User talk:Vizcarra/July 2005

Page moves[edit]

If you want to move a page, like your move of Ana Barbara to Ana Bárbara, please don't do it by cutting and pasting. If you cut and paste, the new article has none of the edit history associated with the old one. (That article's OK now because an admin fixed it.) The menu at the left includes "Move this page", and using that link to move will preserve the history. If you can't do a move you want to do that way, which sometimes happens, you can list it on Wikipedia:Requested moves. Thanks! JamesMLane 8 July 2005 07:58 (UTC)

Thanks for the info! And sorry about the problems caused. Cheers --Vizcarra 8 July 2005 19:57 (UTC)

Oh by the way. That "Move this page" didn't work because it considered "Ana Barbara" and "Ana Bárbara" to be a no-change in name. I'm sorry that I had to hack it. --Vizcarra 8 July 2005 19:58 (UTC)

Hmm, that's interesting. I would have thought that the software would treat those names as different. Given that it doesn't, any such page move would have to be handled by an admin. JamesMLane 9 July 2005 03:34 (UTC)

I think so too, and that's a bug that needs to be fixed. I have found many names mis-spelled by accents, lack and misplacement of. --Vizcarra 21:09, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

revert of Afro-Latino[edit]

Why did you revert the change? Just curious. Guettarda 9 July 2005 00:14 (UTC)

I reverted it to your last version, which was the request to merge the two articles. --Vizcarra 9 July 2005 00:16 (UTC)

Which is what SqueakBox is in the process of doing... Guettarda 9 July 2005 00:18 (UTC)

You don't respond to a merge request by wiping out its content and redirect it to the other page without first combining the two contents. If this has happened already. Forgive the intrussion I don't see it. --Vizcarra 9 July 2005 00:21 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd have done it the other way around (move first, then redirect, rather than redirect first and then move) but he did paste the info into Afro-Latin American (which is the larger article) almost immediately. It's probably good to "assume good faith" in a case like this and give editors a few minutes in which to complete a merge. Guettarda 9 July 2005 00:26 (UTC)

Yes, I see that the information was added now. Greeting from Arizona. --Vizcarra 9 July 2005 00:27 (UTC)

Trini in Oklahoma here. Are you Afro-Latino? You might want to vote on the VfD for Afro-Latin American. Do you have a preference wih regards to where the article should be? Thanks. Guettarda 9 July 2005 00:33 (UTC)

I have some African descent in me on both sides of the family (although you can't tell). Afro-Latino and Afro-Latin American could be merged for now, for sure. Afro-Mexican should be an article by itslef because of its size. I already voted against Vdf for both (it seems that SqueakBox wants to delete them to honor his girlfriend and no real reason. --Vizcarra 9 July 2005 00:38 (UTC)

The Afro-Latin American article had problems - you can't really use terms like "pure black" in an NPOV sense. It's gotten a lot better, but it's still messy. The article needs NPOVing, it needs cleanup, but I see it as a viable article. Guettarda 9 July 2005 00:45 (UTC)

I don't know whyy you think I am honouring my partner by putting up Vfd, (a load of rubbish) especially when I have given perfectly adequate reasons. Her being black just means I am even more interested in the whole rascism subject than I was in the past, growing up in a place full of deep seated and instutionalised rascism. What I believe you are misunderstanding is that a Vfd can have a very positive affect on an article, and that these articles need some kind of positive input. Please don't just assume a Vfd is negative and then deduce lots of negative opinions about me as a result. I have genuine issues with the way the subject is being treated, SqueakBox July 9, 2005 01:22 (UTC)

A Vfd is inherently negative, you plan to throw away all research and improvements, all the time people have spent in writing an article. If your idea is to create controversy to improve the article then there are other ways to do it. You are the one that brought the idea of racism here where there was none. If you have genuine issues with the issue, bring them up instead of blaming it on racism or an un-based accusation of copyvio (and the original author cited his sources and were deleted, by the way). These comments above have convinced me more that you want to VfD the article for personal reasons, your partner needs to defense because she is not being attacked "Here at wikipedia she is described as an Afro-Latin American, though I have put a Vfd on the article. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Afro-Latin American" She was in no way described by any because nobody, but you, know her, "though I have put a Vfd" implies that you did it so she won't be considered an Afro-Latin American. Your own remarks. --Vizcarra 9 July 2005 01:29 (UTC)

Please stop thinking Vfd's are negative. I have seen them transform articles. You are clearly wrong to say I am the first person to bring up rascist issues around these articles. And I bring the issue up because it exists, both in the article and in the world. I know you are new here, so please get it out of your head that a Vfd is a negative process. Good faith is very important here, and you are assuming bad faith on my part, SqueakBox July 9, 2005 01:38 (UTC)

You were the first person to raise racial issues here, whether they exist in the world or not is a different issue. The world has many issues and I don't want to discuss all of them or to delete pages just because there are issues in the world. You may think that getting people to spend time discussing why or why not a page should be deleted is a "positive" process but I don't. These people could be writing articles instead. Look at me, I could be writing one instead. Let's get off this issue here and take whatever needs to be discussed to the appropriate pages. --Vizcarra 9 July 2005 06:12 (UTC)

Best selling artists[edit]

Hi ! I see you making some changes in articles based on List of best-selling music artists, and i want to explain you something. Most of this list was contibuted by me, and i can tell you that most of the figures presented there are coming from unofficial sources. In most cases Record companies realy don't want to share the information about total record sales of their artists and when they share the information you can see many inaccuracies or simple lies by these companies. For example Mariah Carey's label Universal Music says on his site that she is the biggest selling music artist selling 150 million records [1] , but on his other site Universal says that Nana Mouskouri sold more than 300 million albums 1. Vorash 00:56, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I get you about the figures. The best we can do is to get the most-updated figures. About Mariah Carey, Americans tend to call the "world's best" meaning "American's best". They are so used to be #1 and most of the time they assume they are. --Vizcarra 01:03, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ricardo Montalban is an alumnus of Fairfax High School[edit]

Please spare yourself the humiliation of making further fallacious edits to the Ricardo Montalban article. It is well-documented that he was a notable graduate of Fairfax High School, and well-cited within his Wikipedia article. Hall Monitor 18:18, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Humiliation? I don't take things personally, and I would suggest you did the same. You can keep comments like these in the discussion page of the article itself. My edits weren't fallacious since there was no source for the information within the article. Yes, the information is well-documente, by you, as of 2-3 minutes ago. --Vizcarra 18:27, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In the edit summary you made the fallacious comment: "Ricardo Montalban? He moved from Mexico to the US when he was 27 y/o". On the other hand, User:Bahn Mi has been making very well researched edits here for several months now. In the future, please do not make such meta-comments without citing a source yourself or exercising minimal research. Hall Monitor 18:30, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And I would suggest you took a deep breath before getting personal with other wikipedians. Wikipedia is a collaborative project. Getting angry about edits does not reflect a collaborative spirit. Neither is talking about "humiliation" and other wikipedians "making fool of themselves".

The edit wasn't fallacious, since I just removed a doubtful (and contradictory) argument. The moved to the US when he was 27 wasn't part of the article, but of the "edit summary". I got the information from "After a series of romantic leads and a promising stage career, he left his native Mexico for the US, and a contract with MGM studios. He went on to star opposite Cyd Charisse in the musical ‘Fiesta’ in 1947" (from The Biography Channel. His very own article cited that he had been rejected for admission at Fairfax. --Vizcarra 18:59, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please understand that it was difficult to accept your edit as non-fallacious when you were countering a well-referenced fact with a non-fact. The initial rejection was temporary and his later acceptance to Fairfax was, again, well documented on several reliable biographical sites on the internet. The PBS link is 6 links down on Google, right below 5 others which all state he was an alumnus of this school. There is nothing personal about this, I only have the best interests of the project in mind here. Taking the necessary steps to research your edits (and reverts) will hopefully further all our goals. Hall Monitor 19:07, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So your standard for me is:

To accept is that he is a Fairfax alumnus when his own article says he was rejected for admission (before your recent edits).
Search Google to find that he is an alumnus of Fairfax

Google search on "Ricardo Montalban": No mention of Fairfax on any article on the first page.
Google search on "Ricardo Montalbán": No mention of Fairfax on any article on the first page.
Google search on "Ricardo Montalban biography": First link mentions that he was 27 when he moved to the US.

Clase is closed, no closing remarks. --Vizcarra 19:32, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, it did not dawn on me that you may need some assistance with using Google as a search tool. By adding the plus symbol, you can add modifiers to Google to find what you are looking for, for example: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Montalban+%2B%22Fairfax+High%22. This would have quickly and easily verified the information previously disputed. If you ever have any questions on any other articles you are unsure about in the future, please let me know and I would be more than happy to work together with you. Hall Monitor 19:45, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I don't need assistance with Google, the "+" symbol is used as a translation for a directive to output only results that include the keyword that follows the "+" symbol. A similar directive would be to eliminate results that include certain keyword, that's when you use the "-" sounds. As an electrical engineer, this knowledge is very basic to me.

I don't it is usual to prove something is right by finding just sources that support the point of view. At the first inconsistency a "fact" becomes doubtful.

I'm sure that including that source on the Ricardo Montalban article instead of just keeping the "temporary" rejection of admission would have prevented the dispute from ever happening.

Thanks for the offer of working together, but the hostility and patronizing makes me not want to take you up on your offer. --Vizcarra 20:00, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am truly sorry if you feel that my pointing out your mistake (a double revert and asserting non-facts) was hostile or patronizing. Hall Monitor 20:05, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You are mislead, that wasn't what made me feel that your actions were hostile or patronizing, but rather using the words "humiliation", "making fool of yourself" and offering help with Google in a condescending manner. --Vizcarra 20:07, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, I apologize if the language came across too strong. Please make use of your electrical engineering knowledge in the future before reverting qualified edits on Wikipedia. Good day. Hall Monitor 20:14, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And there you go with the patronizing again. Electrical engineering knowledge has nothing to do with the article. If you remember, the fact that it was a "qualified edits" was the dispute in question, the fact was under dispute was contradicted by the Wikipedia article on Ricardo Montalban, which (before your recent edits) mentioned how his admission to Fairfax high was rejected. By the way, you disappeared by edit from the history, which maybe considered unethical. --Vizcarra 20:20, 13 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

On Merging UDLA-P and UDLA AC[edit]

I think the merge proposal should be removed. Both institutions are not related at all. They do share a common history but they no longer have any connection but a part of the name. Please see comments on page. Thanks. --Threner 04:31, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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