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I made a number of changes over the past while, trying to give fair voice to admirers and critics of Mark Steyn. I think the section of the Canadian complaint about multiculturalism has too much weight now so I think it should be reduced.
This is rated start class and I would appreciate more experienced editors commenting about improvements needed to move the article up the quality scale. Interactbiz (Norm, Vancouver Canada) (talk) 22:49, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Maria Rasputin: just wanted to point out that the person depicted in the picture as Maria was the wrong one. I'm not sure I've done things correctly as I have made the correction a few days ago and nothing seems to have changed since. This is my first intervention. It all seems pretty complicated to me. Hypocampelephantocamelos (talk) 14:49, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
The article on Electro Muscle Stimulation needs input from a third party, in particular in review of the references provided. I am unfortunately not expert enough in the field to research it properly, but the only other editor working on the article appears to have conflict of interest issues and has provided a large number of unverifiable references. Assistance and comment would be appreciated. Mojo-chan (talk) 12:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
I would like to create an article on the newly formed Lullaby Preservation League but I am unsure that it would be an acceptable subject for Wikipedia.
I have created an initial draft of the article on a sub page of my user page.
Please let me know what you think.
Richpri (talk) 23:24, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for taking a look
I've listed this article because I am stumped about an essential feature of the article/list: I am not sure how to define the discovery date. Here are some cases I have stumped onto (I am talking mostly about the Recorded discoveries section):
Thanks, Nergaal (talk) 01:02, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Hydrogen (observed circa 1500, identified 1766)
I recently made large-scale changes to Comparative mythology. I'd say the content is more than 50% different from what it was beforehand. Any interested editors should assess the article and tell me whether I'm on the right track. --Phatius McBluff (talk) 03:16, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I made some considerable changed to the article in May (before and after diff here and User:Traditional unionist/remembrance intermittent diffs here]). I would be grateful for some constructive criticism on how to bring the article up the quality scale, perhaps to FA at some point.
Many thanks - Traditional unionist (talk) 19:44, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I would like to request feedback about a page I created for Common Impact. I am a new Wikipedia editor and have tried to follow the guidelines but continue to receive tags about the content for notability, references, sounds like an advertisement, NPOV, etc. The organization has notability and is cited in many publications and I am having trouble fixing this and the writing style for the other tags and would welcome your advice. Thank you so much, any help is greatly appreciated.
Kmmd (talk) 18:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm writing about the prehistoric fish Onychodus and would like some feedback on my word usage and if it's comprehesive enough. Liopleurodon93 (talk) 19:42, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Alright, so I just got a new job with a marketing firm and one of my assignments is to eliminate the flags on the Louis Navellier page. I've never used Wikipedia, so it's complicated for me to figure out how to reverse-engineer this article to work. Any ideas? If it means axing the offending content, I'm cool with that. Thanks, cyberbuddies!
I recently created the page for the CON-CAN Movie Festival. CON-CAN Movie Festival (CON-CAN) is an audience-interactive online international short movie festival which aims to discover hidden creative talent from all over the world, enabling image creators and a global audience to share the underlying messages and sheer creativity expressed in profound short movie productions. Founded in 2005, the short movie festival's enables users to watch short movies for free on its site. The festival's award ceremony is held annually in Tokyo, Japan.
I'd like a review of this page in order to better represent Wikipedia standards. I would like to nominate this article for the GA / FA status and so I would like some feedback on the page.
Tokyocolumbia (talk) 09:59, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Sirs,
I have an article on my personal page Apics44 that I would like to post to the main Wikipedia if it is acceptable. Also is there anyway I can make it not available for editing. Please advise.Apics44 (talk) 13:47, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
I came across a large article on the west Siberian lands of Yugra, now generally the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Lot of great historical information, but I think the main body reads like an essay written for university and needs to be Wikified. I tagged as essaylike, but was reverted and called "rude" for doing so. Might be WP:OR, but still generally a very good detailed article just needing some minor cleanup. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 18:53, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
I have re-written an article of biographical information about Chee Soo who was an author and teacher of Taoist Martial Arts with references to reputable published sources. Please can someone have a look and rate it and give me some feedback? Cheers. Chuangzu (talk) 22:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
I have posted a new article, Dispersion Staining, with a number of images recently uploaded to Commons. Two of five images are visible in the article. The other three show the frame, the title of the image, and the comments under the image but not the image. How can I correct that?IEQParticles (talk) 11:27, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
I came across this stub during research for the topic of Higher education in Nunavut. I used the links originally provided in the stub, and wrote a summary of the information. Although breif, I think that this topic has relevance in the globalization of education, and the dificulty of delivering complex Bachelors programs to reesidence of such a remote location.
