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Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Juan María de Salvatierra, 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.

Mexican American Wikiproject

You are pretty active on California and U.S. history topics. You may be interested in the wikiproject some of us are starting. The discussion is on my talkpage.--Rockero 17:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In response to your question about the appropriateness of the title of an ethnic history category: I think Category:Hispanic American history is an adequate and accurate title. Some people object to the term "Hispanic" out of the belief that it connotes or denotes people of pure- or primarily-Spanish ancestry. However, in general, the term is applied to Spanish-speaking people of the Western Hemisphere, regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. So under the subcategory of Hispanic American history, we could have Mexican American history, Puerto Rican American history (for the history of Puerto Ricans living in the continental U.S.), Cuban American history, etc. Echale ganas.--Rockero 14:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)P.S. I've been using the ndash since I read your admonition.[reply]

Image:Los-angeles-oil-rigs.jpg and commons:Image:Los-angeles-oil-rigs.jpg

Please give your sources. --Saperaud 05:46, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cesar Chavez

Nice picture!--Rockero 01:40, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

List_of_New_Hampshire_county_name_etymologies

I don't think there is enough information on this page to warrent its own article. I plan to add the information to the main list of NH counties. See User:Jokermage/NH_County for what I would like the page to look like. Since you are the originator of the County etymology page, I thought I'd request a comment from you. Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 13:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Redirecting the page is the purpose of the merge. There really isn't enough information in that page to justify an unique article. Part of a series or not, the information is far more valuable as part of the greater list of NH Counties. If the page redirects, then no information is lost. Perhaps I could understand your point of view if you explained more about what the purpose of having unique pages for etymologies. Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 19:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I really regret adding {{Project New Hampshire}} to the talk page now. I was trying to be helpful, but I can see you feel that it's untidy. It's not poor New Hampshire's fault that it only has a handful of counties! :) I found this comment somewhat offensive. It implies us WP:NHers are overbearing. Keep in mind I bothered to track you down and ask first, and I still haven't actually touched page other than to put up the merge request. That being said, I'm pretty sure you didn't mean any offense, so don't worry about it. I find etymology interesting in general, but if I wanted to look up the etymology of a county, I would try the county page first. As for the completeness, there are only ten lines, each holding a single fact. If you want to convince me of completeness, then provide more information about the subject (how they decided on that name, what other names were proposed, etc.). If you want, you can remove the merge request from the etymology list, but I intend on leaving the merge from on the county list until I hear more from others in the WP:NH. Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 20:03, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I didn't even notice the chaos. Lately I've been working on WikiProject Chicago. But today on my user sandbox I started forming a list of the U.S. coutnies by population so I'm working my way back to the county pages. Dralwik 20:16, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I removed the merge request altogether. I've got enough work on my plate with New Hampshire Historical Markers and town maps. I really don't need to go around making more work for myself. Jokermage ^{"Timor Mentum Occidit"} 20:19, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summary request

Hi Jengod. I would like to ask you a favor. Namely, I would like to ask you to put an edit summary when you contribute. And edit summary really helps others understand what you changed, and looks very good on the watchlist. Think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email.

Also, it is good if your edit summaries are accurate. For example, in this edit, you started a new topic, but you used the default edit summary from the section before that, which is a bit confusing. Anyway I hope you don't mind providing an edit summary. You can follow that link for a longer explanation for why it is good to do. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:49, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User:Jengod/Topics in LAAZ

I hope that you didn't mind me doing some editing on User:Jengod/Topics in LAAZ. I used two new symbols in editing that page. Following your usage of >> to indicate going from a more general topic to a more restricted topic, I used << to indicate going the other direction. Then based upon = to indicate equivalence, I used ≠ when the topic was not a redirect to the expected Wikipedia acticle (e.g. Antelope, Agua Dulce, Alhambra), whether they were disambiguation pages or on other topics. ^Blank ^Verse

Anything to edit a page that is highly unlikely to be hit with vandalism. ;-)

I'm getting rather depressed about all the vandalism, bigotry, POV-pushing, nonsense, poorly written substubs, ad nauseam, that can be found on the Wikipedia. I've told myself that after I hit 7,500 edits I'm going to take a wikibreak. ^Blank ^Verse 00:33, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

List of high schools in Los Angeles County, California

When you wikified the LAUSD section at List of high schools in Los Angeles County, California, you probably should have checked the LAUSD article, since for that article I've fixed the links for all the schools that went to disambiguation pages (e.g. Venice High School). The LAUSD section of that article should probably just be replace with a note to see the LAUSD article so that there is only one place listing all of the LAUSD schools, and the same thing for any other school districts that already have a complete list (e.g. Long Beach Unified School District). ^Blank ^Verse 00:05, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern California/Los Angeles County to do

