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Re: Vandalism

No, it wasn't a virus; it was a m:vandalbot. I've already reverted all of its edits, so everything should be back to normal. As for requiring people to log in before editing, that's a proposal that crops up now and again. However, it's always shot down rather quickly. -- Hadal 05:38, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, presumably the number of eyes watching will increase in proportion to Wikipedia's growth, so with any hope it shouldn't be an issue. As it stands, most vandalism comes from anonymous editors: this is actually a helpful fact, because it means vandalism can be caught faster by filtering out logged-in edits from Special:Recentchanges. -- Hadal 05:45, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Albuquerque, New Mexico

The whole reason "Professional Schools" is a section is because of a strongly active wikipedian who constantly added New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics into the body of the article in odd places. The entire text of the article was a copyvio, so it was deleted, but from time to time the user comes back and re-adds the link. I'm not opposed to leaving the professional schools section, but the problem is that that list could easily exceed several hundred schools state-wide. It's only city-wide, so there can't be many more than a few dozen of these. --ABQCat 19:12, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

I tend to discourage consistancy as a reason for information removal... however, in this case the argument for removal really doesn't matter. The links are dead, and the section provides little value as it's currently written. If you'd like to add some descriptive text to the section (e.g. "Professional schools provide professional training for occupations which typically do not require a college degree. Upon completion of the programs offered at these schools, students are typically presented with a certificate of completion. Some examples of professions which require professional training are hairdressers, massage therapists, chiropractors, as well as many medical and veteranary occupations. Professional schools located in Albuquerque are listed below.") Then you've provided value to the section and the text you've added might encourage someone to add a professional school to the list or create an article for one of the schools already listed. --ABQCat 20:23, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Links

The general policy of WP is to avoid external links. Thus the external link to Eclipse aviation goes on the Eclipse Aviation page, and the links for the airport go on the airport page. We are not a links repository. Hopefully that is a little more clear. Burgundavia 19:59, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

• It will grow in time. That is the WP-way. Burgundavia 20:14, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

Proposing to merge articles

Next time, when proposing to merge articles, please put on the top of each article: {{merge|Other article}}. This not only automatically adds Category:Articles to be merged to the articles, but it also notifies users who stumble onto them without coming from Wikipedia:Duplicate articles first. Thanks. 10qwerty 00:43, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for all the New Zealand geography additions

Keep 'em coming

Robin Patterson 06:14, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Tables

I must admit, I'm no good with tables. I'd check out Wikipedia:How to use tables, and if that doesn't help, ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 19:37, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Your dogs look awesome

Transwiki

Yep, transwiki means to move to another wiki - usually Wiktionary, Wikisource, or Wikicookbook. It should be obvious from context which one is meant. "Move" usually refers to "rename within the same wiki" just like I renamed your BATTALION article to fix the capitalization. HTH! Radiant_* 19:39, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

• Sure, you can use the MOVE button. However, please take a look at Wikipedia:Capitalization first; I'd say it's "4732th tank battalion" rather than "4732th Tank Battalion". Consistency is a good thing. Radiant_* 20:05, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

Bicknell, Utah

Don, please take more care with your edits, the Bicknell changes you made are full of poor spelling, poor grammar, mis-information and redundant or inappropriate information.

Fragmented sentence:

"In 1914 Thomas W. Bicknell (1834-1925), a wealthy eastern historian and educator from Providence, Rhode Island, he was the State of Rhode Island's Education Commissioner, and founder of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims."

Spelling:

"comprimise" (that whole sentence is hard to read)

"Wayne County Histoy @ Capital Reef Country wewbsite]" Histoy? wewbsite? It's CapitOl Reef!

Inappropriate:

"It is 30 miles (by car) southwest of Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef National Park."

This is in fact true but is not a useful fact, Cathedral Valley is a very remote area of Capitol Reef and the trail to get from there to Bicknell takes you over a two track dirt road that is impassable due to snow or mud for 6-8 months of the year. It might be better to tell how far Bicknell is from the CR visitor center. (It's 17m W).

" Teasdale Tithing Office and Granary" - Teasdale is a place in its own right though it doesn't yet have a wiki page.

Redundant:

• 169 miles (south of) Provo
• 212 miles (south of) Salt Lake City"

Since you have to go through Provo to get to Bicknell from SLC no need to list both.

