User talk:Valadius

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[edit] Bill Clinton's birth name

(copied from User talk:Gadfium) Dear Gadfium,

One point of contention that I have had with other Wikipedia contributors concerns the continued misrepresentation of the name Bill Clinton was given at birth. It was William Jefferson Blythe IV, not William Jefferson Blythe III. I have corrected this false statement in Bill Clinton's article multiple times, but each time it was reverted to the false name. This is really starting to annoy me. Please, I beg of you, help me to keep his true birth name, William Jefferson Blythe IV, intact. You may look it up if you don't believe me- it should be on his White House biography, and that is what he says in his autobiography. So please, help me to maintain his true birth name and his father's article, William Jefferson Blythe III, not Jr. Thank you. (Posted by Valadius (talk · contribs))

I've checked on whitehouse.gov, and seen the discussion at Talk:Bill Clinton. It looks like you're right, although I'm no expert on the subject. I won't revert your change again.
You must understand that making modifications of this sort to articles without citing references looks like vandalism. I seem to recall that the last time I reverted such a change it was made in the first section of the article but not in other areas, and I reverted because you were introducing an inconsistency without any evidence provided. You can make this easier for any future issues by adding a reference to the website (not just naming it, provide a link. I know to go to whitehouse.gov not .com, but does everyone? I then had to search for his bio), or to the talk page section containing the references. Thanks for your persistence.
By the way, please sign your posts on talk pages with ~~~~.-gadfium 19:41, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Roy Richard Grinker

Roy Richard Grinker has been proposed for deletion. An editor felt this person might not be notable enough for an article. Please review Wikipedia:Notability (people) for the relevant guidelines. If you can improve the article to address these concerns, please do so.

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[edit] List of former United States Senators

Nice work so far on List of former United States Senators!!!! :)!!

While you're at it, don't wikilink solitary years.

(See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Avoid overlinking dates.) —Markles 04:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, nice work on Senators...feel free to ask if you have any questions Paul 03:44, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congressional Articles for Improvement Drive

Hi, I was interested in nominating an article, but I was unsure if anyone else was still interested in the overall project so I thought I would target a few specific people and see. Are you still interested in improving articles if I can drum up some more support? TonyJoe 20:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Early Congresses in United States Congressional Delegations from Pennsylvania

Please see my comments at Talk:United States Congressional Delegations from Pennsylvania#General tickets and the early Congresses.—Markles 15:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of former United States Senators

I noticed that in edit history comments you indicated a desire for a discussion. I have no problems with that, of course. May I ask what your concerns are with the edit? —Tokek 09:54, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of United States Representatives from Foo

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States Representatives from Minnesota. It is about to get deleted (any day now) and I think that would be a shame. —Markles 21:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linking to "List" vs. "Delegations" article (Minnesota)

Many articles link to List of United States Representatives from Minnesota because of the templates that are used across all 50 states. There's no practical way to change which article they link to as long as there is no consensus to merge, rename, or delete the article (as it now seems is the case). However, a few articles explicitly linked there, which I was able to change to link to United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota. Whenever the "List" article is completed, I wouldn't mind linking the articles there again, but right now only 24 of the ~140 representatives are on the List and the "Delegations" article has all ~140 representatives with links to each of their own articles (which several of us worked on completing). I see no reason to deny the reader the link to the much more complete article, when we have the option. You reverted one of the 1/2 dozen or so articles that I changed, but regardless of the outcome of the "merge" discussion, I think the changes I made are improvements. Can you think of any reason to link to the incomplete one at this point, in those few articles that we have a choice about?--Appraiser 02:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of former members of the United States House of Representatives

[edit] Regarding "Exploratory Committees"

You're invited to comment at Template talk:United States presidential election, 2008 navigation, on this proposal:

Proposed Deletion of category "Exploratory" and "Declared" for individuals filing with FEC.

And please note this argument on the same talk page. Exploratory equals Candidate.

Best regards, -- Yellowdesk 07:22, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of United States politicians

Please see my request at Category talk:Lists of United States politicians. I think we can use some of the data from your work at List of former United States Representatives.—Markles 20:31, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reps you've been adding

Sheesh, you're a machine! My bot can barely keep up! :-)

Seriously, thanks for double-checking some of the articles polbot makes. She's 99% perfect, but she has her bad moments. – Quadell (talk) (random) 01:35, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Size is important

You-know-what is getting too big again.  :( —Markles 00:25, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Using a bot to change {{Bioguide}} to {{CongBio}}

Greetings. I would like to use User:Polbot (my bot) to change {{Bioguide}} to {{CongBio}}. This use hasn't yet been approved, and it seems to have hit a snag in the approval process. If you could comment at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Polbot 4 about the usefulness or non-usefulness of such a bot, I'd really appreciate it. – Quadell (talk) (random) 12:31, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The 641 KB browser-bustin' list

I don't see why you need to revert instead of using the historical versions, but sure. I'll look at this tomorrow. ←BenB4 00:35, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Very good. Thanks for adapting the article. I know it's a monumental amount of work. ←BenB4 21:58, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Wow, I just wanted to say that that article is impressive. I see on the AfD that you did most of the work yourself; you're very dedicated and I appreciate your effort! It's a very fascinating article and subject and very useful to Wikipedia! Thank you.--Gloriamarie 16:37, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Night At Global Dynamics

Thanks for correcting that stuff up of mine. I ment to put it in All That Glitters... - Fosnez 03:11, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DC meetup #3

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[edit] James Lane

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[edit] James Lane

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article James Lane, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of James Lane. Gip213 10:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DC Meetup on May 17th

Your help is needed in planning Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4! Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated. The Placebo Effect (talk) 20:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin coaching request update

You have previously expressed an interest in undergoing the Admin coaching program. We're currently engaged in a program reset to help things move more smoothly in the future. If you are still interested in the program, please go to Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Requests for Coaching and re-list yourself under Current requests, deleting your entry from Older requests. Also, double-check to make sure coaching is right for you at the Coachee checklist; WP:Adoption or WP:Editor review may be more appropriate depending on your situation and aspirations. We should get back to you within a day or so, once a coaching relationship has been identified. Thank you. MBisanz talk 07:22, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin Coaching

Hi Valadius, I was just taking a look at your contributions as you'd previously indicated that you were interested in running for an adminship. It appears, however, that your contributions to the project have significantly decreased over the past 8 months (less than 10 edits per month.) Thus, I'm going to take you off the list for now. If you ever become active in the project again, please feel free to re-add yourself. But at this time, there is too much demand for coaching. I hope you don't mind.Balloonman (talk) 17:23, 5 May 2008 (UTC)