User talk:TMS63112

Harmony search algorithm

Hi, you left a messege on "harmony search algorithm" that it lacks citation. So I added references of 28 journal papers and 5 book chapters. Actually it has been cited by over 100 major publications including journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, degree thesis, and technical reports from all over the world. Although the algorithm was invented in 2001, during the short time, it is gathering popularity. I need you to decide again after you search Google, Science Citation Expended, Elservier, or Springer. I also need WIKIPEDIA contain emerging topics. Thanks.

St. Louis Wiki re: T.S. Eliot

Well, per your invite, here I am. I'm not enough computer geek to know where and how to insert the text box. If I could, I would invite you to peruse an Encyclopedia Americana, Collier's Encyc. or the like. A few articles, start with a one line quote from somewhere else. On point, with what follows, but hardly Encyclopedia Brittanica. Meanwhile, the quote remains in limbo. I'm starting to wonder if attribution is even necessary for a one sentence errr. 35 words. And that's if you count St. separately from Louis. Well, at least we have resolved the Saint vs. St. business. See where I put it and let me know, I'm still open to compromise.

Let me repeat myself, at the risk of redundancy. A short sentence, immediately following:

"The city has several common nicknames, including the "Gateway City", "Gateway to the West", and "Mound City". St. Louis is also sometimes called "St. Louie", "River City", "Baseball City USA", and in a coinage popularized by native hip hop artist Nelly, "The Lou". As a backlash to this new term that was devised by Nelly, many high school to college-age people who live in St. Louis have begun to call it "The STL" because it better represents the city."?Mark Preston 03:19, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

After some ramblings over the 'net, the only "reason" that I find that T. Williams disliked St. L., was that he was "poor" while his classmates weren't "poor". I can understand his childhood dislike for being nicknamed "Tennessee", but, he does eventually take that name; and for him, now (and forever) he is known by that (detested) nickname. I'm not saying we need a T. Williams quote to "balance" the Eliot quote.

On a incongrously similar matter, as you have an interest in architecture, and St. Louis architecture specifically, have you seen?

www.builtstlouis.net/

Mark Preston 17:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for screwing the the following up:

== The Bottle District ==

website here is the bottle districts website and thats where i got most of the info.

slu2008

Illustrations needed

hi. you left a message on my user talk page. i'm new here. i was wondering if there was a way to know which articles in particular were in need of illustrations of any kind ? i'm an illustrator and wouldn't mind contributing my drawings for wikipedia for nothing tangible in return. Sueco 22:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Leo Ryan

I made an addition to the Leo Ryan article:Leo Ryan graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chein,Wisconsin in 1943.That turn out well.But there are 2 external websites about Campion Jesuit High School that I am unable to link onto the article itself:The Campion Jesuit High School website-Thomas Olson webmaster and CAMPION FOREVER an alumni newsletter.Would please if you can link the 2 websites unto the Leo Ryan article.It would be much appreciated. Thank you-Richard F. Dungar-La Crosse,Wisconsin-

Birmingham riots

Thanks for that!! :) XYaAsehShalomX 17:27, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Frank Fools Crow

Hi! As you requested, I removed the CSD tag from Frank Fools Crow. It appears the "Newpages patrol" was a bit too quick on the draw that time. :-) -- IslandGyrl 18:48, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia

I want to thank you.I am the one who made some suggestions about the Archbishop Burke article in October.I finally decided to join Wikipedia.I wrote the article about the Diocese of La Crosse as a result. RFDRFD 18:32, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sam Graves POV

I am writing an article about ARMPAC and documenting all the recipients who got more than $30,000 of those funds and those from my home state. This is a current topic in the news.

In Wikipedia, a Point of view or POV is one way of looking at an issue. Wikipedia seeks a neutral point of view by including all relevant POVs while explicitly attributing them to those who hold them. It's a fact that Sam Graves received $35,000 from ARMPAC. Tom DeLay is being prosecuted for laundering corporate campaign contributions money through ARMPAC. This is clearly dirty money. It is a fact that Sam Graves has not returned that money to date. If you feel this is a one-sided view of an issue, perhaps correct the ARMPAC and Sam Graves article so that it includes the relevant information that I am not aware of. But please do not delete the facts because they don't suit your political POV. kgrr ^talk 20:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Tom Bauer, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

"Bigfoot in Japan"

What's with this entry on October 10? It was rammed in beside another entry and doesn't make any sense on its own. It's already been removed once, but you put it back in without explanation, and didn't even bother doing it properly.

