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Hello! Your submission of Ervin Marton at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:34, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello! Your submission of Ervin Marton at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:33, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

It is important that you stop by the nomination page and address the issues raised there. It would be a shame for this submission, which needs only a few things for approval and is such a good article, to fail because no response was made. Thank you for your time. BlueMoonset ( talk) 02:03, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your encouragement. Have changed the hook and made minor corrections to cites as noted on the comment page; not sure if I caught everything the reviewer was thinking of. Parkwells ( talk) 20:32, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

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		For careful copyediting on the controversial John Yoo and Torture Memo pages where every sentence has been hard fought, which improved their grammar, syntax and spelling, without affecting their substance, balance or neutrality. ElijahBosley (talk ☞) 15:36, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

On 27 January 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ervin Marton, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Ervin Marton, an internationally known Hungarian photographer based in Paris, was part of the French Resistance during World War II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ervin Marton. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

 —  Crisco 1492 ( talk) 00:02, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Is there a page number about the 1966 exhibition in the article on Tihanyi? I waded through the article a couple of times but didn't find one. Anyway, it seems counterproductive to remove links to the artists' colony: we're obviously going to have an article on it at some point (there are whole books about it, as well as an article in Grove Art), summarizing its achievements in one place rather than repeating that summary in each of the artists' biographies, and a removed red link just means someone will have to go back and re-add it. - Biruitorul ^Talk 18:44, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

It was in a footnote at the bottom of a page; not sure if it had a page; will add it if so. Good point about the colony; that was why I had the links, too; will restore them. Parkwells ( talk) 18:52, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm going to move this discussion to the Browder v. Gayle page so that it's available to more readers. Maybe someone will know the answer. Parkwells ( talk) 20:59, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry it's taken so long. Dougweller ( talk) 06:37, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Can we leave in the commentary on journal articles? It's important to be clear that Yates is fringe, eg the first Ancient American article discusses his claim that Cherokee culture is related to Greek, Jewish, Phoenician and Egyptian culture - or can we have a para on this instead perhaps? Dougweller ( talk) 16:17, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I was trying to figure out how to approach that, too. (It's clear how he went about family research: the Yates and Cooper names are in the Jewish cemetery. Deleted it - that's not how you do research, picking and choosing names.) I think it might be better to have it covered in the article. Has anyone reliable commented on his articles or books? What kind of journal is Ancient American? What about his book that "Scotland was Jewish"? So many articles are about consumer embrace of new ethnic identity. Parkwells ( talk) 16:27, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

A collection of Ancient American articles was edited by Frank Joseph (a former editor of the magazine who has also written about Atlantis) and Zechariah Sitchin. It's diffusionist -- "they all came to America and brought civilization". Inherently racist. [1], [2], [3]. Dougweller ( talk) 16:50, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Owner is an LDS member, Wayne May. Dougweller ( talk) 16:52, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for your contribution in few Bangladesh related articles. Beside my own job, it is very problemetic to manage huge time to enrich these articles and fighting against vandals. I wish you will continue your contribution on these article.-- Freemesm ( talk) 13:36, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

You have broken three references here, can you fix them please as I do not have the time to go through your edits to see which ones got messed up. Darkness Shines ( talk) 23:29, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm very sorry, but have been through it more than once and can't find those references at all. I don't think factual material (for instance, the announcement of a conviction or sentence, which is not disputed) needs multiple sources anyway, but don't recall removing any, either. I've been adding content (names of the suspects and cites, ID for named people all readers may not know), cites, and filling out bare urls. Will try again. Parkwells ( talk) 23:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Parkwells. As you have been working (a lot) on the Torture Memos page I thought I should bring to your attention an unexplained page move which has retitled it, that I have asked the Arbitration Committee to review and undo. ElijahBosley ^{(talk ☞)} 14:33, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Dear Parkwells, I've seen your copy edit in few of Bangladesh related articles. Can I invite you to copy edit Mahmudur Rahman's article? This article seems a pile of news, can you please arrange it's body according to encyclopedic manner? Thanks in advance. FreemesM (talk) 16:01, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot dear Parkwells. Great job indeed. Could you please teach me the way of quick c/e?-- FreemesM ^(talk) 06:11, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey, I was reading your excellent work on the Jefferson–Hemings controversy this morning and thinking of nominating it for Good Article status. Would you have any strong objections? I'll be glad to take care of whatever issues arise in the course of the nomination if you don't feel like diving into it again. Thanks for all the effort you put into this one. -- Khazar2 ( talk) 15:19, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Parkwells, I see you've been improving the article on the Creole case. I am trying to create a page on a similar incident a few years earlier, when a coastwise slave ship called the Enterprise was forced into Bermuda by bad weather, and quick action by the locals compelled the release of slaves she was carrying. Would you take a look and suggest improvements etc? It's currently awaiting review at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Enterprise_%28slave_ship%29 Thanks RLamb ( talk) 22:50, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help with the layout and wording, much clearer. RLamb ( talk) 12:03, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Glad to help - will look again and make suggestions on what you might add, what questions seem unanswered. These stories are so heartening; hope in the middle of so much misery. It was great that you found that 1855 British settlement - the Creole article had some statement about a settlement, but no date or source. Parkwells ( talk) 12:07, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I tripped over your feet while trying to insert an image - always a bridge too far for me. Have now deleted image; you may want to check I didn't accidentally delete any of your changes.