I don't understand some of what you did in your editing on that page. Yes, I agree that the page needed some pruning since some the articles had been created and already grown to adequate size (e.g. KKJZ), but you also deleted some articles that were still stubs or were still small and in need of improvement. I also don't understand why you turned to LA neighborhoods into a l-o-n-g list. I was trying to keep down the length of that page so you could see most of it in a couple of screen views. ^Blank ^Verse 01:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Panama Canal peer review

I thought you would be interested to know that Panama Canal is up for a peer review. Comments welcome. — Johantheghost 15:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I thought you might be interested to know that I've put Panama Canal up for FA status. Feel free to comment or vote. — Johantheghost 16:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Thanks for your kind message, it's always nice to get a little praise now and again :) Seasons greetings. --Cactus.man ✍ 14:45, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK updation

Hi, thanks for updating DYK. However, please delete the suggestions from the template talk once you move them to the template; else, the next or the following updaters may include them by mistake. Season's greetings --Gurubrahma 06:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

==Re:Thank you!==

Aha. Hadn't found that. Nice one. akaDruid 09:23, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, DYK updation and reversion of an edit

Hi Jengod, Best wishes for a happy new year. Further to your DYK updation, I noticed the following oversights (apart from the one above) and hence, thought that I should let you know so that you can update perfectly the next time around. 1. The image description remained Moika River. While the description is not visible on the main page or the template, it is visible when the cursor of the mouse is moved over the image. People who do so may be confused as to why the peak is called a river. I too made a similar mistake previously, but detected it luckily in the preview mode. 2. You did not update the time it has to be updated in the template talk. A danger with this is that the next admin may not actually see when you uploaded it and simply go by the time on that page, thus undoing your update within the six hours. I would like to thank you for copy-editing the DYK template regularly. btw, you may be interested in having a look at [1] where I was discussing this admin's reversion of your edit. --Gurubrahma 10:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of "cite your sources" to stub templates

Hello. I notice that you have been adding the above to a number of stub templates. I'm not sure whether it is necessary. I have started a discussion about it here and would appreciate your input. --TheParanoidOne 13:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I'd strongly recommend that you stop altering large numbers of stubs without consulting other users first. You have changed almost 150 stubs! If you wish to see a general change of policy regarding the design of stubs, please consult the relevant forums first, e.g. Stub sorting (WP:WSS). I'm removing your edits to the politician-stubs (although I can't access US-politician-stub, and UK-politician-stub; since both are on the "protected" list). Please don't restore your edits unless a consensus is reached to do so.--Valentinian 15:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Thanks for removing the addition to the stubs (you've missed US-politician-stub, btw.) If you wish to see a general change in stub layouts, feel free to discuss it at WP:WSS. --Valentinian 18:59, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please revert your recent change to ref

Your recent change to the protected template {{ref}} does not render well. Things appear as if there is a space and a newline after the template invocation. -- Emact 01:33, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And Note label!

Look, e.g., at CPU end or any other Harvard-style reference list. It's ugly. BACbKA 01:40, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please revert Template:Note as well

It is acting very strange on the pages. Because the number fails to work and it goes to courier. Please revert it. KittenKlub 01:37, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Still not reverted. Thousands of pages don't render correctly now. You've made the name Jengod well-known. patsw 01:41, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry!!! They should be all reverted now! jengod 01:42, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies to everyone. I love note, ref, note label and ref label. I was using the code recommended on the Category:Citation templates. My bad. jengod 01:43, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It is probably a newline which breaks like

Because it interpreted the space as a space in the beginning of a line

So you might want to test it without any lines between the Template and the

<noinclude></noinclude>

KittenKlub 01:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'll keep my grubby hands to myself for now. :P jengod 01:46, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the revert. Better luck next time... :-) BACbKA 01:48, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Since you seem like a nice guy who knows a lot about citing

Can you do me a favour and explain the meaning behind WP:CITE to a user. I notice that somebody ( User:Yamla ) is very quick with the revert button on changes on a page ( Kelis ) I had on watch. Since you broke that page the last time ;) (j/k) Seriously a new user has been editing and the user already had the misfortune of sharing an IP with a vandal, but the contributions keep on being reverted as WP:CITE and they are pretty good addition and I think we have a potential new user which needs to learn some stuff, but should also be given the benefit of the doubt.

I already tried talking to the user but it was ignored and the users just continued to revert and in the history there are countless reverts and calling people vandals and like the last addition, making a good faith first edit [2] and then being issued a vandalism warning (test2 as well). Since you are an admin and an expert on the citing, can you explain that reverting is for disputes because it sounds like somebody is policing a number of topics and it is more likely to scare away users by coming on very strong.

