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Contents 1 Joe-Bolkcom.jpg Copyright 2 URGENT! Your vote needed 3 Peter Williams 4 Brian Jensen 5 AutoWikiBrowser & SCOTUS WikiProject tag 6 Welcome 7 Gang Show 8 Re: Nix v. Hedden 9 WikiProject Narnia 10 WikiProject Narnia (again) 11 Re: Child evangelism fellowship 12 Narnia Character Templates 13 Talk:Constitutional republic 14 Infobox 15 Thanks for the Wikiproject banner 16 Calling edits vandalism 17 John Leo 18 scifi 19 AfD on an article you worked on 20 Vanity 21 Welcome! 22 Proposed WikiProject Iowa 23 AWB Approval 24 American Independant Party 25 Floyd Abrams - Speaking Freely 26 SCOTUS 27 Pentagon Papers Photo 28 Are you in law school? 29 Biography Newsletter September 2006 30 Parties and state party affiliates 31 America First Party (2002) 32 Wikipedia:WikiProject United States politicans 33 Categories on Descartes Meditations 34 Image:S Pederson 02 04 075.jpg 35 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 36 Matt McCoy (Iowa politician) 37 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 38 Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies 39 Wikiproject Narnia Newsletter March 2007 40 Honorable 41 Dan Rasmussen edits

[edit] Joe-Bolkcom.jpg Copyright

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I was CERTAIN I had corrected the "Federal" copyright status of that picture... I apologize. I have a response pending from the Iowa General Assembly's webmaster about the exact copyright status of the site's images; that ought to help clear things up. Do you happen to know the exact status of the images on the Assembly's website?

It is, by the way, always nice to meet a fellow Iowa-conservative–homeschooling-evangelical-Christian. ;-)

Say: I finally heard back from the IGA's webmaster, who stated that "all images on [the] site are available for use by the public." Would you think it prudent to re-add the Bolkcom picture? LAATi88 21:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] URGENT! Your vote needed

Come vote here please to decide this important matter! i trust that you'll make the right decision--Rictonilpog 17:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't reply to AfD notifications like this - those very few AfD articles I vote/discuss on, I find for myself. Thank you. --Tim4christ17 09:09, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Williams

No it's not the same person. This one is a British scientist in his 60s! See my longer comment on the talk page. JRawle (Talk) 00:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! --Tim4christ17 00:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

All the links to people called Peter Williams are now sorted out!

From his IMDb page, this guy seems to have done quite a few things. Perhaps you can create a stub article for him at Peter Williams (actor)? See Peter Williams (IV) at the Internet Movie Database. JRawle (Talk) 11:53, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brian Jensen

I find it very unlikely that he would have been the voive actor for Freyr, i think it was just an unchecked link, I changed it now. --Childzy_talk^contribs 09:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AutoWikiBrowser & SCOTUS WikiProject tag

It'll take a few days to get approved to use it, but it might be easier to add these tags with AWB. In any case, I'd prefer it if you actually wait a day or two to see if anyone else in the project comments before you add any more. I don't think it is controversial, but it's easier to wait and see.--Kchase02 T 02:18, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'll wait a bit. But I doubt anyone'll object. --Tim4christ17 02:20, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree it's unlikely. Thanks for giving it some time, though.--Kchase02 T 02:22, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for taking so long to respond. I went on vacation and got delayed. No one has responded, so I guess it's kosher with everyone. Thanks again for holding off. Thank you as well for suggesting this. It is a good idea.--Kchase02 T 20:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Thx. I guess I'll resume tagging things. Hmm...now to look into the AWB - and to figure out how to use it. --Tim4christ17 00:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Just wanted to drop a quick line and say thanks for joining WP:SCOTUS. We are always happy to see new members, and welcome your contributions greatly. Leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions at all, or if you'd like to collaborate on a Supreme Court article you have in mind. Cheers! RidG ^Talk/_{Contributions} 22:54, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gang Show

I had a go at trying to define it a bit better. Cheers. Albatross2147 08:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Nix v. Hedden

The previous infobox used "Submitted," and on older cases, this is correct. It's unusual to find, but some cases don't have an argue date listed, only a submit date. When I saw the template had been converted over, I just changed the parameter. Thanks. --MZMcBride 17:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Narnia

