User talk:Syndicate
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Mike Breytenbach
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Lots of things to do re: South Africa. Advice - pick something you like, and work on it. Something that will get some attention - History of South Africa and sub-pages. Put them (all) on your watchlist, maybe? I also recommend talk pages of folks on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians/South_Africa that you notice from History pages.
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Wizzy…☎ 19:37, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Pretoria Meetup
Hello. Since you're not far from Pretoria, I wanted to make sure you know about the meetup there next week. Hope you can make it. :) Angela. 03:12, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Proverbial joke:
- Q: What's a camel?
- A: A camel is a race horse built by a committee.
Regards ;-) --hydnjo talk 01:11, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
:) - syndicate 10:23, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Simiamese Twins (disambiguation)
Hi, you can add {{db-author}} to the article yourself without the need to go through AfD. --BillC 20:57, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!
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[edit] Britney Spears
In accordance with the Manual of Style, song titles should be in double quotation marks and not italics. Also, please do not overlink dates that aren't full dates as well as random words; see WP:DATE and WP:CONTEXT. Thanks. Extraordinary Machine 13:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- I had a look at the guidelines for italics again and now agree with you regarding song titles (it turns out The Beatles is wrong). I have changed the article accordingly. I feel that only decades (e.g. 1990s) and centuries should ever be linked, but as the page already had some of the years linked I tried to link more for consistency. If your third comment refers to me linking words such as Judaism and pregnant, I feel that these links do add value.
- - sYndicate talk 14:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- P.S. Really cool user page!
[edit] Gender crimes?
Would you consider a massacre/killing where only a single gender was killed but an entire group was targeted to be a gender crime? I know this was common when many earlier civilizations destroyed other towns/cities and spared the women but killed the men and boys. --Freyr 18:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Great job cleaning the article - it is thousands of times better! I do not support the hate / gender crime mentality - to me it makes no difference if you shot your neighbour because he slept with your wife or because he was Swedish. The article on femicide is particularly shaky as the examples given does not, to me, illustrate a hatred for women - the women were the unfortunate victims of brutality not specifically because the perpetrators hated women but rather because the women were soft targets and had something the perpetrators valued. Are we really going to come up with terms for someone being a target for crime because they were wealthy or skinny?
The same goes for your example and the Massacre of the Innocents I added to the 'see also' section. These weren't so much a hate crime against a specific gender but rather a logical step for the aggressors to gain more power.
I feel it is still worth mentioning or at least adding to the see also section. - sYndicate talk 18:08, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Luther's writings against the Jews mentioned in introductory paragraphs
You have asked where this was worked out. It is worked out here: [1]. As you can see from the "Luther and the Jews" section below the matter is given more detailed attention. The manner in which you changed the text was POV. It is NPOV as it was agreed on by User:Jayjg, User:Slim Virgin, User:CTSWyneken, et alii. I hope this is the documentation that you seek. I would add that one should leave it to the reader whether or not these writings are antisemitic. There is a debate as to whether they are antisemitic or antijudaic. I agree with you that they are antisemitic, but the need is for objectivity and NPOV here. Don't underestimate the power of understatement.--Drboisclair 23:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