Inaccurate:

• Canyonlands National Park" - that's almost 200 miles away by road!
• " Fruita schoolhouse" - would be better associated with the park and is closer to both Torrey, Utah and Caineville, Utah.
• " Horseshoe (Barrier) Canyon Pictographs" - again, 200 miles away in Canyonlands

FYI, I live in Torrey, UT. 7 miles from Bicknell. Bob Palin 23:10, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Sakhalin II

Ok, thought your original comment when I made a couple of changes to LNG was 'cos I jumped in before you finished. The new article is absolutely fine. I added some minor additional data, hope this is ok--Rjstott 04:56, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

RE: New Zealand

Great job on the maps! Scott 168.103.100.71

RE: Lemy Bay

Hi WikiDon - you wrote: Thanks for helping out with Lemy Bay, I didn't expect anyone to pitch in so fast, thanks!

"Lemy"? :) I go through the geography stubs category once a day moving stubs into their country-specific categories. By chance I'd added some stuff to the Lyme Regis article recently, so I knew a few things that looked like they'd belong on that page! PS - good to see some of your work on the New Zealand articles (I did a huge load of NZ geography items late last year). Grutness...wha? 10:20, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Korean transliteration.

Thanks for the comments, and we'll be attending the request you made on Korean transliteration as soon as possible. As well, the articles on Korean matters are increasingly being given depth, and it seems valuable to standardize things efficiently. When we add transliteration and hangul elements, you'll be kept up to date. POofYS 03:43, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Frisco

Thanks for the information on Talk:St. Louis - San Francisco Railway. Would you mind updating the article itself with this better information? -- Fingers-of-Pyrex 20:53, 2005 May 25 (UTC)

Thanks

Just saw your edits to the Sakhalin articles. There is always so much to add, but I have so little time. Wikipedia gets better every day thanks to users like you. There must be something in the water in NM. --Csnewton 12:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Maps

Your maps on the Sakhalin projects are great, except most cartographers will tell you two (maybe three) important map components are missing. If you make maps in the future please try to include lat/long (which will help users find the place on the world map), a scale bar (I think it's a bit redundant with lat-long info; 1 degree lattitude is 60 nautical miles), and a north arrow. I know these things are a pain, but they greatly improve your already excellent work! --Csnewton 12:43, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Clare Island Map

Could the map be a little smaller, maybe a derivation of: Image:Ireland map County Mayo Magnified.png? ℬastique▼^talk 01:41, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Okay...looks better. But when I clicked on Clew Bay, I had to turn my monitor down. Wow...is Northern Ireland radioactive or what!

Just to let you know... we do have maps of all the Republic/Ireland counties produced. Still working on similar ones for the Northern Ireland locales that will be agreeable to the UK people. See gallery at Wikipedia:Irish Wikipedians' notice board/map gallery. While we utilize them for the towns and villages for consistency, you can feel free to use them for any geographic feature you want! ℬastique▼^talk 03:00, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Just to jump in here, I can't see the point in bothering to put the border in on purely geographic maps to do with the entire island. Introducing politics where none exists is a bad idea. --Kiand 18:16, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

That argument makes no sense, because Northern Ireland is clearly deliniated in a radioactive shade of fuschia on the Bay maps. That would be a political boundary wouldn't it? ℬastique▼^talk 03:52, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

There was no border before on some/all of the maps, now there is. I think there shouldn't be any border, as they're geographic and not political maps. Thats my point. --Kiand 12:24, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Inishbofin and Inishturk Island Maps

Nice location map of Clare Island. Would you mind doing maps of Inishbofin and Inishturk, which are nearby islands of similar importance? Its great to see such an interest in County Mayo.--File Éireann 10:00, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

These maps are a terrific resource - I'm going to go at once and create articles about the other islands near Inishturk and Inishboffin, one of the most interesting is Caher Island. Can you tell me how if and how I can manipulate these maps as I would like to translate them into Gaelic for use in the Irish language Wikipedia.--File Éireann 21:49, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Ireland maps

WikiDon, buddy, you've got to get rid of that contrast on those Ireland maps. I looked up the one on the main page for Ireland and I can't even read the fuschia on the green. Try some more complementary colors. ℬastique▼^talk 02:31, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

The one right on the Ireland page. I noticed that on one of the bays that the color is different now... ℬastique▼^talk 02:54, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Would you mind doing a map for Tory Island, a magnificent island with great character off the coast of County Donegal in Ireland.--File Éireann 19:53, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fantastic. What about Rathlin Island, Clear Island, and Sherkin Island--File Éireann 21:39, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rush rocks

