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So I saw that you created the Maritime Fur Trade page. Have you ever considered nominating it for GA review? Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 22:50, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm deluged with taxes and helping someone move today, but this has been sitting open in a tab for a few days - "Henderson Lake". BC Geographical Names. - Henderson Lake I found referred to on List of extreme weather events in Canada (maximum rainfall in 24 hours) but the history attached to the name I thought was kinda right down your alley, so fielding this to you as ship articles/histories are involved. Skookum1 ( talk) 11:08, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi; care to check over my additions to Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1825) and I'm wondering where to redirect Anglo-Russian Convention of 1839.... Russo-British Convention of 1839?? Skookum1 ( talk) 03:42, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
This incredibly-garbled bit of history was removed for being uncited, though well-known to types like us (even if/when grammatical); there's a passage and cites on History of British Columbia which I could just cross-over but thought maybe you might want to make a short summary here, as I'm likely to be unnecessarily prolix. I kind of like the arcane syntax of teh attempted addition; would seem to be some Spanish-speaker who's taken an interest in this part of Northwest history....I should probably look at the corresponding articles in http://es.wikipedia.org as there's probably details, and sources, we don't have yet. Skookum1 ( talk) 18:49, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I added a few more comments to Talk:Maritime Fur Trade/GA1. You have seven days to address the issues, and more if you want it. It is a wonderfully interesting article filled with information that I did not know. Thanks, Xtzou ( Talk) 19:27, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd be glad to take a look and post some comments. Should I wait until the dust has settled from the GA? Would it be worthwhile for you to ask formally for a peer review at WP:PR, which might get you comments in addition to mine? (It's OK to have a PR and a GAN open simultaneously even though this is not true at the FAC level.) I assume you're thinking of taking this eventually to FAC. It looks like a most interesting article; I was just admiring your map of the trading posts. As to the specific question about how to avoid head and sub-head repetition, one device is to add a modifier like a date range to the duplicative subheads. Under "Origins" you might use "Russians (1741–88)", for example; that would free up "Russians" for a second use under another head, and so on. Finetooth ( talk) 21:11, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the note and award. Another editor was working on an overall approach to the Virginia tribes, so I decided it was worth extending to others - makes some basic data easier to see.-- Parkwells ( talk) 14:47, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey I must have missed your response to "map of fighting clans in punjab" in my watchlist. I linked to the map there but in case you miss it on your watchlist Map. Thanks for looking at it! -- Profitoftruth85 ( talk) 08:36, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
Kudos on your work on the Illinois etymology.
Sorry to be so late in getting involved in the revisions, but I don't really follow the Wiki developments very closely and didn't know about the vandalism until somebody emailed me about them.
I have made a couple of comments about your revision, notably about Inoka. Inoka, of course, is the centerpiece of the "everything written about the etymology of Illinois for the past 300 years is wrong" school of thought. (That's a quote, or pretty close to one by David Costa.) Another centerpiece is that Moingona (a Miami-Illinois language/culture) means "shitfaced." I see that vandalism has been reposted on the Moingona Wiki page.
Inoka and shitfaced are not going to go away.
Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you took a look at my revisions of your revision. If you or nobody else has a problem with it over the next couple of weeks I will repost it.
