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For your efforts in unbiased consolidation, editing, and maintainance of pages concerning The Rivalry Plm209 21:20, 25 November 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, GCW50, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  -- evrik 20:05, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lehigh University

Thanks for your continuing contributions to the Lehigh University page. Are you an alum? I'm in the class of 2008. -- Jhwilliams

Yes thanks to both of you for you're awesome job at improving the Lehigh page. Class of 2009 here. MSE major. --Plm209 15:38, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi GCW50, I was wondering if you could provide me with your sources for your contributions to the "List of Lehigh University Alumni" entry. I'm an employee with the university and we're working on a wiki of our own for the Rossin College of Engineering. Here's the site: Lehigh Engineering Heritage Initiative (LEHI). Your list covers some great alumni. I'd love to learn about how you found all of them. Thanks. --Lehiwiki2 12:11, 7 June 2007

[edit] Navigation lead-in

Looks like good stuff in the lead-in to Navigation, however it does not seem to be a summary. Would you please edit it into the main article and draft a new lead-in. If you can not, just let me know and I'll arrange to have it taken care of. Thanks again for the hard work! - Davandron | Talk 19:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Good work! That article is looking pretty good. - Davandron | Talk 18:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Heading off a potential point of contention

I've noticed you feel very strongly about alerting individuals that electronic navigation is not infallible. As a recreational sailor, I share the personal belief that relying on a single source for anything in a life-sensitive situation is not a good idea. That said, I make it a point to not force my beliefs onto others, and question beliefs / bias-based edits throughout the wikipedia.

So I'd like to work to avoid butting heads; if I see things that make me concerned, I'll talk it through with you to build a consensus. And if your edits contain appropriate sources and are placed logically within an article, I probably won't have much to be concerned about. How does this sound to you? - Davandron | Talk 18:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Boy Scouts of America

I don't get it. Why keep adding links for star (an astronomical object) and life (condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms)? As noted, the individual rank articles were merged into the Boy Scouting article weeks ago. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 00:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Something for your user page

{{User Wood Badger}} --evrik (talk) 21:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BSA membership controversies

I've done some reorganizing of the article. You may want to take a look at it. Here are some edits you made earlier but were reverted.[1] I put some of those edits in and others are no longer applicable due to changes in the article. Maybe there are a few edits there that should go in but remember we're trying to keep the article balanced. --Jagz 03:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I finished looking over your edits and put some more of them in the article. --Jagz 15:02, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re : Lehigh University trivia

As requested, but please do not recreate a trivia section. Once you are done, please tag the page with {{db-userreq}} as soon as possible. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 13:58, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey there, it's at User:GCW50/Sandbox. Cheers, PeaceNT 15:22, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Ah yes, I forgot. Thanks to PeaceNT (good night!) :) - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 15:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your message at DRV

The trivia is at User:GCW50/Sandbox. You had personally requested it to be deleted. I have restored it again, please don't ask for it to be deleted and then ask for it again! Best, Neil ╦ 21:04, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Aha. Because you never removed your request from Wikipedia:Deletion review, I thought you wanted it again. Not a problem. Neil ╦ 21:01, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Youth Protection program / copyrights

Your latest edits to Youth Protection program (Boy Scouts of America) appear to include material copied directly from the [Guide to Safe Scouting]. We need to resolve this before someone slaps a copyright violation on the article. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 15:30, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Actually they came from an uncopyrighted council website. THe YPP is not strictly copyrighted; BSA makes it available for other youth organizations to use. GCW50

(Please reply here so we can have a cohesive conversation)
At the very least, it violates the guideline Wikipedia:Don't include copies of primary sources. Please examine Wikipedia:Copyrights: "All works are copyrighted unless they either fall into the public domain or their copyright is explicitly disclaimed." Thus, even though there is no copyright on the web page, we cannot presume this material is public domain. We can only copy text that is clearly public domain or has been released to Wikipedia without any restrictions. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 15:46, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

then feel free to edit it further without deleting the basic concepts involved, but make sure it shows the extent with which BSA has approached the problem, far better and earlier than any other youth organization. The slanted Sex Abuse in BSA article quotes Landing of the FBI. They fail to mention that Landing helped write the BSA program!!!! GCW50

I left an extensive review on Talk:Scouting sex abuse cases. That article is so slanted, that any realistic editing would have to reboot the article.

I understand you want to make Youth Protection program a better article, but we should not be copying chunks of text from the GSS- we might just as well make the whole article a redirect to GSS. The GSS is a major reference and should be used as such quite liberally. We need to create our own unique prose that fits within the framework of the rules and guidelines presented in the GSS. Please remember that the GSS is a "how to" manual and this is an encyclopedia. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 16:08, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lehigh-Lafayette football games (The Rivalry)

The best way to combat disagreements over naming conventions is to create a standard for all college football rivalries and that is what I'm attempting to do.

If you had read the notes on my edits to this page... you would see that I explained that the old page title is misleading because it make it sound like the page is going to cover all college football rivalries. As a solution, I made the title a mirror for Harvard-Yale football games (The Game). Clearly you glanced at the notes in order to find my ID but didn't read them in detail. I shouldn't have to explain this twice.

The change I made to this page is the best title because it mentions Lehigh, Lafayette, and Rivalry.

I can help you fix the wikilinks to match the new page and avoid uneccessary redirects if you would like.

P.S. I'm concerned here about people trying to use wikipedia to learn more about college football rivalries in general. If they go to the wrong page they are liable to give up and think wikipedia to be useless and biased. I'm actually a fan of Lehigh and thus interested in this rivalry. My dad and brother went there. It's my 2nd favorite college football team after FSU. I've even been to a Lehigh-Lafayette game(1991 #127). As you can see, I have a high interest in making sure the information is out there and accurate. I just want to make sure it fits with wikipedia standards. --Dr who1975 14:56, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I think we all have repsonsibility toward monitoring things on wikipedia. There should never be one person with ownership.
I understand your point about people arguing about which school is listed first but we can't simply call it "The Rivalry (college football)". The best solution (and what I should've done first) is to find an article that is not affiliated with either school... see which one it mentions first, and then reference that articel on the page. I will have to look into this (the Harvard - Yale people seem to have accepted putting Harvard first so agreement is possible).--Dr who1975 02:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
I may yet update other college rivalry (non Lehigh laffeyette, I know it can be confusing) pages. For instance Army-Navy Game could stand to be called Army-Navy Football Game. Even with the name as it, there is less chance for confusion with Army-Navy Game and another concept so I have yet to act. Most of the other college rivalry (non Lehigh laffeyette, I know it can be confusing) pages mention the names of both schools involved and the nickname of the Rilary (non Lehigh laffeyette, I know it can be confusing) and the ones that don't have little in common with another concept so theyare less likely to be confusing too.--Dr who1975 17:15, 11 September 2007 (UTC)