User talk:Rlquall/Archive/Archive 1

yatch as a candidate for deletion

Howdy, Rlquall. I've listed your page yatch as a candidate for deletion, there's already a larger and better-spelled article on yachts. Just wanted to let you know that I did like your page, and to encourage you to keep up the good work. TB 16:52, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

belated welcome

Hi, and another belated welcome. Note that when making redirects you need to have the "#" character before the word "REDIRECT"; I've fixed a couple of those for you. I'm glad you're taking the time to make redirects, those can be very useful! If you havn't already, check out Wikipedia:Welcome newcomers which has links to some good pages about proper formats and tips etc. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 19:38, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

NI article

Thanks for adding the non-institutional article. Will be interesting to watch it develop. Jdavidb 18:34, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

high church

Really like your "high church" article & somewhat glad it doesn't automatically redirect to Anglo-Catholicism now. I added a section on the development of the term to help people who hit the link from other articles on historical persons (e.g. the Annotated lyrics to the Vicar of Bray or any future articles on people like Francis Atterbury or the upcoming Cambridge Platonists). Geogre 13:04, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Rlquall.. thanks a lot for the article on the Nashville Banner.. you put a lot of work into that, and it looks nice. Here's a working man's barnstar :) Schmiddy 02:23, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)

Tennessee Supreme Court

Nice article—I especially like the info about how the whole court had to recuse itself once. Right now the last paragraph is a non sequitor, however; it looks like there is some intended text missing that it was intended to follow. I presume you are still filling it in, so I didn't alter that paragraph, but right now it definitely doesn't flow from the previous one. Thanks! Postdlf 07:21, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Corrections etc.

Hi

Re: your entry on my talk page: I'm just someone who hangs around and does the odd bit of correcting. You may notice I just moved your article Memorial Gymnasium to a less ambiguous title - the world is full of Memorial Gymnasiums. (I also munged the move a little, but it seems to be OK now). --Ianb 14:21, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

John Jay Hooker

Wonderful article. I really love the subject of notable oddballs, and yours is one of the best I've read on here. Postdlf 00:41, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Yup. Wonderful article. I trust he'll not sue you for it! --Tagishsimon

Redirects for deletion

You accidentally listed Holy Spirit as a redirect for deletion. It seems that you wanted to mark Holy Ghost instead. -- Mike Rosoft 18:49, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Right you are. Thanks for noticing it.

Rlquall 15:04, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

substub

Okay, maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick with this substub business. Whenever I see a substub that I think ought to grow into a proper article, I try to add whatever I can to it and make it a stub, because I was under the impression that substub was a signal that an article should be a candidate for speedy deletion. Am I going about this wrong? (Oh, new thought: maybe your comment from before wasn't sarcastic!...) QuartierLatin1968 02:55, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

League of Lombard

Hi, I simply seen that there is the article Lombard League that covers both the historical movement and the political party, then it's a better translation of the italian name "lega lombarda". The previous form "League of Lombardy" translated literally in Italian is "lega della lombardia". So, the form "Lombard League" is the correct one, in my opionion, for both the historical and modern movements. Lornova 17:43, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

About Soul Food and Home Rule

Hi. Thanks for stopping by my page. On soul food -- well, just a little cleanup and a few additions. Actually, "fat back" is already there, as "fatback." (I think I'd added it already -- at least I think I was the one who put it in.) As far as chow-chow, I figured the "vegetables" covered just about everything, but feel free to add whatever you want. After all, that's what good cooks do. :-) I'm glad to know you've done a piece on home rule in the District. It's an important subject, and I have a number of friends who are active in the Free DC movement. I'll definitely check it out when I have an opportunity and let you know what I think. Also, in the future, please put your comments on my talk page, rather than my user page. Peace 2 u. :-) deeceevoice 03:30, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Campolo

Thanks for your comments. Tony Campolo is certainly a controversial figure, as can be seen in part here [1] due to his rather unusual stances on a number of issues, and the way in which he presents his ideas. Ron Nash's book Why the Left is Not Right discusses the Christian Left in more detail, but from a religiously conservative view. Michaelh 06:32, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Country fried steak

I merged and redirected country fried steak into the existing chicken fried steak, as that's the more popular title. Just giving you a head's up to avoid surprises. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:36, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have a question

Hi I am not sure what to do about this but something drastic has happened to the article that I created as The Plain Truth. What I created was a non-POV and factual article, now it rambles on about "Rev. Armstrong" - a term that does not belong in the article. The last version I created was on 17:45, 9 Dec 2004 and now it looks like someone has deliberately screwed it up into a big ramble. I can see why you added your remarks but what you are commenting on is after the vandalism. I want to give you a head's up that I am going to repaste the last copy mentioned above to a new copy in order to restore it. Please take another look and see what I am rambling on about. Thanks. MPLX/MH 05:50, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, honest. I misundestood what had happened. I saw the bot change then your two edits and your notes which did not seem to correspond with the text - especially when I noticed a link for Jehovah's Witnesses that had a misspelling and did not work and the addition of "Roman Catholics" which did not work either. That plus the "Rev" bit led me to assume that something was amiss. Sorry if I upset you, but I do appreciate your response. But by the time your answer cropped up I had just seen your comment on the Talk page, so I commented there. I would like to discuss this with you. Please take a look at the Talk page and see what I wrote. I may not be able to get back with you until Monday, depending on a water heater problem that I have to fix tomorrow. MPLX/MH 06:19, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments - I really do appreciate them and yes, I would like to work with you in order to create an "omnibus" of related articles on Armstrong. I also agree with your approach against personal attacks which get into the more seamy side of things. I related that which should be related, for instance I created a page for Michael Dennis Rohan and contributed the religious notes on the Bobby Fischer article. Both seem to be totally nuts but I have tried to treat them with some degree of respect within the articles or at least show a point of reference for their actions. I have already created bios for Basil Wolverton and Art Gilmore and started to disassemble the articles on "Anglo-Israelism" and "British Israelism" in order to create a series of cross-referenced pages leading to a Lost Ten Tribes (disambiguation) page. This in turn has created more links to the Stone of Scone and all of its various names and the Pentecostal movement which had a big hand in the Lost Ten Tribes theory. I also wanted to undo someone's comments linking Armstrong with antisemetic Christian Identity. There are more pages on this but I am also creating other pages that are not directly related but related to my own interest group. I am really here to practice because I have a project that I want to get off the ground in 2005 and Wikipedia and its software is something that I think is the wave of the future. My interest is in the Plone-Zope platform but I admit to being a writer and not a geek. Right now I need more geek than writing knowledge. Anyway, back to square one I don't know how to make a template either. Perhaps we can rope in someone else who can so that we can join all of these articles up. There should be illustrations and pictures up there as well. MPLX/MH 04:44, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Template for WWCG etc.

