User talk:Quintucket

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[edit] Welcome

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--Goobergunch 23:54, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Western Mass

Hi Quintucket,

Welcome to Wikipedia. Sorry if I'm stepping on your toes a little with Western Massachusetts. I think it's a great start and I just wanted to do a little cleanup on it since I too live in this area. Enjoy! Rhobite 01:12, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I'm not quite clear on what you did aside from fixing "chidens" and "asbolitionists" and getting the sightseeing list to work right, but I certainly don't see anything that I should be mad about.

Where do you live by the way? I live in Deerfield.

I didn't edit anything major, just some spelling fixes and clarified a couple parts. I live in Amherst. Rhobite 02:23, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what it looked like. Heh, I go to high school in Amherst. I wonder if I've ever bumped into you before when I've gone downtown. Meh.

--Quintucket 02:45, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of your name

Check out Wikipedia articles for various numerical prefixes, including Greek numerical prefixes and Latin numerical prefixes. Is your name realted in any way to quinque-?? 66.245.15.73 02:24, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Not really much derivation here

The Quintucket or Quinitucket (I'm not certian which) was the orignal name of the Connecticut River. The French explorers happened along, and couldn't pronounce it, so they labled it "Connecticut" instead. Since I live along the Connecticut River, I decided to start using "Quintucket" as a user name. Since I'm not sure if the "i", a sound that is barely pronounced I'm not sure if it's written or not, so I always write it without it.

--Quintucket 02:35, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well, actually, it turns out that it's "Quinnetucket." --Quintucket 01:42, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Just as a note, the Ojibwe word for "being a long-stream" is ginootigweyaad, and the river is called Ginootigweyaad-ziibi. I used to live along the Connecticut River years ago... in central Connecticut. The oral history says that the Anishinaabe were from the east coast. So, I was quite amazed exactly how similar Ojibwe is/was to the languages spoken by the tribes located New England. You're right about the lack or resources to link for Abenaki language. One place, though, might be Freelang. Good luck! CJLippert 23:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VfD

There are instructions for its use. Please read and follow them when you next list something there :-) Chris 02:50, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I did.

I read the article on what's deleteable, then I read the instructions at the bottom, and followed them as I understood them. What did I do wrong?

--Quintucket 02:55, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Animal-stub

I think I've managed to straighten out your {{animal-stub}} so that it does what you presumably intended it to. Have a look at Category:Animal stubs and Template:Animal-stub to see how it works. --Paul A 02:49, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ahh, thanks. I was a bit confused as to why it did it when none of the other stub categories did. --Quintucket 20:47, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] No problem

Glad you're not too offended by my copyediting. Could I ask one favor of you? You've been adding good content but there's a large number of spelling errors. There are good spellchecker add-ons for most popular browsers, such as ieSpell and Spellbound for Firefox. Would you mind spellchecking your submissions? It's a pretty quick and painless process. Thanks. Rhobite 21:14, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

Firefox has a spell-checker? I don't see it under Tools. I suppose that I can just copy & past into Word though, if need be, I'd only avoided it because I've occasionally had problems with auto-correct and not noticed. Quintucket 21:25, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Firefox has a spellchecker extension called Spellbound, based on the Thunderbird spellchecker. You have to install it from that site. The interface can be a little annoying but it's pretty simple to use. Give it a try if you want. Rhobite 22:09, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
Ahh, thanks Rhobite. Quintucket 22:19, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] issues about school articles

In November 2003, there was a VfD debate over Sunset High School (Portland). The debate was archived under Talk:Sunset High School (Portland). What to do with the article is still being contested and has been recently re-nominated for VfD at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland).

I am writing to you because you have participated in such debates before. There still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. Kingturtle 02:37, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Woah, I've been gone for three years?
Gee, really doesn't seem like it's that long.
Sorry I've been sorta AWOL.
Meheh.

[edit] Request for participation in Asperger FARC :

As a member of Wiki Aspergians, I hope you'll comment on the Asperger's FARC. I am voting to de-list, as I believe the article has taken a drastic POV shift toward pure pathology and away from the dual nature - talent+disability - articulated by the leading RS's of the field. I hope you'll vote whether you agree or not with my assessment :

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_review#FARC_commentary_10  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CeilingCrash (talk • contribs) 19:41, 21 September 2007 (UTC)