User talk:Avnative

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• See also September 2004-July 2005 discussions here.

[edit] Thanks, ol' buddy!

Av, I am so glad that you are back that I can't express it. Thanks for coming out of "lurkdom," thanks for all the e-mails and thanks for your friendship. We have SoCal desert articles to write, my friend! Let's do 'em!! All the best, Lucky 6.9 04:29, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SoCal WikiProject

Based upon the articles that you edit, you may be interested in the Southern California WikiProject (and its parent California WikiProject). Please take a look around the project's webpage and see if there is anything that interests you. If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact me. BlankVerse ∅ 08:55, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

After your message and the one from User:Lucky 6.9, I removed the merge tag and did a little copy-editing to the Low Desert article. I may have to do some more editing. I thought that it was just a California term, but A Google search showed National Weather Service Tucson using it as well. And it's the title of an song by R.E.M.. BlankVerse ∅ 14:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment.

re: "Statement in Black": Just to depress myself, I have the Missing Wikipedians page on my watchlist. I created that my "Statement in Black" after seeing one very good editor take a WikiBreak, and then deciding that it wasn't worth returning after his WikiBreak was over. I added the other stuff about admins because around the same time I witnessed an admin deliberately bully another editor off of the Wikipedia. BlankVerse ∅ 09:45, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Since there is now a {{California-south-geo-stub}}, I've been going through the articles that are tagged with {{California-geo-stub}} and retagging those articles in Southern California. I will probably get more from the Antelope Valley, but the one enigma so far is Sun Village, California. It apparently has a post office (or at least a zip code - 93543), and Yahoo! Maps give me a location ([1]), but it's not in my seven-year-old Thomas Guide or in the Wikipedia Antelope Valley article. BlankVerse ∅ 19:56, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

You might look at WP:WPSC-LAC where I've started a new bullet for those places in Antelope Valley that are part of Los Angeles County, plus I've also noted which articles do not have any Rambot-generated Demographic or Geography sections (which in most, but not all cases, means that they are not census-designated places). Then also look at WP:WPSC-IC where I've been putting the Kern County Antelope Valley articles.

When I first started looking at the California-geo-stubs, I thought that I could get away with just looking for those articles that I knew were in Southern California. Instead, I'm finding out that I am having to look at almost every article. I'm also finding plenty of articles that do not have titles that match the Wikipedia Manual of Style, so I'm trying to rename those as I find them. It's turning out to be a much slower process than I had expected.

You did a nice job adding to Sun Village, California. The only thing I changed is that I linked Redlining. (Which is an article that needs serious attention, but not from me. Still, I may try to one of the collaborations or article improvement projects to look at it.) BlankVerse ∅ 05:11, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

I've added Palmdale, California to my Watchlist. You might send a note to User:Lucky 6.9 to watch it as well. BTW: I just discovered the article on Neenach, California, which is one of the interesting articles I've run into lately. BlankVerse ∅ 06:01, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Your problems with Palmdale, California look just as bad as the problems with the Cerritos, California article, except that I haven't even tried to edit that article yet. It's a huge article filled with trivia, heavy with boosterism, and with a bunch of photos taken from the City of Cerritos website that has a very clear copyright notice. The article doesn't need severe copy-editing, it needs a weed-wacker! Every time that I look at it and think that I might decide to tackle it, I end up changing my mind and go off to edit some quiet article like Signal Hill, California. BlankVerse ∅ 06:51, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Accident was on ACH, not AFH?

I seem to remember that the accident with the JPL van going off the cliff was on Angeles Crest Highway, not Angeles Forest Highway. I drove by the site along ACH, which has more cliffs than does AFH. I also live in La Cañada, so I would know. I also wish that AFH/ACH be closed to any Antelope Valley traffic during rush hour (or they take Metrolink) as too many cars come down ACH and make traffic. Just looking at those cars, I can tell they aren't LC locals. --fpo 15:39, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

This article begs to differ. Just the angle of the crash, I swear it had to be ACH. --fpo 18:10, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Okay, you win, I am sorry. I still do find it a bit difficult to believe that someone could crash off a moderately-sloped cliff of AFH while heading uphill. I could understand crashing going downhill along the hairpin turns of ACH.

KTLA's Bill Smith is cool. Nobody outside of here can pronounce La Cañada correctly. I heard that the fire started because on new homes being built?

