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Soft-paste

Hello Marshall46, I'm sure if one replies on the subject's discsssion page alone or to each contributor's own page, but there are a couple of comments over there about formulations, raw materials and pyroplasticity.ThanxTheriac 14:50, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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Tin-glazed pottery

Hi Marshall46. You are off to such a great start on the article Tin-glazed pottery that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. The Main Page gets about 4,000,000 hits per day and appearing on the Main Page may help bring publicity and assistance to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created and if you haven't already done so, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. If you do nominate the article for DYK, please cross out the article name on the "Good" articles proposed by bot list. Also, don't forget to keep checking back at Did you know suggestions for comments regarding your nomination. Again, great job on the article. -- JayHenry 04:18, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I would have liked to nominate it but I was away. - Marshall46

Leach Pottery

Please can you take a look at Leach Pottery someone added a large chunk of text full of peacock terms and marketing copy...I edited it down but it got reverted...what do you think? Teapotgeorge 13:08, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

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denhua etc

Set up the discussion page section, & links, correctly, & I will support (not sure about Japan). Johnbod (talk) 01:00, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed Ceramic Art Portal

I think I've started a basic portal? here... Portal:Ceramic Art Lots more to do... I've got to instruction number 3 Basically we need to follow the red links to create sub-pages that will fill the boxes. Teapotgeorge (talk) 18:15, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I've added a bit more in a random sort of way just to try and fathom how it all works. If you have any thoughts about what you want on the portal I'm happy to add it and feel free to change what I have done...it's your baby really! Teapotgeorge (talk) 17:37, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Futurism

Indeed, your comment is by any measures fair. My original edits to that article were made before various current WP policies either existed or were widely enforced. I have been picked up on this before, but the "shifting sands" of the Internet have failed me in my attempts to locate the original documents from which my asrsertions were culled. I will once again attempt to find confirmation for my statements, but ultimately you must feel free to remove my (as they are now deemed) weasel words. PS4FA (talk) 23:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Un-co-operative editor

Hi, Marshall46. Thank you for your note on the mysterious IP edit warrior. I understand that blocking editors working from revolving IP numbers is very difficult. The current best bet is to "protect the page" from being edited by anon IP users. This must be done by an administrator. If you have documented this user's pattern, please contact the administrator bishzilla _ROARR!! aka User:Bishonen. When I alerted her to this problem, she very kindly protected some pottery pages for me, at least for a short time. If you provide her with this documentation, perhaps we can impose on her on all the appropriate pages. Thanks for your interest. WBardwin (talk) 04:55, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

re:Appeasment

The article looks a lot better than it did a few days ago. Great work! I fixed a few minor typos and so forth, but nothing major. The only thing I would suggest is "ibid" shouldn't be used in the citation tags, as some other editor may introduce a different citation between the two, and the connection would then be lost. Other than that, it looks pretty good. I've removed both templates, as they are no longer needed. Parsecboy (talk) 20:43, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Ceramic

I dopn't think you are meant to blank & copy a talk page like that - for one thing it means those with it on their watchlist lose the new one. I think you are supposed to go through Wikipedia:Requested moves. But really this should be discussed first. Johnbod (talk) 00:08, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Er, messages go on the user's talk page, not on their user page. I've moved your message to Johnbod to his talk page for you. Just remember this in the future- Thanks, Lithoderm 00:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry - didn't see you were adding - I'll stop for now. Johnbod (talk) 21:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Move means move

Re this edit. You did not move the text; you copy&pasted. You should have moved the text so that the edit history went with the text. No great harm done - at least you acknowledged the previous edits when you created Alfred Reynolds (writer) - but please remember that there is a move facility. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 00:58, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Human Future

Hello Marshal, Check this link of the same website you removed ! Future Comic Art--Wiki4ata (talk) 22:44, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

FYI, with regards to this site, there have been a series of single-purpose accounts created exclusively to add links to it. At this point, it should be considered spam unless you see some value to it. Thanks. --Ckatz^chat_spy 16:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Durium Records

Hello. You might be interested... Rothorpe (talk) 23:21, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Tony Blair

Hi Marshal, Regarding your comment on the page, which I really liked..."Just thought I would point out that the article on Tony Blair refers to critics or criticism of him 20 times and the article on Adolf Hitler refers to critics or criticism of him three times. Shurely shome mishtake."

