User talk:Kablammo

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		For hard work in bringing the Minnesota article to FA status Atom 14:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Use of article talk pages

Hi and welcome! I notice on passenger ship you added some in-depth material to the talk page and referred to it from the article. Typically however we use the talk page for arguing^Wdiscussion about the article, with editors as the expected audience, and not for additional reader-suitable material that expands on the article content. In this case your interesting bit about displacement is perfectly appropriate to include in the article; if the article were 5,000 words it might be considered to be getting long, but it's quite a ways from there still! Stan 12:37, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Request

Since you got talent on writing, can you fix up the ocean liner article, right now it sucked. I put up a very rough article on discussion. All they learned from current article is titanic sunked, Mauritania is luxuirous...now what happend to Britannia, Brunell?

Thank you-- I reply on Ocean Liner discussion page. Kablammo 10:19, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota

Thank you for the your contribs to Minnesota! Currently Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota is working on getting the article to Featured article status, so your continued help would be apprecated! -03:46, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Culture

Go ahead! Sounds like a good idea. Feel free to do whatever you want to stuff I write. You are an excellent copy-writer so I feel the matieral is in good hands with you. THe section I added was almost word for word from the Minneapolis-st.paul article so its not even really "mine". Also do you have any comments about the message I left at Talk:Minnesota? This one: "Re: "Make "Education" section a subsection"... How about "Social issues" with Education, Health, Crime, and Social Welfare under it? -Ravedave 18:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)" -Ravedave 20:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Unblock

Unblocked. I'm guessing this is a major case of misclicking by Tony. If not, then he will revert me. --Golbez 01:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Kablammo 01:12, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

block

I'm in IRC seeing if I can get you help. This is pretty rediculous. -Ravedave 01:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

You are unblocked. -Ravedave 01:11, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I can't apologise enough. I meant to block the guy who was plaguing Walabio and got the wrong edit in my history list. I tried to undo your autoblock and the username block but it looks as if Golbez beat me to it. --Tony Sidaway 01:12, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks to you all. No harm was intended, and therefore no hard feelings. Our work is about the work, and not about us. Kablammo 01:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

History of MN help

You seem to be pretty good at summarizing. Could you summarize History of Minnesota for the head of the article and inclusion in Minnesota? Thanks! -Ravedave 04:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Here's a copy of the message I sent to Ravedave:

As far as moving my section to History of Minnesota goes, that's fine. The previous article in that space needed a lot of work. (Expanding it will probably end up being my next project, I think.) My only real concern is that the main Minnesota article should have a decent summary of the history of Minnesota that summarizes the main topics of what made the state what it is now. If possible, it should also have the citations from the new subarticle, just so people know that the article has citations and isn't made up. I think Kablammo should be able to do that effectively, though -- from what I've seen, he's a good writer. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 12:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I will have a go at it-- I hope w/i next week. Kablammo 23:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Ships

Hey! Maybe you can guide me on this. I just added information for MS Marco Polo and under the "History" section there is a glitch where the [edit] option lays on top of part of the word "cruising". I'm not sure how to realign it, or if I should just wait for a "bot" to come along and do it. I don't know if you've encountered anything like this before. Thanks. --OneCyclone 21:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Duluth external links

Are you being sarcastic? That's what I said on the talk page.--Daveswagon 22:00, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Alright, I trimmed took out the college links (those should be linked to from the pages devoted solely to them), and I removed some broken links as well. Maybe I'll try and thin it out more.--Daveswagon 23:30, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota tbd

Good list, I'll try and think up things to add. I was sorta going for the coordinator thing so I accept :). I really appreciate the work you have done to the article you are much better at writing copy than I am. I seem to be better at organizing and mechanical copy editing, adding refs etc. The refs in the article should mostly be up to date since I added most of them when the article went up for GA status. -Ravedave 01:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Churchill

You say one thing and do another. I placed the text regarding Churchill's involvement in area bombing, and you simply reverted me like some vandal. Wallie 21:49, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Wallie, your changes were not NPOV; I took them out, promptly informed you, and invited you to discuss them on the talk page. You are doing that now and I will conduct further discussions there. Kablammo 21:55, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

I get the feeling that if I put anything up on the talk page critical of Churchill, it will be reverted. Wallie 22:21, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

OK. I can see you are quite reasonable. I think that the area bombing aspect should be mentioned. I will have to do some more research. However, the new version may be bigger. Wallie 23:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Less not more?