Please don't play the NPOV card on me. When on trips, I go up Sierra Highway (never been on 14 north of Acton). I have a lot of respect for the land (Ansel is my desktop picture), and we both have to suffer Antonovich's rule. I just beg you guys not to speed down ACH through town.

I hope you don't mind my asking, but if you find yourself in the area of the Palmdale Metrolink station, I must ask you - Is there a fence separating the railroad tracks at that station?

Thank you --fpo 03:56, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

For ñ -

Click down below on the foreign characters when editing a page

Go to Character Map

With Num Lock on, hold down the Alt key and press 0241 --fpo 15:08, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

By the way, it's SCRRA, standing for Southern California Regional Rail Authority. The fence separates the Metrolink track (with the platform) from the Union Pacific tracks. However, I've always thought that the two railroads should run joint trackage from Palmdale Junction to Lancaster... --fpo 00:05, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] America the Beautiful

Thank you. Whatever perspective I have comes from being older (over 50) along with a healthy interest in history instilled by my parents and my public education, which was top-notch in those days. I am often either amused or annoyed at the lack of either interest or knowledge in anything that happened before the Clinton administration. One question I like to ask someone is, who is the first President they recall being aware of. That tells me something about their age bracket and their interest in such matters. In my case, the answer is Dwight Eisenhower. In my parents' case, it's Calvin Coolidge. It's a little scary to run into folks who don't remember Ronald Reagan's years, for example, or much worse, don't know much about those years. Of course, I don't know what it was like to live during the Depression or WWII, but I have at least some sense of it from listening to my parents talk about it. I'm also always interested in learning new facts, which is one reason why your piece caught my attention. I think I had a hand in trying to assert the Christian hymnal info some weeks back, and gave up on it because the yahoos kept reverting it. Good luck.  :) Wahkeenah 19:22, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

It occurred to me on re-reading that the lack of reference to ATB in the 1929 encyclopedia, contrasted with the presence of those war-like songs, might say something about the views of the editor... but it might also provide a clue as to why the song has never succeeded in various efforts to make it the anthem. I have a hunch the song is just not as popular among the "masses" as we in the "intellectual elite" think it is, or should be. For a lame comparison, consider the popularity of two famous sci-fi series: "Star Trek" and "Star Wars". For all the critical acclaim for "Star Trek", and the someone looking-down-on "Star Wars" by the intellectuals, the fact remains that "Star Wars" has a much broader audience. No amount of hype is likely to change that. And I think that as much as the intellectuals snear at "The Star-Spangled Banner" for various reasons, its straightforward lyrics, which require no interpretation and have no subtlety, have resonated over the years more strongly with the general public, than the lyrics of "America the Beautiful", which might actually make the listener stop and think. Wahkeenah 19:58, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup of talk page

Done. I found your talk page (and many others) on Wikipedia:Duplicated sections, a Wikipedia cleanup page. You're welcome! Andrew pmk | Talk 20:45, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

A thanks for the support on my admin nomination (and for the nice comment). CG 18:11, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for supporting my RfA application! Much appreciated! The Singing Badger 16:24, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Android79's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA and for your kind comments. Any friend of Lucky's is a friend of mine. :-) android79 22:35, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Need your comment

I've made a proposal for a new namespace, but it didn't have much comments. Could you check the idea and comment here? Thank you. CG 18:09, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego Meetup on October 18 2005

Hello, Jimbo Wales will be in San Diego to attend OOPSLA and has agreed to come by and visit with the San Diego wikipedians. If you are interested, you will find more info on my talk page. Johntex\^talk 00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:0171598-R1-054-25A.jpg listed for deletion

[edit] Another LA-area Wikipedia meetup?

There is a proposal for a 3rd LA-area meetup at Philippe's on Saturday, 24 June 2006. If you are interested in another meetup, please visit the proposal and comment on the date and location. ^BlankVerse 08:46, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Independent proposal for WP:CAL and WP:SOCAL tags

User Spamreporter1 has made a proposal for the tagging issue. He was not previously involved with either project before seeing this discussion, and I belive that his opinion therefore is NPOV. The suggestion is that articles that have no state-wide scope be tagged only locally. Please go to this section on the SoCal page to provide input. —ScouterSig 18:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)