enjoy Xxdriftwoodxx (talk) 05:01, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
I made substantial contributions to this article quite a while ago and got it up to Good Article status. I'm now looking at it and trying to think what else I can add to improve it. (I'm trying to discuss licensing of images from the Catholic University of America archives. Is there anything else that might help improve the article? -- MatthewDBA (talk) 17:01, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to add this article to Wikipedia, User:Webguru1. I've been doing a lot of reasearch to create a page that meets the proper guidelines, but I want to make especially sure that it's not tagged for deletion. I'd really appreciate it if someone could let me know if I can add it, or what else I have to do to improve it. Thanks Webguru1 (talk) 14:26, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm pretty much reorganizing and rewriting the article with the intention of getting it up to at least A or GA status. Most of these changes are mine, see the history page to separate other edits from mine. One of the big problems is the lack of reliable references from outside Toastmasters itself or its membership; I've tried Google up and down but without too much luck.
What can I do to further improve the article (outside of MoS edits) while restricted by the references issue? And on that, any of you other editors know of any sources I would find useful for the article? --coldacid (talk|contrib) 04:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Dear sir, I have taken my pass port from Chandigarh office in the yaer 2001. I have applied the pass port with change of my name from AppaRao Bourothu to Ashok umar Bourothu with all relevent documents like affidavit and paper advertisement etc. I have got the pass port in the name of Ashok Kumar Bourothu. Till now I have no issues with the name change, but due to new rules change for UAE visa , all the education cirtificates are to be attested by government. They are insisting that the name change should be mentioned in the pass port. Kindly help me how to get a cirtificate or evudence that I have applied for the pass posrt with the name change. Any change in the pass port to be done from the same Chandigarh office or any where in india.
Kindly help me by giving proper guidence.
Ashok Kumar—Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.195.162.4 (talk) 03:50, July 25, 2008
Where can I find this article please?
Please review your article on Caraga. What is being pointed in the map is the Municipality of Caraga, Davao Oriental. Caraga Region does not include Davao Oriental as one of its provinces.The nearest municipality of DAvao Oriental which borders Surigao del Sur (part of Caraga REgion) is Boston, Davao Oriental.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.54.99.122 (talk) 21:21, July 28, 2008
hello. i've edited several articles so far, but my article about MeeMix is the first which i pretty much wrote from scratch. i got notability and advertisement warnings about 2 months ago. since then i've tried my best to rewrite it in order to meet wiki requirements, but my article is not getting reviewed. i was wondering if this is a reasonable amount of time to wait, or maybe it was just mistakenly overlooked. assuming it's not on par with wiki requirements, i would love to hear some feddback. thanks! Rabend (talk) 14:45, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking over this article and have made a few constructive changes. I was wondering if there was anyone out there who could give me an idea of what to do to improve it. Thanks!
PS if you need to contact me personally, I'd prefer on my Talk Page (I'll actually look there). spider1224 16:32, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I've been on Wikipedia for a while, and I picked up on something that many others have apparently refrained from doing; the creation of articles concerning the Illinois school districts. I have completed the majority of the non red-linked articles, yet I still have no general guidelines. A WikiProject Illinois member named Kranar drogin reviewed many of my earlier attempts, but did not give me information on how to improve the articles. Any feedback would be appreciated.
All school districts I have created can be found at this location sorted by county, or at this location in chronological order (just ignore the astronomy-related articles that I've also thrown in there); note that most of my earlier school districts are undoubtedly stubby, but many of my newer ones are lengthier.
