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Welcome to my user page! Feel free to add comments at the bottom of the page preferably (easier for me to find).-- generally I'll respond underneath your comment whether on my talk page or yours unless you request otherwise.Tomwsulcer (talk) 21:00, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

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Thank you, Tom

Dear Tom: Not to be too effusive about it, but you did a superb job on my article, Wheeler Winston Dixon. A very pleasant surprise, and many thanks. Now, if it isn't too much of a hassle, could you possibly do the same, when you have a chance for the entries on Gwendolyn Audrey Foster and Figures of Light, when you feel like it? They also need significant work, and you obviously know what you're doing. Again, much appreciated, and all best wishes. WWD — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wdixon (talk • contribs) 05:35, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words, and you are welcome. Hope it is an improvement. Today I'm building an anti-mosquito enclosure, possibly repairing screens, and organizing tools; my time is limited, plus I am writing a novel in my non-handyman time, so working on other projects is a back burner project at the moment. Wondering: did Gwendolyn attend Rutgers? About Wikipedia, as you know, there's a learning curve, a method; pretty much anyone can master it. Consider, possibly, asking your students to read WP:RS, WP:V, WP:NPOV and WP:CITE, also, WP:SECONDARY, and seeing that after possibly attaining such wisdom they might spruce those two articles you mentioned, and if they do an unsatisfactory job, fail them. I'll put those two articles on my watchlist but I make no promises for the immediate future.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 10:42, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

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One Correction, Perhaps

Dear Tom: On my Wiki page, if you want to make the correction, in fact ALL of my experimental films were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 2003, all of the ones you list at the bottom of the page. MoMA used to have the entire schedule up for my retrospective, but they took it down over the years; they gave me two days in which they screened all my films, and then I donated all of them, prints and originals, to MoMA. Josh's existing notes just list a few of them as examples, as in "films include," but it was my entire output as an experimental filmmaker; they are now in the museum's permanent archives. I realize that with Josh's abbreviated notes, this would be hard to discern, but nevertheless, that's what happened. Further, I was paid by MoMA for the donation with an honorarium, so that perhaps "acquired" would be a better word. But I don't want to make this change myself; it's up to you, whatever you think is right. WWD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.88.95.162 (talk) 20:14, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks,  Done. Minor factual changes are fine to make, please go ahead. The problem comes with articles over time, when improper references are used, or unsourced material added, again and again, like barnacles accruing beneath a boat. It slows sailing; the text becomes sluggish. As an example, check out Wikipedia's entry on Chris Agee -- a notable poet (I read one of his books of poems) -- but the excessive irrelevant material might persuade someone, coming across the article for the first time, that Agee was less noteworthy than he really is.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 21:12, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

Tom -- one last thing -- for the Wiki page on Quarterly Review of Film and Video -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterly_Review_of_Film_and_Video -- the journal I co-edit -- which was also tagged -- the questionable notability tag is simply wrong. A quick glance at the journal's official website from Taylor and Francis -- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gqrf20/current#.Uh9g9JWxpG4 -- you can toggle back through the issues, and see for yourself -- should convince anyone that it's a major journal, founded in 1962, and the second oldest scholarly film journal in the United States. We have published the work of the top critics and theorists in the field since then, and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster and I took over the editorship in 1999. Please edit as you see fit with the rest of the text -- I have no intention or violating any Wiki policies -- but QRFV is clearly a notable journal. Yours, WWD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.88.95.162 (talk) 15:01, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, except the notability tag is properly applied, since there are no references listed to the article Quarterly Review of Film and Video, therefore the content is unsourced, and the article appears unprofessional, and (as an unfortunate side-effect) makes your journal appear unprofessional. Can you see how the article needs improvement? Wikipedia has a learning curve, an approach. Do you wish to improve it? Or do you have students or associates willing to learn Wikipedia's style? I'll be glad to offer advice but my main priority now is working on my novel. What I recommend is (1) start the QRFV article from scratch (2) find other publications when mention "Quarterly Review of Film and Video" -- nonbiased, impartial assessments (3) collect these references with inline citations using the standard referencing format then (4) write the article from an impartial viewpoint, with each sentence having a reference which supports that sentence. Do that: everything should be hunky dory.-- Best, tom--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:21, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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Rutgers Univ.

