User talk:Cjrs 79

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Bienvenido

Welcome, Cjrs 79, I hope that you enjoy beimg among us. Yo soy Boricua. I'm dedicated to writing mini-bios about Puerto Ricans, with the objective of eduacting others on the acomplishments of my people. There are so many Boricuas born in the U.S. that don't know about the contributions and acomplishments of our people, much less those that aren't Boricuas. Anyway, I hope that you count me among your Wikipedian friends. Tony the Marine

Gracias

Thanks for fixing the year in Anibal's retirement, mi pana! I just to wish you a Feliz Navida y un Feliz Año Nuevo. If someday your in Arizona, let me know and I'll treat you to some good Arroz y habichuelas con platanos. Tu Amigo Tony the Marine

Good Question

When my son and I started the list, we pondered that question. We came to the following conclusion. If a person was born in Puerto Rico, he's Puerto Rican by birth even if that person doesn't have any Puerto Rican ancestors. Most of these people live their primary years in Puerto Rico among Puerto Ricans and have never denied their place of birth. A case as an example was Joaquin Phoenix. A person who is born somewhere else, say a second generation or even third generation and feels strong and proud of his Puerto Rican heritage and openly considers him or herself a "Boricua", then who am I to say otherwise? My granddaughter for instance. She is half Irish and half Puerto Rican and born in Arizona but, the little thing proudly says that she is a "Boricua" and loves her Puerto Rican flag and our costums (We even celebrate El Dia de Reyes). We wrote about it when we originated the article Puerto Ricans. I hope I've answered your question. Let me know and you know that you are more then welcome to write to your compatriota. Tony the Marine

Friendly Chat

How are you my Friend? I haven't heard from you in a long time. It makes me proud that there are Boricuas like you earning their PhD. As you know many people, including our own, only know about the Puerto Ricans who are entertainers or sportspeople. Little is known about our contributions in the fields of science, industry and military. That's my specialty. I wrote the article Puerto Ricans in NASA with links to other bios written by me. I dedicate this article to you and to all the other Boricuas who are contibuting to our society in a positive way. Tu amigo Tony the Marine

Featured Article

Amigo como estas? I have nominated an article that I worked on, Military history of Puerto Rico for a featured article status. Look it over and you can vote at Featured article candidates/Military history of Puerto Rico if you so desire. Tu Amigo Tony the Marine

Hola Amigo, I read your comment and you are right! I fixed the military rank and I added the word "over" before the total of deaths in the War on Terrorism because we won't know the exact amount until when and ever it is over. History is a continuos process and I just want the world to know the sacrifices that the Puerto Ricans have made to make this a better a safer world to live in. I humblely ask you to reconsider and add your support, por favor. Tu Amigo Tony the Marine

Friendly Chat

Hi, I just thought that I would let you know that Linuxbeak has nominated me for adminship. I would like to invite you to participate at WP:RFA if you wish to do so. Thank you and take care Tony the Marine

Mark Spitz

Hola mi buen amigo. You know, I thought that he was taken out of the list. He was added to the list in the begining because it was said that "El Vocero" had stated that his mother was Puerto Rican. However, I haven't been able to find a reliable source confirming this and he was taken out of the list until further investigation. Maybe somebody found out something, I'm going to check into it. By the way, thank you for your support on both issues. I hope that you noticed that I took your advice on the article and that I did as you suggested on all three points. Tu amigo, Tony the Marine

• I found out what you told me. The problem was that he had three categories linking him to P.R. I eliminated them fixing the problem. Hasta pronto, amigo

Tony the Marine

Gracias

Gracias mi hermano, por tu repaldo y por los mensajes. Tu sabes que yo te considero como un amigo y que puedes contar comigo. Tony the Marine

