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  1. July 2006 – September 2006

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[edit] AfD: Elechi Amadi

You queried the motives of this. If you are interested Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precious Williams and this edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Precious_Williams&diff=77986903&oldid=77981995 in particular, throw more light. -- Beardo 12:46, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Happy Birthday

Cake for you.
Cake for you.

Thanks for the lovely and thoughtful birthday wishes, dear Stubbleboy. :) Cheers, Sango123 22:37, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:MFD

I just restored the MFD notice on my subuserpage, User:Xaosflux/UBX/User religion flying spaghetti monster not really, as the MFD at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Xaosflux/UBX/User religion flying spaghetti monster not really is still running. Did I miss something? — xaosflux Talk 18:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Illegitimate_children

I agree with your edit. I noted on the discussion page that there is already a list in the illegitimate article. Mapetite526 22:25, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion help from non-admins

Hi Stubbleboy! Thanks for the message. As far as AfD goes, non-admins can close discussions that are obvious keeps (e.g.- unanimous or near-unanimous keep votes). If you were to take care of these type of cases, it might save a little time for admins and help the backlog a bit. As far as general deletion advice, there are a few things you can do to help out. One is to go to CAT:PROD and review the articles there. If there are any that you feel should be kept, simply remove the {{prod}} tag. (Or, if you feel that there should at least be a discussion first, feel free to send to AfD.) Also, you could also do new page patrol and tag any articles that meet the speedy deletion criteria. I hope all of this advice helps, and let me know if you have any further questions! EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 22:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Sure, no problem...I just happened to log-on briefly after your message. I'm not sure how fast it is, but Voice of All has several JavaScript tools for people to use, including non-admin rollback. You can find all of those tools at User:Voice of All/UsefulJS. Best of luck with the vandalwhacking! EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 22:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Script

I've moved it to the right location, just purge your browser cache.Voice-of-All 23:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Allegra Byron

I went back to the article and added page numbers after the various quotes. They follow the date Eisler's biography of Byron was published in 1999. This is the primary source for the quotes from Byron's letters and for the overall tone of the article, though I also took some information from the biography of her at the Androom Archive and from an old, out of print biography of her called "Allegra" as well as a biography of Ada Lovelace that I read in college and no longer have access to. I cited all of the quotes that come from Eisler's book. I'm not sure what else needs to be done to "wikify." If you could go in and fix what's wrong with it, I'd appreciate it.--Bookworm857158367 23:56, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

That text is cited in two or three biographies of Byron and Allegra that I've seen. The letter still exists and a photo of it is included in the pages of the Eisler biography. I think it's fair to assume she had considerable help from the nuns at the convent to write that letter. She probably dictated to them what she wanted to say and they wrote it out for her to copy. Also keep in mind that children were taught to read and write at an earlier age in the seventeenth and eighteenth and nineteenth centuries than they are today. And we can assume that Byron's daughter might have been fairly precocious when it comes to writing. Allegra is notable mainly because of who her parents were and their story is pretty notable. --Bookworm857158367 00:25, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I actually think the subtitles I've added break it up pretty well. You can't really do bullets with a subject like this. Incidentally, I happened to see Tyke's "rampage" at the state fair in Minot. I work for the paper there and was at the fairgrounds doing a story at the time.--Bookworm857158367 00:52, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for cleaning up the page. It looks so much better now than it did. I thought your "Tyke" page looked great. I remember doing some stories about the mistreatment of elephants after the fair and later when I learned that Tyke had been involved in other "rampages." --Bookworm857158367 13:20, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again. I wasn't sure about whether it was kosher to add her photo right to the page, but you're probably right given the age. It looks pretty darn good right now. You really created a quality entry. Personally, I think it's the most comprehensive entry about her on the Web!--Bookworm857158367 01:10, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COmments

Hi there. My name is Abbopa. will you please leave me a message? thanks. Abbopa 01:18, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Hi there. Thanks for the message, and no thanks to the razors. Abbopa 01:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
  • oh. I'll live with the problem then. ! Abbopa 01:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC) ???????????????????????

[edit] About your warning from AntiVandalBot

If you get a warning from AntiVandalBot for an edit that is not vandalism, please note that it is a clone of Tawkerbot2's code base. Please list the diffs that were mistakenly identified as vandalism here: User:Tawkerbot2/diffs. Tawker and Joshbuddy are currently rewriting Tawkerbot2 to catch even more vandalism and not tag as many legitimate edits as vandalism. This will help them, because these bots apparently use Bayesian methods to identify vandalism, which is a statistical method to essentially guess. The way to improve Bayesian systems is to show them examples of when they have made correct guesses, and when they have made incorrect guesses. Jesse Viviano 02:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I've finally had the time during my long Wikibreak to thank the voters and commentors on my my RfA last month, and I thank you! I'll try again as previously planned in the late of spring, and hopefully I'll win it. When I get off this multi-month Wikibreak I'll be back to the Wikipedia, visting xfD everyday in addition. What exactly were you referring to when you implied that I was not following signature guidelines? Do you have any tips or suggestions for me? Thanks again, X [Mac Davis] (SUPERDESK|Help me improve)08:19, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] November Esperanza Newsletter

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What's New?
The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one!
A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts.
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The last AC meeting (full log)
  • The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
  • There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia.
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[edit] Westerville Library

Hi. I recently added the Westerville Library article. I'm working on the Libraries in Ohio project, and I started at the end of the alphabet. I'm doing a bare bones article on them, city and county location, communities served by branch libraries, and I'm referencing 2005 circulation statistics. I just noticed your comment about the library, I think it would be great to add the other details about some of these libraries. They do offer interesting things related to the area history. As long as you reference it, I say, GO FOR IT! CRKingston 07:13, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

  • About your note on the Westerville Public Library article: first you were not the creator of that article, so I'm not sure why you were telling me I should have discussed merging it with you first. I had placed a "merge" tag on the article a week or so earlier, and there had been no objections. I had also placed a message in the Wikiproject:Ohio talk area, and no one had objected there.
  • The only claim to notability that I can see for the library is the Anti-Saloon League museum (which is not presently mentioned in the library article, only in the Westerville article.) I think this is probably best mentioned in context of Westerville's history, and therefore I see no reason why the library can't be included in the Westerville article.
  • If you think that the statistics on use and holdings are not worth including, then I agree with you, and we can have a redirect with just a bare mention of the library's existence and a link to their web site. If we take this to AFD, I'm sure that, like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adams County Public Library, the result will be "merge". --Brianyoumans 01:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
I love what you have done with the museum info. I'm completely uninvolved in the other issues with deletion and merging. I have a personal opinion, as you might guess, but I am not involved with the debate or the decision-making proces. I've moved on to other projects. CRKingston 06:32, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] removed personal phone number

I noticed you edited Ram-Man's userpage, why though? He put it there, thus presumably he wants it there and it must not be removed. Mathmo Talk 09:06, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

It isn't a personal phone number. The page is a joke, and the phone number goes to a joke number. -- RM 18:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Little context in Varitalk

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Varitalk, by Vegaswikian (talk · contribs), another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Varitalk is very short providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles.

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[edit] WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

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[edit] WikiProject Ohio Newsletter


Issue II - May 2008
From the editor:

Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the News Desk! Have a great May.
The Ohio Portal

The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.
Selected Article: Indian Head Rock

There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it.
With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value.
After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river.
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