I would like to be able to search things like that too. How do you do that? (Off2riorob (talk) 00:18, 28 June 2009 (UTC))

Ah...easy peasy. Thank you. (Off2riorob (talk) 10:10, 29 June 2009 (UTC))

Meaning of consolidating...

Am intrigued by your edit to the George Orwell article. Your edit summary says "consolidating..." whereas in actual fact you deleted a substantial part. Neither my Oxford nor my Merriam-Webster give that nuance. Am therefore reverting your edit.--Technopat (talk) 23:48, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Greetings Marshall46. Sorry for not replying sooner. Just had a look at your new edit - have just added one bit that I thought curious and which helps explain matters to people who haven't yet read much on that particular issue. Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 01:10, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Greetings Marshall46. Thanks for your latest comment. As you point out, context is key and it's all-too-easy to use things out of context. Great for soundbites but not much else.--Technopat (talk) 22:32, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Peer review request – Frenchification of Brussels

Hello, I saw you listed as a peer review volunteer, and I thought you might be interested in giving Frenchification of Brussels a peer review. It details the process through which Brussels went from an all Dutch speaking city to a mostly French speaking city with a small Dutch minority, and the linguistic tensions associated with it. If you could lend a hand or some comments, it would be much appreciated. Thanks! -Oreo Priest ^talk 05:14, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

You might not know much about it, but then again almost no English speaker does. It's not as much the factual content that we're worried about as it is the language. It'd still be nice if you'd like to review it, but if you don't want to, that's ok too. Cheers, Oreo Priest ^talk 01:04, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Allegations of Soviet influence on non-Soviet activist groups

I shall explain if necessary, but this is what I believe is verifiable in the article; the title should be changed to the above, or probably Conspiracy theories of Soviet influence on non-Soviet activist groups. Anarchangel (talk) 00:07, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Peer review request - An Oak Tree

If you would look at this, I would be most grateful. Seems almost finished to me...93.96.148.42 (talk) 02:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you - it is an amazing piece, in my opinion.93.96.148.42 (talk) 16:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Peer-review

Hello, I'd like to hear if you'd be interested in taking a look at the article Per Ahlmark, which I've submitted for peer-review. /Slarre (talk) 05:27, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

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Nuclear winter and the KGB

The story of the KGB's supposed influence on the development of the nuclear winter scenario has been put in several Wikipedia articles. Here is the story in detail.

It is set out in a book by journalist Pete Earley about the Russian defector and double agent Sergei Tretyakov, who is the source of the story. Treyakov says that "nuclear winter" was a malicious invention of the KGB, involving faked data and a campaign of disinformation designed to mislead Western scientists. The operation was carried out at the bidding of Yuri Andropov, at that time the head of the KGB. Tretyakov was not involved and says he was told about it by an unidentified former KGB official and that he researched it at the Red Banner Institute, the Russian spy school. He does not say when the disinformation campaign took place but from the context it seems that it occurred some time between 1979 and 1982. Tretyakov says that the KGB started it by commissioning two fraudulent scientific papers about the cooling of the atmosphere after dust storms.

One paper was by physicist Kirill Kondratyev about the cooling effect of dust storms in the Karakum desert. Earley says that "Konrayev's [sic] dramatic discovery was not the result of painstaking research, but the first step in a carefully orchestrated KGB propaganda campaign." The other was about dust storms after a nuclear war, written by Georgii Golitsyn, a Soviet Academician working in the field of atmospheric physics, with mathematicians Nikita Moiseyev and Vladimir Alexandrov. Tretyakov says that the Russians suspected that Western scientists would not believe the "ridiculous" reports in these bogus papers, so instead of publishing them in scientific journals they resorted to "covert active measures" to spread the findings instead.

