Cansinos-Assens. He started the literary movement Ultraísmo, corresponded with Tristan Tzara and collaborated with him on his Dadaist magazine.

In 1919, he brought to Madrid a rough draft of the series of poems that would eventually become his masterpiece, Altazor. That same year, he took some science classes and became interested in esoteric subjects like astrology, alchemy, ancient Kabbalah among other forms of occultism.

While in Paris, he worked with Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) at L' Esprit Nóuveau, a magazine directed by Paul Dermée. There he also worked for the Spanish magazines "Grecia", "Cervantes", "Tableros" and "Ultra".

In the El Liberal, a Spanish newspaper, journalist and literary critic Enrique Gómez Carrillo published an interview with Pierre Reverdy where he accuses Huidobro of antedating the edition of "El espejo de agua" and claims that he himself created "creacionismo". Grecia magazine took Huidobro's side, and between August and September Huidobro traveled to Madrid to refute Gómez Carrillo's claims.

Altazor and creacionismo
In 1921, Huidobro founded and edited an international art magazine, Creación (Creation), in Madrid. The magazine featured a Lipchitz sculpture and paintings by Georges Braque, Picasso, Juan Gris and Albert Gleizes. In November he printed a second issue in Paris, titled Création Revue d'Art. In December he presented his famous lecture, La Poesía (Poetry), which served as prologue to his works Temblor de Cielo (Tremor of Heaven), and "Saisons Choisies" (Chosen Seasons).

The next year, Huidobro presented his theory of "Pure Creation" at "Branche Studio" in Paris, and then in Berlin and Stockholm.He wrote for the Polish magazine "Nowa Sztuka". In Paris, his "Painted poems" exhibition at the Théâtre Edouard VII was shut down for being too "disruptive".

In 1923, he published "Finis Britannia", a critique of the British empire, which provoked antipathy from the British and resulted in him receiving a postcard in support from Mahatma Gandhi. In 1924 he was -arguably- kidnapped for this reason, disappearing for three days. Later in an interview, he briefly commented that the perpetrators of the kidnap were two "Irish scouts" but refused to give more details.

Huidobro continued with his diverse artistic activities in Europe, producing the third edition of "Création", where he published his "Manifeste peut-être" (Maybe Manifesto). Collaborator in this edition included Tristan Tzara, René Crevel, Juan Larrea and Erik Satie. He joined the French Masonic Lodge and met Spanish philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno, who was exiled in Paris at the time.

In 1925 he returned to Chile, where he edited and published "Acción. Diario de Purificación Nacional" (Action: Journal of National Purification) a political newspaper where he criticised the state and reported fraudulent activities. He was consequently assaulted and beaten outside his home and, on 21 November, the newspaper was shut down. He started another newspaper, "La reforma" (Reform), in a symbolic gesture, young supporters of the progressive party declared him as their candidate for president. A bomb was then set off outside his house, though Huidobro escaped unharmed. While in Chile, he wrote for the publications "Andamios", "Panorama" and "Ariel" and published "Automne Régulier" (Regular Autumn) and "Tout à coup" (Suddenly).

In 1926, he published a fragment of what would become the fourth canto of "Altazor" in "Panorama".

In 1927, he traveled to New York, where he met Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Gloria Swanson, wrote a script for a film of his novel "Cagliostro", and wrote the "Canto a Lindbergh" (Song for Lindbergh) dedicated to aviator Charles Lindbergh.

He returned to Europe by the late 1920s, where he began to write the novel, Mío Cid Campeador; he also continued his work on Altazor and began Temblor de Cielo (Tremor of Heaven). It was at this time that he discovered that he was heir to the Marquisate of Casa Real. He also participated in the Mandrágora, a Chilean surrealist movement founded in 1938. There was a scandal when he married Ximena Amunátegui in a Muslim ceremony.

In 1930, while in the Italian Alps, he wrote "La Proxima" (The Next), and published his poem "Chanson de l'oeuf et de l'infini" (Song of the Egg and Infinity) in the magazine "Revue Européenne" and a fragment of "Altazor", in French, in the June edition of "Transition".

In 1931, he went back to Madrid to publish "Altazor", where he attended Federico García Lorca's poetry recital "Poet in New York" and started his friendship with Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres García. The same year he published "Portrait of a Paladin" and the English versions of his "Mío Cid Campeador", "Temblor de Cielo" and "Altazor".

Back to Chile
Huidobro went back to Chile in 1932, under the pressure of the Great Depression. In Chile, he published "Gilles de Raíz".

In 1933, he got involved with the Communist Party of Chile and published his article "Manifiesto a la juventud de Hispanoamérica" (Manifesto to the Youth of Hispano America) in Barcelona's "Europa" magazine, where he proposed the creation of a united republic formed of Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.

In 1934 he wrote film reviews for Santiago magazines and newspapers, and published "La Próxima" (The Next) (Santiago, Walton); "Papá o el diario de Alicia Mir" (Father, or the diary of Alicia Mir) (Santiago, Walton), a novel written as a diary; and the play "En la Luna" (In the Moon) (Santiago, Ercilla). He founded the magazine Vital/Ombligo with Omar Cáceres and Eduardo Anguita.

In 1935 a young Volodia Teitelboim read a Rabindranath Tagore poem, similar to Poem 16 of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Teitelboim mentioned this to Huidobro, and Huidobro accused Neruda of plagiarism. This would initiate a conflict between Neruda and Huidobro that later would involve Pablo de Rokha.

In 1936, along with Picasso, Arp, Kandinsky, and Robert and Sonia Delaunay among others, he signed the "Dimensionist Manifesto"

In 1937, while in Spain supporting the republican cause, the conflict with Neruda resurfaced while Neruda was also supporting the republicans. The Parisian "Association Internationale des Ecrivains pour la Défense de la Culture", sending them a letter which called on them to change their attitude, signed by Tristan Tzara, Alejo Carpentier, César Vallejo and Juan Larrea, among others.

