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Victoria photo

You found a much nicer version of this photo than I provided, however, the busy bodies at Wikipedia wish to delete it if no source can be found. I found it much to long ago to remember my source. Can you provide your source information to this photo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Victoria_Albert_1854.JPG

Mactographer (talk) 09:57, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Pedro II of Brazil

Sure thing. I'll get to it sometime tomorrow. Ruby2010 (talk) 03:04, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Lecen, I've found myself occupied lately with non-Wikipedia related things, so it might be a little while before I can review Pedro II of Brazil. Might I recommend you ask others to begin the reviewing process, and I'll try to jump in later? Thanks, and sorry for the trouble. Ruby2010 (talk) 16:06, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipédia lusófona.

Não quero parecer xereta, mas pq você deixou a Wikipédia lusófona? Bruno Ishiai (talk) 17:58, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fui fazendo algumas revalidações retirando vários artigos que acreditava não se adequar aos destacados, um dia propus o artigo Brasil para revalidação, logo vários artigos sobre Geografia foram retirados inclusive sobre Portugal, e continuei fazendo revalidações, caso queira votar... Não quero te converter para alguma religião ou algo assim, devo respeitar sua privacidade, mas agora as votações na wiki-pt estão mais exigentes. Um artigo seu como Honório Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná conserteza ganharia destaque, é muito bom. Se eu fosse melhor em inglês já o tinha traduzido, o que é uma pena. Bruno Ishiai (talk) 18:21, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Mas um wikipedista como você que manja bastante de história pode modificar os artigos de forma a mostrar a verdade sobre os mais diversos pontos de vista baseando-se em referências. Posso estar sendo chato nessa discussão, acredito eu saudavel, mas é o que penso e muito obrigado pela atenção independente de resposta e boas edições. Bruno Ishiai (talk) 19:34, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback: Emperor Pedro II of Brazil

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Re: Pedro II of Brazil

Okay, will do it within a day. Regards! Fιηεmαηη [talk] 16:36, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Guess the hair color is now fixed. File:Pedro_II_1853_1.JPG Fιηεmαηη [talk] 18:30, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I did not reduce the size of the image in any way. And I think it would be better if you asked some other Wikigraphists in the Graphics Lab. They'd be able to give a better view and do what's right right for you. Cheers! Fιηεmαηη [talk] 05:45, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The pro-Chavez editors won't allow information about Hugo Chavez's harmful food policies

This edit to Economic policy of the Hugo Chávez government removed the following content that was critical of Chavez from the section called "Agriculture and land reform." Without this content, that section is just a puff piece.

On the talk page, the editors who oppose inclusion of this material claimed that the sources were not reliable, that the information was biased, and that the information constituted trivia. They are wrong on all counts. The BBC, Associated Press, Washington Post, etc., are highly reliable. The information is true. And Chavez has been doing this stuff for eight years, and hundreds of such articles have been published during that time.

Here is the information was removed:

A January 10, 2006 BBC article reported that since 2003, Chavez has been setting strict price controls on food, and that these price controls have caused shortages and hoarding.[1]

A January 22, 2008 Associated Press article reported that Chavez had ordered the military to seize 750 tons of food that sellers were illegally trying to smuggle across the border to sell for higher prices than what was legal in Venezuela, and that Chavez had also threatened to seize the property of farmers who sold food at prices that exceeded the government's price controls. [2]

On February 28, 2009 Chavez ordered the military to temporarily seize control of all the rice processing plants in the country and force them to produce at full capacity, which he claimed they had been avoiding in response to the price caps.[3]

On March 4, 2009, the BBC reported that Chavez had set minimum production quotas for 12 basic foods that were subject to price controls, including white rice, cooking oil, coffee, sugar, powdered milk, cheese, and tomato sauce. Business leaders and food producers claimed that the government was forcing them to produce this food at a loss. [4]

A June 20, 2009 article in the Washington Post reported on Chávez's policy of redistributing farmland. Chávez has seized many large farms from their owners. Although Chávez allows small farmers to work the land, he did not give them title to the land, and they are often required to work as part of a collective. Chávez said of the farmland, "The land is not private. It is the property of the state." Because of this collectivization, the income that a farmer receives does not correspond to the amount of work that he does. Some of the farmland that had been productive while under private ownership is now idle under collective ownership, and some of the farm equipment sits gathering dust. As a result, food production has fallen substantially. Nearly five years after the start of the land redistribution program, the country is now more dependent on food imports than ever before. Production of primary foods such as beef, rice, sugar cane, and milk have fallen. Carlos Machado, an agriculture expert at the Institute of Higher Administrative Studies in Caracas, stated, "If there is a word to describe all this, it is 'stagnant'... The government policy to increase the crop production in the country is a complete failure." Felicia Escobar, a lawyer and consultant on land issues who used to work for the Agriculture Ministry, said of this farm collectivization, "That is socialism... It did not work before, and it does not work now." One farmer, referring to the government officials overseeing the land redistribution, stated, "These people know nothing about agriculture."[5]

Chávez has seized many supermarkets from their owners. Under government ownership, the shelves in these supermarkets are often empty.[6]

In 2010, after the government nationalized the port at Puerto Cabello, more than 120,000 tons of food sat rotting at the port.[7]

  1. ^ Venezuelan shoppers face food shortages, BBC, January 10, 2006
  2. ^ Venezuelan troops crack down on smuggling along Colombian border, Associated Press, January 22, 2008
  3. ^ Chavez orders army to seize Venezuela rice mills, Reuters, February 28, 2009
  4. ^ Chavez boosts food price controls, BBC, March 4, 2009
  5. ^ In Venezuela, Land 'Rescue' Hopes Unmet, Washington Post, June 20, 2009
  6. ^ A Food Fight for Hugo Chavez, Business Week, March 11, 2010
  7. ^ A Rotting Chicken in Every Pot: Venezuela's Disastrous Food Policy, Huffington Post, August 2, 2010
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