User talk:Deirdre

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Deirdre - just a word of thanks for your excellent spelling, typo and punctuation corrections ! I'm very tempted to put a link into constructed wetland into all my articles and edits just to get a free clean-up service. For those of us on very slow and intermittent connections, someone else tidying up loose ends is a real boon. Thanks

Velela 14:47, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hello, Deirdre. Belated welcome!!! I noticed you on Velela's Talk page.
You're "somewhat of a compulsive proofreader", eh? So am I sometimes. My wife says I'm the only person in New Zealand who ever proofread his performance appraisal; well, that was the only thing worth doing to it; fortunately that boss left the council's employ soon after.
My knowledge of Alaska is 50% derived from Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska", which is one of my favo[u]rite songs. But I enjoyed a glance at your Ester, which I used to think was just a chemical term or a typo. Great to see that a 1600-person CDP can get such a writeup. My Plimmerton is only a little more populous but also an independent-minded "suburb". I must try to give it some more text.

Kind regards from across the Pacific Ocean. Robin Patterson 21:40, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] RE: Edgar Alwin Payne

Thanks for catching my grammatical errors in Edgar Alwin Payne! I get in a hurry to finish and make silly mistakes. I had "his", wanting to make it "after his passing", but then in mid sentence made it "after his passed away", just silly. I am working on the plurals, not thinking. THANKS! WikiDon 1 July 2005 16:06 (UTC)

  • A list of artist by state/county would be fine, just make them fairly well known or the list could get ugly (as in extreamly big and hard to edit) in a hurry.

Did you look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artists_by_nationality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:U.S._artists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_painters

These should give you some ideas/help.

[edit] Shacknasty Jim

Hey, nice work on the cleanup! Thanks. --Scimitar 4 July 2005 16:43 (UTC)


[edit] Dean Shan

2:52 PM 8/2/2005 Hey thanks for updating Jay Hammond's page to reflect his death. By the way, which UA school do you work for?

[edit] Doug Swingley article

I saw your edits on some mushing related articles, and wanted to request your help on the Doug Swingley article. This winter I am hoping to go to a race which Doug has entered (not Iditarod though). If I go, I hope that he will let me do a small interview with him. If you have any ideas for useful questions, please let me know and I will add them to my list. CanadaGirl 10:38, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusive Democracy

Hello! I am writing to you because I saw that you had at some point edited the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Democracy

What's going on is that I am trying to add some links to criticisms of this project, and those around it have deleted them and are almost certainly going to do that again, possibly forcing me to revert and/or protect the page. I believe that it is against Wikipedia policies that those whose work is discussed in an entry will always have the last word regarding anything related to that entry.

Would you be so kind as to keep an eye on the page (after you read the talk page, and assuming you feel what I'm saying makes sense). Thanks in advance!

Paulcardan 04:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusive Democracy 2

OK, thanks a lot for taking the time to leave the note on my talk page. The whole thing has become too complicated now, with pages being deleted and so on, so no need to worry.

Paulcardan 05:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Birches

I checked up in the Flora of North America which clearly gives Betula nana sensu stricto as native in North America as well as Europe and Asia, so the two pages should be merged. I'll add more details on the Dwarf Birch page to reflect this. I've also added more details from FNA to Alaska Birch and American Dwarf Birch; the FNA and a couple of other refs I checked all gave maximum heights for American Dwarf Birch of 1.5-3 m so I've changed the figures for it to that. - MPF 14:10, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Alaska

Hello, and welcome to Project Alaska! While our member-base is small, we are growing. As a heads-up, one thing we do ask is any Alaska-related pages/images/lists/categories you contribute to, please make sure to add our {{Project Alaska}} template to the Talk page (no subst please), and most importantly, add the item & it's Talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska/Alaska recent changes so we can track any future updates. Thanks a lot and again, welcome! —akghetto talk 10:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

RE:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Alaska/Alaska_recent_changes - No, don't bother worrying about alphabetical or anything, feel free to add to the end of the list. The list is just a compilation of all our pages/images/lists/etc so that the link Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Alaska/Alaska_recent_changes works as a community watch list if you will. A way we can all track recent changes (good or bad) and not have to clog up your individual Watchlist as well. For me, right now I'm working on expanding community descriptions & history. After that, probably transportation related articles. Once again, welcome!

[edit] Long time no see.

Nice to see you on the site... and surpassing me in contributions. I've been slacking lately, I guess. --Cgranade 11:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alaska libraries, Russian-language or aboriginal-language materials

I saw the discussion about Anchor Point Public Library. I just wanted to suggest that, where possible, you mention whether a public or academic library has non-English materials related to the past and present Russian-speaking or aboriginal-language-speaking communities, or special materials related to whaling, mining or petroleum exploration and production. Regards, TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 17:15, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Diane E. Benson

Totally agree. Everyone seemed to be looking at it as a WP:C&E question only. What I'm going to do is store the name on my homepage, wait for her to lose the election (which looks pretty likely), and then try to get a version of the article built around her writing undeleted. Vizjim 10:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Don't forget to vote on the new Afd! ;) Vizjim 09:04, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Vandalism on Jamie Smith

No problem on the Jamie Smith vandalism revert. I found it among the Dead End pages because it had been stripped of categories and links. I had a look at the vandalism and it looks like the page has become a target for different sets of teenagers mostly because Jamie Smith is a common name. I'm not sure what you can do except keep an eye on the page. Flowerpotman 22:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Muskox

The muskox had to be deleted before Musk Ox could be moved over. Its done now. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 02:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esterites

Yeah, there aren't many of us openly Estery folk on here. This is Ian, by the way. For the most part I'm just a wikipedia lurker, fixing minor things here and there when I run into them, rather than doing any real contribution. Foryst 20:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

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