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MEELAR: this i mangos2008. i want to let you know why I keep deleting the line you keep putting in about terry mcauliffe but i do not know how to use this talk function wikipedia! thanks

Meelar: I saw your message but this was the way that i found easiest to give you the two points as to why I keep taking out the line that you keep putting in about terry mcauliffe. i worked at the dnc while terry mcauliffe was chairman and 2 points come to mind especially: 1) howard dean said that if terry mcauliffe was going to run as chairman again he, howard dean, would not have. i think that is a clear endorsement of terry mcauliffe's work as chairman. 2) in a national journal hotline poll, that came out right before terry mcauliffe's term finished at the dnc in 2005, members of the dnc gave terry an approval rating of over 90%. Thank you.

Congressional district

I'd be interested in having you take a look at Illinois' 3rd congressional district, due to a remark you made here. I've got more to do on the article (including historical boundaries, earlier presidential voting, political leanings, etc.), but would be interested in any other suggestions you might have. MisfitToys 00:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Civil Liberties

By the definition of “Civil Liberties” I can see how if you selectively subscribe to court rulings of just the past century you may contend the Second Amendment is not included in “Civil Liberties”, that is to say a liberty enjoyed by individuals. But the most recent circuit court ruling states:

“Miller’s definition of the “Militia,” then, offers further support for the individual right interpretation of the Second Amendment. Attempting to draw a line between the ownership and use of “Arms” for private purposes and the ownership and use of “Arms” for militia purposes would have been an extremely silly exercise on the part of the First Congress if indeed the very survival of the militia depended on men who would bring their commonplace, private arms with them to muster. A ban on the use and ownership of weapons for private purposes, if allowed, would undoubtedly have had a deleterious, if not catastrophic, effect on the readiness of the militia for action. We do not see how one could believe that the First Congress, when crafting the Second Amendment, would have engaged in drawing such a foolish and impractical distinction, and we think the Miller Court recognized as much.

To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad). In addition, the right to keep and bear arms had the important and salutary civic purpose of helping to preserve the citizen militia. The civic purpose was also a political expedient for the Federalists in the First Congress as it served, in part, to placate their Antifederalist opponents. The individual right facilitated militia service by ensuring that citizens would not be barred from keeping the arms they would need when called forth for militia duty. Despite the importance of the Second Amendment’s civic purpose, however, the activities it protects are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual’s enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued or intermittent enrollment in the militia.”

Or to condense: “To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms.”

http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200703/04-7041a.pdf

SHELLY PARKER, ET AL., APPELLANTS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND ADRIAN M. FENTY, MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

If you still contend that the Second Amendment is not a “Civil Liberty” then let us examine the phrase. It is the combination of two words:

Civil: “Of, relating to, or befitting a citizen or citizens.” and Liberty: “The condition of being free from restriction or control.”

Now let us examine the vernacular surrounding this topic, in particular the phrase “Gun Control”. This phrase refers to the control, expressed in laws exerted over the people. It in no way refers to actions that solely affect inanimate objects, but instead, laws that define legal and illegal “actions” of people. Now we test the definition of “Gun Control” by asking: Do these laws affect (“Civil”) “Of, relating to, or befitting a citizen or citizens.” and do they also affect (“Liberty”) “The condition of being free from restriction or control.” The outcome of this test is clear.

The United States Department of Justice has recently adopted the individual right model. See Op. Off. of Legal Counsel, “Whether the Second Amendment Secures an Individual Right” (2004) available at http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.pdf; see also Memorandum from John Ashcroft, Attorney General, to All United States’ Attorneys (Nov. 9, 2001), reprinted in Br. for the United States in Opposition at 26, Emerson, 536 U.S. 907 (No. 01-8780).

“No mere exercise of the art of lexicography can alter the essential nature of an act or a thing;...” ---- United States v. La Franca, 282 U.S. 568, 572 [51 S.Ct. 278, 280, 75 L.Ed. 551] ... (1931)

Those not for “Civil Liberties” can wordsmith all day long and try to selectively redefine the term “the People” as found in The Second Amendment, as passed by the House and Senate and later ratified by the States, but you cannot “alter the essential nature of an act or a thing”.

Those not for “Civil Liberties” can attempt “Gun Control” by taxation or other hidden methods but they cannot “alter the essential nature of an act or a thing”.

