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[edit] Thank you...
...very much for all your contributions to Mexican articles. I hope the current situation in Oaxaca is not affecting you too much. Best regards, -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 14:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Rune.welsh. Thank you for your kind comments. I've really enjoyed working on the Mexican articles. I have very good sources, so that's why the articles have turned out well. That and the fact that I really like Mexico and Mexican history.
- I left Oaxaca in late June for an extended visit to the United States (Los Angeles and Seattle). That was after the demonstrators had occupied the center, but coincidentally just before things got really serious. I'm planning on returning in November. From what I hear from friends, things are definitely not good now, but I hope the issues will be resolved soon.
- --Rbraunwa 14:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Yes, I did start watching your talk page after my first comment. Thank you for the praise on Doña Josefa's article, I remember writing it after the previous one was found to be a copyright violation. I'm not in Mexico now and therefore don't have much access to quality sources on Mexican topics, so my contribution in this area is still rather limited.
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- I'm glad to hear the situation in Oaxaca did not affect you. Let's hope everything is solved by the time of your return. In the meantime enjoy your stay up north. 19:11, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ferrol / el Ferrol
That's very interesting, Bombadil1986. (Yes, I do read Spanish — better than I write it.) I had assumed that the preference for Ferrol over El Ferrol was partly a reaction to the name Franco gave it. But the discussion does seem to indicate the article has been used at other times as well.
My source says "Se dintinguió por su valor y conocimientos, [Flores] fue comandante del Departamento Naval de El Ferrol..." {Orozco Linares, Fernando, Gobernantes de México. Mexico City: Panorama Editorial, 1985). I think that was his title, and thus El Ferrol was an official part of it. I admit, however, that this is an assumption, since my source is recent and I don't have access to any documents from the 1700s.
My sources commonly refer to El Perú and El Callao, both of which were mentioned in the discussion. My thoughts are that all three of these were either official names or standard names in the colonial period, which is the time this article deals with. I think that would make it appropriate to use the El Ferrol form the same way New Amsterdam is used in the article on New York. And in this particular occurrence, it is doubly important if the El was indeed part of Flores's official title. Is there any way you can determine whether it was or not?
You obviously speak Spanish, but I don't know what country you are from. Are you from Spain?
Anyway, thanks for your interest in the article. I'm sure we can resolve this. I don't want to use an erroneous name, but I would definitely like to know what name was in use in 1775.
--Rbraunwa 21:37 15 sep 2006 (CEST)
Hi, Rbraunwa.
On the one hand, all editions of the DRAE define the demonym Ferrolano as Natural del Ferrol (where del = de + el), except editions from 1970 and 1984 which defined Ferrolano as Natural de El Ferrol but it must be an error because in 1992 and 2001 editions use the first definition again. It means that is not correct to write the article el with a capital letter.
On the other hand, the newspapers started using El Ferrol in the XIX century to dignify the name of the city but in the practice nobody use it.
Finally you can write el Ferrol in your article but I live in Ferrol and everybody says Ferrol. It's no clear which of them (Ferrol/el Ferrol) is older, but the first form is more used (it's the official one) and should be used by everybody. Bombadil1986 19:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Bombadil1986. "el Ferrol" would work for me. I think it meets the concerns I had (using the name once as it was used at the time and/or in his official title). If I need to use it in a contemporary article, I will definitely follow your recommendations. Thanks for your input.
- Rbraunwa 19:09, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Viceroyalty of Peru
Hi, I just saw your comment that the list of rulers should be split off and I agree; however that can't be done until the article is somewhat longer. I saw how much you have contributed to the biographies of many of the viceroys, and you seem to know a lot about Spanish colonies in the New World. I just thought I'd encourage you to add to the article if you are able. It seems strange to me how weak the article is compared to the Viceroy of New Spain (let alone dominions in Europe, say), and it seems like an obvious systemic bias. Rigadoun (talk) 18:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Rigadoun, you're right about the Viceroyalty of Peru article. It needs a lot of work. It's possible I will get to that, but I'm not sure I'm the best person to do it. For one thing, all my printed sources are much better for New Spain than they are for Peru. That also seems to be true of Internet sources, so maybe a person would have to go to libraries in Peru to really do the topic justice. Secondly, all my articles so far have been biographies. I think I do pretty well with those, but I've never tried my hand at a broader topic, especially one as broad as this. It would be nice to get a contributor from Peru to work it. Perhaps a translation of es:Virreinato del Perú might be a good start. Maybe you could do that.