To cap it all, you put "rvv" (revert vandalism) as your edit summary, trying to blame the person who had removed it in the first place.

Fourohfour 23:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. Thanks for catching this. I was trying to revert User:Gary Imrie who had inserted his own birthday and a link to his vanity page Gary Imrie (with the notation "hobbit") in the article. I noticed an anonymous edit before that with "bigfoot in Japan" and thought they had both been vandalism. It seems the anonymous editor had removed the vandalism, not added it, so when I reverted, the bigfoot reference was still there. Sorry. Your reversion seems to have restored Gary Imrie, hobit though. I will fix that now. TMS63112 23:32, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps Gary Imrie really *is* a "Hobit" (^_^)

Seriously, apology accepted, the misunderstanding was mine; particularly bad as I then went and repeated your mistake after taking you to task for it :-/

Fourohfour 00:52, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sam Graves

You're right, I shouldn't have marked that one as a minor edit. I felt that the number wasn't relevant to the article, though I was also a bit offended at the presence of numbers from the DCCC's "House of Scandal". I don't like a lot of the things that DeLay and the Republicans in Congress have done, but I don't think that Wikipedia's articles should carry talking points for the Democrats or for any party. The source is still present, so the fraction of people that follows the link will still see the numbers. I'll do my best to be more careful about the "minor edit" box in the future, especially when my edits touch polarizing figures like DeLay. NatusRoma 02:14, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Howcheng's RfA

Thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship. I was successfully promoted with a final tally of 74/0/0. I will endeavour not to let you down. Thanks again. howch e ng {chat} 07:06, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RfA thanks from Deathphoenix

Hi TMS,

I just wanted to thank you for supporting me in my RfA, and for your kind comments there. To tell you the truth, I was surprised by all the support I've gotten. I never saw myself as more than an occasional Wiki-hobbyist.

My wife sends her curses, as Wikipedia will likely suck up more of my time. She jokingly (I think) said she was tempted to log on to Wikipedia just to vote Oppose and let everyone know that she didn't want her husband to be an admin.

I'll make sure your trust in me is founded. --D e ath phoenix 15:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Archbishop Dolan of Milwaukee-

Hi!Since you are from Missouri,you might be interested in expanding the article about Archbishop Tim Dolan who is also from Missouri.Archbishop Dolan was mention in Brian Murphy's book about the North American College. Happy New Year!RFD 21:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Archbishop Burke-sources section

I added a section on sources to the Archbishop Burke article on some manuscripts he wrote while in Rome.I was planning to do it.Wiscat/Badger Link=courtesy of the State of Wisconsin-where the information came from.RFD 15:25, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

St Stanislaus

Hello, I'm the mediator assigned to the articles St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (Saint Louis) and Raymond Leo Burke. You are receiving this message because you have been named as one of the users who have intensely participated in developing these articles. Over the past few days, there has been a dispute over the neutrality of the articles with numerous anonymous users making what have been characterised as biased edits. The obvious thing to do would be to make a compromise version, and User:Kenj0418 seems to think that versions Raymond Leo Burke 18:40, 4 January 2006 and St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (Saint Louis) 00:33, 4 January 2006 may be those versions. Could you please review them and let me know if you think they are OK. Thanks. Izehar 10:42, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RFT articles/letters=Archbishop Burke

Hi!I just found out that User:Marcusscotus I was one of the individuals who wrote one of the letters in the RIVERFRONT TIMES concerning the Bishop Burke articles.The messege dated October 15,2005,but I just received it today.At that time I was not registered with Wikipedia.I will leave it to your judgement as to what to do.Also the SNAP website discussion board has been quiet about Archbishop Burke lately,but it was not the case when he was Bishop of La Crosse.Thank you-RFD 13:36, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfA Thanks