Yeah, I really like Rush too. I remember I had this buddy, Rick, who really loved Rush; he had all of their albums and everything. He wanted to be a drummer, like Neale Peart. We would always listen to Rush when driving around in his car. Rush never needed to release singles; they were very sucessful with their albums and concerts. The big issue is that this one editor keeps listing Rush as a "one-hit wonder", because, get this, Rush only had one of their very few singles hit the top 40 ("New World Man"). You know, if Rush was going to be remembered for just one song, it would be "Tom Sawyer" or "Subdivisions" (my favorite). But they won't be. They will be remembered for being one of the biggest rock groups of all time. I remember having long discussion with some other buddies about whether Rush could become a four-person band or not; we decided that Rush had to be just three people (and Rush agreed; they never became a four-piece act; each person in Rush is like having two mortal musicians in any other band).

The issue is that one or two editors insist that a band is a one hit wonder if they only had 1 single hit the top 40, and no other factors (such as selling millions of records) are relevant. The editor in question won't even discuss the issue on talk; the last time he tried listing Rush as a "one hit wonder", he tried to hide the edit by having no edit summary and marking the edit as being "minor". The closest I have come to a discussion on the subject is over at Talk:1990s_One-hit_wonders_in_the_United_States.

Thanks for bringing back some cool memories. Samboy 03:52, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You know, I really like the line about love songs. Because, you know, people getting all romantic results in some really abusive relationships. Love songs are all a fantasy. One love song comes to mind--"How would I live without you". Women in abusive relationships hear something like that and they think they have to stay in the relationship. But, I'm diverging. I just think Rush has a very specific vision about the kind of music they want to make, and that vision is not top 40. The kinds of people that call Rush a "one-hit wonder" are what I call top-40 junkies; to them the be all and end off of music is the Billboard top 40; you're a nobody if you don't chart. Wikipedia has a problem with outspoken minorities controlling certain subsections of the encyclopedia; I feel the kind of person who sees the top 40 as being the be all and end all of music is very good at giving us a list of everyone who has charted once on the top 40, but is not-so-good at seeing whether a given charting band is a "One Hit Wonder"; a "One Hit Wonder" is a very subjective thing. I don't think anyone who was not comatose in the 1970s, 1980s, or even 1990s can say Rush was a one-hit wonder with a straight face. Samboy 05:07, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Randy Jackson

Yeah, sorta-busy-work. *sheepish grin*. Disambiguation practice is to stick occupations after names, not nicknames or anything else, and I just thought I'd give it a nudge. In terms of disambiguating a bit more precisely so as to clear room for future articles about other Randy Jacksons, I wouldn't personally worry until they actually exist, but fair enough. -The Tom 18:13, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Is This an Article That Should be Deleted?

U.S. presidential election, 2002 (fictional). I just don't see the point of putting fictional plots from TV show and movies. Do you know how many fictional elections there have been over the last 70 years in movies and TV? In fact I am having a hard time wrapping my support around much of anything 203.9.200.3 has contributed. But, maybe it is something I just don't see. Advice? WikiDon 07:51, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hard to say. I have never watched The West Wing, so I cannot really verify the fiction there. Regarding episode guides in general, it has been common to either keep them or merge them together to one big article for an entire season (although they often get some delete votes). I think the Ed, Edd and Eddy episodes were all merged together. It depends to a large extent on the length of the article. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:58, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I just don't see the point of seperate articles. I don't watch West Wing either, but making up seperate articles for elections, or characters, I don't get. It would be like making up articles about fictional compaines, like a trucking company from The Wire, or The Pacific and Orient Line from an episode of the Rockford Files. It just seems to me like someone spends to much time in make-believe land, to write articles about fictional events, people, etc. Now, if it becomes part of "Americana" or something that becomes a common in Classic Liturate, I could see it. Like Robin Hood, or Zoro, King Arthur, The Lone Ranger, these I could accept, but one election from a TV show. A show like the West Wing could have an election every other episode, are we going to put everyone of those in? WikiDon

Well, I don't really know. You might want to nominate this for deletion (I don't think anybody is going to make fun of you for doing so). If there is another article which you think this should be merged with, you can just be bold and do it. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:14, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• At the very least, I think the article title should be more specific and say U.S. presidential election, 2002 (The West Wing) instead of "fictional". Zzyzx11 (Talk) 10:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

NBA Most Improved Player Award

A major improvement. Sometimes I find authors half-create the article they intended to create, but leave it unfinished. This clearly isn't the case. Good job. I hope my categorisation suited. -- Longhair | Talk 08:38, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cherniere Energy