Hello, I noticed that you edited an article related to, or expressed interest in The Chronicles of Narnia. I thought you may be interested in knowing that there is a WikiProject working to improve articles about Narnia, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please consider joining the WikiProject Narnia. Thank you! Bornagain4 01:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Narnia (again)

Hey I'm glad you joined our WikiProject, feel free to be bold. I am a Born Again Christian, just so you know. Bornagain4 02:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Child evangelism fellowship

I took a look at the deleted article and would recommend you start a recreation from scratch. The old version included a healthy dose of Christian evangelical advocacy along with multiple 800 numbers to inquire about programs or order materials, so the AfD consensus that the old article was primarily an advertisement looks justified. The parts of the article that might be useful will either be trivial to recreate (organization name, name of founder, and year of founding) or else will need to be updated (http://www.ministrywatch.org/mw2.1/F_FullRpt.asp?EIN=386091187 provides some current third-party audited numbers for CEF). Good luck in your efforts. --Allen3 ^talk 02:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and got this page started before I saw that it had previously been deleted. - R HokieRNB 16:12, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Narnia Character Templates

Are you or can you create a characther template for Narnia, the one for stargate does look pretty good. I tried, but the markup was overmy head. Bornagain4 20:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I like the look of the character infobox alot, the hexadecimal colors are not that dificult, there is a list of them. But it looks really great. Bornagain4 23:50, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and we should probably keep the other colors in the template, just for other races like Jinn, forces of evil, just plain weird, etc. Bornagain4 23:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

We should probably change first appearance to major character in Bornagain4 00:07, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Well there are only seven books, and only Eustace, Lucy, and Edmund, (and Aslan) are characters in three or more books, for Aslan you can just put all. Bornagain4 00:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good. Bornagain4 00:17, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Esta bien, it is good. Bornagain4 00:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Um, I tried the new template on the standard character article and it didn't work. I cant figure it out. ? Bornagain4 00:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I tried it on Trumpkin and it worked, but there is a slight problem, the color doesn't reach all the way to the right. But other than that, it looks great! Bornagain4 01:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, we'll just have to get a picture in a couple years. Or we could use another picture, don't know from where though. Bornagain4 13:20, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Constitutional republic

No, I don't think there were any previous edits. I looked in the deletion log and found nothing. Mangojuice^talk 20:08, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

Hey check out the thing below the infobox on your template test page, and let me know what you think about it. Bornagain4 12:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the Wikiproject banner

Tim, thanks again for suggesting (and then spending hours posting) the wikiproject banner for Supreme Court Cases. I'm sorry my initial response was so cool to your suggestion, as it's turned out quite well. People have been joining at a more rapid clip recently, and the project is more instantly visible by those who happen to edit the articles where the banner is posted. I think it's made a difference. Thank you!--Kchase T 03:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - glad it's working out! --Tim4christ17 13:58, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Calling edits vandalism

Regarding [1], please don't call good faith edits vandalism. In this case you had good reasons to revert it, but that does not make it vandalism. JoshuaZ 04:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I didn't think it was a good-faith edit. The version that existed before that edit had a warning about inserting the information, and it has been widely discussed. While I didn't check to see if that particular editor had been part of the discussion or not, there have been several bad-faith edits regarding the Korolev and the Odyssey. --Tim4christ17 04:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Leo

Thanxs for the update to the John Leo page. Jumping cheese ^Contact 05:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] scifi

I found out. It's a blooper of the new Atlantis episode. If the website gets back up before 2am EST, the password is Fletcher. dposse 03:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcome. dposse 03:18, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD on an article you worked on

If you would like to throw your two cents, you can find the AfD discussion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NATO helmet.--Anthony Krupp 15:24, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for letting me know...even if my only contribution was the {{stub}} notice. --Tim4christ17 19:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vanity

Is this page vanity or not: Mikhail Lebedev --GoOdCoNtEnT 08:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid I have no idea... --Tim4christ17 08:05, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

[edit] Proposed WikiProject Iowa

Hi, Tim, nice to meet you! I did add my name to the list of people interested in a WikiProject Iowa. Lini 04:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AWB Approval

Regretfully, I've denied your AWB approval, as you do not have 500 article space edits. Sorry. alphaChimp^(talk) 04:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] American Independant Party

