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Mark in Historic Triangle of Virginia (talk) 07:01, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I looked up the article on lost counties, towns, etc. in VA and found it quite interesting. I got there after looking at the article on Kopp. I found it to be very interesting.

Incidentally, I'm familiar with Wash Woods, and I think the term comes from trees which are eroded from the dunes in N. Currituck Banks/False Cape area. The general movement of the banks, from wind erosion of dunes, is to the west. Thickets of live oak have been buried by dunes centuries ago, and eventually the dune moves even further west, exposing the dead trees on the ocean beach, hence "Wash Woods."

John

Submarine article

Hi there. I was wondering if you could put in proper references, because the article is actually very interesting and I would be willing to have it late. Thanks, Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 07:38, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi thanks for all the hard work.Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 02:50, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

On May 30, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Aluminaut, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

It says that you are not accepting email. Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 04:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Virginia Newsletter - May 2007

The May 2007 issue of the Virginia WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.--Kubigula (talk) 02:56, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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You posted a message about Image:Fp82435a.jpg. This photo is from Florida Photographic Collection, and is

(as is all of the collection). I hope that satisfies your concern(s). Vaoverland 12:14, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Not all photos from the Florida Photographic Collection are in the public domain, see Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_May_6#Template:Flphoto. Yonatan ^talk 15:29, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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People from Illinois

As I was going through Category:People from Illinois, I noticed that your user name is in there. Did you mean to put it in Category:Wikipedians in Illinois instead? The "People" categories are normally just for articles.--Kranar drogin 01:32, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter - Issue 9

The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 9	9 June 2007	About the Newsletter
Departments: Features: State updates Project news Highways notability guideline? California Deletion debates Portal debate Maryland Featured member Three new GAs From the editors Exit list debates
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Lee

Mark, Could you help with an admin task? Someone has once again mucked around with Robert E. Lee by renaming it and making 1,000s of links go to a disambiguation page. Thanks, Hal Jespersen 14:04, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

wow, you are right, what a mess! I think it is now done ... Mark

Thanks much. Sometimes reversing name changes is difficult for the unprivileged user. Hal Jespersen 01:46, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Bus Company Ownership

I am attempting to locate a cousin that supposedly owned with her husband a school bus company in Virginia. Her maiden name was Joetta Stratton and she was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. I understand that they either sold or closed the company and now live in Florida. Since you indicated that you were a part owner of the Overland company perhaps you may have met her. I am sorry but I do not have her married name. Thanks for any help. Bill Liles wpl1@pacbell.net

I have responded directly to this request via e-mail this morning. Mark in Historic Triangle of Virginia, Vaoverland 11:47, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

High Bridge Trail State Park

Hey Mark, long time no see. I just created an article stub for High Bridge Trail State Park and I thought you could give a little more train history/context to the 31 miles of Norfolk southern bed that was just donated. Peace, MPS 15:56, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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Price's Turnpike and Cumberland Gap Road

Do you know the details of this road, a state-financed turnpike, between Cumberland Gap and Tazewell? Thank you. You may also be interested in helping with List of turnpikes in Virginia and West Virginia. --NE2 10:44, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

In 1928, the Department of Highways made a map of the former turnpikes; if you can find this (and, if possible, get copies and/or scan it in), it would be very helpful. --NE2 20:23, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter - Issue 10

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Virginia Barnstar

Howdy, Vaoverland! At the advice of Kubigula, I'm giving you the Virginia Barnstar for Excellence, in appreciation of all the work you've done on Virginia related articles. Congratulations.

For extensive work on Virginia articles.

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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_Virginia, 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 22:07, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Split

I hope you do split the article; however, the information you posted is not relevant to dogfighting in general it is the US, so it would have to be removed or the article will become to long. In addition, you might want to add title to your references rather than just leaving the link in it's full form. Good luck. PianoKeys 20:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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adult add

how can one possibly document childhood adhd symptoms where do you get these criteria, in addition what makes you think everyone is the same for adult add

REPLY: I make no claim to have any professional qualifications. I am an adult who was first diagnosed with AADD (or ADHD if you prefer to call it that) in 1995 at age 44. Here is my best shot at answering you:

1. The Wikipedia article about the condition in adults is very incomplete. Some Wikipedians feel the condition as it occurs with adults should not be in a separate article. You have to go to the Wikipedia article for Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder also and put the pieces together to make any sense of the condition in adults.

