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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a ]! Please ] on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out ], ask me on my talk page, or place <code>{&#123;helpme}}</code> on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!&nbsp; --]] 21:57, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC) I hope you enjoy editing here and being a ]! Please ] on talk pages using four tildes (~&#126;~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out ], ask me on my talk page, or place <code>{&#123;helpme}}</code> on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!&nbsp; --]] 21:57, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

== ] ==
The page on ] is still very similar to the Texas Handbook and can be considered a copyright violation. Can you please make the necessary changes so it does not read like an abridged version of that article. ] 03:09, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
**The changes have been made. Dralwik

== County name etymology formatting ==

Hi, I've noticed that you altered the list formatting I did to most of the U.S. county name etymology articles ( and , to name a couple). When the bullet-point wikicode is formatted like this:

* List item 1
* List item 2
* List item 3

the result is a single unordered list. However, when there are spaces between the bullets in the wikicode, like this:

* List item 1
* List item 2
* List item 3

the result is a separate unordered list for every single bullet; "List item 1" exists in a list of one item, "List item 2" exists in a second list of one item, and so on. Presumably, the effect you are after in doing this is to increase the amount of spacing between list items, but that is a matter best left to the ] defining the sitewide presentation (and, if you so desire, your own personal stylesheet which can be customized by editing ] - see ] for further information). I will most likely switch the formatting on these back, unless there is a specific reason you prefer these articles to be formatted as multiple lists, rather than a single list. Thanks! -- ] 21:13, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

== Another Etymologist ==

Salutations, Dralwik! <br>I came across your article on the Texas county etymologies a few weeks ago when I created the article on ] and the past fortnight have been working on a companion to yours, ]. Any thoughts on it? I see you were born in ]. I knew two things about Ottumwa. One, that Radar O'Reilly from ] was from Ottumwa, and two, ] was stationed there for a time in ]. Nixon was in the Navy, so it makes perfect sense for him to be in Iowa, n'est pas? Now I know a third thing about Ottumwa, Iowa. Keep up the good work re Texas. I had only 88 counties to do and you've got 254. Have you been tackling Iowa's 99 as well? Ave atque vale! ] 18:00, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

==Re:Another Etymologist==
About me taking on the Texas 254, the greatest number of counties in one state, now I'm taking on number TWO! Georgia's 159, ]. Also Iowa's 99 and ] 120. ] 22:54, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

**Oh, by the way, thanks for the ] info. I actually was a resident of nearby ], but I was born in the hospital in Ottumwa. Nice French:-)!
Sincerly, Dralwik.

:*Salve, Dralwik! <br>If you were a slacker, you'd do Delaware or Hawaii. ;) Ave! ] 14:48, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

== Texas etymology lists ==

May I suggest that on ] and ] (and any others) you remove the state name in the county/seat article link, and the repetition of the county/seat name at the beginning of each etymology?

For example:
*'']: Anderson is named for ], the last vice president of the ].''
would become:
*''] is named for ], the last vice president of the ].''

If you agree with this format, I can help you change the entries. - ] 02:06, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

**I prefer the current method. Thanks. ] 20:34, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

==Most common county names==
See ] when you have a minute... ] 23:15, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

==Remaining states==
Okay, but you're making me break my "no red-state edits" rule. :) Lucky for you my grandma's from Indiana so I have a soft spot for that state. :) ] 00:12, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
:]: DONE! :) Enjoy. ] 22:22, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)
:Okay, okay. :) Darn red states always seem to get their way. ;) Anyway, it'll be at ] until it's ready. Best (and Merry Christmas!) ] 05:45, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
:ND is done in case you didn't see. Going to take on Tennessee now. My rationalization ''this time'' is that my uncle and cousins live there. :) ] 19:01, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

==New Hampshire==
Just wanted to let you know there was a recent kerfluffle over ]. A WikiProject NH representative wants to roll it into New Hamsphire counties and redirect the page which I felt would ruin the rhythm of the state-by-state series. Anyway, things have a quieted down, I just wanted to let you know. Best. ] 20:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

