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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] TV

Just wanted to compliment your edits on TV syndication and invite you over to Television in the United States--your help would be much appreciated. jengod 21:37, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)

Please don't add nonsense to Wikipedia articles. RickK | Talk 21:30, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)


Hi Iceberg

I'm just looking at some of the Wing Commander spaceship entries. It seems to me that many of them need disabiguation. Thunderbolt, Banshee, Phantom, Bearcat are all names of real-world planes. Could we add an appropriate suffix? DJ Clayworth 16:23, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps add a (wc) after the name and designation? It needs to be something relatively easy to type - I've gotten tired of writing Wing Commander(computer game)|Wing Commander over the past few days.


Hi, just a note on US ships - all of the capital ships and many smaller ones are already indexed under list of ships of the United States Navy and its associated sublists, those are good places to see what still needs to be added and how to title articles for specific vessels. Stan 00:11, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cobra and Destro

Destro sells weapons to Cobra, but I do not think he funds them in any way. Its more like Cobra funds his IG's by buying his weapons.

Now the Crimson Twins and their Company Extensive Enterprises do fund Cobra.

I didn't change anything on the Cobra Page, but I'm not sure on that fact.

[edit] Boeing X-32

Hi, just noticed your contribution to the X-32 page. Very interesting nickname and news to me, you've got to admire the military for their sense of humour don't you!Mark 19:34, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 66.117.217.78 and Super Star Destroyer, Imperial Star Destroyer, Star Destroyer

I don't know whether or not you've noticed, but this user appears convinced that the terms "Super-class" and "Imperial-class" are valid and is continually changing these articles to agree with him. Your help would be appreciated in maintaining the proper versions of these articles. Thanks in advance :) -- Grunt (talk) 20:12, 2004 Aug 23 (UTC)

[edit] Gundam seed articles

I have a suggestion: When doing articles about items/concepts within fictional universes, it helps if there is an introductory phrase indicating what fictional universe we're talking about. For example, Orb Union Astray mobile suit is very confusing to the casual reader, since it's not clear if it's real or made up or what - we have to go to the bottom of the article to find "Gundam seed", and even then there's no indication that this is an anime series.

Something like "The Astray series mobile suits are a series of light mobile suits featured in the Gundam seed anime series" makes all the difference! - DavidWBrooks 14:04, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Please don't delete a cleanup header until you've addressed the issues raised on the Cleanup page. RickK 06:37, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] This Island Earth

Could you please move your "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie" contribution to the "This Island Earth" article elsewhere. I'd suggest that the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" article would be a better place for this. Thank you. Dlloyd 04:21, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sampo

Please read the article you're contributing to before editing it. Your additions to Sampo were completely inappropriate, as the article is not at all about Mystery Science Theatre, but about an artefact from the Finnish mythology. - Cymydog Naakka 22:00, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Gundam Project

I created a new page, Space Colony (Gundam) to help explain the mechanics in the various Gundam Universes. I managed to finish the Universal Century part without to much trouble (albiet with grammer/spelling errors), but I need help with the other universes. Since your name appears in the Gundam Space Vessles catagory most often, you seem like the logical person to ask. Anything you can do to help is appreciated. TomStar81

[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 1000 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] Battle of Leyte Gulf

I reverted your change. Clifton Sprague was in command of Task Unit 77.4.3 in the battle off Samar. Thomas Sprague (no relation) was in command of Task Unit 77.4.1. Please be careful with this kind of detail. Gdr 20:58, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)

[edit] Article contribution

Hi Iceberg3k. This might seem a bit odd, but your contribution to pussy piqued my curiosity:

An apocryphal story attributed to entertainer Johnny Carson is that Zsa Zsa Gabor appeared on the Tonight Show with a cat in her lap, and asked Johnny if he wanted to pet "her pussy." The supposed response was "I'd love to if you'd just take that damn cat out of your lap first." Carson maintains, "Regrettably, it never happened."

I could be wrong, but I distinctly recall seeing that bit on one of the Carson "best of" tapes. Thus it seems odd that he would deny it. Do you recall your source for that edit? It's trivial, I know, but it's killing me! Thanks, Timbo ( t a l k ) 05:41, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Minerva class battleship

An anonomous user created the page Minerva class battleship, then had it redirect to the page Cosmic Era vessels. After confering with Stan, I recieved the go ahead to revert the comic era articles and took it upon myself to nominate the "Cosmic Era vessels" page for deletion. Unfortunatly, the Minerva page, having been created as a redirect, is now almost completely bare. I added a picture and a ship class bar, but what the page despreratly needs is a discription of the class. Can you help? TomStar81 03:57, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

  • Thats much better, thanks for the help. TomStar81
  • I think we have the begining of an edit war here. I revert the cosmic era ship pages, carful to leave the prudent information in place and only reverted the edits that placed merge tags on the articles. I also nominated the cosimc era vessels page for deletion. Sometime between last night and right now, the user returned and redirected all the pages. This is a problem for two reasons: 1) Stan and I agreed the articles could stand by themselves, and 2) So far the votes have all been for delete. Stan is getting the announcement, scince he is an admin and the one I went to originally with this problem. I think it best for you and he to handle things from here, as I don't no anything about the Cosmic Era and the anon aparently does. This is his talk page TomStar81 23:59, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
On 20 Feruary 2005 User:Rossami deleted the Cosmic Era vessels page. Thank you for you help. TomStar81

[edit] AOTC:ICS new article?

