User talk:Coby2
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[edit] John Adams
You have recently created the article John Adams, Sr.. This was deleted in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policies. Please do not recreate the article: if you disagree with the article's deletion, you may ask for a review at Wikipedia:Deletion review.—WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 00:41, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
- I tagged it for deletion because it wasn't apparent to me that he had done anything notable other than sire a future president out of the 3, 4 maybe I can't remember, children that he had. I didn't think that the article would ever expand much beyond what was already covered in the John Adams article. I'm not actually able to delete articles as I am not an admin. This means that an admin agreed with me and deleted it twice. The second time you recreated it, you added more information. What I ended up doing is merging the only thing in your article that I didn't find in John Adams into the Early life section, specifically the birth and death years of Sr. Currently, the article you created redirects to John Adams. If you think you can write an article that is more than a stub about Sr., then you may follow this link and write it up. I just don't think there is much to say about him that isn't adequately covered in the article on Jr., but I have been wrong before.—WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 03:46, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
- Yes. If you can write up a bio on him, by all means do so. Just follow the link above. —WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 01:50, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
They all look good. Could you add the source of your information? When writing stubs it is generally very helpful to give a reference as a jumping off point for further expansion. —WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 01:04, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Images
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[edit] India (cat) marked for deletion discussion
Hi, The article you created has been put up for deletion discussion. You may want to follow this [link] to add your comments . Peripitus 03:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Steens Pictures
I saw on the Requested Pictures page that you were looking for pictures of Steens Mountain. Here is a link to my steens picures on flickr: SteensPictures. If you think any of these would be appropriate, I would be happy to release them under GFDL or CC licenses. Sheldrake 20:45, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Portland
Hi Coby2! We're working on the article about Lewis & Clark for the german Wikipedia and we would like to ask you, if you might be able to take some pictures of the following sites:
- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Portland
- Fort Clatsop National Memorial bei Astoria, OR
If you could take some pics and upload them on Commons? I would be glad to do the upload for you, of course! Maybe you have the chance to stop by and help your german friends out, we really appreciate your time and effort. Take care, --Hedwig in Washington (TALK) 02:22, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
