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Tony the Marine's User Boxes This user loves Puerto Rico. External audio You may listen to Marc Anthony's interpretation of "Preciosa" here and "Lamento Borincano" here This user identifies as a Puerto Rican. This user is of Corsican ancestry. This user is of Spanish ancestry. This user is a United States Marine (Once a Marine always a Marine) This user has written 4 Featured Articles on Wikipedia. This user has written or significantly contributed to 1 featured list on Wikipedia. This user has written or significantly contributed to 21 good articles on Wikipedia. This user has been a major contributor to 62 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. This user has 5 Featured Selected Biography/Articles in the United States Marine Corps portal This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is a proud member of WikiProject Caribbean. This user is a member of WikiProject Puerto Rico. en This user is a native speaker of English. es Este usuario tiene el español como lengua materna. This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded their own day. Search user languages

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No des tu tierra al extraño
-Virgilio Dávila-

Spanish (original version)	English translation
¡No des tu tierra (Patria) al extraño! por más que te pague bien. el que su terruño vende! vende la Patria (madre) con él.	Do not give your land (country) to a stranger! even though he pays you well.. He who sells his land! Is selling his homeland ( mother) as well.

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Wikipedia has many wonderful editors who have given countless of hours of their time to making this project one of the top websites in the Internet. It is because of their positive contributions that this project has accomplished so much. Wikipedia also has it's share of maggots whose only pleasure in their meaningless miserable insignificant lives are to be rude, to taunt and hound those who have made this project what it is today, without showing any sign of remorse for their actions. If you check the "contributions" made by these maggots, you will notice that they are not creators, for they lack creative skills, however they are good at attacking and destroying what others have created. Beware of them for the sake of the project. Tony the Marine (talk) 01:12, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

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Battle of Yauco 3...and the saga continues

If you plan to do research in Guanica on this topic, let me know when you will go there and I will do what I can to meet you there and help you. I have an interest in this topic as well as you might see! Hope everything is well. Mercy11 (talk) 23:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Looks like I will be in the Yauco Guanica area Feb 10-20. How does that work for you? Mercy11 (talk) 23:37, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Any plans for a winter break down in the Island? Mine are official for Feb 11-19. It should also be time for the famous Yauco Coffee Festival held every February. So I can "kill 2 birds with 1 rock." Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 15:05, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Vidal and Gag Law

The Vidal (barber from Santurce) and Gag Law articles are awesome. I did some minor Vidal editing to make it sound realistic yet a bit less emotional lest someone jumps up with accusations of POV or puffery, etc. I think Casimiro Berenguer was the shoemaker in front of whose shop the police fired upon the Ponce Massacre victims (but I am not certain he studied shoemaking in Santurce!!!). Keep up the good work! Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 01:35, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Concerning that e-mail I sent you a few weeks back

Have the assigned editors reached a decision on a course of action, or should I let it go at this point and leave things as they currently are? TomStar81 (Talk) 10:15, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

I think we have an obligation to honor the userspace requests if nothing else, matters relating to the talk page and to the other user pages should be dictated by the terms he set forth. As for the rest, if we have been unable to receive response those specifically named then I think the best course of action would be to leave the remaining requests in the hands of a project or task force best suited to oversee the area of given responsibility. By an large, that would leave the Military history Project as the trust group for the requests, though if I recall correctly (I'm not looking at the specific page at the moment) there were a few items that were better covered by OMT. For the time being, in the absence of input from the users, I think that the milhist coordinators should be brought up to speed on the discovery since they would be in the best position to broadcast the presence of the will and ask for volunteers to help honor the requests. TomStar81 (Talk) 20:14, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Userbox

Hope you don't mind my plagiarizing/adapting one of your userboxes! ;) [1] ScottyBerg (talk) 16:24, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Ruth Fernandez

Hola amigo. The article on Ruth Fernandez in the Spanish Wikipedia (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Fern%C3%A1ndez) was deleted in the last few days, aparentely because of copyright violations. I took the English article, translated it, and posted it there now (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Fern%C3%A1ndez).

I was wandering if you would have a minute to look it over. I am especially concerned about the senator / politician template that did not carry over. Any other fixes are more than welcome. The govt of Ponce (PR?) is having a farewell / homenage for her this saturday. I would like to see that the Spanish article is ready asap for the benefit of our non-english speaking brothers and sisters there should there seek info in wikipedia. Thanks.

