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[edit] Sitka

Don't sweat being inexperienced, even after having been at this for some 6 months I still learn new stuff about working in Wikipedia all the time! As for your question, I'm presently only a "visitor" but am looking at property in Sitka and plan on being at least a part-time resident at some point.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work...

--Lordkinbote 07:49, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Alaska Pioneer's Home: I had this wrong as well, and changed the entry to what is displayed on the building itself.--Lordkinbote 05:30, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary question

In the edit summary box how do you create the little arrow that links to the section? Sorry for the question but I must admit I've been jealously looking at your edit summaries for the last few days! Jarfingle 10:45, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Don't be jealous! What you are referring to is a Wikipedia feature: when you click on the "edit" link at the right side of a section (versus the "edit this page" tab at the top) it automatically produces the result you want in the edit summary.--Lordkinbote 05:30, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Using Commons for mountain images

Hi. Thanks for uploading Image:5390 Mountain.jpg. It is highly recommended that you upload images of mountains (or any other free use images not containing language specific text) to Wikimedia Commons so that they can be easily used by all the other language wikipedias. There's no difference in the way you link to them in articles. The server automatically searches Commons if it cannot find the image here. I will probably copy this image to Commons unless you wish to use it as an your own test. RedWolf 06:41, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Saint Lazaria Alaska.jpg

I have tagged this image for you as a fair use screenshot. However, it's not currently being used in an article which means that the image can be deleted because images tagged as fair use MUST be used otherwise they do not fall under fair use. Please add the image to an appropriate article ASAP. Thanks. RedWolf 06:45, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Darn parenthesis!

Thanks for fixing my boneheaded error! Jarfingle 10:43, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

No problem! The Wookieepedian 09:56, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Simple links

Hello. Your edits to tidal resonance prompt this comment. Please note that the first letter of a link, unlike the later letters, is not case-sensitive, so there is no need to write [[standing wave|Standing wave]] or [[Standing wave|standing wave]]. So the first letter should be either capital or lower-case as the context makes appropriate. (Also, you can write [[cat]]s, [[logic]]al, [[hyphen]]ated, [[rabbi]]nical, [[dogma]]tic, [[apocrypha]]l, [[Russia]]n, etc., and the whole word, not just the part in brackets, will appear as a clickable link to the article whose name is inside the brackets.) Thus the vertical-slash-style link can be reserved for things like [[philosophy|philosophies]]. Michael Hardy 00:24, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok, it's just a pet peeve for me, not seeing lists with caps. I only do this under the "See also" sections not during the main portion of the article...Is it explicitly against Wiki guidelines?
Agh, pardon -- after reviewing the tidal resonance article, I see what you were getting at. Thanks -- I won't this mistake in the future! Jarfingle

[edit] LeConte Glacier and Alaska

Hi. LeConte was never in Alaska. John Muir named LeConte glacier after him. See Talk:Joseph LeConte Dananderson 00:51, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Don't worry about it!

Hey, Don't worry about it, you can use it. But the thing is I tried my self so hard to try to move it to the right margin, but it just won't budge!! I tried many different codes. Sorry about that. --(Aytakin) | Talk 23:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] shoosh

I can only keep it up for a half hour at a time before it gets overwhelmed. Did you see Wikipedia is under an IRC co-ordinated attack by 100s of people making fake articles. --Silent Lamb 23:08, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Project Alaska

Hello, and welcome to Project Alaska! While our member-base is small, we are growing. As a heads-up, one thing we do ask is any Alaska-related pages/images/lists/categories you contribute to, please make sure to add our {{Project Alaska}} template to the Talk page (no subst please), and most importantly, add the item & it's Talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska/Alaska recent changes so we can track any future updates. Thanks a lot and again, welcome! —akghetto talk 10:24, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] artifacts

Just so you know....artifacts is a variant of artefact!!! check dictionary.com online. Nice try witherways...

Pizzadeliveryboy 15:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AMHS

Hi, Jarfingle. On the AMHS article, I removed the sentence Unlike most other major ferry systems in the world because there are many other notable ferry systems that also ply longer routes. There is considerable ferry traffic on the Baltic Sea, and many of those routes require overnight or multi-day trips. The North Sea, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, and the Black Sea are also served by many overnight and multi-day ferry services. Even Iceland and the Faeroe Islands are connected to mainland Europe via ferry service to Scotland.

It's definitely worth noting that the AMHS belongs to that unique class of ferry systems that cover great distances between ports, but we should put it in context. Maybe we could reword the sentence I removed. What do you think?

--Wechselstrom 23:29, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jacobs School of Music

I would credit its amount of awards to it being the largest conservatory in the nation (and the world?) not because of its quality. It's got quantity not quality.

