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The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia

A tag has been placed on The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Misplaced Pages:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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you're fast :)--SummerWithMorons 19:23, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Damien Hirsch

A tag has been placed on Damien Hirsch requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Anthropology

Good work on your recent edits to anthropology of religion; I was passing through that article (as well as other articles) a month or so ago to tag them for WikiProject Anthropology, and I found it to be in a somewhat depressing state, so it's great that somebody's taking an interest and improving it. I don't know if you've considered joining WikiProject Anthropology? We collaborate on anthropology articles, and generally flag up issues of concern for people interested in the coverage of anthropology on Misplaced Pages. Our current collaboration of the month is kinship, which in fact includes a reference to Malinowski's Sexual Life of Savages, which I see you've created an article for. Anyway, keep up the good work. Robotforaday (talk) 17:30, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Kinship

Please check the page numbers you are using - I am referring to the original 1929 edition; I have double checked and the page numbers you are giving are not the same as that edition. Perhaps you are using a later copy? I would prefer to use the Misplaced Pages:Citation templates as I feel they are a lot neater, however, I think it would be worth discussing this on Talk:Kinship to try and create a consensus. Robotforaday (talk) 12:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Variation on a theme

You say this is a "fundamental aspect in art history"; why then are your examples literature based? are there any art examples you could include instead? Ironholds (talk) 20:01, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

English 101

What is wrong with this sentence:

"The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book is a satirical article by Paul Krassner, often considered is most successful prank."

And this one:

"Shortly after the death, satirist Paul Krassner published a cartoon illustration, portraying the liberated behavior of the Disney characters, titled The Disneyland Memorial Orgy."

???? IP4240207xx (talk) 20:00, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Nope, you missed it:

Try just this part: "Shortly after the death, satirist Paul Krassner"

IP4240207xx (talk) 20:08, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

People here in Birmingham say it's fine, maybe because they're on acid. --Sum

Alright, I'll try to help you. Is your handle self-descriptive?

The first one:

"The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book is a satirical article by Paul Krassner, often considered is most successful prank."

Should be: 'his'

The second one:

"Shortly after the death, satirist Paul Krassner..."

The death of whom or what? The death of the Krassner? Of the ID? Of the sun?

"Shortly after the death of Walt Disney, satirist Paul Krassner..."

or

"Shortly after Walt Disney's death, satirist Paul Krassner..."

I'll be in my office grading papers throughout the day. Where is my red pencil? IP4240207xx (talk) 20:21, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

May 2008

Welcome to Misplaced Pages, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Misplaced Pages is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. I may agree with a lot of what you edited. But your sources are unreliable and the way you write it looks like NPOV. Sorry Legion fi (talk) 04:54, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to you dear newbie.--Sum (talk) 17:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Roman Catholic Church

FAC has restarted, if you would like to vote, please go here Thanks. NancyHeise (talk) 19:57, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Roman Catholic Church

Hello, you are receiving this message because you voted in the last FAC for this article. Currently, it is undergoing a peer review and I invite you to come view the page and offer any suggestions for improvement here . Over the past three months, the page has been improved with additional scholarly works, trims, two new sections suggested in and attention to concerns raised during the last FAC. Thanks in advance for your time, attention and help to bring this important article to FA. NancyHeise 00:23, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Rita Levi Montalcini

I'm sure you are aware of the discussion at Talk:The Rhetoric of Drugs. As per the official Misplaced Pages verifiability policy, namely Misplaced Pages:Verifiability#Non-English_sources I respectfully request that you (as I assume you speak Italian and has substantial knowledge on the topic) provide a translation of the relevant passages of the source you cited for Rita Levi Montalcini's reaction on Derrida's work. Thank you. --GSchjetne (talk) 15:46, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor

I have nominated Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. JaGa 21:14, 16 October 2008 (UTC) JaGa 21:14, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Heya, I've noticed you've been contributing to articles similar to mine, i.e. related to activist/anarchist people. My article on Bruno Masse is threatened of deletion, could you please vote to keep it? You can vote . In solidarity! Lkeryl (talk) 18:31, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Bruno Masse

AfD discussions should not be edited after their close. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 18:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

About the article's DRV, I responded to your !vote with a question here.--chaser - t 03:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Clark Nardinelli

A tag has been placed on Clark Nardinelli requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Proposed deletion of Work-leisure dichotomy