Please accept my embarrassingly belated thank you for supporting my RfA, which much to my surprise passed 102/1/1, earning me minor notoriety. I am grateful for all the supportive comments, and have already started doing the things people wanted me to be able to do. And hopefully nothing else... Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C]

AfD? 12:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Episcopal Church in Wisconsin-

Hi!I started 3 articles about the Episcopal Church in Wisconsin: Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac,Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee,and Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire.This is a part of the Wisconsin Wiki Project.I hope you are well.Thank you-RFD 17:23, 26 January 2006 (UTC) Hi!I am learning about categories on Wikipedia-I was able to place the 3 Episcopal Dioceses under the religion in Wisconsin category with no problems.Also I created 3 articles about Ken Behring,Alvin Baldus,&William A. Steiger.Thank youRFD 16:29, 28 January 2006 (UTC).PS-there was an article on:Janet Dempsey Steiger,Bill Steiger's wife but no article about about Bill Steiger,so I created one.Thank you again.One question:Do you think Archbishop Burke might be made a Cardinal?RFD 16:36, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wonders never cease ;-)

Quite a coincidence that we were independently fixing STLans categories at the same time (several of them mistakes I recently made when moving categories). Anyway, thanks for your efforts, I've seen your name around STL articles. Evolauxia 06:17, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is possible but doesn't work perfectly and isn't recommended: Wikipedia:Categorization#Redirected_categories. Evolauxia 07:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

7 Mile

Thanks for the kind comments you left on my talk page. It seems we have a lot of interests in common. As to Political Graveyard, I have enjoyed putting it together, and I'm always happy to hear that people find the site interesting or useful. As to 7 Mile, I guess I don't object to the existence of the article, rather, I was mostly reacting to the tone of some of the text. I lived in Detroit for 3 years when I was in law school. Though I didn't enjoy living there, I often find myself correcting non-Detroiters' misconceptions about the place. Kestenbaum 21:47, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Succesful RfA!

Thank you for your support during my RfA! The community has decided to make me an administrator, and there's work to be done. I look forward to seeing you around the project in the future, and if you see me do anything dumb, let me know right away! Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 23:43, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roy Blunt

I just posted a response here to the reversion of some unregistered user contributions to Roy Blunt. I'd appreciate your participation in the new topic. Thanks. 66.167.137.199 03:37, 3 February 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Just to see how you are doing-

Hi! I wanted to see how you are doing.Right now I had been adding some articles about the Wisconsin congressional delegation:Alvin Baldus,John Abner Race,William A. Steiger,Angus Cameron,Gardner R. Withrow,Morgan Lewis Martin,John Hubbard Tweedy,not to mention the article about St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Fond du Lac. The most interesting articles involving Wisconsin Wiki Project I came across were:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite),Voree, Wisconsin,and Voree Plates all in Burlington, Wisconsin-the Latter-Day Saints presence in Wisconsin.I added categories involving Wisconsin to them and an additional website to the Voree, Wisconsin article.I also added a paragraph to the Burlington, Wisconsin.Interesting-Hope you are doing well.Thank you-RFD 17:31, 3 February 2006 (UTC)PS-I may end up getting comments from the Latter Day Saints wikipedians;I will ley you know on that one...[reply]

7 mile AfD

I just wanted to point out that the consensus for the 7 mile article seems to have changed after the rewrite; most of the votes after that were for keep.--ragesoss 20:28, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cool.--ragesoss 20:34, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfA Thanks!

Okay, this is perhaps a bit overdue, but thank-you for your support in my recent RfA! I passed with a final ~~vote count~~ consensus of (82/1/0), which was a lot of support that I really appreciate. I'll try to live up to the expectations; and on that note, if there's ever something I do wrong (or don't do right), please spit in my general direction. Cheers! --P e ruvianLlama^(spit) 05:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Purina and Koch

Yes. This article by Consumers Union (best known as the published of Consumer Reports) spells it out. It's not that the merger wasn't approved - it was. It's just that Purina declared bankrupcy, and Koch sold out, I believe because the bankrupcy judge said they had to. Note also: This Koch site says "In January 1999, Dave [Robertson] became president of Koch Agriculture Company, managing the downsizing of Koch's agriculture interests, including its divestiture of Purina Mills, Inc." And this news source says simply that Koch dropped its Purina Mills holding, without saying why.

