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[edit] Byrd

Sorry, I'm no expert on Byrd, but it seems to me there isn't much of a contradiction, as the act he supported did not deal with the issue of segregation, but rather voting rights. While one could certainly say they are connected, they are not the same. I would suppose that that Byrd was not against blacks voting, as long as he didn't have to sit at the same lunch counter with them. The article seems to say that he only supported the act to reinforce the Democrats in the south, and to prevent a more substantial civil rights bill from being proposed. That's my take on it. I'll post this basic statement on the Byrd talk page. -R. fiend 13:42, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Johnson

Please don't ask questions in articles. If you have a question post it in the appropriate talk page. Looking at your other edits, you should know better. AlistairMcMillan 20:09, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You're right, I should have put it on the talk page. Ground 22:36, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Message from 68.44.184.172

Edit/update pages more carefully--you replaced the entire Phil Collins article with an inferior P.O.S. article without even realizing it.68.44.184.172 04:13, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I completely forgot about going over the history. The page had a title but no text when I visited it (which should have been a tipoff), so I looked at the talk page, saw an article there, and moved it. It was pretty bad =] Ground 11:00, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

No problem. We all make mistakes. I interpreted your edits, at first, as potentially intentional vandalism; I thought you would have seen the real vandal's "holla" on the page and realized that something fishy must have been going on. At any rate, it is good that you decided to move the information from the Talk Page to the Article Page, as it is valuable in its own right. However, User: Hadel is currently on a mad, unilateral quest to remove the four paragraphs that you had taken from the Talk Page, choosing instead to "revert" the longer Phil Collins article back to its state pre-the "holla" vandal (of course this means that anyone's additions/changes to the article that you reinstated will also be lost to us). This is unacceptable. Because I have protested him, he has had my I.P. address banned. I am so sick of some of the egos that these people have. We must set up a tribunal here in order to bring these terroristic Wikipedia demagogues to justice! Their abuse cannot be tolerated if this project is to remain impartial and relevant.172.147.111.208 17:49, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Overzealous Wikification

Hi there. I think it is great that you are working on Wikifying articles that are in need of it; however, some of the links you create are slightly outside of the norm. I wouldn't have noticed except that you edited Dred Scott v. Sanford, which falls within the realm of my Project.

If you could read over Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context, I think it would be beneficial to everyone. Some of the links you make are good, but some fall outside of the scope of the article. There are definitely a great many different opinions on Wikipedia as to what should be linked and what should not, but if you only link words relevant to context, you will be sure not to over-wikify.

I'm always glad to see some younger members of the community making substantive contributions, but please try to stay within the guidelines set forth in the Manual of style for everyone's benefit.

Thanks, Skyler 17:06, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia is knowledge. Knowledge is power.

[edit] Did you know has been updated

And an article you created recently has made the line up and is now featured on the main page. Enjoy! -- Mgm|^(talk)]] 21:10, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the recognition. Ground 21:12, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It's quite a good article. Thank you for writing it. Warmest regards --Neutrality^talk 03:19, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Wikified

Thanks for the Wikification. James 007 08:04, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Admire

Why thank you! What a nice thing to say, it made my day! :) -- Cheers, Cecropia | explains it all ® 18:29, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Laughing

Thanks for the note on my user page! If I'd known that mumbling was funny, I'd have done it more often. Elf | Talk 21:52, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] table

Wow, people actually read my page? :) Anyway, "Senate" means there's a senate table (and all 50 states have that); S. Passages means I've added footnotes for passages in the senate (deaths, contests, etc). House and H. Passages work the same way, but for the US House of Representatives. Delegates means I've added a table for the delegates from the territory before it became a state. Articles means that there are articles for every senator, rep and delegate for that state. (None have this yet) Alpha means ... damned if I know. :P I guess I should get rid of it. Check simply means verified with an outside source (which none have been, but I have a source lined up). in the chart, X means it's been done, O means it doesn't have to be (i.e. Connecticut has an O for delegates; it was never a territory, therefore no delegates). Hope this helps. :) --Golbez 12:08, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ahoy?

[lurch]You rang?[/lurch] -- Metahacker 04:34, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject political figures

You signed up for Wikipedia:WikiProject Political figures which may restart again after becoming inactive. Are you interested in joining? Also, are you familiar with the page List of former members of the United States Senate? I think that that page has some senators who have articles written about them under other names, moves to be fixed, or articles that need to be written about them. I am working on it, but any help would be appreciated, since you say on your page that you are interested in the Senate. Academic Challenger 02:22, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested Reading re Ollieplatt

Hi, I noticed that you've encountered Ollieplatt and I thought I'd offer a bit of background:

Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Matters_currently_in_Arbitration

Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Libertas/Evidence

Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Libertas/Proposed_decision

Note that Ollieplatt is Libertas and about a dozen other user IDs.

— Davenbelle 01:11, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Links

Why are links to Bohème Magazine considered "Link Spam"?? They link to articles on a free, non-commercial website that individuals researching those topics may be interested in. Visit the links and find out for yourself; they are not spam. They were posed with the genuine idea that Wikipedia users like myself would be interested in those articles. What makes them different from any of the other external links posted? What official body does one have to appeal to in order to get their link posted?