Tretyakov does not name the papers produced as part of the KGB propaganda campaign and it not clear whether he ever saw them himself. There are several Russian papers on similar topics that may be said to have played a part in the development of the nuclear winter scenario:

• Kondratyev, et. al., Comparison between the measured and calculated spectral characteristics of shortwave radiation in the free atmosphere over the desert (1976)

• Alexandrov, Moiseyev, et. al., Global models, the biospheric approach (1981)

• Alexandrov and Stenchikov, On the modelling of the climatic consequences of the nuclear war (1983)

• Moiseyev, Alexandrov, et. al., Global models, the biospheric approach: Theory of the Noosphere (1983)

• Alexandrov and Stenchikov, Numerical modeling of climatic consequences of nuclear war (1984)

• Golitsyn, Consequences of Nuclear War for the Atmosphere (1985)

They were all published in academic journals or presented to international conferences.

Kondratyev was an internationally respected member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and his work in the Karakum desert was part of the Complex Atmospheric Energetic Experiment (CAENEX) project that he had been working on between 1970 and 1975, outside of Tretyakov's time frame of 1979-82. Far from being part of a "carefully orchestrated KGB propaganda campaign", CAENEX was a joint Soviet/American exchange program between the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S.S.R. Hydrometeorological Service. A paper identical in content to the one that Tretyakov describes was published by Colorado State University in 1976 (outside Tretyakov's time frame) and was co-authored by Kondratyev with an American scientist, R.M.Welch. It is available online here No-one other than Tretyakov has ever suggested it was fraudulent or written at the bidding of the KGB.

Tretyakov claims that Western interest in the nuclear winter scenario was also created by an unpublished study by Golitsyin, Moiseyev and Alexandrov, presumably written before 1982. It is not possible to identify this paper, which Earley calls "Andropov's original doomsday report". It has never been produced and its title has never been cited. Given the open publication of the Kondratyev paper, it is hard to discern its purpose.

In 1981, Moiseyev and Alexandrov presented a paper on global atmospheric models to a forum held in Austria. Golitsyn's interest in global cooling following nuclear war dates from 1982, when he began to be involved in international discussions on the topic after reading articles in Ambio about the aftermath of nuclear war. Alexandrov and Moiseyev published "On the modelling of the climatic consequences of the nuclear war" in 1983. In 1983 they published "Global models, the biospheric approach" through the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. The key paper by Alexandrov and Stenchikov, "Numerical modeling of climatic consequences of nuclear war", was reprinted in the refereed journal USSR Computational Mathematics and and Mathematical Physics in 1984. Although actively involved in research, Golitsyn did not publish "Consequences of Nuclear War for the Atmosphere" until 1985.

Tretyakov claims that "Information from the study's key findings was distributed by KGB officers to their contacts in peace, anti-nuclear, disarmament, and environmental organisations in an effort to get these groups to publicise the propagandists' script." There is no record of any discussion outside scientific circles about global cooling after a nuclear war or the effects of dust clouds until late 1982, when the idea was popularised by Carl Sagan, drawing on research that he had carried out in the USA with Richard P. Turco, O.B. Toon, T.P. Ackerman and J.B. Pollack. Only then did it become current in the peace movement. Sagan, an anti-nuclear campaigner, purposely spread the findings of his research, the so-called TTAPS study, through the news media in order to influence public debate. Earley implies that Sagan's public role, which was unusual for a scientist if it did not actually breach scientific ethics, implicates him in the alleged KGB plot. To suggest that the authors of the TTAPS study relied on forged KGB data, Earley says that at a press conference in 1983 Carl Sagan cited "the Soviet study" as proof that the TTAPS study was valid. But, as Laurence Badash makes clear in his book about nuclear winter and public policy, the study Sagan referred to was not "Andropov's original doomsday report", but the published paper "Climatic consequences of the nuclear war", which came out after the TTAPS research. The actual phrase "nuclear winter" was not used until 1983, when it was coined by Turco.

