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My Mistake

Sorry about that I was trying to help clear up someone else vandlisem Bihco (talk) 12:25, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Project Congress

As a participant of WikiProject U.S. Congress, please consider placing {{Project Congress to do}} to the top of your User_talk page. Thank you. —Markles 16:27, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Deac Sanders

Sorry I didnt mean to remove the Deac part from the opening.--Yankees10 23:45, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I added the correct Turkish spelling in brackets as (Template:Lang-tr) as it would appear in non-english speaking country.

I added the correct Turkish spelling in brackets as (Template:Lang-tr) along side his so-called "Am ericanized" version of his name, as it would appear in a non-english speaking country. Please do not erase it, as I have not touched his so-called "Americanized" name in the text. Thank you for your "understanding". Saguamundi

Mehmet Öz

Don't remove the CORRECT Turkish spelling (Template:Lang-tr) in the brackets. Even though he US "born and bred" and a US citizen (If he has Turkish citizenship, which there is no evidence so far, than all the letters of his name must be spelled with the letter "Ö/ö"), this is the way it is spelled in his native language and in tolerant countries whether these letters exist or don't exist in their languages.

And whether it is relevant or not in Misplaced Pages is a matter of PERSONAL OPINON and it is definately NOT Misplaced Pages policy.

Willis Hunt

Now that we both realise that it's not a question of sourcing :-) What's your reason for saying that there's a problem with including his race? We don't have a picture of him (at least as far as I know), so obviously IF his race is to be included, it must be by text; and his race is surely part of his...um...identity. I don't understand how a thirty-byte statement in a 3 KB article could be undue weight. Nyttend (talk) 03:47, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, do you perhaps think that I'm adding race to characterise him? I just checked the "badging" link in your edit summary, and let me assure you that I added these three words to the article where I did simply because I believe that it's appropriate to mention his race, and I didn't know where else to put them. The only thing that I mean for the reader to think of him by these words is that his skin is light coloured and that his ancestry is likely European. Nyttend (talk) 03:51, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Very well, since you present the evidence for it being standard practice not to include race, I'll not keep trying. I still think it would be useful, but I am well aware of the idea of consensus, and I really don't feel like trying to change it here :-) Thanks for making a convincing and easy-to-follow argument. Nyttend (talk) 18:15, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

On a totally unrelated question: how do you get the title of your page to appear as "It seemed like a good idea at the time"? Is it the "RealTitleBanner" coding? I have no desire to add it to my own page, so don't think I'm asking for help :-) but I am rather impressed that it's possible to do this at all. Nyttend (talk) 18:18, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

About Arda Öcal

Don't remove the CORRECT Turkish spelling (Template:Lang-tr) in brackets! If you don't tolerate even this than you are RACIST! Saguamundi