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[edit] Trail of Tears

You make a good point about the Trail of Tears article. I'll make a compromise. I’ll remove the Tribal names from the sentence until I can provide a good resource and replace them near the end of the paragraph after Five Civilized Tribes. I’m new to Wikipedia, and I’m just learning the trade. Some advice would be appreciated.

Thanks --Lojah

[edit] Erie (tribe)

hi Pfly,

could you site your reference to the Westo theory on the Erie (tribe) page? I'm interested in research about the topic.

Thanks! --Erielhonan 06:35, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the compliment on Larrys Creek. Since you feel this way, would you mind sharing your opinion at its FAC page: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Larrys Creek? Thanks, Ruhrfisch 12:40, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks so much for your support of Larrys Creek's FAC and your kind words. Take care, Ruhrfisch 17:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)


Thanks again for your support and comments - Larrys Creek made featured article today!
Take care, Ruhrfisch 03:26, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel Boone National Forest

I now have the article watchlisted. I added the protected areas infobox to it along with a link to the forest servcie webpage on that forest...it's a good webpage, so if you care to reference from it, it has some excellent links.--MONGO 20:52, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your copyedit and citation fix on P. G. T. Beauregard. I'm still just now learning how to do citations/footnotes/etc properly. Pfly 17:04, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. If you have any questions about Wikipedia editing in the American Civil War space, pop me an e-mail. I maintain a page that has editing recommendations for Civil War articles, if you are interested: User:Hlj/CWediting. Hal Jespersen 18:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice job

... on State Plane Coordinate System. I can't believe we didn't have it yet.  :) Antandrus (talk) 00:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

This is a really good article straight out of the box with no additional edits! I wish I'd seen it 3 years ago when I was trying to figure out what "State Plane Coordinates" were. --A. B. 12:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Appalachia -- POV and recent edits

Hi. You discussed the Appalachia article's POV issues back in September with Allen. I finally got around to making substantial changes to the article to fix what I thought was very POV material. I'm always a bit wary of making big wholesale edits unilaterally, however the issue of neutrality had been around for many weeks. Please feel free to look at what I did and the comments I left on the talk page, making changes or additions as you think fit. Thanks, --A. B. 02:02, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Catskills map

Thanks! But what I would really like to see would be a map like that one, but showing just the Catskills or somehow highlighting them within the Allegheny Plateau. As it is the reader has to look around a bit and match letters to spots on the map if they aren't already familiar with the region. It should be obvious, like the state maps highlighting individual counties. Daniel Case 01:37, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know

Updated DYK query On 1 December 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Upper South, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 19:08, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Upland-South-map.jpg

I submitted it for deletion at commons due to potential OR and imprecision. - crz crztalk 02:50, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Are you in luck. As how should one map regions that inherently do not have precisely defined boundaries, check out today's featured article, Macedonia (terminology). The definition of Macedonia is a major source of confusion because of the overlapping use of the term to describe geographical, political and historical areas, languages and peoples. -- Jreferee 14:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minnesota

Thanks for your additions to Minnesota, however could you move them to History of Minnesota? The Minnesota article is intended to be an overview. Thanks! -Ravedave (help name my baby) 05:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the move and the babyname suggestion -Ravedave (help name my baby) 05:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Announcement

Announcement
The "Help name my baby" Poll has closed :). Greta Annette was born 12/12/06. She weighs 6lbs 14oz and is 19inches long. Mother and baby are both doing fine. Thanks for all the suggestions!

To keep this slightly Wikipedia related I have started Adopt a State, so adopt your state article today! -Ravedave (help name my baby) 03:48, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maps

Hi, I saw that you had made a map for the Upland South and was wondering if you could show me how to do this as well. Thank you.

Sunlight07 05:26, 18 December 2006 (UTC)Sunlight07

[edit] Priest Rapids

Thanks for clarifying the location and removing the WikiProject Oregon tag. —EncMstr 08:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kudos on minor Oregon edit.

Very slick word crafting. Tip of the hat, and all that. -- "J-M" (Jgilhousen) 23:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the river maps (plus a quibble)

Hi Pfly, thank you for the impressive maps of rivers you've been adding! I think they are immensely helpful to the project. I do have a concern about the map of the Great Miami River watershed, which seems not to include the area of the Whitewater River (Indiana), which flows into the Great Miami shortly above the Miami's mouth... this would add a substantially larger area of southeast Indiana to the map. Maybe you'd want to check it? Thanks again, and I hope you'll keep adding maps as possible. --Malepheasant 06:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the correction --Malepheasant 06:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Another thanks for the river maps, I'm glad I don't have to do all of them :-) Kmusser 00:04, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Big Bend

reply on my talkpage; I gave it a section heading - "Big Bend - BC vs. WA" so look for that on the pageindex.Skookum1 (Talk) 21:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map Request