==PedanticallySpeaking==
Salve, Dralwik! <br>I nominated myself for adminship at ] and would appreciate your vote. Ave! ] 19:44, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
::*Salve, Dralwik! <br>I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful ]. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave! ] 17:26, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

== Article Licensing ==

Hi, I've ] to get users to ] all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the ] Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 ]s or into the ] if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Misplaced Pages's license, the ], but it allows '''other projects''', such as ], to use our articles. Since you are among the ] Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
*] - Lots of questions answered
*]
*]

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "'''<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>'''" template into their user page, but there are other options at ]. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

:'''Option 1'''
:<nowiki>I agree to ] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:</nowiki>
:<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>
'''OR'''
:'''Option 2'''
:<nowiki>I agree to ] all my contributions to any ], county, or city article as described below:</nowiki>
:<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "'''<nowiki>{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}</nowiki>'''" with "'''<nowiki>{{MultiLicensePD}}</nowiki>'''". If you only prefer using the ], I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my ''']'''. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- ] (| ]

== Three suggestions ==

1. add comments to your revisions, so it's easier for others to know what you are doing
2. rather than making lots of small consecutive edits, use the ''preview'' button before saving one final edit.
3. when adding factual information to an article, add the source of the information to the reference list. Everyone's guilty of not doing this, not least me, but it's very helpful to be able to see where stuff is coming from, rather than going off on a hunt to validate it from other sources.

I'm leaving these comments because I've noticed you're making frequent alterations to ], without comments as to what you're doing, and changing the factual information without saying where your facts are coming from.

Thanks - ] 19:28, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

==Edit summary==
Hello. Please provide an ]. Thanks and happy edits. ] 23:53, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

--] 01:45, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

==My IP edits==

Hi Dralwik, ] recently tagged several of your subpages for speedy deletion. I'm guessing that you just forgot to sign in, but I wanted to make sure before deleting the pages. ]-- ] ] 05:05, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

==Sorry for reverting some IP edits==

''Hi Kelly, I noticed you reverted some IP edits on my userpage a few days ago. I just wanted to let you know, the friend's computer I was using wouldn't let me log on. But thanks for the reverts, any way, in most situations it's a world of help. :-) And, since you're a suburban Chicagoan, you might like ]. Happy edits, ] 12:16, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC).''

:In general I'm suspicious of IP edits of user pages. I don't revert all such edits, only those that look suspicious, and I guess those edits looked sufficiently suspicious to me, although in retrospect I can't imagine why. We've had a lot of trouble with random user page vandalism lately. Anyway, sorry for the trouble. ] 14:16, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

==Some more IP edits==

Recently, an anonymous user, ] (]&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;]), tagged a few of your user sub-pages for speedy deletion. For security reasons, I reverted those edits. If that was really you, please make sure you are logged in -- of course, a few have been having problems logging in and out since the software upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5 yesterday. Cheers. ] ] 30 June 2005 03:15 (UTC)

==User's main page edits==

Hey. On ] yesterday, you said:

''All the other years are linked, but 2003 isn't. Hmmmm...''

I don't get what you mean by that. Are you referring to content in ]? ] 2 July 2005 14:36 (UTC)

== ] ==

It's a shame that TfD is dominated by a handful of people with a grudge against large, useful navigational templates, and want to see them all replaced by smaller, incomplete, less useful ones. And for some of the more fanatical members, even that's not enough; they want to remove all navigational templates and force everyone to ''only'' use Categories to find related articles! Maybe lovers of big templates should mobilise ourselves and make a permanent presence on ] to argue against deleting them? Otherwise, this is just the thin end of the wedge! ] 11:21, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

==Chicago==

You're welcome. Please tidy up any double redirects... ]&nbsp;|&nbsp;] 00:04, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