I think at one point they held 90%+, then went down to 5%, then dropped out altogether. It's so complicated, figuring out who owns who in the corporate world! Sometimes the lines all blur together. All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 21:22, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

Thanks. I don't mind. I saw the wiki disclaimer not to contribute unless you're comfortable having the article frequently edited or in this case deleted. so that's ok with me JDMBAHopeful 22:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Matt Blunt

Hey, I am not comfortable with your decision to delete the info on Matt Blunt. If you're concerned about neutrality, you should delete the whole end of the article, as, while it is factual information, it is universally negative. My information is factual,as well. It's not appropriate that a political article can be used to bash a politician, but not to present any information that could be interpreted as positive. While it could be viewed in a positive light, my edit provided both context for Matt Blunt's election and served (I think) as a very modest counterbalance to the one-sided information that had been added to the end of the article. I respectfully request that you either re-add my information or delete the negative slant that precedes it. In fact, if the standard you seem to be applying is to be fairly applied (which it clearly has not been here), politician pages will be limited essentially to the mechanical. Birthdate, birthplace, year elected, etc. If there's no room to mention an achievement, there is also no room to mention failures, platforms, campaign promises, criticisms, polls, or praise. I can agree that outright praise is not necessarily appropriate, but by the same token, the criticisms mentioned earlier are not appropriate, either. If you can find someone to claim on the record that balancing budgets is a bad thing, that Blunt didn't have a part in it, or that the budget wasn't a part in Holden's downfall and Blunt's election, then we can talk. Otherwise, I hope you'll agree that this is essential information about Blunt's governorship and should, in the proper context, be included.

Sorry about the format of this and everything. I'm still getting used to the interface here, having just signed up this morning. I'll check into the sources. Were the "budget controversies" cited? I don't know offhand, and am afraid I'll lose this page if I check. I find it really appalling though that so much attention was paid to the first steps program in particular (which I have never heard mentioned once outside this site), while the budget itself was mentioned seemingly only as an accessory. Anyway, I'm not wanting to get into an in-depth debate on this. I was concerned at first that you might be trying to bias the article by omission, but I'm comfortable now that your intentions are honorable. I'll work on the sourcing, and please give me your feedback in the future.

Cowboydan76 22:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps we should mention something about Jessica's law. I'm not sure if you saw the State of the State speech or not, but he seemed to emphasize his committment to that bill more strongly than anything else besides his satisfaction with the budget. He was mentioned on the O'Reilly Factor last year as a governor apparently doing nothing to get the bill going. He appeared on the show a night or two later to announce his committment to it, and it's been near the top of his agenda ever since. Not sure about where to go for sources...if O'Reilly is ever mentioned in print, it's generally an attack, and the Post-Dispatch (which is one of the more left-wing papers in the country) isn't likely to cover anything with the kind of widespread appeal of Jessica's Law any more than they have to when it comes to republicans.

Cowboydan76 01:17, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jessica's Law

I realized upon closer reading that the link that "Jessica's Law" redirected to was specifically about the federal legislation, so I created a page specifically about the Florida state law and its campaign on the state level. I wrote only what I knew off the top of my head and didn't source it due to lack of time, but marked it as a stub so that people will know it's not authoritative. Cowboydan76 07:37, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping with the SLUH site

I saw that you cleaned up some vandalism on the St. Louis U. High entry. Thanks. I'm on staff at SLUH and I have the SLUH article on my watchlist, but I don't get the chance to check it everyday. Nice to see others are keeping an eye on it. - Joe Patke, St. Louis U. High

Notable Churches

I am so frustrated; I wrote a reply earlier today, but since Wikipedia database was temporarily protected, it didnt get through! You can probably guess that I don't want to write the whole thing over again; basically I said that I looked at the articles in Category:Churches even before you suggested it. In short, I do not want to write an article that could possibly be a candidate for deletion. However, the church I have in mind is relatively larger (as far as attendance) than most other churches I know of, albeit not a "megachurch" or "superchurch" (this one has a few hundred people attending each service, and there are two services). The most notable aspect of the article would be the fact that one of the ministries of this church is a Christian school containing a few hundred students from pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. Since this church has many ministries, I could definitely expand it a lot; however, that alone doesn't make an article deserve to be on Wikipedia. So, I don't know... any thoughts? EdGl 00:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC) (P.S. Thanks for your previous advice)[reply]

