User talk:SlightlyInsane

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Leonardo's fingerprint

Your addition to the first paragraph of the article was first corrected by another edittor, and then deleted. The reason being that Leonardo's mother's racial background is a matter of speculation. It is a possible (based on the fingerprint) not probable. Any probability doesn't come from the fingerprint, but from the research of the director of the museum in Vinci.

1. It is not a goood thing to interrupt the flow of the lead sentence with bracketted, hyperthetical information. Leonardo was a "Tuscan polymath". If you change this to Leonardo was a "Tuscan (of probable Arab ancestry) polymath", then it is easy to miss the sense. The important thing about Leonardo is that he was a polymath. He came from Tuscany, which was highly significant for him, as the home of the Rennaissance.This info locates him and his area of operation. Whether or not his mother was a middle Eastern slave is a moot point, and really isn't a cause for fame, certainly not first sentence stuff.

2. The matter is properly dealt with, with a footnote and two references further down the page, in the paragraph that deals more fully with his birth. Please read an article before editting it.

3. The fingerprint proves nothing except a possibility. 60 of people of Middle Eastern descent have similar prints. However, the researchers fail to tell us how many Italians, how many Greeks or how many Germans also have this particular print. So it is impossible to assess the significance of this 60%.

Amandajm (talk) 05:43, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

The reason I found it a worthy addition is because of a good source published it (Discovery) and seemed to be an interesting new piece of information. That being said, I'd like to thank you for this post you wrote above. I appreciate the effort you put in it. --SlightlyInsane (talk) 10:27, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

King Fahd Road

Hey boss , Thanks for thanking hehe, If you live in Riyadh why dont you join us in WP:KSA.  A M M A R  01:00, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

May 2008

In a recent edit to the page Iron Maiden, you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

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In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. Respect other people's versions of English. They in turn should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, you can ask me on my talk page or you can visit the help desk. Thank you. Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 21:08, 8 May 2008 (UTC)