User talk:NorthBySouthBaranof/Archives/2014/May

Please ask for specific citations

Please ask for specific citations where you need citations on the bitcoin article. Please do not delete everything in my contribution - including many items that are just repetitions of statements already referenced in the bitcoin article. Please be Wikipedia cooperative and not disruptive. Please indicate spicifically what you need to be referenced. I do not know what you want referenced. Or do you want every word referenced? Please read the Talk page on bitcoin and you will see that I have been involved in long discussions on the talk page. I do not remember seeing your name taking part in the long discussions on the bitcoin talk page. My discussions are there including with regard to what you simply deleted because you know how to use WP tools.SpiltOctacle (talk) 08:43, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Anderswarr

I am changing brown bear to grizzly bear in coastal Alaska related articles because it is not correct, and this is a fact, to call any North American subspecies of Ursus arctos a "brown bear." Brown bears are also found in Asia and Europe, if you don't know. There it is correct to call any member of U. arctos a "brown bear." It is correct only to call them brown bears in Europe and Asia. Both coastal and non-coastal members are called brown bears. So in America, both coastal and non-coastal members are called grizzly bears. This is not only correct, but it reduces confusion. Calling both inland and coastal members in Eurasia and coastal members of America brown bears and calling inland North American ones grizzly bears is just plain confusing, stupid, and wrong.

For the very reason and to reduce confusion, we now call all North American subspecies grizzlies. The majority of sources still say coastal ones are brown bears, but don't listen to them - they're wrong. If you want to find out why it is correct to call North American ones grizzlies, check out Gary Brown's The Great Bear Almanac or Robert H. Busch's The Grizzly Almanac. The authors say it is correct to call all North American ones grizzlies.

Please stop changing any edits I make that change brown bear to grizzly in North American articles.

Thank you. From User:Anderswarr — Preceding undated comment added 00:43, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

The overwhelming common usage in Alaska is to describe the coastal bears as brown bears. This is adhered to by biologists and land managers across the state. You will never hear anyone talk of a "grizzly bear" on the Tongass National Forest, for example. If there is significant academic debate on this point, it should be cited and discussed - but the common name is "brown." For you to call it "stupid" is simply unhelpful. I gather that you have much to learn about the nuances of biological naming. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 02:07, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

-I apologize for calling "brown bear" stupid when I sent you the last message. I do NOT have much to learn about biological naming, since I am a bear enthusiast and have long learned much about bears. I do understand that the majority of local Alaskans call coastal ones "brown bears" and I respect anyone who calls them by this name. However, there are many people, including me, who still consider "grizzly" to be correct in all locations.

I have posted on the Katmai talkpage why I am changing brown bear to grizzly bear. Please visit the talk page to find out why I am doing so. Thank you.

From User:Anderswarr — Preceding undated comment added 03:01, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

NorthBySouthBaranof,

I am eager to know what "expanding a page by characters" means. On the Kukaklek Lake page, you said that if I expanded it by 1,500 characters you would help me get it nominated on Wikipedia's title page. I am sorry that I did not get around to expanding the page, but maybe you could help me with the newest page I have created, Peninsular brown bear. I would really like to have my contributions be shown on the front page of Wikipedia.

It would be very nice if you could help me get it nominated; I am also eager to know what "Characters" in this case means.

Thanks, NorthBySouthBaranof! From User:Anderswarr Posted on May 2, 2014 — Preceding undated comment added 23:31, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

WP:AN3

Hi, NBSB. I understand why you nowiki'd the references in the quotes you provided at AN3, but in practice it made the text really hard to read, and as for trying to compare the two passages you offered… it was frustrating. An option in similar cases might be to leave the refs as they are and simply add the <references/> template below the post, making them show up as footnotes. Anyway. You do good work, happy editing! Bishonen | talk 11:51, 3 May 2014 (UTC).

Actually, I didn't nowiki them, lol... I think it was the person who made the report. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 15:47, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Ha. Well, moot now anyway. Bishonen | talk 15:57, 3 May 2014 (UTC).

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Please engage in article Talk on specific issues for content that you restored. Thanks.CFredkin (talk) 23:15, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

No need edit explanation

NorthBySouthBaranof Why is there no need for this factual information?Patroit22 (talk) 01:30, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Alaskan Vandal/Government Employee

Hey there! There does not seem to be an abundance of Vandal Wikipedians, so I was pleased to see another active one. I was further surprised to see a fellow Alaskan! Then, I was further stunned to see that you are a government employee, which I have been in the past! So, there is a fellow Alaskan who is not only an Idaho Vandal, but also has government experience! What are the odds?! Glad to be your acquaintance! DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 21:38, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

University of Idaho

Hello,

I took a look at your user page. My mother grew up in and around Moscow. My father, born in Detroit, went to college there, as did my mom. Their romance led to my birth and a 47 year marriage. Alas, neither graduated. Something about a baby. I still have cousins in Moscow and I have visited there many times over the years. It is a wonderful town, and my roots there go back to 1880. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:52, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Move review notification

Because you participated in the most recent discussion regarding the proposed move of Hillary Rodham Clinton, you are hereby notified per Wikipedia:Canvassing#Appropriate notification that the administrative determination of consensus from that discussion is being challenged at Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2014 May. Please feel free to comment there. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:22, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Progressive Taxes

Looks like you're on the receiving end of VictorD7's frustrations. This RFC stems from a couple of editors who have banded together to dismiss the findings of the OEDC (a non-partisan group) that had done a global analysis of how progressive taxes are by nation. The OECD has no dog in the US debates about how progressive the US is or not.

The report is behind a paywall, but it has been covered by these sources [1], [2], [3]. This doesn't mean the US has the most progressive spending which is separate from tax policy. When compared to peer nations, the US lags in that regard but Lawrencehkoo and EllenCT conflate the two and have tried to expand the scope to a broader topic of income inequality (which has its own articles).

Instead of accepting a reliable source, a couple of editors started bringing in their opinions and citing a single source [ITEP] that takes an unusual approach to calculating total taxes including state and local. But even one of those editors has admitted that with current (as of 2013) tax law, taxes on even the 1% are progressive.

I don't expect this to change your opinion on the matter, but I wanted provide some focus on where this comes from.Mattnad (talk) 11:37, 26 May 2014 (UTC)