Once back in Chile, he published the prose poem "Fuera de aquí" (Out of Here), arguing against Italian fascism and the Italian military (who were visiting Chile at that time), as well as the poem "Gloria y Sangre" (Glory and Blood) in "Madre España: Homenaje de los poetas chilenos" (Mother Spain: Tribute of the Chilean poets). In 1938 his mother died, and he became part of the creation of the Chilean surrealist group La Mandrágora. The first meetings of the group took place in his home.

Last years
In 1942, Huidobro published the second editions of "Temblor de cielo", "Cagliostro" and "Mio Cid Campeador" in Santiago.

In 1944, he edited and published the first and last edition of "Actual", the final magazine he would create. In November of that year he traveled back to Europe and made a stop in Montevideo, Uruguay to give a lecture on "Introducción a la poesía" (Introduction to Poetry). In 1945 he went to Paris as a correspondent for “La Voz de América". In Paris, he received a letter from his wife Ximena informing him of her wish for a divorce. He entered Berlin (as a war correspondent) with the Allies. He was discharged and went back to Santiago with his third wife, Raquel Señoret.

In 1946 he settled in Cartagena, a seaside town in central Chile, and published a new edition of "Trois Nouvelles Exemplaires", with text written in collaboration with Jean Arp.

The following year he suffered a stroke attributed to his war wounds, and died on 2 January 1948, in his Cartagena house. According to his wishes, he was buried on a hill facing the sea. His eldest daughter Manuela and Eduardo Anguita wrote the epitaph: "Aquí yace el poeta Vicente Huidobro / Abrid la tumba / Al fondo de esta tumba se ve el mar". (Here lies the poet Vicente Huidobro / Open the tomb / At the bottom you can see the sea). That same year, Manuela published unedited texts and poems previously seen only in magazines.

Huidobro wrote over thirty works, including books of poetry and poetic narrative, of which more than a dozen were published posthumously.

Vicente Huidobro Museum and Foundation
The Vicente Huidobro Foundation was created in 1990, in order to preserve the poet's works. The foundation runs a research center and archive, which is open to researchers, students and general public. On 6 April 2013 Huidobro's house in Cartagena was converted into a museum, with help of funds from FONDART. The museum, which has six rooms and a floor space of 320 square metres, will be run by the Vicente Huidobro Foundation, and will showcase manuscripts, correspondence, first editions of Huidobro's works, photographs and his collection of African art, among other items.

Tribute
On January 10, 2020, Google celebrated his 127th birthday with a Google Doodle.

The Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) by Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi features a debate about creators and masters of Spanish and Latin American poetry, including Huidobro, Luis Cernuda, Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre, Pedro Salinas, and Jorge Guillén.

Chile printed several postage stamps of portraits of Huidobro, including in 1986 and 1993.

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Aama (1964 film)

Aama (आमा) is a 1964 Nepali film directed by Hira Singh Khatri in his directorial debut. The film is written by Durga Shrestha and Chaitya Devi. Aama was produced by King Mahendra of Nepal under the banner of Information Department of Government of Nepal (formally Royal Nepal Film Corporation). The film stars Shiva Shankar and Bhuwan Chand, with Basundhara Bhusal, Chitya Devi Singh, Hira Singh Khatri and Hari Prasad Rimal, in supporting roles. It follows a young man who returns home after serving in his country's army.

Hira Singh Khatri, was requested by Mahendra of Nepal to direct Aama. The film's post-production and indoor filming were mainly done in Kolkata, India. It was released on 7 October 1964. After the release, Aama became the first Nepalese film to be produced in Nepal.

After the film's release in Nepal, it quickly became popular in the country. After the success of Aama, Khatri directed the films Hijo Aaja Bholi (1967), and Parivartan (1971) for the Nepalese government, both of which were used to convey patriotism to Nepalese citizens. Aama is regarded as one of the most important films in the history of Nepalese cinema.

Plot
Harka Bahadur is an alcoholic who physically abuses his wife. One day later, his house is being repossessed due to non-payment of loan repayments, after which Harka Bahadur promises his wife he will give up drinking. Later that day, he returns to his house drunk and starts attacking his wife but dies after being struck by lightning. After his death, Harka's son Man Bahadur (Shiva Shankar) leaves his house to join the army.

A few years later, Man returns home after serving in a foreign army for two years but cannot find his mother. After hearing about his mother's death, Man decides to leave Nepal but his neighbours persuade him to stay in the village and serve the community, saying that "service to the motherland is equally virtuous as service to a mother". Man Bahadur says he will remain in Nepal to help his country's growing economy.

Cast
Credits adapted from Films Of Nepal.

 * Shiva Shankar
 * Bhuwan Chand
 * Basundhara Bhusal
 * Hari Prasad Rimal
 * Uttam Nepali

Production
Mahendra of Nepal requested prominent film director Hira Singh Khatri, who was mainly working in Indian cinema, to direct Aama, which was made to develop Nepali cinema and to promote Nepali art and culture through it. In the early years of Nepalese cinema there was no professional infrastructure in the country to produce, distribute, and present Nepalese cinema. There were no professional actors so the director chose Nepalese singer-songwriter Shiva Shankar and theatrical performer Bhuwan Chand. Shiva Shankar was chosen to play the lead actor in the film because the director's original choice for the role was home sick. The leading female actor Bhuwan Chand remembered being "very excited" about acting in the film; she said it "was one of the incidents of my life I can never forget". At the age of fourteen, Hari Prasad Rimal also made his acting debut in Aama.

Filming on the project lasted between three and four months, and the post-production work, which was completed in Kolkata, India, took about six months. Most of the scenes were filmed in a single take. Bhuwan Chand was paid about 5,000 rupees ($45.01 as of April 2019). Chand told Kathmandu Craze, "the director of the film had asked for cameramen's opinion and he responded in my favour. So it was cameraman Dev and of course the director who were responsible for me receiving the part."