If anyone could take a look at this and help me out, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
--Starstriker7(Say hior see my works) 13:16, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
I would like to add this article: User:Webguru1. I've cleaned it up a bit since the last feedback request, and would like another look at it. Thanks, --Webguru1 (talk) 14:43, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
With the help of user:bstone, user:L'Aquatique, I've provided a re-write on WP:TOV as I feel this essay should most certainly be a guideline or policy. I've resubmitted it for policy, with three supports and no other interaction I'm not sure how to proceed...But I would like to see more community involvement. If the administrators check the history of the AN/I you'll see an incident just a few days ago, that clearly required attention to this as policy.
The original article is at WP:TOV and was previously denied as policy, L'Aqua, Bstone, and myself, are hoping the rewrite, will gain more consensus. I unfortunately have the feeling that because I am new, I'm being ignored for this sort of thing...I sincerely hope that's not the case, and that the Request for Feedback, will gain a positive result.
Thank you,
Neuro√Logic 17:24, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks,
Neuro√Logic 17:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear all,
As my first contribution to Wikipedia other than various minor edits and small additions to articles, I have substantially altered the disease eradication article in a number of editing sessions over the last couple of months. Main alterations have included:
- The addition of a section on proposed disease eradication - The addition of a section on regional disease elimination (sometimes also called eradication) - The addition of an external links section - The updating and minor editing of existing sections
I would be very grateful if a more experienced editor could have a look over this article and suggest any modifications, from the stylistic to the substantial. Also, I have one particular question - it is hard to fully research regional elimination to the extent of being certain of the total list of current programmes (never mind past programmes). Is it even worth trying, or should I just treat the existing five as examples of such?
Procrastinator supreme (talk) 08:35, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
This afternoon, I made a short addition, intended to be constructive and helpful, to the article on spittoons. (It pointed out that a North Carolina historic site, which already had a large spittoon collection, had acquired what was said to be the "world's largest" collection. Since it is open to the public free of charge, I thought this would be useful information for people interested in spittoons.) When I made my change, citing a recent newspaper article, I seem to have inadvertently deleted the second half of the article. I am not a vandal! But I also don't want to spend hours learning what has become an outrageously complex amount of Wiki lore to figure out how to fix it. I've loved using Wikipedia, and have made a financial contribution in the past. But if it is going to be this complicated to add or change a simple piece of an article, I'll just keep my unskilled hands off! (But I kind of wonder if you might be losing something by discouraging people who might have little bits and pieces of information to add but who are not particularly interested in computers or wiki lore.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.182.47.225 (talk • contribs)
The above article has been massively changed in the last few months. Only a few bits i can still expand before i try for GA. Before that it needs a peer review. (I rated it B myself), and expansion correction from outside editors. Also i don't know how to format all the refs i added - if someone could format a few so i can see how they should look, would be great. Yobmod (talk) 15:40, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
I have substantially revised this article, adding more detail about the book's composition, publication history and critical reception. I have also added inline citations for anything I think is likely to be disputed. I know that the article needs a better synopsis and more detail, but I would like to know if my changes have substantially improved the article and what else is needed. I have no special desire to be the one who goes on improving the article as I am not a great fan of the book in question, but the article was in a bad state when I found it and I have tried to improve it. Thanks in advance. Lexo (talk) 00:34, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
This is an article about an up and coming American artist, Jason Shawn Alexander.
This is my first article and I'm deligently working to improve my Wiki-skills. I welcome suggestions and edits :) Rosepuntil (talk) 16:26, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
This article is no longer a stub. I would like suggestions for improving it before submitting it for peer review and a better rating.
Wugo (talk) 01:38, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Compare to [1]. I am responsible for all subsequent changes. Wugo (talk) 12:33, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you, Optigan—I saw no need for those Infolinks, but wanted to get an outside reaction. I will add internal links and regularize the refs. I hope to avoid sub-pages, for the sake of simplicity. After the clean-up, I will trouble you again.Wugo (talk) 01:46, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
This mathematics article had been a redirect to set-builder notation. Since there are many notations for sets that don't fall into the set-of-all-x-such-that mould, I thought it could use more fleshing out. My two primary motivations were descriptive (to help readers become adept at understanding written descriptions of sets) and at least suggestive, if not prescriptive (to help writers use conventions, either for existing notation or to create notation when needed). I also decided to enter a bit, but not terribly deeply, into related issues of typography. I'd be quite interested in any constructive comments, suggestions, etc.—PaulTanenbaum (talk) 16:49, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
I wrote the following article and it is not getting piblished. Would appreciate your feedback.
