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[edit] Exploding sheep

I'll be the first, then! :-) I've redone Exploding sheep, and thought I'd point you to the change on the off chance you'd reconsider your vote. — RichL 01:58, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

  • Yeah, the page is worth keeping now, I think, and my vote has been changed accordingly. Good job making the article more relevant and thanks for dropping by my talk page. Jacob1207 17:09, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Supreme Court Case Article Improvement

I wanted to thank you for your contributions to United States v. E. C. Knight Co. I also took a list at your contribs and noticed a couples of instances of Supreme Court cases and additions of links to this particular case in a couple other relevant articles. I thought I might direct you to the United States Supreme Court Article Improvement Project. Since you seem to be knowledgable and have at least a limited interest in the subject matter, I hope you will be able to make a few more contributions to articles that need help.

Either way, thanks for the contributions and keep up the great work!

Wikipedia is knowledge. Knowledge is power.

Skyler 20:22, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

I'm glad to see you signed up to help with the project. Any help you can give is very much appreciated. You can, of course, edit any articles you wish, but I've now also started a list of "Intensive Care Articles" (see User:Skyler1534/USSCCAIP#Intensive Care Articles). These are articles in serious need of attention. You can feel free to add articles you find in need of attention to the list and contributions made to these articles would be great, as well.
Thank you for your support. I look forward to your contributions!
Skyler 20:15, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] SCOTUS WikiProject Collaboration Article

Hey! Neutrality and I have instituted an article collaboration project for everyone involved with the Project to work on one article until it is of sufficient standards to be submitted for nomination as a featured article. For details, you can go to the Project page, which now goes by the shortcut WP:SCOTUS, and the talk page. There are currently three articles up for nomination to be the first collaboration article. Since you have been very helpful in the past and I hope you will be ivolved with the collaboration, I thought I would notify you that this is the last day to vote and the article with the most votes by Midnight EST tonight will be the article we are working on. I'd love to have your input! Skyler 16:12, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Government of Maryland

Thanks for fixing up that article up so nicely. I saw the hole and plugged it with a bare-bones piece, but it's a real article now. Isomorphic 15:21, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well, I'm sure I never would have thought to write Government of Maryland if I hadn't seen your Maryland Court of Appeals article. Isn't Wikipedia great that way? You write something, someone else helps out, and it inspires you to do even more. Isomorphic 19:12, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)


Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alabama Constitution, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

-- [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 12:46, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

[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] Collaboration of the week

The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive has officially closed. Congratulations, the candidate you voted for, Underground Railroad, is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please help edit the article to bring it up to feature standard.

[edit] Government of Maryland 2

Hi, I've expanded on the lead issue on the FAC page. Mark1 06:04, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Pet skunk

Thanks for the comments on the pet skunk article. I have made some revisions to the Table of Contents (combining/eliminating sections), expanded the lead, and added some info about skunks in other countries. Please continue to give feedback. Thanks, Nathanlarson32767 20:30, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have made some more revisions.. Please see what you think, and strike through the objections on Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates if you agree they have been resolved. Thanks, Nathanlarson32767 04:04, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unverified images

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[edit] International law

Thank you for your work on the international law articles. As I am not a law graduate I would like to know if you could check this text I wrote about the International Criminal Court. Can you explain me why I have not yet heard of any trials in the US about the legality of the Iraq war? Would it be possible to get an advisory opinion of the ICJ on that case? I noticed that the Congressman you are working with is a member of the party I consider to support major crimes, but I hope that this does not change anything about your willingness to answer my questions. Get-back-world-respect 21:36, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image source

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[edit] Re-separating Governor of Maryland and List of Governors of Maryland

I combined both of the articles because neither are necessarily long enough to be separated. Why did you re-separate them? --tomf688(talk) 02:30, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Ah yes, much better now. Good stuff. :) --tomf688(talk) 14:52, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: History

Definitely sounds interesting, but I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to devote to help with it. I only have a week here between spring and summer sessions and I don't want to spend a whole lot of that time editting wikipedia.

Great idea, though. I'll see what I can add to it. --tomf688(talk) 00:47, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Maryland Constitution of 1864, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

[edit] Great job on the history article so far

Besides some minor spelling mistakes, great job on the History of Maryland article so far. --tomf688(talk) 21:15, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! I think the article is coming together fairly well. There's just the 20th century to do now and then a couple holes to go back and patch. (I'm saving the intro section for last). I think that we can get this up to featured article quality, in maybe another week or so. Oh, and I've taken care of those many spelling errors, lol. Jacob1207 00:31, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Since the Government of Maryland was featured not too long ago, I'm not sure whether or not this one could win nomination. It's coming along good in terms of quality, but subject might be already done in the view of the community? --tomf688(talk) 00:58, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
There are over 600 featured articles presently (See WP:FA), and not all of them have been featured on the main page. Being a "Featured Article" means that an article is really good and has been vetted by others. They just pick one featured article each day to show on the main page. But I agree, they definitely wouldn't put this on the main page for a while. I think it'd be cool if it is chosen for March 25th (date first colonists landed) or April 28th (date Maryland ratified the constitution) next year. Of course, there is more work yet to be done before these things can come to pass. Jacob1207 01:06, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks Jacob1207

Thanks for your support on my Adminship request.

[edit] Thanks Jacob1207

Thanks for adding those pictures to the Presidential Library page. Rillian 12:43, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] history articles in Wikipedia

Hello,

I’m an historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital, peer-produced works of history, including history articles in Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Olivia

oryan at gmu dot edu

[edit] history of maryland

I see I'm not the first to congratulate you on history of Maryland -- it looks really nice! Hope to see it at WP:FAC soon. Fellow Marylander, Tuf-Kat 21:55, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] [Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sturmgrenadier]

hi, there is an organized campaign to save the above self-promotional vanity games-club page from deletion.... i'm wondering if you'd be willing to take a look and voice your opinion? normally i wouldnt care but (a) i hate organized campaigns from groups of users (especially when they have vested interests but dont declare them) and (b) when challenged about it, they suggested i try it myself! so here i am.... cheers! Zzzzz 20:43, 21 December 2005 (UTC)


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