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[edit] FREE RIDE IN A WIKI-POLICE CAR!

If you vandalise here, you WILL be reported. Please respect other users and do not vandalise their pages which they have spent time doing. Thank you.

[edit] guardian of the H. Stuart Hughes

Hi Rlquall... you seem to be the guardian of the H. Stuart Hughes page, and, as a graduate of Deerfield Academy, I check up on the school's page from time to time. I recently added H. Stuart Hughes to the list of notable alumni, but I can't find confirmation in any non-wikipedia sources of his having attended Deerfield. Any help would be appreciated.

Oliver Barry

Oliver, the source for this statement is HSH's memoirs, Gentleman Rebel.

In the future, please ad your comments to be bottom of pages rather than the top if you would as this is considered to be better form. I will leave this for a few days in hopes that you will check back. Also, in the future, please sign with four tildes, ~~~~ along with or in lieu of your name. Thanks,Rlquall 21:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] State Routes in Tennessee

"Tennessee State Route X" is not the name used by TDOT. The highways are named "State Route X", and standard disambiguation is to put the state in parentheses. That way we don't have articles saying "Tennessee State Route X runs from Tennessee State Route Y past Tennessee State Route Z to Tennessee State Route W". You may also wish to read Wikipedia:Pipe trick if you are not aware of it. --SPUI (T - C) 14:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Where are you seeing "Tennessee State Route X" as "fairly common"? Google News has no results for it (and a number using "State Route" for routes in Tennessee). --SPUI (T - C) 14:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps I should bow before Google, that new canon of revealed truth, but I will reassert that "Tennessee State Route X" has often appeared in print. "State Highway" would be even more common IMO if you care to check it. Due to Tennessee's numerous and lenghty borders due to the configuration of the state, it has been necessary to differentiate between Tennessee state routes and those of other states in writings based here more than in many other jurisdictions; also Tennessee has the unfortunate habit of reusing, sometimes in fairly close proximity, State Route numbers with numbers that are also used by other, separate, U.S. highways, sometimes even nearby ones (i.e., State Route 64 runs only a few miles north of U.S 64 in Tennessee for much of its length). Rlquall 14:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
If you need to distinguish from other states you can use the redirects or word it differently. As for US 64, that's a non sequitur - what's wrong with talking about State Route 64 and U.S. Route 64? --SPUI (T - C) 15:38, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
It's certainly much less of a problem in an encyclopedic context than it is in real life, where it's much harder to disambiguate and one has to constantly ask or say, "Do you mean State 64 or U.S. 64?" Rlquall 15:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Note that there is an ArbCom regarding this. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 02:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bellevue

Yes, my argument is that everything in Metro Nashville is incorporated as part of Metro Nashville. I have always accepted the definition of an unincorporated community as being one that has no municipal general services and no representation. While it is true that these cities in Nashville-Davidson are not autonomous, they do have representation in the Metro Council and they do have municipal services. If we're going to look at Bellevue and Madison and Hermitage as unincorporated, we should look at Nashville itself as unincorporated. --Zpb52 23:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

  • I see your point, but still, when I think "unincorporated", I think about those small towns in rural counties with nothing more than a boarded-up gas station and a flashing yellow light. Lumping Davidson County's communities in with those makes for an unfair assessment, in my opinion. And, I technically never was a Nashvillian. I never lived in Davidson County. I was legally a resident of Mt. Juliet my entire life, including when I was living in Murfreesboro for college. I am now a legal resident of Alabama.--Zpb52 03:17, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what you'd call them except perhaps "sections" or "areas". --Zpb52 06:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to the Clarksville, Tennessee article

Outlaw field does not have a control tower. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.127.231.7 (talk • contribs)

  • Living in Clarksville, I don't believe it has one either. It's just a strip basically. -- Riffsyphon1024 18:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Looks like it's just going to stay wrong. Must be an example of Wikiality.
      • Actually, I'm kind of glad it's there. It's now the article I use as an example of Wikipedia's general inaccuracy. When an administrator of all people will allow inaccurate, unsourced information to remain, what hope does Wikipedia have?

[edit] John Y. Brown, Jr.

I read your comments on Talk:John Y. Brown, Jr. and removed the statement you questioned in accordance with Wikipedia policy on unsourced statements. --TommyBoy 21:09, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sup,

so are you for or against the ugly ass, tables on the lasertag page?

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[edit] Don't be hate'n

Hi Babe. I am sorry. This is my first time visiting the wiki and I didn;'t think anybody could just change a page. That is insane. I was just testing it to see if someone could. I am so so so so very sorry that I may have caused you an inconvenience. I just read the messages you posted. I really did not mean to vanalize. I love the Yankees. I mean they have to make it to the playoffs and who needs vandalism right. Its just like MTV you know. I think we should not try to hurt anyone. You have such a great job and thank you. It would be nice if new people like me could be taught about how this thing works. why do you let just anyone edit in the first place. that seems like a stupid idea. Well. what is wikipedia anyways? who is wiki? well. goodnight. you should not write mean emails cause it hurts peoples feelings. Benson, 9 years old.

[edit] Route 1 exit list

Just in case, I'm creating the exit list for California State Route 1 in my userspace at User:Geopgeop/Exit list of California State Route 1. While I'm not looking to add this to the SR 1 article right now, at least can someone doulbecheck the mileage work from the first concurrency with US 101 and onward? The total mileage and the exit number at Constellation Road are off about a couple of miles and I can't figure out why. --Geopgeop 14:31, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1925 plan

This should be helpful in writing articles. --SPUI (T - C) 06:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Interesting... nice job with the ink pen... --TinMan 04:35, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock

{{unblock}} I didn't realise but someone I know had got my password and he'd messed up my account after an argument. He is also a Wikipedia user. Sorry about that

Okay, I'll unblock you. AnnH ♫ 09:21, 30 May 2006 (UTC)