As I said earlier, I really don't check my Wiki resources very diligently. The best way to get in touch with me is at jimfay@prairieinet.net
JPFay ( talk) 14:00, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
I recall you got the facts about the HBC presence at Yerba Buena than I ever did; I just noticed History_of_California_to_1899#Other_nationalities and there's a muddling of British and American fur trade histories and trails....there's also no mention of the Kanakas (not unrelated to the HBC, of course). Skookum1 ( talk) 20:57, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
In your readings have you come across the name of an old HBC post which stood at the south end of Teslin Lake? See the Teslin Lake Indian Reserve No. 7 mention on Taku River Tlingit First Nation#Indian Reserves, where it mentions it. Teslin Post was at the site of today's Teslin, Yukon and is the namesake of Teslin Post Indian Reserve 13 (which redirects to Teslin, Yukon, as they're adjoining each other). That link I sent you farther up this page about the exploration of the Liard basin I don't think will have it, partly because many of these posts were only started in the very late 1800s or early 1900s...(like Teslin Post, which was built in 1903). Skookum1 ( talk) 03:11, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I hadn't heard of it, but found some info:
The Teslin Post you mention would be the second HBC post at "Teslin"? Funny that the first one's settlement was called Galbraith--that's the name of the author of the book I just mentioned above. Weird coincidence. But hey! I was supposed to be finishing up Maritime Fur Trade right now! ;-) Pfly ( talk) 05:28, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I have thought about it a bit more. As a result, I have started a discussion for changing CGNDB into a redirect here. I will do my best to inform everyone who might be interested without violating WP:CANVASS. Thanks for your input in this matter. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:28, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
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I was looking up Old Hogem in google and found a good account of the Omineca Gold Rush and other matters; laughably it uses Wikipedia as a source for Tsay Keh Dene history (wherever that material came from, possibly User:Billposer), but it's fairly interesting in many ways, including connections to the land-based fur trade and accounts of trails that most people (including me) have never heard of....the Omineca Gold Rush is one of the "lesser gold rushes" but like all of them an epic story of overland travel and wilderness hardship and strange and often deadly glory...all so much more interesting than template-wrangling... Skookum1 ( talk) 03:34, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Remember the gulch/hollow thing? I ran a search on GNIS just now for "bearwallow" because of the old name for the Sustut River and its headwater-lake, thinking that it was maybe a rare name. Nope, there's 130 instances in GNIS, though one or two are "bear hollow"....no time for a Bear Hollow/ Bear Wallow set of disambiguation pages but even the wiki-search turns up a large number of entries..." Bear Wallow", though directs solely to an unincorporated "crossroads settlement" in Kentucky LOL.....needless to say a lot of Omineca gold miners were American, but it's interesting to me sometimes the prevalence of American-style placenames in certain parts of BC....lots of "gulches" aroudn Lillooet, for instance, though few of those are in BCGNIS (not official names, just local parlance). Skookum1 ( talk) 04:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I de-POVized this somewhat just now, mostly by taking out my weedwhacker and removing extraneous US domestic politics and fixed some wording that was decidedly USPOV in nature, as well as fixing the irrelevant logic applied to Fort Ross; the remaining bumpf at the bottom about things become BC and Alaska needs work, but I saw no reason to discuss Polk etc in relation to Oregon. What it needs, other than more de-POVizing, is an explanation of why the 1824 and 1825 agreements were reached, i.e. things to to with the maritime fur trade, adn teh terms of the Ukases of 1799 and 1821......more on this later, just wanted to apprise you of it as it relates to the Maritime Fur Trade article. Skookum1 ( talk) 15:23, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I just saw on my TV listings that the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network is showing a Canadian Geographic documentary, Dance of the Sea Otter, in 12 minutes (8 pm Atlantic time). It's probably viewable on line via either APTN's site or via Canadian Geographic's...if not you could probably request that Seattle-PBS find it and air it; I'll watch it for you, see if there's anything interesting; it's either that or Dog The Bounty Hunter (I get very limited cable) LOL. Skookum1 ( talk) 22:50, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for getting started on this article. I did some work on related articles but have neglected this area for a while. As you know many fur traders spent the winters in Hawaii so there was much influence. Recently I got the book "The Life and Times of John Young" by Cahill which has some good material on this era, but I have not had the time to add it yet. The Hawaii Journal of History also have some papers online. Let me know if I can help review or integrate. W Nowicki ( talk) 17:41, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Actually you did a good job on the names, thanks for the article. I can do a pass on copyediting (there is a little duplication, for example) and maybe add a biobox, but it is in good shape already, e.g. for a DYK. One problem I have is where to put the battle boxes for the related incidents. Right now the Olowalu massacre box is on Olowalu, which makes sense. I wanted to emphasize the Fair American incident was separate, so had another box for that, but putting it in Olowalu is odd. The main problem is that I do not know where the capture of the Fair American actually was. Generally sources say somewhere in the Kona-Kohala coast. As you discovered, the names are not well defined - Kona just means the downwind side of the island, and is most confusing in that each island can have a Kona district. One theory in fact is that it was in a bay that was filled in by the 1802 eruption of Hualalai, which would put it somewhere around the current Kona International Airport. So maybe we should put that box in this article (or maybe Isaac Davis, actually?). I did have a source that said there were only five crew, T. Metcalfe, Davis, and three others.
