User talk:Ksmith

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-- TPK 03:39, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal

Dear Ksmith:

I see that you apparently have begun an article on a court case called "Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal, 72 S 243 (1982)". However, "Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal, 72 S 243 (1982)" is not a valid citation for an American court decision.

Perhaps you meant "72 S. Ct. 243 (1982)." That could be a United States Supreme Court decision. A preliminary search I just did at www.findlaw.com reveals no U.S. Supreme Court decision with the name "Chrapliwy" in the style of the case. Right now I don't have immediate access to the official United States Reports or the West Supreme Court Reporter, so I can't fully check this myself.

There is a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit called: Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal, Inc., 670 F.2d 760 (7th Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 956 (1983), that is cited in some U.S. Supreme Court decisions, such as in Library of Congress v. Shaw, 478 U.S. 310 (1986). There is also a case called Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal, Inc., 17 Fed. Rules Serv. 2d 719 (N.D. Ind. 1973).

If those are not the cases you are talking about, and you are referring to a United States Supreme Court decision, the form of the citation is usually something like "Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal, Inc., xxx U.S. xxx (1982) or "Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal, Inc., xxx S. Ct. xxx (1982).

Please go back and double check your citation. This could be a good case to discuss, but we need to have a valid citation so that people can study the case.

Yours, Famspear 17:58, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal

The article Chrapliwy v. Uniroyal has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No explanation why this case is notable. No discussion of the court's opinion.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. THF (talk) 08:54, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Otto and Elise Hampel

A tag has been placed on Otto and Elise Hampel requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.) or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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I have declined the speedy deletion, because if it can be documented that these people were the inspiration of the book I think that is probably enough notability for an article: but all the references give the names as Otto and Anna Quangel. Can you cite a source to document that the fictional Quangels were based on real Hampels? Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:13, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Ksmith (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have been editing so rarely lately that I have to imagine that the block is a general one directed at others who are using the same provider or something like that. Otherwise I don't know how there could be anything to have caused a problem. Thank you for taking a look.

Accept reason:

Since I can see no problems with your editing I have given you temporary IP block exemption. I intend to remove it when the block expires. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:20, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What message are you seeing when you try to edit? Daniel Case (talk) 01:40, 6 October 2011 (UTC) ______________[reply]

When I try to edit I get a full screen of message that starts with this:

Editing from 70.224.32.0/21 has been disabled by MuZemike for the following reason(s): CheckUser evidence has determined that the IP address or network of your account has been used, not necessarily by you, to disrupt Wikipedia. It has been blocked from editing to prevent further abuse. If you get this message, please read the following information. Wikipedia tries to be open, but we sometimes must block a range of IP addresses or entire network, to prevent editing by abusers, vandals, or block evaders. These "range blocks" can affect users who have done nothing wrong. If you are a legitimate user, follow the instructions below to edit despite the block. Users who are the intended target of a range block may still appeal the block......

It goes on and on from there.

Thanks for taking a look.

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Thank you all for checking it out. There was a very clunky sentence in the Steve Jobs article on the day of his death that I was going to smooth out, but it's no longer there. It looks like I can edit now, thanks.