Soffront software develops Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for Small and medium enterprises .
Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Products 3 Deployment types 4 License 5 See also 6 External links 7 References
[edit] History Soffront software was founded in 1992 by Manu Das who was recognized as CRM Leader by CRM Magazine for the year 2004. Soffront launched its first customer service application in 1993.Since its inception Soffront CRM has been installed in more than 2500 corporations worldwide.
[edit] Products
Soffront solution is Web-based and XML compliant. It operates as a zero foot-print web client. The databases supported include Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. Soffront CRM is comprised of following Solutions:
Sales Automation: Automates Sales process Marketing Automation: Automates Marketing process Customer Support: Web based customer support Employee Help desk: Enter, track, manage, resolve and escalate employee support tickets. Knowledge Management: Knowledge Management System for support agents, engineers, employees and customers. CRM Portals: Customer portal: For Customers Partner portal: For Channel Employee Portal: For employees Asset and Inventory Management: Enter, Audit and track company assets and inventories. Sales order processing: Automates the sales order process and integrates with accounting and ERP systems.
[edit] Deployment types Soffront software offers hosted, on-premises and host to own solutions.
[edit] License
Soffront's licensing options are - floating, dedicated, site, departmental, timed or leased.
[edit] See also
Customer Relationship Management
Sales Force Automation
Web application
Thanks
Nuzhat—Preceding unsigned comment added by Nuzhatara (talk • contribs) 08:59, September 2, 2008
I have drafted an article on the writer Howard Norman on my user page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SwcJholmes
Can someone please take a look and tell me where it should go from here?
Thanks!
SwcJholmes (talk) 20:45, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
I've done quite a bit of work with this cleaning it up, and I think it is now better referenced and structured, and relatively easy to read. Trying to keep it balanced is hard work as the organisation is a bit of a mish-mash (and it is easy to get into too much detail on any particular area). I think it's beyond Start Class now, but would like others to review and make comments about how it could be improved. Also, if there's a GA/FA of a similar organisation that can be used as a benchmark that might be helpful too.
Thanks!
RTFArt (talk) 22:26, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
The initial difficulty for those wishing to understand this is the definition of consciousness. We can’t study or do it if we don’t know what “it” is. Consciousness is actually easy to define, just not as phenomenon that easily succumbs to the scientific method, hence the resistance to the oldest and clearest definition. Of all of the capabilities of the human being, that of consciousness has most puzzled those same human beings, religions, philosophers and most recently scientists.
Human beings are not unique in most of their abilities. Hints of all of them, even laughter (google “tickling mice”), language, adaptation to the new, the use of tools et cetera, can be found in the biological world. It is not even the collection or magnitude of these skills that makes us unique. What seems unique is that we can be aware of them, of our use of them. Thus, this definition, while seemingly simple is profound and carries extraordinary ramifications. Consciousness is awareness of existence. No other entity has this ability, as far as we know. “As far as we know" because of the unique properties of consciousness, especially with relation to scientific methods.
For all of us, but most particularly for scientists, a major difficulty with consciousness lays in the difference between proving and knowing. There are many things that can be proven but that we can never know. For instance, most of us can be reasonably certain that the cosmos has been proven to be nearly fourteen billion years old but we can never know that; we weren't there. Then there are things we can truly know but never prove. This drives the strict scientific method person mad; nevertheless it remains true.
We can know we saw a mouse run out that door but we cannot prove it. Many a spouse knows when their mate is upset even when the most highly trained observational behaviorist would be unable to point to any change in behavior. Somehow the other spouse just knows. I once had the fortune to observe an object at length from no more than a hundred yards. Before this I had suspicions but no way of knowing. After this I knew that there was at least some truth to certain scientifically questionable phenomena. I cannot prove that, but I know it. This unfortunately is the situation with consciousness.