I have been checking out WP:FAC lately and I think that Minnesota might need to be trimmed. As much as we might like to cover all of the cool stuff in this state it's just not going to happen, this article will just get longer and longer and longer. So I guess we need to decide on what to cut and work into other sections. Thoughts? -03:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

The article is about the same length now as it was when I first became involved. Where I have edited others' work I have tried to keep rather than delete substance but it may be time to take stuff out. Suggestions for condensing:

Intro-- I can take out a paragraph of materials repeated in article.

Demographics, take out most of the textual laundry list of minorities.

Industry and commerce-- I still have to rewrite and (I hope) shorten a bit.

Energy use-- we may not need all of this.

Entertainment-- this can be compressed to one or two paragraphs. In focuses way to much on recent developments.

Popular culture can be trimmed some.

Courts-- too long.

Politics-- a little too much trivia and recent developments.

I think all of these changes however will only free up room for some of the lacunae still to be filled (discussed on article talk page). Kablammo 15:36, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Leave the intro, its great. I started thinking, maybe we should make "blah in minnesota" for everything. Then we can have nice summary paragrpahs on the minnesota article and won't get cruft from random people inserted into the article. For now I am working over at Featured Article Cantidates for ideas on what FA's really look like. Also I plan on reviwing some of the cities more and trying to think up a comprehensive game plan. This is hard there is just ssooooo much to cover, but it also needs to be fun to read, so excuse my uncertanty in which direction we should go. -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 16:13, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Duluth

I fixed the reference problem. What you needed to do was add <div class="references-small"> <references /> </div> where you wanted the references to be listed (in the references section). I divided the section into "Cited references" and "General references," but some of the ones in the general section should be converted to cited ones (such as the story about the lyching).

I find that using this website citation template: {{cite web|url= |title= |accessdate= |accessmonthday= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate=}} makes creating consistant citations much easier. Just place it where you want the citation number to appear and fill it in (here's the full intructions on that). Just make sure to surround the template with <ref></ref>.

As for the city template, that does not need to be followed to the letter. I believe it's just a general guideline so that every city does not have the same sections in different orders and with different names. Adding extra sections like transportation is no problem and should not need to be included under another section. As the template says, misc sections are usually added towards the bottom. You can try looking to major articles like New York City to see how they did things.

Thanks for taking the time to bring that article into line, I posted that same message on many MN city pages and I'm not aware that anyone else has taken it into consideration.--Daveswagon 23:38, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

footnotes

I would guess it depends on the sentances. I usually move them all to end for readability. They tend to break up the sentance and make it hard to read. (see below). Since oyu can provide as much text as you want with the ref template you could always specify which fact it applies to.

The ref tag should be placed directly after most punctuation marks,[3] without an intervening space.[4] blah blah blah,[5] blah blah blah,[6] finally blah[7]. zippediy doodah[5], zippedy aye[6], blah blah blah[8]

-Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 00:24, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

US Prewar CVs

USS LEXINGTON

My paternal grandfather and a second cousin was among the designers (as a CC and after the treaty, as a CV) of LEXINGTON and SARATOGA. I still have his papers that relate to the construction of both ships. My father served in LEX from 1931 until her loss in 1942. He then served in Sara until her end at Bikini Atoll. I am a Naval Engineer-as well as retired USN.

As for the tonnage: The USN was presented by the problem of the Washington Naval Treaty that stipulated the tonnage and number of warships. (Carriers were limited to two of over 27,000 tons-with a limit of 33,500 tons.) As CC's LEX and Sara were to have been 45,000 tons and it was nearly impossible to have 'reduced' them to 33,000 tons even with the loss of the big guns, deck and side armor. As it was, the "real" tonnage left them with some very minor stability problems that took some time to solve. In addition, the USN lost much new construction to the treaty and was loath to lose even more.

The USN, in wishing to keep the CC hulls to convert to CV's, fudged the numbers in order to 'save' tonnage for future ships (in this case RANGER, the first purpose built carrier) Even with RANGER, tonnage was kept low in order that WASP could also be constructed and "keep" within treaty limits. The USN 'gave' back tonnage by converting LANGLEY to a Seaplane Carrier(AV) which took her off the Treaty stipulations entirely.