I know you've been involved with the Rutgers article for many years. I had been years ago and while briefly working on it here and there the last few months, decided it needs a rather large revision effort. I'd like to bring it up to FA status by the end of the year. I've been working in my sandbox on a revision here: User:ColonelHenry/sandbox/Rutgers University if you'd like to keep track of what I'm planning.--ColonelHenry (talk) 19:12, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Great! I have visited the campus a few times and taken photos. If you have ideas for photos or diagrams or maps, let me know, since I will be visiting periodically. Let me know how I can support your effort. My experience has been that articles improve when the number & quality of references goes up. My experience with doing revamps is to try to include as much of the (good) information that is already there, adding references, but redoing it to improve the writing and especially the organization; that way, past contributors don't make a fuss if their past contributions get nixed; good idea to reach out to people ahead of time. Some articles I've written include History of citizenship and Equal opportunity (major revamp) and Wall Street (revamp). I'm writing a novel but from time to time I can contribute, let me know what you'd like, I'll defer to your good judgment.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:45, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

• I received my BA back in '02 and get down there every 2 or 3 months. I've been planning to get down there this month...so we should plan to go together and do a photo tour. Coincidentally, a lot of the content on the article is stuff I wrote 8-9 years ago that has been added to here and there or just decayed. I just fell in love with the history and tradition of RU when I was there. What I have been doing is copying a section at a time to my sandbox to work on, then adding, subtracting, altering, redoing citations, and when I get the entire article done in the sandbox, I'll move it over. I moved over the lede and university presidents today. I recently started an article on Kirkpatrick Chapel, started repairing Old Queens and will do one for Queen's Campus eventually (have a great DYK for that). Most of the article I've worked on have been on poetry Duino Elegies (an FA, 90% mine), my current project of Holy Sonnets (revamp), or booze-related (an FA: Alcohol laws of New Jersey). eclectic. --ColonelHenry (talk) 21:40, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

• Wow. At Wikipedia, I frequently run Wikipedians more skilled than me, who know more, write better, organize better, reference better, and you are one of the best contributors here, so I salute you, Colonel, and will defer to your judgment about the Rutgers and Rutgers-related articles. Cool you got a BA degree there; in English? I recently revamped a wikipage of an RU grad, film professor Wheeler Winston Dixon who is now teaching in Oklahoma. I'll probably visit during parents visitation days; I think it would be cool to get photos of students in the wikipage; wondering what you think. I am trying to learn more about poetry; my favorite poem is Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Shelley.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 03:56, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

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Since this isn't really bout the T... If you've got car show pics, do upload them all at Commons. They're likely to be welcome. Anything hot rod or custom car related, especially. And any passing mention of the Hirohata Merc will get you Barnstarred by me in a second. :D TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 07:40, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the nudge, I will try to do this. Problem is, I am not knowledgeable about cars (or anything, for that matter) so I may have difficulty labeling some of the photos. But when I do, I'll post something here. Maybe be a week or so.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:43, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi, here are the photos so far; I have more (60+) but they were moved to the trash bin on my computer, and it is tricky getting the fotoxx photo editing program to find them.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 01:07, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Your photo, subtitled, "Atlantic Highlands from the Oceanic Bridge".

Although the photo you posted here is really nice, it is not a photo of Atlantic Highlands from the Oceanic Bridge. It is impossible to see Atlantic Highlands from that vantage point since A.H. is on the bay side of that particular piece of land, which is actually Middletown, NJ - Navesink, to be exact. I know this because I was born and raised in Atlantic Highlands, spent many years in the area, and drove over the Oceanic Bridge from Middletown to Rumson many times. Please change your subtitle and move the photo to the appropriate page, which would be one about Middletown or Navesink, NJ. A picture of Atlantic Highlands would be nice to put here, but this is not one of them. Sorry to point out the obvious to those of us who have lived there for many, many moons - and thanks for changing this photo out with one that actually is of Atlantic Highlands, NJ - my home town.