Noticed the neat ecoregion maps you've been adding, if you get a chance can you make one for Arabian Desert, it's been on our requested maps list for ages and I think that style of map would really complement it. Kmusser 16:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Also Amazon Rainforest could really use one as well. Kmusser 16:24, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Glady Fork/Laurel Fork/Cheat River/Mon River

Hi Pfly, thanks for the compliments on the new articles! As for naming, I've moved Laurel Fork to Laurel Fork (Cheat River), and started a disambig page at Laurel Fork -- I almost always pre-disambiguate when writing new articles, but I just wanted to get those articles up while I was thinking about it, and I have a tendency to become badly distracted by hemming-and-hawing over disambiguation challenges. The biggest difficulty for me in this case is that there's no easy way of knowing how many of the dozens of streams called "Laurel Fork" actually merit articles, since in Appalachia every little five-mile trickle coming down off a ridge is called "foo branch" or "foo fork", and there are thousands of them, and most of them would probably be best discussed within the context of the larger streams they flow into, if need be. So I think I might be inclined (but definitely not firmly so) to leave the Glady Fork article where it is for now, and just wait and see if anything else comes along (which I'd be happy to have happen!)

Thank you for your work on the maps of the Monongahela River basin! I think they look really, really good, and I'm especially delighted by the one for the Black Fork, which frankly is something I never thought I'd ever see anybody make for Wikipedia, so I'm overjoyed to see it (and it's also accurate and useful, and well-done overall). I can see that the Glady and Laurel forks wouldn't really fit in there, so just for a future reference, in case you someday feel like making a map that "zooms in" a bit on the Cheat River watershed, you might be interested in this description of the Cheat River headwaters from the (paper) 2006 West Virginia Encyclopedia article on the Cheat River (it's one of the references in both of the above-mentioned articles): "The five forks -- the Blackwater River and the Dry, Laurel, Glady, and Shavers Forks, are arranged like a human hand with its wrist at Parsons, where the main Cheat officially begins." I've heard this turn of phrase before while growing up in WV (about the supposed hand shape), and more generally the conceptualization of the Cheat River as forming from "five forks", so I think it does seem to be a local and regional means of understanding the topography and watershed of the area, which is why I suggested that they might all be included. But again, that's just an idea for a future map, and I say full speed ahead on the ones you've started. Thanks again! --Malepheasant 05:38, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Williamsville, New York

The reason that I changed it originally was that I couldn't see how a water mill could be set high up, given the way that it works... Is there a picture of it anywhere? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:44, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info &mdash I get it now. Sounds spectacular. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 10:43, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mediterranean climate

These matters have been a bone of contention at Talk:Mediterranean climate and Talk:Victoria, British Columbia, where some people are insisting that Victoria, B.C. and/or S.E. Vancouver Island have Mediterranean microclimates, "sub-mediterranean", "semi-mediterranean" climates (etc). Until I came across the relevant Wikipedia articles, I would have assumed the northern part of the Pacific Northweat to have a kind of Oceanic climate or a kind of Temperate climate. From the perspective of my residence in an undisputed Mediterranean climate (Perth, Western Australia) I haven't seen anything yet to change my mind. I would say "modified Mediterranean", sub-mediterranean", "semi-mediterranean" (etc) are not Mediterranean climates per se. They are also not Köppen climate classifications.

But I think direct quotes saying such things are fine, as long as it is spelled out that the these are informal terms and that the area concerned does not meet the technical definition of a Mediterranean climate. Grant | Talk 16:07, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coosa River Flora and Fauna Bio-Diversity Highlights

Pfly, I just about finished the work on the proposed new table. What do you think? I've been trying to work on a consolidated Georgia/Alabama set of facts for the details sections, but its a slug! Also, I intend to include some discussion of the Longleaf Pine forests bordering the river in the Plants section. I see you are from the Seattle area. Lived in Tacoma twice in the early 1970s and late 1970s and did a bit of work in the Ballard area in the spring of 1980.--Mike Cline 21:36, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Democracy and ethical values

I appreciate your comments on my recent query on the Humanities Reference Desk regarding the "sanctity of life" as a consideration for conscripts facing compulsory military service and particularly combat duty, in a society that ostensibly promotes humanitarian values. Israel is regularly touted as a democracy (typically as "the sole democratic state in the Middle East") though it lacks a constitution, has a system of parliamentary government whose coalition-forming process often grants disproportionate influence to small political parties, etc. While I wouldn't dismiss the benefits of democracy presently enjoyed by its inhabitants, it certainly raises dilemmas in practice. (These have been widely noted elsewhere, and I'm not suggesting a discussion of them in Wikipedia.) I've added a few more remarks in response to Clio the Muse's reply just above yours, if you'd like to follow the discussion there, particularly as I suppose the query is about to be Archived. -- Thanks, Deborahjay 04:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

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