User talk:G. Thomas

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[edit] Welcome!

Hi, G. Thomas, Welcome to Wikipedia!


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Happy Wiki-ing. -- John Fader 18:43, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes

Just wanted to say that I think you are doing great work on Wildernesses and Mountain ranges. Generally for mountain range articles, it may be best to use the infobox mountain template which is used by the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains. You can always copy and paste one from this article, which is the currently used template for all mountain articles.--MONGO 08:33, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Additionally, you may wish to add the template {{Messagebox protected areas}} to those articles that are either parks, forests, national wildlife refuges or wilderness on the talk pages of article you come accross or create, and {{Mountain}} to article talk pages related to mountains and mountain ranges. Your images are excellent by the way.--MONGO 08:46, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

You may wish to join the mountain project list above or Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas if you plan on doing lots of articles related to these areas.--MONGO 08:47, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi and thanks

Hi G. Thomas. Thanks for your good contributions to various New Mexico (and other) geographic articles. You'll see that I've done a bit of editing on a number of these. In fact I got curious about what you had been doing, so I looked at your contributions, and that turned out to be a great list of things to look at (and put on my watchlist), a lot of which I hadn't looked at before. It seems we have a lot of interests in common. Anyway, one result is that you'll see my name on a lot of edits right in a row, which I'm sure can be disconcerting or even seem threatening. That's certainly not my intention; I was just interested in your neighborhood of Wikipedia and of course I did some edits while visiting. I'm sure we'll continue to intersect, so I figured I would say hi.

You'll note I did a few edits that reconfigure pictures to eliminate whitespace. Let me know if you disagree with these, but I think that they really do make the pages look better. Some of the pictures are smaller, but readers can always click for larger versions. Also, I did one substantive edit regarding topographic prominence, which is a page you might want to look at. Cheers, Spireguy 05:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

And thanks for the spectacular photo of the Sierra escarpment. I spent every summer there as a child (early 60s); it makes my heart lift up to see your photo. Eperotao 01:17, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NM mountain ranges

Hi---Thanks for the location map additions. Would you like to add location maps to San Mateo Mountains (Cibola County, New Mexico) and San Mateo Mountains (Socorro County, New Mexico)? -- Spireguy 23:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images

I moved four of your images to wikipedia commons so they could be linked to by people of all the different language wiki's easier...I saw you had uploaded them and released to the public domain, which is very much appreciated. The four images I moved are all using the original files names you had for them and include:

If you are still interested in uploading images and releasing them to the public domain, the images will be easier to access by others if you upload them to commons. [1] I wanted to once again thank you for adding some very helpful images for use by Wikipedia.--MONGO 06:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for NV geography maps

Thanks for the Nevada location maps, such as on Monitor Range. They make it much easier to understand where things are in Nevada's all too cluttered terrain. (SEWilco 03:21, 6 September 2007 (UTC))

The Geography Barnstar
Awarded for helping Wikipedia users find their places in the world. SEWilco 05:43, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] very nice photo

UpperRightForkNV.jpg
Very nice photo! Archtrain 16:39, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Image source problem with Image:HoleInTheRock2.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 20:21, 14 October 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI 20:21, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kaiparowits Plateau

Updated DYK query On 15 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kaiparowits Plateau, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 12:14, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYKs: San Juan Expedition & Hole in the Rock (Road)

Updated DYK query On 19 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article San Juan Expedition, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Updated DYK query On 19 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hole in the Rock (Road), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--PFHLai 10:37, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:UTMap-doton-CoyoteGulch.png

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[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 21 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Canyons of the Escalante, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Wizardman 15:37, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know

Updated DYK query On 24 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Coyote Gulch, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Allen3 talk 16:35, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

The DYK Medal
Awarded by this editor for a Did You Know contribution that appeared on the main page, a hook that was well written, referenced, and displayed irony, a fact related to a distinguishing characteristic of the subject of the article, or other notable property. AwardBot 22:39, 24 October 2007 (UTC)



Updated DYK query On October 26, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Primrose (musical), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:10, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 26 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Harris Wash, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 13:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:KatranRiven.jpg

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:KatranRiven.jpg)

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