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David Kernow

pic vote

You left two votes at the negative poll for Fidel's pic (Talk:Fidel_Castro#More recent lead image). You're only supposed to put in one. Could you with draw one? DirkvdM 18:17, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, SqueakBox 18:34, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Partido Ortodoxo

No problem. The reason they were speedily deleted is because they were redirects to each other, which doesn't really work. Unforunately, the article as it stands is really a substub, and violates my personal editing commandment (which is far from policy). Is there anything you can say about it? Is it a major party? Is it viewed as left or right wing? How long has it been around (even approximately)? Even one more single sentence would improve the article substantially. -R. fiend 14:51, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's substantially better. The difference between a stub and a substub can be small, but important. Now let's hope someone adds more to it. As for making a cuban political stub, well, I've never made a stub category, and haven't been keeping track of who does that sort of thing. I've turned it into a cuba-stub though, assuming a it will more likely be expanded by those interested in Cuba than those interested in politics in general. -R. fiend 16:49, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hubble Deep Field

I have replied to all your comments on my talk page. Regards, Majts 06:40, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Castro

Hello. I note you have recently reverted this article to include a comment about Castro's father, so I'd be grateful to know your response to Irrelevant / POV comment? Thanks! David Kernow 01:48, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You can edit out/rephrase that if you want, I was mainly concerned with other parts of the article. Thank you. CJK 01:54, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Chat

I've been looking at my watch list and I see that you've been messing around with some of the my articles, such as Tommy Olivencia, Tito Lara and my 300th article Jerry Rivera. Who do you think you are? Just joking, I think that you've done an excellent job and I wanted to thank you. Keep up the good work, I can see in your contributions that you will be an asset to the Wiki project. Take care Tony the Marine 06:10, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks Tony, for your generous comments. I came by the articles on Tommy Olivencia et al as part of the Disambiguation project, thought they were well-compiled, so decided to add the wikifications etc. Glad to see them appreciated; hope you don't now feel burdened because some appear in red...

Best wishes, David Kernow 18:19, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fowles British/English

I see you reverted my edit making John Fowles British rather than English. I don't dispute that he was English, but isn't that somewhat too specific. England is not considered a separate nation/country. Yes, Fowles wrote novels in the English language, but so did Mark Twain yet he's an American novelist. Fowles was a British subject who wrote novels, ergo, a British novelist. Am I missing something? BTW, it still appears as "a English novelist". Cheers JackofOz 12:48, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I think I changed Fowles' designation from British to English as an afterthought, having in the next sentence indicated that Essex is in England. (I didn't realise it was a reversion.) I really don't mind which it is, so have reinstated British once again. Hope that is okay. Apologies for the typo I overlooked.

Best wishes, David Kernow 13:00, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

IU Page

Thanks for the Indiana University page. It is bad enough that Indiana University of Pennsylvania has sweatshirts that say "INDIANA" much like IU, but then add "University of Pennsylvania" in fine print.

Isaac Stern article

Re your removing the {{musician-stub}} from this article, I feel it is a stub as (with the exception of mentioning Carnegie Hall) nothing particular is said about his career before 1979 or from 1980 until his death. That's a period of 63 or so years! What do you think? Best wishes, David Kernow 14:55, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

While the article certainly has room for expansion, (for example adding a complete discography, finding a representaive picture or two, etc.) it contains all the essential information about him and it's slightly more than a stub in length and content. In other words in the context of the WP 1.0 calssification scheme, it's graduated from a stub article to start article, but there is still Class-B, Class-A, and ultimately Featured Article status to reach. The article has reached the end of the beginning, but it still has a long way to go before it reaches the beginning of the end. Caerwine 16:24, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your words of wisdom, Caerwine! David Kernow 18:46, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please use preview

It is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thanks! Regards, howcheng [ t  c  w  e ] 01:05, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reminder, howcheng. Unfortunately Wikipedia's recent refresh/upload difficulties have made me start using the "Save" rather than "Preview" button too often. I will work to undo this habit. Best wishes, David Kernow 01:45, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Priscilla Davis nn-bio

Hi, I have removed the {{nn-bio}} from Priscilla Davis, since a google search reveals enough non-wikipedia mirror content. See [1] & [2] for instance. If you still have reservations, nominate it at AFD if you think it does not meet the criterion at WP:BIO.(I think it does). regards, --Pamri • Talk 06:49, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message, Pamri. I placed speedy-deletes on Priscilla Davis, Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr as together with T. Cullen Davis they seemed to be forming a self-referential circle with no outside encyclopaedic interest. T. Cullen Davis was the one article that seemed to have wider encyclopaedic interest, so I left that intact. I see now that MacGyverMagic has converted the Priscilla Davis et al articles into redirects to T. Cullen Davis, a far better solution. So I will now visit his/her talk page to thank them in turn! Best wishes, David Kernow 03:39, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Glad I could help. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:43, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ID

Can you explain your ratonale for the move at Talk:Intelligent design? Thanks. Guettarda 22:37, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the entry I made here. Best wishes, David Kernow 22:42, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Be that as it may, you still need to make the case to the active editors on the page if you want a conversation that can result in consensus. RM isn't like VFD - the conversation takes place on the talk page. Guettarda 22:48, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. I have done as you suggest. Thanks, David Kernow 22:50, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Guettarda 22:53, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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