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Primate at FAC

Hello! As a previous reviewer of Primate at FAC it would be great if you could have another look at the article. The FAC has been restarted, and any comments would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Jack (talk) 17:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

SI and Debord

Hi there, am not convinced by the 'core ideas' section in the SI article. Debord wasn't the main theorist - Jorn was at least as influencial in the SI, especially ideas of Situgraphy etc. Also Wolman Vaneigm and others at different points. also the spectacle is a later development of situationist theory and not central to the SI at all. I think that section at least needs to look at other ideas/ people or be taken out. its all covered in 'key ideas' anyway... Comments? Paki.tv (talk) 19:21, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Paki.tv, good points. Although I may miss some important source, I've always read of Debord as the main contributor, with Vaneigm right after him with is 1967 book. I'd like if you could add some sources on the prominence of the members. The article currently is almost totally unreferenced, particularly the 'key ideas' section which is also not very clear. Since the article is at an early stage of development, I would say that adding referenced material is what it most needs. Probably deletions won't be helpful at the moment, I would just use maintenance tags. So on the topic on the contributions and prominence of the situationist we can find good sources to add. PS. It probably would be helpful to discuss all this on the article talk.--Sum (talk) 20:03, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Joan Thirsk

The article starts rene Joan Watkins Thirsk - is her first name Irene? Mjroots (talk) 17:19, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes.--Sum (talk) 17:22, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Art and politics

Hi, I wonder if you are happy with the changes being made to this article by User:NYScholar who has decided to impose MLA style templates on the article despite requests to try and arrive at consensus. I find that his edits are making the article top-heavy and harder to actually find the online references. Would welcome your opinion on the article talk page. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:17, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Mortal

Greetings!
Your recent edit to List of metonyms included a link to a disambiguation page. The use of these links is discouraged on Misplaced Pages as they are unhelpful to readers. In the future, please check your links to make sure they point to an article. Thanks! twirligig_T to 22:56, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Death of Ian Tomlinson

On 22 April, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Death of Ian Tomlinson, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Orlady (talk) 23:57, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Satire (attacks on)

The introductory paragraph to this section has a simple meaning which you seem to have totally missed.

1. Satire is essentially indirect, and often ironic (see introduction to article as a whole - which HAS references - these do not need to be repeated here).

2. This makes it obscure, so that it usually escapes censorship. (If the cap fits wear it, in other words). This is also treated (and referenced) elsewhere in the article.

3. On the other hand satirists are by no means immune to attack and censorship. (Numerous specific examples given in rest of section).

It is simplistic (and very far from universally true) to state that satire is "against power". Almost anything can be the subject of satire. Nor are the powerful the only people who attack satire (although the attacks of the powerful are obviously much more dangerous).

Nobody is claiming (at least in this paragraph) that satirists censor themselves to avoid criticism (although of course they sometimes have to!) - at least that is not the meaning conveyed here. What we are saying is that satire is essentially veiled - that is what distinguishes satire from plaim abuse!! Again - read the introduction to the article, and try to come to grips with what it actually means, if you can.

--Soundofmusicals (talk) 12:52, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Official culture

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Declaring cite bodies outside of article prose

Regarding your remarks at Mediawiki:Extension talk:Cite#From criticism section: references body in reference sections, if this is still a matter of interest to you please see see Mediawiki:Extension talk:Cite#Cite_body.php modified to allow ref bodies to be declared outside of article prose and Bugzilla:18890. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 07:51, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Aviation regulations

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megalomaniac paranoia

Well, I'm going to remove George Bush from the list of examples, for reasons that are probably obvious. I have doubts about the other names too, but they are more reasonable. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 04:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Reagan

Hi, not a good idea to slap tags on featured articles without any discussion or specifics as to why you did so. Start a discussion first, please. Happyme22 (talk) 17:27, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to make personal attacks on other people, you will be blocked for disruption. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Thank you. --William S. Saturn (talk) 17:55, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Citing WP:Ownership is not a personal attack.--Sum (talk) 17:57, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

You reverted "per WP:ownership", what are you hoping to accomplish with this kind of edit summary? --William S. Saturn (talk) 17:59, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Note (for the record, I'm sure you don't need to be told this) that you're on the threshold of violating 3RR -- any further reverting will lead to a report for edit warring. Looie496 (talk) 18:07, 2 July 2009 (UTC)