User talk:Ericross

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Hi Eric, Thanks for your note on my talk page (but for future reference, put all contributions at the bottom off a page). I do not know much about "Zion" as a metaphor in African American culture, except that it is real and important, so I certainly would not have any objections at all to a well-researched article on "Zion" as a metaphor. But this really is quite different from Zionism as a metaphor! Also, I still think it would be better as a subsection under some larger topic -- maybe on Cultures of the African Diaspora? I know of one good book on Zion as a metaphor within Africa -- Jean Comaroff's Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance which you may wish to read, although I don't know the book well enough to sum it up in any article. I am sure there is a lot of research on Zion as a metaphor in African diaspora religious and nationalist movements. Good luck doing research! In short, I don't think I could add much to an article, but as long as it is based on research and has the right title, I fully support your work, Slrubenstein

[edit] HDV in Final Cut Pro

For your information, page forty-two of the December, 2004 issue of Videomaker says Final Cut Pro can edit in DVCPro HD, HD, and SD, but not HDV. Information you contributed to "HDV" says Final Cut can, in fact, edit in HDV. Either your information or Videomaker's must be incorrect. Any ideas? —Vespristiano 00:21, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 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 2000 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| talk)

Hi, re the edit on Richard Boyle, there is no key on my comuter for the numbering thing, so thats why th earl of orrerry was misnumbered, but now htere is no link on the Earl of Cork page to the main article on Orrerry, who was by far Boyles most important son. I'm not going to go reverting it but it should be changed - properly numbered etc Jdorney

[edit] Richard Boyle's death

Hi, In answer to your question about his death, I understand that that he died of disease in the town of Youghal in co Cork in 1643. The 1641 rebellion saw a lot of killings and looting of British protestants by native Irish catholics, and the settlers mostly fled to the walled towns for their own protection. Boyle put up the money for the local British forces to defend thier community and also financed the English army sent to Ireland in 1642 - this is probably why Cromwell said that if there had been mre like him there would have been no rebellion. As a result,a lot of his fortune was actually spent by the time the wars in Ireland finally finished in 1653. At the time of his death in 1643, there were only a handful of towns on the south coast of Ireland in Enlgish hands and they were surrounded by countryside controlled by the Irish Confederates, so supplies would have been low and conditions cramped. Thousands of English soldiers died at this time in Ireland from diseases like typhoid and dysentrerry that come from drinking bad water, and its likely that a disease like this killed Boyle. Hope this answer's the question, Jdorney