Sincerely, Bonnie Gregerson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.124.72.39 (talk) 23:52, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Bonnie. I take many photos, but it helps when others are willing to correct me when the inevitable errors occur. I'm not sure which photo you're talking about -- would you mind correcting it yourself? Just click on the word "edit" and make your necessary changes, thanks!--Tomwsulcer (talk) 00:51, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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Photo of Rutgers Spelled Out in a Hedge on College Avenue Campus

Hi! I just wanted to make sure I understand the information provided correctly and this photo is open to use for any purpose without any restrictions? We would like to use it for an online brochure that is being put together by the Rutgers Office of Undergraduate Admissions for international students. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.151.130.152 (talk) 16:34, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, use that photo for ANY purpose, no need to attribute me as photographer, it is a public domain photo, it is yours as much as anybody's, enjoy. PS Sorry the leftmost R did not get enough sun at the time.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 18:32, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

• Tom, that is a great shot, too...I lived in Hegeman 4 in the building behind during my junior year. That building was a dilapidated hell hole. I started a mini-fire in the basement there when the microwave in the commons room decided to turn my Hotpocket black and crispy. Oh how the times changed, I remember that quad being broken-up blacktop and neglected rusty basketball hoops where that gazebo is, they redid that entire old quad the year after I was graduated.--ColonelHenry (talk) 18:53, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Colonel! Good you did not burn anything down. Cool how they get the letters right. Guess it takes a good eye I suppose. I take lots of photos and if lucky, sometimes they're usable and good.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 22:02, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

• Do you, perchance, have any that I could use for Kirkpatrick Chapel, the museum at Geology Hall or the other older buildings on the Queen's Campus and Voorhees Mall?--ColonelHenry (talk) 23:22, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

• Next time I visit, I'll try to get more photos there, hopefully remembering those two. Would this one be any good? I took photos of buildings a while back but I did not know which ones were which. Those are great articles you did, by the way -- kudos to you.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 00:44, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Two-party system

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This concerns the article Two-party system so I will copy this comment to Talk:Two-party system.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 19:19, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