I went to another article and discovered how they had put their template together and then modified it:

It has a basic list but can be added to. I have inserted it at the very bottom of each page just above the Category. It is tailored to each page with a different heading on each one - but same contents except for the content of that particular page. I am trying to build an omnibus of all of the different Lost Ten Tribes theories right now with are found via: Lost Ten Tribes (disambiguation). Please add your two cents worth to the template. I am sure other things should be linked. MPLX/MH 05:19, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Holocaust denial

The conversation has resumed on the Talk:Holocaust denial page; you might want to take a look. Jayjg | (Talk) 22:13, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

John Glenn and the Kennedys

Hi

Please see what I wrote in Talk:John Glenn, which relate to information that you added there.

Thanks

eman 22:48, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Zentraler Sanit�sdienst

Hmm, if Central Medical Services is only ever known by its german name, I figure we should move it to [[Zentraler Sanit�sdienst]]. That's how Bundeswehr and Stasi are, for example. -- John Fader (talk · contribs) 00:11, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re: Iglasia Ni Cristo

Improved article

Your welcome. As a former member, I want to make sure that both sides get equal treatment. Back when I was a member (circ. 1999), I was concerned about how the Internet had mostly negative bias against INC. --LBMixPro^{(Holla back!)} 01:41, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Edit War affecting link vote

Hey, I need your help with the INC edit war. I noticed you made a vote in the INC links section dispute. The links section was changed during the voting period between 06:28, May 19, 2005. and it's current edit of 2 pro to 4 con. "Delete One" may now have different meanings to different voters. Since you voted before, please include a view to view ratio such as 2 pro to 3 con, or 1 pro to 1 con) in order to clarify your vote. Sorry for the inconvienence. As as sysop, what can you do to prevent these page reverts? Can you lock the page or something? --LBMixPro^{(Speak on it!)} 02:29, May 20, 2005 (UTC)

Banned editor Emico

Rlquall, I would like to call your attention to this talk page. It appears Emico (a editor who has been banned by the ArbCom), or someone who is acting on Emico's behalf is starting trouble between the Wikipedia community. I've already talked to TheoClarke (talk · contribs) who's been the sysop in charge of the INC pages lately. I'm not comfortable with this, and I'm calling for your help. --LBMixPro^{(Speak on it!)} 03:23, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Admin nomination?

Hey Rlquall, would it be OK if I nominated you to be a Wikipedia admin? Would you have any interest in being an adminstrator? Basically that just means that you have the ability to delete or protect pages and rollback vandalism. You certainly have enough Wikipedia experience to merit it, IMO. Kaldari 21:59, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You have now been nominated for adminship. Please go here to accept the nomination and briefly answer the candidate questions: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rlquall. Good luck. Kaldari 01:53, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You should probably answer the candidate questions ASAP, as they are an important factor in whether or not people will vote to approve you. Hope I'm not putting you on the spot, I just think that your editing experience would make you a good candidate. Kaldari 04:33, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

On the question about admin chores, you should probably mention how having access to admin functions will help you as an editor, ex. better protect controversial articles against vandals, etc. You may also want to consider some of the tasks commonly done by admins - facilitating Votes for Deletion, Arbitration, etc. and see if any of them interest you. Of course how much you want to bite off is entirely up to you :) Kaldari 05:02, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Response

Well, you're very welcome. I have faith in your capabilities, and I appreciate your kind words. I remind you that User:Alex S inspired my talk page design. Also, I read and fully enjoy CAD; nobody knows video games like Tim Buckley. Thanks again for the flattery.  ;) --Merovingian (t) (c) (w) 05:06, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Mount Olivet Cemetery

Wow, I can't believe we both started articles about Mt. Olivet Cemetery on the SAME DAY! What are the odds? Looks like I beat you by a few hours though ;) I'll go ahead and merge them... Kaldari 22:13, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Mayors of Nashville

Once again, we are thinking the same thing. I agree that the Mayors of Nashville should be expanded to include pre-Metro mayors. I've already written an article for one of the more prominent pre-metro Mayors, Thomas A. Kercheval. Maybe I can find some info on them at the downtown library. Any other suggestions for resources? Kaldari 01:27, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. Please be especially careful about blocking logged-in users because of the ill will that can result when that is done without careful consideration. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful.

The Uninvited Co., Inc. 02:02, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! Welcome to the kabal. dbenbenn | talk 01:49, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sanatorium not in Wiktionary

I searched for Sanatorium in Wikipedia. The following was displayed: This needs to be improved beyond "dic-def" status, and the current article moved to Wiktionary, IMHO. When I went to Wiktionary the term Sanatorium is not found. Please help.Swami Vimokshananda 15:49, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your encouraging words! How to submit an article to you? by email? I am still groping in finding the links! Swami Vimokshananda 02:51, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The blocked message

If you look at the history of this page, you'll see that the message wasn't really left by RickK, but by a vandal. You owe RickK an apology. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 11:34, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Made contritely.

Rlquall 21:37, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Francis Townsend

Thank you for your recognition there, though I don't see I did all that much, to be honest, other than pipe some of the links through. It's cool to be recognized, though. :) [[User:Bobo192|Bobo 192_{[Contributions]]]} 21:36, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Centennial Park

Awesome job on the Centennial Park article! I'll see if I can get down there one of these days to take some photos for it. Kaldari 22:35, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

U.S. Highway 70S

Guess I should stick to editing things I know more about :) For some reason I thought highways followed the same naming conventions as interstates, where the 'S' would indicate direction you're traveling on it rather than the location of the road, but I stand corrected. Thanks for clearing up my confusion. Kaldari 14:05, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Borgolf

My only objection really is that none of the article is verifiable. Doing a search for borgolf on Google turns up nothing, and there are no sources in the article. It seems to all be original research. Although I have to admit the article is quite entertaining. Probably a good candidate for Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense. Kaldari 00:33, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

borgolf

I dont know if it's "original research" any more so than summarizing the plot of a tv show episodes, about which there are thousands of wikipedia articles. I did not invent borgolf, but I did play it that weekend in nashville, along with dozens others. I don't know about campus newspaper coverage; I know my school did not write any articles about it yet. As for verifying it is being played on other campuses, several friends at those schools have confirmed it, and how would they even _know_ about it if as you say it does not Google? Hope this answers your questions ---FoodMarket ^talk! 04:17, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks (indoor soccer)

Hi Rlquall,

Thank you for your note regarding adding the disambig to indoor football. Indeed the football-naming debate seems to go on and on! We simply need to acknowledge that Wikipedia has international scope, that the term football has different meanings in different contexts, and that as such we must ensure our articles are as navigation friendly as possible when it comes to finding the information we want on a specific topic.