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.64.0.252 (talk) 00:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC).--199.64.0.252 00:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Featured article review of Supreme Court of the United States

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Andrew Manatos

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Advice needed about preferences resetting

Hello Meelar, I am writing you because you welcomed me here some 3,5 years ago. I have not been very active here lately because I am busy with a wiki that we managed to run with colleagues from the ecological NGO where I work: Neotrópicos, we are a very small group and for the time being we have no WikiSysop, therefore my request for help. Today I tried to change the skin in the preferences panel. I had standard and changed to Monobook but it did not work. I got the following message: "Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class SkinMonoBook in /home/vhosts/wiki.neotropicos.org/public_html/mediawiki-1.4.0/skins/MonoBookNvo.php on line 33". Is there an easy way for a user to change back his preferences? The usual way does not work because as soon as I sign in I got the above cited message. Could you give me a hand? If not could you recommend someone who can? I truly appreciate your help. Our wiki requires ID and password to edit, I could supply one if needed. Thank you. Lcgarcia 04:30, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

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DC Meetup notice

Greetings. There is going to be a Washington DC Wikipedia meetup on next Saturday, July 21st at 5pm in DC. Since you are listed in Category:Wikipedians in the District of Columbia, I thought I'd invite you to come. I'm sorry about the short notice for the meeting. Hopefully we'll do somewhat better in that regard next time. If you can't come but want to make sure that you are informed of future meetings be sure to list yourself under "but let me know about future events", and if you don't want to get any future direct notices (like this one), you can list yourself under "I'm not interested in attending any others either" on the DC meetup page. --Gmaxwell 16:13, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

List_of_songs_about_masturbation is in it's 5th AfD

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Scarab

Hello! I saw that you'd put up the photo of the scarab and I was wondering if it was yours or not. I have one of my own, but I really have no idea how legitimate it is. Up until now, I couldn't find anything that even remotely resembled it until this picture and I've started to wonder if it's really the real thing. Even so, 550BC is really late for the egyptian period and if anything I think that what I have would be from around there since the styles seem similar. Anyway, anything you could tell me would be great. :D My email's fs_aeryn_talyn@yahoo.com . Thank you! Tsukiakari 21:41, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

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request for comment on Hugh Hefner

Please take the time to go to Hugh Hefner's talkpage [1] and respond to the request for comment on what jerrygraf is trying to add that does not belong on Hugh Hefner's page, but belongs on PEI's, as well as the part I deleted is ment as a "controversial comment on the biography of a living person"Rogue Gremlin 04:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Jim_wright.jpg

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River Wreake

Thanks for editing the page without removin the new content (e.g. the photo) that I added under a different IP, or removing the additional fish I added to the list. While me adding an original photo and listing fish that I actually saw while swimming in it would seem pretty damn logical to me, usually I get people deleting stuff wildly for what seems to me to be hysterical reasons. So, thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.227.11.233 (talk) 13:38, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

DC meetup #3

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Featured List of the Day Experiment

There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 21:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

LOTD experiment

My userpage List of the Day experiment is getting under way at WP:LOTD. One of your lists has been nominated. I invite you to come by and represent it. If you would like to represent your list article please reformat your username in the table so it is normal sized. Among the things you may want to do to represent your list are:

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2. Add talk page projects to the list and then add them on the summary table
3. Write a summary of the article in less than 500 characters. I will begin doing this later today for those who don't do it themselves.
4. Participate in the feed back process when it starts on December 1.
5. Participate in the voting when it starts on December 11.

You are free to remain uninvolved. Your list was chosen for being among the first [[WP:FL]s ever created.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 19:05, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

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Asking for your help (and permission)

Hi. I have one question. It is about question for admin candidates that you created ([2]).

This is a long time ago, and it eventually made it into Japanese Wikipedia, where people used it (with translation and modification) as one of the questions for admin candidates, as well as Bureaucrat and CheckUser candidates. As a Japanese Wikipedian, I thank you for your contribution to Japanese Wikipedia. :-)

Now the problem is that it turned out that your contribution was not properly attributed, although GFDL requires certain form of attribution. And your contribution was used (with translation and sometimes modification) through a template and "subst:" which apparently is not within the scope of GFDL's permission.

Some Japanese Wikipedians took notice and have been discussing what to do.

I am wondering if you are so kind as to allow us to keep benefiting from your contribution. That means not deleting all the pages with the translated (and modified in some cases) question, although they lack proper attribution to you as an original author. It also means that we might use the question for some templates with the subst: method.

I recognize that you dedicate many of your textual contributions to the public domain. And it might apply to this question as well. But technically speaking, you first posted the question to a talk page, which you specify as exempted from the public domain dedication. So I thought I should better ask your opinion than rely on my own guess.

Please let me know if you need more details for any part of this. And thank you very much for your attention!

