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Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your edits to Mark Twain. If you have any questions about editing, you can browse through Wikipedia:FAQ, or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Happy editing. Meelar 19:01, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

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Re: Connecticut's county seats: You should read what I put into the talk page, and read the links there. They've got some slightly more concrete information about when/why seats were abolished. Also, the List of Connecticut counties doesn't necessarily contradict your statement, since it calls them "historic" county seats, plus it does point out that counties are only geographic. - Plutor 12:38, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

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Re: Augsburg College: The Wikipedia entry was compiled by a contributor who is an employee of Augsburg College in the area of external relations. To corroborate this send an e-mail to the signor to this entry and receive in return an e-mail from an individual who is a member of the Augsburg College staff from a college staff e-mail account (not a student account or an alumni account ... although Augsburg does not have the latter). --MacSigh 07:13, Jan 9, 2005 (UTC)

Re: List of nicknames used by George W. Bush

Beginning, I wouldn't be surprised if "Factor" is indeed the nickname that the President uses for Bill O'Reilly, but I wonder if you could provide us with a citation for where you found it? Thanks, and thanks for the update to the nicknames. The humor that page provides (however dry it may be) gives a nice break from the constant politicking going on right now. --ABQCat 21:47, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for poking me. As I said on the Talk page, I was hunting for the transcript earlier, but I had to abandon the search to go run some errands. A partial transcript of the first night is available, but the nickname was first used on either the second or third, and so far I can't locate it. I'll keep looking, though, and I won't object to you noting that it's not officially sourced yet. The interview in which it was originally said is due to be rerun on Fox News Monday night, so hopefully they'll stick the full transcripts up soon. Beginning 03:54, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
Oh, and regarding this, I'm usually the one who ends up thwapping people for that, so no hard feelings.  ;) Beginning 04:00, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)


[edit] people from Conneticut

I was attempting to make the "people from X state" categories more uniform. If you go to the category People By US State], you'd see that its a mess. There seems to be no uniform way to do this and it is resulting in multiple pages with the same imformation. The most prodominant way people have been doing it is by saying "people from X" so I was making an effort to move all of the other categories that aren't uniformed into more uniformed names. It just makes sense--130.184.11.129 22:31, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Bill Belichick

Belichick was hired by Bob Kraft in January of 2000. The Patriots won their first title in January of 2002. That's a two year gap, not one. Not a big deal, but I thought I'd drop you a line. Cheers, ~Samopolis

[edit] Can you sources?

Your William Tyndale College article says the school president stole financial aid money. Can you provide sources for that claim? Moriori 20:42, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Link spam???

Why is that "linkspam"? Can you please explain your reasoning. Thanks. Guettarda 23:06, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Hey, if you'd said you were from the Caribbean on your user page I would have left out the three ?'s - I suppose they are excessive. Guettarda 18:49, 28 September 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Portal:Swimming

Hello Beginning. As you have done work on swimming content on wikipedia(Aaron Peirsol), I invite you to have a look at this portal and see what you think about it and how it can be improved. Also, at the moment, the news section is mainly about Australian swimmers, so if you can think of some relevant US content, feel free to add this. I have created an article Swimming World Swimmers of the Year and have submitted it as a featured list candidate at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Swimming World Swimmers of the Year. The list includes Peirsol. Please comment on how it could be improved, etc. Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 01:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UConn Stuff

Hey there! My friends and I are starting a sports wiki. I'm a big UConn fan. You did excellent work here -- would you be interested in helping us out? Talk/email me if you are. --DNL 17:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Good to see your interested. Please follow this link. Start with the "first time?" link -- it explains what makes our site more than just an encyclopedia. (We still need a UConn encyclopedia entry, though!) --DNL 20:51, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership

The Original Barnstar
For your excellent work in cleaning up the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership article. Good job! SchuminWeb (Talk) 22:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newcomb

Glad to hear from you. Thank you for livening up the history section. I was exhausted (putting in way too many Wiki hours these days) and grateful that you came along and took an interest. -- (Aaron charles) 17:12, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-Canadianism

I have seen that you have done some edits to this page. Currently I am mediating a debate on this article on the talk page. I invite you to join the discussion. It is at Talk:Anti-Canadianism Thanks Eagle talk 18:45, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Most California community colleges are regionally funded

California has 109 colleges in its system. See California Community Colleges system. Most of them are funded through community college districts that cross city lines, which is why they are not called city colleges because they are often funded by residents of several cities as well as unincorporated areas. The prior phrasing was vague and ambiguous; it implied that all California community colleges are city colleges! Only the largest cities have city colleges because the city populations are so large that the city college can draw almost all its students from that one city. I hope this clears things up. --Coolcaesar 16:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