Release
The film premiered on 7 October 1964, in the Kathmandu Valley. Upon release, the film met with success. Sunita of Films Of Nepal wrote, "Aama took the nation by storm". After the success of the film, director Hira Singh Khatri went on to direct Hijo Aaja Bholi (1967), and Parivartan (1971), films which were used to convey patriotism to Nepalese citizens. Aama became an important film in history of Nepalese cinema, after becoming the first Nepalese film to be produced in Nepal. Following its release, the leading actors became publicly prominent. Kathmandu Films, wrote "This [Aama] was the most important event in history of filming in Nepal".

Critical response
BossNepal wrote, "The title of the movie did justice to it ... Aama (mother) gives us a glimpse of what to expect and meets people's expectations as well. It goes perfectly with the theme of the movie". The reviewer also said, "Aama deserves a watch". Philip Cryan Marshall of Migyul wrote, "Aama was clearly a nation-building tool", and "The image of the mother, a universal symbol of national unity, was used to forward themes of nationalization. Characters ... were dressed in distinct garbs of the nation – men in daura suruwal and dhaka topi and women draped in saree and cholo fariya".

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Mozart and Simon & Garfunkel could be kept if someone had time and energy to do a massive copy edit on them. Bmills 10:49, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Objection to Prostitution is not on moral grounds but because it is poorly structured and not especially well written. Bmills 12:59, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Achilles neets rewrite for grammar, punctuation, etc. Bmills 14:23, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)


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Talk:Green Mountain Boys

Verbatim copy
This site, www.vertualvermonter.com, is using a verbatum copy of this article. They link back here, but don't mention GNU/FDL, and claim copyright of all materials on their website. They've also got several other articles from us on their page, Gentgeen 10:52, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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Now listed at Sites that use Wikipedia for content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angela (talk • contribs) 22:56, 2 December 2003 (UTC)

exercise/exorcise
re exercise/exorcise: were they trying to exorcise the rebellion vermonters as one would expel a demon; or were they trying to exercise the warrants? jengod — Preceding undated comment added 09:16, 26 February 2004 (UTC)

The Green Mountain Boys later formed the basis of the Vermont militia which selected Seth Warner as its leader.
It is true that Seth Warner was commissioned a Brigadier General in the Vermont Militia in 1778 however he did not accept the commission because it would have been a demotion for him since was already a Continental Colonel. During the American War for independence military commissions from the Continental Congress took precedence and thus out ranked any state militia rank.

Warner’s Regiment (Seth Warner being selected over Ethan Allen as commander of the regiment) from 1775 - 1781 was a Continental Regiment that was formed from “ those known as the Green Mountain Boys” as stated in the original order raising the regiment in 1775:

 * ''Ordered that in consequence of a recommendation from the Continental Congress a Body of Troops not exceeding five hundred men, officers included, be forthwith raised of those called Green Mountain Boys, that they elect all their own officers except Field Officers. ..
 * That the said troops, when raised, be considered as an Independent Body, their Field Officers taking rank after the Field Officers of the other Troops to be raised by this Colony for the Continental Service. That their Corps of Officers consist of one Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, seven Captains and fourteen lieutenants and that the General be furnished with Blank Warrants to be filled up by him, agreeable to such election as above mentioned. Die Martis, 9 ho. A.M. 15th Augt.1775

An interesting fact about this order is that it was issued from the New York assembly on the recommendation from the Continental Congress, the very government body the Green Mountain Boys fought so hard against in the years leading up to war.

The regiment was again mustered in 1776 and was in existence as one of George Washington’s 13 additional regiments until the regiment was mustered out in 1781.

There are many documents in the Library of Congress relating to the regiment and there was a lively correspondence between Washington and Warner through out the war that can be found in the Washington papers and letters.

Though Warner and his regiment were not militia, Warner was commanded after the battle of Hubbardton to take control of all militia in the NH territories, thus technically placing him over NH General Stark and his militia forming and moving east to resist Burgoyne in the summer of 1777. Warner and Stark appear to have had an excellent cordial relationship with Warner not exercising strict command or control over Stark.* In fact it was documented that General Stark sent his militia companies one at a time as they were formed east to Col Warner at Manchester, VT, who then placed them in the Bennington area to await the arrival of Stark. In addition to placing the militia, Col Warner also detached Herricks Rangers from his command in Manchester and send them also to Bennington to reinforce Stark. Herrick and many of his rangers were Green Mountain Boys under Allen before the war and it was Herricks Rangers that was with Stark from the beginning of the battle of Bennington and it was Herrick that presented “The Green Mountain Boy” flag to Stark after the battle.

One theory is regarding this relationship is that it may have started during the French and Indian War in Roger’ Rangers. Stark was one of Rogers Lieutenants and later a Captain in the rangers. According to the U.S. Army Center Of Military History, Seth Warner was also a ranger, though no other reference has been found to corroborate this claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vermontpatriot (talk • contribs) 03:05, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Arnold leading?
This seems unlikely to me. While he was present at the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga and played an important role in some of the events there, the Boys do not appear to have ever honored his commission, or recognize any sort of right of his to command them. (I'm unaware of other times that Arnold might have been arguably in charge of some of them, but then, I'm not up on the Boys' history.)  Magic ♪piano 04:17, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

 * I removed Arnold, while he may have arguably commanded a joint force that included the Green Mountain Boys, he was never the unit's commanding officer. —MJBurrage(T•C) 13:38, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

 * That's pretty much what I figured.  Magic ♪piano 16:33, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Peter Roberts
He is non notable. Adding his name to the list of notable members of the units looks like geneological puffing just because someone found his name on a website. warof1812.com lists loads of members of the unit, on the same basis should they all be added to this article? I don't think so. Compared to other listed in this section he just doesn't rate. For him to be notable he needs to meet the general notability criteria as much as if there were to be a separate article on him. if you can't do that then he isn't notable enough to be in this section of this article. 212.137.36.234 (talk) 09:18, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, you have misapplied the notability requirement, in particular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Notability_guidelines_do_not_limit_content_within_an_article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.92.65.10 (talk) 19:10, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