- Even the article on New Spain needs a lot of work. For beginners, it doesn't include a real account of the changing boundaries. It seems to me the dates of changes in its jurisdiction are essential, but I don't know them and haven't gotten around to seeing if I can find all of them. Right now reading through the viceroys' articles in order gives far more detail than is included in the New Spain article. Of course those articles should give more detail, but I don't think the discrepancy should be as wide as it is.
- I noticed you've been working on articles about the Solomons, Vanuatu and Indonesia. I don't know if you're also interested in the Philippines or not, but I've done some work on Spanish colonial officials there too. Spanish colonialism was very interesting. I started out just interested in Mexican history, but working on that got me involved in both Peru and the Philippines. There is still so much to do — the later South American viceroyalties, independent Mexico, etc.
- I'm impressed with your language abilities. I know how much I like being able to work from Spanish sources, but I can only imagine being able to work from French, German and Russian as well.
- --Rbraunwa 19:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] drugs of abuse . . .
i dropped a note on Urod's talk page and he has moved the discussion over to category talk:drugs#Drugs vs Drugs of abuse. cheers --heah 17:41, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Heah. Rbraunwa 18:02, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello from Tennessee
Hi Rbraunwa. Added the Mexican-American War to my watch list, and noticed you spruce it up occasionally. My interest in American History is greatest in the period that begins with the election of James K. Polk (a Tennessean) to the Presidency. A humorless fellow, but one whose Presidency you could argue was largely successful and significantly influenced the growth of America. User:Mpleahy 23:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Mpleahy, thanks for the note. It's nice to hear from someone with overlapping interests. I am actually approaching this from the Mexican point of view, and it's a little outside my usual time span. Most of my work has been on the colonial period in Mexico, but I'm hoping to exand that into 19th century independent Mexico. Rbraunwa 00:22, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] License tagging for Image:Henry Spelman2.jpg
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- Boy, that was lightning fast. I was still working on it. But it's all taken care of now. (And I appreciate the notice, in case I forget a tag.) Rbraunwa 22:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] José de Gálvez
Hi Bob,
Thank you for the link: José Antonio de Areche. It mentions the years 1776 and 1777. As José de Gálvez died in 1787, I'm still curious to know what he did these last 10 years.
Thanks and best regards. PhilFree 20:51, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Page Fence Giants
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Page Fence Giants article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! - Lucky 6.9 02:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Lucky. That article is not copyrighted. It is specifically made available under the GNU Free Documentation License. See the bottom of this page for confirmation. I have been very careful not to duplicate any copyrighted material. I also gave complete credit to Baseball Reference Bullpen in the version of the article I posted. Baseball Reference Bullpen is a wiki, just like this one, and its material is available in the same way. Importing an article from there is like importing one from the Spanish or other language Wikipedia. Rbraunwa 03:00, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
In which case, I'll gladly restore it. All Google told me is that is was from another site; it didn't specifically say that it was a GNU. Thanks for being nice. I've been catching some serious flak tonight. :) - Lucky 6.9 03:02, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for being nice too. I was afraid I might be catching flack. I plan to import a few more articles from that wiki in the next few days. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Rbraunwa 03:05, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- You got it. Just give a yell and I'm there. Take care. Signing off for now. - Lucky 6.9 03:06, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Category:United States controlled substances law
No problem :-) Just trying to clean up Category:Drugs after the recent merge with Category:Pharmacologic agents. --Uthbrian (talk) 19:31, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Carrillo de Mendoza
Hi Bob,
I'm not sure to understand what you wrote at the end of this article:
Pérez de la Serna continued as archbishop of Mexico until the arrival of the next viceroy, Rodrigo Pacheco y Osorio, marqués de Cerralvo in November, 1624, when he was assigned to the Spanish diocese of Zamora. He died in 1631. Pérez de Veraiz was absolved of the charges against him.
He died in 1631. who ? Carrillo de Mendoza or the archbishop ?