We're not in disagreement at all about the facts, so that's good. I do not see the same problem as you regarding the wording since the sentence clearly said "often" and not "always," but by all means, if you think something is unclear, then it should be improved, and I think it has been. The problem with your fix was that it listed Los Angeles is the only example California city with city colleges. Since California has more municipally-funded two-year colleges than any other state, Los Angeles really shouldn't be cited as the only example in light of that. The fact that they are (relatively) common in California, especially when compared to other states, is notable enough to mention that it's a system used especially within the state. Hopefully, this is resolved now, and we can continue having civil discourse with the edits on that page.  :) Beginning 17:05, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your listing of Deanna Wright

You listed Deanna Wright on cleanup but did not put a cleanup tag on the article. Cheers. Moriori 22:50, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

I got it for ya. :) -- Loudsox 23:34, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks to you both. As I said on your own Talk pages, I don't know how I missed that, but thanks for catching it!  :) Beginning 21:26, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] P.E.O. Sisterhood

Frankly, I also agree with you. We can't mediate with someone who doesn't want to post one message at a talk page. More drastic measures, however, will be necessary, as it was a general consensus to include the important info on the article (that's what you called mediation for). These people aren't abiding to consensus so well. Have you got any ideas to solve it other than locking the page? The policies say it's only a last resort. fetofs Hello! 12:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

<sarcasm>Good news</sarcasm>! I have taken a look at WP:PPOL and it says that, if an article doesn't get enough vandalism, we should just watchlist and revert it forever :) Seems to be the only alternative. fetofs Hello! 13:01, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Connecticut cities

Sohailstyle is insisting on including Manchester in Template:Connecticut as a city. I am pretty sure Manchester is not incorporated as a city so I've removed it. Since you've had experience with this issue in the past. Your comments are most welcome. --Polaron | Talk 22:01, 26 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] A person after my own heart

I've been looking for someone who can help with a question and I think you are the person to do it!! I have reciently joined the Wikipedia world as a way to promote my favorite women's college that is no longer a women's college, Mississippi University for Women. Last night I created a category for similar schools, and I'm not sure exactly what to call it. Currently its called Category:Women's Colleges that are Coeducational but it has been suggested that since that name is a contradiction of terms it should be something else. I would be interested in hearing your opinion. Thank you in advance, MUW Fan 21:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I saw your category and template and hesitated to suggest any changes to it because I wasn't sure where you were going with it at the time. I agree that the title for both the category and template should be Former women's universities and colleges in the United States, but I would advise you against changing it yet because the discussion is still active. Aside from that, welcome to Wikipedia, and I hope you'll be able to bring some unbiased, non-promotional/POV material to the project. Let me know if you need any help along the way. Beginning 20:14, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Need help on Categories

What would be good Categories for my article Letter to Posterity that was written by Petrarch in 1372? --Doug talk 16:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sean Hannity

Hey User:208.44.155.99 nice compromise on the Sean Hannity article. Like all editors here, I get my tail-feathers in a bunch some times. I do appreciate it. Shoessss |  Chat  20:40, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Franklin Mills

Thanks Beginning for reminding me to cite the source. Sorry to say, just forgot. It is now taking care of. Have a great day. Shoessss |  Chat  00:48, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Junior Colleges in the United States

I see that you inserted the definition of "junior colleges" as being PRIVATE two-year institutions in the list, and I must confess that I added the names of some public junior colleges (aka community colleges) without noticing the definition. It seems to me that since "junior college" is the generic term that includes both public and private two-year institutions (see the defintion in the article on Junior Colleges, as well as various definitions revealed by a Google search, and the membership of the National Junior College Athletic Association which is mainly public junior colleges), this list would more appropriately include both public and private two year institutions, perhaps with another list called "List of Private Junior Colleges." Otherwise, there is no single location on Wikipedia to find a list of ALL two year colleges offering an associate degree. I wondered what your thoughts were on this. Leevank (talk) 05:07, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:HCWLogo.gif

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[edit] Please...

Hi, I'm a PEO member. I know that you probably feel strongly about including theories about the meaning of the acronym. I would like to ask you (BEG you) to please just let it be. PEO is a very special organization to me and my family. All of the women in my family are a part of it, beginning with both of great grandmothers. I realize that there are some who think the secrecy of the organization is silly, but it means more than I can ever express to the ladies who are part of it. The secret meaning of PEO is a bond that I not only get to share with my relatives, but with my closest friends, who are also PEOs. It's an organization dedicated to philanthropy, and furthering the education of women. Part of the reason why we keep so many things a secret, is because the organization is based around the notion that giving and volunteering should not be done in dramatic fashion. It should be done behind the scenes and without any pomp and circumstance. Each PEO holds the meaning of our name very dearly and close to them. There are no words I can say that will allow you to feel how I did when I saw these theories posted up for the world to see, and that there people arguing over it. That's just not the spirit that surrounds PEO. It made me very, very sad. We all have something that means so much that we'd lay down everything to protect it, even if we look silly to others on the outside. Just please try to understand that this is what PEO means to me. While I don't want to engage in an "edit war" with you, I just want you know how truly important this cause is to me. Tbreneman (talk) 18:12, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Bacchiochi.jpg

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