User talk:Transparagon

December 2008

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Christmas. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. B (talk) 14:36, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rouzbeh

Thank you for catching my sloppy work. The part in Tortured Confessions (p.94) that talks about the field marshall in the Iranian military does not mention that field marshall's name but goes right on to talk about Rouzbeh "the military organizations de facto head." I copied that text down and later used it for the wikiarticle In my haste I thought the two people were the same.

Also you wrote in the article:

In his ideological beliefs Rouzbeh was opposed to liberalism and thought many Tudeh leaders `mere reformers,` bourgeois liberals,` and `parliamentary lobbyists.

and you refered to page 81 of Tortured Confessions. but what I see in the book is:

Rouzbeh deemed some of the Tudeh leaders "mere reformers," "bourgeois liberals," and "parliamentary lobbyists." In his memoirs, Ovanessian praises Rouzbeh as a sincere but impatient radical in need of a firm hand

as far as I know there's a big difference between "some" and "many". if I'm wrong then you can explain to me and clear that for me. Transparagon (talk) 17:32, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I should have used "some" and not "many". I certainly won't contest your edit. I think we should add this from Abrahamian:

Contemptuous of the party for being too `moderate`, Rouzbeh had resigned in 1946 and not rejoined until the early 1950s. .... (Abrahamian, Ervand, Tortured Confessions by Ervand Abrahamian, University of California Press, 1999 p.94-95) --BoogaLouie (talk) 16:56, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your Winter edits

Your edits contain both incorrect capitalization and English which reads poorly; in addition, the cited reference adds nothing as the Wikilinked articles already provide the information stated in the, what should be, short paragraph. If you'd like to fix your edits, and think that your lengthy wording conveys something cleaner, please bring it up on the article's discussion page. Thanks. Quaeler (talk) 15:39, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If the capitalization and language are incorrect, then just correct language and capitalization, do not remove the sourced text and if the wikilinked articles provide wrong information, then it's not a good reason to put wrong information in that article too. --Transparagon (talk) 17:37, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm unaware that the wikilinked articles provide incorrect information — could you point out to what you refer? Beyond that, i did change your language and mis-capitalizing originally, and in doing so saw no need to keep the reference (again with the wiki-linked articles). Stylistic notions and incorrect English aside, it appears that our issue is that you think the information already existing in the linked Wiki articles is incorrect and so, rather than you fixing that information, you would rather cite a contradicting source in the Winter article — is this the issue? Quaeler (talk) 17:49, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Quaeler, I admit that there were some incorrect capitalizations etc, in my edit, but the main issue was something else, winter solstice does not occur on December 20 or December 23, that's why I provided two reliable sources and corrected both articles Winter and Winter solstice. Thanks for correcting english errors.Transparagon (talk) 19:28, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(Doesn't "Dear Quaeler" sound funky? I mean, "Dear Transparagon" must sound funky (unless your first name is that (in which case i have a host of other questions)). Ok - sounds good - i saw your solstice change, thanks for doing that -- your conjunction usage is dodgy so i'll tweak that ('between' always uses 'and', not 'or'), but otherwise thanks. Since the northern winter solstice dates were off - aren't the southern dates off as well? Quaeler (talk) 20:13, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Transparagon is a blend of two words: Trans. & Paragon. I chose it because it sounded cool and funky! I don't have any idea about your username. The dates for southern winter solstice were correct. --Transparagon (talk) 21:00, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(The dates for the southern winter solstice are correct in the Winter article or the Winter solstice artice? (Because they're different between the two)) Quaeler (talk) 21:58, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]