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Thanks

I never thanked for your condolence note last year, but I appreciate it more than I can possibly express. All the best, in friendship. Guettarda (talk) 16:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of Puerto Rican images

As you all know, certain situations among which are included my personal health, have led me take a leave of absence from Misplaced Pages, however I believe that the idea proposed by Angusmclellan is an excellent one. Instead of nominating Puerto Rican related images by the masses, the images which have problems will first be listed in the page which I just created: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Images with problems. We will be given more then sufficient time as a "team" to find sources and make what ever fixes need be in order to keep them from being deleted. This is a Wiki-community team effort regardless of who uploaded the image. I ask all those who really care about the images related to Puerto Rico to post the link "Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Images with problems" in your "watchlists". Tony the Marine (talk) 01:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

• I know, it is an interesting twist. It came about as a result of the protests against of the mass deletion of images. I'm still firm about not making any more contributions, but with the burden and stress off my shoulders, I will be able to take my time and try to fix some of the images. I sent the message to the other "Boricuas", hoping that as a "team" we can work together to save or find substitute images, now that we have over three months before they are deleted. You could try to find adequate sources or maybe new images from books or something. So far there are no signs of rudeness or snarky remarks. Tony the Marine (talk) 03:20, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Phi Sigma Alpha

If you remember I had nominated the article for GA, only one editer reviewd it thou he never finished it, that part wich he did, I attempted to do the improvements. Other than that nothing else happened, today the user just failed the Ga nomination, stating that nobody answerd him, even thou I did some of the improvements. Could you help me out here since this is my first GA nomination and I am kind of lost... thanksEl Johnson (talk) 05:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Chupacabra unprotected

Hi there. This is just to let you know that I've unprotected Chupacabra to see if vandalism would still be too persistent there. I will be watching it in case vandalism spikes again, requiring re-protection. -kotra (talk) 01:16, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Could you review this?

Hello,

I think that Andrewlp1991, removed the semi-protection of the Puerto Rico article, Could you review this and re-established it?

Regards,

--Seablade (talk) 00:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Current revision as of 22:58, 25 January 2010 (edit) (undo) Andrewlp1991 (talk | contribs) m

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No, the Semi-protection still there! However, Could you explained me, what he does?

Regards, --Seablade (talk) 01:39, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Cotto

If you check the articles on Pacquiao, Mayweather, and Mosley, for example, you will notice that they all have more headings than just "Welterweight". It is useful to have headings to help break up the text and for when there is a main article for a certain fight, such as Pacquiao vs. Cotto.

Fair enough. Check out Pacquiao's article now, do you think it is improved at all? I changed the headings a bit lol. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ollie87 (talk • contribs) 00:08, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

PR Images

Hey my brother, how's it going? Even though I decided to not make any more contributions tto the project< I am still checking to see if I can fix most of the images which I uploaded anyway. The system is fine since we have more time, but I expected a little more team work from the others (I know that you were busy with your exams). I have solved some, but we need sources for some others. There are some cases where the nominator in my opinion is downright wrong. For example, there is no reason for the Esteves image to be there since it is PD, punto y se acabo, and the one of Jesus Colon shouldn't be there at all, but he wants it to be eliminated from to articles using the same ridculus arguement, to no avail, that he used in the Ponce Masscre Image. I need you to help with the Jose Torres image. Tony the Marine (talk) 14:54, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

E-mail

I sent you one. --Thejadefalcon_{The bird's seeds} 09:35, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Reversal

Let me start by saying that there should be more communitacion between administrators. I know there is no bad intended, but the extra work is really annoying me, although not with you or anyone in particular. Let me try to explain for the third time.

1. Since there are possibilities for an integrated men´s, women´s and junior´s national basketball team page, I thought a move was not the best idea. That is why I created the "Puerto Rico men's national basketball team" article and made a redirect with possibilities in the original "Puerto Rico national basketball team" article. I was planning to work on that when I finished updating the men´s and find more time.

2. Two reversals to my changes were made and unmade by admins, both of them finally approving the changes. I include here links to their talk page for my conversation with them.

Conversation with Arbitrarily0

Conversation with 5 albert square

3. If you decide to finally leave only the "men's" page without the redirect on the original article, please revert it at least to the latest. The current one is an old version, after which I did many changes. Looking at the page history, I see that the many hours I spent this weekend are lost since you reverted to a previous version and my updates don´t appear any more in the history. If you can, at least, revert it back to my update from "21:33, 29 January 2010" which, although not the lastest version, is at least not as old as the one you reverted to.

