User talk:Marco polo

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Hello, Marco polo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  --Angr (tɔk) 21:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC)



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[edit] Bizarre Dissertation Topic...Excellent Work on the Berlin Page!

Hmmmm -- "...the development of a culture of hygiene and sanitary infrastructure in 19th-century Berlin, Germany." VERY interesting stuff! I really appreciate all the work you've done so far on the Berlin page here on WIkipedia; it surely needed it. Yesterday I made a few minor edits involving misplaced periods, aberrant spacing, etc., and I might make a few more here in a minute. BTW: would you happen to have a copy of your dissertation on the Internet anywhere for me to browse over? Thanks again for your contributions on the Berlin page! --64.12.117.14 05:05, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

You sound like a pretty cool guy! What made you decide to do your dissertation on the culture of hygiene and sanitary infrastructure in 19th century Berlin? — [Mac Davis] (talk)
Sorry, my dissertation isn't on the Internet. You can probably get it from UC Berkeley via interlibrary loan. It is also archived somewhere in Michigan in hard copy. But I'm not sure it's the most entertaining reading!
Thanks for the compliment, Mac. As for how I decided on the topic, I wanted to explore how urbanization and industrialization affected people's relationship to their physical and bodily environment. The obvious things to investigate where how and why people made a shift from wells and outhouses—where people had direct contact with their water sources and bodily waste disposal—to modern water supply and sewerage systems, which ended that immediacy. I chose Berlin because I could not get funding to do the research in the United States, I spoke German, I could get funding to do the research in Germany, and Berlin, as Germany's 19th-century capital and most important city, was the obvious place to do it.

[edit] Berlin

Hi engl.-BerlinPage Lovers ! would be great to see you voting here Wikipedia:Good Article Collaboration of the week , thank you ! Sashandre

[edit] Please Help

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Rome was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.
Posted by (^'-')^ Covington 01:54, 10 May 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the the AID Maintenance Team

[edit] cheers

Good to meet you today; I hope you can make it to Wikimania in a few weeks! +sj + 03:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "U.S." at "United States"

Hi there, Marco polo. I just want to suggest that, while making your other edits at "United States", you don't spend time changing "U.S." to "United States". The abbreviation doesn't contradict Wikipedia's guidelines, and many of your expansions of "U.S." may well disappear in others' edits. It has become the style in the article not to use "USA", "America" and "US" as nouns and attributives, but both "U.S." and "United States" are generally accepted. Of course, this may change; but I thought I'd let you know. — President Lethe 20:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hope you have a barn

The E=MC² Barnstar
For your knowledge and ability to present it in an informative way at the Wikipedia reference desks, I award you this E=MC² Barnstar. Keep up the good work! DirkvdM 07:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

A belated thanks, Dirk. Marco polo 02:54, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

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