Kind regards. PhilFree 12:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Phil. That was confusing. I thought at first it was some kind of careless mistake for Pérez de la Serna, but actually it referred back to an earlier paragraph. I tried to make it more clear. I always appreciate your pointing out these things to me.
- --Rbraunwa 13:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Hi Bob, in fact I later noticed it's not very important, because Carillo de Mendoza and the archibishop, both died in 1631. Certainly a trial by ordeal, both of them sent back to back by their creator ;-) . By the way, thank you for the picture of Manuel Lombardini in the french article. Have a good weekend. PhilFree 16:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] National University of San Marcos oldest controversy
Hi over there i am HappyApple and i see you have corrected a couple of times some of my contributions to the article. You have moved the following paragraph to as coment:
"Whether founded by the king or the pope doesn't affect its age. However, the other claim is more important. Was the papal bull invalid for some reason, or revoked later, or what? Please expand that sentence.
- UNMSM often states the National University of Santo Domingo's founding Papal bull In Apostolatus culmine, was not officially recognized by the King of Spain at the time hence making into an apocryphal document also states the document in question was discredited by the Pope Paul III."
In my opinion, based on this document [1] i believe it is quite unfair to give "the oldest" title to the University of Santo Domingo instead of San Marcos, because, there is not evidence from Archivo General de Indias or from royal decrees signed in the 1530s which in some way may have proved the University of Santo Domingo may have existed. According to [2], in Santo Domingo (now Dominican Republic) existed two universities during Spanish colonial regime, and those were the University of Santiago de la Paz and the University of Santo Tomás.
The first one (Santiago de la Paz), was stablished in 1537~1538, but it was not officially designed under the title of university,it was just an academically unknown institution for over twenty years. King Charles I of Spain formally gave the institution the title of university by a royal decree on February 23, 1558 marking the formally the birth of the institution. However this university Santiago de la Paz was closed and never reopened again in 1767, year in which the Jesuits were expelled from La Hispaniola.
The second one (University of Santo Tomás) started its operation around the early 17th century after the existence of University of Santiago de la Paz, and officially and formally designed to as University in the first half of the 18th century, "this university" is what today is known as "The University of Santo Domingo".
The University of Santo Domingo, often uses the the papal bull argument of the Pope Paul III "Apostolatus culmine" to supossedly give itself the title of the oldest university. But this assertion is false. In the 16th century a document or decree to be legal it required the signature and the approvation of the King or the Royal court not from the Pope. The University of Santiago de la Paz was officially aproved by the King much time after San Marcos, and the Papal bull which ratified its founding was given many years later.
The suppossedly papal bull "Apostolatus culmine" linked to Pope Paul III was disproved by the Pope himself on the same year in 1538, and the King Charles I of Spain also revoked the University of Santiago de la Paz arguments to call itself as university at the time.
This dispute turned into a heated debate among Jesuits and Dominican friars for over two hundred years until it was settled down by the King Ferdinand VI of Spain himself in August 2, 1758 when he wrote a document which expressely prohibited the University of Santo Tomás to be attributed itself as the oldest in La Española or the Americas. (see for more information at the end of the text: [[3]])
Based on this information, i think the leading paragraph of the University has to be reverted back to the title of the oldest university in the Americas. --HappyApple 14:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vilhelm Ekelund
The photo is taken before 1940, so there is no copyright issue. I can't find the source from where I scanned the picture (long time ago), but as you can see it's Ekelund as young (taken around 1900) and he died at old age 1949. /Hedning at the swedish wikipedia
[edit] Diego Fernández de Córdoba
Hi Bob,
Concerning the uppon mentionned article, you wrote: King Philip chose the French hydrographer Adrián Boot to investigate the drainage project and take charge of operations.
At first I was surprised, Boot isn't a french name, so I searched and found: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16060d.htm . It says:
At the same time Philip III commissioned the Spanish ambassador to the Court of France, D. Inigo Contreras, to find a competent engineer for the work and the Hollander Adrian Boot, who arrived in Mexico in 1614, was selected.
Can you just check with your own sources ?
Kind regards. PhilFree 19:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Phil, Sorry I didn't answer this immediately. I think your source is correct. Here's what one of mine says (quick translation): By a royal decree dated the first of June [1613], was sent to Mexico Adrian Boot, specialist in hydrographic matters, who had accomplished in France the draining of rivers and lakes, so that he would be dedicated to direct the operations of drainage of the city of Mexico; his salary was 100 ducats per month. --Manuel García Puron, Mexico y sus Gobernantes.
