User talk:DavidWBrooks/2003 archive
2003 talk
Welcome to the Wikipedia! Are you the same David Brooks who writes a column? If so, that makes you one of our three genuine celebrities. --Uncle Ed (Jan. 28, 2003 comment)
Answer to your question on Talk:Ghettoblaster. :-) -- Tarquin 19:27 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
Welcome! And thanks for the article on Dr. Demento - brings back many memories. -- Dwheeler
Just so you know, the preferred way of relocating pages (e.g. from Reginald Jeeves to Jeeves) is to use Wikipedia's "Move this page" command, rather than to create a new page and blank the old one. Using the "Move this page" command, apart from being less work, means that the moved page is still the same page, and keeps its edit history and user bookmarks and so on. (see: Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page) — Paul A 01:28 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I notice that you are correct about BAE Systems. I had thought that they kept their rather silly way of capitalising things when the company changed its name. My apologies for not checking first, and making it appear as if there was an edit war going on. David Newton 00:04 BST 4 July 2003
You might like to check out Pablo Iglesias now in more-english english - although certainly still capable of improvement. Thanks for pointing out the previous deficiency. EdH 04:32, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hi, I added some information and did some reformatting of the Orval Faubus page. I left your information essentially intact but added information on his political upbringing and attacks by his opponents that help explain why he moved to the right and opposed integration in 1957. I hope the additions meet with your approval. Cheers. Ark30inf 03:14, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Oh, my primary source for the early political upbringing was Faubus: The Life and Times of an American Prodigal by Roy Reed and published by the University of Arkansas Press.
I saw you made a change in the page about patrimony of affectation. I do not think it is accurate to talk about this kind of patrimony as an inheritance through the male line, it is most similar to the concept of trust in English. Alex756 04:27, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I've added some stuff to patrimony of affectation. It is a bit of an obscure term as there is not much English language civil law, this is the specific term used in Quebec. Alex756
Hello. I think you're sometimes using too many capital letters. "Maxim gun" should not have a capital "G", and so I moved it. Similarly with the Disraeli quote. Michael Hardy 18:48, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Nice job on the Moe Berg page. Thank you. SeanO 00:35, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)
David - Any reason why you haven't wikified your User page? UtherSRG 17:50, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- I've already worn out the [ and ] keys on real articles!
- LOL! Mind if I wikify? UtherSRG 18:16, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Well, sure, I guess - but personally I think your efforts would be better spent hunting down un-wiki'd stuff in articles. There are, by last count, umpteen gazillion terms in need of wikification in public pages.
- Gosh! That many?!? Yeah, I know. And I do wikify articles already.
- Well, you got me to create a page for umpteen, so you've indirectly helped Wiki. (Make it should be in the Wikitionary, though ... hmmm.) Hey, how come you don't have a User page?
- Editting is easy. Writing is hard. <grins> I'll get to it when I'm home and ready to talk about myself. UtherSRG 19:15, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the corrections in the Punta Arenas, Chile article.
I've only have one comment about your corrections: Chile - that claims antartic territory - has a little village in the Antartic: Villa Las Estrellas. It lies near an Air Force base and there live the base militars with their families. There are a little hospital, bank and a school for the children. It is the only place in the Antartic that has permanent population and there is non-military, non-scientifical, non-tourism antartic inhabitants (the wives, the children, the school professors, the bank clerk).
http://www.profesorenlinea.cl/Chilegeografia/VillaLasestrellas.htm (in spanish).
Baloo rch 15:25, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I haven't heard or read of any birth on Villa Las Estrellas. All the births took place in Punta Arenas or Santiago.
Baloo rch 16:38, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Why do you keep reverting this page? If you don't like the way it is, edit it or add to it, but I don't agree that the content anonymous user put there was so bad it needed reversion. Jack 03:11, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)