Yes, I was pretty pleased with myself for tracking down the settlement, though I can't find it listed in U.S. Treaties and am not sure I have its title correctly. Please keep a friendly eye on this - it needs more. I would like both articles to give due credit to the involvement of Bahamians, Bermudans and Jamaicans in pushing change along. Sometimes it sounds like it's just lofty far-off diplomats deciding things. RLamb ( talk) 13:29, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Found the 1853 claims treaty and added it (and cite - luckily in googlebooks), plus info about the resulting claims commission, which met for about two years to settle awards. I agree with emphasizing the roles of people on the islands; that's what gives me such pleasure in these stories - seeing them help others get freedom. It captures the imagination. The local magistrates and judges were quick to act, too, as noted in the article in . At first I was going to recommend just using the African Depository source, as it was more complete, but the Salem Gazette on Rootsweb had a few additional details, i.e. the ship came from Washington, DC (which had a major market), although both reprinted parts of the NY Journal of Commerce article, which appeared to be a reprint of a Bermuda Royal Gazette article. Parkwells ( talk) 14:21, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

We may also find a way to use this material in articles on those islands, slavery in the Caribbean, or other ways. Will take a look. Parkwells ( talk) 18:36, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

The article is so improved it's almost unrecognisable! Thanks a lot, especially for nailing exactly which act covered the compensation. When I have a bit more leisure I shall study how you improved the references. I love it when it's possible to direct someone to a source online :) RLamb ( talk) 10:23, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Glad to help - you introduced me to a compelling topic. I was disappointed to come across some reference that said that, after Ashburton's advice to the Governors of the colonies about 1842, the US did not have so many complaints. Will have to try to find out more. One of the articles had headlined the Enterprise incident as "Another Seizure in Bermuda", so will have to research more. Parkwells ( talk) 14:44, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Have moved other discussion to the Enterprise (slave ship) Talk page, as sources, etc. may be useful to other readers. Parkwells ( talk) 18:20, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

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All fixed. Parkwells ( talk) 13:19, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Parkwells, could you please help to c/e the Mahmudur Rahman article again? Due to current events a large scale change done there and it it seems not arranged according to WP:MOS. A non-encyclopedic emphasis was provided on MR's arrest and defaming government and court. Could you please take a look? Both me and another editor Crtew are welcoming you [ [4]]. Thanks in advance. -- FreemesM ^(talk) 12:27, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Please fix this error you introduced "charged with sedition in 2009, 2010, and 2012". You've confused defamation and sedition. He was charged with sedition only in 2010 and 2012. He was charged with defamation in all of those years above, but he was also charged with defamation in 2011. Crtew ( talk) 17:23, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Done; you could have fixed the error, but thanks for the notice. Parkwells ( talk) 12:47, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Fixed and deleted notice. Parkwells ( talk) 19:02, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

I am doing some work on the article Archaeology of Igbo-Ukwu and would like permission to remove your template for merger. I am not quite done with the article, I think it needs copy editing as it is somewhat disjointed, I have been concentrating so far on adding relevant information in synopsis and adding references. Would be grateful for any help. Ochiwar ( talk) 15:26, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Agree with removing template and keeping articles separate. More at Talk page of article. Parkwells ( talk) 20:06, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

They are beautiful cars built in the 1915-1929 period. Only 150 were built and none are known to exist. No mention on Wikipedia but I found this article: Greenfield Bus Body company. I started Frederick Patterson's page but I'm pretty bad at setting up a page from scratch. Are the pictures in the article public domain being so old or has Coachbuilt gained some copyright over them being on their page?

I especially like this car. Alatari ( talk) 19:32, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Very cool, but I suspect Coachbuilt has the copyright to the photos. You might find photos in Library of Congress collections online, which are public domain. Will be glad to help with the Patterson article; should also be one for his father. They might have bios at the "Black Past" website started by a Univ. of Washington professor. Impressive men. Interesting to see the different ways men entered the auto industry - blacksmiths, carriage builders/manufacturers, curtain/drapery repair. Parkwells ( talk) 20:10, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

See << http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/c-r-patterson-sons-company-1893-1939 C.R. Patterson & Sons Company", Black Past>> Parkwells ( talk) 16:22, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