Is it right to "captured by the Haida"? I guess I was not familiar with the native groups of the area and had to click through to find out that's what it was. Would "members of the Haida tribe" be better or worse?
And if you want another interesting character who went through the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii, did you know about John Ricord? His article could use more on his time there. W Nowicki ( talk) 16:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Have you and W Nowicki filed a DYK yet? Viriditas ( talk) 20:24, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
It's possible, but it is not a good idea. It's way too vulnerable to single-digit typos or vandalism, for starters, but there are several other reasons. Instead, please consider {{cite book|title=The Sun|isbn=0123456789}} The bot can still fill in the details, but this way subtle errors are more likely to be caught if there is at least a modicum of information to cross check. The more info you provide, of course, the more likely it is that the book you looked at will be the one the bot correctly populates. Using |year=
is highly recommended. Similarly {{cite journal|author=Smith J|jstor=1234567}} Cheers,
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Thanks for the Google book on Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán. The anon IP is very pushy about Basque edits and edits without supplying citations. I followed it here to this article from another he did a similar edit on. ---- moreno oso ( talk) 22:25, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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Just in case you wanted an excuse to visit San Diego, the maritime museum here has an excellent collection of early exploration maps of the west coast, including Spanish, Russian, British, and French (?!) explorers. Kmusser ( talk) 15:51, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
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On 9 July 2010 I changed again the map, and it was afraid of a new surge, but not. Actually the merit of droving off rather seems yours, I can find many sources, depict them as better I can on a map and justify them, but in short, the resultant map is the object of a degree of displeasure ergo I induce that displeasure. Best regards. Trasamundo ( talk) 22:20, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
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Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Pfly. I was wondering whether you could play the sequence B♯-C' in your file, rather than the opposite. Your file is used in the article Diesis, where the definition cleary states that the diesis is B♯-C', because C' is 128/125 ABOVE B♯ (in other words, 128/125 is larger than 1/1). Thus, it would be nice to have an ascending diesis (ratio 128/125), rather than a descending one (ratio 125/128) in your audio example. This would also make the caption simpler and consistent with the definition. Thank you.