2. The criteria in the United States are established by the mental health professionals and set forth in what they call the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR).

3. A lot of folks are not even considered for diagnosis until they are adults. Most people have some information available from childhood, if not medical, then behavioral. Other people are better observers than we are ourselves, but I personally have never met anyone with adult ADD who, upon thinking back and recalling their childhood, didn't think that they would have met the diagnostic criteria as a child.

4. Regarding this question: "what makes you think everyone is the same for adult add" - Simple answer: I don't and nowhere in the article can I find where anyone says that.

I hope that helps. For me, finding out that I apparently have AADD (or Adult ADHD) for me was a huge step to coping better with life's challenges. One of the diagnostic criteria is that it must be causing functional problems in your life. NOTE THIS: Even if you have ADD/ADHD brain wiring, and/or a history indicating it, if everything is going well for you now, you don't meet the diagnostic criteria.

I don't consider my diagnosis a stigma; it was more like finding the owner's manual to my brain; a lot of stuff about myself I never understood began to make sense, and that led to solutions to some aspects I wanted to improve upon. However, no one needs to know my medical business except me. That's an advantage over the situation for lot of kids who find it to be a stigma. Good luck if you are seeking answers and improvements. Vaoverland 00:53, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Dogfighting

Pls stop adding USA information to the generic Dogfighting article using IP addresses. There is a separate article for USA dogfighting. thanks DingoDaddy 22:29, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I never add information to WP from anonymous IP addresses. Rather, I am the editor who broke out the Dog fighting in the United States article, and trimmed the US content from the main dog fighting article. Vaoverland 23:55, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Vick

Hey there. It seems that you and I have the same ideas with regards on how to improve the article. For reasons I won't get into, I'm not editing article pages right now. However, if you are looking for some "thoughts" and what not. Please feel free to let me know and I'll be happy to discuss things with you. I've marked this for watching, but we could use my talk page just as well. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  22:35, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

• Ps - nice job with the section titles. Those are more encyclopedic and more appropriate. it's likely the Bad Newz situation will extend past 2k8 - but since we don't know - leaving out the year is a good thing!. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  22:37, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

this is good for me if it works for you. Vaoverland 23:18, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

• Absolutely! I think the vast majority of the article as it stands needs to be reworked and/or removed. But I'm sure that will be met with a lot of "resistance". That being said, it's in pretty bad shape. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  23:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

I have gone back into the Vick article, and restored enough of the content in the BNK section so that it makes sense, pretty much all summary stuff. In the BNK article, I think we are not going into too much detail, as there is a lot of interest in all that is going on. For my main goals, most of what I want to improve is removing repetitive or incorrect stuff, inaccuracies, opinions, POV stuff. I want to also place emphasis on making sure we have proper sources and overall better flow. And of course, keeping it up to date as the situation moves forward. I certainly agree that it it unlikely to be resolved within 2007. It isn't even clear if the parallel investigations will be over by the end of the year, more less federal and state trials, appeals, etc. Vaoverland 23:52, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks, I was in the middle of doing that last night when the "problem" reared it's head again. So i had to leave it be. I would say we are absolutely 100% on the same page. The only thing i would add to that is a desire to format the references. My template of choice is usually {{cite web}}. You can see what "version" of it i am preferential to at Joe Montana#References and notes. That aside, i just think some format would be better than no format. Now that we've got something rolling, perhaps just starting at the top and working down through the article would be best. Thoughts? Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  00:03, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Michael Vick

I read your comment on my user Talk page. I'm not an expert at this stuff so apologies if I inadvertantly removed your work. Can you try to shorten the lead a bit. I think it's unreasonably long with regards to the controversy.

New Article Improvment page for WP:VIRGINIA

Seeing as our old Collaborations page at WP:VIRGINIA had no activity in the past year it was decided to replace it with a new Article Improvement/Request Help page that would allow members to list articles in need of attention. Its also a place to request help for an article taht you are working on to see if any other members would like to volunteer and help out. Thanks. T Rex | talk 01:14, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks but it's not my idea, it's User:Krm500's. He just let us borrow it for WP:VIRGINIA. T Rex | talk 02:59, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia/Article Improvement right there, its on the navbar on the project page. T Rex | talk 02:31, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

BRAVO!