Cheers, --Daveb 12:38, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

greetings from a fellow Statlers fan

Dear Rlquall, Just wanted to say "hi!". good to see a Statler's fan on wiki, i presume judging from your contribution to their article. all the best! Mayumashu 17:57, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wish i would have watched the show the Statlers had when i had the chance (TNN was cable tv where i lived then - now i live in Japan, believe TNN is no longer cable in Nova Scotia where i grew up, and of the course the show is no longer made [was cut?]) all a shame, so i try making up for it enjoying wiki for one! i can imagine the Statlers would be great jokers - their tunes are great for one for their take on the ironies of life. like to say too if i were to travel in the States, Tennessee s always been at the top of my list - seems like an interesting place. good talking to ya dude - all the best! Mayumashu 02:45, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

A misspelled link

Hi, the link [[Lomardy]] you've added HERE leads to nowhere – but I'm not sure whether you meant Lombardy or Lombards, so please correct it yourself. CiaPan 15:33, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Barren Fork River

Hry, thanks for you note. To be honest, I don't even remember putting that cleanup tag on, it was over a month ago! It must have been during some frenzied, late-night Random Page patrol. If it looks fine to you it's fine with me. For future reference I'll not be offended at all if you take it off without talking to me first. --Dmcdevit 22:41, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Iglesia Ni Cristo

I need your help regarding user:emico. He has consistently tried to spread pro-INC bias towards the Iglesia ni Cristo, Felix Manalo and Erano Manalo articles, while his userpage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Emico) shows a complete disregard for Wikipedia rules. He has already tried to revert the Bereans article back into his own personal bias and seems that he will not stop until the entire Wikipedia has been placed in line with his POV. I would appreciate it if you could talk to him about stopping this on the talk pages of the Iglesia ni Cristo, Bereans and Manalo articles. Thank you. --Onlytofind 04:55, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Emico has become more obnoxious and less willing to listen to reason since that point, and two other users, RayGirvan, DJ Clayworth and I agree that he should be banned from editing articles on a RFC page I started Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Emico. I would sincerely appreciate your input when you have the time.--Onlytofind 21:50, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Humanbot

Hi, I noticed you cleaned up some of my inadvertant mess in Liberia. I used a tool called humanbot, which has some bugs (removing "+" signs). See User talk:Humanbot. I manually checked all my humanbot edits, and reverted when necessary.

There were still issues in Liberia after your edits, so I reverted to the version before I touched it.

Thanks for the help.

Econrad 02:37, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nashville neighborhoods

Before we do comprehensive work on Nashville neighborhoods, I'd actually like to see more work done on the main Nashville article. It's still pretty lacking in a lot of areas, IMO. It would be awesome if we could develop it to the point of splitting off subarticles for history, culture, media, etc. I think the minor neighborhoods should be low priority, but of course I'm not going to object if you feel like working on them :) Kaldari 21:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree that Memphis's neighborhood list is way too red-link heavy. I think the best way to do it would probably be to have a link from the main Nashville article to a List of neighborhoods in Nashville, Tennessee article. Then that list would list all the neighborhoods, but only link the ones that actually had articles (since I don't imagine that all the neighborhoods will ever have their own articles). Kaldari 22:28, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'd be glad to help contribute to the Nashville neighborhoods project. Just let me know how to get started. -Ichabod 01:33, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Per your query, I'm inclined to think that taking the Nashville article down to the neighborhood level would be overkill. The state of the Memphis list seems to indicate low interest/demand for fine details of this type. So I'd vote no.

On the other hand, I don't think there's any reason to be offended by lots of red links. On the eventualist principle, if the link is worthwhile, the wiki can wait until the content appears. So if you feel strongly about it, have at it and just have patience. RivGuySC 02:11, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

EMERGENCY:Input needed on the Iglesia ni Cristo page

It seems that all discord has broken loose, and the Iglesia ni Cristo members are trying to start an edit war on the Iglesia ni Cristo to push it towards their POV, against Wikipedia rules. Please check the talk section of this page and give your input. Things are getting much worse!--Onlytofind 08:56, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nashville sit-ins nominated

I've nominated Nashville sit-ins for the U.S. Southern Collaboration of the Week. If you think it's a worthy topic, stop by and vote for it. Thanks. Kaldari 02:06, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Green Party of the United States, page move vote

Regarding the discussion at Talk:Green Party (United States)#Merge?, I have suggested a move. Please see Talk:Green Party of the United States, and consider voting. --65.28.237.180 03:04, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Tennessee Supreme Court

I did some major editing on the Tennessee Supreme Court article to correct some inaccuracies and elaborate on the Tennessee Plan. However, in the process I'm afraid I may have made the whole section a bit tedious. I was wondering if you could take a look and give a second opinion. Maybe we should spin off a separate article for the Tennessee Plan. Or maybe it's fine how it is. Feel free to edit it however you think would improve it or offer suggestions for me to polish it up. Thanks. Kaldari 20:00, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Date linking

Hi Rlquall, I wonder if you are aware of this quote from Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Avoid overlinking dates:

"Simple months, years, decades and centuries should only be linked if there is a strong reason for doing so."

