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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Henrietta Lacks

Great scholarship on the article. Do you have more information about her family. I am trying to find her parent's names. I think I found her on the 1930 census, but want to be sure. I don't think her name was "Henrietta" at birth, and thats why it is so hard to find. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 18:37, 27 February 2006 (UTC)


When I saw "talk", I had no idea what to do. I don't know much more now. Thank you for your compliment. Yes,her birth name is different. But, her last name was Pleasant or Pleasants. I did research on the family , and had contacts with them for a year or two,or more. I was asked to do research by residents of Turner Station after I was asked to come down and meet the BBC film makers of "Modern Times".

Later, I wrote a letter to Johns Hopkins, I received a BA there in 1972, asking them to participate in commemorative activities. They declined but they referred indirectly to the problem of discarded material that I wrote about in my edits of the Henrietta Lacks' entry in Wikipedia. I am not looking at this letter.

I worked hard to commemorate the family with members of the Lacks' family and Turner State residents for two to three years, and to promote other commemorations of them. I have continued to do so. But,I no longer work closely with the family or the Turners Station community.

A Commission ended in 2002 I think; the same year Moore died ,again I think, which pointed to the need to make sure that Americans were informed about discarded materials.  Discarded materials is not covered by the informed consent provision. I am not giving her name to you now because I do not know whether publishing this fact may be detrimental to efforts being undertaken to commemorate her.Bwyche 15:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Bwyche 23:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Johns Hopkins

Bwyche is awarded this Original barnstar for huge contributions to Johns Hopkins WAS 4.250 10:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Bwyche is awarded this Original barnstar for huge contributions to Johns Hopkins WAS 4.250 10:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. I see you recently tried to nominate Johns Hopkins as a Good Article by adding it to Wikipedia:Good article candidates—unfortunately, you made a bit of a template mix-up, so the article name wasn't linked; you also forgot to add {{GANominee}} to the article's Talk page. Would you like to complete the article's nomination, or would you like to work on it a bit more? If the nomination stays incomplete, someone may remove it from the list; in case you nees any help completing it, let me know and I'll give you a hand. Best, Fvasconcellos 21:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, it's June, and I just saw your message above.I went to your space and saw the comments on your recent accomplishment. Congratulations. I do need help completing this article,but I do not know whether you can still work with me on it. My nomination was considered and then rejected. I am an alumni of JHU , and I started to work on a biography on him, so I can provided the references most of the time for the information provided. Best to you and congratulations, again. Bwyche 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although we invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Johns Hopkins, was not constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Corvus cornix 21:01, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

How can you call what I was doing "vandalism" when most of my edits were just entering inline citations which were requested by reviewers of this article. And when you reverted my edits I was only trying to fix a broken link in the external links section and in the text. I had put the link in earlier and had found out that it was not working. If you look at the history section , you will see that most of my edits were in-line citations, and external links. With the last link I was fixing, I thought I would have been finished making the inline citations and external links requested. Was I caught vandalizing myself Or, was there another problem ???BwycheBwyche 23:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
I have reverted the rv by the previous editor. It would appear to have been a mistaken rv when the editor was on vandal patrol. That's really the only conclusion i can find. Your edits were fine, and some of your sourcing far beyond what Wikipedia expects. I have never seen 10 seperate sources quoted in one paragraph before! I can only apologise for what has happened and hope that it has not left you so frustrated. Mike33 13:41, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your excellent contributions. Be aware that we have thirteen year olds reverting as many vandalisms as they can as fast as they can in game like fashion. Mistakes get made. Also realize that the message was "canned" and sent automatically and not actually thought out and typed out. So no need to get upset. It is just typical wiki-style mistake and correction. Sorry you got caught by it though. Cyber-space can provoke real emotions even if some do treat it like a game. Please feel free to talk to me on my talk page about anything you need to help you make wikipedia a better encyclopedia. WAS 4.250 10:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
By the way, this is how I came across you. WAS 4.250 11:08, 29 June 2007 (UTC)