:I can't seem to find any... Perhaps we need a bot to find them, as the wiki only displays the first 500 links to ]. ]&nbsp;|&nbsp;] 00:14, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==Cities==
Infinity seems about right. Anything else is POV and unnecessary. We can already link to the city name by itself if it's the most major city of that name, through the magic of redirects. --] (]) 01:33, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==Chicago skyline pic==

-Hi, I agree that the Skyline pic #3 should be on there, but I noticed that you put your vote in for #1. If you switch yours we'll have a clear majority for it. #3 makes Chicago look great, while #1 looks smoggy and doesn't even show the whole skyline. Its up to you. --] 19:48, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

==An Invitation from WikiProject Chicago==

{{ChicagoWikiProject-Invite}}

You seem to be a very experienced member of Misplaced Pages and we would really appreciate your help with the project. We are trying to bring Chicago up to featued article status and would very much like the help of a member who both knows the city of Chicago and who has a little experience. Please consider joining.
Thanks,
--''']'''&nbsp;<sup>'']''</sup> 04:58, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

==Chicago Picture Vote==

Hi,
I wanted to talk to you about your change of the ending date of the Chicago main page picture vote. I noticed that you changed the ending date to August 13th, this is much too long in my opinion, especially since I plan to nominate the article for Featured Article status ASAP and the lead picture is the last great hurdle. I understand your desire to make the voting period long enough for everyone to voice their opinions, but I feel that this is much too long. Please contact me if you object to this change as I would very much value your opinion.
Thanks,
--''']'''&nbsp;<sup>'']''</sup> 01:54, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

==My vote on the Chicago FAC==

Hi,
Could you elaberate on your comment about the Chicago lead section. I understand and agree with what you said about taking out some of the numbers, especially the area, but what kinds of things would you like to see added? I would like to keep some mention of the city's population in there becuase Chicago being large has a lot to do with its identity, it that ok with you? Please Advise.
--''']'''&nbsp;<sup>'']''</sup> 17:18, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

==] Historical Population==

Hi Drew,
you just added some interesting population statistics to the ] page. Could you please add their source, as well? (If you have already done so, and I missed it, I apologize.) ] 19:47, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

== Benazir Bhutto cleanup ==
Are you interested in joining the discussion of cleaning up ]? ]--] 03:16, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

==TerraServer-USA links==
Hi. ] contains a link to a subpage in your userspace. Userspace links from the main space aren't a good idea, as they break mirrors (who often, and quite rightly, only show the main article namespace). Can you figure out what a sensible solution for this problem is - perhaps to remove the link or move the linked material into the main article space? Thanks for your help. -- ] | ] 03:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

== Come and vote your mind ==

Dear Christian friend,

I saw you on the list of Christian Wikipedians and wanted to let you know about something. The other day, someone nominated 12 Christian biography entries for deletion! They include a Christian university list of people (not unlike 68 other lists like it), presidents of universities, and authors of many books.

Since that time, people have been voting. Please take this message as a call to vote; not a call to vote a certain way. I respect you and your ability to come, read the entry, and make a wise decision. In other words, I’m not vote stacking or campaigning; simply letting you know something that you’d probably like to know.

By the way, my friend recently started an organization called . If you’d like to join a network of Christians with a purpose on Misplaced Pages, please see the site!

Below are some of the links that need attention. Thanks for your consideration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Louisiana_Baptist_University_people_%28second_nomination%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Neal_Weaver

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jimmy_DeYoung

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/James_Combs

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Robert_Morey

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Daniel_Dorim_Kim

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/J._Otis_Ledbetter

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ron_Moseley

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mike_Randall

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Charles_Pack

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mal_Couch

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Thomas_Ice

God bless you,
] 06:58, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


==New Main Page Election talks ==

A discussion has begun on how to handle an official ]. To ensure it is set up sensibly and according to consensus, your input is needed there. --] 22:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