This is actually a slightly controversial issue at the moment, and there has been some high feeling. Edits like this are likely to upset some people. Snottygobble 02:13, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree; I would like to see every year linked once, but in most cases to articles like 1983 in Australia rather than 1983. But some people are a bit wound up about the issue of date linking at the moment, so this is possibly not a good time to be bold. Snottygobble 02:32, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Your idea seems like a good call to me. However, I am the first to admit that is of very little to no significance to probably about 99% of Wikipedia users, and, I dare say, even a majority of frequent editors. I'm going to just let it go for now, even though I believe that every year mentioned in an article should have siginficance to that article. In other words, if I were to be a topic (and I'm not) I think that it would be pefectly useful to say "In 1980, Rlquall completed the university studies that he had begun in 1975." Of course, it would be ridiculous to say something like, "In 1980, Rlquall completed the university studies that he had begun in 1975 and continued in 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979," but that would be garbage writing in any event. Rlquall 02:35, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Dominionism

Template:Dominionism has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.    GU�S�EGN   – [[User:Gu�s�egn|U]][[User talk:Gu�s�egn|T]][[Special:Emailuser/Gu�s�egn|E]]X – 21:27, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Unblock request

My apologies - it looks like the autoblocker was triggered and you were inadvertantly blocked. It should be okay now. --HappyCamper 18:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

comma placement

When writing articles, please use commas appropriately. Anytime you begin a sentence with "In (year)" and then proceed to say "blah blah blah happened," a comma should follow the year. Thanks. --Zpb52 04:44, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

• Which article was specifically wrong in this usage? Rlquall 10:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Almost all of the Nashville radio articles you authored, plus the two defunct insurance company articles. --Zpb52 18:54, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
    • I'll work on this, and am glad that there are Wikipedians that are sticklers for grammar. I'm assuming that you have corrected most of this, and I don't have to fix these articles, huh? Question: are you the main author/creator of the Nashville radio templates? --Rlquall 20:48, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
      • Yeah, most of the problems have been corrected. And yes, I created the FM template, not the AM template. --Zpb52 02:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
        • Since you're technically sharp, would you consider updating/expanding the Nashville AM template to reflect that some of the callsigns/freqs have changed? --Rlquall 02:16, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
          • I'll get around to it when I have time. I'll put it on my to-do list. --Zpb52 02:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Gospel Advocate

Thanks to Rlquall

Thanks for taking the plunge and starting the Gospel Advocate article! Alan Canon 16:38, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

A Street Downtown

Hey there; thanks for the note about this article. The only work I did on it was to hit it with a proposed deletion tag and forget to put it on my watchlist so I could see if the PROD was removed. Which it was... and replaced a few days later by someone else. I'm going to AfD that right now. Thanks for noticing it and reminding me! Tony Fox 21:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

You're quite right. AfD is up, if you want to express that opinion there. Cheers! Tony Fox 21:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

guardian of the H. Stuart Hughes

Hi Rlquall... you seem to be the guardian of the H. Stuart Hughes page, and, as a graduate of Deerfield Academy, I check up on the school's page from time to time. I recently added H. Stuart Hughes to the list of notable alumni, but I can't find confirmation in any non-wikipedia sources of his having attended Deerfield. Any help would be appreciated.

Oliver Barry

Oliver, the source for this statement is HSH's memoirs, Gentleman Rebel.

In the future, please ad your comments to be bottom of pages rather than the top if you would as this is considered to be better form. I will leave this for a few days in hopes that you will check back. Also, in the future, please sign with four tildes, ~~~~ along with or in lieu of your name. Thanks,Rlquall 21:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

State Routes in Tennessee

"Tennessee State Route X" is not the name used by TDOT. The highways are named "State Route X", and standard disambiguation is to put the state in parentheses. That way we don't have articles saying "Tennessee State Route X runs from Tennessee State Route Y past Tennessee State Route Z to Tennessee State Route W". You may also wish to read Wikipedia:Pipe trick if you are not aware of it. --SPUI (T - C) 14:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Where are you seeing "Tennessee State Route X" as "fairly common"? Google News has no results for it (and a number using "State Route" for routes in Tennessee). --SPUI (T - C) 14:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps I should bow before Google, that new canon of revealed truth, but I will reassert that "Tennessee State Route X" has often appeared in print. "State Highway" would be even more common IMO if you care to check it. Due to Tennessee's numerous and lenghty borders due to the configuration of the state, it has been necessary to differentiate between Tennessee state routes and those of other states in writings based here more than in many other jurisdictions; also Tennessee has the unfortunate habit of reusing, sometimes in fairly close proximity, State Route numbers with numbers that are also used by other, separate, U.S. highways, sometimes even nearby ones (i.e., State Route 64 runs only a few miles north of U.S 64 in Tennessee for much of its length). Rlquall 14:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

If you need to distinguish from other states you can use the redirects or word it differently. As for US 64, that's a non sequitur - what's wrong with talking about State Route 64 and U.S. Route 64? --SPUI (T - C) 15:38, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

It's certainly much less of a problem in an encyclopedic context than it is in real life, where it's much harder to disambiguate and one has to constantly ask or say, "Do you mean State 64 or U.S. 64?" Rlquall 15:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Note that there is an ArbCom regarding this. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 02:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Bellevue

Yes, my argument is that everything in Metro Nashville is incorporated as part of Metro Nashville. I have always accepted the definition of an unincorporated community as being one that has no municipal general services and no representation. While it is true that these cities in Nashville-Davidson are not autonomous, they do have representation in the Metro Council and they do have municipal services. If we're going to look at Bellevue and Madison and Hermitage as unincorporated, we should look at Nashville itself as unincorporated. --Zpb52 23:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

• I see your point, but still, when I think "unincorporated", I think about those small towns in rural counties with nothing more than a boarded-up gas station and a flashing yellow light. Lumping Davidson County's communities in with those makes for an unfair assessment, in my opinion. And, I technically never was a Nashvillian. I never lived in Davidson County. I was legally a resident of Mt. Juliet my entire life, including when I was living in Murfreesboro for college. I am now a legal resident of Alabama.--Zpb52 03:17, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't know what you'd call them except perhaps "sections" or "areas". --Zpb52 06:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to the Clarksville, Tennessee article

Outlaw field does not have a control tower. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.127.231.7 (talk • contribs)

• Living in Clarksville, I don't believe it has one either. It's just a strip basically. -- Riffsyphon1024 18:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Looks like it's just going to stay wrong. Must be an example of Wikiality.
    • Actually, I'm kind of glad it's there. It's now the article I use as an example of Wikipedia's general inaccuracy. When an administrator of all people will allow inaccurate, unsourced information to remain, what hope does Wikipedia have?

John Y. Brown, Jr.

I read your comments on Talk:John Y. Brown, Jr. and removed the statement you questioned in accordance with Wikipedia policy on unsourced statements. --TommyBoy 21:09, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Bros. Marshall Keeble and B. C. Goodpasture

Hey, Rlquall! I'm already a *big* fan of what I've seen you write. And I do edit these days with you on my subconscious editorial board.

Of course I liked your edits! I am envious that you encountered these people, as well, big time.

If you didn't see, there's audio of Marshall Keeble on the web. Find it: it'll take you back, in a good way. Peace, and here's hoping we make some more good edits.