I worked on Frederick Patterson's article tonight with my IP account. I should have logged in but the temptation to go to the watchlist and lose 6 more hours of my life is too great. I added a selection of sources on the talk page. The one 1980 newspaper article has some distinct differences in details. The book about Black Masons is likely the prime source for most the other sources. Yeah, Charles is a notable man of history and needs his article along with the company article. Frederick was a Republican and knew Booker T and worked on getting Harding elected and supposedly is the first black athlete at Ohio State. Alatari ( talk) 08:43, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I can't quite figure out which Episcopal church Frederick was in. Was it the AME or the white church? His wife was maybe white (the 1980 newspaper said there was a stir about their marriage) and Methodists were abolitionist very early and it would be interesting if he was a member of his wifes church. Her name is messed up and given in three different forms of Qutz, Utz or Outz. Alatari ( talk) 08:45, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. Parkwells ( talk) 19:03, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I see you agree with me (unsurprisingly) that User:Ngunalik's source for the presence and suppression of Black Hebrews in Uganda is unreliable. He is pushing the same claim with the same source in the article Acholi people; I've deleted it and I've informed him about policies, but I just don't have the time to watch the article and conduct the long discussion-cum-edit-war that is sure to follow (there seems to be a lot that isn't clear to him). Could you possibly keep an eye on his actions with respect to that article as well? Greetings, -- Anonymous44 ( talk) 17:07, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for returning to the discussion. It's hard to know if the editor has looked at the guidelines. Have tried to find other sources as well. Bruder doesn't mention the Acholi at all - zip. Parkwells ( talk) 19:06, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

You've suddenly started editing the abovementioned article in a manner inconsistent with policy. I'm not sure if you've violated 3RR yet, but I would think you are close. You would be the second editor in 2 weeks that I have had to take to An/I over POV pushing on the article. I would suggest you discuss any proposed changes to the lead on the article talk page first. The lead is a long-standing consensus based text that reflects the content of the article.-- Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 07:26, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Something went wrong with your last edits to the Talk page of the article, as I noticed that neither the text nor your signature was showing up. I wanted to post the Amaon link to the book mentioned on my Talk page under your post, so tried reversing the order of passages, with some success, but it is still not right. If you know how to fix it, please do.-- Ubikwit ^連絡 _{見学/迷惑} 15:09, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm baffled, too. It had happened earlier, and I can't figure it out. Parkwells ( talk) 15:27, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in the above topic.

Looking at your edit of 10 May [at 19.19] - after "Models of circumcised male organs were found at Great Zimbabwe", I wonder if it might be worth retaining the portion: "(the Lemba appear to have introduced that practice into southern Africa)" - because Gayre was trying to make the point that there was evidence of a connection between GZim and the Lemba. [You have left the ((ref name="Junod"/)), which as it stands now is not really appropriate to the previous sentence]. Regards, -- DLMcN ( talk) 07:20, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the message (and for re-inserting that sentence) ... Have you actually visited Great Zimbabwe? [or some of the other ancient ruins there, like Nalatale). -- DLMcN ( talk) 16:11, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

No, I haven't been able to go there, but looked up as many photos as I could find after reading the articles on WP related to it. I am increasingly fascinated by these ancient places and thinking about what people created. Parkwells ( talk) 16:36, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed dabs and deleted notice. Parkwells ( talk) 14:57, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed and deleted. Parkwells ( talk) 20:48, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

c/e

I'd like to thank you for your many invaluable edits to the history of Chełmno extermination camp. It was in a bad shape when I first approached it on 22 April 2013 with further expansion, from 24,103 bytes to 39,981 bytes a month later. I'd like to encourage you also to take your time, and make sure that little errors are not reintroduced (as in the case of Kafka's own sister). Some errors were also introduced with your edit to reception of the film Shoah (film), but I will wait till your finished to avoid any potential confusion. Great job, by the way... And thanks for the c/e to the Chełmno Trials. I will submit it to WP:DYK today as intended. All best, Poeticbent talk 18:47, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Wow, you did a great job - I could see that much work had been added. Thanks for your comments - an excellent example of how to add suggestions, by the way. Will look again - Kafka's sister was there; all I did was move her to what seemed to be a more logical place, and intended to double check that, as well as some other things. Parkwells ( talk) 22:03, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hi! Apparently, a disgruntled former member tried to edit this article according to his/her perspective, resulting in a poorly formatted attack. I put a band-aid on it, but was unable to restore the reflist, which I see as the worst problem. (The whole thing is a general mess, though.) Your expertise there would help should you care to dabble. Best wishes, Yopienso ( talk) 17:38, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi, how are you doing? Thanks for thinking of me (I guess). What a mess, is right. May take it on later. I know of no easy way to fix the reflist stuff than to redo every cite under that format - the notes will follow automatically, with their own numbering. Parkwells ( talk) 18:11, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm great, thanks. Have a new grandson--that makes three: two girls and a boy, unevenly distributed among our three children.

You're a whiz of an editor, but that's a low-priority article you may not care to invest your time in. Maybe the easiest thing for the reflist is to go back to a previous version of the article and then add/subtract narrative to/from it. I don't really have the time or inclination to do that. Thanks for making the block quotes, which is probably what the IP intended to do, not knowing how to use colons to indent. Take care. Yopienso ( talk) 20:27, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for your copyedits at Guatemala, History of Guatemala, and Guatemalan Civil War. Copyediting is under-appreciated work and I think you've done a good job of increasing clarity and brevity while preserving meaning. I also note with appreciation your edits at Franz Kafka :-) !!! groupuscule ( talk) 19:43, 30 May 2013 (UTC) P.S. Do you read Spanish?