Puerto Rico

Como estas, amigo? Me dicen que en Iowa la gente come mucho Maiz. Aqui en Arizona hace un calor terrible. I'm going to nominate the article for featured article status. However, with the experience that I had with my article, I think that the critics (Lo que mas joden) are going to want the paragraphs to be longer and more detailed. The other thing that they'll want is inline references (This is done in the edits after each paragraph and it isn't visible to the common reader. Example: {{inote: History of Puerto Rico by Tony the Marine, page 26}}. Which is the exact image that you are trying to centralize? Amyway, the way I centralize an image is like this: Image:Puerto_rico_flag_large.png|50px|center , notice were I wrote the word "center" and of course the whole thing goes between the [[ ]]. Let me know about the image thing then I'll nominate it to see what happens, O.K? Tu Amigo Marine 69-71 02:01, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Amigo

I haven't heard from you. Were you able to centralize the image? A fellow Boricua put in a lot of work into the article GUNS N ROSES and nominated it for featured article status. I think that it is excellent. Please, take a look here: GUNS N ROSES and express your opinion. I'm sure that he will be very grateful. Let me know about the image. Tony the Marine

Puerto Rico

Hola Boricua, I took a look and I'm with you. This is what I wrote in the persons User page:

• Hi there, I looked over both versions and I agree with Cjrs 79 in regard to the proper format for the article. The problem that arises is that there are certain issues that can be considered POV (which is against Wikipedia policy). For instance, there are some Boricuas that will tell you without a doubt that the ELA is a colonial status while there are others that do not agree. Believe me there are times that I wish I could state what I really believe but, since this an encyclopedia, I must abaid by the rules. Therefore, we must only stick to the plain facts. The proper thing to do is to discuss things in the articles talk page. I trust that the constant reverting will not continue, take care. Tony the Marine 05:26, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• (P.S. Register, tell us something about yourself and join the community)

Let me know what happens, O.K? Tony the Marine

• My son User:AntonioMartin and I did some work on the introduction. I hope that you like it. If you continue to have problems let me know and then we will take another action. I also centralized the image of the Puerto Rican map. Let me know what you think. Marine 69-71 15:48, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful comments. I would suggest one of my own for you: use proper capitalization and punctuation when making comments on Wikipedia. You are correct, I would not argue that "the widespread possesion (sp) and use of guns is FOREIGN to puerto rican (sp) culture" - but I also would NOT argue that it is common in "American" culture - by any definition of "American" culture. (What do you mean by "American" culture? a culture shared by all nations of the Western Hemisphere? that shared by the USA, including its insular territories? that shared by the mainland USA alone?) I have never possessed or used a gun, nor do I personally know anyone who has. Thus I should be culturally identical to my fellow U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico, in this regard. I'm not sure what you are trying to suggest with this example, but it is straightforward to claim that the English language is a part of the culture of the United States, because its use is pervasive throughout the country; but it is something altogether different to suggest that the possession and use of firearms is a part of the U.S. cultural identity - there is wide variation in attitudes toward this supposed "cultural trait" from person to person, from region to region, and yes, from state or territory to state or territory. Gellersen

I agree, the Puerto Rico article should have a state-based infobox, not a country infobox. The state infobox would be modified - without "Senators" or area or population rankings. "Admission" to the Union would have to be changed to the date of annexation or when Commonwealth status came into effect, or both. This same format should be used for the other U.S. territories. The District of Columbia article has a city-based infobox, which to me is fine. Currently, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands all have country infoboxes, listing the "head of state", etc. To me this is wrong; however, since it is the status quo, some Wikipedians will be sure to object to any change (they have their own Olympic teams! Internet domains! just like countries do, so they should have a country infobox!...) Denvoran 02:59, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Suggestion

You know, I think that you've really done a great job in the article of Puerto Rico. I believe that since you've put in alot of work and hours into it that you should nominate it for featured article status. You deserve the credit of bringing it up to featured status. However, before you do nominate it, post it here: Peer Review. In this site you will be told if anything else needs to be done. Put it in your favorite places and after you've received all the input and corrected whatever, proceed to nominate it. Take care Tony the Marine 05:41, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Next Step

O.K., I see that you posted the article in Peer Review, good! After everyone expresses what they believe the article needs in order to make it to featured status, proceed to work on that. Here are a few people that can help you convert the article to FAC standards. Mav, Neutrality and Bishonen, if you ask for their help, they will go out of their way to help you, believe me I know, just ask respectfully. Once that is done I'll also help with the references, O.K? Marine 69-71 05:05, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Flag of Culebra

Sorry for the delayed response. I don't remember where I got the image for the flag, but just now I entered "culebra flag" into google and the first entry had a good image.