You cannot KNOW or PROVE whether another is aware of their existence, at any particular moment. Only the individual can know though he or she can never prove it. This brings us to the single, almost universal misconception about consciousness.
Consciousness is a variable. It is not a constant. The neural machine can operate just fine without "us". While I cannot prove this to you, you can prove it to yourself with a simple thought experiment.
Think of a moment in your past about which you can remember everything. It might be a surprise birthday party when you were six, a moment of extreme danger or finally arriving someplace you had always wanted to visit. You can remember who was there, what clothes they wore, the smell in the air, the color of the sky, the time of day, everything. Close your eyes and remember. It is as if you are there.
Now think of another time, driving down the road. You come to yourself realizing you are twenty miles past your stop. Who, or rather what was driving? More dramatically, some of us have biochemically induced ourselves into unconsciousness, only to find later that this apparently did not deter our physical machine from indulging in some rather embarrassing behavior. Again, since “you” weren’t there, what was?
Further, some of us have had the fortune to have experienced an hour or a day of extreme awareness, an awareness of extraordinary clarity and penetration. For us we know that the human machine is potentially far more capable than can possibly be imagined. We cannot prove it but we do know. Obviously then, the neural machine does not need "you" to function and your awareness of existence varies continuously between "not present" and "present", a "present" that some know is but a pitiable fraction of what is possible.
There are three reasons nearly all of us operate under the delusion that we are always conscious. One is because we retain the same name, maintain the same mechanical habits and see the same face in the mirror, little changed from day to day. The second is that when someone asks us if we are conscious of our existence, we are, but only because we were asked, never realizing that that was one small pearl on a mile of string. That we rarely realize leads us to the third reason, the single most important and difficult problem with the study of consciousness.
Only to the extent that we are present do we produce memory. When we think back, all we remember is being conscious. We can go to the store and not remember going at all, but we won't realize that because we don't remember it, not unless someone who was there points it out. We can remember only that we went to the store but not what we did there. Then again, we can remember being in the store and so of course everything we did and whom we met, et cetera. If you examine the timeline of your life each day, you will find gaps, missing moments, which you cannot account for in your memory.
The point is this. The only way to scientifically study consciousness is to develop methods by which the subjects can study themselves and report their findings, coupled with continuous monitoring and statistical analysis (and that may even have to be some sort of quantum statistics, subject to the uncertainty principle). All other methods will involve the preconceptions and self-delusions of both the researchers and the subjects.
These observations also put to the test Searl’s Emergent Theory that consciousness is a property intrinsic to the development of complexity, biological or otherwise. It is evident from the above that, while the human machine is capable of housing an awareness of self, it is not necessary to the functioning of the machine. If consciousness is not necessary to the machine it is hardly likely that it fundamentally stems from the machine. The only byproduct of consciousness that may deliver survival benefits to its possessor is a possibly improved memory, although for the most part, the memories enhanced have little relation to elements necessary for literal survival. This of course leaves an unanswered question. Is consciousness an accidental byproduct of Evolution’s combined responses to other developmental needs, or are there larger needs at work, perhaps stemming from Nature as a whole, Earth (Gaia Hypothesis), the planetary system or even the Cosmos superimposed on our evolution? At any rate, this to me is the most fundamental mystery of “Mind”. Why and how would the human machine evolve a potential capacity for which it fundamentally has no need?
One final word: It has become quite the popular pastime to postulate a coming "Singularity" based on extensions of Moore's Law, that exponential advances in the study of the brain and consciousness, computers and artificial intelligence, will soon lead to human nirvana. When we haven't even the ability to consistently be present for what happens in and around us, how can "transcendence", mechanical or otherwise, possibly be near? Also, considering that when it comes to consciousness we are as yet children is it really wise for us to try to create artificial intelligence? Look at a pregnant fourteen year-old and see how well that works out. In the future when we have grown as individuals and as a culture, it might be conceivable that we could deal wisely with a new emergent being of great potential power, but now, right now, how could it be any different from giving a two year old a loaded handgun? --Father O'Know (talk) 23:17, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
Yesterday I put an article about Pelle Pelle and I received the comment that it looked too much like an ad, that i1t had too many weasel words etc. I have rewritten the page and removed the weaselwords and tried to write a neutral article. Could you please look at it and see if it's ok now. And if it is, can you remove the tags above the article?