It seems that the school would be considered more notable even though it is a mere division of the church. Isn't that weird? Haha. Surely if the school is notable then the church is too(?) (if that's the case then I'll make an article for the church as well). I don't know what I'm gonna do; writing about the church in the school's article would seem weird since I could probably write more about the church (although I could be wrong). We'll see what happens. Anyway, I'm not gonna start on any articles until I get enough information on the school and/or church. I'm sick of re-wording this paragraph; sorry if it's confusing EdGl 02:15, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

File:Plunger 250x410.jpg

Thanks for taking the time to vote in my RfA, which passed with a final vote of 54/2/1 despite my obvious inadequacy for the job. I'll do my level best to use the mop and bucket — or, as I said in my RfA, plunger — responsibly. Of course, in the best tradition of politicans everywhere, I've already broken a campaign promise (I blocked a vandal last night despite having said "I don't anticipate using the blocking tool very often"). Nevertheless, I'll try not to let the unbridled power corrupt me. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 19:33, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from User Page

Hi TMS.I have just finished adding my eyewitness recollections to the article on neuschwanstein castle.I did the best I could.I appreciate everyone who inproves my edits.My computer skills are limited but I've been some places and seen some things.See what you can do with it,OK? Also,I added to the K-mart article the fact that K-mart stopped selling guns and ammunition 2 days after the 9-11 attacks and this angered gun owners and resulted in a boycott.Somebody deleted my edit.It wasSchuminweb.'Reverted unsourced materiel.My edit was factual,not point of view.I am not going to engage in these retarded edit wars that I have read about,I have better stuff to do.Can you get this guy away from my stuff?Also the article on Ted Kennedy does not contain a word about gun control.How can an article on Kennedy be complete or truthful when importand information is missing from it? Have a great day.Also,I was unable to figure out the citation page.Can you help me?Saltforkgunman 03:26, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WTF

Where do you get the audacity to tell me Im not a realtive of Auguste Chouteau?!?!?! For you're information I AM!!!!!!!!!! and the next time you try to delete it from the website saying that its not true, I will take you to court. I have records and I'm not afriad to use them. don't test me, -samramfan12345

WTF #2

My tone is not appropriate? What about you? Making up that you "research(ed)" Chouteau? That's very classy (you couldn't even site your sources!). Now about my legal threats, according to Missouri state law, amendment 5, line 3-5 "dispute over facts posted on websites, web blogs, or any world wide web affiliation may be settled under a court hearing...". I have every right and even the responsibility to take you to court. So don't give me I am threating you illegally. The people who were posted (which I might add are neither me nor people I am very familiar with even though one has my same first name) are notable people in the Saint Louis community. I don't know if you live in Saint Louis or have even been to Saint Louis but these two men are on the Ladue and Clayton "walk of fame". Wikipedia's rules do not override state laws. If you must keep deleting these names, I will ask for your name and adress so a court hearing can be made.

Crystal City

I didn't put it in the article, but I found a little bit about New Detroit in Mosely's Directory at [1]. I don't know if it will help or not. Rt66lt 00:49, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints. You can sign up on the page and add the following userbox to your user page.

This user is a member of the Saints WikiProject.

Thanks! --evrik 20:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Joan Barry

I wasn't certain. Thank you for correcting it. 75.3.4.54 17:20, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pro-choice politicians

Hi there, I noticed that you added several people to the Pro-choice cat and I was wondering about your criteria. I don't know the positions of these people very well so all that i know is what I can find quickly on Google, Smart Voter, etc. Seems like Schumer and Durbin are good fits, and I couldn't find a source on Wendell Bailey (other than wikipedia), but I have no reason to doubt you. I have the impression that Biden's record on this is very mixed. He has voted for a ban on partial birth, but generally opposed efforts to criminalize abortion. ontheissues.org says that he only gets a 36% score from NARAL[2]. What are your sources? -MrFizyx 19:04, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually upon further review I agree with your designation of Biden, it appears that he has come back into favor with NARAL in recent years[3]. I think the issue positions and interest group rating on Project Vote Smart are as good a basis as any other for this. I sometimes wish wikipedia was not so focused on putting every article into categories, it tends to gloss over grey areas. You seem to be using good judgement. If you come up with good criteria for others to follow you might post your suggestions on the Pro-choice/Pro-lifecategory talk pages. -Regards, MrFizyx 13:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder...