Hi, thanks. I got into the Guatemala topics while applying resources to Wikipedia of the World Digital Library (e.g. learning about and adding the influence of Belgium in Guatemala 1840-1854) as part of that project (you may be interested in that). Had only a couple of years of Spanish, so my reading skills are limited. Depends on the subject. I'm decent at reading French. Parkwells ( talk) 13:21, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

I signed up for the WDL project too but instead of being constructive like you I posted a long rant to the Project talk page :-)... frustrated about WP:Systemic bias issues. (BTW: good info on the Belgium/Guatemala question seems hard to come by, but here is a relevant dissertation; check out p.126&128 in particular. Santo Tomás de Castilla sounds like it was a pretty rough place to colonize...) Asked about Spanish because I found you at the Guatemala page... and am seeking Spanish readers who want to assist with research about Jacobo Timerman. I'll keep in mind that you're a Francophone. groupuscule ( talk) 23:36, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

I know what you mean about the systemic bias, but am just trying to do what I can. While the WDL background material on the item related to Guatemala wasn't lengthy, adding it gave a perspective lacking in those articles on Guatemala. I thought it was signficant for showing the international connections at the time. That's why I added it to those several articles related to Guatemala and Santo Tomas in the 1840s. Parkwells ( talk) 13:00, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I surely did not mean to disparage the contributions of hardworking editors like you (and Sarah, for that matter). I agree that the Belgium connection is relevant... and I'm really not interested in deleting material created based on WDL sources. Counterproductive! My concern has more to do with the selection and presentation of items in the WDL itself. WP:CSB is the mission :-)

I love that you jumped into the article on Timerman, and it looks like you've already done some great work there. The question about citizenship/nationality has revealed some new parts of the story... as if it wasn't wild enough already! (Did Timerman spend years more as an exile in Uruguay after crossing Carlos Menem?) I agree with you also on the need for more information on JT's publishing efforts in the 1950s, and on his connection to Graiver. groupuscule ( talk) 14:34, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks - had read about Timerman, and of course reading more made me even more curious. I can make out some in that article - poor man! They wouldn't leave him alone, even though he was ill and retired. Will get back to it. Parkwells ( talk) 15:03, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi, have made some more additions to Timerman and related Argentine figure articles. Using "Translate this page" after learning more about the issues, I can work with articles in Spanish. Added some political context to the events after his death, as this was important. Parkwells ( talk) 15:36, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Fixed and deleted bracket notices. Parkwells ( talk) 14:50, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Fixed and deleted. Parkwells ( talk) 21:49, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Hey. I noticed you made a few edits to the Arkansas Post page and I've been working on a few related articles. What would you think about moving Arkansas Post National Memorial to a new page dedicated solely to the historical settlement ( Arkansas Post (Historical Settlement)?), while keeping a separate page for the memorial itself? I'm planning to do an overhaul of the page soon anyway (just organizing some sources) and the page mostly discusses the history of the settlement anyway instead of the actual memorial. I posted on the article's talk page about it, so feel free to reply there or here with your input/opinion. Samuel Peoples ( talk) 18:31, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Update: The article has been moved to a new page at Arkansas Post. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places for move reason. Samuel Peoples ( talk) 08:57, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Fixed and deleted. Parkwells ( talk) 22:48, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Paterson (automobile) was there two separate Patterson auto manufacturers producing vehicles in the same decade? These and the P-Greenfield cars from Ohio? That has got to confuse things. 97.85.168.22 ( talk) 03:42, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, apparently there were, which is why the Pattersons in Ohio became identified in histories as Patterson-Greenfield, to help differentiate them. Parkwells ( talk) 15:11, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

On 21 June 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arkansas Post, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Arkansas Post was relocated at least three times during its existence because of both war and flooding? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arkansas Post. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Fixed. Parkwells ( talk) 17:14, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

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Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:02, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Hey hey hey hey Parkwells! You are a great editor and fun to work with. You also seem knowledgeable about Reconstruction Era history. Maybe you'd have some interest in reviewing the newly revised 40 acres and a mule article? Aloha, ~ groupuscule ( talk) 19:19, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Sure, thanks. Will look at it - I came across a couple of books that discussed the dramatic rate of black ownership of land in Mississippi after the war - through private initiative, clearing and buying leased land. Parkwells ( talk) 13:02, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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All fixed. Parkwells ( talk) 12:12, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. Parkwells ( talk) 23:45, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Fixed; deleted notice. Parkwells ( talk) 22:03, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Fixed; deleted notice. Parkwells ( talk) 21:48, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

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article, I am wondering why you put Ohkay Owingeh in italics? Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 23:40, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

To indicate that it was another language than English. Parkwells ( talk) 18:38, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

To me, I guess, the name of a place in the US is always in English, or something. like that. Carptrash ( talk) 13:54, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for helping expand it. I've nominated it (and two other articles) for DYK here. ~ Hue Sat Lum 02:08, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits to Camp Douglas. This was one of the first articles, if not the first, to which I made significant edits. I have thought it probably needed cleaning up, but it can be hard to go back to an article on which one has spent considerable time. Usually, I go back to review an article a few times soon after I write or significantly edit it, but after awhile it fades from thought unless some changes show up on my watchlist. I hope I would do a better job today, at least with the tone. I was actually a little surprised that I had picked up some POV words and thoughts from Levy or used them even if I came up with them.

