User talk:Rudowsky

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[edit] Pittsburgh Barnstar

The Pittsburgh Barnstar
I hereby award you this Barnstar in recognition of your efforts to improve and organize Pittsburgh-related articles, including the tagging of stubs. Thanks, Chris Griswold (☎☓) 08:07, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Chabon edits

Thank you for your contributions to the article Michael Chabon. But please be more careful in the future, as you removed the target for all the Reference citations on the page. To learn more about how to use this reference system, see the page on citing sources, in particular the section on footnotes. --ShelfSkewed [Talk] 22:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait

This book has been used a reference for many of the Pittsburgh neighborhood articles. I appreciate your citing it, but can you use it more specifically? What you're citing, the relevant page number, etc? {{cite book}} and the <ref></ref> tags will help. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 21:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Revert explained

I reverted your edit to Linn Run State Park as all 120 Pennsylvania state parks have a similar opening sentence / paragraph so this keeps them all consistent. Thanks, Ruhrfisch 01:17, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Same goes for the edit you made to Point State Park. Just keeping the opening sentences the same. Dincher 04:08, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reporting Vandals

I still have your page on my watchlist and saw you were having some trouble with a vandal - I reported him at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (easier to use the shortcut WP:AIV) and someone should block this vandal soon. Keep up the good work, Ruhrfisch 15:32, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My (mistaken) edit to Montour High School

I must apologize for reverting your edits which Ruhrfisch corrected. I was anti-vandalizing too quickly and assumed that "McKees Rocks" was referring to a person rather than a place. I will strive to not let this happen again. —Travis CT 15:06, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

  • I cleaned up the article and put in a map of the school district. Although the mailing address is McKees Rocks, the municipality it is in is Robinson Township. I tried to make this clearer in my edits. Ruhrfisch 15:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandals on your user page

I undid the vandalism he did and added you to my watchlistArnon Chaffin 13:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:GrandViewScenicBywayPark.jpg

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[edit] Barnstar

The Saint's Star Award
The Saint's Star Award

For your articles on the Byzantine Greek Catholic Church. Squamate 19:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate images uploaded

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[edit] Notability of Seven Oaks Country Club

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Seven Oaks Country Club, by Nuttah68, another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Seven Oaks Country Club seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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[edit] Image:1903stjohncathedral.jpg

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Frick Fine Arts.jpg)

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[edit] DYK nomination

Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Union of Uzhhorod, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on July 4 where you can improve it if you see fit.--Riurik(discuss) 01:25, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Union of Uzhhorod

Updated DYK query On 10 July 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Union of Uzhhorod, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 10:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GrandViewScenicBywayPark.jpg

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[edit] Dinty W. Moore

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[edit] Pitt WikiProject

WikiProject University of Pittsburgh

As a current or past contributor to a Pitt-related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Pittsburgh, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the University of Pittsburgh and the Pitt Panthers. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:3 Rivers Park logo.gif

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