User talk:RodC

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Vandalism on Linus Pauling

I'm not actually certain about the procedure re vandalism in WP... What should be done?

Also, not certain version you reverted is unvandalised.

Interestingly, the Caltech Chemistry Department, wary of his political views, did not even formally congratulate him. However, the Biology Department did throw him a small party, and one cannot help but think that they were more appreciative and sympathetic toward his work on mutations caused by radiation.

Is this NPOV? --192.146.136.129 21:56, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Possibly not, but this is a different discussion, probably something to be discussed in the article's talk page before deleting. In the versions we were reverting Linus Pauling's name was being replaced by "Martin Something". That's vandalism, to be dealt with immediately. What procedure are you uncertain of? RodC 22:04, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

(Above was me. Didn't have time to log on...) Now that the article's been protected, I suppose it doesn't really matter.--Fangz 22:06, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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References

Please do not remove in-text citations or references as you did to Raymond Radiguet on 21:15, 17 Oct 2004. Please see the policy Wikipedia:Cite sources. Thanks. Hyacinth 02:32, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Copan

Hi. I noticed you removed over half the text of the Copán article without explanation. Was this some sort of glitch or accident? I didn't see any reason for the major removal of material, so I reverted it. -- Infrogmation 04:38, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi Infrogmation, it was an accident in fact, and I didn't notice it. Thanks for reverting. I was editing one section and for some reason it replaced the whole article. In fact I don't know how I managed to do this -- maybe a Wikipedia glitch?

Whatever the case, it looks good now, thanks for your attention to it. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 17:42, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

English language quotations should not be italicized

(Re: your recent changes at Marie Antoinette), the Manual of Style is extremely clear that English-language quotations should not be italicized (although foreign language quotations such as "Vive la reine" should be). Could you please fix this back up yourself? My browser a lot of problems with editing large pages, and this would take me half of forever. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:26, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

If you had checked the article's history you would have noticed that I didn't italicize any quotation -- I've only replaced the "curly" quotes with inchmark quotes. As a matter of fact, go to this old version of Marie Antoinette, edited by you, and the italic quotations are there! ;)

I can fix the uncalled-for italics, in any case, but not right now, as I'm really calling it a day and going to sleep. :) Cheers. RodC 03:03, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Done. Had to take decisions on some vague points like the bad markup in the "Motherhood" section. Please check wrt Wikipedia's manual of style. RodC 02:40, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Brilliant Corners

Imagine my surprise to find that celeste links to an article on a stripper. In any case, thanks for correcting the link, but are you aware that the original liner notes as well as the album itself, spells celesta "celeste"? A quick search of an online music dictionary appears to list celeste as an alternate spelling. I was just wondering if you knew the history behind why they originally spelled it "celeste". Thanks in advance. --Viriditas | Talk 03:57, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to thank you for your help. --Viriditas | Talk 01:07, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Style edits to Robert Moog

What timing. You must have made the exact same style edits as I had just seconds before me. :) Hall Monitor 17:25, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for beating you to it! ;) RodC 17:31, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cesare Pavese

I have added the titles of the complete works, in cases where these were missing, but cannot add the dates as the edition I am working from does not list them! --Paw42 14:18, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Crimbo!

Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. File:Pressie.gif, in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! File:Unclecrimbo.gif Dr. McCrimbo 22:43, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think it was you

In redirecting Cola di Rienzi to Cola di Rienzo, or something, you seem [let me know if it was not you] to have wiped out the long and illustrious history of that article. If that is the case, do you think that you could fix it? Carptrash 15:33, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, it was not me. I just created the original (Rienzo->Rienzi) redirect. The user Attilios apparently copied the contents of the Rienzi article to the Rienzo article, making the opposite redirect (Rienzi->Rienzo), which is bad practice. The illustrious history is still there at the Rienzi article in any case. RodC 22:24, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tony Ray-Jones