The USN kept in mind that carriers were testbeds-and thus a learning experience. Going from LANGLEY to the huge LEXINGTONS was a tremendous leap. The overhauls that LEX and SARA went through (that further increased tonnage) was a result of the lessons learned in but a few short years of operation. The Navy realized that such overhauls would happen as the ships conducted operations and operational data required alterations to be made. By WWII, both ships were creeping closer to 40,000 light displacement and 45-50,000 tons full load. (SARA ended the war at over 50,000 tons) The same applied to RANGER and WASP, as they gained more operation experience, the ships were modified to meet that experience. Most overhauls rarely result in tonnage decreases-they had to have a bit of leeway in that regard.

One last to consider: One way of saving displacement tonnage was by reducing the draft of a ship. LEX was reported to have had a light draft of 31 feet. In reality she had a draft of 32.5 feet. Her full load draft neared 35 feet. Another way was to report bunkerage that was less than accurate (LEX could carry 9,700 tons of fuel oil, thought it was reported she could only carry an absolute maximum of 8,150. In addition, she had to keep some fuel unused to keep her on an even keel due to the large funnel and bridge superstructure) In short, if you report a draft lower, the less the ship displaced.

As a matter of note, the Japanese Navy often 'shorted' reported tonnage figures. Why should the USN (who knew of the Japanese ploy) do any differently?

My apology in taking so long to reply, but my health of late has been less than stellar.

Fuzzypony 04:53, 6 September 2006 (UTC)fuzzypony

USS RANGER, USS WASP

The treaty limits were very liberally interpreted, and the British did cheat a bit. As for RANGER, remember that she was the first purpose built US carrier, so her construction was fairly conservative. The Navy kept in mind that tonnage limits had to be given lip service, so RANGER was kept smaller than they would have liked. In doing so, they actually has extra tonnage to built WASP (and they were again helped by the conversion of LANGLEY) but at a price: RANGER (a fine ship) was not the optimal design due to her size, speed and armor constraints-the same applied to WASP. Still, these ships were invaluable when you consider the practical information that resulted from their service. US carriers really came into their own with the YORKTOWN and ESSEX classes.

In addition to the above, the US followed a logical premise: Best to have more carriers (albeit smaller) than a few large (though not a LEXINGTON or SARATOGA) carriers. The basic all-the-eggs-in-one-basket premise. LEX and SARA ate a lot of tonnage, so economy was the word.

A bit more on LEX and SARA: They often exceeded their "trial" speed. Turbo-Electric drive was a potent (thought expensive, heavy and somewhat finicky) system. When on trials, LEX and SARA met their contract speed while only at 70% power. As far as the Navy was concerned, if the ships met and held (on a four hour full-power trial) their designed speed, they were happy. Good engineering practice hold that you don't push a new engineering plant until it's broken in a bit. Also, the "black gang" had some learning to do as well. Both LEX and SARA could and would exceed 35 knots in service. Of course, the old girls gulped fuel (and feed water) doing so--and the tin-cans usually couldn't keep up!

Fuzzypony 16:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)fuzzypony

On roads, again

Hello. Could you please have a look at this? Once again, we are being told "Minnesota State Highway X" is not a common name, after it was settled in a previous round that it is. Jonathunder 20:02, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Miller-Urey experiment

I noticed you reverted 158.123.160.2 (talk · contribs · count · logs · page moves · block log) quite a few times on the above article, but didn't leave any vandalism warnings on their page. Perhaps next time you would consider leaving warnings? It's a bit hard to stop 'em if they don't know what they're doing is wrong :) Here is a list of the various templates you can leave on the talkpage to warn them. Remember to substitute the templates when using them.

Cheers, — riana_dzasta _{wreak havoc-damage report} 02:47, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

No worries. Admins are usually reluctant to block if there are no warnings on a user's page, so it's best to go through the set of templates (since in this case the IP might have benefited from a soft block). Cheers for not taking that as a disciplinary message or anything like that :) You're doing a good job. See ya 'round, — riana_dzasta _{wreak havoc|damage report} 12:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota

Thanks for starting to edit MN again. I got burned out on the article and I think others did too. I decided to just go for FA, if it's not good enough we can fix it on the way. Are you coming to the Minnesota meetup on October 29th? Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Minneapolis? -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 00:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Reminder: Meetup October 29, one o'clock, Mall of America. Jonathunder 20:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Winston Churchill

I see he went right ahead and posted the allegation a second time after I told him to make his arguments on the talk page. Thanks for following up on it. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 02:30, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Your changes to the CVU article are as pointless as what you deleted.