[edit] Thanks for your note

It's nice (and somewhat alarming) to know that people actually read the nonsense I put up on my user page. :-) --dablaze 15:54, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for fixing the spelling error on my user page. Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 15:12, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Republics

Need your help and/or advice. The British Wikipedian Republican Party sought fit to delete Wikinfo:Classical definition of republic from Wikipedia. There is a terrible brouhaha at Talk:Republic. They won't even allow an external link! SimonP really doesn't know what he is doing. They deleted the Classical definition of republic and created mixed government and politeia instead. The official title of mixed government is a Republic and the Romans translated "politiea" as Republic. And then to top it off the new article Classical republicanism doesn't refer to the Classical republics of Crete, Sparta, Solonic Athens, or Rome but to Machiavelli's ideology. How can that be when Venice in the 13th century instituted a mixed government and called herself a "Republic".

With Jwrosenwieg and Kim Bruning there was a tacit agreement a year ago to have republic be the modern meaning and a [Classical definition of republic] to describe the ancient republics of Hellas and Rome and their influence. To say the least the "Republic section" is all messed up. We need some clarification. I have new information but User:Snowspinner won't let me bring this back up for undelete. (I do grant that a little bit of the Classical definition is original but the rest is not.) I will not let Sparta be called anything but a republic! I will not let the British wikipedian modern republicans strip Sparta, (my heritage and roots) of her rightful name. She is a Classical republic and needs to be called such! At the least, where is the damage in having an external link?WHEELER 15:04, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for fixing the error on my userpage. Can't believe I didn't notice that. ✏ OvenFresh² 03:22, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Core Knowledge curriculum

Hope you like it. :-) I set up the /education page as a convenient place to put notes to myself, but if it's useful to other people, that's good too. Russil Wvong 19:06, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cheers

Can't believe I didn't check the CAP link :) Thanks for fixing it. Trampled 12:20, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maurice Greene

Maurice Greene (the american athlete) is not gay. There has never been any mention of Maurice Greene being a homosexual ever. The history says you added the part about him being gay.

Isn't he?

[edit] Firefox speed

Thanks for the speed tip Brookie 09:13, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image links

Thanks for the tip. It looks like I have to capitalize the file extension to get the links to work. Did you discover the error in an article, or just on my user page? --Smack (talk) 19:45, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sunflowers

Thanks for you kind words about the photos. Really I've just been lucky—you wouldn't believe the number of bad photos that get taken to get a few good ones :-) — KayEss | talk 07:36, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for help on a major wiki project

Hey :) I was wondering if you'd be interesting in helping out with www.Knowmore.org, a corporation search wiki we're trying to get off the ground. We could DEFINATELY use some people that know how to make a wiki community great & the site is almost a blank slate at this point. It's been heavily customized and is designed to help responsible consumers enter any product or company name and immediatly find information about that co. (the main focus of the wiki is corporate & political information in a much more specialized way then wikipedia currently offers) Let me know if you're interested! aim: knowmoreorg or bernard@knowmore.org

[edit] WikiProject Political Figures

You've got your name down on the list of members as being interested here - alas, not a whole lot has been happening. Are you still interested? I'd really like to make an effort at getting this going once and for all. Ambi 13:28, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Norman Borlaug

I've added Norman Borlaug to the FAC page. Consider this a chance for more input, and please be ready to address any issues people have with the page. --brian0918™ 30 June 2005 04:09 (UTC)

[edit] Belated Birthday

Saw you listed at meta:Wikipedians_by_birthday. So, happy belated birthday! Best wishes. :) --Jen Moakler 05:45, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright problems with Image:Fife Symington.jpg

[edit] wikipedians

Hello, i saw you were listed on the category:wikipedians by fields of interest under drugs/drug addiction, and i invite you to read this and add your name or something else if you want. cheers! --Ballchef 13:03, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:UserGround2.jpg

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[edit] Samuel C. Armstrong

As part of the WikiProject for military history, I have been cleaning up and adding to certain articles on American Civil War generals. In line with other Civil War generals articles, I added a Civil War section and greatly expanded the text for General Armstrong's war service. I also reformatted the references and added footnotes to be compliant with the standard format for ACW bios. Nice work on the postbellum activities - I learned a lot about Armstrong that I did not know! Scott Mingus 19:26, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Just a happy Birthday message to you, Ground, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Jorcoga 01:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Just a happy Birthday message to you, Ground, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!!! Have a great day!

Enjoy the day to the fullest!

Thistheman 05:01, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Here's to you on your birthday, Ground! From the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

Have a good one :) -Ladybirdintheuk 09:01, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day, Ground!

Enjoy! Mr. Turcotte^talk 15:14, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:NY AG Eliot Spitzer 1.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:NY AG Eliot Spitzer 1.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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[edit] Willie McQueen

I recently created a page on this individual, and I just noticed through a Wikimirror that you once had listed a page for him as one of your intended future projects. As such, please take a look at the article and let me know what you think. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 18:02, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Madison Square Garden

Hi, since you have written on the Madison Square Garden Talk page before, I want to know if you can comment on the current debate on whether a sentence I wrote, about WWE blocking WCW from ever having a show in the garden, belongs in the article. My opinion is that the fact is as important to MSG history as it was to the WWE. Milchama 10:53, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Bella Abzug.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Bella Abzug.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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