I would consider the best conservatories in the nation to be Eastman, Oberlin Conservatory, Julliard, and the New England Conservatory of Music. IU definately is not up there. I'll look for some evidence to back this up but in the meantime what makes you consider IU as one of the best conservatories in the nation?

On the one hand it's the USNews & World rankings, as mentioned in the article, on the other hand it is a subjective opinion: When I talked with musicians/singers, they usually mention Juillard as the best/most famous, but IU is usually in the group of the best 4-5 schools. -- Marcika 21:37, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mount Furuhelm

You know, as I patrol Special:Newpages, I see a whole lot of boring edit summaries like "Creation", "Created the article", "Created", "first version", "created" , "new stub", "first version", "Create article", "creation", "new", "new stub", and even "created article as a stub"; and those are just from the tab I have currently open. And then... "Create article! Yay!!!". Like a ray of light. Thanks! Melchoir 09:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Buckland River and Rio de la Aguada

They do exist, actually. The Buckland River is near... well, Buckland, and Rio de la Aguada seems to be a small stream on Suemez Island (itself a nonexistent article), west of Prince of Wales. —Zero Gravitas 07:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joe Juneau, Richard Harris merge

Go ahead and remove the merger notice. I don't think you need to be an admin to do that, I have removed them in the past based on clear consensus and nobody complained. BTW, good job on the Chilkoot Trail, it brought back memories. One of these days, I might try to find, scan in and add some of the picture I took on the five hikes I did on the trail in the early 90s. Luigizanasi 15:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles

I have properly documented all the reasons that certain links and categories had be put in the article Lake Braddock Orchestras, and well as justifying other things on User_talk:Compuguy1088

Compuguy1088 17:43, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking vandals

If you wish to get a vandal blocked I suggest you check out the page WP:AIV. Leaving a comment in the edit summary of your reversion is not likely to be noticed, where as adding a report to WP:AIV should be noticed within minutes. Hope this helps. --Darth Deskana (Darth Talk) 21:44, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Juneau Icefield locator map

Why did you consider a locational map for the Juneau Icefield to be "unnecessary"? One of the reasons I made that map in the first place was to illustrate this article, as well as an eventual one on the Stikine Icecap. Would it help if the Juneau Icefield lettering was larger, or most prominent? I don't particularly like the basemap used myself, but it's in WikiCommons which is why I used it (don't like the projection, nor the topo coloration).Skookum1 07:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Return To Paradise

You deleted: "Their descision is a difficult one, with many questions to be asked. The most important -- will the Malaysia government keep its part of the agreement? "

Why?

Jason Palpatine 16:24, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scott_Shields

Why is the MyDD article at this article, which I found when I referenced Shields in an edit to the Sago Mine disaster article? Shields is now the director of internet communications for the re-election campaign (well actually he was appointed--so maybe it's an election campaign) of Senator Bob Martinez (D-NJ). I'd be glad to update the article to actually match the title, if that won't mess things up.--Beth Wellington 18:34, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whitehorse/Cousins Airport

Thought I better explain why I put the extra space back in above the stub. If there is no extra space the image will tend to crowd the text on the line above it. So it's just really about the way the article looks. I didn't move it back down because there seems to be a difference of opinion on where the tag should be. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser puts the stub tag at the bottom but other people prefer it before the category. So it goes. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:58, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Wonderful edits

Wow, thanks for the kind words! Most of what you'd be aspiring to is having massive amounts of free time, though... —Zero Gravitas 18:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup Template

My bot, Alphachimpbot, has just modified some of your cleanup templates. {{Cleanup|MONTH YEAR}} is not a valid template. Use {{Cleanup-date|MONTH YEAR}} instead. Just figured that I would tell you. --Alphachimp talk 17:03, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sitka High School Auditorium

I'm just trying to start up the auditorium wiki - Any extra info that you have would be much appreciated - I should be getting some good material here soon from the project manager. Jwhairybob 19:57, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orchestras

Just as we predicted this very day, it happened. Someone added the "South Carolina Symphony Orchestra" to the list. I think we might be forced to nominate it for AfD. I'll wait for you to give me the go-ahead. AdamBiswanger1 04:04, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc.

I created a separate article for KAKM, and removed the market templates and such from the APTI article. APTI is the organization behind KAKM, not the station itself. --AlexDW 18:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mount Verstovia

I just noticed you create Mount Verstovia, nice work, thanks. --Alf melmac 15:05, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Mt. Verstovia Alaska.JPG

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[edit] Categorizing

Ack, sorry for the late response. Haven't even been around as much as my notice says lately. Anyway, I don't see any reason why not; it's a category for the borough, not "cities in XXXXX Borough". I asked at the U.S. County WikiProject before starting and nobody told me not to do that. So go ahead! —Zero Gravitas 17:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Alameda

Hi, I noticed that you deleted the link to an Alameda blog. Since this blog is going to be all about Alameda, I thought it might be useful to include ... no?

