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Abe Lincoln and sport

Why is it that some see pointing out Abraham Lincolns interest in sport is out of place in an article about the man? - There is http://baseball-almanac.com/prz_qal.shtml that points out he played rounders/cricket hybrid games in his youth, and his playing baseball with children on the lawns of the White House. Added to the fact he attended a important cricket match in 1859 (as per the article by the Smithsonian Institution I linked to but Rjenson seemed to doubt the veracity of) and you have a picture building up of a man interested (at least mildly) in sport. Is all that out of place in a n article about him, and if so how? Mattabat 11:43, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're mischaracterizing your sources. The Baseball Almanac link doesn't say anything about Lincoln's youth. Two of the quotes are from editorial cartoons, written by newspaper editors, not Lincoln himself. Only two of the other quotes actually pertain to Lincoln's own actions, and one is an unattributed "early childhood letter" that just mentions a man (presumably Lincoln) running across the lawn in a coat. The other quote is intriguing, but it's about baseball, not cricket, and you'd need to follow it up with a lot more. As it stands, it's purely anecdotal. The Smithsonian article doesn't indicate that the match he attended was important. (It also says the match in question happened in 1849.) That he attended a single match does not establish any kind of a pattern. You only have to look to the present day for how often politicians (and people in general) attend sporting events without being notable, avid followers of the sport in question. The removed section even admitted that there is no record of his having attended another match. One match in ten (or more) years isn't much of a show of passion.

More than this, though, Wikipedia doesn't exist for "building up pictures" - it's for pictures that have already been built. You're gathering shreds of evidence and speculating about them. Wikipedia isn't a forum for speculation or original research - it's for established facts. Gorilla Jones 12:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK. No more additions to the Abraham Lincoln article - given up. Its quite clear anything I add isn't worth adding. Its original research apparently. Mattabat 06:41, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vonnegut's politics

In the Dulce Et Decorum Est part of the section...what had troubled me from the start was that although I'm sure he was making a poetic reference, how do we know that he referring to the ironic use from the WWI poem, and not in the sense meant by the Roman poet who orginally said it in all sincerity? How would we know without asking V himself? Also, now that I think more about it, it feels like original research to point out that it was a poetic reference in the first place. --Easter Monkey 03:14, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The idea it was a poetic reference didn't appear first on Wikipedia - pop "Vonnegut dulce et" into Google and you'll find dozens of blogs discussing it. If our current entry reads like a rock-solid certainty, we could soften it a bit. I'll have a look at that. We know he didn't mean it sincerely because we've read his books! Gorilla Jones 16:39, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ninja

At least some of the material that you removed from the ninja article (the pirates vs ninjas bit) was not vandalism--it was actual information. I'm going to put it back into the article for now, but if you would like to talk about it, feel free to drop a note in my talk page or in the Ninja talk page. authraw 19:16, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Ninja

I disagree with this change. Can you explain why you 'reverted vandalism' and made major changes in the same edit please?

Quite alot of what you removed was not vandalism. --Spook ^{(my talk | my contribs)} 10:09, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation, maybe an explaination on the talk page is warranted? --Spook ^{(my talk | my contribs)} 14:49, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Spam from Ezekielbearsports

The spam blacklist for Wikipedia is handled through our Meta site, not the main English Wikipedia. Only administrators on Meta can edit the spam blacklist (I'm only an admin at en.wikipedia, not Meta), although you can ask for a site to be added on its talk page. If the EBSports spam continues to be a problem, you can ask it to be added to the blacklist either at Meta or probably at the administrators' noticeboard here. If it's just little edits here and there, we can just keep cleaning it up manually.

I've also noticed that another administrator on en.wikipedia, Naconkantari, is also an administrator on Meta and has been handling several of the proposed additions to the spam blacklist recently. If you have any questions about the spam blacklist itself, he should be able to answer them for you.

Hope this helps!

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