My one idea in my contributions, my theme, I guess, is, what can I think up to write that everyone will say "oh, yeah" too, and no one will feel violated on. I must say it is a singular exercise. And I am glad of the help from people like you. Alan Canon 05:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Caving

Don't I know it! The heights (depths?) are my bete noir in the cave too. (In Mammoth, drops max out at 150' but you wind up doing millions of 60' drops in your career, that's how it goes.) Talk about weakness in faith, even in the engineering discipline of static rope making: I'm 60 feet up, hanging from an 11mm rope that could probably hold up my house, even if the rope were on fire, and all I can think about (ascending or descending) is how that rope in front of my face is going to break in the next five seconds for no reason just like it does in the movies. But as you know there are compensatory factors in caving too, like the family of people you wind up in, and the endless variety of Nature that can be seen in any 10cm patch of cave wall. Alan Canon 04:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Steve Cohen

Hi Rlquall, thanks for your compliments on the Steve Cohen article. If I did remove Cohen's occupation from the article at some point, I can assure you it was accidental. Feel free to re-add it to the article. It does mention that he has a J.D. and practiced law for four years before turning to politics, but perhaps there's more to the story that I've missed. · j·e·r·s·y·k·o talk · 13:07, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Keeble in Nigeria

I found the info about his travels in Roll Jordan Roll and put together a paragraph that includes his links with Nigerian Christian Hospital. I don't think he had any link whatsoever to Palmer Hospital, but if you have other info, please add it. Also, I put in a couple of references, but I don't know the proper style, so correct it if it's wrong. Thanks --Danny Reese 16:03, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment. Also, I'm quite impressed with the number of clean-up edits you do. Keep up the good work. About Angola: when peace came in 2002 after its 41 years of internal war, we started preparing to move there, since for the next decade or so of rebuilding people will probably be the most open to Christ and His word. We've been studying Portuguese for a couple of years now, off and on. --Danny Reese 13:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Lodge Committee

Thanks for your edits to Lodge committee. I created the page almost a year ago, and just rcently wikipedians have started to show an interest, I look forward to your future edits and working together! Travb (talk) 19:16, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Interesting comments on my talk page. I went to the "peace corps" to Odessa, Ukraine (third world peace corps volunteers called it the "posh corps"). You bring up a really great point about the contradictions in conservativism: anti-big government but pro military. I am a far left liberal myself. Interesting we agree on this. I have never been to the Philippines, but took an interest in the Philippine-American War last year. Thanks for your comments. Travb (talk) 19:39, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

thank you for the intellectual tidbits on my talk page, I archive my comments often (usually) when someone says something mean to me, which is often. So although your comments are not on my talk page, they have been kept in the archive.

The interesting thing about the Philippine-American War was the impunity with which the brigadier general, and other top ranking officers bragged about their war crimes: this is the difference between then and now. It is very easy to give brigadier generals token sentences when they brag openly in the press about how many Filipinos they slaughtered, and give written orders to kill every male over 10.

The real mystery is that for some reason, it was okay to brag about killing Indians, but a decade or two later, it was a war crime to massacre indians. I don't know exactly what changed in America--but I guess this is some kind of progress.

I think part of the reason that America's attitude on war crimes changes was because the excuse for starting the Spanish American War was Spainish war crimes against the Cubans, including concentration camps. We were entering the war to "liberate" the Cubans. (Nevermind what happened after, including the concentration camps which Americans set up in the Philippines themselves.) Also, around the same time, the savargery of the concentration camps in the Boer War was reported across the world.

Whereas Indians were seen as simply livestock to move out of the way, Cubans, Filipinos, etc. were seen as actual people, albiet inferior people, who needed to the guiding assistance of their big brother America, i.e. The White Man's Burden. Why did this attitude and image of people change? I am not sure. Do you know any books which address this puzzling question?

Need to read Texas Civil Procedure. Signed: Travb (talk) 16:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Indoctornee

As I told the other person, I have no problem with either term. They both mean the same thing anyways; a student of a certain doctorine. But I never noticed the negative connocations of the word "indoctornee", even though I believe someone who is subject to an "initiation" is a different story. BTW, I'm proposing a WikiProject which is dedicated to INC coverage at Wikipedia:WikiProject/List_of_proposed_projects#WikiProject_Iglesia_ni_Cristo. Instead of creating the project, I'm asking the community here if there's going to be enough interest for it to be worth existing. If you're interested, please sign your name there --LBMixPro ^{<Speak|on|it!>} 04:08, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought the same thing as well, especially those who are inducted into a Hall of Fame of some sorts. The Worldwide view template was based on a WP:GA suggestion, asking if there was more coverage of INC activity other than the Philipines. With Onlytofind/Ironbrew talking about the old times which INC used to suggest who to vote for during the 20th century, there must have been something written in Pasugo about politics. BTW, are you aware of the arbcom decisions regarding certain editors to the article?

Looks like that one's just Emico. Unfortunately, he seemed to think that the INC page should consist solely of what he thought and/or agreed with. There were/are a few others pretty much like that. I think that the POV and edit wars seem to have lessened and that the article is far better. I as an outsider found it to be POV-laden and potentially slanderous when it was first brought to my attention. I don't even think that I was an admin then; if I was I had just been made one. I did the best I could for a while to try to calm everything as a "neutral", neither a current member nor a disgruntled former one, just someone who has an interest in religion and the Philippines, where my father spent some of the closing months of World War II and had very vivid memories, and where his niece, my cousin, later went with the Peace Corps. (Now I have a neighbor who is married to a Filipina whom he seems to be totally unable to get cleared to come over here to the states.) Rlquall 05:13, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

We all figured it's just emico. I'm on the verge of issuing a community ban similar to User:PoolGuy's permanently banning him from Wikipedia, the next time he disrupts the articles. It's been a year, and he basically doesn't care about the resolutions the arbcom has given. We've tried to assume good faith in his anonymous edits (assuming he's not emico for one), and it failed miserably. When I first came across the article in 2004, it basically said that INC was a cult. INC's internet policy does not help INC at all with the Wikipedia situation, unlike Jehovah Witnesses who have many editors covering their religion. That is the major reason why I still maintain that article. Appearently nobody (execpt about 5 or 6 people) care about INC at Wikipedia, and the article can easily slip into POV by the ones who strongly feel what they feel of the subject (there's an editor named Coffeemaker who is on the other side of the opinion pole, but he isn't as disruptive as Emico). Hmm.. I've noticed that most of the main editors to the INC article are from admins now: I, Theo, you and Jondel.