I have also looked at the company and at present it is a small player. I agree the LNG article is not the place to sell investments. I see the foe has started to change the piece about transportation safety. Working within the industry I have left this alone as it was NPOV or at least did not conclude. It now does and I don't agree. There are a number of instances of 'spills' of butane and propane particularly in boats leading to total destruction. This family of gases are heavier than air and spread. There are serious concerns about the impact should a large quantity of gas be leaked into a closed bay where it would not disperse quickly and where its continued presence would be a serious hazard. Whether the mixture is explosive or not is also not the issue. There was a serious accident in Spain where a propane tanker release ignited next to a camp site. Most people died from internal burns to their lungs. I'm certain Shell have done research on this as I have seen film of experiments. The consequence was not an explosion but a large sheet of flame. --Rjstott 04:35, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK I threw in my opinion for what it is worth. I would suggest that you leave the guy alone for a while and come back later and fix the article after he has lost interest. I agree he seems to just want to pick a fight! --Rjstott 04:02, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Liquefied natural gas

Sorry for the delay; you caught me taking an unscheduled wikibreak, which ended today. You weren't out of line, and your resistance to and handling of his edits were appropriate. Judging from the IP's last edits to the talk article talk page, it seems s/he has already bowed out. Thanks for fighting the good fight! Cheers, -- Hadal 03:15, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wow, I really don't care about Eisenhower, Truman, or Michael Jackson. I was just bored and made a category. It was deleted 2 days ago anyway.... --The_stuart 03:13, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

NBA Draft ideas

I apologize for not responding sooner! No, it's not anything you said at all; it's just my tendency to let things slip. <g> I have some ideas...

• Positions: Definitely value-added. When I've been working on drafts, I've been adding the positions I reasonably know about.
• Draft headings: As you mentioned, there's no consistency. I just surfed over to the 2005 Draft section of the NBA.com, and I noticed that their draft board uses "Round 1" and "Round 2". As it turns out, that's what I've been using in the first place. My vote is "Round 1" etc., but it's not a strong preference.

Hope this helps! Dale Arnett 21:27, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Response to Albuquerque

I responded to your post about Albuquerque on my talk page. - furrykef (Talk at me) 21:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

... and I'm responding here. :-) WikiDon, the reason I changed the article was just that I saw a decently-written sentence replaced by a clunky one that seemed to remove a bit of info. I don't actually know anything about Albuquerque, and I was probably too hasty to revert. Sorry about that, and thanks for catching it. Best, FreplySpang (talk) 16:00, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Size matters

How do you tell how big a article page is? WikiDon 23:52, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Unless it's bigger than 32K (if it's bigger than that, it will be shown when editing the page), the only way I know of is to copy the wiki source of the article to a text editor on your computer and check the length with it. --cesarb 23:58, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Can we suggest that they add that feature at the bottom of the page? WikiDon 00:02, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It has been suggested at least once somewhere in the Village Pump. The developers are rather busy, so a feature request on bugzilla would be better; even better would be working code to implement it. --cesarb 00:15, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Can you change your map pls

Hi WikiDon. I have moved the Stewart Island page to Stewart Island/Rakiura which is its correct name, and am currently redirecting all the links. Can you add "/Rakiura" to the name on you map? Cheers. 02:05, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

That was quick!!!!!! Ta very much. Moriori 02:32, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

Moab

Regarding Moab: yes, just go for it. If you can fix up the links that point to the original page to point to the correct disambiguated pages, all the better. -- The Anome June 28, 2005 06:11 (UTC)

Crime of 1873

I have listed my disputes on the talk page -- Nik42 29 June 2005 18:43 (UTC)

Re: Edgar Alwin Payne proofreading/typo corrections

Hi, there, WikiDon. You're welcome--I was actually trying to find who Payne's Gray, the paint color, was named after, and saw a few small typos, so I fixed them. Still haven't found out which Payne the gray is named for, though. I'm an artist, myself, and hoping to work on entries for a bunch of Alaskan artists (seems to be hardly any in Wikipedia--nor any categories of artists by state, so I suspect that was decided to be a no-no). But art in general is fun to peruse...Deirdre 2 July 2005 06:52 (UTC)

Re: Journey (band)

If you want to list the common vernacular for events like "Woodstock", that's perfectly understandable, but I think it should be listed it on Woodstock's page, not Journey's. That's what hyperlinks are for. Change it back if it's that big a concern for you, but I stand by my opinion.--BrokenStoic 6 July 2005 01:00 (UTC)

