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Contents 1 Louis Freeh promoted 2 Federalist Party 3 Thanks for the kind words 4 Long talk page 5 about deletion of Category:New York University units 6 Proposed deletion of Access Business Group 7 1.0/Featured 8 Portal 9 "Fair use" pictures in userspace 10 Numismatics 11 Hello! 12 Category:United States government publications 13 TCSEC = 14 Your move of Great Northern Railway (US) 15 Restoration comedy 16 Bioguides 17 NYC Meetup 18 John Jay 19 Bess Houdini

[edit] Louis Freeh promoted

The article does still a couple unsourced statements and could use some expanding in some places but of couse its GA not FA. So I promoted the article. Tarret 19:00, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Federalist Party

The next time you make a free-wheeling change, you may want to have some idea about what you are editing. I know you are a history major and I don't know if it was a simple slip, but Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party has no affiliation with the Republican Party at all. To write that it is, is a complete misrepresentation of information. I know that you advocate, "when in doubt it is better to delete" but sometimes it may be better to do nothing. Stevenmitchell 06:52, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the kind words

I appreciate your comments. As for collaborating on projects, unfortunately my time is very limited this summer as I am teaching a couple university courses in addition to my day job. Therefore, my Wikipedia usage will be limited to just sporadic edits for the next few months. Regards, --Jayzel 16:15, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 00:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks, it is done - cheers! BD2412 T 17:31, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] about deletion of Category:New York University units

Hi, Nunh-huh propose to delete Category:Yale University units, Category:New York University units and any other University "unit" classification. If interested, you can go to the proposed deletion page to discuss. For relevant discussion, see Category talk:Yale University units. Thanks. --Neo-Jay 16:21, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion of Access Business Group

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Access Business Group, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Importance). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Access Business Group. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Aguerriero (talk) 19:15, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1.0/Featured

Hi, Paul. You asked my suggestions about articles to work on. I'm partial to articles on countries and continents. Can't do without them and most are in pretty good shape already. (But maybe you were looking for something more challenging. ...) Best, Maurreen 17:28, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

First tell us what kind of topic you are interested in? Then maybe I can help how to navigate. :) NCurse _work 18:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I've found a perfect job for you. :) The Portal:Austria-Hungary is under construction and would need maintainer. This work is just waiting for you. If you need any help, don't hesitate to contact me. I'm maintainer of featured portal medicine. Good work and enjoy Wikipedia! :) NCurse _work 19:04, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• If you're looking for a low-quality, general article to raise in quality, why not start with something in Category:Start-Class_core_topic_articles? -Silence 02:56, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Looking at your contributions, I see you tend to like business/financial topics. We are very weak on business articles right now - if you could bring some major corporation articles like Ford Motor Company up to par that would be great. Some are listed here, or you could contact Wikipedia:WikiProject Business and Economics directly. If you are interested in collaborating on Dow Chemical Company (currently a real mess!), I'd love to work with you! (I'm a chemist, by the way). Thanks, Walkerma 03:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for all your hard work. Yes, a great improvement with Dow, I've been watching! I think I prefer your wording of the napalm stuff over mine (and I missed the point you made about it!). I'd like to rewrite the Bhopal stuff (as the talk says, this is tangential to Dow itself, worth mentioning but in a better way). Once we do that, do you think we can remove the "neutrality" tag (see article talk page)?

I've been looking at Dow as well (I usually mull things over a bit before I write a lot, especially with a subject I'm less familiar with). There are a few things I'd like to put in, but I'd appreciate your opinions before I spend a lot of time on them.

1. The seven major divisions of Dow, and a summary of their main products. To me, what a manufacturing company actually manufactures should be part of the "meat & potatoes" of any manufacturing company's article.
2. I have a couple of recent articles from Chemical & Engineering News, including a lengthy interview with the CEO, I'd like to incorporate some of this into the article to indicate the current situation at Dow.
3. From the chemistry point of view, I'd like to have a short section describing some of the major processes developed by Dow, such as manufacturing magnesium metal (used to build ships, aircraft, etc) from seawater. This process is still (I think!) the main way magnesium is made, and there is a lengthy section on the Dow process in the general chemistry text I used to teach from. I think Wikipedia is extremely weak on industrial chemistry, quite sad when you consider that such processes provide practically all of the materials we use in our modern world.

What do you think of these? Please leave comments & suggestions for me, and thanks again, Walkerma 16:51, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal

Thanks for supporting the proposal to create a portal for U.S. government (and politics?) topics. The proposal passed, and I copied my draft over the the portal namespace. It's at Portal:Government of the United States. If you would like to help keep the portal updated, feel free to stop by the portal talk page or just go in and make any improvements or changes you see fit. In its current state, the portal is just a starting point. Even the portal name, is open to discussion. I'm not sure if it should be "government and politics" or just "government". -Aude (talk contribs) 02:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Fair use" pictures in userspace

Hi there, I removed two "fair use" pictures from your userpage per WP:FU. Hopefully the free replacements are acceptable. Dr Zak 03:32, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Numismatics

Just something to keep ya busy!  :)