In fact, the nuclear winter scenario was developed from Western research more than from Soviet research, real or bogus. According to Starley L. Thompson of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, the nuclear winter model was developed in the United States in the early 1970s. In the early 1980s, Western modeling of the atmosphere after a nuclear exchange was ahead of Soviet achievements, which Turco described as "weak" and "primitive". US scientists had been publishing reports on similar topics since the 1960s - e.g. R.U.Ayers in 1965, E.S.Batten in 1966 and 1974, J.Hampson in 1974 and the US National Research Council in 1975. In Earley's time frame of 1979-82, work on the role of aerosols in the climate system was already underway in the West. Work on the effects of nuclear war had been initiated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal, Ambio in 1980, and the United States National Research Council had set up a study panel on the dust effects of a large exchange of nuclear warheads in December 1981. Tretyakov does not claim that the KGB influenced any of these studies, apart from one paper commissioned by Ambio.

Tretyakov says that the KGB "targeted" Ambio, a refereed academic journal that published a key article in the development of the nuclear winter scenario. He suggests that the article would not have been written without the intervention of the KGB. According to Earley, in 1982, Jeannie Peterson, an editor at Ambio asked Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen to write about the impact of nuclear blast on the atmosphere. (In fact, Crutzen was invited to contribute by Peterson in 1981, not 1982.) His article, co-authored with John Birks, was called "Twilight at Noon". By April 1982 a draft of the Crutzen and Birks paper had been presented to a meeting of the US National Academy of Sciences by Turco. "Twilight at Noon" is mainly about particulates from large fires, nitrogen oxide, ozone depletion and the effect of nuclear twilight on agriculture. The "twilight at noon" of the title is not nuclear winter - that is to say, not a cooling of the global climate - but absence of sunlight, which they thought would reduce food production. All that Crutzen and Birks have to say about atmospheric cooling is contained in one sentence: "The normal dynamic and temperature structure of the atmosphere would therefore change considerably over a large fraction of the Northern Hemisphere, which will probably lead to important changes in land surface temperatures and wind systems." All the citations in the article are from Western scientific journals.

Tretyakov does not explain in what sense Ambio was targeted, but the implication is that it commissioned articles as a result of being fed fraudulent, unpublished data by KGB agents and that Crutzen and Birks made use of this data. Earley says that, "There is no reason or evidence to suspect that Ambio, Crutzen or Birks knew the KGB were trying to instigate anti-US feeling by circulating fraudulent scientific data". The work of Kondratyev, Alexandrov and Moiseyev which was published before Ambio is not cited by Crutzen and Birks. Other papers by Golitsyin, Moiseyev, Alexandrov and Stenchikov were published after, and, as noted above, were inspired by Ambio. Earley concedes that Peterson acted independently. Crutzen and Birks cited only data in Western publications. "Twilight at Noon" was refereed independently. If the paper made use of data for which Crutzen and Birks provided no citations - i.e., fraudulent data circulated to them by the KGB or, even more unlikely, data planted by the KGB in the peace movement and then picked up by Crutzen and Birks - one would expect the referees to have commented on it, but apparently they did not. Crutzen and Birks also acknowledge the critical reading of the article in draft by nineteen scientists. Apparently they did not notice the insertion of unreferenced data either. Tretyakov does not say which data in the article is the fraudulent data. It is impossible to discern how the KGB exerted any influence on Ambio at all.

Two of the authors in the Ambio anthology were from the Soviet Union, and if the KGB wished to influence Peterson, Crutzen and Birks they might have been a good conduit. They were E.I.Chazov, a senior physician and a member of the Praesidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and M.E.Vartanian, a senior psychiatrist. Chazov and Vartanian wrote about the effect of nuclear war on human behaviour, not on global climate, citing only Western publications. Tretyakov does not mention them, nor do Crutzen and Birks. Far from their being used to communicate faked data by Golitsyn et.al., to Crutzen and Birks, Golitsyn only started researching global cooling after reading the Chazov and Vartanian paper in Ambio.

Taken together with other discussions concurrent in scientific circles, Tretyakov's claim about KGB influence on the development of the nuclear winter scenario amounts to the suggestion that the KGB influenced not only the work of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but also the work of the US National Research Council and the US National Academy of Sciences and other scientific institutions in the West. The absence of any evidence of such influence, plus the assertion that it was secured via gossip in the peace movement, makes this an unlikely conspiracy theory.