Gracias Mi Pana

You know, I didn't even know that it was featured today. I knew that it was going to be in the Main page soon but, not today. Anyway, yesterday I wrote and was working on Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico. Take a look and tell me what you think. Tony the Marine 30 June 2005 04:28 (UTC)

Caribbean Wikipedians

I am interested in setting up a Caribbean Wikipedians' Notice Board. I would like to build some community among those of us who are from Caribbean and others with an interest in the Caribbean. I think that if we work together we could improve coverage of the wider Caribbean. I spoke to Tony and he suggested that I get in touch with you. This idea is just in the formative stages, but if you are interested in helping to develop the idea, let me know. If you are interested, let me know, or you can just start developing the board at Wikipedia:Caribbean Wikipedians' notice board. Guettarda 1 July 2005 02:10 (UTC)

Photos and Infoboxes

Saludos. The problem I have with the picture at the bottom of the infobox is that at higher resolutions a big empty space is created between paragraphs. The higher the resolution the bigger the empty space. I do not know if more people use low resultions (800x600 or lower) than high resolutions (1024x768). If more people use low resolutions then I have no problem changing the locations. I leave at your discretion the location of the pictures.--Joelito 03:40, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Help

I need your help. It seems that someone wants to delete my article on Carlos Lozada, one of four Puerto Ricans to have been awarded the Medal of Honor. You can help fight this injustice by voting against deletion here: VfD. Please participate. Your friend Tony the Marine 05:23, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

RfA nomination

Hi boricua! My name is Carlos, from Puerto Rico. I have nominated myself for adminship recently and I would be honored if you participated in the voting! Gracias!<<Coburn_Pharr>> 00:20, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

vote here!

User Categorisation

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Puerto Rico page as living in or being associated with Puerto Rico. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Puerto Rico for instructions.--Rmky87 02:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

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Feliz Cumpleaño

Happy Birthday Christian

Boricua, I wish you the best. Que Díos te bendiga! Your friend Tony the Marine 02:06, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

User:Jenmoa/birthday --User:Jenmoa 02:41, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

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Siento tu dolor

Amigo, siento mucho tu perdida. Tu abuelo esta en un mejor sitio. Que Díos te bendiga y que te de a tí y toda tu familia mucha fortaleza. Tu amigo Tony the Marine 06:00, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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Request

Hola Chris, I would like you to express your opinion, which I respect so much in the talk page of Miguel Piñero. A user insists in deleting information which I believe is essencial to the article and seems to have a disrepectful atitute. Tony the Marine 22:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

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Felix Navidad

Tony the Marine

O.K. Chris, so you don't believe in Santa, but I still want to wish you and your loved ones all the happiness in the world and the best new year ever. Your friend, Tony the Marine 04:06, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy New Year

(Feliz Año Nuevo)

Happy New Year from Tony the Marine

I wish you all the happiness in the world and remember, if an injustice is ever committed against you or one of your articles, I will always be by your side. Your friend Tony the Marine

Did You Know, Puerto Rico?

Hey Amigo, I was thinking of adding a Did You Know? section to the article Puerto Rico. In that section we could post little known interesting facts about our island and our people. It would be serve as an educational tool that would motivate others to read about our island. An example of what I plan is this:

Did You Know?

1. That the first shot fired by the United States in World Wae I was in Puerto Rico and not in Europe? It was fired by Lt. Teofilo Marxuach.

