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Hi Gloria,

I'm Christiane

I've just read (scuse my English I am Francophone) an article about Flylady.

I think that you wrote it, is it true?

Because I would like to contribute with an article about Marla in french. Misplaced Pages of course.

But for now I just plan to be inspired by your's is it possible?

Thanking you in advance.

Sincerely Yours,

Christiane (Myrtilles in the French Misplaced Pages) 19:49

Hello Christiane! I wrote a part of the FlyLady article, but I didn't write the whole thing. I have been planning to add some things to it, so maybe I'll take that opportunity now. I think it's perfectly OK to just translate Misplaced Pages articles from one language to another, without having to start from scratch. Good luck, and by the way, I think your English is very good :) -Gloriamarie 20:37, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

fr:Projet:Traduction is the place where you can request translation of English Misplaced Pages articles to French. See fr:Projet:Traduction/*/Lang/en. utcursch | talk 05:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

walther

You may want to have a look in on Talk:Walther P22 again. Griot has canvassed only those users who want to keep the VT mention in the article, so I am alerting those who were not yet contacted. There has been discussion on WP:ANI about the outcome of the previous polls. Your continued involvement in the discussion(s) would be welcomed. ··coelacan 23:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. It was interesting catching up on the debate. --Gloriamarie 01:03, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you...

... for your recent contributions on some articles I have worked on. You may notice on the associated talk page of the article Reed Slatkin, and some other related articles I have compiled some reputable secondary sourced citations that I have not yet added but which could and will all be used to expand the article. Smee 04:55, 12 May 2007 (UTC).

Salvatore Gencarelli

Hey there,

Thanks for the comment on the Genovese crime family user talk page. I noticed that your user page says you have a bazillion interests but knowing such a person as Sal Gencarelli is quite unusual for those without a keen keen interest in the mob. I'm intrigued! Personal friends? Alexbonaro 10:41, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Ooh. Thanks Alexbonaro 12:49, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

That would be most excellent of you! Anything is great but information specifically on his position in the family and who he associated with mainly would be most interesting. Thank you very much Gloriamarie. :) Alexbonaro 04:35, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Ron Paul

Please explain why you chose to remove the Sean Hannity section altogher. I think this was a defining moment in the debate and I would like to form a compromise on the text.

Could you please make an edit of what I have started and contribute what you perceive to be appropriate text?

Anappealtoheaven 00:51, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I did discuss it on the talk page, but people keep adding entirely unverifiable sources. A blog that links to an article to Texas (which does not even mention Ron Paul) is a joke of a source. This rumor has been discussed for days on the talk page, and no one has been able to come up with a decent source. A quote from Jimmy Wales: "I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced." Rm999

However, personal biographies are held to a different standard than regular articles. Negative information is treated in a different way. In this case, the refutation of an allegation of negative information-- very negative information if it is true-- should be given special consideration. You have not had it on the talk page for days, because I have been watching the article every day and I just noticed it before going to bed Friday night. On Saturday, when I saw that you had removed the information entirely, citing the source, I wrote on the talk page and tried to look on ProQuest. Since you just added that yesterday (or during the night EDT Saturday morning), and it is 6:08 EDT right now, the information could not have been up for "days." Put a citation tag and give it a few days to see if a good citation can be found.--Gloriamarie 22:09, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

As I said in the talk page, I am fine with someone adding it back with the citation tag. I would just prefer it if someone can find the source ASAP. Rm999

I'll do that, and I'll work on finding the source. I'd like to get to the bottom of it as well.--Gloriamarie 22:23, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

About the tag

Yes, my edit with "unscientific" made it more neutral, but unfortunately I can't count how many times I and others had to re-add that wording, as recently as last night, so - as the person who added the tag - I would have preferred that it remain until it was apparent that the wording was likely to last more than a few hours. Tvoz |talk 16:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Is it the same person taking it out or many people?--Gloriamarie 16:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Honestly, I haven't checked who has been taking it out, but I know that "unscientific" is in for a while, then it's out, and there has been little stability regarding this. I'm not referring to your changing the 2nd one to "similar" - that was a good edit - but other edits of the debate sections and the Pres campaign in general have been misleading and incorrect. A very similar issue has come uphere - there are people editing many articles in which Ron Paul is discussed with POV, non-neutral wording. We just have more of it - although I see that you are trying to bring neutrality to the piece. So am I. Tvoz |talk 16:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps we can watch who is taking it out and ban them? I think it's OK the way it is now.--Gloriamarie 16:48, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Hope springs eternal. I'll watch to see if there's any pattern of removal which would justify a block, or if it's random helpful editors. In any case, I didn't re-add the tag, just wanted you to know what I thought about this. I'm more than willing to wait and see. Tvoz |talk 16:57, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, sounds good.--Gloriamarie 17:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

Since you have an article with more info - probably a section on family (his, I mean) would work to include what we have plus any added material about his wife, parents, if available - like other candidates have - the wife and kids stuff doesn';t belong in medical career, obviously. Tvoz |talk 17:16, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Good idea.. I'm going through adding information in order as it appears in the article, but I'll do that when I'm done.--Gloriamarie 17:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

sounds goodTvoz |talk 17:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Be careful that it not sound a little like a puff piece - do they not have any critical commentary? Tvoz |talk 18:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)