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Image copyright

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Comparative ranks

There is a WWII comparative ranks page:

Comparative military ranks of World War II

Ta The Land 15:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome!

You're welcome. Glad I could answer your question! Kamezuki 11:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Blanking of 742 Evergreen Terrace

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Marine

Thnx for the invite. I have posted a few things on the talk page, but wasn't sure if I remembered enough correctly to change article. Oh well,Ya'll will check it im sure :) Joe I 20:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fabian Basabe

Nice work re-writing that! A vast improvement. Dan100 (Talk) 09:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pauline Musters

Please provide a source for the material in this article. Thnx. TheRingess 00:48, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:Xi Shun.jpg

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Just to clearify, pointing to imageshack isn't much use, a source is supposed to tell us who owns the rights to the image Sherool (talk) 01:28, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tiny articles

"Cleo is a women's magazine" is not an article. It is a declaritive statement. It has also been deleted before for lack of content. Repeated reposting of what is considered nonsense is viewed as vandalism. Unless you can add a lot more, please do not repost that entry. Thank you. - Lucky 6.9 02:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:List of the longest movies in history

Hey, I was wondering, since you've already gotten involved with the Cure for Insomnia dispute, if you wouldn't mind at least putting in your two cents regarding the rest of the issues under discussion at Talk:List of the longest movies in history? Would be very grateful to hear some more voices! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola 23:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the new comment. Actually, though, I was asking about the 200 minute vs. 300 minute debate, mainly! :) Well, if you have any extra time for that one too, I'd be much obliged. If not, no worries. Again, with many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola 01:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

City Island Article Images

Matt,

I have many piccys of City Island, Bronx, New York, that I would like to add to the article, but user Roy Smith and other creepy Deletionists here, will simply delete almost everything I add! There's absolutely no point! It's a waste of time and it has Jimbo's blessing! OK? Why add to such an article, when some Sixteen year old troll will wipe out your contribution is....CRAZY!

Supercool Dude 03:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AFD

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Article Improvement Drive for America's Next Top Model

Hi, I notice you've been a frequent contributor to America's Next Top Model. I've just nominated the article to be improved through Wikipedia's article improvement drive, and you can see the nomation here. I'd appreciate your comments on (and hopefully support of!) the article's nomination. Thanks :). Fabricationary 04:11, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bundaberg, Queensland

Hi Matt, I see that you recently added Anthony Athanasiov (boxer, better known as the Bundy Brawler) to the list of well-known inhabitants of Bundaberg. I question this addition, compared with everyone else on the list, who are indeed 'well-known' and therefore a justifiable entry on the list. I for one, have never heard of this guy and googled him to search for notoriety, but all that turned up were links to the Bundaberg Wikipedia article and other associated wikis. Therefore, he doesn't seem to be well-known or a worthy addition to the list. Was wondering if you could help me with this one? Cheers --- BrightLights 10:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Biased pageants

Well, I read your comment from the Miss Universe talk page, and I made a mention of that while writing the Big Four pageants article. When you mentioned sports there (distance runners coming from Africa, gymnasts coming from Russia and even Romania), the judgment of who is the best is more objective. For example, in athletics, it is based on time spent to complete the distance. I don't see any biases when an African country sweeps all the medal places there--they were the fastest and hence, they deserved their places. Although such a contention may not hold perfectly true for such sports as gymnastics and figure skating (note that these sports has recently made reforms to the judging system to make it less biased and prone to favoritism, and more objectively based). But in pageants, when choosing the judges itself is subjective, then there will always be a space for biased decisions (e.g. the 2001 Miss Universe pageant was controversial for fielding in mostly Puerto Rican judges, and most of them were sitting next to each other, not to mention being held in Puerto Rico; hence, Puerto Rico won, as some critics claimed). The Miss International pageant, meanwhile, is known for its standard of selecting porcelain doll beauties. With such a standard, how can a woman of color (especially of African descent) win? Still, to be fair, when critics complained about last year's lineup when Latin American delegates dominated the top 15 spots, one must not deny the fact that these are the countries/territories which invest the most to preparing their delegates (e.g. some countries select their delegates years in advance, to ensure proper training and experience, and even cosmetic procedures, unlike those from other regions which select theirs just months or even weeks before), in as much as Russia invests heavily in gymnastics discipline (and more recently, in tennis facilities) and African countries have environmental conditions ideal for the training of long-distance runners. --Joey80 06:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Reagan and Bush Changes/Military Service

First of all, as a veteran, I take great offense to your statement of medals being handed out like candy. Certain medals are "handed out like candy", others are not. Medals and ribbons in our military tell the story or history per se of the person that wears them. Medals such as conflict ribbons and campaign medals are given to anyone who was in support of that operation or conflict. Other medals are achieved through action, service, or gallantry. Those are few and far between as you go up in rank of medal. At the very least, there is no reason to deny Reagan WWII service. Under Army Regs, both Reagan and Bush would have served during those wars as long as they completed more than 30 day active service. If Reagan served in Europe or Asia should not be the question here. He served in the Army in support of the war effort. Effectivly he is a veteran of WWII and served during WWII. The reason he was not in combat was due to health issues. This would be the same for coastal artillery, for example. They guarded our coastal areas during WWII but did not serve overseas. They are WWII veterans none the less. They provided for the total war effort. Bush, by serving active duty time, would have been in service during the Vietnam War.

To say that any soldier serving during time of conflict did not serve during that conflict is a slap in the face. Every soldier on active duty at this moment, wether in theatre or not, is training or working in support of the current conflict. For example, I was in Europe on a peacekeeping operation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, i.e. The Global War on Terror. I served proudly during war time and it should be noted. Just because orders have yet to send me to combat should not lessen my, not any other soldier's efforts. A change in orders could have sent me to Iraq or Afghanistan. However, that does not take away my war time service. If you want to get nitpicky about this, then we need to denote service in theatre. For example. If a soldier served in support of the Global War on Terror, his or her bio would state that service. If a soldier served in support of the GWT with service in Operation Iraqi Freedom, then the GWT service and OIF service would be denoted. What that would tell me as the reader is that that soldier served during war, denoted by the GWT, and served in a combat theatre, denoted by the OIF. If you want to go that far, then should Carter be denoted for service in Korea even though from what I understand never sat foot in the war zone?

You statement about what denotes war leaves me to question your realiability in making decisions on this matter. Yes, there are many other operations at this time and other times. There are Operations Other Than War, i.e. Somalia, Panama, and Grenada. And peacekeeping, i.e. Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Korean DMZ. However, if you agree with it or not, we are at war. It is called the Global War on Terrorism. OIF and Afghanistan are two pieces of that war. Anyone who serves during that time is justly credited with service during a time of war.

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The Evergreen State College

I removed the following text that you included on this article's page:

Evergreen Terrace, the fictional street where the title family in Groening's animated program The Simpsons live, is believed to be named after the College.

Believed by whom? I had removed that information from the article before (diff). Do you have a source? I've read articles that note it's named after a street Groening lived on in Portland among other claims. If it's really unclear and unverifiable, it shouldn't be in an encyclopedia article. Thanks! --Rkitko 04:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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