Thank you
Salense (talk) 06:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)Salense
Hello there. I have recently made quite a few changes to this article about "a modification of the computer game Rome: Total War" and would like some feedback on where to go next with it. I have also submitted it for WP:VG peer review but as that has not received any replies after several days, I am now also going to ask for comments from a more general Wikipedia audience. As with the aforementioned peer review, I would like to receive confirmation that I can remove the ((Gamecleanup))
tag that is on the article and also receive more general advice on where it can be improved. Since its tagging, the article has gone from this to this, with most of the intervening edits being made by me, and most importantly, I feel, I have added references to the article and re-written parts of it so that it no longer looks like a copy of this page.
Any feedback or comments are appreciated.
It Is Me Here (talk) 10:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
While surfing the web, you may find that the browser can’t connect to the DNS server .you may try to repair the internet connection by clicking “repair” in the menu of the connection icon, but what will you do if windows give you this message “unable to clear DNS cache”? Just do the following steps:
1. From the start menu, click on “Run” and type “cmd” then press open.
2. In the command box type “ipconfig/flushdns”.
3. If this failed to fix the problem and Windows couldn’t clear DNS cache, open “run” from start menu and type “services.msc” and click open.
4. Look for “DNS Client” and click on it, then make this service start automatic.
5. Try to repair the connection again or do the same thing in steps 1&2.
Source: http://inanotechnology.blogspot.com Written by:M.Rayes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.196.153.34 (talk) 08:13, September 9, 2008
I would like to eventually get Valencia (Spanish Congress Electoral District) to GA status and with that in mind would appreciate some constructive criticism of the article as to what is missing/ what could go in/ what should be excluded/expanded etc. As the article is part of 52 similar articles on the Spanish electoral districts, it would also serve as a template for expanding the other 51. Valenciano (talk) 21:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
This is my first article. Is it neutral and referenced enough? —Preceding unsigned comment added by SlackR2 (talk • contribs) 21:50, September 15, 2008
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Diane Rodriguez is a prominent American theatre artist who directs, writes and performs. Schooled in activist art, she received her BA in Theatre Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is a producer and director at Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles and an Artistic Associate of Cornerstone Theater Company. An OBIE Award winning actor, she is known for using comedy to confront various forms of oppression, often with special attention to issues of gender and sexuality.[citation needed] An enduring influence in Chicano theatre, she was born in the 1950’s to American parents from farm working families. She co-founded two theatre companies, El Teatro de la Esperanza (Theatre of Hope) and Latins Anonymous, and was a leading actress for the seminal Chicano theatre group, El Teatro Campesino (Theater of the Farmworkers). She joined El Teatro Campesino during the mid 70’s. In political sketches for Cesar Chavez and full length works, she honed her comedic skills performing on a variety of stages from flat bed trucks to ancient European Greco Roman amphi-theatres. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and in 1988 co-founded the critically acclaimed, comedy troupe Latins Anonymous as a response to the stereotyping and the kind of roles she was receiving in the Hollywood industry.[citation needed] Rodriguez served as director of the Latino Theatre Initiative at the Mark Taper Forum from 1995-2000. She began directing in 1991 and was awarded an National Endownment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Directing Award in 1998. She has directed and developed the work of Nilo Cruz, Lynn Nottage, John Leguizamo, Jose Cruz Gonzalez, John Belluso, Octavio Solis, Culture Clash, Oliver Mayer, Migdalia Cruz, Cherrie Moraga. She received Best Direction nominations for her work on Leguizamo’s Spic-O-Rama and Culture Clash's Border Town. She won an OBIE Award (OFF-BROADWAY) Award in 2007 for playing multiple roles in Heather Woodbury’s Tale of Two Cities (Best Ensemble). Published writings
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Category:American stage actors Category:American television actors Category:People from San Jose, California Category:Living People Category:Mexican American writers Category:American theatre directors |
I hope that helps for starters, you may want to follow up with Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre or Wikipedia:WikiProject Latinos which are on the article talk page, for more help on this as they may have more specific recommendations on this. -Optigan13 (talk) 06:35, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey! I have just recently rewriten and expanded this article. I was wondering if anyone can give me any suggestions on how to improve this article to promote it up to good article status. Thanks! (The associated WikiProject is not very active, so that's why I'm asking here) - Nick C (t·c) 21:18, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Union General George B. McClellan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.35.161.4 (talk) 09:39, 18 September 2008
Hi--could use some help with the formatting of my article?