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It was one of those dumb things. I could have left the leaf blower fall or I thought I can correct this. Well it didn't work out that way. Actually the leaf blower did get saved, it got caught up on the gutter but there I was , laying on the ground again. You are laying there thinking did I just suffer massive internal injuries or am I just going to be sore as all hell. The last time which was two years ago was completely somebody else's fault. A roofer none the less. He was flashing my sky lights and I have no idea what he was thinking. He actually put his knee on one, I saw this from about 10 feet away and came running. I knew he was going right through and as the glass was breaking and falling onto my dining room table I grabbed his arm. This gave him time to grab the roof but his shirt tore and I was in a bad way. Totally off balance, falling backwards down the slope of the roof. I dropped on instinct but that thing called momentum and gravity was having no part of it. About five feet from the edge I was flat on my back sliding headfirst towards the edge. Grabbing and trashing the gutter slowed me a bit but sure enough on the ground again. Just so you know this is not a common occurrence, this has happened over a span of 19 years. Anyway enough of my issues with my roof. Yes anybody who writes an article called Common Sense II is definitely going to draw some heat or be ignored. Being from Illinois I have a different opinion. I live in Dupage County which is a predominately Republican County. Our ballots are still basically you vote the whole Democrat or Republican slate. Trying to vote for individuals regardless of party is purposely made difficult. If you dare put a Democrat sign on your lawn chances are it will last two days tops. My point of all this is even though our President is a Democrat and Illinois is a blue State, the first time around he lost in my County and the second time he barely won. The State of Illinois is broken, the whole country is broken. This bipartisanship thing has gotten way out of hand and threatens to destroy our country. Yet other then friends, close neighbors or family you cannot even talk politics. Even then it can a bit dicey. Like I have stated, I do not agree with some of what you say. I do agree with the fact that regardless of who will actually win, you vote for the best candidate. The problem is for many years it has become voting for the lesser of two evils. You vote for someone else and even though it might be considered a wasted vote, you have still exercised your fundamental right to vote for who you think is best. At 47 I am a bit younger then you but seeing a bunch of my nephews and his friends being so adamant about Ron Paul was encouraging. They were volunteering and getting their word out. Whether you think he would have been better or worse is not the point. The fact that a bunch of 20 somethings being so passionate and realizing that change was needed was encouraging. These are the same kids who are going to their friends funerals because they are dying in a war that makes no sense. None of it did, Iraq was a joke and promises were made that everybody would be coming home from Afghanistan. Just not in body bags. Do I think that the Constitution will be rewritten? Not in our lifetime. There would have to be an all out civil war. Without have read most of what you have written we could be miles apart. After I have read some of it I totally agree. You have no right to privacy outside of your house. Well in a public bathroom. There are no simple answers, it is a sword that cuts both ways, I have had a local cop actually pull his sidearm during a polite conversation in my yard. Basically I had enough of my neighbor pilling his leaves against my wood fence, told him politely that one more barrelful and I would call the police. The fence is on my property and the rotting leaves were really taking a toll on the one section. Then bam he slams his wheel barrel into the fence not thinking for a moment I would actually call. I did, the police showed up, one officer was talking to him and the younger officer was talking to me in my yard. I had a copy of my survey and it was a polite conversation. This was 4 years ago and that neighbor was just a mean sneaky old dude from the day I bought my house. He hated my fence, tough I have a dog and want a little privacy in my yard. The way the yard is set up there is dog run around the edge, it is all big round stones and gets cleaned daily. The dog is never just left out. I am either at the door or with her in the run and the yard is for play. The cop thought it was a pretty cool setup. He asked about my dog. I said she's a 80lb Belgian Sheppard but don't worry she's in the house and on top of that she has passed the AKC good citizenship test(CGC). The next thing I know he's patting his gun. "We have ways of dealing with dog attacks". Then he actually upholstered it and my immediate reaction was like please holster your sidearm, there is no reason to have it unholstered. He was like I have right to do this. I responded "you are out of your F****** mind". You are on my property, I pose no danger to you and you are waving that around like its a toy. At this point the other cop was at my gate and screamed "is everything alright in there?" I walked outside of my gate, told the other cop to get the watch commander here now, that this was totally unacceptable behavior. He got on the radio and about 5 minutes later a Sargent showed up. He was the watch commander. To condense this I told him my side of the story, he talked to the cop outside the gate who said it was very possible, then he talked to the cop who was obviously oblivious to what his actual powers were. He freely admitted that he was waving his gun around but tried to defend it with his dog attack excuse. The Sargent asked me if I wanted go to the station and file a report. I asked the cop who went from cool to dangerous if he had learned that his gun was not a toy and he smarted off. I went and filed a report and a month later there was a hearing. It turns out that 1) The cop was still in his probationary period and 2) He had done this twice before. He was terminated with a strong suggestion that he not be a LEO. To this day 4 years later I have not gotten any grief, as a matter of fact a couple cops said good, it was a matter of time before this rookie made a big mistake that would cost a life and the village money. While most LEOS are great cops, some just do not belong. This was one. That's part of the problem of tightening our rights, we very well could become a Police State and there are some cops that just shouldn't be cops. Just to site an example closer to you. On August 25, 2012 two New York Police officers shot 9 innocent bystanders outside The Empire State Building. Now you will call this propaganda but I saw the video leading up to the shooting. I also have had an NRA ranking since I was 11 years old. There are 10 simple rules. Rule #4 states know what is behind what you are shooting at. In this case it happened to be a crowd of innocent people. In reviewing the tape and personal accounts of what happened a year and a half ago I believe it could have been handled differently. The two officers knew who they were after and were right on him from behind. He had no clue they were on him until one of them yelled "stop police"! That is from eyewitness accounts. Had they waited 2 seconds and not yelled he never would have turned with his gun. He could of been tackled or shot without 9 innocent people being injured. 3 were shot by them and 6 others were hit by fragments. They were both veteran officers. You may think I have a bias from my experience four years ago. That is not the case. I firmly believe that 2 seconds could have prevented unnecessary victims. Once he turned with the gun they had no choice but to open fire. Another thing is in a fire fight if you have time seek solid cover. If you have no time you double tap twice center mass. A lot easier said then done but you don't let 16 rounds fly. That's why the police train. Don't get me wrong many officers would have emptied their Glocks completely. All the training in the world will not prepare you for a real situation. The point that shooter never got a shot off just sort of proves that it was an overreaction. Believe me four to the chest and you're dead on your feet. Do I think they should be kicked off the force? No. Do I think it could have been handled differently? Yes. These are some of the differences you and I have but should not prevent us from dialoging. Anyway I have to go and get some chores done. Get back to me with your take when you have time. Gibco65 (talk) 20:48, 2 November 2013 (UTC)