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Gunny

Thanks for your work on the article about I.C Gunsalus, a fine scientist and estimable person. BBRC had an article devoted to him, which could add to the article. He was said to have been in the running for the Nobel Prize. How could that be checked? Edison (talk) 05:09, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I will research further. What I've created is a very big stub and any additional information will only help flesh out the biography. I'd appreciate if you could point to any other biographies or obituaries that would have more deatil. While I guess he's out of the running now, I will look for Nobel details. Alansohn (talk) 16:01, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Sources

• Sandeep Unnikrishnan (AfD discussion)

After much prodding and pushing, people have finally started citing sources. Please revisit the discussion and read and evaluate the sources. Show the single-purpose accounts and novice editors how established Wikipedia editors will have a proper AFD discussion, focussed upon looking for, citing, reading, and evaluating sources. You'll have to navigate a lot of irrelevant chatter to find the citations, and the actual discussions thereof, but I've tried to make them prominent. Uncle G (talk) 00:49, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

July 29 in rail transport

I just want to let you know that the July 29 in rail transport ended in a no consensus. I am currently disputing that decision atWikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 December 3. If you wish to speak your opinion of the result of the AfD, please do so at the Deletion Review. Thanks for your opinion in the discussion. Tavix (talk) 00:48, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Danite123 (talk) 23:29, 3 December 2008 (UTC)Hi there, I’m researching an article about Wikipedia, and its editors. I wonder if you I could talk to you about Wikipedia, and how you use it, for a magazine about not-for-profit organisations. If you could spare some time and wouldn’t mind answering some questions by email or phone, please contact me on Bennett.d@hotmail.co.uk, or leave a message here or on my talk page. Many thanks,

Daniel

Shane P. Davis

This is a sui generis situation, where the original editor admits that it's a complete hoax. Given that peculiar fact, I felt it best to forgo the usual procedures in the interests of keeping total hoaxes off Wikipedia. I feel rather strongly that permitting a confessed hoax to stand undeleted while we painstakingly plod through a lengthy procedure with a foregone conclusion is destructive to our credibility (such as it is). I'm sorry if you feel I was discourteous to you as a fellow editor in so doing; but I've never encountered a case like this. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:23, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

My nose doesn't disjoint easily :) In fact, I would usually ask for an explanation from the other editor; but if the explanation made sense, I'd just shrug and keep on keeping on. I certainly didn't mean to offend you in any way. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for inventing the light bulb. We all very much appreciate it.