I was disappointed in the changes that you made to the CVU wiki article. A cursory glance at the article shows that it doesn't have much or any substantial information about CVUHS. If you're going to make arm chair "improvements" to it you might as well delete the entire thing except the link to www.cvuhs.org. Instead you went ahead and self righteously deleted the only thing that made the whole page worth reading. I don't know why, you probably thought you were doing a service to wikipedia. It must be a really dull world where they don't have humor = (. I'm not looking to start an "edit war" with you over this, so I'm asking you to voluntarily return the CVU article to it's version before you changed it. Thanks!

User Sir Smith, who posted the foregoing unsigned comment, must not have looked too closely at the edit history before posting it. Here is the reply I put on User talk:Sir Smith

I received your message. (I see you left the same message to two other editors.)

I am confused. I have reverted a fair number of vandalized articles today. To what article are you referring? If it is to Champlain Valley Union High School, please check the edit histories to see exactly what changes I reverted.[[1]];[[2]] I doubt that the school song has anything to do with eating babies, or raping, pillaging, or burning. If I am in error on this, please provide attribution. If you have confused me with others, perhaps the message should have been left only on their page and not on mine. If you think you have left it on mine in error, maybe you would like to take it off mine. Thank you. Kablammo 22:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Kablammo 15:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Looking for Interviewees

Hello,

I am a freelance writer working on an article about the subculture of people who use Wikipedia the way the rest of us use MySpace. So I’m looking to interview several Wikipedia “addicts” as well as people who, while they don’t consider themselves addicted, do spend a good amount of time on the site editing articles, patrolling for errors, seeking out false articles, fighting for changes they made to be kept in, and otherwise contributing to the site. If you are interested please email me at brianrhodges@gmail.com.

This offer is open to anybody else reading this, not just this particular user. But please, don’t come to me with if you’re hoping I’ll be exposing conspiracies or censorship issues amongst the wikipedia higher-ups. That’s not really what this article is about.

Thanks,

Brian68.39.158.205 22:58, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota

Created Demographics of Minnesota. Have at Minnesota I'll get around to cleanup & expand the sub article eventually. Good to see you editing Minnesota again. -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 04:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

User talk:219.195.212.125

Thanks. I must've hit test2a instead of test 2 by accident. I've changed my warning. SkerHawx 16:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Message from IP 217.149.104.84

How do I talk to you? Are you an automated machine??

Replied on User talk:217.149.104.84 Kablammo 15:14, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

demog

Have at it, I'm going to start working on geography. I just wanted to get rid of the population distro. Maybe the religious part should be put into text. -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 00:50, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Think the population center is worth including? I saw someone else add it to Illinois: [3] -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 23:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

go ahead if you want. You can see it from 94 on the way to St.Cloud -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 01:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

blanking user talk pages

I reported this problem to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents‎ Somebody has been using a series of IP addresses to systematically blank user talk pages--he hit mine User talk:Rjensen a number of times as well as User talk:Hlj User talk:Kablammo and User talk:Luna Santin and probably others

What the targets all have in common is we strongly protested Stevewk who tried repeatedly to remove all the information about the Civil War from the Abraham Lincoln article. Stevewk was given a 3R suspension but may be using sockpuppets to hit editors. Thus he may be using 70.110.174.121 151.197.233.65 70.110.155.238 70.110.174.121 etc. Rjensen 23:40, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Palmer Bus Company

Hi; you deleted this from Transportation in Minnesota. This is a significant operation in Minnesota and needs to be linked to from one of the articles. Please suggest an alternative. TerriersFan 22:49, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota

Thanks for correcting a couple of inaccuracies that developed as a result of my editing. I hope you'll accept them as minor in relation to the goal of sprucing up the text a bit. (Ravedave brought me to this article, requesting a review.) –Outriggr § 01:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Also RE minnesota, Thanks for taking the sports section, the sandbox version looks pretty good! -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 04:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Removed message delivered in error Lmcelhiney 15:11, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Error in Revert...

Hi Kablammo,

So sorry, I take responsibility for this revert and my error message. I'd like to blame VandalProof, but I'll take the hit. Please accept my apology.

