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Contents 1 Question about Trail of Tears article 2 Stephen Trigg 3 Third Servile War 4 Pt. Pleasaant monument pix 5 Thanks for the kind words 6 Anishinaabe 7 Crawford expedition 8 DYK 9 Daniel Boone 10 And the winner is 11 Crispus Attucks 12 Congratulations on Lochry's Defeat 13 The Fish Portal

[edit] Question about Trail of Tears article

Hi, I am Chris (User:Cculber007) and I am original creator of New Echota, Georgia Land Lottery and others. I wonder if this article has mentioned about land lottery which I don't see while I tried to link. I think land lottery should be applied in this article as result of what happening to Cherokees' properties after they left. I live 2 miles away from New Echota and I live in Calhoun, Georgia but I am 1/3 Creek Indian. Let me know if I need to add or what? I am still working on Creek information for land lottery also. Tnanks User:Cculber007 10:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Chris, I added a link to Georgia Land Lottery in the Trail of Tears article. --Kevin

[edit] Stephen Trigg

Looks like I've stumbled onto an editor whose area of interest falls within the timeframe of this article! I currently have a peer review going on this article and would love the feedback of someone who's knowledgeable about this time period... And even though I gave the impression of a thin skin earlier, I actually do take constructive criticism well... Thanks! plange 04:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Third Servile War

Thanks for your grammatical tweak/improvement of the article Third Servile War :) If you have any comments/opinions about the article that might be relevant to its current peer review, or A-class review, I would very much appreciate if you would add them. Thank you :) - Vedexent 09:15, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pt. Pleasaant monument pix

Kevin:

I just wanted to tell you that I will be uploading a cropped version of Pt. Pleasant monument photo you uploaded under GFDL. The cropped version will be used as a clickable button on some upcoming revisions to List of West Virginia state parks. You can see the draft version at User:WVhybrid/My_own_sandbox for the next few days. I will make sure are cited for the orginial version. Thanks for posting the photo. WVhybrid 01:44, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the kind words

I did not realize that there was a need for this article. I remember doing some historical research and coming across a person who had two unusual encounters. One of them is still obscure and is hidden only in clues and oblique references. The other was a court record in which this person described being "capitvated" at "Lockrees Defeat". So, I looked into it and found it to be an interesting piece of history.

How did you know I wrote it? I just did it last night. --Blue Tie 13:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I noticed your addition about Lochry to the Joseph Brant article. I've been meaning to write Lochry's Defeat for some time, but then again I have a long list of things I've been meaning to write for some time. It's rare that anyone writes about the American Revolution in the West, and so I tend to notice when it happens! —Kevin 13:40, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anishinaabe

Hi, thanks for the help on Charles de Langlade. We're compiling a list of articles related to the Anishinaabe (Ojibwa, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Oji-Cree, Nipissing, Mississauga, Algonquin) at User:Leo1410/Anishinaabe. I know you have a lot of Great Lakes history red links and military history knowledge. It'd be great if you could help us out. (Leo1410 22:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Crawford expedition

Magnificent! Out of curiosity: were you writing the text offline prior to posting it, or did you actually put it together so quickly?

It's somewhat amusing, incidentally, to note how many of the entries to Danny's contest are military history topics, and the degree to which those articles have been expanded. ;-) Kirill Lokshin 16:04, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I actually wrote it offline over the last two weeks, pretty much, starting not long after I entered the contest. But I had read most of the books already, so that was a big head start. ;-)

Damn. That's all, just, day-yaaam. Incredible job. Any hope I had of winning the contest has now been put to rest. You could say that hope was stripped, scalded, scalped, and burned at the stake. Great article. ; ) – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 00:51, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Kevin

[edit] DYK

On October 26, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article fort Randolph, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel Boone

Kevin, I'm willing to contest your deletion should you do it again. The relation is speculative to you, yet Nathan states to Draper that his father frequently highlighted the relation. Daniel Boone himself spoke of Daniel Morgan as a relative. Given the importance of Daniel Morgan in American history, I see no reasonable explanation as to why it does not belong in the article. Every single fact known to us can be made "trivia", Kevin, such is the nature of information.{Mind meal 11:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)}

Why the rv of my Daniel Boone edits on 10-28. Do you really think Portrait is spelled Portait? I cited my source for the Morgan House,it is not trivia it is History. Please explain.Tstrobaugh 16:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Changing "Portait" to "Portrait" breaks the link to the image, because the image title was misspelled by the uploader. You would have realized that if you looked at the results your "correction" produced. Since the image title is not displayed in the article, the misspelling doesn't matter. Your Morgan genealogy link was to a self-published website, which does not meet WP:RS. And as for "trivia vs. history", the two aren't mutually exclusive. --Kevin

[edit] And the winner is

Thank you for participating in the contest. You did an amazing job with the Crawford expedition, and I am pleased to announce that you are the winner. Please contact me privately with your contact information so that I can make sure you receive your $100 Amazon gift certificate. Danny 00:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Wow, this is a surprise and an honor. Thank you very much for sponsoring the contest. The gift certificate will be very much appreciated! As always, I'll buy more history books, and information from those books will soon show up in Wikipedia articles. Truly the perfect prize for a Wikipedian! --Kevin

Congratulations! It's truly an outstanding article. (Incidentally, are you planning to take it to FAC at some point?) Kirill Lokshin 00:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! Congratulations on your work as well. Yes, now that the contest is over, I'll put the article through the FAC process. --Kevin

Congrats on your solid win in Danny's contest! You earned it. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 02:15, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much, that's very kind of you. --Kevin

Indeed. I just read through the article for the first time, and it is impressive. Congratulations, and keep up the great work. --Robth^Talk 08:08, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, and congratulations on your honorable mention as well! --Kevin

I'm amazed, you did such an excellent job. Yanksox 01:48, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crispus Attucks

Hi -- I am the person who recently made a major revision of the Crispus Attucks article which, I was grateful to notice, you made a positive comment about. I was hoping you will add the article to your watch list and help me keep in eye on it. There are three different users who are vandalizing the page with increasing frequency. Thanks. House of Scandal 01:52, 14 November 2006 (UTC) -- (John, Boston, Massachusetts)

[edit] Congratulations on Lochry's Defeat

I have taken a break from wikipedia. Just too much going on in my life right now and I am way behind on "real life" stuff. But I noticed your Lochry's Defeat Article and I wanted to say "Well Done!". --Blue Tie 00:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! It was your article on Archibald Lochry which got me started, so thanks for that as well. --Kevin

On December 7, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lochry's Defeat, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Congratulations Kevin, you've earnt yourself the lead spot with the picture on DYK. Very comprehensive and interesting article. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:45, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kevin Myers (talk • contribs) 15:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

I encountered you using our new template on Lochry's defeat. Well, it was the beta version and we had some changes. See here: : finished template with guidelines. Greatings Wandalstouring 17:26, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Fish Portal

Hi, User:Melanochromis has done a great job getting the Fish Portal up an running. At this point, more sets of eyes can help make it even better. If you can offer some tips on the portal talk page about how to improve Fish up to "featured" quality, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Rfrisbie^talk 13:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)