I am a bit concerned that the AOTC:ICS section in the Star Trek versus Star Wars page is becoming a debate section on the book itself and veering away from the main article topic. I was thinking of creating a new article for AOTC:ICS by itself, since there are many books on Wikipedia that have articles for themselves. Would you be available to enlarge that new article and find ways to link to it? --AlainV 19:00, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] cartoon physics

See my comment in the talk section as to why I removed the anime stuff that you added - it's a characteristic of anime, but not of "physics" in anime! You maybe be interested in created a new article to handle material such as that. - DavidWBrooks 15:17, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] expos/nationals debate

There is a major debate going on, and I wondered if you might want to chime in. The debate involves how to deal with franchise moves in baseball. The question is whether Montréal Expos should be its own article or if it should redirect to Washington Nationals. All other instances of franchise moves in MLB redirect the old team name to the new team name, and the history of the franchise is covered within the new team name (for MLB, NBA and NFL examples, see here. Some people are confused and think the Expos and the Nats are different teams. Some people don't want to upset Canadian readers.

Indeed, the Washington Nationals are not a new team - the Montreal Expos franchise has moved to Washington, and the old franchise name should redirect to the new franchise name, just like the 20+ instances of this occuring in Wikipedia. For example, Brooklyn Dodger history resides in the Los Angeles Dodgers article. New York Giants history, including the Shot Heard 'Round the World, resides in the San Francisco Giants article.

If you have the time, maybe you could chime in on the conversation there, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Montréal Expos. Kingturtle 21:05, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Allistair MacMillan

According to Wiki policy, he's officially pissed enough people off to warrant further action...as you described, he single-handedly does so many deletions and censoring it's not funny. The link is at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Klingon_starships

As the policy says, there has to be at least two people who are complaining, it looks like at least three now. Just informing you about it...I'm not advocating anything that we don't have a right to do.

--Atrahasis 19:45, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:46, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] USS Hull

Hi. You added this to USS Hull:

It was this ship [ Hull (DD-350) ] which fired the first American shot of the Second World War against an enemy vessel, sinking a Japanese submarine on the morning of December 7, 1941. The 4.5" gun which fired this shot was recovered from the wreck, cleaned and installed as a memorial at the Capitol Building of Minnesota in St. Paul, as the men who fired it on that fateful morning were members of the Minnesota Naval Reserve.
Are you sure about this? DANFS says,
The pattern of fleet problems, plane guard duty, and patrolling was rudely interrupted 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Hull was alongside tender Dobbin undergoing repairs, but quickly put her anti-aircraft batteries into operation and assisted in downing several planes. As the main object of the raid was battleships, the destroyer suffered no hits and departed next day to join carrier Enterprise and escort her into Pearl Harbor. http://history.navy.mil/danfs/h9/hull-iii.htm
On the other hand, USS Ward (DD-139)
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Ward was conducting a precautionary patrol off the entrance to Pearl Harbor when she encountered a Japanese Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine, attacked and sank it, thus firing the first shots of the Pacific War a few hours before Japanese carrier aircraft formally opened the conflict with their attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet inside the harbor.

—wwoods 04:32, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Al's Bkfast

I seriously doubt that this is the smallest restaurant in the world. In the early 60's I ate in a French restaurant in Greeenwich Village, NYC, that had only 7 stools. Great food, too!

All the same, many fond memories of Al's. Too Old 19:58, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Just a guess

you are not a fan of the current governor of Minnesota Smith03 22:20, 17 August 2005 (UTC) "as mandated by the state constitution" where in the state constitution is this located? Smith03 22:23, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Minneapolis, NC

You recently added a reference to a Minneapolis, North Carolina to the top of the Minneapolis, Minnesota page. I searched pages on NC cities and couldn't find it. I don't doubt that it indeed could exist, but could you tell me where you found reference to it? Thanks. Brendan OShea 15:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thunderbird Hotel

I noticed your edits to the Thunderbird article regarding the Thunderbird Convention Center (Ramada MOA) in Bloomington. I was wondering if you had enough knowledge of the place to write an article about it. I would be very interested in reading/contributing to that article. 63.231.150.100 06:47, 12 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Cingular Wireless name change

Where did you get the info for your edit about Stan Sigman? I tried his name in Google News and got nothing.

