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taking a degree

It could be that the term 'to take a degree' is british english, 'to complete a degree' is definitely correct, no need to apologise. --Isolani 06:57, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Opera Field

Hi Bkonrad,

My bad for missing the sockpuppet votes for the abovementioned VFD. It's corrected. And I'm still a human anyway, so such advice's always welcomed. :)

Looks like I have to keep a closer lookout when closing VFD the next time round.

- Regards, Mailer Diablo 19:59, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Michigan Wiki Project

How do I sign up for this project? Do I just put my name on the project page? Whispering 03:19, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

The understanding of unincorporated communities

Thanks for correcting me on the subject, but I did a little research and, if you look at any gazateer or Commercial Atlas by Rand McNally, you'll see that places like Drayton Plains are still listed as an "active" place (within Waterford Township, of course) and still listed on some current maps and atlases. In fact according to the Commercial Atlas (which you can find at your local library), Drayton Plains includes it's own active post office, ZIP Code 48330. Anyhoo, the subject on townships, unincorporated communities, and Census Designated Places can be very confusing. Some CDPs, especially here in Florida has names that don't concide with the community itself, which causes more confusion. If you have any questions about the subject or want to discuss the confusing subject further, feel free to utilize my talk page!! Thanks a lot for clearing the air in what is a confusing subject!! --Moreau36, 2139; 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Reverting material on Compromise of 1850

I edited the intro to Compromise of 1850 because it erroneously implied, among other things, that Calhoun and Taylor supported the Compromise (they did not) and that Clay and Webster led the Senate passage of the Compromise (actually Douglas was the more important figure; Clay's proposals were not adopted though he erroneously claimed credit for drafting the whole thing). Just thought I'd let you know. Please Don't BlockPlease Don't Block

Manual of Style cite

Yopu queried my cite of the manual of style in a category renaming debate. I have responded there, and apologise for the delay, I only just noticed the comment. The exact MoS quote is : When including the United States in a list of countries, do not abbreviate the United States. As categories ar basically an extension of lists, and display as lists when looking at them, this policy has been carried over to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories), which is also policy, and the speedy renbame criterium you also mentioned. Steve block talk 13:17, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Norse mythology

Could you please take a look at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Norse mythology). A couple of editors are trying to force a guideline tag on it, even though it clearly did not reach consensus and violates existing guidelines. CDThieme 01:06, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Further reading/external links

FYI Wikipedia_talk:Verifiability#References.2Fexternal_links_name-change_proposal. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 04:53, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Page move

Completely without announcement, an article was moved from its common English name Nidhogg to the old Norse version Níðhöggr, even though a proposal to move mythology articles to non-English spellings failed to gain consensus. You have expressed interest in simular page moves in the past. Please take a minute to look at this one. CDThieme 18:41, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

A merge to reduce the permutations of articles

There is a discussion about merging United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland into United Kingdom. If you would like to contribute, please do so at: Talk:United_Kingdom. Regards Bobblewik 03:44, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Unsourced

You may want to actually read some of my comments to other users before assuming I have no say on the issue, or that I am the only one supporting what I am doing. Indeed I talked with members of Arbcom and Wikimedia yesterday about doing this and found only support. It just happens that I am the only one of us that is actually doing the tedious work involved. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-12-1 17:59

Township

Hi - with reference to your edit of Latrobe Valley about the linking of township. I also don't understand why the robot delinked it. However, we tend not to have townships in Australia. I note the township article refers to a specific meaning and does not include Australia in that meaning. We have towns, but also different meaning to the US. I will change the link to town and think about how that article needs to reflect Australian thoughts. Regards--A Y Arktos 23:23, 1 December 2005 (UTC) (from Australia)

City, State

Why? If it's the primary meaning, I see no point in having, for example, Los Angeles redirect to Los Angeles, California. Is it because people can't tell what state it's in? If so, they can read the article... Answar 23:17, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm not looking to debate, I'm just curious what the logic is, because it seems, well, pointless. Especially considering every other country's cities are named the normal way. Answar 23:21, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Frank Fitzgerald

Hello, good work on Frank Fitzgerald, and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. From what websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Frank Fitzgerald? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? You can simply add links, or see WP:CITET if you wish to review some of the different citation methods. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 00:12, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

KTVX

You have received this message because you have edited a Salt Lake City media article in the past. We have recently had an edit war regarding the wording and inclusion of a paragraph on the KTVX article. In hopes of resolving this I have put together an informal survey. If you are interested, please stop by Talk:KTVX and add a vote. Thanks, A 09:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

U.S. regions

Please review and commetn on the example of the new maps and display on the project talk page. Thanks. -JCarriker 13:19, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Village Pump Regarding Stubs

Sorry, Bkonrad, you misunderstood me. I'm talking about things that look like this {{Whatever-stub}}, not actual articles. karmafist 01:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

New US regional maps

The new maps are now available on the map page. Please review them and my post on its talk page. Suggestions and comments are highly encouraged. -JCarriker 17:59, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Ingersoll

From what I can tell from the tracking on this site, you added community information on Ingersoll township, Midland County, Michigan.

Please contact me if possible, jgrosteffon@mdn.net

Mr konrad, I am writing an article about wikipedia for the newspaper here in michigan, and Im trying to talk to soem of the people who have added information about Midland. please contact me via email, jgrosteffon@mdn.net

References for Edwin C. Denby

Hi. Do you remember the references you used when you added to Edwin C. Denby? If you could add them in, I think it'd improve the article. Thanks in advance, Lupin|talk|popups 22:53, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Green Mountain College

You were the last person to edit the page. Do you have any affiliation with the school? I'm curious, being a student there myself. Magicjewel 05:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Apology

I apologize for my misattributed accusation on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). I have corrected it there. —Wahoofive (talk) 04:28, 30 December 2005 (UTC)