From about 1985 it began to be said in the West that the Soviet Union was promoting the nuclear winter scenario because it served their interests. In 1985, Time magazine mentioned "the suspicions of some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh ammunition against America's arms buildup." This may be true, though it has also been suggested that the nuclear winter scenario may have been promoted within the Soviet Union not so much to undermine the West but by Russian scientists critical of Soviet nuclear policies.

Tretyakov's claim that nuclear winter was a KGB fraud is often repeated along with claims that the peace movement of the 1980s was backed by Russia. Tretyakov himself says that the Soviet Peace Committee, a Soviet government organization, funded and organized demonstrations in Europe against US bases. Investigations into these claims have been inconclusive, but whether they are true or not, they have no bearing on the origins of the nuclear winter theory.

Tretyakov goes well beyond the reasonable and demonstrable claim that the Soviet Union promoted the nuclear winter scenario and the more doubtful claim that it promoted peace demonstrations in the West to say that nuclear winter was fabricated by the KGB. There is enough in his story that is true for it to be credible to people who are not familiar with the subject: Crutzen and Birks did write a key paper in Ambio; there was a Western campaign against Pershing missiles at the same time; Kondratyev did write about dust and climate in the Karakum desert; Alexandrov did produce a mathematical model; Golitsyn did write a key paper; Sagan was in touch with Golitsyn and Alexandrov and he did push "nuclear winter" hard. But none of these facts, alone or together, are evidence of a KGB plot. Much of the story is vague: an absence of of dates and names, no sources or documents cited, no citation of any of the discussions in the peace and environmental movement about nuclear winter that were supposed to take place before before 1982, no explanation about how these supposed discussions influenced Crutzen and Birks's researches into particulates from large fires, no information whatever about the way in which Ambio was "targeted", no identification of the allegedly fraudulent data in the Crutzen and Birks paper.

Tretkavov is demonstrably wrong about the sequence of events leading to the development of the nuclear winter scenario, wrong about the work of Kondratyev, Golitsyin, Moiseyev and Alexandrov and wrong about Crutzen and Birks. Most of the work leading up nuclear winter, about the aftermath of nuclear war, was initiated in the West, mainly in the United States, and dates from the 1960s and 1970s. Kondratyev's work on dust storms was part of a joint US-Soviet project and was published in a refereed journal in the West in 1976. The key Russian research on nuclear winter by Golitsyin, Alexandrov and Stenchikov was started after the publication of the relevant edition of Ambio, and it was also published in refereed journals. The Crutzen and Birks paper in Ambio cites only research published in the West. At the time that the key TTAPS paper on nuclear winter was written, Soviet work on the topic lagged behind that in the West.

Tretyakov is the only source for this story. It has been repeated many times since 2009 but is always traceable back to him and cannot be followed any further. No-one has corroborated it and it is impossible to corroborate because Tretyakov does not give any sources. There are several possible explanations for the inclusion of the story in Tretyakov's narrative.

• First, it could be true, but there is no evidence that it is. The supposedly bogus research cannot be identified apart from the Kondratyev paper, which was openly published and which no-one other than Tretyakov has said is bogus. There was no reference to any such research either in peace movement discussions, in Ambio or in anything Sagan wrote or said. If this KGB disinformation ever existed, it seems to have vanished without trace. The probability is that it never existed.

• Second, it could have been made up by the CIA, who fed Tretyakov to Earley, in order to discredit the peace movement. This is unlikely. By the time the story broke in 2008, nuclear winter was old hat, the Cold War was over and the peace movement of the early 1980s was no longer important.

• Third, it could have been put together by Tretyakov to ingratiate himself with the CIA. This is also unlikely. Tretyakov was a highly valued and well-paid defector and had no need to impress the CIA by making anything up.

• The fourth possibility is that the story began as empty boasting by an ex-colleague of Tretyakov's, was relayed by Tretyakov for sensational effect and was accepted by Earley without critical examination. This seems the only credible explanation. Tretyakov says he was told the story by an ex-KGB agent and that he read about the operation in the Red Banner Institute. It would be interesting to see what documents he read in the Red Banner Institute but he does not identify them and he is now dead. One can only conclude that the story was a purposeless fabrication.

