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http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/timesdispatch/access/616938541.html?dids=616938541:616938541&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+28%2C+1989&author=Joseph+Williams&pub=Richmond+Times+-+Dispatch&edition=&startpage=B-1&desc=SPENCER%27S+CONVICTIONS+DIDN%27T+END+THE+FAMILIES%27+SORROW+AND+ANGUISH

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with the edit summary "Fix the format if you wish, but dont change the sources themselves)", when I found a book listed in Google Books with the same ISBN as the pre-change article gave, a book by the same authors and with a slightly-expanded version of the title used in the pre-change version of the

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of the Japanese government. As such, reliance on this "gold standard" for descriptive terminology relating to Japanese naval ships is defensible, and any reasoned consensus based on such standards is also defensible; however, neither can be considered determinative. There is an inherent caveat in

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An ameliorative edit was initiated. This involved one sentence only, supported by an in-line citation with an external link to a credible source. The talk page record reveals that this precisely-targeted intervention was reverted twice without substantive discussion. The edit encountered further

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Reads- was convicted of capital murder for strangling Debbie Dudley Davis, 35 and Dr. Susan Elizabeth Hellams, 32, both South Side residents, and Diane Cho, 15, a Manchester High School sophomore. All the deaths occurred during Spencer's stay at a halfway house on Porter Street in South Richmond.

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The article in question is about the book, not the movie and not the real person. In the book he is clearly portrayed as an italian, in fact he is introduced in chapter thirteen, entitled "An Italian Scholar." I resent the implication that I am the one that does not do my research, I have read the

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The article on the movie counts with a reference leading to the real Abbé Faria, clearly from portuguese origin as we historically knows, in the article on the Count of Monte Cristo, are stated, possibly wrongly, Abbé Faria origin as italian. Two situations possible: or Abbé Faria from the book is

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you reverted wasn't vandalism, but a widely circulated and exaggerated story concerning Davis' capture. He apparently grabbed his wife's raincoat mistaking it to be his own (both cut from same material, hers without sleeves) when surprised by Northern troopers. The story ballooned from there, but

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with a unique, non-aircraft carrier name. In Japan, if ducks were prohibited by the Japanese Constitution, then something which waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, and behaves like a duck would be sensibly given a unique non-duck name. As it relates to use of the term

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Among the Japanese, the practical decision-making which sometimes calls for a prudent substitution of flexible notions of "fiction" for "fact" is recorded across the span of centuries. This aspect of Japanese history and culture need not intrude into this Knowledge (XXG) article about the

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for fear that someone will complain that it has "too many words." In a context which arises before I posted my initial edit to that article's second paragraph, it becomes possible to begin to appreciate what's gone so very wrong as the result of an unthinking reliance on

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really italian or the article linked to it, of the real Abbé Faria, seens to be out of place. See this before you just revert my contributions, ok? You seen to get the easy work done instead of the real hardship of valid research and surveillance on the Wiki articles.

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yes, but I removed it when you corrected me. Not that it makes much diffrence, IP is a known vandal, has been blocked in the past, and was warned less than a week ago for vandalism, thats why I was so quick to judge that edit as more vandalism.

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I think the mistake isn't your fault, but rather the source you are using. Reviews at Amazon of The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers says the book has numerous inaccuracies. Having no copy of the book, I can't say if this true or not.- Bill

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BOOK itself. Watching movies is not research. I reverted your edit because my research showed that YOU were wrong. Don't accuse others of not doing research until you have done some actual research of your own.

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That's just an excerpt from the above link. These twenty year old stories are in a paid archive. I think this is sufficient proof to say Timothy Spencer was found guilty in Diane Cho's murder.

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The Serial killer also known as 'The Southside Strangler' was indeed found guilty of the murder of Diane Cho. An archived article at the Richmond Times-Dispatch website dated May 13th says so

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In that Knowledge (XXG) article about the first of the Hyūga-class vessels, I would hope to make a constructive contribution by re-casting this controversy using medical terminolgy:

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I removed it because it seemed unlikely and was uncited. Since you seem to have a source verifying the anecdote, I have no protestations with it being added to an appropriate page.

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cancer. Such illustrative "consensus" becomes a powerful element of proof -- a multi-faceted demonstration of an undetected, highly persistent, insidious and pernicious problem.

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article, I presumed that was the same source that the pre-change article was trying to reference. I used the info which Google Books has for the book with that ISBN. See

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I've attempted to remove the "how-to" tone of the ballistic breaching section, while still adequately documenting the process. Let me know what you think.

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none of it belongs on the CSA page. Historian Shelby Foote goes into detail about his flight and capture, and this story is in his third

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Hey, I thought that the bomb in Oklahoma City killed 168 people, not 165. It even says so on the Oklahoma City bombing page...

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My mistake, edit was correct, but in my defence the editor was a known vandal, though I should havechecked more carefully.

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As he said, my source is incomplete, and I don't have access to the paid archive, thank you fr this new information.

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is coincidental to the picture. I will refrain from editing that cluster bomb article in such a way any further.

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Spencer was arrested in Richmond in January 1988. His murder trials began with the Arlington trial last summer.

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You wrote in the discussion section that a photo would add to his entry. There is one located at this address

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Maybe I will add some of the story to Davis' article. Did you shoot the IP a vandal warning?

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