Gaumont Pictures

On Gaumont Pictures, you are absolutely correct. There has been no questions to the links, or validity of the company past connected with present, which I find very strange. If you will notice on a similar article American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, the article has been torn apart word for word with much heated debate. Yet, this one and others like it are untouched. Why is this? Read the archives "Talk" section in the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company article, and see. We should do every article with such scrutiny, but without the bias. Even I was harassed at changes I made, which will soon be corrected. Let me know of any ideas on citing of facts on Gaumont Picture, and will be happy to take your lead. --Roger the red 02:34, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

F.Y.I.: Sons of Confederate Veterans Article

Please see: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sons_of_Confederate_Veterans#Notice_of_Intent_To_Request_Mediation.2FArbitration>

Very Best Regards, --Black Flag 10:31, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

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I am indeed grateful that you took personal time and effort to comment on the SCV issue. I also deeply appreciate the caliber of the thoughts you posted.

Very Best Regards,

--Black Flag 07:30, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

P.S. By the way, "Darwin's Speculative and Unworkable Scheme..." that was quite funny!

--Black Flag 12:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I thought you might be interested in this: Regarding the term "War Between the States"
--Black Flag 07:44, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hello again. I had sent the above-message to you before Rjensen responded (with bizzare comments) to the subject-matter post. I had thought you might have found the original content I had posted of interest, and I was unaware that Rjensen would react the way he did. In any event, I find the subject of the history/origin of the various "names" for the war fascinating -- I am not fighting a crusade to compel people to use the term W.B.T.S. or any other terminology.
;- )
--Black Flag 05:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for your well-reasoned and articulated comments at the SCV talk page. · j e r s y k o talk · 16:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Those sound like perfectly reasonable edits to the Memphis article. I think the applicable policy would be WP:NOR. · j e r s y k o talk · 17:51, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Montgomery Bell

In the article about Montgomery Bell it states that the town of Bellsburg, TN is named after him. This is incorrect. My g-g-g grandfather Shadrick Bell is the namesake of the town. The two Bells are not related as far as I can tell. Montgomery was from Pennsylvania and Shadrick was from North Carolina. Shadrick moved to the area around 1813 and bought about 1000 acres along the Cumberland River where the Johnson Creek boat ramp is now.

This is not just family lore, there is a book - "Bellsburg, Dickson County, Tennessee" by Vaughn and Mary Elizabeth Fults (1976. Private publication) that tells the history of Bellsburg and supports the fact that the town was named after Shadrick Bell. I have done extensive research about the Bell family and the history of the area in Dickson County where they settled. I can give you more info if you wish.

Thanks Scott Martin

Scott as you didn't leave any way to contact you such as a Wikipedia screen name, so I just hope you'll read this. Hope that you will establish one and edit accordingly. Also, please know that there are instances where privately published sources can become suitable for citation in Wikipedia articles and the one that you cite sounds as if it has potential as such. Is the book you cite in the local history room in the Dickson County Library? This would also mean that the Bellsburg article would need to be edited. Yes, I very much wish to lean more about Shadrick Bell, and other pertinent facts about Bellsburg, through which I have often passed. Rlquall 01:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Request for neutral party

I have asked Jerseyko and Black Flag to take a look at the article titled "Neo-confederate". I have listed some of my objections to this article on the Talk page of the article. I noticed you have edited from time to time, so your help is welcomed. Thanks! --Fix Bayonets! 08:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Regarding SCV factionalization

Since I quoted you regarding this issue, I think I should let you know I did. (In the discussion, when I am referencing "YOUR OWN WORDS," the term "YOUR" does not mean you {Rlquall} personally, but other editors. In the specific instance in which I did quote you, I provided a clear reference). Thanks! --Fix Bayonets! 05:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

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I agree with F.B.'s statement that "I had thought [the parties in question] had been making progress on [the SCV] article... [but] no longer think so, and believe that things have taken an abrupt turn for the worse...."

What is your opinion on the question as to whether the draft section should remain excluded pending review/re-edit; or whether the draft section should be included in its present non-NPOV form?
--Black Flag 22:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Caving

Rlquall, could you tell me where and when you did your caving? It's been months but I just picked up on your comment about it on my Talk page. I have caved with many men and women in Mammoth, including "grand old timers" such as Roger Brucker (well, okay, once) and mere "old timers" such as Tommy Brucker, Jim Borden, Darlene Anthony, Dick Market, Karen Wilmes, and James Wells. I count myself among the countless young people to have been touched by the many good people who sometimes live underground. It's a pretty "golden rule" motivated environment to find oneself in. FWIW, in the last couple years I found the newest (and all natural!) entrance to the Mammoth system (with James Wells.) A rush that others deserved more but I did it. Good segue into my midlife crisis, anyway. Alan Canon 05:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

You wrote:

Most of my caving was in the 1970's (when I was young & single!). I was the first one into one passage at Cumberland Caverns on a mapping trip with John Smyre and the Sullivan brothers (one of whom, Mike is now a Knoxville policeman and National Guard officer fairly recently back from Iraq; what became of Pat I don't know, last I heard he was in Ireland). I used to go to NSS events back then & am a lifetime member but haven't done anything in years other than VERY occassionally read the magazine. I'm still interested; my wife will tell you that my "ideal" vacation still involves seeing a commerical cave at some point during the trip, but I've never really succeeded in getting her interested in taking it beyond that. When I was at TVA for a little while in the late 1970's I was involved in searching for "cavities" in the rims of Tellico and the Raccoon Mtn. Pumped Storage; it was like getting paid to go caving and cave hunting (respectively). If you want more specifics (i.e., pre-development England Cove) I can share more. Regards, Rlquall 19:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Cumberland Caverns: do you know Bill Walter, of "The Longest Cave" and Blue Spring/Cumberland Caverns fame? I have been caving with him in Hidden River/Horse Cave and maybe once or twice in Roppel. Never, sadly, under Flint Ridge, since he was banned by the park in 1957 or so for getting busted with Louisvillian Charlie Fort coming out of Unknown (and I wasn't born 'til 1968.) Because of this he was never allowed into CRF: as a result, since Bill couldn't participate in what was at the time the focus of exploration in the longest cave in the world, he did the next best thing, surveying in the first and second longest caves in Tennessee. There were many others in Bill's category, all of those CRF old timers really, who regularly trespassed under Park lands and were never caught, but Bill and Charlie were. Bill is a good guy, and once told me a totally gross story about Charlie not fit for Wikipedia (but not really that bad.) Charlie, who must be fifty years younger than me, has been a fixture around Louisville for many different reasons: a local restaurant he frequented has a big poster detailing his adventures (it must have been a Courier-Journal article, reprinted and enlarged.) I have also seen Charlie Fort at the Bluegrass Brewing Company (a restaurant that serves beer made on the spot), gathered with maybe 5-6 other musicians, playing mandolin, I think, belting out some old standard. This was informally: he and a bunch of his friends had gone out on the town and toted their instruments along to deliver spontaneous "guerilla" music wherever they wound up. Being a punk/classical music player with affectations towards vaudeville, I was in a position to appreciate this. On another occasion, I attended a Louisville Grotto meeting, I think while Charlie was an officer (if he's still alive, I bet he still is.) The joke around Mammoth was that Louisville Grotto people were friendly people who talked about going caving (it is not true...they do hard core watery stuff in Breckenridge and Meade counties, now have their own cave reserve, and have been true ombudsmen for Louisville cavers for many decades.) But Charlie sort of validated this unfair characterization during the Grotto meeting during the "current scheduled cave trips" part of the meeting: he stood up and bellowed "I know ten leads in (some cave...) that we could do. I'LL TAKE YOU THERE RIGHT NOW!" To be like him at 75, or 37 for that matter. Alan Canon 07:23, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Pumped Storage? As in natural gas? I have a new programming job in that field. We are gauging the flow through pipelines scientifically by listening to the pipe with microphones.