RE: 67.189.5.57, Blue Öyster Cult

I understand how you feel, but 1 day is the normal period for a first-time block. If he continues, we'll give him a longer one. Shanes 7 July 2005 22:27 (UTC)

LNG

Do you think the disputed header can come off this arrticle now? --Rjstott 9 July 2005 04:13 (UTC)

James Garner

I wouldn't simply revert another editor's edits with a curt edit summary like "Thanks for playing." May I remind you that since this a Wiki, you don't "own" the James Garner article? Mike H (Talking is hot) 01:09, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Santana/Journey work

I see you contributed the early Santana/Journey history to the Journey article. FYI I moved the Santana portion of that into the Santana article, and then expanded both articles significantly (in the case of Journey, by pulling in material from member and album articles). Give the articles a review if you like; in particular, pre-Perry Journey is a little thin. Wasted Time R 19:06, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Hellfighters (movie)

Thanks for the laugh. I must have seen that movie 50 times over the years and it doesn't get old.--Rogerd 05:41, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Journey

All of your Santana era material is in the Santana article now, did you look there as well? Wasted Time R 18:45, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

User:Sjrdude

I blocked him indefinently this time, he has had his share of second chances. Thanks for letting me know. Thue | talk 20:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I think he is back under this IP 24.117.242.35; Rush (band) was just vandalized with the same old tone he has been dishing out. WikiDon 18:28, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

I left a warning on the IP's talk page. Thue | talk 19:16, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

I see you changed the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum back to say it was originally called the National Cowboy Musuem. Do you know exactly when that was? I looked up some old newspaper articles from 1955. They said when the trustees met in Denver in 1954 to choose a site it was called the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and when they met in 1955 to dedicate the site in Oklahoma City it was the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. By the grand opening in 1965 it was the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. The articles only said C.A. Reynolds first started promoting it in 1947, they didn't say if he had a name for it then so maybe that was when. Frank101 03:26, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

• Well, they should know. It's a puzzle though. Frank101 04:16, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

User:Bidiot

I removed some irrelevant links he placed. We could leave a note on his talk page if this behavior persists. Sango123 00:48, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

usher

In this country, anyway, when there were people who showed customers to their seats, etc., men were ushers and women were usherettes. It would have been very odd to have called a woman an usher. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:42, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm... that suggests a misunderstanding of the notion of sexism, but that doesn't surprise me. More relevantly, worries about sexism should affect the way that we use language ourselves, but our reporting of it. If the fact is that no-one would call a woman an usher (and in this country I'm pretty certain that that's still the case), then we shouldn't pretend that things are otherwise in the name of political correctness. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:00, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

User:207.55.225.227

Thanks. I'll try to keep an eye open. Love the dog pictures on your page, especially the one where they're on top of what appears to be a very high mountaintop! Did they climb K2? Joyous (talk) 04:07, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

What a shame. I had a daydream about the dogs with little specially-designed oxygen masks and parkas planting a flag at the top of a high peak. Now, sad reality takes over. Sigh.... Joyous (talk) 04:30, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

I believe I was led to write retinal detachment because earlier, I'd done some work on floaters, and there was an unexpected redlink. I was shocked that the article wasn't already in place, really. How could such an innocent-looking puppy cause a detached retina? Joyous (talk) 05:00, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

RE: New Mexico

I was correcting a grammatical error. I think you are misreading the sentence. Compare:

Previously: "New Mexico has the highest percentage of people of Hispanic ancestry of any state, some are recent immigrants and others are descendants of Spanish colonists."

Revision: "New Mexico has the highest percentage of people of Hispanic ancestry of any state, some recent immigrants and others descendants of Spanish colonists."

This paragraph could probably use more of a re-write, but I was correcting what seemed to be a grievous grammatical mistake.

Cheers, Slugmaster 22:18, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Containerization

Please indicate the article you are talking about in your messages; I had to think a second to realize you were talking about containerization. Anyway, I have posted my response on Talk:Containerization. —Lowellian (talk) 23:30, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Containerization image overlaps The top of the third picture wasn't below the bottom of the second, so it was indented to the left rather than lined up below it. I've uploaded a screenshot to my personal webspace at [1]. My screen resolution is at 1024x768 on this box. I've fixed the TOC position with __TOC__ before the {{clear}} call. slambo 03:54, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

Albert Johnson

Text in italics at the top of the article is used to indicate likely sources of confusion, a sort of in-article disambig. I believe you may be the only person to have been confused by this. I also don't understand why you would then put TWO types of cleanup markers in the article and NOT comment on the talk page. I am removing all of it. Maury 11:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Kabocha

Saying that Japanese people use "kabocha" to mean either what English speakers call a "kabocha" or what English speakers call a "pumpkin" isn't the same as saying that English speakers call kabocha "Japanese pumpkin". I may have phrased it unclearly, but I think it's a valid point to make in the kabocha article. What do you say to adding something like that in the third paragraph?