I know it is not your fault. I do see you that didn´t read the discussion page of the new article, where I had copied the discussions from the original article so they wouldn´t be lost and has started a new section explaining the problems I had. --Coquidragon (talk) 23:41, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry. You are right! I went in to correct some broken links to sections within articles, and then decided to update links to disambiguations and to separate cities from countries in the references, and so on. My comment on the "Edit summary" did not actually reflect the work I had done.

I think that this current page do has the latest changes I made. Thanks so much for taking care of this so fast, and I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this. By the way, thanks for the barnstar. I plan to continue to work on this page and maybe also on some others.--Coquidragon (talk) 00:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

PR Images Pt. 2

I know what you mean. The good thing about the concept is that we are allowed 100 days to work on the images. The only thing is that the at times the situation gets a little ridiculous.

I noticed that Damiens is not targeting Puerto Ricans after checking his current nominations and that it is his/her way of doing things. But, it seems as if there is always something that he/her finds wrong. First it may be the source. If you provide a source, then it maybe who is the creator of the image, if you provide the creator, then it is the rationale. It seems to never end. I have fixed many of he images, pero the scrutiny is stressing. Tony the Marine (talk) 07:24, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

I also forgot, the big deal which is made about images which are over 100 years old and obviously PD. Why the big fuzz on the sources used and who took the photo? You know what I mean? Tony the Marine (talk) 00:15, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

• Here is an example: .You know the funny thing about all this is that these people are coming up with so many damn rules for nothing. Misplaced Pages will never be nor will it ever be considered a reliable encyclopedia as long as anyone can edit it. I mean for example, there are a lot of serious people among us who have put in a lot of time and effort in making this an educational project to educate others about the true history and contributions of our Puerto Rico and then we have to put up with all the vandals who mess up our work. Policy is lenient on them because everyone can edit, but on the other hand we also have to put up with those people who are inventing exaggerating rules and conditions (such as in the images), targeting us (by "us" I mean every good-faithed editor), the people who have made this project what it is. What's the use? Tony the Marine (talk) 05:40, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Puerto Rico men's national basketball team

I have a question. I have updated all the tables in the article with data directly from the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) page. Yesterday, someone modified the wiki article citing a newspaper without internet link. I don´t doubt the correction might be correct, but I have no way to double check the information. The author of the change states that the Official FIBA page has an error. I am talking about the 1988 FIBA Americas tournament. I really don´t know who won. FIBA states that Puerto Rico, while the author of the change states that it was Brazil. I don´t want to start a Edit war. What should I do?--Coquidragon (talk) 15:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Thierry Henry

Good day! It's been a long while since we spoke. I'm here to ask you to please help resolve a dispute at the Thierry Henry talk page. The long and short of it is that another editor wishes to keep a wikinews link in the inline text for eternity, while my objection is that the news event has passed, and so the link should be placed in a simple wikinews external link. This is because there are almost 20 wikinews links for Henry-related news. Thanks! Chensiyuan (talk) 01:33, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

ICP Images

• O.K., here is the answer from the Secretary of State/Lt. Governor of Puerto Rico in representation of the people of Puerto Rico:

"Tony, The images the IPC uses in its publications, as well as the portraits of Governors and First Ladies (which hang in La Fortaleza---although the Governors', that will hang at the State Department for 2 weeks beginning next Monday), Senate Presidents and House Speakers (which hang at the Capitol), the Secretaries of State photos, which hang at my Department, and so forth, are clearly in the public domain because: (1) nobody is paid for their continuous use, and, (2) the government does not claim payment from anyone from their reproduction and use. I hope this is of help to you.

Kenneth D. McClintock Secretary of State San Juan, Puerto Rico

I hope that this answers the question presented. Tony the Marine (talk) 19:27, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

You ruined me

Thanks for blocking me. You ruined my repuation and made everyone hate me. You are mean and hurt my feelings when you blocked me. You ruined me! Tech43 (talk) 04:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

1. "Men's Competition - Puerto Rico". FIBA Americas. Retrieved 2010-02-05.
2. [[cite web|url=http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/event/p/cid/COPSM/sid/3008/_/1988_American_Olympic_Qualifying_Tournament_for_Men/index.html%7C title=1988 Olympic Qualifying Tounament for Men | publisher=FIBA Americas| accessdate=2010-02-15}}