TVA is part of my immediate family story. I have stood inside the powerhouse of Kentucky Dam many times. My mother grew up living on the last wooden hulled steam towboat on the Green River of Kentucky, then migrated to Grand Rivers just before Lake Barkley was flooded. Her dad was a towboat pilot and liked having his family on water so that he could move their whole home easily to a new work opportunity. When his wife made him buy land, he had the misfortune to have half of it flooded by the Corps to make Lake Barkley, then the other half condemned to make LBL. The lake part he could deal with: the river was our family's lifeblood and he could appreciate the public necessity of improving the inland waterways (if he was not too happy about the price they gave him.) But the making of Land Between the Lakes and the wholesale destruction of that regions vibrant tradition, he never could countenance or forgive. My parents live in Murray now and are volunteers three different ways, as volunteers in the US Coast Guard Auxilliary, as docents at the Elk and Bison Prairie near the Tennessee state line, and as part of a grass roots group called Between the Rivers Preservation Association. They have a historical research component, but the thing that they do that I like the best (and they do too) is to find forgotten burial sites in LBL, clean and preserve them, and then make careful archaeological/genealogical records of everything they find, with GPS coordinates, color photographs, interviews with descendants, like that.

I have the distinction of being the most recent person to find a natural entrance to Mammoth Cave, but I will tell you that when we connected our cave to Mammoth (after 18 months of looking), we discovered the connection under private land (the cave has been known to extend outside the Park since 1979), and the specific part of Roppel (Mammoth) that we connected to was the Hobbit Trail area, which was pioneered solo by none other than Bill Walter. He already, in doing so 30 some odd years ago, earned credit for pioneering a connection route from a natural entrance (Old Roppel/Coalition Chasm) into the Mammoth Cave system. So, I have the minor historical distinction of having compounded Bill's achievement, by showing that his route is accessable from not one, but two natural entrances. And Bill is still caving as he has for 60 year!

If you're ever in the Central Kentucky Karst with some hours to spare, I'll bring the hard hat. You simply must go caving with these new super bright LEDs...a carbide lamp is still used to mark survey stations and warm the hands. Alan Canon 07:23, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll try to take you up on this some time – your offer in:re the Central Kentucky karst. Hoping to take the wife to Lost River right outside of Bowling Green sometime. It is owned by Western Kentucky U. now and is very near the Potter Children's Home. I think that Dr. Nick Crawford, who was instrumental in getting the geohydrology program going at WKU, had a lot to do with getting the University involved in saving this site. He was active in the Nashville Grotto in the early 1970s while he was simultaneously working on his doctorate at Vandy (under Dr. Richard Stearns, among others, I believe) and teaching undergraduate courses at WKU. I have heard lots of the names of the Kentucky oldtimers at one time or another, but don't know as I have really met a lot of them. I did go to the old SERA Cave Carnival in Monterey, Tennessee in 1975 (the old KOA where we met has long since been replaced by a luxury bed & breakfast!) and a lot of Indianapolis guys were there. They talked about having to come to Kentucky to explore really major caves, which was all right in their eyes, they said jokingly, as no one from Louisville was much doing it anyway, which is right in line with your comments above. You touch on the sensitive topic of underground "tresspassing". I really always wondered just how good a surveyor you had to be to avoid it at times, since it is very easy to wander off of the land of the owners who have presumably given you permission to be there and to go inside and onto (under) someone else, although I doubt that the parties in question above had anybody's permission other than their own. Horse Cave is another cave I want to go into now that it has been cleaned up. I love the little town, although I understand that the little used book store with the good Hot Brown just about across the street from the cave entrance is now out of business. Pity. I used to work at a food service place that got a shipment of Dart foam cups (sometimes two) from the Dart cup factory in Horse Cave every weekday, and would always ask the drivers, if they had the time, about what was going on in the area, since I would say that it has been nine or ten years since I was last up there.

I really love LBL but am really troubled by its origin, as most of the people who were forced to abandon their homeplaces, many of which had been in their families for over 100 years, were very loathe to do so, and in retrospect received so little for their lands, even given the valuations of the era. It also seems to have been a project beyond the scope of anything that was actually envisioned under the TVA Act; I wonder what George Norris would have thought about it. I think that at least part of it was an effort by Federal law enforcement to depopulate an area known for moonshining and generally being remote and somewhat untameable. The large State of Tennessee Cheatham Wildlife Managment Area near me is of a similar origin; according to a nearby local police chief it was easier for the authorities to find a premise to depopulate this wild, rugged, and then-remote area, using "conservation" funds, than it was to make a serious attempt to govern or tame the inhabitants (including some of my maternal grandmother's family). What some of those old homeplaces could be worth today!

My late father tried, about 20 years before I was born when he was still living with his father and stepmother in Perry County, Tennessee, to get on as a laborer for the Kentucky Dam project (then generally referred to as "Gilbertsville") but somehow failed to be selected and later wound up moving to Nashville instead, where he stayed until the start of World War II. He took a rather convoluted path back to Nashville after the war. Discharged in Memphis, he went home to Perry County to be with his dying father, and then did a stint in Detroit with Detroit Diesel (just enough to be able to afford a 1941 Chevy with Vac-u-Drive, he later told me) before returning to Nashville and eventually being introduced to my mother by his grandad at the old Eastland C of C.

