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Renaming Family_name article

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I see that you have edited the Family_name article and had some thoughts about organizing it better. Could you weigh in on my idea of changing the article name? Thank you. --DBlomgren 01:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

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Wow! I found a detail-oriented editor when I wrote you. After your input on the above, I realize it needs putting several heads together and planning a better outline/redistribution of articles. Before I get involved in this, I want to finish rewriting the Hawthorne effect. After that I'll help reorganize if you or Frappyjohn or others have not already taken the initiative. DBlomgren 03:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

abbeys

I don't see the abbey article saying that.

It makes references to mendicants, who do not have abbots, but priors (or "ministers" and "guardians" in the Franciscan tradition). I don't know why somebody included long sections on specifications about religious houses, which don't belong in the abbey article.HarvardOxon 21:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

An abbey is a canonically erected house of consecrated religious under solemn vows following a monastic way of life. It is headed by an abbot or abbess. ALL abbesses head monasteries of nuns. All abbots head monasteries of men -- monks, except in the case of "canons regular" who are a peculiar type of religious, only some of whom have "abbots."

Hence, all those answerable to an abbess are nuns, but not all nuns answer to an abbess.

A monastery may be an abbey, or a priory, or a hermitage conceivably. In common, non-technical parlance, monastery is also used to refer to convents and friaries.

These are technical terms, and you shouldn't be altering these articles without having a fair understanding of canon law and religious orders. FRoim what you say, I think you are largely misreading what is said in these admittedly somewhat sloppy articles.HarvardOxon 21:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Male religious: monks canons regular mendicant friars clerks regular later orders of religious brothers

Female religious: female monks -- nuns female canons regular -- nuns female mendicants/2nd orders -- nuns the above are headed by an abbess (abbey)or a prioress (priory)

third orders regular -- religious sisters later orders of sisters -- religious sisters the above are headed by various "superiors" -- "mother superior," "sister president" etc.HarvardOxon 21:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

All abbeys are monasteries, not all monasteries are abbeys. "Convent" means a place to come together, a gathering, a house of religious. Thus, i suppose, all monasteries are convents, but not all convents are monasteries. In normal, but techincal, English, we use convent in several ways: to indicate a non-monastic house of men or women (a "convent of Dominican friars," for instance); to indicate a house of women religious sisters (a convent attached to a school); to indicate a house of women religious of any type, including a monastery ("Maria is entering the convent and taking the veil as a nun").

However, an abbess can only exist for a canonically erected abbey of women, which means a monastery with women taking monastic vows, autonomous and sufficiently stable to be recognized as an abbey.

The articles are riddled with inaccuracies.

For instance, priory: a priory may mean a satellite or "daughter" monastery of an abbey, dependent on the abbot who appoints a prior to run that local house; a priory may mean a newly founded monastery which has not yet established itself with sufficient stability and size to be canonically erected as an abbey; a priory may be a monastery in an order which has no abbeys at all but only priories (Carthusians, e.g.); a priory may be a house of a mendicant order (Dominican houses are priories); a priory may be a region (Dominicans have provincial priors). There are also claustral priors, within an abbey, who are deputies of the abbot.HarvardOxon 22:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Munthe

Im from the spanish edition of the wikipedia. I have found in Commons a frre photo of axel Munte thumb|310px|Axel Munthe. You can see it in the spanish page of Axel Munthe http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Munthe#Biograf.C3.ADa

gracias! I've copied it over. -- Akb4 03:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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Eighth-generation video game console

Please don't move my page; When you redirect it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_%28eighth_generation%29 it gets deleted and protected. my page is accurate thus far.

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Detachable Penis

Not quite sure what you mean -- I didn't remove any lyrics from the article; if anything, I added more, just moving them into a "double entendres" segment. Of course, it might count as Original Research, but I'm hoping enough people would agree that it's "obvious" rather than expect me to cite it! Dave-ros (talk) 00:20, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Luchow's

Hi Akb4.. I was pleasantly surprised to see you added a wiki page for Luchow's the great and now defunct German restaurant in New York City. Can I ask where you got the inspiration to write about it? Did you go to the restaurant? I did when I was a child and have dreamlike memories of its cavernous interior. My wiki name is: bmcclean1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmcclean1 (talk • contribs) 18:57, 3 December 2007 (UTC) Thanks for your response about Luchow's. I am new to adding and editing photos on wiki and I am not sure what to do regarding the Luchow's image I uploaded. I am not sure if it is copyrighted or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmcclean1 (talk • contribs) 19:35, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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I see you mark most of your edits as minor edits. For example, you marked your comments on my talk page as a "minor edit", but that is not a minor edit.
Also, I just wanted to let you know I had responded to your question on my talk page in case you didn't see it yet. -- HiEv 03:37, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Netrek question

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• What is the manner of gameplay? are there multiple deaths and kills during gameplay? How do players regenerate?

(If it's not too much trouble, and if you reply, could you please post your reply at my talk page?) thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 18:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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No problem. I have left a message for the editor who left the PROD in the first place as s/he will be better able to judge whether there are still issues with the article as it stands. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 08:00, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for asking... the article has a number of issues. But if I could point to a few things, it would be (1) the lead is too long and the list should be converted into prose, (2) the basics section is too long and needs to be developed into a summary, with better organization, and (3) the ship types go into too much detail for an encyclopedia. But more important than any of those, the article needs proper references. This is so people can verify the information in the article, and so people can see if the game is notable enough to qualify for wikipedia. This is just my opinion, but I think it's close to what I've seen from how other articles have been handled. Feel free to ask me any further questions. Randomran (talk) 23:47, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

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