1. That the first opera in history to be recorded was recorded by tenor Antonio Paoli?

1. That Puerto Rico once had a President? His name was Francisco Ramirez Medina.

I want to consult with you and my other Boricua Panas. I would like to receive any input. Tu Amigo Tony the Marine 19:50, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

• Gracias, I knew that I could count on your input. I received this message from one of our brothers: I think calling it Did You Know? sounds better than "Trivia." Trivia can be any random fact, like that PR has 78 municipalities. Did You Know suggests interesting facts. Smylere Snape. I believe then that it should be stated as: "Did You Know? - These are interesting but, little known facts about Puerto Rico and its people". I will need your help in overseeing the section, that way we can make sure that random facts are not posted. Let me know what you think. Tu Amigo, Tony the Marine 01:30, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Help

Here goes another anon who has no knowlege of how Wiki works and has posted a good article for deletion. It's about Norma Candal, please vote here: [[1]] and help fight this injustice. Thank you Tony the Marine 04:57, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the Emperor's divinity

When I wrote that comment, I thought it was less misleading to say Japanese had not believed the emperor had been divine, due to "Christian bias" which most Wikipedians have. Christian bias has been a subject of my (personal) study. I don't mean Japanese view is right and Christian view is wrong, but there are certainly factors that lead Christians in a wrong direction when they guess what Japanese think. It is still difficult for me to analyze Christian bias, but I can give an example of results to which it leads us. The following episode was taken from Yamamoto Shichihei 山本七平's "Kuki no Kenkyu" 空気の研究.

When the author was in an American POW camp (during WWII), an American officer tried to "enlighten" him on Darwin's theory of evolution, assuming that he had never heard of it. He rebutted, "In Japan, the evolution theory is taught even in elementary schools. Japan is not so barbaric as America, where the monkey trial was held." The officer surprised and asked him, "Then do Japanese believe god/gods are descended from monkeys?" Then he was unable to answer. In fact, he had never thought about it.

The entire Japanese public knew that the emperor was a human. (Actually the Showa Emperor himself was a biologist.) Just there was an implicit social prohibition against shouting, "the emperor isn't divine!" At the same time, statements like "the imperial family was originated from Sun Goddess" were spread. That American officer considered that the two statement could never coexist. He assumed that the latter held among Japanese and thought he could convince Yamamoto that the emperor was just a human. On the one hand, Japanese thought (and do think) that Americans were strange people who had seriously done weird things like the monkey trial.

Yamamoto gave his analysis on it (note that he was Christian). If you are interested, read his above-mentioned book (written in Japanese). Here is my theory: The American officer tried to position the two statements in the same system and thought they contradicted each other. Japanese placed them in a layered system: the former in the layer of science and the latter in that of a kind of religion, metaphysics, social etiquette or so. The two layers were distant and Japanese did not care about consistency among them. Relationship with Shinto? I don't know. You may say such an attitude is animistic, but does the single word answer you? --Nanshu 00:21, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

"Puerto Rico's 'Did you know?'"

Somebody nominated "Did You Know?-Puerto Rico" for deletion. You could express your opinion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Did You Know - Puerto Rico. Thank you, Tony the Marine 01:59, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Did You Know? - Puerto Rico

Hola Amigo, while the debate on wheather the "Did You Know - Puerto Rico" article should or shouldn't be deleted goes on, I've transferred it's contents here Wikipedia:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Did you know where it will be save and you can continue to contribute. Tu Amigo, Tony the Marine 03:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Consensus: Puerto Rican Spindalis

An organized consensus in regard to the Puerto Rican Spindalis has been placed at [2]. Please express your opinion. Tony the Marine

Re:Military history of Puerto Rico

Thanks for bringing that fact to my attention. I fixed it. The version in "El Boricua" website needs to be upgraded. Hey, what do you think of my picture in the website? Me veo muy viejo. Tony the Marine 03:21, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Images

I don't see how having a discussion each time I see a violation of the fair use policy is going to be anything other than a waste of time. I don't mean to be rude, but it's just a routine housekeeping task. ed g2s • talk 22:07, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, ignore that - I thought I had removed a fair use image from your page. I rolled back my santa edits when I found a free image to replace it on the commons. I should probably run the bot again as the original implementation was using frame, making the images huge now. ed g2s • talk 22:10, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Copyright abuses

Hello, this message is in response to the deletion of material on this wikipage. Tens of thousands of images have been deleted by a small handful of wikipedians.

