User talk:LinkTiger

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[edit] Wikiproject North Dakota

Hi! you might be interested in helping Wikiproject North Dakota off the drawing board. --AlexWCovington (talk) 22:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject North Dakota is official! Sort of. Lot of cleanup needed on the project page and plenty of work to do making a decent to-do list, etc. etc., but it all starts somewhere. Thanks for all your help! --AlexWCovington (talk) 05:35, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Trek page and "as well as"

You may not remember this as it was a few days past, but you reverted a correction I made to the Star Trek page. On that page, discussing the animated series, I had changed the clause, "the liberal reuse of shots (pioneered by Jonnie 'Roy' White) and musical cues as well as occasional animation errors has detracted from the reputation of the series" to use the word "have." You reverted this change, asserting that the use of "as well as" required the verb to agree with the number of the precedent noun to "as well as," in this case the word "reuse."

I disagree. That is true only when "as well as" is being used as a preposition. Here, it is being used as a conjunction, synonymous to "and." I believe that, in such cases, the verb should agree with the compound plural noun that results. You would, I think, agree that if the sentence used the word "and," the verb "have" should be used.

If you have a citation to a style manual or English usage manual that supports your view, could you please leave me a note to that effect? Otherwise, I will be reinstating the change. Doug (talk) 23:50, 12 April 2008 (UTC)