User talk:Zbrnajsem
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I can assure you that the article will not be split because these ideas are not taken seriously by scholars of Shakespeare. See Shakespeare authorship question for a full discussion of the issue. Paul B (talk) 12:04, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, of course. I know it. I know that there will be no changes for a certain time. However, there are many scholars of Shakespeare, not only the orthodox ones, dear Paul B. One of them is Kurt Kreiler of Germany.--Zbrnajsem (talk) 19:54, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
For Paul B: Looney´s book was published 1920, but of course there were doubts as far as Will Shakspere is concerned a long time before, even around 1780. As far as I know e.g. Lord Palmerston and a lot of other people have expressed their doubts about the man from Stratford. Among them were other very notable personalities, including at least three Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court. It makes little sense for you and me to talk like we do now about this very particular problem. However, you and other ladies and gentlemen of the Stratfordian camp should be accessible to some kind of arguments like those six famous signatures of Will Shakspere, Oxford´s Italian experience, and things like this. I will for certain time stop to write anything more for this W.S. article. But I intend to contribute to the article on the Oxfordian theory. This article is not sacred, I guess.--Zbrnajsem (talk) 16:22, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- If you think there were doubts in 1780, you are behind the times. This has been disproved. See James Wilmot. Yes, there are lots of notable personalities, almost all of whom are mainly notable for nothing to do with Shakespeare, and who know nothing much about Elizabethan or Jacobean history and literature. Doesn't that tell you something? The six signatures prove he wrote signatures, which is what you expect of someone who...writes. The fact that they are written in abbreviated form is evidence of a practiced writer. People who have to carefully trace their letters do not write in a scribbly or shorthand way, but rather the opposite. Oxford's Italian experience proves he was in Italy. So what? So were many other people. You don't have to go to Italy to set a play there. Lots of Elizabethan writers set plays in Italy, and all sorts of other places they never set foot in. You may as well argue that an artist who paints a martyrdom has to have seen someone being tortured to death. Paul B (talk) 18:01, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Klaus
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for this clean up. You might be interested also in the discussion at the article's talk page, see Talk:2011_Chilean_Pen_Incident#Talk:2011_Chilean_Pen_Theft. What do you think about the article? Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 11:12, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Terrible. Please watch the article, too. Meanwhile, somebody has reverted my clean up again, so I reverted this. But from now on, I don´t have time and possibility. This is a war, also on all relevant Czech pages. Are you also active there? Only German pages are more or less correct. Zdravím Vás! --Zbrnajsem (talk) 12:54, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
- I think you can join the discussion that is ongoing here. Na cs:wiki moc nedělám, většinou jenom když mě požádá někdo odsud. Zdravím z Brna :) --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 13:04, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Unfortunately, only discussing doesn´t help. Deleting at least something is a last resort, I know, but sometimes it is necessary, although people revert it again. The world is no more normal, so only beautiful history and music remain ... I am a lover of operatic music, too. Certainly you are much more knowledgeable on this topic than I am. Have a nice day in my beloved Brno. I was there two weeks ago, coming from really far. --Zbrnajsem (talk) 13:15, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
- I replied on my talk page, Zbrnajsem. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 15:49, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Please stop deleting content from 2011 Chilean Pen Incident
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to 2011 Chilean Pen Incident, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you.
WP:IDL is no reason for deleting a content.Cimmerian praetor (talk) 15:54, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
August 2011

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on 2011 Chilean Pen Incident. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.
In particular, the three-revert rule states that:
- Making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block.
- Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.
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November 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. I am glad to see that you are discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages are for discussion related to improving the article, not general discussion about the topic. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom Reedy (talk • contribs)
Line breaks?