Would you be interested in joining a group on wikipedia which counters the heavy handed tactics of the copyright police. I can't fight them on my own. User talk:Ed g2s has began deleting fair use image on every person's user page and on several other pages, inspired by WP:FUC which was written by another paternal copyright policeman with absolutly no legal training and little understanding of copyright law.

I stared this page, with this purpose: User:Travb/Misguided and heavy handed tactics of some admins regarding copyright

Please tell others about this project. The paternal copyright police are well organized and are intoxicated with their own trival power here on wikipedia. Like most authoritarian personalities, these misguided copyright fanatics have finally have overstepped the bounds of good sense and restraint, when they began deleting tens of thousands images from wikiusers' pages. Only a large number of wikipedians will stop this abuse. Travb 13:45, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I didn't know you were an admin, but now I'm more worried. You have used your admin power irresponsibly.

Err, admin priveleges are block, protect and delete. Which of these have I have supposedly abused?

You are taking your version or fair use and imposing it on everyone.

I am imposing the long-standing policy at WP:FU.

You are reading what you want to read without discussing it with anyone. Stop it!! You are an admin, you should work on consensus, even when you think you are right. Have you noticed that a lot of people are complaining about your actions???

Yes, but when you make 100 edits, you expect a small percentage of them to be challenged, especially when you are removing material. I don't expect every user to understand all of our policies.

Doesn't it make you think you might be wrong?? Come on, think about it, discuss it. Cjrs 79 14:43, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

It has been discussed hundreds of times in the past - this is why we have policies - so we don't waste time replaying the same arguments over and over. ed g2s • talk 15:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments

Thanks for your comments on my talk page.Travb (talk) 01:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

European American

I believe a European American is someone who lives in the United States but is preferably born in the USA who has origins in the original peoples of Europe. I do not know how many people from Latin America fit this description, but Christina Aguilera does.--Dark Tichondrias 01:50, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Denise Quiñones pic

I believe that picture does not help identify her. There is no copyvio but it does not really help the article. On afterthought the pic can be left but a better one must be found. Joelito (talk) 14:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Franciscan Sisters of the Inmaculate

I thinmk they might be on that list twice

Happy New Year

(Feliz Año Nuevo)

Happy New Year from Tony the Marine 02:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I wish you and your loved ones all the happiness in the world this coming year.

Chat

Done! Man, I haven't heard from you for a long time. Take care. Tony the Marine 06:31, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Puerto Rico "block for non registered users"

If you think a protection is warranted, you should request it at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. *Mishatx*-In\Out 06:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I think if you were to request, it would probably be denied this time around because the vandalism isn't persistent enough. Just a handful a day is usually not enough - just keep an eye on it and revert the changes.

You can report persistent vandals at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, but action usually won't be taken unless they have a "final warning" posted to their talk page. *Mishatx*-In\Out 06:25, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Pope John Paul II e-mail

That link put me on the right track...but I clicked through the link to a BBC story that directly mentioned the event. I didn't find a reference to the month (and the article I found suggested a different month), so I deleted that and left the year on its own.

The way I know to add references is to include it between <ref> and </ref> tags, along with the usual wikiformatting for any links or italics that may be required. I know there are some templates to assist, but I don't know the details and have found them confusing, though we probably are supposed to be using them to ensure a standard format. The diff of my edit may help you see, if my explanation is unclear. Thanks for the source info. - Cafemusique 11:27, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

re:See also

These articles are already linked in the main text. Joelito (talk) 00:45, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Spanish Wiki

Hey Cjrs, Como estas mi hermano? The answer to both of your questions is no. I do not edit nor am I an admin in the Spanish Wiki. The reason is that my Spanish writing skills aren't that great, especially when it comes to accenting. So, what have you been up to? Tony the Marine 15:09, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Wishing Cjrs 79 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 22:42, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Hello, Cjrs 79. You have new messages at Talk:Commonwealth (U.S. insular area).
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Seablade (talk) 03:10, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Feliz Navidad

	<font=3> Wishing you a "Feliz Navidad and a Prospero Año Nuevo" (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year) Tony the Marine (talk) External audio Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad "

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