Levy's book is one of the few that I have used as a source that I do not own or could not get online, either free or through Questia. As I recall, he resides in the Chicago area.

He is a lawyer, not an academic historian. The generally positive comments in the review you linked shows that his book was rather good and was well received, at least by the reviewer. I did not think his POV was extreme and I tried to balance that with other sources. I don't recall that he had other books on the Civil War, so it is not surprising he has lower visibility.

Levy made a few mistakes but they did not affect the overall value of his book. He was not aware that the "rank" date of a Civil War brevet general may have had very little coincidence with the confirmation date, even the appointment date, especially for the omnibus appointments that ranked from March 1865 but were not made until 1866 or even later in some cases. So he should not have been surprised that Sweet was not referred to as a general near the end of the war - because that appointment had not been confirmed, probably not even made, at that time.

The review of Levy's book, although only one long paragraph, hits many of his high points and does a good job. Levy also makes the point that the camp was located in a very bad place, low lying with bad drainage, and should have been moved. That was proposed at least once, as I recall. It was difficult to clean it up or upgrade it where it was located. Also, the conditions and treatment of the prisoners was not uniform over time. They both got better and worse depending on the commander and the circumstances. Some improvements were made, but others could have been made. Some downgrading in treatment or diet could have been avoided.

The article originally relied in part on the History Channel documentary. I have seen that program. It is reasonably good but I wanted to eliminate citations to it. It also has been the subject of a little POV pushing. Someone was trying to gradually soften some of the wording. I ultimately let a few of those edits go but finally had to stand up for the fact that it was a bad place and there was little excuse for it - except perhaps revenge for actual or suspected treatment of Union prisoners, which is noted. That's a reason, but not really an excuse. Some of the characterization words may have come from Levy or his opinions but some may have been my way of transitioning - such as from what might appear to have been the case to what the source, Levy or another, more convincing says. I am more attuned to this now and I think I would be unlikely to use such words, at least not very often.

I tried to keep some of the much shorter article which exited prior to my edits but I think I did omit or change some things that were unsourced or did not quite fit into the new section structure I used.

I believe that Hoffman had some oversight of Camp Douglas before he became commissary general of prisoners. I think he may have been stationed outside Washington, DC. Detroit comes to mind. He may have had some sort of regional position. I cannot recall and I wanted to write to you before looking for more information, in case I found none or was delayed I will try to find something on Hoffman's previous tenure, although I probably will need to go to the library if I need to find something in Levy's book, unless there is an excerpt on line.

I think that prisoners were made to work in many camps. I think they were "paid" in some way, but clearly it was not much. I think there was some sort of restriction on work but I will have to do a little research to see if there was any formal restriction or convention. I have a couple other books which might have something on this. I will look.

You are right that some of the bad conditions existed due to ignorance. The fact that Union soldiers died at Camp Douglas when they were training there or when the group that was awaiting exchange had to live there for a few months, and even some of the guards suffered, is a good indication of this. If this point is not made clearly enough, perhaps I can find a source that could be added.

When I saw the readability scale several days ago, I thought I would run a few of my articles through it. Because this one is long, it was done when I was new to editing and I had some thought it might have ended up a little dense, I put the article through the readability test. I was surprised, and actually a little pleased, that it had a decent readability score.

I justified the length of the article, to myself, on the basis that the camp had several uses, several commanders and many changes over time. There also were a number of incidents that seemed worth recording. I also wanted to cover the points in the History Channel show, which I had seen not long before I worked on the article. I also found it difficult to summarize some points because they changed over time.

I am quite glad that you have done such a fine job of editing the article. It relieves me from a nagging feeling that I should go back and clean it up. (One or two of my other early efforts probably need the same treatment.) I will look for sources on the points raised. I have gone on at some length but it is an interesting subject and the article did need some additional light. Donner60 ( talk) 03:20, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

My guess about Hoffman was wrong. According to the Wikipedia article on Hoffman, he was taken prisoner in Texas at the start of the war and did not assume his office in Washington until August 1862. He had been promoted to colonel while a prisoner but that does not affect his ability to perform his duties. So the text was a poorly lumped together statement. Donner60 ( talk) 05:18, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

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Is "Recognised" suitable to describe English on the Brunei info-box in regards to this Section 2 of Article 82 on the Country's Constitution?