Looks like we'd both jumped on it at the same time...

Thanks for your understanding.

Lmcelhiney 15:15, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota Sports

Thanks. You've improved the curling bit. D-Looth 18:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Henry Rines Minn Treasure

thanks for fixing him my fingers got to heavy on the delete keySmith03 01:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

notable alaskans edit

Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.237.160.193 (talk) 03:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC).

Hi.

I'm really sorry for vandalism performed by this account--it's shared by an entire elementary school district.65.124.60.14 16:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Salsa music

I may have missed something. Looks like I reverted to your most recent version, just now, but if you find another version that seems better, feel free. :) Luna Santin 00:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Popups & edit summary

Re: [4]. In a case like that it would probably be good to leave a note for the user or add something in the edit summary explaining why you reverted. Its important to let IP users feel useful so they become regular users. -Ravedave ^{(Adopt a State)} 01:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree, but it wasn't me. Kablammo 03:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

sorry my mistake! -Ravedave ^{(Adopt a State)} 16:24, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

What?

How is that vandalism? This makes no sense. I didn't say nything bad did I? look i dont care anymore.

LINERs

Thank you for your response. I did not know that ships-of-the-line were also called liners. I am going to wait another week before creating a disambiguation page just to gather more feedback. Dr. Submillimeter 15:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Liner is now a disambiguation page. Feel free to add more links. Dr. Submillimeter 16:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Reverting removed warnings

Hey there, when you revert the removal of warnings on a talk page, it'd help if you could also add {{removewarn}} while you're at it. Much appreciated. Cheers! --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

No worries. For a list of templates, take a look at WP:UTM. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:19, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Another tip: When using certain 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. Happy editing... and vandalfighting Rettetast

Template talk:Infobox Commercial Ship

I've been in hospital for a bit, will have to get back to you on this subject later JohnClarknew 18:37, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

QM vs. Normandie

Hey, thanks for the heads up. I've edited the succession box to reflect that. I'll take a look at the Commercial ship template. -Pryaltonian 04:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

RMS Queen Elizabeth picture for article

It seems a shame that there is no picture of this beautiful liner to grace her page (before wreck). Think you can help to get one up that has no copyright problems? I can't find one. JohnClarknew 19:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

RE: Rochester, Minnesota

Sorry, I just thought someone was just putting random hex color codes in the article. My bad. Red Director 17:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note

Thanks for pointing this out to me.Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English is the article I've been looking for for some time. It clears a lot up for me, yet i still feel that there should be a standard english dialect across the whole of wikipedia. However, knowing a lot of americans and aussies, they hold dear to themselves there language and i couldn't be the one to tell them that (possibly) they weren't use their variety of english. I myself would find it a bit rude if i was told to change my spellings, but there you have it. Thanks again, Random articles 22:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Talking about Yanks spellings, i've noticed some blantant and infuriating spellings in my time, thankfully few on wikipedia articles, yet in textbooks and paper encyclopedia from the Collins or Oxford brands, which you cannot edit yourself without writing on the book, something i feel decidedly against doing. In fact, this have inspired me to start to check articles that are decidedly British and correct any american spellings. This shall make me feel better, and make me spend my time more productively (as i currently wander pointlessly through different articles, being no use at all). Thankyou very, very much!!! Random articles 22:36, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Rift valley

Lake Baikal does lie in a rift valley [5]. I think if you read the article on it (which does not do it justice) you would see it is one of the world's great sites. Since it is in Siberia, it does not get much attention. But you do what you like. I'm certainly not going to argue or contest. And I thank you so much for consulting me about it. Sincerely, --Mattisse 01:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your message and for returning the link to rift valley. I agree it was not to the point for the Great Rift Valley article. Sincerely --Mattisse 02:20, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Usage

Right, ok, well Ticket Office is fine but you can also use booth if you wanted. Waiting Room is also good, but on british railways, people wait on the platform, which I'm guessing from dictionary definition is a concourse A concourse possibly could be the passenger bridge over the railway to get to the other platforms, but concourse is not a term in use in britain, so i haven't really heard it before. Train shed is the most common use for this term, but i have seen track hall before, so it's not wrong, but it isn't the first term to come to mind.