Tomos (talk) 23:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Clinton Recession

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Please help. I have attached the image as requested so it is no longer an orphaned image. As it is a logo represeting a company of which I have written an article about and according to the reason listed I firmly believe that it should be included. please don't delete it. Touristfan (talk)touristfanTouristfan (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 12:38, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

DC Meetup on May 17th

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Terry McAuliffe

Could I ask you to look over the article? The added material is sourced and while not perfectly NPOV, it can be worked on rather than blanket reverted. GoldDragon (talk) 01:19, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia meetup

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List of United States Senate committees

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WP:CHICAGO

According to my records, you have nominated at least one article (Barack Obama) that includes a category at WP:CHIBOTCATS and that has been promoted to WP:FA, WP:FL or WP:GA. You are not signed up as an active member of WP:CHICAGO. If you consider yourself either an active or semi-active member of the project please sign up as such at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/members. Also, if you are a member, be aware of Wikipedia:Meetup/Chicago 3 and be advised that the project is now trying to keep all the project's WP:PR, WP:FAC, WP:FAR, WP:GAR, WP:GAC WP:FLC, WP:FLRC, WP:FTC, WP:FPOC, WP:FPC, and WP:AFD discussion pages in one location at the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Review page. Please help add any discussion you are aware of at this location.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:58, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

You're invited...

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I have nominated Barack Obama for Featured Article Review. You are welcome to paerticipate in the discussion. Curious bystander (talk) 23:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

US Constitution FAR

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Are You With Me

With regard to the image, i was creating the article, to include the image. Billy4kate (talk)

How to fix the picture

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Michael Tippett

The inclusion of Michael Tippett in the directory was rejected on the basis of notability and yet Mr. Tippett is the subject of numerous media reports and is the founder of NowPublic (which does have a wikipedia entry). Here is a record of the news accounts of Mr. Tippett: http://news.google.ca/archivesearch?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&tab=wn&hl=en&q=michael+tippett+nowpublic&ie=UTF-8 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.82.133.146 (talk) 01:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

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Barack Obama

Just looking back at how the article began. :-) Flatterworld (talk) 08:26, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

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DC Meetup Events: You're invited!

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Dates

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Barack Obama FAR

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D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009

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Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16

The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting an all-day Academy at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, July 16. The team that will be teaching at the Academy, a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is looking for four more volunteers to be teaching assistants, providing one-to-one assistance in workshops whenever a workshop participant has a problem following the instructional directions. (We currently have two editors signed up as teaching assistants, and are looking for a total of six.)

The NIH editing workshops are only for two hours, but volunteers are asked to meet the Wikimedia Foundation team at the hotel in Bethesda at about 7:15 a.m. (time to be finalized shortly) and to stay for the entire day, which ends at 4:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. (The full schedule can be found here.)

The team is not necessarily looking for expert editors (though they are welcome), just people who can help novices who might get stuck when trying to do some basic things. If you've been an editor for at least 3 months, and have done at least 500 edits, you probably qualify.

If you're interested, please send John Broughton an email. If you might be interested, but would like further information, please post a note on his user talk page, so that he can respond there, and others can see what was asked.

(You have received this posting because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland or DC. --EdwardsBot (talk) 04:18, 10 July 2009 (UTC))

Jody Dunn

Hi there. Back in 2005, you argued to keep this article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jody Dunn. However, Wikipedia has changed since then, and I believe she no longer meets our standards for inclusion. I have re-nominated the article for deletion; your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jody Dunn (2nd nomination). Robofish (talk) 23:01, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, September 26

The 8th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, September 26, starting at 6 p.m. The event will be at Burma Restaurant (740 6th St, NW near the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station). For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 8. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.) --EdwardsBot (talk) 07:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Meelar! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 3 of the articles that you created are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 355 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Louis Black - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
2. Jim Jordan (political consultant) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
3. Dan Miller (Canadian politician) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 18:27, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

FAR

You created the article, Barack Obama. I think it is decent but not up to FA standards so I put it up for review. Maybe it can be improved enough to keep it or, if it is delisted, there can be a cooperative effort to fix it. A UT professor (talk) 01:12, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:NASA swimming pool.jpg

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Articles for deletion nomination of Dan Miller (guitarist)

I have nominated Dan Miller (guitarist), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Miller (guitarist). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Guy (Help!) 20:30, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Campus Ambassador?

Hi there, I'm LiAnna Davis, the communications associate for the Wikimedia Foundation's new Public Policy Initiative. We are currently looking for dedicated Wikipedians near the George Washington University and Georgetown University areas to serve as Campus Ambassadors, and I hope you might be interested.

Volunteer Campus Ambassadors will provide face-to-face training and support for professors and students on Wikipedia-related skills, such as how to create new articles, how to add images, how the talk pages work, etc. If you're especially enthusiastic and know people on campus, you can set up Wikipedia-related student groups and organize "Welcome to Wikipedia" social events.

More details about the Wikipedia Campus Ambassador role can be found at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Campus_Ambassador.