20 000!

An important letter

Dear roads editor,

You may have noticed some changes at WP:USRD lately. Some of them, like the cleanup templates and the stub templates, have been astounding and great. Unfortunately, others have been disturbing.

This has become evidenced by the departure of a few prominent editors at USRD, a few RFC's, and much fighting among USRD editors.

After the second RFC, many of us found the opportunity to take a step away from Wikipedia for a while--as a self-imposed wikibreak, or possibly on vacation.

The result of such introspection was that many of us were placing ourselves in a "walled garden" and on a self-imposed pedestal of authority over the roads department. Also, we were being hostile to a few users who were not agreeing with us.

In fact, IRC has been the main incarnation of this "walled garden." Decisions have been made there to conduct grudges and prejudices against a few valued USRD users with poor justification.

For this, we have come to apologize. We have come to ask your forgiveness.

In addition to this, we hope to work as one USRD team from now on and to encourage cooperation instead of the promotion of interests.

All users are welcome to collaborate on IRC, the newsletter, or anywhere else at USRD.

In the future, please feel free to approach us about any issues you may have.

Regards,

• Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)
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Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 17:03, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Marking edits as minor

Hi, could you please not mark all your edits as minor? Generally, minor edits mean grammer, spelling etc. or slightly more than that. As a general rule of thumb, it is possible that someone will disagree with the edit, it shouldn't be marked as minor. Marking all edits as minor make it harder for people to tell which edits they should pay attention to on their watchlists. Thanks JoshuaZ 00:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

OK,....changed my default setting. SBTC Mark in Historic Triangle 15:03, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Maybe cleanup is finished on Twilight of Colonization, West Virginia article

Mark,

I am pulling all sections I've comtributed to the West Virginia article and History. No hard feelings for I'm just too dumb...

Conaughy 12:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Talk: Michael Vick

That guy was determined! Frankly, I'm only surprised we haven't seen more of this. I suppose that most would-be vandals are deterred when they see the article is protected.--Kubigula (talk) 17:24, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

How long is the Vick article protected?

As one of the people tweaking the Michael Vick article, I was wondering--how long is it under semi-protection? Was wondering because since a plea announcement could come today, this article could be a trolling magnet if the semi-protection runs out too soon. Blueboy96 12:34, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I dunno, but I will attempt to check on that and advise. Mark in Historic Triangle 14:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Figured that since you're an admin you'd know how long the semi-protection lasted. You may want to consider a semi-protect on the Atlanta Falcons article ... my intuition tells me it could get vandalized once the plea agreement comes down. Blueboy96 21:16, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter - Issue 11

The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 11	18 August 2007	About the Newsletter
Departments: Features: State and national updates Project news Cleanup system revamped Assessment Deletion debates Stubs renamed New York Featured member IRC channel goes global From the editors Minnesota bridge collapses One year after SRNC: A reflection
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Thank you so much

Thank you for the very kind words; it's those kind of comments that make this a project worth being part of.

While I'm here, let me also observe, now that I have explored a good portion of the VA Wikipedia space, that it's amazing how much of the content comes from a certain gentleman from the Historic Triangle. We are lucky to have you here.--Kubigula (talk) 04:01, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to hear about your family member. I'll make a point to take another look at J. Sargeant Reynolds.--Kubigula (talk) 21:42, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

FYI - I've contacted the editor who provided all the new content to ask him if he would give some information as to the sources. If nothing comes of that, I'll attempt some cleanup.--Kubigula (talk) 03:54, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Vick updates

I just wanted to give you a heads up since you have been on of the other active editors on the Vick article. If you haven't seen, I proposed that the article should be accepted at aid. In any event, I took an eraser to the article tonight. It's still in terrible shape but here's what i did (in a nutshell) - i refractored about 90% of the Bad news section to that articles talk page so that it could be incorporated inot the bad news article. I axed much of the lead because it read like a current event update and not a good WP:LEAD. The lead that is in place now is not great, but it's a heck of a lot closer to the mos standards. I removed at least three sections (one was really small - like one line) including his style of play which was overtly pov and the sources provided were a combination of "unreliable" and "not properly applicable" In other words, they didn't say what the article claimed it said. The bad news section needs a major over haul, if i don't get to it tonight, you might want to take a look at the refractored content and make sure nothing critical was removed. Be well. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  06:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

LOL - I didn't notice your edits mixed in - have at it for a bit. I'll come back later and do some more to it. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  06:43, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I guess i was mistaken regarding the communication, i've stuck around for a bit in case you need anything. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  07:34, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I am not trying to wage a war. Some of our philosophy differs, I believe. I am inclined to include content if I think it would be be interesting to some users, perhaps to excess. I think you have a differing approach. Neither is right/wrong, nor deserving of personal abuse or disrespect, and I intended neither of those to you, and I do apologize for any offense.

I live in the NN area and you would not believe this lack of understanding of the local youth and even many adults about the facts. I just would like to make sure if someone references WP, there is enough content presented to facilitate accurate understanding of the truth. Even as i write, gambling has been eliminated from the lead. As you surely understand, the gambling and lying to them were major factors with Goodell and Blank, even though dog fighting probably draws more emotional fire elsewhere. I do wish to apologize for what may have seemed emotional behavior from me. My WP work is usually not as offensive to other editors as seems to have occurred here. We have all put a lot of time and effort into this, I do believe in good faith. Yours from Grove, Virginia, Mark Mark in Historic Triangle 07:50, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that we are as far apart as you might think (at least not in our personal views on the situation). But you have to remember what wiki is and is WP:NOT. I live in the metro-atlanta area and am well aware of what's going on - but the truth is not as easy to identify as you may want to think. Remember - i'm not talking about my personal beliefs - i'm talking about the presentation of information here. This article does not exists to convince people that Vick was a jack ass (which i think he is), and similarly, it's not here to assert that he's a great man. Think of it like this: Here is a list of facts about a person - now let's make it read well :-). I don't have any problem with the desire to present information - but let's focus more on working together (especially when someone comes to your talk page with an update). You are clearly passionate about this article, and I think that can be funneled into some very productive edits. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  07:54, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

PS - i refractored the content to keep this discussion in one place. It will make it easier for readability and ease of use (so to speak). Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  07:56, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm getting going to bed right now - but i wanted to let you know that i do have some comments on the section you re-instituted. I'll hit you up with my thoughts next time i'm around. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  08:06, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter - Issue 12

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Thanks for all the work on Gloucester.

Thank you for helping out on Gloucester's article. You added alot of stuff. It's not much, but here, take this:

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Smile at others by adding {{subst:Joy message}} to their talk page with a friendly message. (It was deleted on my request, becuase I'm leaving)

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Colony of Virginia

The Colony of Virginia article has been getting regular vandalism attacks - primarily from unregistered and new users. Do you think we should ask for semi-protection for the page? I'm fairly new, so I don't know how to gauge the severity of the attacks, but I'm doing several rvv's per day on the page sometimes. Thoughts?

By the way, I see your name all over Virginia articles and your work is amazing and has inspired me to become more involved with WP. VirginiaProp 14:30, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Replying to myself! I got an admin to put a semi protect on Colony of Virginia for a week. If the vandalism resumes afterwards, we can step it up a notch. Virtually all of the vandalism is from anon ip's, however there was one registered user that did some vandalism and we put warnings on their talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VirginiaProp (talk • contribs) 16:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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USRD Inactivity check and news report

Hello, Vaoverland. We had a few urgent matters to communicate to you:

1. Please update your information at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants, our new centralized participant list. Those who have not done so by October 20th will be removed.
2. There are important discussions taking place at WT:USRD relating to whether WP:USRD, WP:HWY, or the state projects should hold the "power" in the roads projects.

Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 23:42, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Could you please shorten your description at the participants page? We're already having size issues with that page. --Rschen7754 (T C) 20:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Condolences

Sorry for your loss.--Kubigula (talk) 22:12, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I am so sorry to hear of your loss. It sounds like she was a very interesting lady. My condolences. VirginiaProp 12:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you (both). Mark in Historic Triangle 05:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

The only thing that is constant is change. It comes even when and where you don't invite it. Carptrash 13:33, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. Mom always had a good sense of humor, and I go on with that. Mark in Historic Triangle 21:33, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Sculpture humor

is spread pretty thin and so it is fun to hear about it when it occurs. Thanks. Here is where I've been hiding recently.

http://www.archsculptbooks.com/home.htm

Life is always interesting. If you get a yen to cruise out West now please drop me a line. EInar aka Carptrash 22:21, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

thanks, I can fantasize a trip to visit each of the Madonna's. Mark Mark in Historic Triangle 00:59, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

I thought the lead was just the first paragraph. It is better now how it is.--E tac 15:34, 29 September 2007 (UTC) also u r really awsome and rawk my sawks off from etac heck yeahs dude metal llolaz!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by E tac (talk • contribs) 05:28, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
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The Biography WikiProject Newsletter no. 6 - October 2007
Project News Just a reminder, there is a new irc channel for WikiProject Biography, #wikipedia-en-bio. The Collaboration department has been restarted. The department will provide help in improving biographicle articles. New Collaborations and requests will be publiished here in the future Article News Newest featured biographies: William Shakespeare John Mayer Collaboration: This months collaboration is Woody Allen. Current requests are: Benito Mussolini Member announcements From now on members of this project make announcements or voice their opinions on anything	Members news Our new members: JPmaverick (talk · contribs) From the Editors As said before, the newsletter will publish new collaboration requests every month. If there are a large number of requests, only the most recent requests will be published. This newsletter will now be delivered on the 20th day of every month We're looking for new writers to help write this newsletter. All those who wish to help must do is add news to next months newsletter before release Contributors to this Issue Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
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Virginia Newsletter October 2007

The October 2007 issue of the Virginia WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.--Kubigula (talk) 02:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

WCVE Article

Hello Mark,

Radio station articles tend to have substantial NPOV issues, since they are often written by former or current employees (or competitors) who haven't taken the time to read and understand the 5 pillars. When I find that kind of material in an article, I frequently either delete the unsourced material with NPOV issues, or at least challenge it for verifiable sources.

As I started to look at the WCVE-FM article, I intially added a comment to the talk page raising concern that the only cited source did not meet the Wikipedia Verifiability for a source. Upon looking more closely, I see that you are the original author of the article and you cited/copied your own self-published work - which itself contains no sources other than "I used to work there".

In any other context, this is pretty clearly not in keeping with the Verifiable NPOV and no original research requirements. I'm troubled that I am now in the position of having to challenge a Wikipedia Administator for not following the Wikpedia rules. Is there anything you can do to mitigate my concerns?StreamingRadioGuide 21:13, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

No challenge. That was added long ago, and was the only available information at the time. I had the stuff already in the can so to speak and thought it would enhance WP at that time. Better properly sourced content or even just removing it would be just fine with me. It was in good faith at the time, but we have grown. Thanks for writing to me first. Mark in Historic Triangle 21:53, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Mark, changes are consistent.

As you can see, have been adding more-specific references and some links, to respond to the comment on the page calling for more of these.

JP  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ordermaven (talk • contribs) 16:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC) 

St. Luke's Church (Smithfield, Virginia)

Hi, I see that you are interested in Bruton Parish Church and live in the area. I just came across St. Luke's Church (Smithfield, Virginia) and upped its importance rating on the Anglicanism project. Perhaps you can help us improve it. I too grew up with an encyclopedia in the house (Compton's Pictured) and had read it cover to cover by the time I finished high school. I kept if for many years but somewhere between moving and hurricanes, it got lost in the last few years. Best wishes.clariosophic 03:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

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Carl G. Fisher FAR

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Mark, I see that Npaghunie has added to the dereg page material on the telecomm act of 1996 which, in my opinion, needs a good deal of work.

E. g.

While a summary on the 1996 telecomm act could be appropriate in the general dereg article, there is an article on the telecom act suitable for detailed discussion of that act.

Several unsourced statements of consequence, some of which seem unlikely to be fully accurate, given work by some well qualified analysts such as Crandall at Brookings.

