User talk:Finn Froding

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May 2009[edit]

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Hamtramck, Michigan[edit]

It would be helpful if you put in a reference to show the connection of Warith Deen Mohammed to the city. A bunch of Hamtramck residents, etc., got purged earlier because of a lack of references. Just a suggestion. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 21:02, 19 May 2009 (UTC) Stan[reply]

In Warith Deen Mohammed I've tried to clean up the notes/references. A few of the links are bad, and a few I did not complete. Cheers! 7&6=thirteen (talk) 12:56, 20 May 2009 (UTC) Stan[reply]

Glad to see that you are putting all those people back who belong there. Mrs. Hoxie (phonetic) was big in tennis many years ago, and I think deserves mention. But we (meaning you, as I've got "real life" work that needs to be done right now) need to add sources/citations. This is how the last 'ax murders' came about in this article (or rather, that was the justification. Keep up the good work.

I also suggest (respectfully) that you put something on your User Page, as you will not then be listed in red in the edit histories, and this will make you less of a target (for some). Best regards. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 17:01, 20 May 2009 (UTC) Stan[reply]

Yikes! edit conflict here on Talk page! Wow! you've done major work on this interesting figure (W.D. Mohammed). A rank newbie, I attempted to add a few more Hamtramck people. Do I need outside refs if the person's WP article mentions the Hamtramck connection? Still don't know how to make a user page or what to put there Finn Froding (talk) 17:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User page is a tab at the top of your User Talk page (above). Just click on it, and write something (anything will do). Or you can click on your red name in the edit history of Hamtramck, Michigan, and proceed from there. I think that there is a page called WP:user page that gives examples. As to W.D. Muhammed, all \I did was ry to clean up the references. I actually agree with some of the editors on the Warith Deen Mohammed discussion page that this might be a little too rah-rah WP:NPOV, and the accumulation of sources aren't as deep as one might at first think. Anyway, I try not to get in the way of the good 'Wiki work' that is being done by somebody else, and let people work without undue interference from me. If I can help in any way, let me know. {:}> 7&6=thirteen (talk) 17:45, 20 May 2009 (UTC) Stan[reply]

Sorry, I forgot to answer your first question. I don't know the real answer to that: if there article says that they are born in Hamtramck, etc., do you need a source? What I know is that sources are preferred, and they make it far less likely that somebody will come along (as just recently happened in the Hamtramck article, and start chopping stuff. That's one of the good reasons why I always try to put in citations for content that I add. That's just MHO. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 17:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC) Stan[reply]

Justin Morgan[edit]

Hello - I am just curious if you have a source regarding Justin Morgan's wife's cause of death. It looks like you added she died in childbirth, but she actually died 10 days after the baby, Polly, was born. At first I assumed the same thing (complications from giving birth), but I did find a source claiming she died of TB. I'll try to find that source again ... I just have it in my family history notes.

Reply from SirSwindon[edit]

More than fair. I doubt if there is much interest in the old AVC noting the few number of hits to the page. I doubt if many of the members are still with us! Sirswindon (talk) 22:07, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

American Veterans Committee[edit]

You turned American Veterans Committee into an article on the 2013 organization. I see no indication that the 2013 incarnation is notable, while the 1943 organization clearly is. If no evidence of notability is added, I'll revert back to the version of the article that covered the 1943 organization. See also Talk:American Veterans Committee. Yours, Huon (talk) 02:15, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Huon, I separated the two articles because I realized that the article because the addition of material on the new organization had led to confusion. Certainly the new organization has not yet achieved the notability of the old one--but as a new organization with some strong backing, it has the potential for notability, and it makes some sense to keep the existing organization at the main heading, with a clear link to the defunct one. On the other hand, the material on the new organization has been added by suspicious hands: Y2kdsp007 is listed as a sockpuppet, while VeteranUSA1 is a new user without a talk page; perhaps the latter could offer a rationale for retaining the entry. If you want to revert the AVC article to refer to the 1943 organization, I trust your judgment on this, but it would be well to make it clear that there is a new organization using the same name. Finn Froding (talk) 12:24, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

PROTEST[edit]

On this Wikipedia hard to offend some people and their national languages, ignoring the facts and international documents. The fact that the Serbian and Croatian two different standard languages, here it does not matter how big the difference is, it deals with linguistics. Why did you lie about that?

What are these languages: http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomo%C4%87:Sadr%C5%BEaj http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%9B:%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%98

See official international documents:

https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroups/indo-european
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php
http://euobserver.com/news/31343
http://hrv.nsk.hr/dokumenti/Sluzbeno-prihvacanje-izmjena-ISO-639-2-Registration-Authority.pdf
http://www.danshort.com/ie/iesatem.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.227.18.219 (talk) 16:45, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This unsigned IP account has been posting the same message to other talk pages. I have no idea what page this user is referring to.Finn Froding (talk) 17:22, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Bondurant[edit]

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I have done so. The entry at Alexander H. Bondurant now directs to Alexander Bondurant where his name is given correctly as Alexander Lee Bondurant. I should have followed WP:Moving a page. Finn Froding (talk) 18:42, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

November 2013[edit]

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January 2020[edit]

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Help! Menus and sidebars appear in Icelandic[edit]

I'm having a difficult time navigating en.wikipedia.org because the menus, headings, and sidebar materials are all in Icelandic, including even the "edit" option on pages or sections, which appears as "breyta." This has been the case for a few weeks. I have tried logging out, and logging in again, but the Icelandic menus persist. Finn Froding (talk) 22:56, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. I found the setting among "preferences." I have no idea how it got changed to Icelandic. Finn Froding (talk) 19:28, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]