In the meantime Yamla keeps on shouting and I think those edits are harming the project. KittenKlub 18:40, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to invite your further comments on my talk page (in about ten minutes). Thanks. --Yamla 05:04, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oregon State Beavers logo

Just want to inform you that I nominiated your Image:Osu-beavers.jpg for speedy deletion because I uploaded Image:Oregon-State-athletic-logo.png which is a PNG version. It is best not to use JPEGs for logos due to it produces compression artifacts. --J. Nguyen 17:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:California-politician-stub

Thanks for your edit to the above template. I was making wild guesses about the best politician for the various states. I was going to go with Reagan, but he was a bit too national. Fremont appealed to the history nerd in me, but the photo of Ahhhnold looks better. My main goal was to shake things up and have a little fun, all while giving a little bit of context to those browsing political stubs. Thanks for contributing to my mini-project and keep up the good work, especially on the name etymologies. Cheers. Youngamerican 01:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Arizona CSA

I responded to your query.evrik 05:58, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK missing one...

Hello Jengod! To fill in the gap in the DYK for now, could you perhaps use one of the entries discarded by User:Gurubrahma upon his last update?

My favorite is my nomination of course :)

...the Old New Year is a traditional Russian holiday and by many, the coming of the New Year is celebrated in Russia twice?

-- but of course there are other interesting facts which could be used, for example this entry by User:Wsiegmund:

...that the Boulder Glacier on Mount Baker in the Cascade Range of North America has retreated 430 meters between 1980 and 2003?

Regards - and Happy Old New Year! :) - Introvert 19:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a ton...

...for removing the copyvio-ed DYK entry and replacing it with a new one. I was off after updating DYK as it was past the bedtime here. --Gurubrahma 06:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Epaminondas

As per your note on my talk page, just dropping you a reminder note about copyediting Epaminondas. Thanks for offering to help. --Robth^Talk 22:19, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

North American area codes

Uncle G's major work 'bot is about to move another ... er ... small hill. But a consensus is required on the naming scheme to be employed. Please review Category:Greek Area Codes, Category:United Kingdom area codes, and Category:North American area codes, and then contribute to the discussion at Talk:North American Numbering Plan#US-centric_area_code_page_titles. Uncle G 21:11, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is expansion of the Did You Know project possible?

Hi. I noticed you are somewhat active in the Did You Know template project. I couldn't find a discussion page for that template, as it looked like the default talk page was being used for operations. So I hope you don't mind me contacting you directly...

One of the concepts being explored at the Main Page Redesign Project is expanding coverage for both the Picture of the Day (POTD) and Did You Know (DYK) to seven days per week. One of the Main Page Redesigns we have produced already has support for displaying both of these features separately. POTD is already produced 7 days per week, and so is being displayed in that Redesign every day. Note that users may start adopting the Redesigns for use on their user pages, even if they don't become the new Main Page. DYK is currently only produced 5 days per week, and so its display remains static on weekends.

We have just started a new round of voting, and of course I'm championing the version with the most upgrades, including DYK.

The reason I am contacting you is that this version has unexpectedly taken an early lead in the race, and so it is possible that it could be adopted as the new main page. I thought I better start looking into what needs to be done to get it fully supported in case it does win. On retrospect, I realize that I should have contacted you guys at the start to give you an opportunity to support this concept.

I was wondering if the DYK team would be interested in and up to the task of keeping the DYK project active on weekends? Perhaps even this weekend? The main question is "Would you like the Main Page to support the DYK feature 7 days per week?" It is much more likely to happen if that support is already in place.

I invite you to become familiar with our project. Come take a look at what we've accomplished so far, and feel free to join in on the fun.

Sincerely,
--Go for it! 11:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Culver-city-sign-by-freeway.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Culver-city-sign-by-freeway.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

dbenbenn | talk 23:56, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for assistance: Please place this notice at the top of the Main Page:

Voting for the new Main Page has begun! There are several candidates to choose from. Voting ends January 28th. To see the candidates, CLICK HERE

If you think the voting time should be extended another week, feel free to change the ending date to February 4th.

Thank you. --Go for it! 23:58, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tooth development FAC vote

I am very, very late for this. Almost embarassingly late. Nonetheless, I did want to thank you for your vote of support for Tooth development as a Featured Article. It was nice to see the support for the article. Thank you once again! - Dozenist talk 20:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

vote here keep

exscuse me but also Muriel has done this trying to get people to delete this article important for a monarchic branch. This is a democratic encyclopedia and so this page has right to stay here : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rosario Poidimani (3 nomination). Regards, M.deSousa 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Californiapostcard.jpg

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