User talk:Markalexander100

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Barring unforeseen circumstances, I'll reply to everything on this page.

Contents

1 Geography of India 2 reverts 3 Smyth 2002 and the Thai language article 4 Talk:Tibet 5 Antarctic krill 6 MV Tampa 7 who do you think you are about Siam history???

Geography of India

Thanks for the copyedits on the Geography of India page. Its hard to spot the subtle errors; and even harder for the main authors to do so. Please do let me know if there is anything else that I can do to address your objection.  =Nichalp (Talk)= 18:17, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

reverts

Just noticed an revert that you made to a vandalism, Just wanted to make a friendly suggestion that it may be easier for users and admins to keep track of a users vandalisms if you add a warning to their talk as well as doing a revert this helps keep a timestamp list and an easy way to quickly look at a users vandalisms, Some users (myself especially) take into acccount how many vandalisms a user has made when asking an admin to either review a situation or block the user. Keep up the good work on the RC patrol. Jtkiefer 02:51, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Thx for your prompt rv for the vandalism. Regardless of view of point, vandalism is always bad.--Flowerofchivalry 05:17, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. ;) Mark¹ 05:21, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Smyth 2002 and the Thai language article

Hi Mark - I'm curious to know why you've twice removed the Smyth grammar from this article. I've been using this grammar to check the article. Although I haven't yet made any edits, I am mistaken to think that my editorial use of it qualifies as a source? Many of the facts in this article can be found in this book. The book is a modern, relevant, reputable and authoritative source for this subject. Including the bibliographic details in the article gives credibility to the article and makes the article more useful for readers interested in more details or further reading. Seems to me that Higbe and Thinsan 2003 is a more recent and complete text, but Smyth is cheaper and more readily available outside of Thailand. I don't know Smyth and have no special interest in his books. Either way I'm not fussed, just curious. Comtebenoit 07:27, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I don't see any justification for references beyond those used in writing the article, unless those references support material in the article which the other references don't. If Higbie is more complete (I haven't used Smyth, but I did use Higbie in writing parts of the article) then that seems unlikely. We could always mention Smyth in a "further reading" section if we want to point people in its direction, but including it as a reference is misleading.

I checked to see if you had added anything to the article, but you hadn't. Did you do any work as an anon? Mark¹ 02:48, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi Mark - While you've clearly made substantial contributions to the article, can you be sure that none of the other editors used Smyth 2002? (I have, and my edit was to include it as a reference). As Woodstone notes, the other two books are not cited anywhere in the article, so it's not clear how they are more relevant. Seems to me that Higbe and Thinsan 2003 has no information about the Thai script, dialects or tone rules (perhaps Segaller 1999 does, the title doesn't suggest it and I haven't read it). Smyth 2002 covers these topics and gives suggestions for further reading. If you have more and better references for the article perhaps you could include them also? You explanation isn't really convincing to me, but your 'further reading' edit is a good compromise. Comtebenoit 04:20, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Higbie is there because I used it; Segaller has been there since before my time, I think, so I have no reason to doubt that it was used by one of our predecessors. I did doubt that you had used Smyth since you hadn't edited the article under your username, but if some of the anonymous contributors were you, and if Smyth covers the other areas you mention, then those are good reasons to list it as a reference. Mark¹ 04:28, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Tibet

Markalexander100,

Please let me know what you think and if you agree on my comment on Talk:Tibet. If you do, would you be able to help me in changing User:Nathan Hill's edits so that it has both methods of spelling with Wylie not as the default? ---User:Hottentot

Antarctic krill

hallo Mark - thanks for the nomination of the Antarctic krill eye - we try to promote this mystic critter Uwe Kils 03:23, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC) Guten Tag

great outcome - Wikipedia is fun ;-) Uwe Kils Missing image
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03:32, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

The eye is now my wallpaper. ;) Mark¹ 03:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

MV Tampa

Can you explain how the MV Tampa entry needs updating? I just read it over, I'm very familiar with the case, and it looks OK to me. Ditto the person who deleted your previous two "update" requests. Clue, please? Bruxism 01:42, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User_talk:Lacrimosus/Archive_(April_'05-June_'05)#MV_Tampa. Mark¹ 03:17, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

who do you think you are about Siam history???

The sensitive case is that Thailand was the (informal) British colony, which it actually never was, and we cannot accept that. And the truth is that we also used to own the areas around which was later became the new territoties under the British Empire by an unfiar threats (in many historians' opinions). PS1: SIAM HAS NOT BEEN COLONIZED BY ANY COUNTRY (FORMAL OR INFORMAL) PS2: PLS DONT CHANGE ANYTHING IF YOU DONT EVEN KNOW SIAM HISTORY!