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Hi Allenwhite, What you did to "Dubious methods of Western archaeolgy" is great. My only concern is someone now hiding and moving the material under "archaeology". Whipping workers is more than a dubious way of searching for "Biblical" artifacts. I have my doubts whether this was the common Western method used in the excavation of Pompeii, ancient Greek cities, Scandinavia and the Americas before 1948. User:Kazuba 28 Jun 06

I agree, I originally removed the whole section since it is a single reference to a specific incident, and it doesn't sound very credible. However it wouldn't go away so hopefully by containing it, the revert war will end. Allenwhite 11:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is a telling photograph included in the interview. I knew foreign intellectuals were prejudiced against the common laborer. I had no idea there was such hostility condoned by American Biblical archaeologists and that they rationalized their snobbery with proud defiance. I expected them to be more charitable and humane. Slavery had beeen abolished in the USA. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. They were far away from home so they just joined the program. Monkey see, monkey do. Such amoral behavior was far too common in Nam. User:Kazuba 30 Jun 06

Archiving Halifax page[edit]

No worries, I figured it was just an error. Sorry if I sounded like I was pointing fingers in my comment on Talk:Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia.

What was more important for me was to put the old edit history into the archive, by doing a page move rather than a copy-paste move. I had actually thought a page move was the recommended way of doing things. But according to Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page, there are advantages to a copy-paste archiving too. --Saforrest 15:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]