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Section 2 - An official version in the English language shall be provided of anything which, by this Constitution or by any written law or by the Standing Orders, is required to be printed or in writing, and such version shall, in addition to the official Malay version, be accepted as an authentic text. Alevero987 ( talk) 23:04, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

That sounds like a good way to treat it - also recognized as an official language for written materials. I hadn't noticed that - good point! Parkwells ( talk) 14:47, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Okay :). So you're basically saying yes right? Alevero987 ( talk) 15:25, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes - don't know if there is some standard way to deal with this, but it makes sense. Parkwells ( talk) 19:55, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Okay, and the Constitution of Brunei is the Basic law of Brunei? Alevero987 ( talk) 09:12, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

I'm no expert and am just starting to work on this myself. Parkwells ( talk) 17:55, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Cite error: The named reference <ref name="New York Times"/> was invoked but never defined. Please fix. -- Frze ^{> talk} 07:29, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Done. Also have found new material on publication of his manuscript. Parkwells ( talk) 14:44, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

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It's fixed - the name was a long reference, and I had a typo from the original. Parkwells ( talk) 22:27, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

This edit is bad. It's shown in several sources that Memorial Hospital merged with Sloan Kettering to form Memorial Sloan Kettering http://www.mskcc.org/. Andrevan @ 22:03, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, was trying to get the wording accurate, as his obit in the NY Times said he was also the scientific director of Sloan-Kettering at the time of his death, so was trying to track the institutional and title changes. (Somehow the obit recently seems corrupted, so is hard to access.) Parkwells ( talk) 22:20, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

That's weird. It might be an error in the obit, I think I have a letter from the American Philosophical Society which may not be cited about this, I can try to find it. But it should be possible to find it in a source about Sloan Kettering, not strictly from Rhoads' mouth. It was originally Memorial Hospital that he worked at, then when the hospital merged with Sloan-Kettering, he became the director. Andrevan @ 22:29, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

here is the obit - I see what you mean by the wording. The author of the obit isn't aware that they became one entity as Rhoads assumed directorship of it. Andrevan @ 22:40, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Actually I think it may have actually gone as "Sloan-Kettering Institute and Memorial Hospital" for a while. Andrevan @ 22:44, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

The issue appears to be that Rhoads stepped back a bit in 1953, and acted as scientific director of Memorial AND of Sloan-Kettering Institute. Cornell University had a similar bio that made this distinction, rather than his being overall director as he'd been doing before. Still trying to check sources against each other. Parkwells ( talk) 01:28, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Would love any feedback you have! Andrevan @ 17:10, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

here, for comparison, some Aponte-Vazquez work: the interesting thing is I don't have access to Spanish language sources. I do cover his claims briefly. Andrevan @ 18:18, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

One of the most interesting ideas is that Rhoads was doing work for other doctors on the locals, and he wasn't just curing diseases, he was also occasionally causing them. In the case of sprue we know this to be true, see Lederer, which I can also send you if you haven't read it - we don't understand how he was doing this - diets? They were on a rigorous diet because it was work with volunteers, largely - sprue isn't some mysterious uncured disease by the way, it's considered like celiac disease or gluten allergies, I believe. This kind of ethical breach - eat a weird diet see if you get sprue - is considered par for the course for 1930s era racist white doctors, and the reveal isn't controversial. One thing that Aponte-Vazquez says is that Katz doesn't speak Spanish and didn't read some of that. There is also some brief Rhoads correspondence with Flexner about finding polio samples. Somehow polio had spread to P.R., Flexner knew of this, and Rhoads went to collect samples, which he sent back to NY. Also, on the funding issue, the Rockefeller Foundation did reimburse Rhoads for his car, which to me to is pretty damning that they ended up using the Cidra research, which I think someone actually basically says. The question is when he was writing Stewart, who worked at Sloan-Kettering in cancer, was he referring to an actual cancer transplant attempted, or merely, as he says, joking around? Payne puts into writing that Beverley "doesn't accept the joke explanation" of the letter. Andrevan @ 18:38, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

The WP article on tropical sprue in fact has a cited statement that a single cause has not been found, and it is still a serious problem in many places- believed to be related to diet, nutrition, maybe other causes, but it can be treated with folic acid and a 3-6 month course of antibiotics (which likely presents difficulties in follow through in some environments.) It can cause anemia, so was part of what Rhoads et al were studying. I read Aponte-Vasquez' article "Rhoads' Confession... No Joke" on his blog. (The long WP article on experimentation in humans unfortunately shows that blindness related to patients wasn't limited to 1930s doctors, and adds many instances to others earlier learned about.) Parkwells ( talk) 19:13, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Here is Lederer which is really the best English source we have short of the actual letters, which I may also upload at some point but they are all messy jpg files. Andrevan @ 19:27, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

This is also a good source for Rhoads "“fantastic and playful composition written entirely for my own diversion and intended as a parody on supposed attitudes of some American minds in Porto Rico.” There is a longer version of that quote in my paper. Andrevan @ 19:44, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for sending that; I couldn't access the whole thing. It has prompted some suggestions for changes, which I've posted on the Talk page. Still liking your article - you make excellent points. Parkwells ( talk) 21:59, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

check this one out and also feel free to go to the archive :) Andrevan @ 22:30, 23 October 2013 (UTC) [5]

Your paper is provocative and challenging. I think it is really useful to show how this incident was used by the Nationalists and to show how outside events colored perceptions as well. Playing on fears has always been a route for politicians. I want to read it carefully again, as in a couple of places, you compare it to history's most egregious examples (Stalin) and weaken your own case. But let me read it again. Your insights and long-term view are powerful, and we both know (which you discuss) how the Internet has contributed to the proliferation of conspiracy theories.