Jeff Fries 02:54, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Opinion creeps into the furry fandom article . . .

If you're using the word unfortunate, chances are you're not adhering to NPOV. I don't dispute the fact that Radio Comix sells a lot of adult comics, but you seem to be trying to make a point, and you didn't integrate it particularly well into the existing prose (to be fair I'm not entirely comfortable with the preceeding part of the paragraph starting with "most", either). Something like "the best selling Radio Comix are X, Y and Z, all adult" might be better. Note that you might want to cover places like Rabbit Valley as well.

In addition, "more than one writer" is not very helpful - could you be specific about which notable furry fandom writers have said such things, and where? GreenReaper 22:30, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Luna (Sailor Moon character)

  • I'll have to check, but I don't think Luna appears in the last few episodes of Sailormoon S or Sailor Stars. Danny Lilithborne 00:37, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spock

I've reverted your edits to Mr. Spock and Wold Newton family regarding Spock being related to Sherlock Holmes. Where does it say this in canon? I do know that Spock quotes Holmes in Star Trek VI and jokingly refers to him as an ancestor. But he also states in the same film that "Only Nixon could go to China" was a Vulcan proverb. And the script also makes the claim that Klingons wrote Hamlet. None of it is taken seriously. It's possible that a claim may have been made in one of the many spin-off novels or comic books, but none of these sources are considered Star Trek canon. 23skidoo 14:56, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

I Angelbo award you this Barnstar for your game and RPG related contributions
I Angelbo award you this Barnstar for your game and RPG related contributions

Angelbo 17:21, 1 January 2006 (UTC)










[edit] Edina's Downtown

Edina's downtown area is considered to be the 50th and France intersection area. Although southdale does have a lot of shopping areas, including the Galleria, it is not considered the downtown area. Hope this helps, shoot me a line if you got a question. Thankszoreos, remember to eat your oreos!--Gephart 21:32, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gundam Wiki

User:TomStar81 mentioned that you were knowledgable concerning the Cosmic Era of Gundam. I am contacting you because we are beginning a Gundam Wiki website through the Wikicities as a resource center for all things Gundam. It will provide the community with a large and concise way of accessing information concerning all aspects of the various Gundam universes, helping to bring together the information that normally can only be found after hours of surfing the net and visiting various sites. We are in need of support and contributors; if you are interested, please let me know.--SOCL 14:07, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Additions at Minnesota and Winona

I don't disbelieve any of your recent additions, but they are potentially contentious for some people. Could you cite a source please?--Hraefen 22:17, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] iPod nano

That's a great story! However, I have removed it from the article on account that you did not add any sources to back up the anecdote. I'd be happy to see if back in there if you could find a good source to back up the anecdote. Cheers, huwr 04:52, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

  1. If you are an admin, please remove your name from the list.
  2. If you are currently interested in being considered for adminship, please be sure your name is in bold; if you are opposed to being considered for adminship, please cross out your name (but do not delete it, as it will automatically be re-added in the next page update).
  3. Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.

Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 05:07, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1924 World Series

Hi. I saw that you added a comment to 1924 World Series about it being the only extra-inning Game 7 until 1991. I wondered if you realized that the 1912 World Series also had an extra inning deciding game - it's just that it was technically Game 8 because Game 2 was called a tie. Same concept though! Just thought you might wanna know...  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 17:02, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Continuous-rod warhead

Hey, I noticed your edit to Continuous-rod warhead. I can't find any verification that AMRAAM uses such a warhead, so I wonder, what's your source? Melchoir 09:05, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 1% for major edits and 8% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

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[edit] Hi

Hi, I am Patrick would you be interested in help me withe the WikiProject Mobile Operation System - Plau 04:00, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One of your edits to political epithets

You added "Ratf***lican" to the list of political epithets, even though it has no google hits outside of wikipedia. Why? Andjam 12:25, 18 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Old U of Minnesota Stadium

FYI the old stadium was NOT named Veterans Memorial stadium it was just Memorial stadiumSmith03 20:06, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock Template

Please only use the {{unblock}} template when you really are blocked. Using it otherwise often delays the time it takes to help other users who really are suffering from accidental/unintentional blocks. Thanks. AmiDaniel (talk) 11:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pawlenty

"In his official candidacy announcement, Pawlenty announced that he would be running for re-election on a platform of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions; reinstating the death penalty in Minnesota and immigration crackdowns. DFLers promptly denounced Pawlenty's re-election platform as pandering to the extreme right of Minnesota politics; all three positions have proven unpopular in Minnesota in the past."

can you provided a link that shows this is the plantform he is running on? Also can you cite proof that thoses issues have been unpopluar in the past in Minnesota I seem to recall polls showing 70% of Minnesotans wanting to vote on the marriage issue and the death penalty has had a good deal of support in the state (based on polls) in the past Smith03 19:24, 31 May 2006 (UTC)