User talk:Elakazal

Welcome!

Hello Elakazal, and welcome to Wikipedia!

You seem off to an excellent start, and hardly in need of the generic links and suggestions to newcomers! You've mastered the art of signing your name, using edit summaries, discussing your contributions on talk pages, and making good contributions as well. You seem to be putting your botanical knowledge to good use. Do you have an interest in grapes and wine? I have done a little work in the sensory science/psychology aspects...

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page.

Again, welcome! Limegreen 22:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'm still sort of figuring things out here, but I think I've mastered the basics at least.

My background is horticulture, specifically fruit breeding, and I've worked with lots of different species, so I know a bit about quite a few of them. Some of them I'd really like to sit down and work out a major revamp of a few of them (the grape and strawberry pages in particular), but I never seem to have the time to really devote a long while to it. My experience with grapes and wine comes from the breeding standpoint. I've tasted so much bad wine that almost all of itl tastes pretty okay to me at this point. Elakazal 23:24, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to Wine Project

I noticed your valuable contribution regarding taxonomy to the Muscadine article. I hope you will consider joining the Wikipedia Wine Project to perform similar edits on Wikipedia's other wine articles. You're not in Florida by any chance? That's the only place I've tasted Muscadine wine. If you decide to join, please add the tag {{User WikiProject Wine}} on your user page. Thanks! Amatulic 21:56, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gala

Replied Talk:Gala_(apple) :) agapetos_angel 04:41, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Invite

Century Tower

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strawberries

EXCUSE ME STRAWBERRIES ARE MADE OF FLESH PLEASE REVERT YOUR EDITS —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.93.75.102 (talk) 03:42, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Strawberries are indeed made of flesh, however the passage as written refers to how they are consumed, such fresh or frozen. Changing the term to "flesh" makes it an awkward and nonsensical sentence. I stand by the edit. Elakazal (talk) 07:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Onaka (grape)

The article Onaka (grape) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I may be wrong about this, but it looks a little promotional for Nels Hansen. No links, and few refs. Once mirrors of wiki are taken out, I guess around 100 google hits remain, not all for this grape.See discussion on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Onaka (grape)

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 07:54, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Infidel newspapers?

In the original text of the T. V. Munson article that you apparently wrote, there is the sentence "Munson also subscribed to infidel newspapers such as the Blue-grass Blade and occasionally lectured at Freethinker meetings." The phrase "infidel newspapers" has survived unchanged until this very day.

Could you tell me (a native Texan) what you meant by an "infidel newspaper"? There are other adjectives that may be more appropriate for "non-mainstream" newspapers, if that's what you mean.

Thanks...William J. 'Bill' McCalpin (talk) 20:48, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The edit was made by another user, ColonelDavy, and was not present in anything I wrote. I believe the term was used to describe atheist/agnostic publications at the time, and the italics used by ColonelDavy suggest that it is not being used in the standard sense of the word, but, but I don't actually know.

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