User talk:Onassi

Free Market[edit]

If you can provide a reference for the assertion you are inserting into free market then the assertion can be left. Otherwise it reads as if this is merely your strongly held opinion. Paul Beardsell 10:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But you are not allowed to write what you think. You must be able to back it up. It seems to me you are changing the article to have an anarcho/libertarian point of view. Your view is controversial, even if I have sympathy with it. See NPOV. Paul Beardsell 10:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And wrong: If a market were truly free they would accept fiat money also. Perhaps at a discount. But there could be no force used to prevent this or the market would not be free. Paul Beardsell 10:40, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But WP is not a place for argument. If you cannot provide a reference for what you say when challenged then it should be considered for removal. Paul Beardsell 10:40, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have replied to you again on my talk page. Paul Beardsell 21:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Janus (Mythology)[edit]

And here you leave confusion where before your edits all was plain. Now you say he is both Greek and not Greek. I think the Janus-related changes you have made may be flawed. Wikipedia said consistently before that Janus was a Roman god. WP said Janus had no Greek god counterpart. You now have changed refs to Janus in several places in WP to now read as if he were a Greek god rather than what WP said before: That he was Roman god who came from Greece. Please sort this out - and provide a reference for your seeming assertion that he was a god of the Greeks - because that is how it could now be interpreted after your changes. Paul Beardsell 10:32, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Or, failing which, leave it as it was. Paul Beardsell 10:35, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No! Most all the Roman gods were Greek. By "Roman god" it is meant a god worshipped by Romans, not a god who carried a Roman passport. You are muddying the waters by misunderstanding this. And to be consistent you will have to repeat your treatment of Janus to all the other gods too. Paul Beardsell 10:43, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

To illustrate this point: Jesus Christ was a Jew from Palestine. We do not refer to him as a Palestinian God nor as a Jewish God. When a god is a Something god he is a god of the Somethings, not a god from Somethingland. Jesus is the Christian God, the God of the Christians. Janus was a Roman god. A god of the Romans. Point proven? Can I now revert all your changes or do you want to tidy them up yourself? Paul Beardsell 10:57, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Money and POV pushing[edit]

There is too much POV pushing going on. This diff is a case in point. What made sense and all would agree with now pushes a particular view to the exclusion of others. This is an encyclopeadia, not a soap box from which your view of things is to be propounded. Paul Beardsell 22:29, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

More at my talk page. Paul Beardsell 11:38, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia needs you[edit]

Hi, Onassi. You have helped with a number of articles in the past, but you haven't edited any articles in a while. Could you make some new contributions soon to help make Wikipedia better?

Check out the Community Portal to help you find articles that need work.

I hope you decide to become a more active contributor again. Feel free to drop me a line on my talk page. -- ForteTuba 03:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]