Talk:Jim Gary

message: This artice survived a vote for deletion on January 22. It was nomination by someone who seeing the relative poor quality of the article did not recognize that Jim Gary was a very notable sculptor. I've started to clean up the article to bring it up to Wikipedia standards.  There's still a long way to go.  The references in the "External links" section might be a good place to start. Crunch 06:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaning up 

message: use of a trademark rather than a name
TIME is a trademark and a logo, not a name. Wikipedia does not present the trademarks and logos of subjects in its articles, therefore the name of the magazine, as would be  properly reported in research is, Time with an internal link to Time (magazine).  Please see Wikipedia articles below for examples.
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Grammar 101
Nothing is worse among editors than making a correction to replace it with an error—the correct verb form which was changed to an incorrect tense, is shown in previous Wikipedia articles, such as, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Andretti
"...Andretti is the only person ever to win the Indy 500, the Daytona 500, and the Formula One World Championship."
This is the correct tense of the verb for this statement. The main phrase of the sentence is Andretti is the only person… Even if he were dead the sentence would be correct—until someone else achieves the same feat, when it would be changed properly to, Andretti and Mucdimuc are the only persons ever to win the Indy….
Now, there is a compound variant of the sentence that would allow for your choice of tense, Andretti was the only person ever to win the Indy500, the Daytona500, and the Formula One World Championship until Mucdimuc joined him in that distinction in 2009—but until there is another, he is the only person ever to win… and once there are two, the correct form would be, are, in the original form, Andretti and Mucdimuc are the only persons ever to win the….  Was implies that an action happened in the past, but this phrase does not express an action, rather it discusses one having achieved an enduring mark of distinction or an appellation. 
"Cream is a dairy product that was used on the cereal served to me yesterday at the Snooty Hotel, instead of milk,” is a good rule of thumb to use to clarify these uncertainties as they arise in your writing. 
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The citation for the item the editor wants to delete follows in the links at the end of the article. 
Wikipedia does not require a strict style of citation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources
“Disputed edits can be removed immediately and placed on the talk page for discussion, or where the edit is harmless but you dispute it and feel a citation is appropriate, you can place after the relevant passage. This should be used sparingly; Wikipedia has a lot of under-cited articles, and inserting many instances of  is unlikely to be beneficial.”
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The perceived motivation seems to be consistent with a previous perception of the same editor’s negative bias and leads one to remember the Wikipedia discussion against malicious editing…  in an attempt to avoid seeming obsession and a lame edit war—request reverting to the previous edit of 20:21, 28 March 2006 63.232.119.237 because that stub was correct in its facts, references, and grammar. Nothing seems to have been added to this article by the next edit (although the perception may be a misunderstanding of a Hanlon’s Razor situation), but the article seems diminished suspiciously by the edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.158.186.163 (talk) 16:41, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  errata of edit and request for reverting to previous edit 

message: On 27 March 2006, an anonymous user User:63.158.193.167 deleted almost all of the article, reducing it to a stub. This was being bold, but it doesn't seem such a very bad article, and this doesn't do much to encourage new editors to improve their articles. This has been coupled with accusations of heavy handed administration (though the administrator is not the one who deleted all the contents). (See also Talk:Stained glass).
So, I'm going to be just as bold (but a little less anonymous) and restore the entire deleted text. Doubtless I have introduced repetitions and so forth, but I'd like to encourage the original contributors to improve the article, to add sources and so forth. Most of the article seems to be things that can readily be verified, and as such even though they are positive they seem eligible to stay. If anyone can find criticism of this chap, it belongs too.  Now, let's be civil, and let's try to turn this into an article to be proud of, rather than a battleground.
I would strongly recommend that anyone who feels the need to revert changes instead go to this talk page and try to achieve consensus, assuming good faith on everyone's part. No doubt it will take a little while for the original editor(s) to regain their confidence in the system, so be nice, and have a little patience. Notinasnaid 14:50, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restoring deleted text 

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