WikiProject: Numismatics Here are some Numismatics related tasks you can do: Requested Images: Guinea (British coin), English coin Three Farthings, Palladium coin, Nabataean coinage More... Wikify/Cleanup: Twenty pence (English coin), Canadian Silver Maple Leaf, Chinese Silver Panda, Common coin errors, Gold standard, Coin grading, Euro, History of the English penny (1154-1485), Petrocurrency More... Merge: Coins of the South African Republic, St. Gaudens Double Eagle More... Expand: Australian coins, Half sovereign, 5 yen coin, Canadian Silver Maple Leaf, Coinage of Ireland, Series of 1928 (United States Currency), Royal Mint, Achaemenid currency, Elymais, Roman provincial coins, Seleucid coinage, Nabataean coinage, South Vietnamese đồng More... Stubs: Aes rude, Airman's coin, Banliang, Brockage, Canadian Silver Maple Leaf, Central Mint of China, Chinese currency, Cistophorus, Dahlonega Mint, Doubloon, Fed Shreds, Flying Eagle cent, Gold Coinage Act, Napoleon (coin), Pattern coin, Star note, Texas Redbacks, Zuz (coin) More... Improve to GA: Dime (United States coin), History of money, Numismatics, Roman currency, Money, Ancient Greek coinage, Fiat currency, United States Mint, More... Improve to FA: Peace Dollar More... Projects: Expand and reorganize style guide, New category structure, Infoboxes: designing and adding to pages, more... Anti-spam: Spam by 89.49.* on Euro coins, articles in Category:Coins of the Eurozone The current Numismatic Collaboration of the Month is Ancient Greek coinage. Every month a different Numismatic-related topic, stub or non-existent article is picked. Please read the nomination text and improve the article any way you can. view • edit • discuss • history • watch

Joe I 21:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

Paul is back!!!!!!!!, isn't it? Best, Mxcatania 19:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:United States government publications

Hey, didn't notice Category:Publications of the United States government, I listed Category:United States government publications for deletion and moved everything to Category:Publications of the United States government. Thanks for pointing this out, --Surachit 03:34, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TCSEC =

Hi Paul, Thanks for pointing out that the leading paragraph was so broken, I Improved it as per your request, can you please:

• Check it and remove the context label if you feel it is adecuate now?
• Can you move TCSEC to Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria and make TCSEC a redirect to it? I tried and ended up with TCSEC 1 wich now needs to be removed.

The article still neds morewikification but at least the intro should be good now.

--JuanPDP 18:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)JuanPDP

[edit] Your move of Great Northern Railway (US)

A few quick questions about this move: Did you gain a consensus on the disambiguation somewhere? Is there a discussion about this article's title somewhere other than the article's talk page? Are you going to update all of the pages that link to the old title to avoid double redirects?

There was previous discussion on this topic where the consensus was to use (US) and not (United States) or (U.S.) for disambiguation in article titles. Was there discussion elsewhere that I didn't see? Slambo (Speak) 18:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

After searching around for a discussion, I don't see one, so I've moved the page back to its original title. Slambo (Speak) 19:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Restoration comedy

I understand that you edited Restoration comedy in order to improve it, but I don't quite see why you removed the nicely and relevantly piped links here, making them point to redirects instead...? And do you see ethos and playwright as useful links in the context? Please compare WP:CONTEXT. Bishonen | talk 21:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Bioguides

Hi Paul, good to hear from you again, I enjoyed working with you on the Dow article. How did the rally go (that was you, right?). Thanks for your posting- I think I'd like to include lots of lists in 1.0, but these are probably not right for Version 0.5 (we finish all reviewing tonight!). We are greatly expanding the scope of our project soon, using bots, and I'll definitely see if we can bring in a nice set of lists/articles like these. Thanks, Walkerma 20:10, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NYC Meetup

We do have a meeting scheduled in two weeks, at Cucina Vivolo, on December 9th...so far, we could have about 30-35 people attend (crazy!). See details at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC and feel free to e-mail me at cdthieme@gmail.com. I'd be definitely up to putting together a regular meeting WikiClub for the NYC and surrounding metropolitan area....great idea...one we definitely should bring up at the meetup. —ExplorerCDT 19:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Jay

Hi Paul. I originally attached the classification of American Episcopalian to the category, but realized that no other Episcopalian with their own category had a similar treatment (where their category was linked to personal attributes). I also did a cursory inspection of the categories named after politicians and found that a majority merely classified themselves as a category named after politicians. Wasn't sure whether it was policy but decided it looked better (not advisable to have too many subcategories in things like American Freemasons, etc.) Also, there were very few tags on the actual article itself, which was confusing. Eventually, I just thought it would run smoother. I don't know whether it's actual policy or not. From your northern neighbour. Homagetocatalonia 18:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bess Houdini

Sorry for the mixup about Bess Houdini. You did not delete her name from the Gate of Heaven Cemetery page. Her name was not listed in alphabetical sequence. I have since placed her name in alphabetical sequence on the page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Anthony22 (talk • contribs) 00:53, 10 December 2006 (UTC).