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.

— Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 03:03, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Warren Hearnes

You were exactly right about the article-- the section on his accomplishments in office makes him sound like a saint. That needs to be shortened and toned down to talk about what he did but also what he didn't do, or criticisms of him, or something. I just thought it didn't sound like a very fair encyclopedia article. Also maybe some more on what he did before or after he was governor, and maybe something more about his wife, who is a politician in her own right-- my area is really British royalty, but you seem to do a lot of work with Missouri articles and maybe you can improve what's there- I am familiar with MO but Gov. Hearnes is really before my time- Thanks! TysK 21:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks- what you did was a big improvement- it sounds much more professional and "encyclopedic." I made a few minor changes of my own, but as I said I'm not really an expert, so... anyway, see my comments on the talk page for more details. TysK 03:35, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you are doing well-

Hi! I hope you are doing well. I enjoy being part of the WikiProject Wisconsin. Solanus Casey and Mackville, Wisconsin are among the articles I started. The Aquinas High School archives room in La Crosse, Wisconsin is now open. I spend 2-3 days per week in the archives room. There has been some interesting articles about Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke in the archives. With deep regret, Bishop John Joseph Paul passed away on March 5, 2006. Bishop Paul was an Aquinas graduate-class of 1935. Again, I hope you are doing well.RFD 14:01, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Pennsylvania Senate Race

Hello! I agree that the article does seem to need some work. I have tried various edits to polish it up a bit, but I agree that it could benefit from more of a change. I did a bit of reformatting today, but I still think that it could be improved upon. The third party/candidates no longer running sections seem to be too large for the rest of the article, but I don't exactly know how to cut it down anymore. Perhaps if those candidates were put into a small paragraph instead of listed individually, since Hafer and Hoeffel, for instance, considered running for a very short period of time and both ultimately endorsed Casey, and thus their campaign descriptions are very similar to one another.

Also, the controversy sections, while containing information that could likely affect the Senate race, seem to be quite lengthy and are both mentioned in the articles of the respective candidates themselves. Maybe the entire controversy section can be removed and simply be linked to the aforementioned sections on the individual candidate pages.

Hopefully that's a good start. Feel free to rearrange the formatting I just did if you think you can do better. The lists of the major party, minor party, and former candidates all together like that are just quite daunting. Let me know how you feel about changes to the article/articles as well. Vic Troy 19:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jeff Smith (American politician)

The article looks great to me. My thanks and congratultions on putting together a good article, which is something I rather doubt I've done even once. By the way, I would like to formally invite you to consider joining the Wikipedia:WikiProject Missouri. You did excellent work here and we would all welcome any input you would like to give. Badbilltucker 17:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Claire McCaskill

I noticed your dispute with User:Abacab relating to the Claire McCaskill article. I agree with you that the failure of Wikipedia to report on her alleged drug use does not constitute a violation of the NPOV policy. Having said that, I have reverted his re-inclusion of the NPOV tag, and suggested on the article's Talk page that if he insists on tagging the article that he use the factual accuracy dispute tag. --TommyBoy 00:05, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response to my message. On the issue of including the information in the article, I believe any inclusion must strictly follow Wikipedia policies and guidlines including but not limited to biographies of living persons and NPOV. --TommyBoy 18:01, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the information relating to the federal drug investigation, citing the source provided in the discussion on Talk:Claire McCaskill, and removed the "disputed" tag from the article page. --TommyBoy 07:17, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Joe Maxwell

I have tagged the article you created on Joe Maxwell for lack of cited sources. --TommyBoy 21:35, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:your comment on my talk page

