User talk:Edwardlalone

Welcome to My Talk Page

Please take the time to review my user page for an overview about me, my interests and the projects and articles that I am working on in Wikipedia. While I will make a sincere effort to respond to your posts here quickly I would ask that you bear with me as I do not visit Wikipedia daily. Edward Lalone 03:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and hello

I just thought I'd say that although I disagree with you on the AfD debate, I wanted to say hello. Your work on Utah politics and LDS issues is uncommonly good.

Also, although it was lost in other edits, I wonder whether you approve of the changes I made to Utah#Politics. Cool Hand Luke 03:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I see no problem with your edits of Utah Politics and the changes are good ones. A lot of work needs to be done on the section to make it more NPOV so any changes that attempt to do so are actually beneficial to the article. Edward Lalone | (Talk) 03:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Government of Utah - my bad

Ed,

First, thanks for your work on Utah governemnt topics.

If you remember, I had transferred the Government section of the Utah Portal to an article, Government of Utah, but I neglected to add a redirect to the portal page. So I have copied your edits from January 21 from the portal to the article and set up a redirect. To be proper, I should have done a move instead - I'll have get an administrator to fix that. — Zaui (talk) 18:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Just to follow-up - the history of your edits to the old portal page has been transferred to the Government of Utah article. The old portal page has been deleted. — Zaui (talk) 16:01, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

A Democrat in Utah

You must be lonely. That's why I moved to California.  :) Orangemarlin 20:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

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Racism & Mormonism

I have resided in Utah for close to a decade, Mormonism and racism seem to be intertwine much like a marriage. What most fail to understand is that the core and base of most religions usually evolves from love, goodwill towards others and the general practice of testing ones fate throughout his or her life. I have enough insight to understand that we, humans are creatures of habit and great limitations. Throughout history many atrocities have been commited by men towards other men, perhaps it is in our nature to be destructive, harbor hatred and ignorance. I have read and heard that the Mormon religion did not accept blacks into their ranks until 1978. I have also read a passage about how blacks are considered filthy. On the other hand, claims are made by the Mormon church of being anti-discriminant towards blacks. Incidently, it is also written in the U.S. constitution that all men are created equal and discrimination based on race, sex and religion is a direct violation of the law. However, racism is very much alive, discrimination based on sex and religion still exists as well. I am not offended by the doctrines of the Mormon religion. The ambiguity of the Mormon church seems obvious. The unfortunate part of it is that it affects all the members, even the ones that are not part of discriminating factor. I have accepted the fact that a great deal of people are racist, will continue to be racist and will most likely teach their children to be racist. As I mentioned before, we are creatures of habit and many limitations. What I do not agree with is the recant of the original doctrines of the Mormon church, to do so displays indecisiveness and falsehood. The general population of Utahans still believe that blacks are filthy, inherently inferior and are cursed. By accepting blacks in their church at the present seems parallel to saying "I am sorry for discriminating against you for so long. It is politically incorrect now. I will allow you to be in my presence, but I will keep a watchful eye on you." I do not believe in saying "I am sorry", what has been done cannot be change and I beleive that many do not want to change it just to save face. Many white Mormons are truthfully against racism and discrimination but are few in numbers as opposed to their racists counterparts. We live in a complex world where putting up facades and being politically correct is the new trend. Deep inside, not much has changed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 160.7.239.114 (talk) 00:29, 11 May 2007 (UTC).

Did you know? Nomination

Hi. I've nominated Quentin L. Cook, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on October 6, where you can improve it if you see fit.Alan 18:57, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Assistance on a project I am working on

Since you live in Utah, maybe you can help me with something. I have been working on a project dealing with bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton regarding the Winter Olympics and their respective World Championships in the FIBT and International Luge Federation, mainly with athletes, but I am also focused on the tracks these athletes compete on, including the one for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Park City, Utah. I still have some biographies to do and will not be able to focus on the tracks until around November 15, 2007. Would be interested in assisting on the Park City track? Please advise. Chris 00:51, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

New Member

Hi Ed, I just would like to tell you that I just posted a proposal on the project Utah talk page. I notice that you are one of the most active in the committee. I would like to know your opinion on my proposal. Thank you. User: Adrian Comollo 20 November 2007 For your ease I am attaching my proposal also here: Hi, this is user:Adrian Comollo, already a Utah wikipedian, and I would like to partecipate to this project. Since we are going toward globalization and dialogue among cultures, I propose to you a section that could be located for example under "People" and would be entitled "Utah National Groups". It would briefly describe the various groups such as Germans, Swedish, Tongans, Venezuelans, Russians and so on. A few lines of history, some info about businesses, social activities, relevat people. I am teaching a course that includes this diversity topic at the SLCC and my students would be happy to find accurate info. Please let me know if you like this idea. 20 November 2007.

Adrian —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrian Comollo (talk • contribs) 23:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Help offer

Hi Ed, this is Adrian again. I talked to my friend Many who is a student of PoliScience. He said that he would be happy to work with me to help with your Legislature project, such as preparing pages for the members of the House and Senate, or similar. Please let me know if you like this idea. User: Adrian Comollo 20 November 2007

from Adrian again

Hi Ed, I hope you read this message. Please let me know about help offer of you Legislature project. Best wishes, Adrian Comollo (talk) 18:56, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Blendtec

Hi! Sorry if this seems a bit forward but I'd like to make a picture request. It is for the Will It Blend? article. I would like to request a picture of the front of Blendtec's HQ (cf. [1]) under a free CC license. Sorry again if this is too forwards or not possible for you. Please respond here, Harris Morgan 00:24, 4 February 2008 (UTC).

An advice from you, please

Hi Edward, Thank you for your previous help. I am trying to get info from the village pump but no answers yet. I am wondering if you know something about procedures in case of cancellation. An article of a friend of mine in Italy has been proposed for cancellation (religious topic), and he was contacting people in his field to get their opinion and eventually their vote. He has been labeled with vandalism! Do you know if this is the case also here or it is a specific Italian situation? Thank you much for your help. Adrian Comollo (talk) 06:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

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Im gay is that fine

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