I wrote up a basic history of the annual dance parade and festival that has drawn over 9000 dancers of all styles to the streets. The parade down broadway ends with a festival that is really unique.
Once the article gets to be in the traditional wikipedia style I intend to request a peer review and put it up for expansion.
I did a lot of research and have the references listed above the article but am fairly sure they should go below (the instructions said to put them above). Also, the title would look best if it were Dance Parade (with a capital P)--any idea of how to change that?
Media:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_parade
Can anyone lend a hand to get me going in the write track?
Thanks,
Ononokomachi (talk) 19:34, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have been working on this article for the past year trying to improve it. It was tagged as needing cleanup last May and I have made a few changes since then, although nothing major. I have posted in talk to ask what more needs to be done, and it was suggested that I bring it here. Can I please have some suggestions for further improvement on the article? I have some ideas of additions to make to the article but before I proceed I'd like to fix whatever problems still remain with what we already have. After spending a year on it I'd like to try to get it finally completely cleaned up. Cheers. -Thibbs (talk) 19:04, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Over the last several months I have worked a lot on the Bates method article. Since February it has been tagged for neutrality, which has been discussed extensively on the talk page. The controversy mainly surrounds the way sources are used, so just reading through the article itself will not be enough to then give a satisfactory answer to the question of whether it now has a Neutral Point of View. The main (though by no means only) three independent sources are currently referenced in the first paragraph of the article (and many times thereafter.) Often, Bates' writings and the secondary sources which refer to them are both referenced, but I've tried to cut down the detail so as not to go significantly beyond what is discussed by the secondary sources. The article covers all the main criticisms of the Bates method as far as I can tell, and recently there has been some rephrasing to confer more authority to the majority viewpoint.
Also, updated grades would be appreciated for the WikiProjects which currently rate the article, since the B-class ratings are both about a year old. PSWG1920 (talk) 07:57, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could check my page before I post it, at User:Annepi. I am worried that it reads too much like advertising copy. If this is the case, just how far have I stepped over the line?
This page is meant to replace the current version at IBM Haifa Labs.
Annepi (talk) 12:18, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
FAMILIES OF THE WORLD (Collection) [The Families of the World Collection] records from sunrise to sunset, hour by hour the small events that shape daily lives of Humanity through the one experience common to almost everyone: the family. In 1983 world traveler, author, photographer, philosopher and speaker Hélène Tremblay gave herself the mission of presenting Humanity to Humanity so that every one on earth would know with whom they shared the planet. To achieve this she lived with families which represents the condition of living of the majority in 116 countries. No other person has known Humanity so intimately. Her experience is unique.
Book have been published in Canada, USA, Australia and France by Farrar Straus & Giroux, Camden House & Les Editions Robert Laffont. This project and great human adventure has received support from agencies such as UNICEF, UNFPA, WFP UNESCO and CIDA , and companies such as the Body Shop International.
FAMILIES OF THE WORLD (Company)
The Families of the World Company works in the fields of creation of content, communication, production, publishing and multimedia
Vision: Presenting Humanity to Humanity by being present in all households with The Families of the World Collection.
Contribution By making information accessible to all, The Families of the World Company seeks to : • Promote the development of a world consciousness; • Facilitate the awakening of a peaceful and responsible world citizen; • Participate in the survival and renewal of humankind and its environment. And awakens in each individual in contact with our products: • the pleasure of discovering our common human heritage, and • a desire to join, interact and share life with the citizens of the world.