Paolo.dL ( talk) 23:40, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
(The next posting was moved from User talk:Paolo.dL into this section)
Hi, I only just noticed that you're using your talk page for this open letter. Obviously my earlier post about the diesis page didn't belong here and was removed. That's fine, but I have to ask: how should editors like me write to you? In the diesis case I could have (and will) responded on my talk page, but what if something new came up that would be best posted on your talk page? My first thought was that maybe your open letter could be a subpage? Anyway..I've only skimmed the open letter, but it looks very useful. I've seen numerous newbies "bitten", sometimes really badly. I'll read more carefully later. It really is a problem that happens too frequently. (you can, of course, delete this section I'm posting right now--reply at my talk page if you wish). Pfly ( talk) 22:11, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I replied to this thread at File talk:Diesis-example.ogg. — Keenan Pepper 19:30, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words about the Bull Run River article. Cedar River looks good, nice lead image and interesting image of the Renton Library over the water. I'm guessing that's a unique occurrence. By the way, reading one of your notes related to, I think, the Jordan River, I picked up a copy of Cadillac Desert, which I had never read. I'm only part-way through, but I'm liking it a lot. Thanks for the tip. Finetooth ( talk) 16:12, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I started looking into this and I think this article is wrong. The long river that parallels the Bermejo is for the most part the Bermejito which is intermittent, and most of which flows back into the Bermejo. Some of that might flow into the Guaycurú, which is also parallel, but that is not the same river as the Negro - it flows to the Parana independently. As far as I can tell, while they are in the neighborhood, neither the Bermejito or Guaycurú flows into the Negro. Best on-line map I found of the area is [2], it shows all of the rivers in question and seems to agree with my GIS data. Kmusser ( talk) 16:32, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Any progress on the template? I have been messing with a few and can pick up where you left off if I know what the current situation was. Thanks.-- NortyNort (Holla) 12:11, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Those are good tips, thank you. I decided that the Kings River was slightly under 40 and discarded it, but I don't remember how I came to that conclusion. Maybe I just wanted it to be 39 so I could ignore it. :-) I'll have to re-check and see if I can find my notes (such as they are). The other one, Big Sheep Creek, I had not considered, but I will. If you spot any more, please let me know. The work-in-progress is at User:Finetooth/Sandbox3 if you'd like to see what it looks like. Finetooth ( talk) 04:50, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Pfly,
I am so delighted to have someone encouraging me as you did in your message ;) though, I mainly contribute to the Arabic Wikipedia, perhaps because of my insufficient knowledge in English and of course the tiny number of Arabic articles compared to English. I seems you like visiting places, and I hope you can visit Yemen whenever you like (but be careful of tribes rather than terror lol).
What I mean is that things like embezzling money have just as much punishment as a violent murder. The murder is always excused as "He is insane", "His childhood was rough", "It was a natural reaction to the situation", "We should be tolerant", and don't give him his just punishment. -- Chemicalinterest ( talk) 11:06, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
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So I saw that you created the Maritime Fur Trade page. Have you ever considered nominating it for GA review? Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 22:50, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist ( talk) 00:03, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm deluged with taxes and helping someone move today, but this has been sitting open in a tab for a few days - "Henderson Lake". BC Geographical Names. - Henderson Lake I found referred to on List of extreme weather events in Canada (maximum rainfall in 24 hours) but the history attached to the name I thought was kinda right down your alley, so fielding this to you as ship articles/histories are involved. Skookum1 ( talk) 11:08, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi; care to check over my additions to Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1825) and I'm wondering where to redirect Anglo-Russian Convention of 1839.... Russo-British Convention of 1839?? Skookum1 ( talk) 03:42, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
This incredibly-garbled bit of history was removed for being uncited, though well-known to types like us (even if/when grammatical); there's a passage and cites on History of British Columbia which I could just cross-over but thought maybe you might want to make a short summary here, as I'm likely to be unnecessarily prolix. I kind of like the arcane syntax of teh attempted addition; would seem to be some Spanish-speaker who's taken an interest in this part of Northwest history....I should probably look at the corresponding articles in http://es.wikipedia.org as there's probably details, and sources, we don't have yet. Skookum1 ( talk) 18:49, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I added a few more comments to Talk:Maritime Fur Trade/GA1. You have seven days to address the issues, and more if you want it. It is a wonderfully interesting article filled with information that I did not know. Thanks, Xtzou ( Talk) 19:27, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I'd be glad to take a look and post some comments. Should I wait until the dust has settled from the GA? Would it be worthwhile for you to ask formally for a peer review at WP:PR, which might get you comments in addition to mine? (It's OK to have a PR and a GAN open simultaneously even though this is not true at the FAC level.) I assume you're thinking of taking this eventually to FAC. It looks like a most interesting article; I was just admiring your map of the trading posts. As to the specific question about how to avoid head and sub-head repetition, one device is to add a modifier like a date range to the duplicative subheads. Under "Origins" you might use "Russians (1741–88)", for example; that would free up "Russians" for a second use under another head, and so on. Finetooth ( talk) 21:11, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the note and award. Another editor was working on an overall approach to the Virginia tribes, so I decided it was worth extending to others - makes some basic data easier to see.-- Parkwells ( talk) 14:47, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey I must have missed your response to "map of fighting clans in punjab" in my watchlist. I linked to the map there but in case you miss it on your watchlist Map. Thanks for looking at it! -- Profitoftruth85 ( talk) 08:36, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
Kudos on your work on the Illinois etymology.