The estimated time commitment for this role is 3-5 hours a week, possibly slightly more at the very beginning and very end of the semester. The Wikimedia Foundation will hold a mandatory three-day training for all Campus Ambassadors in August, and will continue to stay in contact with and offer full support for the Campus Ambassadors throughout the academic semester.

Please let us know if this is something that sounds interesting to you or if you know of any other Wikipedians near George Washington or Georgetown who could help out. Feel free to respond on Annie Lin's talk page or email her at alin@wikimedia.org (Annie is our Campus Team Coordinator).--Ldavis (Public Policy) (talk) 21:17, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Hurricane G

The article Hurricane G has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Thin assertions of notability but no reliable sources, and I can't find any to indicate this person is a notable musician.

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Wikipedia DC Meetup, October 23

You are invited to Wikipedia DC Meetup #12 on Saturday, October 23, 6pm at Bertucci's in Foggy Bottom. Special guests at this meetup will include Wikimedia CTO Danese Cooper, other Wikimedia technical staff and volunteer developers who will be in DC for Hack-A-Ton DC. Please RSVP on the meetup page.

You can remove your name from the Washington DC Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List.

To keep up-to-date on local events, you can also join our mailing list.
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Proposed deletion of Christopher Wilson

The article Christopher Wilson has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The subject appears not to meet Wikipedia's notability criteria.

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Wikipedia DC Meetup 13

You are invited to Wikipedia DC Meetup #13 on Wednesday, November 17, from 7 to 9 pm, location to be determined (but near a Metro station in DC).

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You can remove your name from future notifications of Washington DC Meetups by editing this page: Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Invite/List.
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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Meelar/archive 12! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 04:08, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiXDC: Wikipedia 10th Birthday!

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

You are invited to WikiXDC, a special meetup event and celebration on Saturday, January 22 hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration in downtown Washington, D.C.

• Date: January 22, 2011 (tentatively 9:30 AM - 5 PM)
• Location: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), downtown building, Pennsylvania Avenue & 7th St NW.
• Description: There will be a behind-the-scenes tour of the National Archives and you will learn more about what NARA does. We will also have a mini-film screening featuring FedFlix videos along with a special message from Jimmy Wales. In the afternoon, there will be lightning talks by Wikimedians (signup to speak), wiki-trivia, and cupcakes to celebrate!
• Details & RSVP: Details about the event are on our Washington, DC tenwiki page.

Please RSVP soon as possible, as there likely will be a cap on number of attendees that NARA can accommodate.

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Wikimania 2012 bid, DC chapter & next meetup!

1. At WikiXDC in January, User:Harej proposed that DC submit a bid to host Wikimania 2012. A bid and organizing committee is being formed and seeks additional volunteers to help. Please look at our bid page and sign up if you want to help out. You can also signup for the bid team's email list.
2. To support the Wikimania bid, more events like WikiXDC, and outreach activities like collaborations with the Smithsonian (ongoing) and National Archives, there also has been discussion of forming Wikimedia DC, as an official Wikimedia chapter. You can express interest and contribute to chapter discussions on the Wikimedia DC Meta-Wiki pages.
3. To discuss all this and meet up with special guest, Dutch Wikipedian User:Kim Bruning, there will be a meetup, Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 16 this Tuesday at 7pm, at Capitol City Brewery, Metro Center. There will be a pre-meetup Wikimania team meeting at 6pm at the same location.

Apologies for the short notice for this meetup, but let's discuss when, where & what for DC Meetup #17. Also, if you haven't yet, please join wikimedia-dc mailing list to stay informed. Cheers, User:Aude (talk)

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DC Meetup: May 7 @ Tenleytown Library

The next DC Wikimedia meetup is scheduled for Saturday, May 7, 3:30-5:30 pm at the Tenleytown Library (adjacent to the Tenleytown Metro Station, Red Line), followed by dinner & socializing at some nearby place.

This is the first official meeting of our proposed Wikimedia DC chapter, with discussion of bylaws and next steps. Other agenda items include, update everyone on our successful Wikimania bid and next steps in the planning process, discuss upcoming activities that we want to do over the summer and fall, and more.

Please RSVP here and see a list of additional tentatively planned meetups & activities for late May & June on the Wikipedia:Meetup/DC page.

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FYI

Hey, you had previously contributed a helpful edit to the article on the book Skipping Towards Gomorrah. Just an FYI that I have recently expanded the article with additional sourced information, you may be interested in it. Also, I recently created a new article by the same author, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist. If you have any suggestions or ideas for additional secondary sources, please don't hesitate to stop by the articles talkpages. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt (talk) 18:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you, for your helpful edit to the article I recently expanded, Skipping Towards Gomorrah. Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 23:32, 26 May 2011 (UTC)