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Hello, Robbiegiles

I congratulate on your first article, deaconess is far better than my first article (err...). You provided all the references, many external links, great job, mate, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you stick around and become a great contributor. You're well on the way already.

Again, welcome aboard! [[User:DO'Neil|DO'Иeil]] 06:44, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)

Coeur d'Alene (Tribe)

I'm glad you're reworking that article. It pained me to have to list it as copyvio because it was such a good article. You can effectively change the name of the article yourself to include the space. Just place the reworked version at Coeur d'Alene (Tribe) and then list the non-space page on VfD. BTW, I've checked some of your other edits. Great work! Keep typing.  :-) SWAdair | Talk 00:52, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Camassia

Howdy. I searched through the imagelist and couldn't find any file named Camassia-quamash.jpg or any variation thereof. Also, your contribution list doesn't show that you uploaded any such file. I'd suggest that you upload the file again. Sometimes that happens. Drop a note on my talk page if it still doesn't work for you. Ocon | Talk 19:05, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I see that you got the picture working. Don't forget to go to your image page for anything you upload and add copyright information and source info for your images. - Ocon | Talk 06:48, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I see that you are rather new to the Wikipedia community. well, for a newbie, you did a good job at Camassia. I did some tinkering and I think the article should withstand scrutiny.

On the other hand, as the description of Flora and Fauna is subjected to a number of rules, I advise you to read carefully these instructions :

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life Tree of Life and the codes behind it and the discussion page as well.
• Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(fauna) : Naming Conventions
• Wikipedia:How_to_use_tables : How to use tables
• [[1]] : Wiki Markup for tables (which is replacing the Html code)
• Converter from Html to Wiki markup

My main project is however the Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods, yes, snails and especially sea slugs. JoJan 09:58, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

List of U.S. national parks

I am not sure that adding the state they are in adds anything important to the list. Could you explain your reasoning? Why not size or age or nothing? The state will be prominent in each article. Rmhermen 23:51, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)

Can't say I understood your answer to this question. About categories, they are a new feature in the software added about a month or two ago - we don't have a really good feel for all the ways they may be used. You could try looking around Wikipedia:Category. Rmhermen 00:59, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)

Deaconess

The change that I made on purpose was to remove the colons from the ISBN references. (If you type "ISBN: 12345", it doesn't automatically make it a link, but if you instead type "ISBN 12345", it becomes a link.)

The other changes were accidents. Often, when some browsers edit a non-standard character (such as a special open-quote, or a special dash), the browser gets confused and replaces it with a question mark. These non-standard characters usually come about when someone cut-and-pastes from MS-Word. Anyway, thank for telling me; I went back and fixed it. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 05:14, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

Christian evangelicalism category

There has been a lot of discussion on the talk page for Category:Christian fundamentalism and evangelicalism to split that category into each of its two component parts, but apparently no one (including me) wanted to take the initiative to do all the re-categorizing work. Seeing that you have created this new category, however, if you're in the mood to crank on this project, I invite you to consult that combined category as a raw source and go through to decide whether each article within it needs to be moved into one, the other, or both of the two new, more specific categories. I'm sure others of us will pitch in, but we are in need of willing elbow grease. --Gary D 20:54, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

Well, I can at least get started. I will be writing for the evangelicalism article over the next few weeks based on the 19th century historical aspect of Evangelicalism. I will do a bibliography as well. Then I will place my 'argument' or 'thesis' on the discussion page of Cf&e and Ce to have separate categories. If it doesn't fly, we can always go back to square one with the joint category. Let me get going on Ce before changing Cf&e. -- Robbie Giles 21:31, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

Heck, there's no need to tack your theses to the church door, Mr. Luther, we were all pretty much agreed the separation was probably a good idea; we were all just too lazy to do it ourselves, LOL! --Gary D 23:55, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

A P.S. on category titles: User:One Salient Oversight was talking about the category titles, "Fundamentalist Christianity" and "Evangelical Christianity" rather than "Christian fundamentalism" and "Christian evangelicalism", so that if/when we eventually split up the other double category, Category:Charismatic and Pentecostal Topics, the two new categories could then be "Charismatic Christianity" and "Pentecostal Christianity" as part of a consistent overall naming system, since none of us has come up with a suitable noun form or "ism" form for the adjective, "Charismatic". --Gary D 23:55, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)