The purpose of the Stalin analogy is to show how people can have two basically mutually exclusive narratives about someone's life and actions. To this day there are people who treat Stalin as a hero even as information has come out about his crimes. Andrevan @ 12:31, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

I do understand what you mean, but the scale of Stalin's documented crimes is so huge. That's what throws off the comparison for me, as no evidence was found that Rhoads killed anyone. To me, if he had, he wouldn't have written about it. Lederer notes that Payne, who was attached to the Rockefeller Foundation, thought Rhoads' letter was so out of keeping with what he knew of him and his work that he thought he was suffering mentally at the time; and Quinones also suggested a kind of temporary breakdown. Lederer writes about the stress that people had in these kinds of assignments.

The letter itself was a crime even if Rhoads was making up the story about killing and cancer. Racism may not be as serious a crime as murder, but the point is that there was an outcry about Rhoads' characterization about Puerto Ricans -- and Italians -- that offended even the 1930s sensibilities. People had shorter memories back then, so after the scandal was whitewashed and put to bed, Rhoads had a career ahead of him. Andrevan @ 16:48, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

But, for the Rhoads article, I think we have to get back to facts: you say above they forced people to "eat a weird diet see if you get sprue - is considered par for the course for 1930s era racist white doctors" - Lederer wrote it wasn't a weird diet; it was what many poor people lived on. They weren't dealing with really healthy people and making them sick; they were dealing with a large group of people living with these endemic problems caused by hookworm and tropical sprue and the latter caused by diet, they thought, although didn't exactly understand. 100 of the 250-270 people they saw with anemia already had tropical sprue. Based on what drs knew at the time, this was at least in part because of their limited diets. The drs were trying to learn what caused it, in order to prevent and/or find additional ways to treat it. The fact that it is a continuing problem in PR shows that the solution is still not simple - and can't be blamed just on 30s era US doctors. Parkwells ( talk) 09:27, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Well, they called it the "characteristic native diet," but the patients whose diets were manipulated weren't on it when they arrived. The point is that people would show up without the problems associated with sprue and Rhoads was putting them on this diet with insufficiencies to produce problems for his study. He also saw them as "experimental 'animals'." That's an ethical violation. Andrevan @ 12:34, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

There does not seem to be enough information to know what the conditions of the study were that had been agreed to. You can't load on to Rhoads alone the responsibility for all the inadequacies we now see in experimental clinical studies of the time. My point was that manipulating diet temporarily and being able to treat it if the condition arose was quite different than Nelsondenis saying people were injected with oxen-portion doses of bacteria. At least you have to acknowledge that. And Lederer showed that the crude expressions of referring to subjects as "animals" in quotes was typical among scientists, however objectionable it is to us. Parkwells ( talk) 14:15, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

The case is so provocative that, even without the contributions of your paper (before you get it published), I think people interested in this should make it a separate WP article. The Rhoads bio would then give it briefer coverage, in the overall context of his life. It did not define his life, as he went on to serve the medical community as a researcher and administrator to the end of his life. It may help define him in history, which is a different matter, but even there most historians seem to be considering his whole life. And no evidence was found that he killed anyone. I know editors have expressed their own opinions on that, but that is the conclusion of the sources. (In terms of what has evolved on WP on the US icon, Thomas Jefferson, there is his main article, then linked articles on "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery" - for one complex topic, as well as other aspects of his political career, and the topic of Sally Hemings and their children- no longer a controversy for most historians.) Parkwells ( talk) 14:15, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

I never said I agreed with Nelsondenis talking about the oxen doses. I also agree that Rhoads was probably typical of his time in many ways, but that doesn't excuse what he did. I think I've been clear that I don't think we can write about the loose ends in the Rhoads case in detail since they don't appear in the source record, but they certainly exist, which colors my understanding of the events. The main reason that I can think of to split out the scandal to a separate article would be if his entire life and career was really so detailed, like Jefferson's, but a specific topic also spanned many volumes of study, like Jefferson and slavery. Rhoads is a fairly self-contained narrative - there are many many doctors who were similar to him, administrators and researchers, many of them his colleagues and contemporaries even. The reason why Rhoads himself bears additional note is the scandal and the narrative that became symbolic for Puerto Ricans, and you can't separate that from his life. Andrevan @ 16:48, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I realize you didn't agree with Nelsondenis on that point. I thought the note about diet being the means of studying sprue might be worth adding to the article. The reason that another article might be useful is that it could be the place to expand on the meaning and uses of this symbolic narrative for Puerto Ricans. This is touched on (as in noting motives of Nationalists in the 1950 assassination attempt), but I don't think can be adequately treated in the Rhoads article. There is nothing in the Nationalist Party article that really explains what a powerful theme it is to them, or how often it is a cultural reference in Puerto Rico. Parkwells ( talk) 16:58, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