Would you mind passing me the link to these articles so i can have a better look at the articles and their spelling. To be honest, there are so many variations on spelling and words and phrases in britain, that there isn't a truly correct version of spelling. However, when wrting articles for to read (such as wikipedia) what is called the Queens English is what is generally excepted as correct english. I hope this helps, Random articles 11:53, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

The word Hall basically means a large structure or room which can hold a large quantity of objects, people etc. In this context, just think of hall as a hanger, slightly smaller, for trains instead of planes.

Thanks for the links, and remember to talk to me about any other spelling mistakes that you find!! Thanks again, Random articles 14:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Discussion about Congress

Would you be so kind as to go here and weigh in on the discussion? Thanks --Appraiser 15:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

WUSTL Project

Template:WikiProjectWUSTLinvite --Lmbstl 11:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

You forgot to sign your user warning at User Talk:12.16.75.130

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! Will (Talk - contribs) 19:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Cable TV commercial spam

Kablammo - I've taken the liberty of trying to summarize the views of the responders thus far to this issue here. Would you be kind enough to double-check my summary of your views, and supplement or correct them as necessary.

It appears that [[User:Bill Clark]] is continuing to argue his points with some tenacity, despite the fact that the responses thus far appear to be leaning firmly against his views.

Thanks for your input on this - frankly, I am worried about "opening the door" to this kind of commercial spam - others will want in as well because the "precedent has been set"! Spamreporter1 07:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[[User:Bill Clark]] has posted still another proposal which in my view is no better than his earlier efforts. Would you be kind enough to offer your observation of this latest? Spamreporter1 18:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Regards to Ship Articles

Just wanted to thank you for the useful links; I have a feeling i'll be using them often. Michael Merali 21:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Independence of the Seas

Hi - no, I've not seen any source. I merely trusted that whomever wrote the Independence of the Seas article knew their information. --G2bambino 16:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Reverting my User Page

Thanks for taking care of the vandalism. Cheers! --EarthPerson 21:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Red River Trail

Thanks for helping out with the History of Minnesota article. I'm not totally sure that the Red River Trail needs to be mentioned in the main article. It doesn't seem to be a core topic within the main references I'm using (the books by Gilman, Lass, and Risjord). I wouldn't have any objection to mentioning it in the article, though.

It's an interesting topic and could deserve an article or at least some expansion within the Red River ox cart article. There are three sections on the National Register of Historic Places (in Crow Wing County, Pennington County, and the Old Wadena Historic District in Wadena County). There are also historic markers along Highway 10 in Detroit Lakes and near Elk River, and I seem to remember reading something about how Highway 10 near St. Cloud follows the route of the trail. Let me know if you start an article like this, and I can help out. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 13:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

• Here's a link to the National Register documentation about the Red River trails. It looks like a pretty thorough description of how the trails evolved, how they were used, and how they were later supplanted by military roads, railroads, and eventually highways. Also, if you haven't checked out the National Register of Historic Places database, it's at [6], and it has a few different query forms and options. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 23:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Height of Land Portage

There appear to be two of these in Minnesota in the national register system. The article is on the one in Cook County. I have revised the infobox you added. Thanks.

I had a heck of a time finding the duplication, until I requeried the National Register database for everything in Cook County. It turns out that the one in Grand Marais is simply named "Height of Land", while the one in Embarrass is named "Height of Land Portage". I was wondering why the database (a copy I downloaded and queried using a PHP infobox generator) was telling me that the city was Embarrass. I should probably add a disambiguation note to the top of the article saying that there's another portage with the same name in Embarrass. Gotta love ambiguous names, I guess. Thanks for catching this. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 14:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I was fortunate enough to search for just "Height of Land" the first time, which yielded both results. I should have mentioned the difference in names. There is a "Height of Land Portage" near Lake Nipissing in Ontario on the Montreal to Grand Portage mainline of the voyageurs. There are others; as height of land is a term for divide any portage crossing a divide could be called by the same name. As articles on these others are added we may want to move this one to Height of Land Portage (Minnesota/Ontario) or something to that effect. But this one appears to be the most famous. Kablammo 02:36, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

By the way, I found the National Register nomination for the portages of Minnesota at [7]. They go into a very comprehensive discussion of how the portages evolved and why they're there, but I think the only actual portage they nominated was the one in Embarrass. If you're in the mood for reading lots and lots of information about portages, this is certainly a place to look. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 14:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)