- The other source does call him a Frenchman, but I think that's just because he was sent from France.
- I'll make the change in the article. Enrico Martín might be worth his own article. When I get back to Oaxaca, I'll see if he's in the Enciclopedia de México, and compare the two sources.
- --Bob
[edit] Raimondi
Hey, thanks for finding that image of Raimondi! I had no luck at all when I looked. (He's one of the strangest musicians who ever lived, and that's saying a lot.) Happy editing, Antandrus (talk) 03:51, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'm glad I could help out. I don't really know anything about him, except what I read in the article. But I try to add images when I stumble across them. Here's a web page you might find helpful. --Rbraunwa 03:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gorman article
Can you undo your edits in the Gorman article please. This is a UK article where UK-English applies. Titles in UK-English such as District Inspector are always capitalised. Cheers Weggie 10:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, will do. --Rbraunwa 13:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] wikEd
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[edit] Quality.
Keep up the new entries of a high quality. If there is a fact in it is is probably good enough for a DYK Did You KNow? feature on the main page Ernst Stavro Blofeld 20:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hi Ernest,
- Thanks for the kind words. Which article were you referring to?
- --Rbraunwa 00:24, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- P.S. My daughter also has a cat named Mr. Bigglesworth.
Hi oh sorry Jose Celestino. Its good to knwo there is another great wikipedian aside from myself . see Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl and Shalu Monastery. My work on wikipedia has ranged immensely from a town in Swaziland to a poem by Margraet Atwood to a rug made in the mountains of Iran ! I have almost added all of the villages in Slovakia to wikipedia and then I will concentrate on adding films and actors to wikipedia particularly older film and Finnish film which has a substantial industry of its own -trying to make wikipedia less Anglo-centric. Only about 0.001% of films and actors are covered on wikipedia imdb has millions!! Keep up the great work Ernst Stavro Blofeld 09:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
p.s Also as I am Ernst Stavro Blofeld by kitty Mr Bigglesworth takes his name from the kitty of Doctor Evil my impersonator! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 10:01, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Norman Kwong
I noticed that you edited his page and wrote typo as the comment. However, I wish to let you know that it is by The Style of Address of Canada that Lieutenant Governor is styled His/Her Honour the Honourable while in office and The Honourable for life. [4] --Cahk 07:10, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- Really? He would be referred to in documents as "His Honour the Honourable Norman Kwong", with both those terms appearing together? Or does it mean he is entitled to use either the one or the other? In any case, I'm no expert, and I will leave it to you.
- --Rbraunwa 15:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hi again. When he's in person, you would call him 'Your Honour'. In paper work, you would start with 'Your/His Honour' and then 'The Honourable' for subsequent events. But in official and technical terms, he's styled 'His Honour the Honourable' when he's invited to an event or in legislature.
This is just like the Governor General who's called 'Your Excellency' in person and offically 'Her Excellency The Right Honourable'. It's all British tradition..haha --Cahk 20:13, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Migas Calientes Botanical Gardens,
The José Celestino Mutis article uses "Miga Calientes Botanical Gardens." I assume it should be "Migas Calientes Botanical Gardens." Is this a present-day botanical garden, or one that has moved and is now named differently? It should be listed if it is a present-day garden under Spain on the List of botanical gardens, or linked to its modern day equivalent with a note of the move and name change. Thanks for taking the time to do the translation and add substantial information to the Hipólito Ruiz López page. KP Botany 21:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- Good points. Yes, it should be Migas Calientes. That must have been a typo. It is apparently the original name of Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid. Here's what I found:
Ferdinand VI ordered the creation of the Madrid Royal Botanical Gardens on 17 October 1755, and it was originally installed in the Huerta de Migas Calientes, near the area now known as Puerta de Hierro, on the banks of the river Manzanares. It had more than 2,000 plants, collected by José Quer, a botanist and surgeon, who collected them on trips up and down the Iberian peninsula, and by exchanging plants with other European botanists.
- I'll make the changes in the articles.
- --Rbraunwa 03:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