I may be wrong but there is a national American Independant Party even if it is real small and I do believe the the Nevada affliate is a part of it. It has the same name. I know that it is a part of the Constitution party that is why I put it that way. Im just trying to make it correct and support the parties but I also heard that they left the constitution party along with some other states but I will leave that alone. If you want a good template for the constitution party click on this link. User:John R G/User Constitution Party John R G 06:56, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Note the Independent American Party and American Independant Party are two seperate parties. What I did was make the correction on the Independent American Party. Which the Nevada affiliate has the same name. That is confusing but I am just trying to make things correct. Check out this link [www.usiap.org] John R G 07:07, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I think you are right. Where I got mixed up is that the nevada affiliate has the same name as the Independant American Party but that does not mean that they are the same party so you are correct. Here is a link about the Nevada affiliate leaving the Constitution party. Now I do not know if it is official or not so I wont debate you on that I just wanted to show you. [2]. You will have to press refresh to read it. John R G 07:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I see you made the correction. Can you fix the second paragraph because it is not the American Independant party it is Independent American Party which is alot smaller if you look at their website at the bottom of the page. I will keep in touch and you can add the template that I told you about to your page. If you want to see it look at my home page. I will be back tommorrow. John R G 07:32, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Floyd Abrams - Speaking Freely

Hi, thanks for the message. I'm summarizing the entirety of this book. I am open to suggestions as to how to do that. Floyd Abrams argued each of these cases before their courts. I had a link to the the main article about the case because I will be a "See also" section in each that gives a perspective on the case, and history. But Mr. Abrams's. Each one I create will be relatively lengthy. I want law students and lawyers to find the discussion of strategy interesting, adding value. Besides, Mr. Abrams is a legal god in any sense, and has shaped almost any notion you have of the First Amendment, so I think he warrants the pages. I'm open to suggestions, though. It's an on-going project I hope to have in decent shape within a week. Thanks. --DavidShankBone 11:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Do you think a better title instead of Speaking Freely would be "Floyd Abrams on New York Times...."? Does that sound better? --DavidShankBone 11:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You're right "See Also" would be much better. I see your point now. But I still think SCOTUS should stay in. --DavidShankBone 11:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

An argument that I should call them "Floyd Abrams on..." and then the case is it makes them more likely to be edited. If I keep the Speaking Freely, people may think they need to have read the book to edit the article. But I want people, if they happen across something about Floyd Abrams and the case he discusses, to feel free to add and change. Maybe a new law review article comes out analyzing an aspect of the case, etc. Or what other people said about his performance on the case. So it might make more sense to do the "Floyd Abrams on..." instead. Do you think? --DavidShankBone 11:56, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

The book itself is a memoir, so it's impossible to separate Floyd Abrams from the book. Look at the opening paragraph of the Floyd Abrams page and you'll see that he is also inextricably linked with these cases as well. In his review of the book, Lee Levine wrote "that the modern history of the freedom of the press in this country is intimately associated with the career and work of Floyd Abrams." That work is those cases. "Intimately associated" - so see, it's difficult to categorize the pages for that reason. What I envision for it, is Abrams word is very weighty and is worthy, by itself, to be Cliff Noted for people to get a sense of some of the inner workings of the Supreme Court and our system. It's a place to see technique, thoughts, musings, etc. But it can also be a discussion of Mr. Abrams himself in each of those cases, because his presence on a case is news in and of itself, and he has many critics out there, including those who consider him a traitor for the Pentagon Papers case. So these pages can be really cool things; more organic than one-dimensional. The subject merits that. --DavidShankBone 12:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SCOTUS

Please don't remove the SCOTUS info template from the page, because it is relevant. After all, it was Abrams and Bickel's language the Supreme Court adopted in the very opinion and rule of law represented in that box. It acts more like the "Watergate Infobox" as a common tie between certain pages. The problem is that each page will be lengthy in itself, and I'd rather set the design of each. I work pretty quickly to get them to not be an embarassment, and each page has a lot of value already. But I like the SCOTUS infobox as a common thread between pages about the same case. You don't agree? --DavidShankBone 11:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pentagon Papers Photo

You can take it out if you want; I had planned on making it relevant. I had to finish Evan Wolfson's bio first before turning more attention to working the counsel into the arguments. By the way, how do I get the SCOTUS infobox to carry the name of the counsel who argued? They are just as important to the case as the justices. --DavidShankBone 12:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Are you in law school?