Is there any reason for your inserting line breaks in articles the way you did here? Were you trying to do something else? I'm pasting in a welcome template with lots of useful links about editing. Tom Reedy (talk) 00:43, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
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Edits to Oxfordian theory article
Why are you continuing to make the same edit? what is your rationale? We don't use old-style spelling in heads and the work is not a book, but a title of a section. Tom Reedy (talk) 15:43, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- I did it in order to restore a heading consistent with what is actually written in the section. Please look at the comment by Paul B. (talk of the article), who at last supported my editing and made a proposal to use italics. Your reverting of my first change meant that the heading was again inconsistent with the text proper. Anyway, it is very interesting to know about "Verses made by the Earl of Oxforde" and "Verses made by Anne Vavasor" in one book found in the 18th century. --Zbrnajsem (talk) 16:19, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Robert Green
Hi again! Thanks for posting about Greene on my page. I've read that quote before but never paid much attention to it. His Wikip page is quite interesting... Thank you for the "gift". :) Best, Knitwitted (talk) 20:15, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- Many thank yous for your warm greetings!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!! Wishing you the best!! Not familiar with Greene but always up for a good challenge... Unfortunately get the "feeling" (or rather "the pointed finger") that I won't be here much longer. Not a clue what the English say... can't understand them! Keep up the good work... hopefully we'll talk more later... Best wishes, Knitwitted (talk) 16:16, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Havel's alumnus status
I re-added Category:Czech Technical University in Prague alumni to Václav Havel. According to Alumnus#Usage, it's "a former student and most often a graduate of an educational institution", so drop-outs (for whatever reason) are allowed. Favonian (talk) 20:54, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Still, I would say that this category should not be added again. Havel is already assigned to a lot of categories. It would be even rather misleading. Alumnus#Usage indicates that only "a graduate of an educational institution" should be normally called alumnus. I would respect this indication. In fact, Havel has then studied "theatre science" or something like this. He had no particular inclination to engineering or some kind of technology. I am sorry, but he was in a certain sense rather a dreamer with inclination to the "bohème", and in any case an artist turned politician. --Zbrnajsem (talk) 21:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Having gone over the Alumnus article, is uses neither of the words "only" or "normally", but rather "most often". We can agree that Havel never became and engineer, but if he attended the university in question, he qualifies for membership of the category. Favonian (talk) 21:27, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Again, I don´t agree with you. Why to try to celebrate Mr. Havel for something which was not essential for his career? You have certainly read what has been written about the expression "alumnus" in the article on en:wiki itself: "An alumnus (plural alumni), according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is "a graduate of a school, college, or university". An alumnus can also be a former member, employee, contributor or inmate as well as a former student."
- So I would say, if there is only an "it can be" possibility for "former students", we are free to decide about it in one way or the other. And my point of view is that it is unnecessary and even misleading to add Václav Havel to the category of those particular alumni. I am really opposed to the idolatry in the Czech Republic now surrounding the late President Havel. And the hatred fomented against the current President Klaus. I have frequently been among the various editors of Czech Wikipedia articles on both persons. I have been always trying to edit from a neutral standpoint, but it is extremely difficult there. Have you heard e.g. about the alleged "homosexuality" of Klaus that was for a certain time incorporated into the Czech Wikipedia article about Klaus, only on the grounds of a contention made by an actress who is well known to be Klaus´ opponent (as many other actors and actresses as well as journalists)? And on the grounds that this contention was repeated by a "reliable person", i.e. by the editor-in-chief of the journal "Lui", published mainly for the gay community, who said that his "gaydar" (radar for the gays) would also reveal to him that this contention was true. At the same time, and in the same article, Klaus has been and still is "accused" of several extramarital affairs with young women. Only a very strong arguing of several members of the Czech Wikipedia community, including my person, against this infamous story has lead to a revert of this contention. The revert has survived up to the present day. Alas, there are to be very often seen attacks by vandals on cz:wiki, en:wiki and de:wiki, who are trying to destroy the articles on President Klaus using suggestions on the most primitive level.
- In the article on Havel himself on en:wiki it was stated accordingly: "(He was a student of the) Faculty of Economics of Czech Technical University in Prague but dropped out after two years." So he even did not study any engineering at all, and his studies there were of a relatively short duration. I am sorry, but this does not qualify Mr. Havel to any association with engineering or related fields of special knowledge.
A topic of interest to you is covered by Arbcom sanctions
The Arbitration Committee has permitted administrators to impose, at their own discretion, sanctions on any editor working on pages broadly related to Shakespeare authorship question if the editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. If you engage in further inappropriate behavior in this area, you may be placed under sanctions including blocks, a revert limitation or an article ban. The committee's full decision can be read at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Shakespeare authorship question#Final decision. Tom Reedy (talk) 17:45, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- I don´t undestand what you mean. Where did I fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process? And who has written this reprimand to me? --Zbrnajsem (talk) 15:16, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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FYI
FYI, given your section above mine you may want to support this, even if it is a year late.
Talk:Spaghetti western#Requested move
Cheers, Ma®©usBritish[chat] 17:09, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Your removal of a reference from an article under WP:ARBSAQ
Zbrnajsem, please be careful with edits such as this one. Administrators monitor the pages about Shakespeare authorship since they have caused trouble in the past. If your edits seem to be intended to impose a personal point of view on this article (rather than provide a neutral summary based on reliable sources) your work on this article may be more closely scrutinized.
You have previously (on the article talk) declared yourself to be a supporter of the Oxfordian theory. Statements such as this one raise questions in my mind as to whether you intend to follow Wikipedia policy: "...the Oxfordian theory is notable. OK, it really is, and so more arguments, more detailed arguments, for this theory should be placed on Wikipedia." Outside of Wikipedia you may pursue any research you find interesting. Within our articles and talk pages, we expect that our policy will be followed. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 12:31, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- EdJohnston, the problem is that "The Merchant of Venice" was written between 1596 and 1598. Do you follow me? I have reverted only a sentence which is simply wrong or misleading even from the mainstream view. And besides this, the Constitution of the USA guarantees free speech etc. Do you agree? --Zbrnajsem (talk) 12:38, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- You appear to be right about the source, since it refers to material in Othello. As for the "alien statute", if it was so notorious, I am not sure why you need to have visited the place to know about it. I will look at the details of mainstream arguments about this passage in the Merchant. Paul B (talk) 12:49, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- Zbrnjasem, see WP:FREESPEECH. There is no legal right to edit Wikipedia. If your point is that Contarini's book was not published in English before Merchant was written, then you could have a valid argument. Someone would probably need to get the full context from reading Neill's book to be sure. EdJohnston (talk) 15:54, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- I have replied in detail on the Talk page and Tom has also added some comments. Paul B (talk) 16:36, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- You appear to be right about the source, since it refers to material in Othello. As for the "alien statute", if it was so notorious, I am not sure why you need to have visited the place to know about it. I will look at the details of mainstream arguments about this passage in the Merchant. Paul B (talk) 12:49, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
EdJohnston, in arguing as you do, you could make some problematical points. Especially as the Talk pages are concerned. See what the Arbitrary Committee said and laid down concerning the Talk pages. My point of view is that such pages must be free for the Free Speech according to the US Constitution. Otherwise there is no guarantee of a truly scientific approach to the Oxfordian theory. And it is a theory, isn´t it? Even if you call it a "fringe theory", which is something I don´t agree with. I suppose you can´t go so far as to exclude me from my own User talk. By the way, Mr. Jimmy Wales had his own objections against some practices on Wikipedia, as far as I know. And I had a valid argument, exactly as you say. So there was no reason to reprimand me (or was it no reprimand?) for deleting the sentence written by User Cengime, as you did. --Zbrnajsem (talk) 17:40, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- We are not subject to the "US constitution" any more than to the Canadian or Australian or Indian constitutions. You are free, in the USA, if that's where you are, to say what you like (within limits, even there) in your own home, or on the street, or in your own publications, but that does not apply to Wikipedia Talk pages any more than to many other publications which have their own internal rules. The Wikpedia rules are there to stop people using inimdation, attrition, "original research" and a host of other things. As for the theory being fringe, I'm afraid that's just what it is, in fact, in academia, like it or not. I grant you that we can be too quick to revert on contentious pages, but in the end research just revealed that this argument - like the previous spat over Verses made by the earle of Oxforde and Mrs Ann Vavasor - was a load of old nonsense to start with. Paul B (talk) 19:26, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Paul B, may I remind you of the fact that I was not the author of the sentence which at last has been finally deleted? The author of this sentence was User Cengime. And I take credit for an impulse for a larger and quite fruitful discussion and, say, for an improvement of the Oxfordian theory page by Tom Reedy and yourself. By the way, from your contribution on the Talk page of the Oxfordian page proper I can read that you personally have invited Oxfordian scholars to contribute to this page. Of course you would have some conditions for this, but still, this may constitute a progress in our mutual relationship. It is a pleasure for me to discuss with you. As for the US Constitution, I am sorry, but Wikipedia is no closed private organization, it is kind of publication, even international publication, although practically based in the US, and if there are Talk pages on Wikipedia, so there must be freedom to say (almost) everything there in a normal and polite way. Moreover, the Arbitrary Committee has made no special restrictions for contributions on the Talk pages, only for the articles as such. If I am wrong, so please give me a precise quotation of the verdict. Then I would go and study if there was no offence against the US Constitution and specific laws. --Zbrnajsem (talk) 21:11, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
- Zbrnajsem, Arbcom made special mention of talk pages at WP:ARBSAQ#Talk pages. "Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views on a subject." Admins are authorized to take action if they perceive that someone is using a talk page to advance a personal agenda, rather than to support the creation of neutral articles. Your theory about your freedom to say anything on talk pages is not correct. EdJohnston (talk) 12:33, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- The sentence added by Cengime has not been been "deleted"; it has been tweaked. Everyone can partuicipate on talk pages, but yes there are rules see WP:TALK. You can't just say anything, and the US Constitution has nothing whatever to do with it. Paul B (talk) 14:25, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- Be not so sure. You might be wrong in this last respect, Paul B. On the other hand, I would like to hear from you what was the meaning of your proposal to attract the cooperation of Oxfordian editors on Oxfordian matters. This would be only possible, if administrators were not authorized to take action against any Oxfordian view expressed. In my case, EdJohnston should admit that it was more than premature to reprimand me for deleting a sentence with an obvious misinterpretation by Cengime of possible impacts of a book published in 1599 on actions in the years 1596 to 1598. At least this should be admitted, or I don´t "understand the world of Wikipedia". --Zbrnajsem (talk) 18:01, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what you mean when you wrote on my talk page "Then it is also legally problematical what ArbCom said in this respect." Take note of WP:NLT. I don't think that was a "legal threat", but you do seem to imply that Arbcom was acting illegally. I rather doubt that. You have no legal right to freedom of speech on a forum that is not owned by you. That of course is not the same as a moral right. You might feel morally outraged at being forced to shut up, if you believe that a single "party line" is being unfairly enforced on Communistopedia or Fascistopedia, but there's not much you can do about it in law as far as I know. After all Fascistopedia has the freedom to be fascist! Equally you have the right to delete any comments you don't like from your own website, blog or whatever.
The ban on what is known as "soapboxing" is essentially to stop people using the talk page to write essays putting forward their personal theories. It has happened quite often on the Oxfordian theory page. The long rants by user:NinaGreen were what led to the restrictions. It does not apply only to Oxfordians (actually Marlovians are almost as bad!). If a "Stratfordian" started pasting long comments unrelated to debate about content, repeatedly denouncing Oxfordians it should also apply.
As for collaboration with Oxfordians. I meant what I said. We need to have someone who will be able to say "these are the important arguments" for such-and-suxch aspects of Oxfordian theory, or "this is just one person's eccentric view and we don't need it". My own view is that we should have a balance of arguments made over the years, and a sense of how they have evolved. But we also need to have the mainstream/Stratfordian responses to these points. Paul B (talk) 20:03, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what you mean when you wrote on my talk page "Then it is also legally problematical what ArbCom said in this respect." Take note of WP:NLT. I don't think that was a "legal threat", but you do seem to imply that Arbcom was acting illegally. I rather doubt that. You have no legal right to freedom of speech on a forum that is not owned by you. That of course is not the same as a moral right. You might feel morally outraged at being forced to shut up, if you believe that a single "party line" is being unfairly enforced on Communistopedia or Fascistopedia, but there's not much you can do about it in law as far as I know. After all Fascistopedia has the freedom to be fascist! Equally you have the right to delete any comments you don't like from your own website, blog or whatever.
- Be not so sure. You might be wrong in this last respect, Paul B. On the other hand, I would like to hear from you what was the meaning of your proposal to attract the cooperation of Oxfordian editors on Oxfordian matters. This would be only possible, if administrators were not authorized to take action against any Oxfordian view expressed. In my case, EdJohnston should admit that it was more than premature to reprimand me for deleting a sentence with an obvious misinterpretation by Cengime of possible impacts of a book published in 1599 on actions in the years 1596 to 1598. At least this should be admitted, or I don´t "understand the world of Wikipedia". --Zbrnajsem (talk) 18:01, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- Again my question: Do you, Paul B, agree with me that talk pages must be free for bona fide cooperation, disregarding personal views like Stratfordian or Oxfordian? Only then Oxfordians can cooperate in your above sense without fear to be punished by an administrator. You know very well that there was e.g. the case of User Smatprt who is very knowledgeable, but what occurred to him? You are able and willing to really discuss with me, I would say much better than some other people. But you are just one Wikipedian. And the misinterpretations of ArbCom "verdict" on talk pages were many and by a number of administrators. So there must be some assurances for the future. Moreover, there should be additionally kind of "amnesty" for Oxfordians, only then they could and possibly would cooperate. --Zbrnajsem (talk) 20:25, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- I don't understand what this great "question" is. Talk pages should follow the rules of WP:TALK They follow the maxim of English common law (a fig for the "US constitution"!). Whatever is not explictly forbidden is allowed. Smatprt was not very knowledgable. He knew next to nothing about the theory that he hadn't read in Ogburn or Anderson. He was astoundingly ignorant of Elizabethan/Jacobean culture. He was given years and years and years of freedom before he in-effect hanged himself by his blatant partizabship. Paul B (talk) 22:20, 22 August 2012 (UTC)