 * In the policy you refer to above, emphasis is laid on WP:DUE, nobody has yet explained why Peter Roberts is a notable member of this unit. The only "evidence" is that his name appears on warof1812.com - as do the names of many others who were members of the GMB.  So why is he more notable than them and worthy of being listed in the article when their names aren't.  I'd also remind you of WP:NOT and the many reasons given in that policy as to why his name being on this list is wrong. 212.137.36.234 (talk) 09:29, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

 * Read the policy, please. The requirement applies to the list, not to individual members of it. 174.91.146.116 (talk) 16:05, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Who the heck is John Lawrie Altieri?
Arlington, Vermont's article mentions him as well, yet the Internet seems devoid of information on this person. Also: Nunchucks?! REALLY?! I swear this is defacement. Especially since it doesn't show up until 12 JAN 2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.181.131.93 (talk) 11:53, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Removed from both pages, while the addition seemed less spurious in the Arlington article, it was still unsourced. —MJBurrage(T•C) 19:35, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Jabez William Clay
Jabez William Clay, listed as a notable member of the Green Mountain Boys, appears to have been born many years after the original Green Mountain Boys ceased to exist. If he is supposedly a member of one of the later "incarnations" of the GMBs, he was not born until after the War of 1812, died (at age 28 of pneumonia) before the Spanish-American War, and was only 8 when the Civil War began. I can find no online evidence that he was ever in the militia. Can anyone confirm his service? I am suspicious that his being identified as a member of the GMBs comes from references in some of his bios that refer to him as a "Green Mountain boy", meaning a Vermonter. LP1888 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lp1888 (talk • contribs) 02:30, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

 * I will further add to this by wondering the same thing.... Being a Vermonter I also consider myself a Green Mountain Boy and while I someday plan on annexing Warner's Gore this does not mean I participated in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga or any other engagement involving the GMB's or the Vermont National Guard.... In any case I was investigating the Westminster Massacre which eventually lead me to the 6 Phi Sig's who in 1875 founded a Fraternity at Aggie.... Later known as UMass Amherst and while Jabez Clay certainly seems to have accomplished a hell of a lot more in his brief time on Earth than I did in my first 28 years, and certainly left a legacy that will be remembered by these Phi Sig's for as long as they exist as a Fraternity, I was unable to make any connection between Clay and the actual Green Mountain Boys.... I will do some further research on the topic and if I come across any relevant info I will add it to this talk page, or if it is a verifiable source to the page for Mr. Clay. Raleigh80Z90Faema69 (talk) 19:37, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

 * This has to be wrong. A guy who lived in the mid to late 1800s couldn't have been in the Green Mountain Boys during the mid to late 1700s. And there's nothing in the Clay article to even indicate that he served in the militia or National Guard at any time, let alone in the 1700s.  I did a search on Google and Ancestry.com and I found no connection to the Green Mountain Boys or the militia/National Guard at all.
 * Billmckern (talk) 19:48, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Stars' symbolism
Were the stars placed haphazardly to annoy the British or because the Boys had better things to do? BrianH123 (talk) 19:28, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

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older entries
In order to second the nomination of this to Brilliant Prose, i would like to see some brilliants removed :) I think "Marlborogh' brilliant command" and similar statements are a bit POV... Otherwise its a great article! Muriel Victoria 10:56, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Yes, I see. I really was running out of steam by that heading, and couldn't really think of a different, catchy heading. If you point out any other POV phrases, I'd be glad to edit them. ugen64 02:51, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)

Copying the following from the Brilliant prose candidates page:

''It's a very good article, but I would change one thing: you need a stronger introductory paragraph. Remember the journalistic style of writing - make that first paragraph a topic 'graf that gives the reader the who-what-when-where-why-how, boom boom boom. From a strong beginning, the rest of the article should flow naturally. Scooter 23:43, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)''

I'll add that aside from that, I'd second the nomination. - Scooter 08:12, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Changes
The reason behind Duke of Burgundy's apointment are not unknown it was because he was the King's grandson he got his apointment. The court of Versailes was based around family favour.

I also think that it was Vendome who wished to attack but Burgundy didn't (the article has it the other way round). I'll check this out and if necessary edit the article.

strange sentence
As Argyll's regiments approached, they lengthened the Allied line; however, this was not quick enough to prevent the French from threatening.
 * From threatening what? to eat all beef before the oppsing party could reach it? TeunSpaans 20:16, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Problem with Aftermath section
All the second paragraph looks like to be only a POV or worse the work of an armchair general, I do think it should be rewrited. The mean of a Wiki article is to introduce the fact, not to say what should have been done better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.9.31.172 (talk) 18:41, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * And not to take sides 217.42.103.159 (talk) 22:38, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

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Did Eugene of Savoy have the supreme command instead of Marlborough?
Around noon, the vanguards started fighting with each other. Van Nimwegen in his book from 2020 writes that Marlborough, according to Sicco van Goslinga, made a confused impression at this critical moment, presumably as a result of an accident he had had the previous night. He had then fallen into a deep ditch with his horse and had been trapped under the animal. Goslinga consulted with Van Rechteren-Almelo on what they would do. Together they decided to ask Prince Eugene to assume the supreme command for the time being. After some urging, as he was after all not in the service of either of the Maritime Powers, he replied: 'Well now gentlemen, ... I will do what you ask of me.'

Are there any other sources that talk about this? And if nobody objects I may include this in the article DavidDijkgraaf (talk) 16:32, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

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Samuel Allyne Otis

Samuel Allyne Otis (November 24, 1740 – April 22, 1814) was the first Secretary of the United States Senate, serving for its first 25 years. He also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was a delegate to the Confederation Congress in 1787 and 1788.

Secretary of the Senate
Early in 1789, as plans went forward for establishing the new Congress under the recently ratified Constitution, a heated contest developed for the job of Senate Secretary. The obvious candidate was dapper sixty-year-old Charles Thomson, secretary of the soon-to-expire Continental Congress during its entire fifteen-year existence. But Thomson weakened his candidacy by telling friends that he had a different secretarial post in mind—one in George Washington's cabinet. As the March 1789 convening date of the Senate neared, however, Thomson realized that he had no chance of landing a cabinet appointment. Consequently, he decided he would indeed like to become the first Secretary of the Senate—as well as Secretary of the House and Secretary of the entire government. This would not be too taxing, he thought, because he expected to have an assistant who would "do the ordinary business of the [Senate], so that I may not be under the necessity of attending except on special occasions and when the great business of the Nation is under deliberation." This expression of Thomson's lofty self-importance helps explain why he had attracted a more-than-usual number of enemies during his public career.