(oops. I meant to sign this and forgot.) Franzeska 04:12, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Nimmitabel and the Monaro region

Hi - just in relation to Nimmitabel, New South Wales in particular, you might like to be aware that we have a policy for automatically disambiguating Australian place names. The policy was discussed at the Australian Wikipedians' notice board and has been recorded at Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(places)#Australia. Regards--AYArktos 11:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Nimmitabel: In relation to driving distances, as stated in the edit summary, I think it adds little value to the knowledge of Nimmitabel as a place to know that it is 1277 km east of Adelaide. The Snowy Mountains are in the way for starters and you will see an awful lot of other places in between. Bega and Cooma are the only sensible reference points plus the highways it is on. Cooma is referenced by location back to Canberra. Sydney and Melbourne are not in the picture. If a reader from Kansas wants to know something about Nimmitabel, there is a lot more that they are going to want to know before a distance from a city to which the town has no relation. To give an example from your country, Scyene, Dallas, Texas does not have references to driving distances from Seattle, New York and Los Angeles, or even Boston - cities that feature prominently in the minds of Australians. I appreciate your frustration about wasting time. My edit was not to do with space but readability and logic. The driving distance from Cooma and Bega were incorporated earlier in the article. Nimmitabel is a very small town and I could not commend it as the sole reason for a detour from the Hume or Princes Highways between Sydney and Melbourne. You would want to be a very very dedicated fan of the movie :-) Regards--AYArktos 02:14, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Re: The Shootist and True Grit

At your suggestion, I did a little cleanup on True Grit. Anything to improve the Wikipedia. You must be a John Wayne fan!

Here is something you might be interested in: I recently posted an article on Glendon Swarthout and there is a reference in there to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. However, there is not yet a Wikipedia page for that, so I left a red link for it. It sounds like something you might be interested in writing. ♠ DanMS 00:27, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the tip on the museum. I fixed the link on the Glendon Swarthout page. Since you already did the museum, here's another one for you. The Western Writers of America presents an annual Owen Wister Award for western fiction. There is no Wikipedia page, but there are already three links to it. ♠ DanMS 01:29, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Re: ACD's

Glad to be of service :) ohh, bootiful litle pooches! I keep meaning to put pictures of my dogs on my userpage, I dont know why i dont! I might start running around the house now to find some good ones! Thanks for the motivation ;) bout time I got something done for my UP.

I dont like seing dogs that are overweight either, especially young dogs. It ads such an immense amount of strain on the bones. I even started taking my neighbours dog for regular walks to help combat that puppy fat, even though the dog is now over three years old. XD Tekana | Talk 10:19, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

I have just added pics of my dogs to my userpage! theyre not as artistic as i would like them to be,m but I only took the photo about five mins ago.. Tekana | Talk 11:21, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

heh, I feel so stupid >.< i cant find anything in the background! it looks like a wall/door of some sort and what seems to be the inner tube of a loo roll on the floor to the left.

I suppose youre right! the last thing i need is those two bearing a grudge! Tekana | Talk 16:50, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

LOL, i had no idea what it was, I just made a wild stab in the dark and apparently got it right XD im right chuffed with that Tekana | Talk 07:32, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Mount Cavendish

Hi WikiDon - I've added a couple of lines to the article (and categorised it). I haven't got any photos of Mt. Cavendish that I know of, and since it's about 250 miles north of here, it may be some time before I'm able to get any. I'd suggest putting a request on Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board, see if there are any Christchurch editors who could get a picture for it. Grutness...wha? 06:24, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Dams along the Columbia, redux

Don't worry about the dams of the Columbia Basin. That might be a worthwhile article in itself ... but doesn't wikipedia have size limitations? Something in the back of my fuzzy head says it is one of the most dammed river drainages on planet Earth. Outside Estacada where I was raised, we had River Mill, Faraday, Cazadero and North Fork all within walking or easy biking distance.

dino 20:18, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Priest Rapids Dam

That's way too many edits ago for me to remember what that was based on, so I removed it. Niteowlneils 19:12, 8 September 2005 (UTC)