Sorry to be so late in getting involved in the revisions, but I don't really follow the Wiki developments very closely and didn't know about the vandalism until somebody emailed me about them.
I have made a couple of comments about your revision, notably about Inoka. Inoka, of course, is the centerpiece of the "everything written about the etymology of Illinois for the past 300 years is wrong" school of thought. (That's a quote, or pretty close to one by David Costa.) Another centerpiece is that Moingona (a Miami-Illinois language/culture) means "shitfaced." I see that vandalism has been reposted on the Moingona Wiki page.
Inoka and shitfaced are not going to go away.
Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you took a look at my revisions of your revision. If you or nobody else has a problem with it over the next couple of weeks I will repost it.
As I said earlier, I really don't check my Wiki resources very diligently. The best way to get in touch with me is at jimfay@prairieinet.net
JPFay ( talk) 14:00, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
I recall you got the facts about the HBC presence at Yerba Buena than I ever did; I just noticed History_of_California_to_1899#Other_nationalities and there's a muddling of British and American fur trade histories and trails....there's also no mention of the Kanakas (not unrelated to the HBC, of course). Skookum1 ( talk) 20:57, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
In your readings have you come across the name of an old HBC post which stood at the south end of Teslin Lake? See the Teslin Lake Indian Reserve No. 7 mention on Taku River Tlingit First Nation#Indian Reserves, where it mentions it. Teslin Post was at the site of today's Teslin, Yukon and is the namesake of Teslin Post Indian Reserve 13 (which redirects to Teslin, Yukon, as they're adjoining each other). That link I sent you farther up this page about the exploration of the Liard basin I don't think will have it, partly because many of these posts were only started in the very late 1800s or early 1900s...(like Teslin Post, which was built in 1903). Skookum1 ( talk) 03:11, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I hadn't heard of it, but found some info:
The Teslin Post you mention would be the second HBC post at "Teslin"? Funny that the first one's settlement was called Galbraith--that's the name of the author of the book I just mentioned above. Weird coincidence. But hey! I was supposed to be finishing up Maritime Fur Trade right now! ;-) Pfly ( talk) 05:28, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I have thought about it a bit more. As a result, I have started a discussion for changing CGNDB into a redirect here. I will do my best to inform everyone who might be interested without violating WP:CANVASS. Thanks for your input in this matter. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:28, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at Droll's talk page.
