User talk:Steve Casburn

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[edit] Edward Cardwell

Just wanted to say great job on Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell, especially with setting all the links right. We've needed an article on him for a long time. Mackensen 03:02, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Parens

Why? The sentence is relative to the paragraph and flows with the narrative of the story. Adding parens is what you do when speaking of a diffrent subject or time or place. Nor do you add entire sentences to parens normally unless it's a long passage, it's just not the right usage of parens in this case.Stbalbach 00:45, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Houston mayors

Steve, Good work on Oscar F. Holcombe. Did he really serve 11 terms?!? (wow, more than I realized) --rj ...Please continue your work with the List of Mayors of Houston, Texas

You forgot to add Oscar to your people list... --Rj 08:10, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Good catch! I've added it now -- thanks! Steve Casburn 02:02, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] bio-stub

Since you are a biographer, just wondering if you have used {{bio-stub}} instead of the generic {{stub}} msg?? --Rj 21:11, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Info Boxes Okay With Me

Salve, Steve Casburn!
I have no feelings one way or the other re the succeeded/preceeded box on Alexander J. Dallas. Originally, I put them on all the Associate Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, copying the form from somewhere. And then I did the reporters, probably copying from one of the justices. (Someone else created the article on Dallas and I believe it had a box already for his service in the Cabinet when I got to it; I expanded the article and tacked on the reporter succession.) I did not realize there was an official style for them and if you would like to correct my boxes, have at it.
I see you spent some time in the Buckeye State. I'm a native and have been working on many Ohio articles, including List of Ohio county name etymologies. If I can help you with your articles, I'd be glad to help. (See User:PedanticallySpeaking/Articles for what I've done so far.) Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 21:20, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] You are da bomb

Doing the Speakers stubs ROCKS AND ROLLS. Thank you so much. I should get back to doing politician stubs. I need a new project. :) In any case, THANK YOU!! jengod 19:04, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] RFA candidate

Salve, Steve Casburn!
I nominated myself for adminship at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2 and would appreciate your vote. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 20:04, Dec 9, 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] Randal L. Schwartz

Looks great, thanks! --Randal L. Schwartz 07:36, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] M. Laugier

She discovered some asteroids. That's significant enough. See Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. Some of us have tried to get biographical information on each person who discovered a significant number of asteroids for their time period (where "significant number" varies according to the time period because the rate of discovery has increased enormously in the last 10 years or so). -- Curps 03:11, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

As it happens, she also has an asteroid named after her... not because she was incredibly notable, but because one of her colleagues liked to name asteroids he discovered after his colleagues. -- Curps 05:31, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bancroft prize

How will you be handling Arming America? It deserves some kind of mention on the Bancroft Prize page. -Acjelen 00:44, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Recent Changes Camp in Portland

FYI RecentChangesCamp Tedernst | talk 22:09, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

for rewriting the Battle of Khafji article. It was really a mess. - Eagleamn 06:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John B. Jones

Thanks for catching the senate/age thing. I guess I didn't do the math in my head. — Bellhalla 14:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam spam lovely spam

Hi Steve -- thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia! Re the Billy Williams article: that was one of my first, and I was taking my cue to some extent from other articles. Obviously looking back it seems rather POV, considering he's not been convicted (yet)... well, we all live and learn! Dave-ros 23:22, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WIkiproject Oregon

Wikiproject Oregon is now up and running! I invite you to join at WP:WPOR PDXblazers 22:55, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: thanks

no problem, steve. The guy had done something similar to mine, but only indirectly. he changed a userbox template to the same homophobia thing that he had put on your page. i suspect he was using it to make it look the way he wanted and then copied and pasted, but who knows. i just hope none of my friends saw it, i would be so embarrassed.  ;) -- stubblyhead | T/c 16:07, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edward Oliver Wolcott

I've merged Edward O. Wolcott with Edward Oliver Wolcott. I saw on the talk page that you might be willing to do some cleaning up, so I thought I'd let you know. Kevin 07:35, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Library, Archives, and Web 2.0 Research Guide Template

Consider giving your opinion on the research guide template.Shannon bohle (talk) 05:50, 1 February 2008 (UTC)