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21:37, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

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A page that you joined to help with associate with other members of the Wikipedia community is on VfD. Please see

09:53, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm slightly skeptical about your choice to add a cleanup tag to the Banana slug article, I'll be open minded about how we can improve the article. In any case, it would be helpful if you described what needs to be cleaned up on the article's talk page. Thanks! — Ambush Commander(Talk) 22:09, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

APA reference templates

Thanks for your comments regarding my use of the book reference template. It's very clear that you understand the relevant concerns at a far greater level of detail than I do, and I certainly accept your judgement on these matters. It will take me a while to fully digest your explanation and to examine the policy pages you cite. (I had looked at some of them a few months ago, but it looks like some of the discussion/explanation has been expanded since then.) If it would be wise to revert or adjust the change I made to use

Template:Book reference
you or someone else should go ahead and do it.

I think if there are deficiencies in the template that these should repaired if possible. Editions for chess references is an interesting issue. In most cases that I know of, the edition isn't particularly important since we don't generally give page or even chapter references in chess articles, and most chess books change relatively little between editions. In important cases where the edition really does matter, it's often part of the title, as with Modern Chess Openings. The one area where I think it could really help is chess books that have been reprinted for many years. For example,

descriptive chess notation, so it is very much out of date. (It's certainly still interesting from a historical perspective, and some parts are still relevant.) It would be useful to be able to indicate that the book was originally printed in 1948, but today you will find it easier to get an essentially identical 1990 copy with this ISBN. Quale
17:04, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

References

At Henry Darger, you moved the "Further reading" into the "References" section. "References" are materials actually consulted in the writing of the article. I added some of the "Further reading" listings myself, but I can tell you in all honesty that I have not read them. If you've actually consulted them and used them in the article, or if policy about these headings has changed and I missed it, please let me know. Otherwise, I think this edit was wrong and should be reverted. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:01, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Hi there,
Actually, this is a tricky issue since the
References vs Further Reading
for ensamples of confusion over the matter.)
First, in "
Why are references so important
", we have:
  • To credit a source for providing useful information.
  • To provide more information or further reading.
Then, in
Citations in the text
:
"Under the ==References== heading, list the complete reference information as a bulleted (*) list, one per reference work.
...
It is often preferable to have a few general references to authoritative overviews of a subject, such as textbooks and review articles, rather than a large number of specific in-text citations for individual facts."
Together, these guidelines seem to suggest one to include both direct information sources and general references in a References section. In the argument cited above, it's clear that some users disagree or are unsure. One could interpret the Style guidelines to imply that if your article is empirically sound and perfectly balanced, it should agree with the general, authoritative resources on the matter, and therefore—ideally—it shouldn't necessary to separate works cited and general references. However, that is not my personal contention. Pragmatic Wikipedians (myself included) routinely elect to separate these materials, but they do so inconsistently. Some users understand References to mean "further reading", and use Sources instead of References; others understand References to mean Sources, and therefore apply it alongside Further reading (as was the case here). When weighing these two approaches, consider that the
Cite sources
page itself employs a References section replete with general references. For these and other reasons, I have no qualms about putting standard texts into References.
Therefore, for the case in point, I would recommend leaving all book citations in References, and moving the Schjeldahl article to External links. There are very few books in English on Darger, and no one knows much about him; every biography and treatise in the list at this point is a standard text. Finally, in answer to your question: yes, I am personally familiar with some of the source materials cited in the References section. — Ringbang 06:17, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

You added the AFD tag to The Dumpy Downie Duo article but didn't carry out the other steps. I have done that for you. You can discuss the potential deletion here. --TheParanoidOne 22:58, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, TheParanoidOne, I never got back to that one. — Ringbang 14:09, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Sugar Pine

I just saw your addition to

Sugar Pine. Thanks for that and for your other contributions to Wikipedia. Cheers, -Willmcw
22:26, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the kind words! Likewise, I was really glad to see your contributions concerning naturalism and native Californian tribal cultures. The photos are gorgeous as well. — Ringbang 17:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Grundig