Ah, also, I couldn't locate a picture of hers. If you can use some of your photo-digging techniques and come up with one, it would benefit the article in the English Wikipedia also! Mercy11 (talk) 16:39, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Hey, BTW, clicking on "Guanica the saga continues..." in your TOC, does not take me to that message's area. I had to use a trick to get there. fyi. Mercy11 (talk) 23:40, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

2012

Hi there and happy new year - albeit a tad late! Have a good one! Brookie :) { - he's in the building somewhere!} ^(Whisper...) 10:20, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Piragua

Hey, I believe this is spelled with a "ü", as in Mayagüez. Just don't have the time now to check it out now, but will try later. Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 15:07, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Awesome! God bless them. They are very cute. Check out piragüa use HERE.  ;-)

Maybe it should be moved to piragüa (food). It will still comply with English wikipedia, don't you think? Mercy11 (talk) 15:23, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank Wikipedia for shortcuts! Don't ü think??? ;-) Mercy11 (talk) 15:49, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

We probably should also have an article about "Mabí", the PR roadside drink. I had 2 16-ounce cups last week (they are selling for $1 but the 2nd seller wanted $1.50 which I negotiated back down to $1) on the same day and my stomach went bananas! Mercy11 (talk) 18:30, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! — Preceding unsigned comment added by KF5LLG (talk • contribs) 17:29, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

African immigration to Puerto Rico

I corrected some typos; the article looks great again.

However, you may want to double check the statement: "The cultivation of crops such as tobacco, cotton, cocoa and ginger became the conrnerstone of the economy. Since the cultivation of these crops required little manpower and machinery, the farm owners had little [WORK???] for slaves." I don't think that's what Baralt is saying.

I think what he is saying that: the conerstone of the (day-to-day, microeconomy) economy (Note: not the "main industry" [a.k.a., "macroeconomy"]) were subsistence crops (these would be crops such as - for the sake of argument - yuca, yautias, malangas, corn, tomatoes, pepper, etc; that is, things a farmer and his family needed to substain themselves), and that they (the farmers, not the hacendados and their slaves) would supplement their subsistance crops farming income (presumably they would also try to sell any excess subsistance farming they had left over [think "jibaro" here]) with another plot of land farming dedicated only to contraband farming. He then adds that such contraband farming was directed/propeled/driven by the contraband market demands for tobacco, cotton, cocoa and ginger, etc. (I sense these probably were taken mostly to nearby Caribbean countries from his reference to deep-draft ships). Unlike sugar farming, these contraband farming crops required little money, little land, little or no machinery, and no huge Europe-bound ships. It also required little manpower, such that the families did all the farming themselves, and thus, also unlike the sugar farming, required no slaves either.

Maybe you will want to re-think the wording to clarify this point. I am just now becoming familiar with all the detailed information Baralt offers in this book and don't feel qualified to contribute fully yet. ...I do know when a typo is made though! - heehee.

Except for that, I think the article looks great again.

Mercy11 (talk) 15:45, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Added an online citation for the same stuff. You may want to keep it or not - I know is redundant. Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 15:56, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Edit on Marie Terese Rios

Hi Tony,

I came across your wonderful and informative page on Tere Rios while researching our family genealogy. Marie Terese was the daughter of Rafael Rios, from Puerto Rico, and Marie Teresa Dowd, the daughter of Irish-Americans from Brooklyn, New York. Marie Teresa's father, John Dowd, was in the early 20th century the head of the New York Maritime Exchange, later renamed the Port Authority of NY & NJ. John Dowd's sister, Mary, was my husband's grandmother. I have extensively researched the genealogy of this family for many years. If you subscribe to Ancestry, you will find many documents on this family. I would be happy to provide more information.

Mcdgall (talk) 03:41, 28 January 2012 (UTC)Pat

Tere Rios

Dear Tony,

I am grateful that you included the update on Marie Terese Dowd in your biography of her daughter, Tere Rios. By the way, you might be interested to know that in researching the Dowd family (my husband's line), I have found that Marie Terese Dowd Rios' nephew, Col.Anthony Dowd, Jr., graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the USMC. He passed away in 2009.

Learning about Rocky Versace's life has been a blessing, and an inspiring and humbling experience...what an amazing man he was, and I shall never forget him. Thanks again, and I look forward to reading your article on Irish immigration to Puerto Rico.

And from a Blue Star mother...may I also thank you for your service.