Do you know anything about law, and how lawyers and law students use Wikipedia? Because I do, because I recently finished my second year. Why don't you give me some time to finish what I'm doing. I thought I made it clear to you above that I planned to have it finished in a week. You're jumping the gun here. --DavidShankBone 12:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Biography Newsletter September 2006

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[edit] Parties and state party affiliates

I see what you mean I will leave it alone. John R G 06:34, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] America First Party (2002)

Hello I have an idea but I do not know how to do it. There is a template at the bottom of the Constitution party page with a list of parties. I think it would be great to add the America First Party as a smaller party. They are basically like the Constitution Party. I would appreciate your imput. John R G 19:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

By the way I did some clean up on America First Party (2002). I hope it meets your standards. John R G 06:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject United States politicans

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[edit] Categories on Descartes Meditations

I removed the categories from the article on your user page to stop an article in draft appearing in the main list Dbuckner 11:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:S Pederson 02 04 075.jpg

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[edit] Matt McCoy (Iowa politician)

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[edit] Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

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[edit] Honorable

Tim4Christ17

I basically rewrote the section o the American usage for "honorable." It probably needs Wikifying. I did cite multiple sources and tried to show the differences, especially in the local government level.

If you could, please look at it and improve it.

--J. J. in PA 01:50, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dan Rasmussen edits

I'm an Iowa-moderate college educated Catholic who has a hard time with someone who uses Wiki for supposed conservative control for political purposes. So I will be checking your other Iowa delegation pages and change information as required. Fortunately, Wiki has a history of changes and the truth will prevail.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.126.31.51 (talk • contribs).

Please do check my edits. You'll find that I carefully follow NPOV. Additionally, when posting links, please ensure that they actually link to something - several of the links you've added were dead. --Tim4christ17 ^talk 18:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I have added the right working link to the Rasmussen Watch Page. If we want to talk about NPOV I could point out that the Watch Page provides information with the writer's point of view. But information is accurate, just organized for easier access. It's up to the reader to determine fact from fiction. --Chrisjesup 28 March 2007

Thanks for the link. However, I removed it because its use would violate Wikipedia's policy on Attribution, which we must follow especially strictly since this article is a biography of a living person. If you wish that information to be in the article, feel free to add it, just make sure that your source is reliable. --Tim4christ17 ^talk 19:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I would also note that I have no feelings one way or another with regards to Mr. Rasmussen - I've never met him and know virtually nothing about him beyond what's shown on the page I started about him. In fact, that's the precise reason I started the pages on Iowa legislators - people often don't know much about them. I strongly encourage the expansion of this and other pages, but would remind you that we must follow Wikipedia's policies while doing so. --Tim4christ17 ^talk 19:40, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Well I appreciate your candor on this issue. I do know adding this web link in the EXTERNAL LINKS area doesn't truly violate the policy. It is not a source to your article and that it has information that is in an easier format for people to find actual information such as campaign contributions, voting record on some bills, etc. Most people can't do the research because of time and this page provides easy access to some research information. Too actually add the information on that website would take up too much space here. Maybe a partial disclaimer on the link would work as Wiki's reference states that personal websites are hard to define for external links. --Chrisjesup 29 March 2007

Meaning no offense, but information on how someone voted on just four bills is not enough to justify the link. Likewise, there are verifiable sites dedicated to campaign contributions including (If I remember correctly) some government sites. You might consider the site that your link got its information from, for example. Remember, even if he is merely summarizing information from elsewhere, the verifiability issues and the obvious NPOV issues would make this link extremely hard to justify even on a normal Wikipedia page - and the fact that we have to follow an extra-strict version of those policies due to WP:BLP makes it so that I can't see any justification for posting it. Consider, for example, President Bush's page. His page, which is probably one of the best politician pages available (due to plenty of people who support and who oppose Bush) only has four external links - and three of them are the equivalents of the two that already exist on Mr. Rasmussen's page. If you think the information stated in that page is so important, create a "significant votes" section or a "campaign financing" section within the Wikipedia article - this will satisfy verifiability (if you cite each of your claims properly) and NPOV (if you present the information in a neutral manner). --Tim4christ17 ^talk 07:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC)