User talk:LouI

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Current Work Working to disambiguate and at least create stubs for political figures from Governor lists and Congress project, and sometimes using User talk:LouI/test Lou I 22:27, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Chicago[edit]

Because of your work with the WikiProject Cities I'd like you to take a look at the Chicago article if you have the time & desire. It is currently up for Peer Review (see Chicago Talk) and I would enjoy hearing your feedback to help guide the growth of this article. Jasenlee 01:12, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the help of:

John Owens - BobCMU76 - FearÉIREANN - mav - RayKiddy

Older Discussion[edit]

You're welcome for the Joseph Brant article...I'll gladly help out with the invasion of Canada in the War of 1812, but I don't know much about the invasion during the American Revolution. I'm planning on going back to War of 1812 stuff once I'm finished working on some more Byzantine Empire articles. Adam Bishop 22:47 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Lou, I must admit, I don't really know anything about American history. I was just trying to creat stubs for the Floridas pages, based on my obviously loose grasp of some facts on another website. Please, edit them and make them more accurate. user:J.J.

Lou, a bit late reply to your query on my talk page re Alvin Toffler. As far as I know, I was combining two article about the same person to clean up Wikipedia. I don't know anything about the subject, so you can go ahead and edit all you want. Jeronimo

Lou, Marshman here, responding from message left on my page. Sounds like the concept of a Course Outline is one you have considered. Seems like a quicker way to get a "book" that can later be expanded into a complete text. Maybe I'll give it a shot for Botany on WikiBooks. On Wikipedia I'm slowly trying to bring the topics up to textbook quality - Marshman 21:47, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)

No problem on Daniel Morgan. I was extremely glad when I found out there was a Charles Willson Peale of him, it doesn't get much better than that. :) - Hephaestos 02:54, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Moved from User Page:

I think we should discuss this on Talk:ISO, rather than cluttering up our Talk pages, since it relates to the article and not to ourselves, but since you invited me, here I am. Am I right in saying that your objection is that ISO is funded by corporations and makes a profit, and that these things contradict our article on NGOs? If so, I agree with you, but where you want to change the ISO article, I would prefer to change the NGO article, because we have just found an example of an NGO that proves the NGO article wrong. I'm reluctant to edit NGO, because I don't feel competent to write on the subject, but I might be willing to change some bits to something uncontroversial like "Generally these are non-profit organizations, but some, like ISO, are international groups of representatives of private companies." and "They exist to further political/social/commercial goals of their members." -- Heron Oh, and please excuse me for defacing your User: page. I meant to write this on your Talk: page, but got lost. :-( -- Heron

No problem, I'll move it when we're through. I'd like one more comment from you (see your talk page), then I'll put a summary on Talk for ISO. Thanks Lou I

You had suggested that Eric Berne be in the New Pages part, about 13 days ago. Did he ever get on that list? I'm a sysops, and if nobody has put him on yet, I will. - user:zanimum

Please start writing on American Revolution. We don't have to start with a polished and elaborate article all at once. Anything you could add would greatly improve that very needy article. Rmhermen 03:17, Nov 23, 2003 (UTC)

Actually, we do want a list of hundreds of brigadiers. Reference tables are very useful. Lirath Q. Pynnor

WRT the two James Wilkinsons, why not a disambiguation page? That is the Wikipedia policy, and there doesn't seem to be any reason to break from the policy on this occasion. --Robert Merkel 23:05, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thank you! Those Indian pages are very interesting. Good luck on your adminship, you deserve it! greenmountainboy (talk) 18:30, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I think the information is probably credible. greenmountainboy (talk) 16:39, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

No problem! I look forward to working with you more. Green Mountain 23:03, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your very good contributions to the template on Ethnic Groups. Do you have any interest in signing up as a project participant? -- Jmabel 21:55, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hello Loul, on Fifteenth United States Congress you changed Schuyles from Federalist to Republican. http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp states he's Federalist, do you have any other sources? -- JeLuF 11:45, Jan 7, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing up the ambiguity re Thomas Johnson, I had noticed it and meant to fix it but had forgotten all about it subsequently. ping 08:23, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, in case you don't see the message on the villag pump, Samuel Huntington and Talk:Samuel Huntington are now deleted. Angela . 23:31, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)

Please see my responses to you at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic Groups/Pequot -- Jmabel 22:54, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the note on Charles Carroll. I can see your point, but I do feel that standards should be kept to in this case. However, a redirect either way would serve the same purpose. Deb 13:24, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi! I definitely think colonial governors should get their own list on a separate page, unless, for some reason, the list is very, very short (like three), but even then, consistency is key. And then maybe we can just have a See also: List of colonial Pennsylvania govenors or however you want to phrase? Thanks for the good work! :) ~j (jengod 19:55, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC))

OKAY I AM INSANE. I read your message backwards. Have I mentioned that dyslexia runs in my family? Do WHATEVER you want. I'm sorry--bottom line: I agree with you, whatever you do. *sigh*. jengod 22:16, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

I'd like to nominate Pequot War for featured articles, but I think people will claim it needs pictures--there are no photographs back then, but if there are any public domain graphics, paintings or maps that might work, I think it would be a great addition. jengod 20:01, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

Nice qualification on the congressional bioguide. I've come across a few instances where it was flat out wrong, and other times where it fudged matters with ambiguous phrasing. older ≠ wiser 19:21, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hey, I found a portrait of Gen. James Grant for you, but i'm not sure about copyright issues or whatnot, so i'll let you figure that out. it's at [1]

Hello Loul, on Fifteenth United States Congress you changed Schuyles from Federalist to Republican. http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp states he's Federalist, do you have any other sources? -- JeLuF 11:45, Jan 7, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing up the ambiguity re Thomas Johnson, I had noticed it and meant to fix it but had forgotten all about it subsequently. ping 08:23, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, in case you don't see the message on the villag pump, Samuel Huntington and Talk:Samuel Huntington are now deleted. Angela . 23:31, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)

Please see my responses to you at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic Groups/Pequot -- Jmabel 22:54, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the note on Charles Carroll. I can see your point, but I do feel that standards should be kept to in this case. However, a redirect either way would serve the same purpose. Deb 13:24, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi! I definitely think colonial governors should get their own list on a separate page, unless, for some reason, the list is very, very short (like three), but even then, consistency is key. And then maybe we can just have a See also: List of colonial Pennsylvania govenors or however you want to phrase? Thanks for the good work! :) ~j (jengod 19:55, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC))

OKAY I AM INSANE. I read your message backwards. Have I mentioned that dyslexia runs in my family? Do WHATEVER you want. I'm sorry--bottom line: I agree with you, whatever you do. *sigh*. jengod 22:16, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

I'd like to nominate Pequot War for featured articles, but I think people will claim it needs pictures--there are no photographs back then, but if there are any public domain graphics, paintings or maps that might work, I think it would be a great addition. jengod 20:01, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

Nice qualification on the congressional bioguide. I've come across a few instances where it was flat out wrong, and other times where it fudged matters with ambiguous phrasing. older ≠ wiser 19:21, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hey, I found a portrait of Gen. James Grant for you, but i'm not sure about copyright issues or whatnot, so i'll let you figure that out. it's at [2]

I agree that there probably should be a seperate article on nasal cavity, since it is pretty seperate from nose. I'm not sure if I can write much, but I'll give it a try. This is a busy week, so I may not get to it until next week. Sayeth 18:12, 25 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Okay all done. Please look over it and make any corrections. Thanks. Sayeth 18:09, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

County categories[edit]

Thanks for the heads-up about the discussion. I hope you find the explanations I posted on the project page helpful in understanding why I think these are a good idea.

I noticed from your user page that you do a lot of work on colonial and early american history...well done. I've found the list of Continental Congress delegates especially helpful—I've been working on filling up Category:Continental Congressmen (as well as Category:Continental Army officers). I've done quite a bit with establishing the state governor categories too, but have balked at the task of categorizing the colonial governors—I'm not sure how best to do it, because often only two of them may have served before the colony changed names and then a few more, and so on. I don't know enough about the histories yet to see when the same essential political structure has continued to justify grouping a succession together, or under what single name. Any suggestions, or intentions to do this yourself? I think each grouping of a colony's governors should not only be categorized under a parent Category:Governors of the American Colonies, but also cross-linked to the categories for each successor state as well, probably in each state's history and politicians subcategories. Postdlf 20:40, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Joseph Trumbull[edit]

I see your disambiguation page, but I suspect you have misspelled it. The page is at Joseph Trumull, but you may be missing a 'b'. -gadfium 09:20, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Pella[edit]

Thank you!

For providing a remedy for the Pella mess through disambiguation. Etz Haim 19:59, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Pike County, Ohio[edit]

I'm wondering about the long list of "villages" you added to this Ohio county article—none of them seem to be listed on the census, we don't have articles on any of them, and you had listed all of the actual villages that we do have articles on as "cities." What was your source of information? Thanks! Postdlf 06:36, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

I removed Ramnot's boilerplate message, ( it was talk) 14:23, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC) and opted for public domain (see my user page)....Lou I 06:50, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Covedale, Ohio[edit]

Hello, I saw your reply on CDPs and what you did with Covedale, Ohio and Covedale (CDP), Ohio. Just wondering though -- it looks to me as though the CDP is entirely within Green Township. So, while it may be true that some remnant of the village reverted to Springfield Township, I don't think that portion is reflected in the current CDP. Here are the Census Bureau maps: Covedale CDP, Springfield Township, Green Township older≠wiser 17:08, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. That's pretty interesting. Seems rather odd, but stranger things have happened. There was like a two person difference reported for West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, 64,860, and West Bloomfield Township (CDP), Michigan, 64,862. The CDP is supposed to be identical to the township (as an urban Charter Township, it is similar to those towns in MA for which there are identical entries as both minor civil divisions and places). older≠wiser 21:47, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Township (United States)[edit]

Very nice expansion of this article. Thanks. I'd be more than happy to help with any additional info I might be able to provide. I'm fairly familiar about the situation with Michigan townships, and have at least a glancing familiarity with Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Strangely enough, I grew up in Ohio and lived for several years in both Indiana and Illinois and never really heard much of anything about townships until I moved to Michigan. Michigan does have a particularly robust township system of governance, but I guess that having lived primarily in urban centers until recently, the concept just never really registered before. I mean, I was vvaguely aware of places at the outskirts of the Cleveland area (where I grew up) such as Hinkley Township or Brunswick Township, but it never really registered just what exactly they were. In all the time I spent in Indiana and Illinois, I don't think I recall any mention of townships (and for at least part of the time, I was in fairly rural areas). So I find it interesting as I learn more about this form. older≠wiser 02:33, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

RFA thanks[edit]

Salve, LouI!
I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:42, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Thanksgiving again[edit]

Articles I have censored:

I removed the following text from Thanksgiving because.... Well just because!

"However, there are historians who contend that the first official Thanksgiving Day celebrated the massacre, in 1637, of some 700-900 Native American men, women and children during one of their religious ceremonies. The Native Americans were told to go out of the building they were in and were shot down as they came out. Those who remained were burned alive in the building. The following day, the governor declared a Thanksgiving Day, which continued to be celebrated for the next 100 years in honor of the bloody victory and to give God thanks. To these days, Native Americans gather in Plymouth to protest against the way that history has been misconstrued and commemorate the real events of that fateful day."

This comment was left on my user page by an Anonymous poster. I have reverted the edit, and atttempted a dialogue on his/her talk page, but the range of IP addresses (all 80.58.20.17x) seems to preclude this. I'll try the Talk:Thanksgiving page as well. Lou I 20:59, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Polk[edit]

Pleased that the Ezekiel Polk article came together. I have also updated Polk County, where it all started.... Rich Farmbrough 11:23, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Calcutta -> Kolkata name change[edit]

Hi there. I noticed you voted in the Wikipedia:Naming policy poll to keep the Wikipedia policy of naming an article with the most familiar English name. You may not be aware that another attempt has begun to rename the Calcutta article to Kolkata, which is blatantly not the most common name of the city, whether it's official or not. If you want to vote on the issue you can do so at Talk:Calcutta. Cheers. -- Necrothesp 13:57, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Zürich to Zurich[edit]

Zürich has been nominated on Wikipedia:Requested moves for a page move to Zurich. Perhapse you might like to express your opinion about this proposed move on talk:Zürich. Philip Baird Shearer 10:11, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tip o' the Hat[edit]

Seems like one out of every three articles I edit was originated by you. Thanks for all your good work, and keep it up! --Kevin Myers 05:17, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

James and Anthony Duane[edit]

Hello there. Can you give me any sources concerning James and Anthony Duane, their descendants (if any) and if any portraits of them exists? Thank you. Fergananim

Canada[edit]

In the Revolutionary War article, battles in the other colonies was listed by colony. Quebec was the relevent colony for those battles. "New England" was a concept used in discussion too, but that's not used. At that point, Quebec hadn't been split into the two Canadas either.

Henry Laurens[edit]

Perhaps you're right, it's hard to distinguish when "Holland" is used correctly and when it's not. In general, it's used incorrectly, and that might have been the case back then too. I admit that a "might have been the case" may not be sufficient reason for change so, feel free to revert. Fnorp 14:36, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

French in the American Revolution[edit]

You recently posted on my homepage regarding the following clause in the American Revolutionary War article:

French military involvement in the war proved decisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing army at the time is estimated to have been some 100,000, many of whom made up the bulk of all combatants during the American Revolutionary War. In Europe, the war was often regarded as a scuffle between the poorer part of the British military and European Continental forces rather than a war for American Independence.

In your post, you attribute this clause to me. However, as flattered as I am to receive the credit, I must confess that I had nothing to do with this paragraph—and indeed, I am having trouble remembering it at all :). Perhaps I re-added it as a vandalism reversion? In any event, I apologize that I cannot answer the question posed in your message, as my knowledge of the American Revolutionary War is limited to only the level of general and incidental knowledge gained by the average Virginia elementary school graduate :).
On the other hand, I certainly agree as a layman that the statement seems potentially misleading, if factually untrue (i.e., it seems to suggest that French units had a disproportionate presence compared event to colonial revolutionary army—however, this may well have been the case, or it may not have; I am not aware of an authoritative source to decide one way or the other). —Ryanaxp 04:46, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

Sir William Johnson[edit]

Dear Loul; have made several additions to your original article. Hope you like it! Fergananim, 13th August 2005

Categories of Congresspersons by state[edit]

In response to your question, I feel that the longer name is clearer. Category:U.S. Representatives from foo does not make it clear that its members are not Representatives born in foo who represent the United States to some body or other in some general way, but are actually members of the United States House of Representatives. The longer version makes this distinction quite nicely. Also, I think that the current state congressional representation boxes, such as {{TX-FedRep}}, do a good job of placing a state's entire congressional representation in one place. Perhaps it might be advisable to add the {{foo-FedReP}} box to Category: Members of the United States House of Representatives from foo, but doing so might unreasonably focus the category on the present delegation, so maybe just including {{tl|foo-FedReP}} may be best. Please let me know what you think. NatusRoma 00:06, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

What are you thinking of adding in that article? The FedRep template gives the name and party of each member of the current Congress, and uses the order of the names to show seniority for Senators and the district represented for House members. It also contains links to the article about that state's congressional delegations throughout its history, to the article on the current Congress, and to the templates describing other states' current delegations. What more is needed? Or in what cases would it be preferable to link from a given page to an article containing this information instead of inserting a template on that given page? NatusRoma 00:27, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wiliam Cocke[edit]

I noticed you worked on the entry for William Cocke of Virginia. I'm assuming that Fort Cocke built by William Cocke may have been his father. I doubt he built the fort at age 8. Can you shed any light on the subject? --141.157.157.100 19:35, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am registared, I just forgot to log in. Thanks for the discussion. I have some information on French and Indian Willam Cocke, I was wanting to tie it together if I could. Thanks for the incite. --71Demon 20:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Names[edit]

I saw you revised a couple of names on the Delaware lists. When you find the same name for two or more people, do you have some kind of a standard you use for distinguishing these names? What I see seems kind of random and I would love to get in sync with everyone on it. Titles such as "Senator" or "Governor" seem likely to run into problems once enough info gets built, as do occupations such as "lawyer" or "physician" and geographical terms like "Delaware." I've almost concluded that birth-death years "(1732-1799) or (c1730-c1800) would be the only consistent way to do this. How are you doing it, and what do you think of my idea?

stilltim 20:20, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Succession boxes[edit]

Thanks for your comment. I really haven't known what to do with these, and think your logic makes perfect sense. I will remove these and only add them when there is a specific predecessor and successor. Sometimes a clear guideline is a wonderful thing. What really bothers me about theses boxes is that I can't force them to stop wrapping the titles. There must be a way, but I can't figure it out.

BTW do you know a good way to do maps without getting into copyright wars? These articles are crying for a few good maps. Ever thought of using Google Maps? Your thoughts on this and anything else you notice are welcome and appreciated. I've also adopted your William Bradford disambig approach, but am giving up my neat graphics. There are too many wikipolice that get upset when they don't immediately understand the symbol.

I'm experimenting with a couple of ideas on Caesar Rodney and Thomas McKean. I've got a "Questions and Disputes" section intended to invite readers to discuss disagreements rather than just arbitrarily make the change. I'm also thinking about doing a little more personality description which might cross the line into original work. If you see these I would appreciate your knowing your reaction.

What's the best way to discuss these issues? On my page or yours? How do you know if I respond on my page?

stilltim 02:06, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gabriel Christie (general)[edit]

Loul, thank for the above article. It looks like your interests generally run more to US colonial and revolutionary war era stuff, but if you do by chance write some more Canada-related articles, you might like to check out Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Cheers, Fawcett5 20:07, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Succession boxes for Maryland Congressmen[edit]

If you are going to create a bio stub, could you also add a succession box? I've been adding several to articles you've created, but I might have missed a few, so if you could that would be great. You can get a full list of who succeeded/preceded who here: U.S. Congressional Delegations from Maryland. Thanks. --tomf688^{talk} 00:47, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for King Philip's War[edit]

Hello, some time ago you added a fair bit of content to King Philip's War. As you may be aware, we are currently trying to improve Wikipedia's accuracy and reliability by making sure articles cite the sources used to created them. Do you remember what websites, books, or other places you learnt the information that you added to King Philip's War? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 16:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Carmine DeSapio[edit]

So, Lou. On July 28, 2004, you created an entry about the last boss of Tammany Hall, Carmine DeSapio. Ostensibly, this was in response to reports of his death (July 27, 2004) which was then reported in newspapers the next day. My question to you is what source (which you did not cite) did you garner the information from? There are several glaring errors and mis-reports, and they have stayed firm to the point that there are now hundreds of sites on the internet reporting your errors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jscott (talk • contribs) , 12 December 2005

TfD nomination of Template:Infobox Biography[edit]

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Roger Wolcott[edit]

Hi, I hope you don't mind that I made some changes to your biography of Connecticut Governor Roger Wolcott. I am writing my PhD dissertation on Connecticut colonial politics, and I had some information on Wolcott that I thought might be useful to Wolcott's biography. (I have a ton of stuff on another of Connecticut's colonial governors, a man who does not yet have his biography posted on Wikipedia. However, as that man is the main focus of my doctoral research, I figure that I had better keep it to myself, at least until the dissertation is published. I wouldn't want anyone to accuse me of writing a dissertation that plagarized Wikipedia. <G> Anyway, when the dissertation is done, I'll come back and flesh out that biography as well.) Thanks. MCB 1/30/2006

Persian people#History[edit]

Could you take a look at the first sentence in this section? It claims that Persians are descendants of some "Aryan tribes" migrating from Central Asia. Sounds like outdated racial theories to me. The same source (Britannica) says Persians are of mixed ancentry, but when I try to add this in people remove it. I don't think this is consistent with WP:NPOV. Could you take a look at this and leave a comment? Thanks, Aucaman^Talk 06:56, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Taichung City[edit]

I am new on WikiProject Cities. I have added considerable content to the first city I am working on, which happens to be the city of my residence, Taichung City. Would you mind taking a few minutes to look it over and leave comments on how you think I can make it better to bring it up to WikiProject Cities standards in a section of the discussion page for the city’s article page that I have set up.

Thank you. Ludahai 03:43, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Annapolis declaration[edit]

I have a question at Talk:Annapolis Convention. (SEWilco 08:08, 1 January 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Survey Invitation[edit]

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Merge proposal: incorporated place and census designated place into place (United States Census Bureau)[edit]

While caught up in the argument about whether we should use the term "census designated place" as the primary term to refer to unincorporated towns and villages I did a bit of research. I think what I found was interesting and useful. However I found it awkward to incorporate the information into the census designated place article, partly because the material also belongs in the incorporated place article. Also, a lot of the CDP article explains how a CDP resembles, but is not, an incorporated place where the incorporated place article is practically empty. I don't think there is enough unique material for three separate articles so I'm proposing a merger into one article named "place (United States Census Bureau)". I have already written the article that explains the terms in a logical order. I am asking for opinions, edits, etc. from other people who have written on the issue. See Talk:Place (United States Census Bureau) for more information. Rsduhamel 01:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jud (onomastics)[edit]

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Project Congress[edit]

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DYK nom of Isaac D. Barnard.[edit]

Hi. I've nominated Isaac D. Barnard, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Thanks, Franklinville (talk) 17:28, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK; Henry Hubbard[edit]

Hi. I've nominated Henry Hubbard, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Thanks, Allventon (talk) 21:04, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Invisible Barnstar[edit]

		The Invisible Barnstar
		Having worked on an article created by you and then, by chance, preparing to move onto two articles also created by you, I decided to check your contributions to Wikipedia out of curiosity. You have done a great deal of good for the encyclopedia, yet you have received no reward as far as I can tell. I am therefore awarding you this, the Invisible Barnstar, for doing much whilst in the background. Keep up the excellent work. Allventon (talk) 21:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome, and thank you for the greeting. If you're interested to know, I plan to work on Samuel Bell and John Bell. I would like to gain a double hook for DYK. If you want to help out, I would be very grateful. No pressure, though. Allventon (talk) 23:36, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Self-published book[edit]

I'm working on compiling a book containing information about almost all Non-indigenous ethnic groups living or working in Pakistan. The population of a particular ethnic group would be obtain respectively from their diplomatic missions in Pakistan including regions with significant populations, languages spoken and religious affiliations. I'm not very good with writing so it would be great, if you would like to collaborate with me.--116.71.53.25 (talk) 06:04, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

Hello LouI! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 9 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 973 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

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Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 04:31, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject United States[edit]

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--Kumioko (talk) 03:22, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Opportunity to comment on Batavia[edit]

There is a discussion starting up at Talk:Batavia (disambiguation), that may be of interest to you. The subject is technically a page move discussion, but the purpose of the discussion is to decide where Batavia should redirect. Until earlier today, Batavia redirected to History of Jakarta, but during this discussion, it is redirecting to Batavia (disambiguation). Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

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US National Archives collaboration[edit]

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There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suspension of admin privileges due to inactivity[edit]

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Notice of change[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Hurley, New York (disambiguation)[edit]

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ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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Nomination of The Political Graveyard for deletion[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Whitehall, New York (disambiguation)[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Peachland (disambiguation)[edit]

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