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History of Garrett County, Maryland

Gohens, welcome to wikipedia. I responded to your inquiry at the Maryland wikiproject talk page, and then noticed you had gone ahead and created the article, which, of course, is great. I had a few suggestions, and I'm happy to field any questions as you continue to work on the article. These are just suggestions, I know that as a new editor it's easy to be daunted by some of the style guidelines here, so understand I'm not at all trying to be critical.

• First, you might want to write up a good five or six paragraph summary of the history of the county for the main Garrett County, Maryland article. Good examples of local history sections include those at Washington, DC and Ann Arbor, Michigan. You'll also want to make sure the section is properly cited, and can find some good guidance on how to do that at the Manual of Style page on citing source and the citation templates list, which lists templates that can be used with the <ref>''reference''</ref> parameter.
• The History article currently lacks a lead, and probably needs one. See Wikipedia:Lead section.
• There are too many sections in the article, which is why the table of contents is so long. You'll want to collapse some of those sections and eliminate others. For example, all of the geology information can be incorporated into the geology section of the main county article. The visits by famous people at the end could easily be collapsed into a single paragraph.'
• One of the most confusing parts of wikipedia is Image use policy. The flag of Garrett County is fair use, which means we can use it for identification in the main article, but can't use it anywhere else on wikipedia. So I've gone ahead and switched it out for another image.

Good luck and happy editing! Geraldk (talk) 19:51, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Changes made to to meet Wikipedia'swikified quality standards to meet Wikipedia'swikified quality standards

This article updated to meet Wikipedia quality standards, such as adding relevant internal links, and improving the article's layout. This was suggested by User:Dthomsen8.

User:Dthomsen8 - What do you think? Can the template be removed?

Gohens84 (talk) 06:54, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

John Thomas Scharf

Hi, What a quick start ! I found the JTS article and couldn't resist helping. I'm guessing that a lot of the text came from an old publication. I hope I have now made each sentence sound more like it is written today. My plan is to get it on the front page near xmas. OK? Could you tell me where the bulk of the text came from as I don't want to plagiarise even if the text is out of copyright. Best regards Victuallers (talk) 21:26, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

DID YOU KNOW

John Thomas Scharf

• ... that Colonel J. Thomas Scharf who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy was eventually dismissed as a Chinese Inspector in New York?

Created by Gohens84 (talk), Victuallers (talk). Self nom at 23:00, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

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Cirt (talk) 03:42, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Well done

Pleased to see it is now GA! Well done Victuallers (talk) 17:47, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

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CCI

Hey. To be blunt, a copyright investigation was opened up against you, and we found that you copy-pasted virtually everything you've written on this site, and most of it has now been deleted. If you start editing again, double-check how you write articles, since if more is found again I won't hesitate to block you and prevent further damage. Wizardman 18:21, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

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