In this edit of yours, you give Tony Ray-Jones a date of birth that's quite different from the one given in apparently careful bio (informed by, inter alia, TRJ's mother!) in the 1990 book published by Cornerhouse. Perhaps that's wrong and you're right -- what would your source have been? I'd be grateful if you'd reply at Talk:Tony Ray-Jones. Thanks. -- Hoary 14:03, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Multi-instrumentalist

Hi. Please don't be offended (as some have been to the point of personal attacks) that I've reverted your edit to Multi-instrumentalist in which you added Hermeto Pascoal to the 'some noted multi-instrumentalists' section. This is because I'm trying to keep the list on that page to a bare minimum of artists (preferably trimming it to 15 in the future) to encourage people to just use List of Multi-instrumentalists instead. The list on the main article should be small, as it's just supposed to be examples of artists who most people think of when using the term 'multi-instrumentalist', not an exhaustive list. --Stevefarrell 22:21, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zen?

I'm puzzled by this. If Bashō was more than trivially concerned with "zen" (and I really don't know), shouldn't the article reflect this? And if he wasn't, why so categorize him? -- Hoary 22:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's a good point. In any case, I didn't categorize him, I've just reordered the categories that were already there. RodC 22:46, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You did? I should have had my first coffee of the day before making that comment. Sorry! -- Hoary 22:58, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lucia Moholy

Isn't she a centenarian? I was just going by the birth and death dates in the article, but a Google search seems to confirm that they are correct. Recury 03:46, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

She was born in 1894 and died in 1989, which would make her 105 when she died. Recury 14:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mixing my numbers around, you're right. Thanks. Recury 13:30, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

December 11

I just noticed that you added *1910 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1937) to the December 11 page and marked it as a minor edit with no edit summary. I'm guessing that this was inadvertent, and I've made a dummy edit with a helpful summary. If it was intentional, I'd be interested in your reasoning. Matchups 02:06, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Matchups. Nothing serious, just another name in an already long list of births and deaths. I've been marking this sort of edit as "minor" for years. I'm probably wrong! Cheers, RodC 14:20, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New AfD on LoPbN

Your recent and helpful work on the LoPbN tree suggests you'd support its retention. At this moment, vote is 10 Del to 10 Keep on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people by name (2nd nomination). I hope for a clear consensus to keep, and would appreciate it, if you care to weigh in. Thanks in any case, and happy holidays.
--Jerzy•t 17:14, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman

I see you have a history of working on the article Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. I am looking at it from the project Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles where it is one of the longest {{unreferenced}} tagged articles that does not meet at least the barest minimum of verifiability. It has been tagged and completely without references since June 2006. It would be extremely helpful if you had some references you could add to the article to help support its verifiability and notability. Thanks for any help you can give. BirgitteSB 17:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Empire of Brazil

I´ve seen that you wrote in the article arguing that perhaps there was a POV with monarchist propaganda. Could you please tell me which part of the text you believe has issues? Thanks! - --Lecen (talk) 20:54, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

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Jaguar (cartoonist) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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You are now a Reviewer

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Brazil

You are not the first to change "royal" to "real". The present day Brazilian currency had its origin in the Unidade Real de Valor (Real Unit of Value) used as a transition currency from the old Cruzeiro Real to the new Real. But the distant origin of the name in Brazil came from the old currency that existed until 1942 and was a symbol of stability before the time of high inflaction. It came from Portugal and was derived of "Royal" not "Realism". If you want to add "Royal or Real" to the text, is one thing. But to simply remove a historical fact is another. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 18:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"O segundo estágio, que começou em 1° de julho, foi a introdução de uma nova moeda, o real. A escolha do nome era ambígua (podia se referir à realeza ou à realidade)." (Source: Skidmore, Thomas E. Uma História do Brasil. 4th ed. São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2003, p.311 (in Portuguese) ISBN 8521903138)

Translation: "The second stage, whoch started in 1st July, was the introduction of a new currency, the real. The choice of the name was ambiguous (it could refer to both royalty and to reality)."

There it is. --Lecen (talk) 21:39, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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British Civil War listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect British Civil War. Since you had some involvement with the British Civil War redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --Nevé –selbert 16:50, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]