I was looking up Old Hogem in google and found a good account of the Omineca Gold Rush and other matters; laughably it uses Wikipedia as a source for Tsay Keh Dene history (wherever that material came from, possibly User:Billposer), but it's fairly interesting in many ways, including connections to the land-based fur trade and accounts of trails that most people (including me) have never heard of....the Omineca Gold Rush is one of the "lesser gold rushes" but like all of them an epic story of overland travel and wilderness hardship and strange and often deadly glory...all so much more interesting than template-wrangling... Skookum1 ( talk) 03:34, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Remember the gulch/hollow thing? I ran a search on GNIS just now for "bearwallow" because of the old name for the Sustut River and its headwater-lake, thinking that it was maybe a rare name. Nope, there's 130 instances in GNIS, though one or two are "bear hollow"....no time for a Bear Hollow/ Bear Wallow set of disambiguation pages but even the wiki-search turns up a large number of entries..." Bear Wallow", though directs solely to an unincorporated "crossroads settlement" in Kentucky LOL.....needless to say a lot of Omineca gold miners were American, but it's interesting to me sometimes the prevalence of American-style placenames in certain parts of BC....lots of "gulches" aroudn Lillooet, for instance, though few of those are in BCGNIS (not official names, just local parlance). Skookum1 ( talk) 04:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I de-POVized this somewhat just now, mostly by taking out my weedwhacker and removing extraneous US domestic politics and fixed some wording that was decidedly USPOV in nature, as well as fixing the irrelevant logic applied to Fort Ross; the remaining bumpf at the bottom about things become BC and Alaska needs work, but I saw no reason to discuss Polk etc in relation to Oregon. What it needs, other than more de-POVizing, is an explanation of why the 1824 and 1825 agreements were reached, i.e. things to to with the maritime fur trade, adn teh terms of the Ukases of 1799 and 1821......more on this later, just wanted to apprise you of it as it relates to the Maritime Fur Trade article. Skookum1 ( talk) 15:23, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
I just saw on my TV listings that the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network is showing a Canadian Geographic documentary, Dance of the Sea Otter, in 12 minutes (8 pm Atlantic time). It's probably viewable on line via either APTN's site or via Canadian Geographic's...if not you could probably request that Seattle-PBS find it and air it; I'll watch it for you, see if there's anything interesting; it's either that or Dog The Bounty Hunter (I get very limited cable) LOL. Skookum1 ( talk) 22:50, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for getting started on this article. I did some work on related articles but have neglected this area for a while. As you know many fur traders spent the winters in Hawaii so there was much influence. Recently I got the book "The Life and Times of John Young" by Cahill which has some good material on this era, but I have not had the time to add it yet. The Hawaii Journal of History also have some papers online. Let me know if I can help review or integrate. W Nowicki ( talk) 17:41, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Actually you did a good job on the names, thanks for the article. I can do a pass on copyediting (there is a little duplication, for example) and maybe add a biobox, but it is in good shape already, e.g. for a DYK. One problem I have is where to put the battle boxes for the related incidents. Right now the Olowalu massacre box is on Olowalu, which makes sense. I wanted to emphasize the Fair American incident was separate, so had another box for that, but putting it in Olowalu is odd. The main problem is that I do not know where the capture of the Fair American actually was. Generally sources say somewhere in the Kona-Kohala coast. As you discovered, the names are not well defined - Kona just means the downwind side of the island, and is most confusing in that each island can have a Kona district. One theory in fact is that it was in a bay that was filled in by the 1802 eruption of Hualalai, which would put it somewhere around the current Kona International Airport. So maybe we should put that box in this article (or maybe Isaac Davis, actually?). I did have a source that said there were only five crew, T. Metcalfe, Davis, and three others.
Is it right to "captured by the Haida"? I guess I was not familiar with the native groups of the area and had to click through to find out that's what it was. Would "members of the Haida tribe" be better or worse?
And if you want another interesting character who went through the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii, did you know about John Ricord? His article could use more on his time there. W Nowicki ( talk) 16:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Have you and W Nowicki filed a DYK yet? Viriditas ( talk) 20:24, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
It's possible, but it is not a good idea. It's way too vulnerable to single-digit typos or vandalism, for starters, but there are several other reasons. Instead, please consider {{cite book|title=The Sun|isbn=0123456789}} The bot can still fill in the details, but this way subtle errors are more likely to be caught if there is at least a modicum of information to cross check. The more info you provide, of course, the more likely it is that the book you looked at will be the one the bot correctly populates. Using |year=
is highly recommended. Similarly {{cite journal|author=Smith J|jstor=1234567}} Cheers,
LeadSongDog
come howl! 12:26, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As I noted at WP:TFD, I wrote more stuff in my user space in an attempt to answer your question about the use of PAGENAME. You can find it here. – droll [chat] 01:30, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the Google book on Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán. The anon IP is very pushy about Basque edits and edits without supplying citations. I followed it here to this article from another he did a similar edit on. ---- moreno oso ( talk) 22:25, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
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Just in case you wanted an excuse to visit San Diego, the maritime museum here has an excellent collection of early exploration maps of the west coast, including Spanish, Russian, British, and French (?!) explorers. Kmusser ( talk) 15:51, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
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On 9 July 2010 I changed again the map, and it was afraid of a new surge, but not. Actually the merit of droving off rather seems yours, I can find many sources, depict them as better I can on a map and justify them, but in short, the resultant map is the object of a degree of displeasure ergo I induce that displeasure. Best regards. Trasamundo ( talk) 22:20, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
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Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Pfly. I was wondering whether you could play the sequence B♯-C' in your file, rather than the opposite. Your file is used in the article Diesis, where the definition cleary states that the diesis is B♯-C', because C' is 128/125 ABOVE B♯ (in other words, 128/125 is larger than 1/1). Thus, it would be nice to have an ascending diesis (ratio 128/125), rather than a descending one (ratio 125/128) in your audio example. This would also make the caption simpler and consistent with the definition. Thank you.