Marshall46 (talk) 09:31, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Donald Rooum

Hi, I notice that you improved the section on Challenor and used an article that Donald wrote for Anarchy as a reference. Is this available online? Or do you have access to it some other way? The reason I'm asking is that the detail of Donald knowing to get his jacket tested because of his membership of the NCCL is a detail I remember from an article in Freedom to which I no longer have access. I wonder whetehr Donald mentioned this detail in the Anarchy article.

Happy Hannukah if you believe in such things.--Peter cohen (talk) 11:02, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I totally agree with you!

Hi Marshall46. It' Theologiae here. I totally agree with your ideas on improving the Italian modern and contemporary art page. It's a bit clumsy. I created it 'cause I thought it was important, but unfortunately, I'm not an exceptional art expert. Considering your knowledge, maybe you could improve the page or ask other expert editors to help. Cheers and reply!--Theologiae (talk) 11:48, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Thumbnail sizes

I note that you've reintroduced a hard-coded thumbnail size on one of the A&C images.

Are you familiar with WP:MOSIMAGES, and MediaWiki's ability to show thumbnails at a user's personal preference for size (your my preferences tab?

There are a couple of problems with hard-coding the thumb sizes, which is why I recently removed them all from the A&C article. They force sizes onto users (inc. anon IPs) when they may be inappropriate for their displays. The A&C article in particular had some tiny ones. Secondly, logged in users may have deliberately chosen their preferred thumbnail size, and we shouldn't over-ride such a thing.

For hard-coded sizes beneath 300px, I'd certainly remove them. At 300px, it's slightly increasing the size over most defaults, but still shrinking it in some cases. It's also quite awkward for users with small palmtop screens.

In general, I believe (as does WP:MOSIMAGES) that we're better leaving sizes at "thumb" and encouraging more widespread use of the preference setting. There's also an "upright" setting that's useful too. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Honório Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná peer review

Marshall, good night. I saw on peer review volunteers page that you enjoy "19th and 20th century Europe". Could you open an exception and take a look at the article Honório Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná and share your thoughts to what it needs to be nominated for featured article? It is about a leading Brazilian politician when Brazil was an Empire in the 19th century. Anyway, even if you are not interested, thank you for your time. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 22:12, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

CND

Nice fix. [1] --Uncle Ed (talk) 18:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Peer review for Jhalkaribai

Hi, I am leaving this message because I saw your name in peer review volunteers' list. I have proposed the article Jhalkaribai for peer review in Society and Social Sciences topic at Wikipedia:Peer_review/Jhalkaribai/archive1. I would like if you can make some suggestions. Shivashree · talk 04:25, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response. I will try to make the changes you suggested. By the way, this article is in the row for DYK if you can check WP:TDYK. Thanks once again. Shivashree · talk 11:49, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Very welcome

You're very welcome Marshall46. Best regards Per Honor et Gloria ✍ 18:56, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of David Leach (potter)

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Arts and Crafts

Nice work on the arts and crafts topic.

It was a bit of a mess and difficult to know where to start. --Triton Rocker (talk) 03:30, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Would you like to add a piece about Whiteley Village? The Village has c. 300 cottages, all built in the Arts & Crafts style - I am told it is the largest collection of such buildings in the UK. We are just starting to create a Museum and Visitor Centre in the Village.

I am a newbie on here - any help would be mouch appreicated. Whiteley Village PR (talk) 12:25, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Religion

I merely tried to write objectively what most scientist think about the subject, and objectively what most continents think w/out any personal POV. Please fell free to extend the body of the article, or modify my intro, but I definitely think it should stay here as a definer of modern-day thinking.--Little sawyer (talk) 11:23, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Appeasement

Hi. Congratulations on all your work on Appeasement. Given your interest in this topic area I hope you won't mind my respectfully reminding you that Clement Attlee is spelt thus, with two Ts in his surname. Thanks and best wishes, DBaK (talk) 01:31, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Noted. Marshall46 (talk) 10:56, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

You're very welcome. Sorry, I know I sound like my granny sometimes ... thanks for not minding! :) DBaK (talk) 09:31, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Peace Barnstar
		Thanks for your great work on the Peace symbols page. You're really transforming it from a collection of off-the-cuff guesses into a well-cited, scholarly article. Kudos!

