Hello and welcome! I noticed your work on moving "Baha'i Faith" to "Baha'i faith". As I understand it, "faith" is part of the name of the religion in this case, and so should be capitalised. I've checked a couple of reference books, and the Baha'i web site and they use this format. Would you object to me changing it back again? Regards -- sannse 09:23 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)
Excuse me? Are you saying that there is a moral equivalency between Americans, like our troops in Iraq and the firefighters who died on 9/11, and the Islamofascists who dug all those mass graves in Iraq and flew those planes into the twin towers? That is a very twisted POV. It does not belong in encyclopedia articles. Facts, like the ones presented in my article, do. JoeM
I do not think that we should liberate China through an invasion this minute (only because the Communist butchers in Beijing have nukes), but we should pursue regime change. We can do that by cutting diplomatic relations, vacating our embassy there, isolating them politically, cutting trade ties, and destabilizing the country by overtly offering moral support to, and covertly offering financial and logistical support to, forces operating in Red China determined to bring down the Communists and fight for freedom, liberal democracy, American values, and capitalism. We would also need to wage an all out economic war with Red China so that their economy would collapse. It would be easy for us to destabilize the country politically under those circumstances. China then could go through a transition like the Soviet Union when it broke up. Or there could be an internal revolution like the one that brought down the Ceausescu tyranny in Romania. One thing is clear though. We must break trade relations and quit the policies of "constructive engagement" with a Communist state of terror that violates inalienable human rights and builds up a bloated defense sector aimed at one day confronting the free world. JoeM
It's all quite OK, but just one thing: American values? In China? Couldn't you please be more polite and call for democratic values (I guess those are the American values you are talking about)? Marco NevesMarco Neves
If you're going to be doing a lot of these with your bot, please could you use "per cent" instead of "%". I don't know if it's in the Manual of Style but it should be. I will add it soon if it isn't. Thanks. Angela 23:21, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)
Hi, Adam -- I just noticed that the Hebrew characters are backwards (that is, L to R instead of right to left). Can you get the bot to either reverse them or style them to read right to left (if that's even possible in WikiP.) I'm using Opera 7.11 on Windows 98, if that makes a difference. -- thanks! Marj 04:33, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC) (Later: I checked HaAretz, and its Hebrew flows in the correct direction.)
Another question - There's another page, Beersheba, in addition to the Beer_Sheva page created by the bot - can the content of other pages like this be incorporated into the page made by the bot, and not get over-written the next time the bot runs? -- Marj 04:52, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hi, Adam, How do you make WikiPedia bots, exactly? I'm toying with the idea of massaging the INSEE & IGN databases to stubify most communes in France (though I think I'd have to threshold them a bit, most of the 36000 are unimportant little villages). David.Monniaux 13:00, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Any automatic improvements you can make into your articles are, well, improvements. The reason I made the changes, was that I had made a promise to myself to do a long bout of "weeding" new articles, since I felt I had been remiss in that area recently. I did extend the bout longer than I had originally intended, since I seemed to get into a definite flow, and thought of ever more things I could tweak in the israbot articles... I cannot say that I have edited more rambot articles than israbot ones, but the standards I have applied have been the same for both. To make the text more friendly to human readers. And that I will continue to do, when in my quirky pattern of editing things, I come accross them. As a matter of fact, I will probably do a bout of random page edits right now. Shalom and Salaam Aleikum! (I know that didn't come out quite right, but I hope you take my meaning.) -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 16:38, Sep 21, 2003 (UTC)