I know, this happened a long while back (February!), and I'm not sure if you remember, but I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget. Anyway, I wrote an article on the school: Smithtown Christian School. Enjoy! :} —EdGl 03:51, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job! It's good to see you've remained involved with Wikipedia. TMS63112 19:22, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yes, more involved than ever; using one of the edit counter things, it shows that I have way more edits this month than any other month - significantly. I'm mostly working on Category:Uncategorized from October 2006, categorizing articles, but also doing other things (my user page has a good summary). See ya around :] —EdGl 03:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Harrington

I thought the Missouri tag was for a sports personality of the same name from that state! Sorry! However, I don't see that this Michael Harrington's life had so much to do with Missouri that the state project should take it up. But I guess that's a matter of judgment. Put it back up if you think it is appropriate; I don't really have a stake in an argument here! Dwalls 03:06, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject St. Louis

Hello, I noticed you've made edits to St. Louis articles or that you are in some way connected to metropolitan area. I thought you might want to become a member of the St. Louis WikiProject. We've recently built the project page and started a drive to improve St. Louis related articles. Please take a look to edit an article or add one of your own. Once an article's status has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate!

Grey Wanderer | Talk 20:57, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pete and Repeat

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Pete and Repeat, 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 Pete and Repeat. Doc^g 16:49, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello TMS63112! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 382 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Bekki Cook - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Tom Zych - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:39, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Missouri

There hasn't been much activity at WikiProject Missouri or any of its child projects lately, and I saw your name on the list of active participants. If you are willing to jump in again, please consider helping to revive the project:

Put {{WikiProject Missouri}} on the talk pages of articles involving Missouri. This helps to categorize articles
Write, cleanup, or expand an article about Missouri
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If you know anyone who might be interested in Missouri (its history, culture, sports, people, places, architecture, etc.), please pass this message along to them! If you are still interested in the project but aren't currently active, please add yourself to the list of inactive participants at the bottom of this list. Thanks!

On behalf of the project, fetchcomms☛ 21:56, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of John Bass

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Upcoming Wikimedia events in Missouri and Kansas!

You're invited to 3 exciting events Wikipedians are planning in your region this June—a tour and meetup at the National Archives in Kansas City, and Wiknics in Wichita and St. Louis:

Kansas City: Saturday, June 16, starting at 9 a.m. — National Archives in Kansas City

This full-day event will include a tour of the facility; presentations from National Archives Wikipedian-in-Residence, Dominic McDevitt-Parks, and Exhibit Specialist, Dee Harris; and time in the research room to work on projects. The focus of the projects will be scanning, writing articles, transcribing, or categorizing images on Commons.

Wikipedians from St. Louis and elsewhere in the region are encouraged to make a day-trip of it and come to Kansas City for this special opportunity!

And two local editions of the Great American Wiknic, the "picnic anyone can edit." Come meet (and geek out with, if you want) your local Wikipedians in a laid-back atmosphere:

Wichita: Saturday, June 23, starting at 1 p.m. — Central Riverside Park

Join the 1st annual Wichita Wiknic: The Sunflower State blooms Free Knowledge!

St. Louis: Saturday, June 23, starting at 11 a.m. — Forest Park Visitors' Center

Join the 2nd annual St Louis Wiknic: The Gateway to the West is now The Gateway to the Wiki!

Message delivered by Dominic·t 20:20, 24 May 2012 (UTC) [reply]

You're invited to Wikipedia Takes St. Louis!

Dust off your Polaroid camera and pack your best lenses. The first-ever Wikipedia Takes St. Louis photo hunt kicks off Sat, Sept. 15, around noon in downtown St. Louis. Tour the streets of the Rome of the West with other Wikipedians and even learn a little St. Louis history. This event is a fun and collaborative way to enhance St. Louis articles with visual content. Novice photographers welcome! Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 06:53, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Files missing description details

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Speedy deletion nomination of Nancy Farmer (disambiguation)

A tag has been placed on Nancy Farmer (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

disambiguates two or fewer extant Wikipedia pages and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title.

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. PamD 08:43, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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File:ItalianImmigrants.JPG listed for discussion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bill Phelps

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A tag has been placed on Bill Phelps requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://www.nevadadailymail.com/story/2427292.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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