The UK Youth Parliament is a youth democracy organisation in the United Kingdom. I've completely rewritten the article, and would love your comments on what to add/change next. I'd ideally like to get it to GA status. Many thanks -- PretzelsTalk! 15:54, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
There's quite a lot of groundless editing going on here. Text has only been added by this editor, and repeatedly removed by other editors offering completely groundless reasons, when they did so at all. Wiki Policies repeatedly state that an editor should leave a reason for removing anything, and engage the author in getting the article up to standard. This has repeatedly been ignored, and blocking threatened when I re-posted the text. Adding text is never tendentious editing, and the text I added does not qualify as vandalism.
This page was recently edited to remove my entry and then proposed for deletion. It really looks like something's going on here besides editing. The entry has been restored as of 13:10 CST 10/12/08 for your input.
Please read and weigh in. Editorial comments are welcome.RipplingBeast (talk) 18:14, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
I have rewritten this article so that it contains updated information and statistics. I have also tried to maintain a neutral, yet historically accurate tone, but am not entirely sure if I succeeded. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. — ŁittleÄlien¹8² (talk\contribs) 18:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Can the list of chapters be explicitely sourced? Is that the sort of thing that would be on the university websites for example? A citation with a link for each of them is ideal (primary sources would be fine imo, so chapter websites pass in terms of confirming the existance). Yobmod (talk) 11:15, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
MIXISM | |
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Mixism demo cover art for Mixism 2003 | |
Background information | |
Origin | New York |
Genres | Synthpop, Dance, Pop Rock, Indie |
Years active | 2000–present |
Members | Den, C Major and Brian D. |
Website | http://mixism.com |
MIXISM is the trademarked music project by two Los Angeles-based artists Den (birth name Virden Vergara) and C Major (birth name Carolyn Vergara). Since 2000, the founding members have focused primarily on writing and producing their specific blend of original electronic, world and trip-hop music and have recently gained the interest of companies such as MTV, Lake FX Radio and XM Satellite Radio. They were invited to Battle of the Bands in 2007 and have titles such as "Sick And Twisted" and "Wonder" listed under ASCAP ACE Title Search.
MIXISM is currently working on their first official debut album although a release date has not been announced.
Websites:
MIXISM
MIXISM at MySpace
MIXISM at GarageBand
ZenF8 (talk) 06:03, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
The article appears to me, to have severe problems, yet is rated a B and the resident editors on the page are resistant to raising of these issues. perhaps someone could take a look and give a 3rd opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.180.42 (talk) 03:34, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
dear,
i don't know how to called
i'm the new comer, but i explored wikipedia since i know, to used the website, more lesss 1 year ago..... so if i did somthing stranged, don't hesitate to telling.
first of all, thank you verymuch, as approval to sign in this WIKIPEDIA, i love to watch and to digging more about this natural creation....
i just want to sounding about the coordination of PERLAK, in aceh province of Indonesia i lived in aceh since devastated of tsunami, Dec 2004,
perlak is one of the subdistrict in aceh, i passed perlak when driven car from Medan - sumatera utara to Aceh (my home town is in sigli - PIDIE regency, in one line of perlak subdistrict... from my sight, perlak exposed into the map it is far away from the coastal, actually the subdistrict is nearby langsa (aceh tomur) for the refreshing, i try to remebering , the famous oil company named "caltex"...the site operation in lhoksemawe, it isn't far away from perlak.
just want to share
thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yrzal (talk • contribs) 07:50, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to contact Wikipedia. But someone may want to edit the article on John McCain.
Here is what is in the article currently:
"John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is a compulsive cocksucker that cannot keep his pruny hands off of small children..."
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Brad Geyer
I've taken it upon myself to completely upgrade the All Saved Freak Band article and hope for some feedback on the page. I believe I've addressed the issues raised by the two warnings at the top of the page and am in hopes that those notices might be removed if enough proper changes have been made. As co-founder and legal represntative of the All Saved Freak Band I'm hoping we can provide a definitive source for the article.
Great thanks for your help,
--Asfband (talk) 15:12, 23 October 2008 (UTC) Joe Markko