A group of those foes devised a scheme—disguised as an honor—to get him out of town during the crucial last-minute maneuvering leading to the Secretary's election. Congressional leaders asked Thomson to travel from the nation's temporary New York City capital to Virginia to "notify" George Washington of his election and accompany the president-elect back to New York. Washington needed no notification, but he accepted Thomson's companionship in good humor. With Thomson safely away from the Senate, Vice President-elect John Adams maneuvered for the election of his own candidate—Samuel Allyne Otis.

Supremely qualified for the job, the forty-eight-year-old Otis had been a former quartermaster of the Continental Army, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, member of Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and John Adams' long-term ally. On April 8, 1789, two days after the Senate achieved its first quorum, members elected Otis as their chief legislative, financial, and administrative officer.

Otis' early duties combined symbolism and substance. On April 30, he had the high honor of holding the Bible as George Washington took his presidential oath of office. Throughout that first session, which lasted until September, Otis tirelessly engaged the many tasks associated with establishing a new institution. As the Senate set down its legislative procedures and carefully negotiated relations with the House and President Washington, Otis became a key player.

Others noticed and several coveted his increasingly influential job. Among the contenders was William Jackson, a secretary to President Washington. Jackson asked Washington to advance his prospects by removing Otis from the scene—through an appointment to a federal post in Massachusetts. Washington failed to cooperate, perhaps thinking that John Adams might view this as executive meddling in legislative affairs. From 1789 to 1801—the period of Adams' eight years as Vice President, and four as President—Otis enjoyed great job security. The situation changed in 1801. The electoral "Revolution of 1800", which shifted control of Congress and the presidency from the Adams Federalists to the Jeffersonian Republicans, gave Otis reason to begin checking his retirement options. When John Quincy Adams became a senator in 1803, he reported to his father that Otis "is much alarmed at the prospect of being removed from office. It has been signified to him that in order to retain it, he must have all the [Senate's] printing done by [William] Duane [editor of an anti-Adams newspaper].  His compliance may possibly preserve him one session longer." The Senate subsequently awarded Duane the lucrative contract.

Through the considerable political turbulence between 1800 and 1814, Samuel Otis held on as Secretary. But with the passing years, Otis appeared to some as less vigorous in attending to his duties. Senators complained that the Senate Journal was not being kept up to date, official communications not recorded in a timely way, and records kept in a "blind confused manner" – but no one actively moved to replace him. Like Continental Congress Secretary Charles Thomson, Otis had become the body's institutional memory at a time of great turnover among members.

When the seventy-three-year-old Otis died on April 22, 1814, having not missed a single day's work in twenty-five years, senators seemed to truly lament his death. The stability that he brought to the office endured well into the nineteenth century. His successor, former New Hampshire Senator Charles Cutts, served for eleven years. Cutts' successor, former Pennsylvania Senator Walter Lowrie, held the post from 1825 to 1836, followed by Asbury Dickins, who came within six months of breaking Otis' still-standing quarter-century service record. When Dickins retired in 1861 at age eighty, the Senate voted him an additional year's salary, using language that would have been equally fitting for Otis – "an old and faithful servant of the Senate."

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Hi, Merovingian, I think you may have fallen afoul of Wikipedia's rather strict copyright policy with your recent photo uploads. A quick Google search shows that the images likely came from http://www.premieretalk.com/coast2coast_contents.html, which states, "Copyright (c) 2003. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Premiere Radio Networks, Inc. is prohibited." Unless you have that permission, these images will probably have to be deleted. I direct you to Boilerplate request for permission. Cheers, Cyan 04:21, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * Cy,
 * I am aware of Wiki's copyright standards; I took the pics from the CTC Official Site.  I will check later.  I've killed the pictures anyway.  --Mer —Preceding unsigned comment added by Merovingian (talk • contribs)

friendly reminder...
this is just a friendly reminder to use the comments field explicitly when editing. What I mean is, if you remove Bob Gibson, then have your comment be -Bob Gibson. It makes life much easier for others when specifics can be seen while viewing page history. thanks! Kingturtle 17:56, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Howdy. I don't quite know where we are on deciding the copyright/fair-use status of the two images you uploaded (Noory2.jpg and Art4bio.jpg) - I make a personal point of not involving myself with such jailhouse-lawyerism. If you're entirely done with them (or in future, with any other image) simply unlinking them from articles isn't quite enough to make them dissapear from the database. Although I expect one day a developer will run an SQL query and recover a list of such orphaned images, they don't seem to do so terribly often. In the meantime, the best thing to do is to list the images in the Images awaiting deletion section of Images for deletion. That way (when image deletion is working again) those images can be zapped without futher ado. Please don't think I'm pressuring you to do so - I don't know (and really don't care, frankly) whether using these particular images is okay. Thanks, oh, and a belated welcome to Wikipedia too. -- Finlay McWalter 20:35, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi there. Good work copyediting those Polish herbs. Did you know that by clicking "show preview" rather than "save page", you can see all those little edits one at a time, but then submit them all together the end, and the whole lot only needs one "Summary" comment, and shows as one change in the page history? Onebyone 01:10, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * I use "preview" sometimes, but I didn't know you could do that! Thanks,

Merovingian 01:14, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Please don't succumb to NPOV madness by removing words like tasty. Tasty is not a point of view it is a sensation. Mintguy
 * It was stupid, thanks for reality. --Merovingian 09:56, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip; I'll try to force myself to use it. - Litefantastic 15:04, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Don't remove unwritten links as it is then difficult to put them back once the article has been written. In the case of languages the standard is actually Blah language rather than just Blah. There could also be transliteration problems. Secretlondon 14:59, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)