I am fascinated by old navigation locks, in part because I had a high school history teacher whose master's thesis was about the old James River Canal in Virigina (think that he was attending U Va when he wrote it) and in part because of a lifetime fascination that began when my father took me to Cheatham Dam on the Cumberland (Corpts of Engineers) and Kentucky Dam when I was a kid (Barkley still being under construction at the time). My old teacher, the last that I heard, was headmaster of the prestigious Westminster School in Atlanta now, so I guess that he's become a regular "Mr. Chipps". I have even visited the ruins of at least one of the old locks on the Green above the current head of navigation, which I suppose is now Paradise Steam Plant? If so, that is the first place that I ever officially visited while with TVA, as we were doing a feasibility study for how much of the siting survey for what is now the "coal washing" house could be done seismically and hence far more inexpensively than by traditional core drilling (as I recall, not much). Come to think of it, this would have been 30 years ago, give or take a month.

Finally, no, the Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage facility near Chattanooga has nothing to do with gas, other than perhaps an attempt by TVA to reduce their dependance on it. It consists of a lake made by blasting away the top of Racoon Mountain, which overlooks the Tennesse River Gorge (sometimes referred to as the Grand Canyon of the South or the Grand Canyon of the Tennessee) and a massive pumping facility. This setup uses off-peak generation to pump the water up the hill; when it is released it generates power by running the turbines used to pump it the other direction. It is inherently inefficent as it uses 4 kwh for every 3 generated, but in the energy business, as you know, timing is everything. It is so impractical to start up and shut down coal-fired plants to conincide with the demand curve during the day, and of course with nuclear plants it is impossible given current technologies. Rather than just dissipating the excess power generated (as used to be done by using idle dam turbine like giant electric motors) it can be "stored" in this manner. The former Union Electric was allowed to blow the top off of Taum Salk Mountain, the highest point in the state of Missouri, to build a similar, older project (1960s – think that they could get approval for that one today?). Projects like this allow TVA to have a ready source of hydro which has little impact on navigation or recreation planning involving the traditional reservoirs, and hydro is the only source of electricity at TVA which can be readily switched on and off, aside, of course, from their natural gas turbines. And guess what? Stills were found during the construction of the Raccoon Mountain project, too, mostly abandonned but at least one that was obviously still active until TVA arrived on the scene. Once again, TVA hand-in-hand with the "revenuers", by design or otherwise. Regards, Rlquall 13:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Request for Help

I have been falsly reported and accused here by User:Jersyko, because of these edits at the SCV page. If you feel that Jersyko's accusations are erroneous, I would appreciate your comment here.--Fix Bayonets! 22:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

RFC

I had received the following RFC notice:

"I invite you to comment on User:Fix Bayonets! user conduct rfc, which I started today. Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Fix Bayonets!. Thanks for any input you have. · j e r s y k o talk · 05:06, 7 November 2006 (UTC)"

Do you have an opinion on this matter? I find it interesting that the complainants are themselves frequently culpable of anti-Confederate POV pushing.--Black Flag 17:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I was about to invite you to comment on this matter if you like, but I see that Black Flag beat me to it. Consider this an invitation from me, as well. · j e r s y k o talk · 20:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

and Happy New Year!

Have a great 2007!--Black Flag 23:48, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

AutoZone

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. An article you recently created, AutoZone, has been tagged for speedy deletion because its content is clearly written to promote a company, product, or service. This article may have been deleted by the time you see this message. Please keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an advertising service. Thank you.

I sincerely don't know what you are talking about. Please consult the page's edit history; I didn't create a spamish, PR-type page like that and agree that the page as currently constituted is overly enthusiastic and unencyclopedic. However, I suggest that before you go around accusing people of spamming that you a) check edit histories to see who the real perpetrator(s) is/are and b) sign comments like this so that you can be readily communicated with. Rlquall 22:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Associated Students of the University of Arizona deletion

I attempted to nominate this pages for deletion, and it looks like the deletion was already agreed upon, but nonetheless never took place. I'm a little confused on how this will proceed. Thanks, and have a great new year. --Gpohara 04:55, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Notice that it is redlink so it is now deleted. A good section in the University of Arizona article would be great, but this should never have been a separate article and in any event contained no meaningful content to qualify as even a "sub-stub". Rlquall 22:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Hello, Rlquall. I too am curious as to why HCL is 'Jr' & not 'II'. There should be an explanation for this, on the article. Seems it was just the Lodge family's choice. GoodDay 18:53, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Bob Clement

Bob Clement, written mostly by you was vandalized (see http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/News/Off_Limits/2007/01/18/Off_Limits/index.shtml) and then stubbed by me because it has no sources as required by WP:BLP. 4.250.198.110 07:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Invitation

Discussion has commenced on the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company article. As you were the original editor of that article, I would like to invite you to join in this discussion so as to promote not only an informative and usefull article for wiki, but also one that covers all points of view. Please give us your thoughts and comments for format and content for this article on the discussion page. Thanks.

Mobile 01^Talk 00:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Holy Writ

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Holy Writ, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Kevin Smith 14:02, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

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Mendip Hills FAC

Thanks for your edits of Mendip Hills. I have now put it up as a Featured Article Candidate & comments, support or opposition is being recorded at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mendip Hills.— Rod ^talk 10:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposed: National Association of College Athletic Directors → National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics

It has been proposed to merge the content of National Association of College Athletic Directors into National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. Since you have previously edited one of these articles, I thought you might be interested. You're welcome to participate in the discussion if you like. --B. Wolterding 09:23, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

The Lawman is actually just Lawman

A tag has been placed on The Lawman, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Redundant of Lawman (TV series), on which the subject is covered at better length. The proper name of the series has no preceding article.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet very basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. CzechOut 20:53, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania in Atlanta!

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 09:49, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm aware you live in Tennessee; I'm just sending out the templates to out-of-state people who are active on Wikipedia and would probably be interested in the bid. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 09:49, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Music City Motorplex

I have a long standing request for an image of the Music City Motorplex. I understand that you live in Middle Tennessee. I don't know if you ever get to Nashville, but I would appreciate an image of the track. Or maybe you know someone else who could take the picture.

I drove through much of Kentucky and Tennessee including Frankfort/Lexington/Dollywood-Smokey Mtns./Nashville while on vacation several years ago, and I didn't take a picture of the track. Both states are beautiful and so are both capitol buildings. Royalbroil 18:33, 1 October 2007 (UTC)