You changed my edit that the Grundig brand is owned by Eton only in the US back to its original, innacurate form. Alba/Beko own the brandname everywhere else, and operate a company behind it, so I'm reverting --Kiand 18:07, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

You caught me in the middle of a revision. Several recent updates to this article disrupted the chronology. I've revised and merged-in the changes, along with a more detailed description of the roles of Eton, Alba, and Beko. Please take any further discussion of the
Talk:Grundig AG. — Ringbang
21:18, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

roar

R, Your cleanup of roar was indeed helpful. It's been something of combination disabig page and actual article for quite a while. that said, I have to ask where you put the content of the article part? I can't seem to locate it. ww 22:53, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

National Missionary Baptist Convention of America

Hi. I noticed that you added the confusing tag to the National Missionary Baptist Convention of America article. When you have a chance, would you post any suggestions you might have on the Talk:National Missionary Baptist Convention of America page. Thanks. - Rlvaughn 02:47, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Done. – Ringbang 16:00, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll take a look at your comments, and see if I can help the article in any way. - Rlvaughn 00:43, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

New user box

Hello Ringbang, It's SWD316. Im giving you the user box for your user page called Template:User Member. It's a user box that says your a member of the AWWDMBJ.... Hope you like it! — Moe ε 03:54, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

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23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Re:Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I've been a member for like a year, and although I should have labeled it as "sources" instead of "external links" I still linked where I got it from and put copyright violations in quotes.

Fake edit: Okay, I just compared said articles. I did plagiarize. At the time I did not understand the Wikipedia. Thanks for the heads up. --Snafuu 22:10, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Offenbach

Hi, I'm writing to explain why I have reverted Offenbach to the version with French capitalization of the titles.

The reason for this is that we are using French (German, Italian etc.) capitalization (consistently) for opera titles. The guidlelines for operas are explained on the Opera Project main page Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera. As you will have seen we are using some English titles and those obviously follow English capitalization rules. Regards.

Kleinzach 17:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the note. However, I didn't change the capitalization from French to English form, I corrected the use of French capitalization. Please read the note I wrote about it on Talk:Jacques Offenbach; I think you'll find that my corrections are appropriate for the French language. – Ringbang 17:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I have now replied to your comment on the Offenbach talk page. While I agree with the (American?) writer on the About.com page about there being different ways of capitalizing French, I think if you look at what we have been doing - over some time and many pages - you will see that we have been using one of them.

We follow the French style used by the publishers Macmillan & Co. when they produced the

New Grove Dictionary of Opera
. That is our reference. We are not trying to invent anything new here.

Hope that is clearer now. Regards.

Kleinzach 17:37, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I see you have also changed

Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Opera Corpus
page I have been writing! Is there anything else you have changed? Can you please let me know.

Kleinzach 18:06, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

MA Userbox

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Eddy Grant

  • Is your username a reference to the "new genre" of island music created by Eddy Grant? Just wondering. Best, tomasz. 14:17, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes, you've got it. Although I like ringbang music and soca, I was especially inspired by the way Grant described ringbang as a feeling and not just a music genre. Ringbang (talk) 23:51, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Frenemy AfD

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Regarding your "bonobo" edit

Please find me the citation that the idea that bonobos are a "third human" is widely accepted. That's what I thought: there aren't any. All this was, was a publicity stunt by chimpanzee researchers seeking to gain focus for preservation efforts. And while preservation efforts are laudable, marketing is NOT science.

SCIENCE shows that humans and chimpanzees are LESS similar than previously thought:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-chimp-gene-gap-wide

So, if you don't like a "tacked on" balancing point of view, I suggest you rewrite the entire section, noting that ideas of chimpanzees as "humans" are nowhere near scientific consensus or validity.

Ryoung122 17:04, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi there. You sound very, very angry. Did you write the content in question? I appreciate that, like me, you have a love for science and the pursuit of an increasingly accurate understanding of the most fascinating subject of all: life. Rewriting the section to be more accurate and cohesive in its entirety sounds like a great idea. — Ringbang (talk) 01:06, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

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