Seems to me a balance problem, in that though the paras articulate areas of real concern to many, other counterbalancing considerations, such as the spread of the internet and other diversification of info sources, are not treated. There are some very interesting and well documented debates going on in telecom. This addition seems to be a heartfelt expression of one, but only one, of the points of view.

One could consider just whacking the piece, but that seems impolite.

Npaghunie does not seem to have a talk page.

I could address this in a few days, but have other things on my plate for the moment. You might look at this, given your experience. If you step in, I will await your edits. If not, in a few days I may undertake mods.

Ordermaven —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ordermaven (talk • contribs) 01:27, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 17

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Happy New Year

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An article you helped edit is now on WP:UNI/COTF

The current University Collaborations of the Month are Ohio State University & Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University
Every month two B-, C- or Start-Class higher education-related articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTM is organized by WikiProject Higher Education. (vote for future collaborations or see past collaborations) This collaboration is effective: May 20, 2011 — June 20, 2011 until someone updates it. Pick the next WikiProject Higher Education COTM!

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Thomas R. Ranson

Hello again Mark. I found a pretty interesting old public domain book online, and I've been using the portraits from the book when we have Wikipedia articles on the subjects. I saw that you started an article on Thomas R. Ranson, and the book has a page (with a picture) on Thomas D. Ranson. From the descriptions and a little bit more research, I think it's the same person, and there's just some confusion about the middle initial. I saw it both ways, but I think "D" is correct. However, I'm not positive it is the same person, and I'm wondering if you have any more info.--Kubigula (talk) 03:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

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User:Ascan and Spokane Trophy

I am trying to contact User:Ascan and assist with updated information on the Spokane Trophy. I am in Spokane and a member of the Navy League here. would love to help if I can! User:SKeeterjoeSKeeterjoe (talk) 17:31, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Asking for your support, I live in Spotsylvania VA

Good day, I am soliciting your input and support for reinstating an article that I wrote called Leo J Meyer. Col Meyer was a soldier who started out in pre WWII National Guard ranks. After being called to Federal service and serving in the Pacific for most of 1942 he attended USAAF OCS in Miami Beach Fl along with several Hollywood personalities. His squad Sergeant was William Holden. He continued thru the war to Japan and returned after it to NYNY. He reenlisted in the National Guard and then transferred back onto active duty. He managed to get his commission reinstated and spent the rest of his time on active Army until retiring as a Colonel in 1971. He actually participated in combat in three wars and was awarded three Combat Infantryman Badges (read the article and the article on the CIB to learn the significance).

Besides telling a story of a man who “just wanted to be a soldier” I intended to wet the whistle of readers with a glimpse of US Army history (federalization of NG, WWII enlisted rank system, etc) hoping to encourage further investigation and learning of that history via Wikipedia.

I began posting the article to Wikipedia in late November 2007. By late January 2008 I felt the military biography was essentially complete without telling anecdotal stories about him and his friends like Hugh Casey for whom Camp Casey, Korea was named. That would only point out his personality and not necessarily be encyclopedic. At the end of January 08 a Wikipedia Administrator nominated the article for deletion. Although there were a couple of administrators who participated in the discussions who supported leaving the article, the decision was made to delete.

Obviously I feel that the Military Biographical Article falls in line with other articles of soldiers like Meyer’s friend Frederick Weyand whose article was the example I followed.

I found that those people who participated in the AfD did not read everything published or what was there very clearly, i.e. I hade posted an image of an article from an Army publication which addressed Meyer’s earning his parachute wings at age 51 and I had included from the get go the title of a book about Scrimshaw in which some of his art work was published by the books author. One complaint about this later was that there was no ISBN. I could not find one but I have found the Library of Congress Catalog numbers for the two books referenced.

I have modified the article and it is currently at User:Meyerj user page. I am inviting you to read it and if you support reinstating it, helping me to do so.