A different topic - I noticed your comment in your paper saying that the government's failure in recovery in the aftermath of this contributed to the rise of the opposition and Nationalist Party. I'd like to learn more about it - do you have recommendations for articles or books on that? the WP article on the earthquake doesn't deal at all with the political aftermath; the main article doesn't much address it, nor does the Nationalist party article. There are certainly other examples of natural disasters leading to changes in the political landscape in other places, so I think it's a good point, and the timing is right. Parkwells ( talk) 14:15, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure where to go for more info about it - the English language sources for Puerto Rican history in the late 19th and early 20th century are very limited. Andrevan @ 16:55, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, will do some hunting. Your paper made me think of the whole mixed bag of medical research, charity, and aid - big topic. Parkwells ( talk) 13:41, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

I'm glad you found it interesting. In my folder of pics from the archive I have some of the structural damage from the 1918 earthquake, as observed by a previous hookworm commission. It takes a while to wade through all those jpgs but I'll see if I can find the ones about the earthquake, there might be some there worthy of further examination. Andrevan @ 15:26, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for looking. I found some photos of 1918 damage in Mayaguez at the Poseidon website hosted by the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (as I recall). It included a narrative by a man whose relative had survived the tsunami by going up a hill before the wave came in. Saw some of the activity of the university & gov't for tsunami mapping and warning. I added at least one of those webpages in External links at the 1918 article, plus some material about casualties, property damage, and # of buildings destroyed in Mayaguez. Parkwells ( talk) 18:31, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Done. Parkwells ( talk) 15:35, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

dear Parkwells, Could you please have a look on this 2013 Operation at Motijheel Shapla Chattar article? It is needed a thorough c/e.-- FreemesM ^(talk) 10:20, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, glad to help, and will try to do more. These current topics are difficult to cover. Parkwells ( talk) 14:14, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick c/e on 2013 Operation at Motijheel Shapla Chattar article and making it to a decent, balanced one. FreemesM (talk) 03:11, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I'm surprised you weren't notified about this since you are specifically named. I haven't come up with a statement that suits me. In a rush . . . Yopienso ( talk) 16:42, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Let's see if the link works now. Yopienso ( talk) 18:17, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

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Noted your edits to Lillie Langtry. Minor issue is first paragraph where you changed it to say: born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British actress who was celebrated as a beauty and public figure. In May 1877, Lady Sebright invited her to "an evening at home". One of the fascinations about her is that in these early days she was NOT an actress but a celebrity - famous for no other reasons but her looks and ability to enchant. When she fell on hard times she took up the acting career (1881). I think that this should be reflected in the summary section at the beginning of the article.

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I appreciate your efforts to copy-edit a number of the Restoration Movement pages (some of them clearly need help), but a number of your edits have had the effect of changing the content of sourced text in ways that are inconsistent with the specific sources cited. Some have introduced factual errors.

A good example is a sentence that mentioned "congregations that refused to subscribe to the Philadelphia Confession." It linked the Philadelphia Confession to the article on the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith because the Philadelphia Confession doesn't have it's own article, and the article on the 1689 Baptist Confession discusses how the Philadelphia Confession was derived from it. Your edit changed the sentence to say "congregations that refused to subscribe to the 1689 Philadelphia Confession." This seems like a simple and obvious edit, but it's incorrect. The Philadelphia Baptist Association wasn't established until 1707. They added a couple a couple of sections to the 1689 Baptist confession, renamed it the "Philadelphia Confession", and formally adopted it in 1742. If we wanted to add a year, we could call it the 1742 Philadelphia Confession, but the source we're citing doesn't do that.

Good copy editing can be incredibly useful, and I'm sure you don't mean to change the content of the articles - but many of your edits have have had that effect. I've been going back and checking these changes one by one, and it's taking me hours. It would be very helpful if you could be a little more careful about not changing the content when you do your copy editing. EastTN ( talk) 20:55, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

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Hey, I just wanted to loop back with you. I've been doing a good bit of work on the Restoration Movement article, and I've tried to take it in some of the directions you were headed. If you get a chance to look, I think you'll find it a bit better organized and sourced. EastTN ( talk) 00:51, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for your edits at " The Wife of His Youth". What do you think of putting the article up for good article review? Would you assist me in getting it ready and/or responding to any concerns in that process? Best, -- Midnightdreary ( talk) 16:57, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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"In 1898 he was defeated for the state Republican" ... What? They only had one in Texas? Clarityfiend ( talk) 01:18, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Glad that someone's reading this! Thanks for sending me back to finish that sentence; it also encouraged me to make use of some more sources discovered to add content and cites. Parkwells ( talk) 17:08, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

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