Those anatomy articles were an easy write ("softies" if you'll excuse a horrible, horrible pun)- I'm surprised no one got them already. --Raul654 07:48, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

From talk page of Experimental Main Page:
 * Very Nice, but where is the Hindu calendar listing? --Merovingian 05:39, Dec 22, 2003 (UTC)
 * If you know today's day in Hindu or other calendars, please add it! ilya 22:33, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hello. just to infom you that i replied to your question on my talk page, which I post here as well: '':Hello! So happy to hear that you like my lessons, thanks! The first lesson was posted on 24th December 2003. with Best Wishes for Peace Profound, Optim 17:09, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)''
 * again, thanks for your kind words, have a happy 2004:) Optim 17:14, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Just a quick note that user:Matty j has transferred wikimoney from your account for creating Glenn Beck. --snoyes 05:09, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Mr Wetherell, I am most glad that you approve of the National Geographic Bee page. -- Lord Emsworth 02:46, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * I must thank you for your compliment. -- Emsworth

Regarding your WikiMoney bounty on the Glenn Beck Program: there is already an article on Glenn Beck that covers his program very well so I think you should just create a redirect from The Glenn Beck Program and remove your bounty. Kent Wang 01:19, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hey, forgive me for overlooking your userpage edits, but I thought I'd point out MediaWiki's nifty automatic namespace suppression trick - instead of saying Merovingian (i.e. Merovingian) just say User:Merovingian (i.e. Merovingian) which should look the same, and with less typing on your part. Cool, huh? -- Finlay McWalter 23:20, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

USS Tulibee
That's a disambiguation page, not a stub. A 'stub' implies that there is more information to be added, which there really is not, except maybe a link to the fish the provided the submarines name. A 'disambigation' page is for situations where two or more articles potentially have the same title, which is the situation that occurs here. Elde 08:26, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry about putting the message on your user page vice your talk page, I pulled the 'edit the page' trigger a bit too fast... You have to look careful there are stubs and disambigs missing their respective messages, and the two types can resemble each other confusingly.  Elde 20:10, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Number pages
Hi,

I would like you to reconsider your vote on the inclusion of articles about numbers on Wikipedia. I am not opposed to number articles per se, but I am opposed to the trivial cultural properties which have been heaped upon many of these articles.

My rationale is that numbers are such a fundamental part of human culture, an article that lists all these associations would have proportions probably larger than all of Wikipedia taken together. To give you an example, Google returns 209,000,000 hits for the number 100 alone.

Please take a look at 1 (number). This is the type of lists I am referring to. Right now the article arbitrarily lists a few things where the number one has some significance: a DVD region, a personality test, a slang term (Wikipedia is not a dictionary), American currency, a single dial code, several roads ...

If you think this information is valuable I am probably wasting my time. But I hope that after looking at several of these pages you will agree that these kind of lists make a joke of Wikipedia. They will always be arbitrary, they will always be in violation of the rules of What Wikipedia is not (list repository, dictionary), and they will seriously damage our reputation.

If you see a compromise option which is not currently included in the poll, please add it. But please do not give these triva lists your rubber stamp of approval.—Eloquence 11:15, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)

Hey Ryan - I just wanted to let you know that even though you are a quiet user and tend to stay out of fights, your contributions around here do not go unnoticed. Keep up the good work. →Raul654 03:58, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know - you are one of two people whom I was considering nominating for adminship (ever since you edited my anatomy articles back in December). I offered to the other person (he's been here a LONG time), but he declined for the time being. I was going to wait to ask you until you had been here for five months. →Raul654 04:41, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)

Any particular reason you moved Bob Hayes to Robert Lee Hayes? Because "Bob Hayes" is far more well known. RadicalBender 05:08, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hey Ryan, Thanks for your message message. Thats pretty neat that you about the same age, I'm 16 and that we have the same name :) well hope to talk to you again some time. theyapps 04:46, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)

RYAN
i dont think ur like this- but r u willing to cheat? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.216.161.251 (talk • contribs)
 * ok, like on the tests-do u know a way to cheat out the site-almost like hacking, and get to the answers first? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.216.161.251 (talk • contribs)
 * alrighty - thanx! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.216.161.251 (talk • contribs)
 * just go along w/ it! dont talk about that stuff on the school pages! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.216.161.251 (talk • contribs)
 * i mean, if u talk about tests- with the suspision that would be rising, everyone would get the ultimate picture!dont say anything about the school test- im not gettin in trouble! go w. the IQ tests —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.216.161.251 (talk • contribs)

Ryan - I have nominated you for adminship. →Raul654 20:23, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * PS - voting so far is 8 to 0. Looks like you are a shoe in. Congradulations. →Raul654 03:17, Mar 10, 2004 (UTC)

Hi

Yes, I agree, I think it should. I've put the question at Wikipedia_talk:Recentchanges. Would you like to comment? Warofdreams 18:49, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi, for names like USS Topeka, we italicize the name only; the "USS" part is a ship prefix and not actually part of the name, so it's not to be italicized. (Most places in WP have been fixed, but a lot of people don't understand the rule, and you'll see many mistaken articles.) Stan 20:24, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hello!