Qwyrxian (talk) 21:51, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Marshall46 (talk) 13:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Hasmoneans

Thanks for the courtesy of your note. My only concern is that both articles are somewhat long, so merging them might prove difficult. On the other hand, a fresh eye might find a large amount of material to cut. Either way, I appreciated your notification. Kaisershatner (talk) 15:43, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Peer review request Leslie Hunter

I wonder if you would be interested in reviewing Leslie Hunter for me? I am hoping to move it towards FA standard, and would love some feedback. Thanks.--Korruski^Talk 09:41, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't do much on Wikipedia any more. I should have taken my name off the peer-review list. Marshall46 (talk) 13:19, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

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Appeasement

I notice that you're essentially the main contributor to the article Appeasement. I am well versed in the subject, and do find it pretty interesting. I have lots of references on it. I was thinking of trying to bring it up to FA status - I noticed that you were hoping to do this a few years back when it was peered reviewed -. Are you in interested in working together? Best. Jay _{Σεβαστός}^discuss 21:39, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Bisque vs biscuit at Earthenware

I'm having the same issue with what I believe to be the same editor as you had at Bisque (pottery). Any comments or help would be appreciated. VMS Mosaic (talk)

Nomination of Richard Slee (artist) for deletion

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Peer review request Frithjof Tidemand-Johannessen

I wonder if you would be interested in reviewing the article on the Norwegian visual artist Frithjof Tidemand-Johannessen (1916-1958)? WK-en (talk) 09:14, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Peer review Finnish parliamentary election, 2011

Hi I was wondering if you could review the selected page as it seems to be the most comprehensive of its type, certianly otuside the english-speaking world. Any and all help will be appreciated as we seek to FA the article.

And if you need me to reciprocate as a third-eye on another article ill be glad to help.

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Fillià

I think the correct spelling is without the apostrophy. The Italian version article reports him without it, so I think it's more reliable than you Anglophone source, which are notoriously a disaster with Italian spellings. Ciao e buon lavoro. --'''Attilios''' (talk) 11:11, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Ah, no, OK, now I understood why here it was written "Filli'à"! Another of the examples I was telling you before... I wonder why apostrophies are so problematic for Anglophones. Anyway, differently from Spanish, in Italian the apostrophies which are not placed on the very last letters are not official. They are just added sometimes to help the reader to pronounce the name correctly, especially when many could fail due to a more common attitude to similar names. For example, before you correction I had always spelled it "Fìllia" instead of "Fillìa". Another example, Benetton is often mispelled as Bènetton instead of the correct Benettòn. But you can see in the company name there's no apostrophy. Anyway your correction is useful and I think it can stay as it is. Thanks and good work from --'''Attilios''' (talk) 11:18, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

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Hello there!

well, even my grand mama (god bless her),, she's a professor, should I add her to Wikipedia? LOL! No problem my friend, feel free to do the good things, but remember, the most important in Wikipedia is the sources. So gather 'em as you can. Peace out! :) Sean ^{(Ask Me?)} 19:48, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Yep

Ok, take your time and I'll try to help you. Sean ^{(Ask Me?)} 20:06, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Marshall

is he this one (http://www.cardesignnews.com/servlet/file/97284_68_preview.jpg?ITEM_ENT_ID=97284&ITEM_VERSION=1&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=1&FILE_SERVICE_CONF_ID=68)

Sean ^{(Ask Me?)} 20:28, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

HI again

I've made an (inbox) into the article, try to fill the fields.. Sean ^{(Ask Me?)} 20:52, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Request for peer review

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the draft of the legal history of chinese american

Dear Marshall,

I am translating the Chinese version of "the Legal history of Chinese Americans" into English. Since we are talking about 1785 to current, it is a lot of work and I would like to get help from Wiki editors most of whom are excellent writers.

I was told that Wiki is free source and its articles can be "copied and past". It turned out to be wrong information. In order to complete this worthwhile project, I would like to hire some one to do the writings.

Can you help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eric hsu1222 (talk • contribs) 06:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)