Mcdgall (talk) 05:51, 5 February 2012 (UTC)Best regards, Patricia

Yauco

I will be in Yauco this Saturday feb 11. I will see if I can identify the site of the battle (which is not in Yauco but in Guanica - so I will go there also). In Yauco I will be going to barrio Rio Prieto. Know anyone there??? Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 03:37, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Was in Yauco (mostly) and crossed Guanica in my way to Playa Faro in Cabo Rojo (next to a nudist beach I heard!), but did not see any hill resembling the one in the pic. Though I have to admit, I only dedicated some 45 minutes to it during my journey in the area. I really think this needs more time. like a full day set aside just for that, and then use time as needed, maybe inquiring of the locals in the rural areas of Guanica. We could become a team and accomplish that. Mercy11 (talk) 15:16, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi!

Thank you for your webapges, very useful. However, I think you are forgetting a lot of people out from your notable Puerto Ricans list. I know that the media is not interested in scientists or engineers. They are not in the front page of our newspapers even though they are making great developments or even making your life easier everyday with their work. Please take that into account and not just include singers/actors etc.. Thank you again.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Gleek pr (talk • contribs) 16:48, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Ever hear of ...?

Made some changes, feel free to revert whatever if I missed your point(s)... or maybe you will reword something once you see my point. No hard feeling either way! Mercy11 (talk) 16:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

No, I hadn't and to be honest I learned quite a few things from your article. Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 17:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Your research in the Puerto Rico Archives

Tony,

The research you've done on Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the U.S. Military is invaluable. As a researcher, I am aware of how little information is out there, and much less formal scholarship. I found your article "Puerto Ricans in World War II" extremely informative (which I accessed on elboricua.com). In one of your footnotes (no. 27) you reference the "Puerto Rico Archives." Is this where you obtained the specific quotes from PFC Felix López-Santos, for example, and others on their experiences of discrimination? I was wondering if you have written up any more of your findings from the Archives, or if you have more detailed information on what specific collections/documents you obtained this information from. I am doing research for my dissertation and I'm looking for the same type of information on Puerto Rican's experiences of racism/discrimination in the military.

Thanks for all that you do! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kitkatblanco (talk • contribs) 02:00, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

• Thank you for your kind words. Some of the information was obtained from Prof. Maggie Rivas project on Latino and Latina's in World War II. I can help you with your research. Go to "El Boricua" and ask Ivonne Figueroa for my e-mail address. Tony the Marine (talk) 02:08, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Commons

Thank you for uploading free images/media such as File:T-Crystal Palace1.jpg to Wikipedia! As you may know, there is another Wikimedia Foundation project called Wikimedia Commons, a central media repository for all free media. In the future, please upload media there instead (see m:Help:Unified login). That way, all of the other language Wikipedias can use them too, as well as our many sister projects. This will also allow our visitors to search for, view and use our media in one central location. If you wish to move previous uploads to Commons, see Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons (you may view your previous uploads). Please note that non-free content, such as images claimed as fair use, cannot be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons. Help us spread the word about Commons by informing other users, and please continue uploading! Multichill (talk) 18:48, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

• Thank you. Commons upload form is too much of a hazzle for me. However, I don't mind if anyone else comes alomg and moves my images to commons. Tony the Marine (talk) 21:39, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
  • Do you mean the old upload form? Did you try the new UploadWizard? It's much easier and even let's you upload multiple files at once. Multichill (talk) 22:59, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
• To tell you the truth, I wasn't aware that I could upload various images at the same time with "Wizard". Thank you for telling me. I have traveled alot and I always take my camera to take pictures of historical places. I plan on sharing some more. Tony the Marine (talk) 00:59, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
  • If you unify your account it's much easier to log onto Commons (and other Wikimedia sites). I would recommend you do that. I noticed you like taking pictures of NRHP, you might be interested in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 in the United States. If you ever wonder what county to go, you might want to take a look at these statistics (rather large page, takes some time to load). Multichill (talk) 12:01, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
• Thank you for your advice. I really appreciate all of the information that you have provided me. Tony the Marine (talk) 22:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the kind words Tony. I also saw the comment you left on Tom's page. It looks like you can add him to the list of editors that left this month too. 2012 is turning out to be a bad year for Wikipedia. Good luck and Semper Fi. 71.163.243.232 (talk) 02:35, 2 March 2012 (UTC)