After making a link from your article to the article on the metric system (which was titled under the official international name instead of "metric" so and so) I read the metric system artcile and noticed that there was already another article on the US units: U.S. customary units. AlainV 01:30, 2004 Mar 14 (UTC)

Sysop
Congratulations! You are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. Good luck. Angela. 23:29, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

(Edit Conflict with Angela) I believe you are now officially a sysop. Congradulations. If you have any questions, just drop me a line. →Raul654 23:30, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

Congrats from me too. Dori | Talk 14:19, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)

... and congrats from me as well :-) Elf-friend 19:08, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Rishartha/Aenea666
You're quite welcome! Also, I should thank you for your support of my slightly controversial nomination. A belated congratulations on your own adminship; I seem to have missed the vote, which I regret (I've only now begun to take part in these things). You've done great work, and I would have supported. For what it's worth. :) -- Hadal 07:36, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I noticed the image you added to Counterfeit. It's a little vague as to where the building is and when the photo was taken. TimothyPilgrim 13:54, Mar 18, 2004 (UTC)

How bizarre. Look at recent changes - it appears we created the same page so simultaneously that the software only recorded one edit but saw both. Isomorphic 05:25, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * LOL. Twice in two days. I think I have an echo.. echo... echo..... :-) Isomorphic 04:13, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Re:Yvan Eht Nioj
Actually, I think that was an obscure Simpsons reference. :) RadicalBender 07:16, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * Or not so obscure ;) →Raul654 11:30, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)

Your reversion on The Rest of the Story
Please see Talk:The Rest of the Story -- Nunh-huh 05:27, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Sysopness
Actually, I'm the youngest sysop: 13 years :). ugen64 22:51, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * Great. Thanks for making me feel so old! →Raul654 22:56, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)
 * This is pretty entertaining. I'm 15 and a sysop also. I wonder who else? --Alex S 15:02, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * Let's make a poll somewhere... =) --Merovingian ↕ Talk 15:15, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)
 * I have created Wikipedians by age →Raul654 17:55, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)

Air
Suggestion: The latin root "aero" means "air". I´m not sure if "aero" comes from old greek. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.217.90.78 (talk • contribs)

Thanks for the proposed nomination
I am honored that you considered me worthy, and appreciate your approaching the issue via a Talk/Poll, since I haven't really been here that long (about 5 weeks), even tho' I have spent at laest 150 hrs here, and will probably hit 1500 edits in the next day or two. I am currently unemployed, so I've been able to spend at least 6-8 hrs per day on Wikipedia. This will change on April 12, when my latest contract job starts (for 3 months). I don't know that I'd be doing many admin-ish things, even if granted, at least for now, but having that status would probably put more weight behind my comments on occasion, so that could be cool. Since my edits are virtually never challenged, I thot I might get nominated at some point, but never guessed it would be so soon. I have added a link on my talk page of some of my primary contribs, if people are curious--I'd been meaning to do it, but your nomination gave it a higher priority. However this goes, I expect to keep contributing--I love words, English, and information. Niteowlneils 18:51, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

re: Wik/Jor/..., it wasn't clear to me whether you'd bowed out of the discussion, or whether you'd additionally withdrawn your votes. So I left your votes up - please delete them if I got it wrong. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MyRedDice (talk • contribs)

Wow, thanks for the nomination. I'm not entirely convinced that I want or need adminship just yet though. I'm pretty happy beavering away as I am, and to be honest I haven't made that many substantial contributions. Naturally of course, I'll let it play out a bit first before I properly make my mind up, to see what other people think. Thanks again. - Lee (talk)  17:42, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hey Merovingian. I notice you deleted the Assoc. Inclusionists page and related announcement. I wonder, was this a change of mind or on advice? Also, did you have a chance to read my comment on its discuss page? nsh 00:24, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC) talk
 * I did read your comments; thank you so much for your input. I deleted the AIW here because it was a little polarizing.  I haven't changed my policy, and I think I may reopen the AIW on the meta.  --Merovingian ↕ Talk 00:34, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Ah, It's reassuring that I made at least some sense. I think that the AIW could be useful and you're right, meta might be more appropiate. Anyhow, fare well and good fortune. (So many great people here, it's breathtaking)

--nsh 00:46, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC) talk
 * Thanks; I'll move it tomorrow. --Merovingian ↕ Talk 00:48, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

Message for you at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Kerry#Fingernail_Scrape —Preceding unsigned comment added by Get-back-world-respect (talk • contribs)

Thanks for the welcome message. You are the first fellow Wikipedian to say hello. --mporch 07:22, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi Merovingian-

Thanks for the kind words! --Ezra 13:49, 2004 Apr 29 (UTC)

hi Merovingian,

Thanks for the welcome. What are your interests? With that name do I find you equally 6th-century but more Gaulish than me? I shall be away after the ned of this week so if yuo respond, soon please. User: Pachiaammos 07:40 May 10

admin
Merovingian, I have re-activated your adminship. Now get to work :) Kingturtle 03:08, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Ditto for and . Angela. 20:45, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

External link
According to the manual of style (Manual_of_Style), the 'l' should be lower case. Maximus Rex 22:42, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

MRC Thérèse-de-Blainville
Hello! I know how to edit any article but I am not sure how to edit a box like the one you are using for the Quebec MRCs. Anyway, what I am getting to is that you are using a misprint or typo error version of MRC Thérèse-de-Blainville: You are using Balinville instead of Blainville. By doing a Google search on the misprint I noted that two news sites were using it so I concluded that is were you (or somebody else up the line) picked it up. If you do a Google with the correct "Blainville" you will find pages about that particular MRC, as proof that I have not dreamt it up. It would be difficult to do so much dreaming since I go through that particular MRC every time I go back to Montreal using the North shore road. AlainV 00:13, 2004 May 16 (UTC)

Hi Merovingian,

thanks for the warm welcome! Nice to hear that my actions have been useful thus far. At least I did not mess up anything ;-) I hope to be able to contribute some more. I only joined two days ago. Still getting used to everything. But I am quite impressed with the volume of constructive activity in Wikipedia. Ten minutes after I created my first article, some other guy jumped on it and improved it. Great!

cheers
 * netlad

Island Countries
So This is, in fact, not a 'list of island countries', but a list of countrie that are on one or more islands, but not spread across islands that they do not completly control? Isn't that a little strange? By any normal definition UK and Ireland are island coutries - are you suggesting that they would be on this list if the UK gave NI back to Ireland? Plus, when was Java EVER a country? Mark Richards 22:40, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Photos
Hi: All photos are public and well-known and have been circulating for fifty years. IZAK 04:34, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Hi again: the picture of "Dead Himmler" was taken by Allied soldiers in 1945, it has been in the public domain for a long time, it is a well-known photo to war historians and is often used, see for example:

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/BergenBelsen/BergenBelsen06.html and http://www.thirdreich.boinaslava.net/imena/himmler.htm or see them also at: http://images.google.com/images?q=Dead%20Himmler&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

I was very relieved when I scrolled down the list, and my university was not on the list. :) Fuzheado 08:35, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi Merovingian, why do you feel that the 22 in Okaw Valley Council needs twenty-two in brackets after it? Just wondering -- Ams80 22:28, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the nomination
Seems to be going well. I'm kinda amused to be called a deletionist (tho' I think I know why; 9/11 votes, and intolerence of separate articles for incremental product releases and minor and/or one-time fictional chars and objects), since most of my main contributions have been to save articles from VfD, and, the past couple weeks I've switched to New Pages patrol, where I mostly format needy articles to keep them from getting tagged msg:delete or subst:vfd. Niteowlneils 16:49, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
 * You're very welcome, Neil. --Merovingian ↕ T@Lk 17:16, May 30, 2004 (UTC)

Nice...
Another 'kid' on wikipedia. Hi, I'm 13 years old. And I'd like to place a special order for an obscure letter, please. Ilyanep (Talk) 02:37, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Francisco Ortiz Franco
D'you really think he needs a disambiguation link to Francisco Franco? The similarity between the names is pretty superficial; I can't imagine anyone looking for El Caudillo ending up there. –Hajor 14:07, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Cool. See you around. –Hajor

William Moody
I turned this into a real article right before you deleted it. Think that it's worthy of a restore? Dale Arnett 05:45, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

F 9/11
I removed your caution because the center tags were disrupting the page flow - can you re-add it in a way that doesn't make the page look bad? Is it a standard wiki tag that is designed to do that? Michael A. 03:37, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Blahblah
Just wanted to say that I love your Xiaopo quote. You achievements at your age are really admirable. You seem terribly intelligent. Haha, and I love your crack about the Enterprise-D on your user page. blankfaze | •• | •• 17:49, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

To Anacreon in Heaven
Why did you speedy delete this article? Why did you put it on Bad joke,...? These appear to be the correct lyrics to the song. Rmhermen 13:01, Jul 7, 2004 (UTC)

Korean proverbs
Can you please explain what the proverbs refer to? I am especially having trouble understanding the one about the Hangul letter and the sickle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.35.242 (talk • contribs)

Barnstar
Hi! Thankyou for the barnstar :-) However, don't forget User:Dysprosia and User:Seth Ilys who have both done invaluable work preparing the lists and correcting articles :-) —Lady Lysiŋe Ikiŋsile | Talk 00:49, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC)

It is worth noting that I don't have any puppets. You would do well to note the lack of evidence to this effect; not one shred of evidence has been raised to show that I do have such puppets. You should really feel ashamed that you have expressed a desire for punishment of me, in regards to the nomination of Plato -- I know, and you know, that you posess not one ounce of evidence to support the idea that I am the same as either IndigoGenius or Plato. Stop jumping on the bandwagon, its not productive. Lirath Q. Pynnor
 * Of course, but there is no real harm in the nomination -- it is even arguably justified; since the cabal is demanding "action" against tho whose make "frivolous" nominations, I would rather the Wikipedia deal with this question sooner than later -- if you people can't stand the occasional "inappropriate" nomination, you need to make a rule about what is appropriate...rather than trying to bully and threaten people into compliance. Regardless, Indigo Genius has had earlier accounts -- his edits at that account do not represent his total number of edits; he has been around for over a year, which is longer than most new sysops. The primary reason Indigo and Plato are so strongly opposed, is not that they are vandals, but that they hold minority viewpoints which are not being given proper NPOV treatment by the majority. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Category sort tags
Hi,

I noticed that when you created a couple of biographical pages, you omitted the category sort tags (to sort by surname).

For instance for Albert Hunt the category was given as   but should be

Same for Angelo Secchi.

-- Curps 01:59, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Category removal
Please explain your category removal on Motorola 6800. I didn't add it without thinking about it first, and it's thoroughly irritating that you reverted my edit. Stan 16:32, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I'm sure Indigo would appreciate that, I would also like my edits transferred. However, without the cabal's permission, there is no means of doing that. Lirath Q. Pynnor
 * There is a cabal; you might enjoy repeating silly catch-phrases, but that won't change anything. This site is hierarchical; there are haves and have-nots -- people with power, and those without. As someone who has no power, I assure you that those of us without are persecuted by those who have a great deal of power. Lirath Q. Pynnor
 * Did we ever claim that every sysops are out to get us? Every sysop is not in the cabal; but, there is a cabal. Lirath Q. Pynnor
 * There are admins who abuse their authority. There are admins who are out to get regular users. To suggest otherwise is rather absurd. Lirath Q. Pynnor
 * Most admins form what is known as the "silent majority"; they have no wish to be blacklisted themselves, so they keep quiet and hope for the best. Of the vocal and "active" admins -- the majority should be desysoped. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Wars series boxes
Hi, I was just wondering why you added series boxes to some articles about wars...those are usually used for people, like monarchs, who have a clear succession with a definite predecessor and successor. Wars aren't like that and for something like the Peloponnesian War it is unrelated to the preceding and following wars. There are other things wrong with it as it stands, as it gives the wrong dates for the war, and there were plenty of other wars before and after it other than the two you listed. That can be fixed, but in general I don't understand how a table like that could be useful...was this discussed somewhere that I could read? Otherwise I think it might be best if they are removed. Adam Bishop 22:26, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Hmm, perhaps we should start a discussion on the List of wars talk page? (Or, dare I say it, a poll? :)) Adam Bishop 23:05, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
I do not believe this page is a stub, as there is not much that could be added to the page, and yet you made it a stub.

I ask that you retract it, as I am at work and do not want to log in from here, and I'll forget before I get home. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.181.42.20 (talk • contribs)

Requests for adminship
Hi. I think adding Lir's nomination again is a waste of time, as he is most unlikely to pass, but that's not my problem. However, in doing so you removed Stormies nomination, which is NOT acceptable. Be more careful next time -- Chris 73 | Talk 10:57, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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