[edit] Dashes and templates

— isn't a template, it's a numeric character reference that refers to the em dash character (—). I prefer the character itself, since it's easier on the eyes when editing, but the numeric reference is fine when you can't type in the real character. Trivial, but I thought you might like to know. —Keenan Pepper 09:50, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Glaciers

Thanks for joining the project. I thought that there are enough articles on glaciers that a project was possible. Just to do some clarifications, I think an ice field and an ice cap are different things. Generally, an Ice cap is a body of ice that is larger than a Glacier, is more continuous, but is smaller than an Ice sheet. Modern ice sheets would include only Greenland and Antartica...but of course, much of Siberia, northern Europe and North America were also once under ice sheets. I think that ice cap is also used for larger mountain based areas of continuous ice. I may have to work on clarification of these major definition articles to clear up what they should say to differentiate themselves. An Ice field is more ambiguous...not sure what the differences between it is and the other definitions, but I'll try and figure it out. I think you probably alreay know all of this, so excuse me if I'm coming across as condescending. The Ice field and Ice cap definitions must be avaiable somewhere. I mean we have Columbia Icefield, Wapta Icefield, Waputik Icefield and we also have the Quelccaya Ice Cap...but they appear to be pretty much the same things...each has outflow, or outlet glaciers and are smaller than icesheets. I suppose how we spell the terms may matter too...I mean, is it Icefield; Ice field....Icecap; Ice Cap...you get the picture...there is much work to do. We'll have to work to standardize the naming based on some universally accepted style, that glaciologist also use to define the terms.

I also saw you suggested we change the name of the List of glaciers to something else, which may be fine but let me see if there is a better name then either of us has come up with. That list was started some time ago, so I'll try and ask those that worked on it earlier what their thoughts are.--MONGO 05:36, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi...thanks for responding...I was looking at NSIDC's website and on this page under "I" they are quite helpful in determining common terminology. I would agree with you that there is little if any difference between an icecap and an ice field aside from their definition that an icecap is "larger than and ice field but less than 50,000 km² (12 million acres)" I also clicked on the ice field link and it states that "icefield: a mass of glacier ice; similar to an ice cap, and usually smaller and lacking a dome-like shape; somewhat controlled by terrain". Like I said, and not being an expert myself, I would tend to agree that icecaps and ice fields are the same thing, but perhaps there is enough of a difference they do deserve to be classified differently. Now when I created the short article about the Quelccaya Ice Cap, I spelled Ice Cap in two words, but that website combines them...the don't combine icefield, instead keeping it as two words...whereby the three article also listed above have the wording icefield as one word...so my articles are backwards from their spellings.....so here's some google info to see what is the best used terminology:

  • "Columbia Icefield" [1] 211,000 hits
  • "Columbia Ice Field"[2] redirects me to Columbia Icefield
  • "Quelccaya Icecap" essentially redirects to "Quelccaya Ice Cap" as well...I dunno...I suppose any wording will do...but the NSIDC is usually a very informative source so I'm confused. Let me email User:Peltoms who is the glaciologist that was instrumental in helping us bring Retreat of glaciers since 1850 to FA level and see what he has to say on the matter...he may however be in in the field doing research so a response from him may be slow or we may not get one at all.--MONGO 16:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I see that when in a proper name,the words tend to be combined. I just emailed Peltoms, but he may or may not respond. It's probably trivial nothingness...but what you mentioned last on my talk page sounds like a good working standard. Maybe we can transpose this to the project talk page too? It's kind of empty over there. I also invited Peltoms to join the project.--MONGO 16:28, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Furtwangler Glacier

Sorry about my revert of your work...I was moving through the editing history and somehow I see I rolled you back....t'was an accident.--MONGO 20:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anchorage Daily News

A section of the article about the newspaper is titled "Airing Dirty Laundry." Part of the history of the newspaper is that animal lovers have complained about its biased reporting. That's the paper's history. Information about complaints from animal lovers should not be deleted because they are not in line with your agenda.

SledDogAC

[edit] Regarding edits made during September 5, 2006 (UTC) to Stuart Alexander Lowe

Please do not perform copy-paste moves. They ruin the history of the page. To move a page, all you need to do is click on the move tab at the top. Ryūlóng 06:59, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Additionally, in the future, please leave messages on people's user talk pages, instead of their user pages. Ryūlóng 07:05, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move to Alex Lowe

Hi there, Jarfingle! Stuart Alexander Lowe and its accompanying talk page has been moved to Alex Lowe. Stuart Alexander Lowe remains as a redirect. Thanks for being so patient while the administrators attempt to clear the backlog. Feel free to contact me with any questions or if you need any more help. Cheers! hoopydinkConas tá tú? 15:20, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

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