Thank you for your time. Jeff —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meyerj (talk • contribs) 17:44, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Kindly thanking you

Thankyou kindly for offering your assistance. I will be needing it for sure. I'll explain a little about myself in saying I'm a DAV etc etc. Writing is encouraged by my doctors and therapist. 'Often retiring to the bed and the meds I have to take-- do help, but side effects... I wasn't so much offended at your comments, I'm a big boy, no problem with that. It's the WIKI knowledge of you editors have and do that's difficult for me to learn as it is with this computer to cope with. At my regret, assisting the museum across the street and our state archeologists/anthropologists is also greatly curtailed. I can't drive to an archeolgy meeting. One meeting I had a keen interest in and had to miss it, even, in town here. I am not able to commit with these fine people, neither. So, please edit, delete or do as you editors know to do and I'll appreciate your help. Beware though, there is a great deal I do not know and most things takes me far to long to research and that goes often to remembering. Eventually though, I usualy recall except for the name of one of our packet boats during the Civil War for example. The paper I jotted those notes on many decades ago, nobody can make that name out. It's faded to bad. I'm writing too much-- No Sir, I took no offence one your part, but, 'of my own personal frustration. Again, I'm thanking you and wishing you and WIKI the best Conaughy (talk) 07:49, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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Newport News edits

Many thanks for the invitation. I am originally a NNewsian(or Newportonian, or something; we could never get a consensus on what term was right), raised in Parkview and educated at Newport News High School and Warwick HS. I'm certain that I've got one or two things stashed around here, pix and other things, and a couple of Park Rouses books. Drop me a line and I'll look in the archives.--Lyricmac (talk) 00:15, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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Camp Rapidan page

I have made significant expansion to the Camp Rapidan page you created two years ago. When you have a chance, I would appreciate your review and any suggestions you might have.--Spril4 (talk) 09:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

check-over for sectional deletion-content and so on requested

Mr. Fisher, Sir, I realize you are a very busy man and I appreciate your WIKI articles. These are the kinds of works I ordered through book stores for my once personal library donated to the town's library a decade ago.

There is no way your edits will offend me, for certain. May I ask you to look over my article on the Monetons tribe please. Perhaps some sections/sentences etc etc need deleted as maybe beyond Wiki content or style. I did not write it in an "economical" way and that style may not be appropriate on WIKI, I don't know...but I gave it a shot, so to speak as the long hunter would.

Also, I've read over your talk page and discovered that articles are better wrote off-line in a text editor, taking your example in your comment talk page. Please forgive me for being what that could be called (dumb fits).

Also, I've added quite a bit to prehistory of History of West Virginia. Again, perhaps I've added too much and taken too much liberty in edotor's notes and synopsis. That article has become very large because of me and that might not be good for the article overall. All the material is well documented and sourced mostly decades ago and double checked lately as I updated above my old book and many notes. Maybe it's OK or not, but, I like to bring it to your attention for consideration.

There are so much that can be written about Virginia and West Virginia Colonial and protohistoric which I'm sure you know. I tend to lean a bit on the classic archeologists & anthropologist and the state's officials in the field as well as certain eastern official "Clan Chiefs". As you state, source is very important as one might present fresh material rather than repetitious well beaten material. I'm opinionating too much, I kindly thankyou, Sir Conaughy (talk) 23:58, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Becky Godwin

That's a lovely story you've added as a ref there - thanks for adding it. Bazzargh (talk) 22:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the Beaverdam, VA article!

Thanks so much for starting the Beaverdam, VA stub in Wikipedia. It happens to be my hometown and I recently returned to the area with my family. Regards, Cwmurphy (talk) 12:28, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

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I don't understand. Please help, please with... see: Talk:West Virginia Prehistory Our local scholar and a news paper editor can't quite figure this person's comment out, neither. Is the critic expressing one of those special WIKI things? I show the common definitions I chose for titles in this talk page link: Talk:West Virginia Prehistory

Please take liberty or have another expert WIKI EDITOR at your level fix whatever kind of problem the commentator is meaning. Maybe I've taken too much liberty? Offensive? Thanks for your expert help. Conaughy (talk) 21:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Lost Virginia

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PLZ

hey. im a 16 yr old jamaican girl. i wud like 2 noe about lee boyd malvo's crime. plz email me at (snip) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.27.87.75 (talk) 03:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

It's not a good idea to publish an email address on Wikipedia. --Geniac (talk) 12:51, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

• • Sorry, but I do not have anything to provide you beyond the Wikipedia articles. I suggest you read those including the linked articles. Good luck with your research. Mark in Historic Triangle of Virginia (talk) 12:57, 24 June 2008 (UTC)