Paolo.dL ( talk) 23:40, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
(The next posting was moved from User talk:Paolo.dL into this section)
Hi, I only just noticed that you're using your talk page for this open letter. Obviously my earlier post about the diesis page didn't belong here and was removed. That's fine, but I have to ask: how should editors like me write to you? In the diesis case I could have (and will) responded on my talk page, but what if something new came up that would be best posted on your talk page? My first thought was that maybe your open letter could be a subpage? Anyway..I've only skimmed the open letter, but it looks very useful. I've seen numerous newbies "bitten", sometimes really badly. I'll read more carefully later. It really is a problem that happens too frequently. (you can, of course, delete this section I'm posting right now--reply at my talk page if you wish). Pfly ( talk) 22:11, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I replied to this thread at File talk:Diesis-example.ogg. — Keenan Pepper 19:30, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words about the Bull Run River article. Cedar River looks good, nice lead image and interesting image of the Renton Library over the water. I'm guessing that's a unique occurrence. By the way, reading one of your notes related to, I think, the Jordan River, I picked up a copy of Cadillac Desert, which I had never read. I'm only part-way through, but I'm liking it a lot. Thanks for the tip. Finetooth ( talk) 16:12, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I started looking into this and I think this article is wrong. The long river that parallels the Bermejo is for the most part the Bermejito which is intermittent, and most of which flows back into the Bermejo. Some of that might flow into the Guaycurú, which is also parallel, but that is not the same river as the Negro - it flows to the Parana independently. As far as I can tell, while they are in the neighborhood, neither the Bermejito or Guaycurú flows into the Negro. Best on-line map I found of the area is [2], it shows all of the rivers in question and seems to agree with my GIS data. Kmusser ( talk) 16:32, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Any progress on the template? I have been messing with a few and can pick up where you left off if I know what the current situation was. Thanks.-- NortyNort (Holla) 12:11, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Those are good tips, thank you. I decided that the Kings River was slightly under 40 and discarded it, but I don't remember how I came to that conclusion. Maybe I just wanted it to be 39 so I could ignore it. :-) I'll have to re-check and see if I can find my notes (such as they are). The other one, Big Sheep Creek, I had not considered, but I will. If you spot any more, please let me know. The work-in-progress is at User:Finetooth/Sandbox3 if you'd like to see what it looks like. Finetooth ( talk) 04:50, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Pfly,
I am so delighted to have someone encouraging me as you did in your message ;) though, I mainly contribute to the Arabic Wikipedia, perhaps because of my insufficient knowledge in English and of course the tiny number of Arabic articles compared to English. I seems you like visiting places, and I hope you can visit Yemen whenever you like (but be careful of tribes rather than terror lol).
What I mean is that things like embezzling money have just as much punishment as a violent murder. The murder is always excused as "He is insane", "His childhood was rough", "It was a natural reaction to the situation", "We should be tolerant", and don't give him his just punishment. -- Chemicalinterest ( talk) 11:06, 2 September 2010 (UTC)