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OK. A talk page...  

 Rick Perry edit: 

Just wondering why you tagged my edit to the death penalty as ""original research"" - All the citations were from the websites of the Texas Constitution, the Board of Pardons and Parole or the Texas Administrative Code?
  
Which is exactly what makes it original research. I understand your point, but you really need a secondary source relating the law and constitutional provisions to Perry. Perfect would be an analysis piece, or even a ""blog"" in a reputable newspaper, saying something like ""Even if Perry wants to commute X's death sentence, he is prohibited from acting unless the Board of Pardons recommends he does so."" With a legitimate crack in the door like that, you might be able to bring in your primary sources as additional validation and explanation, but the ""mitigation"" needs to originate outside Wikipedia.   

 Garbo VIII 

Can't you delete these sections and start a new one? It takes 20 minutes just to scroll down to the end! Meanwhile, I'm really enjoying our conversation and hope it continues. take care,    
Done. (Some recent replies posted simultaneously in old section though).   

I see that you've changed Acosta back to de Acosta, which is fine since that's how she's identified in the Wikipedia entry. Vieira refers to her as Acosta. Other biographers refer only to Mercedes. Anyway, many surnames in the romance languages derived from placeslocations, like towns or territories. So it's like referring to her as ""of the seashore"" instead of just ""Seashore."" Anyway, I suppose both will do so I'm untroubled by your reversion. Don't really care.

The Acosta page needs to be updated based on a new biography of her by Bob Shanke, interestingly, a theatre historian. There there is also at least one major error in Wikipedia. The author says, ""The two [Garbo and de Acosta] were introduced to one another by de Acosta's lover at the time, author Salka Viertel."" This assertion is simply false. Accd to the authors of the 3 biographies I read of G, Acosta didn't even know Viertel before she met G. G asked Viertel to introduce them and Viertel called Acosta up out of the blue. Oh well, at this point it's someone else's problem to correct. Well, maybe I'll correct this one thing since I'm at it here. I'm not interested in reading a bio of Acostaat least for the time being. I learned enough about her from the G bios. I'm trying to find time to rewrite the section agbout G's affairs but I have to read about them all over again for accuracy. Happy to see your anal self back at work! I know you're always there to review my revisions!  

Just made some changes and corrections to the Acosta page but it was stupid since the page is absolutely terrible. Hopeless. No citations, terribly written, completely untrustworthy. Author of new bio demystifies what he considers to be unfair characterizations of her (as basically an obnoxious irritant in G's life). She's not an insignificant figure in Hollywood and gay circles and deserves a better article. greetings,  
Yeah, I knew the de Acosta thing was questionable, which is why the unusually detailed (for me) edit summary. I first checked her article here, but didn't rely on it too much (probably would have stopped there for consistency if it had used just the ""Acosta"" form though). Then various discussions on the MoS pages about da, de, di, Mc, Mac, van, and von ... the substance of which was ""it varies"", so that's when I hit the NYT. Mostly the issue got fudged by referring to her throughout articles as ""Mercedse de Acosta"", but two articles about her and one about a daughter (niece?) getting married used ""de Acosta"" alone. Then the coup de grâce was when I decided to look at the Spanish Wikipedia. where I figured they should be able to handle Spanish name