I read it. I was trying to verify points that may be controversial. Tell Mike I am a "she" not a "he", a "girl" and not a "guy"I probably got carried away I was so frustrated when I saw almost no new citations and references after I provided some around February. When I read Wikipedia guidelines I am often confused by them. BwycheBwyche 11:42, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

faux pas - Imagination over sense - I imagined you as a fifty year old "guy" gladly contributing to any Afro-American history that you were interested in (Hey I type with one finger too) and being swamped with the "sacred cows" in wikipedia. I have never refered to you a male or female within the project. Emails it wouldn't trace long to source. If you weren't offended then all good, if you were, can I call it quits and say that I was upset by the way you were treated? Quits :-) Mike33 12:42, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I was not offended ( I thought it was funny) and if you meant over fifty and African American you were right on these two counts,though . I'm interested in African American and non African American history. Thank you for everything. I think a lot of problems today come from historical accounts that are wrong but have become sacred cows. Bwyche76.104.124.107 16:03, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

ThK you for your offers of help and Imean to take advantage of them after I figure out how to follow the guidelines. Thank you. I type with one finger. Bwyche````Bwyche````

May I recommend you start with Wikipedia:Ignore all rules and a prior version that might be more helpful. Especially "Over time, familiarize yourself with the rules as well as the underlying philosophies behind them. [...] Participation in Wikipedia is not contingent upon knowledge of any rules. If someone unknowingly breaks a rule, politely point her to the appropriate rule pages, but still consider that her judgment may be correct." WAS 4.250 12:13, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Then read Wikipedia:Trifecta. Then you are on your own about what to read or how much to read. You can't read it all because its all changing all the time and by the time you get done reading it all it will have changed. WAS 4.250 12:23, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article status

The best way to see what a "good article" or a "featured article" is is to look at existing examples. See Flu for an example of what wikipedia house style is supposed to look like. WAS 4.250 10:36, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Since I will read anything, sometimes its difficult for me to see stuff like style, and so on, But I will look at it. Thank you again. BwycheBwyche 11:13, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Again sorry for what happened, I think WAS 4.250 was refering to your post at Talk:Johns Hopkins/Comments‎ when I think the vandal warrior hit you. I think it was a genuine testosterone over zealous mistake, but please we know who you are now - NO MORE SACRED COWS ;-) you have friends. Don't desert us for a few prized keifer! Mike33 11:38, 29 June 2007 (UTC) and if you do need a hand WAS 4.250 has promised to help you every step :-)

To WAS 4.250 I saw your work on the references, and external links  and I tried to work on them following your  method, but failed. I want to put in one more inline citations before I leave for a while Sorry,  Please Helpme Bwyche````

[edit] Notice to all members of WikiProject Maryland

There are a few things going on right now in WikiProject Maryland that I thought all members should know about, especially the first one.

  • Not too long ago, Marylandstater raised the question of exactly how many members of the project are still active. For this reason, I'm asking everyone who is still active, and wants to remain in the project, to put an asterisk (*) after their username on the project's participants list. You have until the end of November 17, 2007 to do so, sometime after that, all the names that do not have an asterisk will be removed. This is just to clean up the ever expanding list. If you've been gone and come back to find that you've been removed from the list, don't take it personally, just re-add yourself! I won't feel bad at all if no one gets removed, in fact, it would be nice if all 30 members still consider themselves active. Also, this won't affect the two subprojects, but speaking of the subprojects...
  • As of sometime next week WikiProject Baltimore City College will be no more. Myself, Golem88991, and John Carter have decided to make it into a task force of WikiProject Maryland. If you have any objections, concerns, or comments, please post them in the talk page topic concerning this.

Now for the exiting news:

  • I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Baltimore Task Force! Those interested in contributing to Wikipedia's numerous articles related to Maryland's largest city, now have a place to collaborate.
  • I'd also like to take this time to propose a project newsletter. Any comments should be directed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maryland#Newsletter.

A couple last things:

  • The portal is in desperate need of maintenance, anyone who's interested, go check it out.
  • It's probably a good idea to add the project page (and thus the project talk page) to your watchlist. That way, you can easily see when new comments are posted.

I hope you read through all that ;). Thanks to all members for your contributions to the project's articles so far, let's keep up the good work!
Sincerely, -Jeff (talk) 05:43, 3 November 2007 (UTC)