User talk:TOttenville8

Hello User:TOttenville8. Do you live here on Staten Island? Your contributions are most welcome.

I don't know what you call things down in Tottenville, but here in New Dorp we call this area the "South Shore". The history books all agree with me too about the location of the Oude Dorp settlement. Granted we're not as far south as Tottenville, but we I've never heard anyone use the term "East Shore", let alone as applied to around here.

Keep up the good work --- Decumanus 09:57, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hey TOttenville8. Good edits. I adjusted your wording on South Shore. My experience here since 1989, first in Annadale, and now farther north is that the demographically term is broader than you described. Just took our cat to the "South Shore Animal Hospital" on New Dorp Lane,for example. When I taught at Monsignor Farrel HS, I once asked my students how many were from the South Shore and everyone south of Midland Beach said "South Shore" (part of an in-class geography exercise). Perhaps the term has expanded over the years from what it once was, but in both case, everyone called in "South Shore", but it seems like now SI is basically North Shore/South Shore/Mall as far as major divisions. My ex-wife has been here since she was a girl (came over after from Brooklyn via after the VN Bridge), though, and I asked her about the term. Aunt and Uncle lived in Willowbrook and always asked how things were on the "South Shore", before they moved to Jersey, of course. Also the racial mix has changed some, even since 1989. Mostly still white of course. I notice some web sites use "Mid Island" but I've never heard anyone ever use that term in speech. It's mainly an artifact of the real estate industry, I think. It's definitely not a term I've heard people using about where they live, or in business names. If someone said that, I would personally assume they mean they lived by the Mall. Anyway, it's an interesting topic, don't you think? I'm very glad there is someone else who likes writing about Staten Island on Wikipedia.

By the way, fantastic job on the Greenbelt edit! I would like to see the creation part of it expanded too. -- Decumanus 16:37, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi User:TOttenville8 I really appreciate that someone does good edits on Climate but could you please try to not spam the History of that page? From 12 feb. until 16th you have made over 50 edits, most of them minor ones. Maybe you could use the Preview button a bit more, or do your edits loacally first and then save them once or twice a day? I don't have a big problem with this but I think it would be nice for new users to also see some of the older contributors in the History page. Keep up the good work! --Dittaeva 10:21, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

--- Why do you beleive that postage stamps from Republika Srpska were banned in the U.S.? I couldn't find anything about this online. Rmhermen 00:21, Mar 21, 2004 (UTC)

Back around 1994-95 or so I tried to buy some at this place in downtown San Francisco, and the stamp dealer told me he couldn't get any for me since the sale of the items had been banned in the United States by order of the federal government (I went looking for them after seeing a newspaper article about the "renegade" Bosnian Serb government and the article included a picture showing one or two of the stamps). I'm sure they're probably not banned any more.

Hi :) You don't need to make redirects for plurals. Just change [[Eskimos]] in the article text to [[Eskimo]]s. It'll do the same thing, and it'll look the same - Eskimos.

Thanks Dysprosia 12:30, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Monte Dinero

Hi, I have comments about the article you wrote about Monte Dinero.

First of all, you said Monte Dinero is located on the Strait of Magellan. This phrase could cause confussion, because you said Monte Dinero is in Argentina and the sovereignity of the Strait (sea and costaline on both sides belong to Chile). So Monte Dinero could be at Chilean- Argentinian border, with the peak in Argetina's side (so could be considered in Argentina, like the Aconcagua), or could be located completely in Argentinian side. In the last case, it would more precisely to write that te mount is located near the Strait of Magellan rather on the Strait of Magellan (we chileans are very sensitive about this topic).

Also, i don't know if the lighthouse you refer it's the chilean lighthouse of Punta Dungeness (towards the Strait), or you mentioned a lighthouse in Argentinian side (towards The Atlantic i guess, i don't know if there exists). Besides there are many lighthouses soth this location: i think the southernmost lighthouse is located on Cap Horn. Baloo rch 23:32, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I found your edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Gun_politics_in_the_US&diff=4103147&oldid=4099201) to Gun politics in the US to be extremely POV and I have reverted it. Please do not refer to groups as extremists, and please provide citations for which groups regard blacks as criminals and whites as law-abiding citizens. --"DICK" CHENEY 14:09, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Michael Luther King

I've changed the article to remove this. There is a longer discussion about it at Talk:Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#.26bull.3B_Michael_Luther_King.2C_Jr..3F, but the short version is shown in this quote from MLK, Sr.:

I had been known as Michael Luther King or "Mike" up until I was 22 . . . when one day my father, James Albert King, told me: 'You aren't named Mike or Michael either. Your name is Martin Luther King. Your mother just called you Mike for short.' I was elated to know that I had really been named for the great leader of the Protestant Reformation, but there was no way of knowing if papa had made a mistake after all. Neither of my parents could read or write and they kept no record of Negro births in our backwoods county . . . I gladly accepted Martin Luther King as my real name and when M.L. was born, I proudly named him Martin Luther King, Jr. But it was not until 1934, when I was seeking my first passport . . . that I found out that Dr. Johnson, who delivered M.L., had listed him in the city records as Michael Luther King, Jr., because he thought that was my real name.

So even if the father's legal name was Michael for a time, his son was always Martin.

Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 16:38, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Prison

What is the source for your assertion of the difference between Prison and Jail? And would you consider moving the explanation to the Prison in the US section, since concepts of misdemeanor and felony are peculiarly American, whilst the enyclopedia is peruliarly international. I have to tell you that the Prison / Jail explanation makes no sense to me from a UK perspective, and does not reflect my understanding. --Tagishsimon

First Division

Excellent article. It's hard to imagine such good insight into old-time baseball from someone your age. I've tried to explain it to someone about your age before, and failed, even though I'm only slightly older. Historical sports terms need to be preserved.

I even agree with your adding "Criticism of salary caps". While I had put in the basics about the effects, older players being forced to retire or leave, regardless of their past role on the team, etc., I think that you added something needed to the effect that lots of people don't like this. (I basically favor it -- it's the main reason I can still afford a partial NFL season ticket, which would have gotten beyond my means were it not for the salary cap and if pay had continued to escalate at the rate it had from about 1981 to 1994.)

Limbaugh's opposition, however, needs to be seen in the light of how he has often admitted that the NFL is the "world's only example of socialism that works". The NFL has more impact on younger fans especially than other sports, largely because almost everyone can believe at the start of the year that their team at least has some chance of appearing in the post-season, which is hardly the case in some of the other sports with regards to some of their teams.

Rlquall 12:09, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

Why not? I'd be happy to agree to it. TOttenville8

Holy Cross Day

Hey, there. Nice work on the Holy Cross Day page, but there's a problem with the title. "Holy Cross Day" is not used in the Orthodox Church, and is, as you say, more a modern popular usage than an official title. What would you think of having "Holy Cross Day", "Exaltation of the Cross", "Veneration of the Cross", "Triumph of the Cross", "Invention of the Cross" and anything else we can think of all redirect to a page titled "Feast of the Cross", where we could discuss the various feasts without giving inappropriate preference to any particular usage? JHCC 19:29, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Got your email. I think just "Feast of the Cross" is best (we can put the Sept 14th date in the first sentence, so that's clear), since that can cover both the Sept & May dates and no-one is likely to be looking up "September 14 Feast of the Cross". I've gone ahead and moved the page to "Feast of the Cross" and will edit the text a bit and create some redirect pages. BTW, probably best to keep this discussion on the talk page for the article; that way other contributors can see what we're doing and make suggestions there. Thanks. JHCC 14:50, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Revanchism

What is this nonsense you put in Revanchism? Arabs were generally neutral during WW2, and of those who WERE involved, the vast majority fought on the side of the Allies (to speak nothing of the use of the in this context too generalized term "Arabs"). -- Dissident (Talk) 03:39, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject New York City

Hello, I've started WikiProject New York City, and from your edits it seems you might be interested. See its talk page for the beginning of a discussion on the standardization of neighborhood names, and bringing New York City up to featured status.--Pharos 14:02, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Astrology

An attempt is being made to remove all content on astrology from the articles on planets. If you have time, please review the entry on Venus and put it on your watchlist. ShutterBugTrekker 16:47, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Looked at the article, and didn't find any astrological references still there; I did make an edit on the "Ruling Planets" article to correct a few minor ambiguitiues. TOttenville8 10:10, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

MS Saint Louis

Two comments. First, what is "bolt in" in the context of an election? Second, as the user on its discussion page suggested, can you provide a source for this? Thanks, Avriette 00:34, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Round-robin tournament

I've merged & redirected a page of yours, Round-robin tournament, to Round-robin (sports). If you approve, say so on Talk:Round-robin (sports) to get the latter renamed to the former. (Or if you're an admin, you could do it yourself ;) ) Thanks, Joestynes 11:43, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Burglary

Your statements of...

"Many other U.S. states treat burglary as a more serious crime when it occurs at night; California, for example, prosecutes nighttime burglary as "burglary in the first degree" and daytime burglary as "burglary in the second degree," under most circumstances."

on the burglary page are incorrect

Night-time has nothing to do with the difference between 1st degree burglary and 2nd degree burglary. I erased your incorrect facts and replaced them with the proper, factual definitions of first and second degree burglary. My comments were deleted almost immediately by an administrator named Ahoerstemeier. I do not understand why an administrator of this site would rather have false information over factual statements on the website.

The information I provided that was deleted was:

"Burglary is entering any habitable structure with the intent of A. commiting larceny(theft), whether it be petty or grand, or B. any felony. If there is no intent upon entering the structure, there is no burglary. First degree burglary in California is reserved for any burglary to a residential structure e.g. house, apartment. Second degree burglary is all other types of burglary, e.g. businesses, vehicles, containers."

You can find the definitions of first and second degree burglary in the California Penal Code section 460:

460. (a) Every burglary of an inhabited dwelling house, vessel, as defined in the Harbors and Navigation Code, which is inhabited and designed for habitation, floating home, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 18075.55 of the Health and Safety Code, or trailer coach, as defined by the Vehicle Code, or the inhabited portion of any other building, is burglary of the first degree.

  (b) All other kinds of burglary are of the second degree.
  (c) This section shall not be construed to supersede or affect

Section 464 of the Penal Code.

The information stated therein confirms my statements and disproves yours.

Please contact the administrator so that my correct additions to the site will replace your misleading infactual statements.

Thank You