==Your signature==
Hi, do you really have to use that HUGE pic in your signature? I mean, I don't mind pictures, but not that big. I am sure you would hear more complaints latter on, but can you change it to some smaller icon? BTW, nice work on Chicago. ] 05:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
: I see you're using a template in your signature. A much better method for a custom signature I'd suggest (which I use for my signature) is the ]. If you prefer using a template, please substitute it per the guidelines at ]. // ] (<sub>''''</sub> / <sup>'']''</sup>) 00:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

==Hi Back==
Howdy! Good to know a fellow Iowa City person! ]

== Talk:Main Page ==

Hello. Thank you for archiving ]. But I'm going to undo some of it. I ain't sure if the dialogues are complete. I don't suggest removing anything less than 2 days old. -- ] 23:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
: It's okay. No need to apologise. We should all thank you for regularly cleaning the page up. I think we can gradually fill up archive 58 in the next day or so. Cheers. -- ] 00:05, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

== Regarding 'archiving' ==

I was just wondering where exactly the material you deleted was archived? The complete discussion isn't in the archive as far as I can see.

== Calumet Region ==

I too have been working on the Calumet articles, and I was wondering if the ] page should redirect to ] (a practically synonymous region) as opposed to the river page, which wouldn't be intended to describe what the region is (historic manufacturing zone, etc.). A better correlation between the river and the region could be made on the NWI page. Thanks, ] 19:29, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

==Category:Aspergian Wikipedians==
] which you have included on your user page has been proposed for deletion you can comment at ]. The is also a proposal to create an association to meet the needs of users with mental health conditions. --] (]) 18:35, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

== Pittsburgh TV Stations Template ==

The Pittsburgh Broadcast Stations template needs to be changed. ] is no longer a ] affiliate. ] went defunct on ], ]. The template should show that ] is currently an ].--] 06:49, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

==Template:USLargestCities==
Thanks for working on this template. Could you please spend a moment and write up in the template's talk the rationale for expanding the list to 75 and why it's cut off at this particular number? Thanks! &mdash; ] <sup>] | ]</sup> 15:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

== Wikimania bid ==

If it comes down to specifics, many MANY conventions will call themselves "Chicago" then actually book in someplace like Rosemont, Naperville, Lombard, etc. over hotel fees, room reservations, being able to get blocks of rooms, and generally lower taxes in the suburbs than the city proper. Many such suburbs are easily accessed of course by car and by Metra. I know of a few annual SF cons that do this for precisely these reasons. Lombard is supposed to get a convention center out by Yorktown Mall VERY soon. Naperville has considered it, but the plan was shelved. Rosemont, of course, has the Stephens Convention Center. Another angle to look at is see if any of the area colleges and universities want to take part at all, officially or unofficially (Naperville/Aurora/Lisle, for example, has North Central College, Aurora University and Benedicting University - this latter is KNOWN for bringing in speakers on "hot" topics). Just some possible ideas! --] 22:37, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

== Requested move: San Francisco, California -> San Francisco ==

Please vote at ]. Thanks. --] 18:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Now I'm in trouble for "vote stacking". I think you just have to watch the requested moves. The other way to go is start a project page to "professionalize" U.S. city names, and all of us watch that. --] 03:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Please watch my ] for updates to a list of cities where polls are created. Also, feel free to use the info on that page to create your own polls. --] 04:54, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

== Page movery again... ==

Remember how you moved ]? I just checked, it should actually be ], rather then the current "USA". Thanx again... ] 00:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

:Thanx. ] 00:51, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

== WikiProject Iowa ==
Hello, I noticed that you edited an article related to, or expressed interest in ]. Therefore, I was wondering if you would be interested in joining (proposed) WikiProject Iowa? If so, please add your name to "Interested Wikipedians" at ] --] 03:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

== ] ==

Please don't edit my user subpages. Certain users have vandalized these pages of ], and it is easier for me to assume that any edits not by myself are vandalism. So this just makes extra work for me. TIA---] 02:13, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

==Chicago redirects==
Hi, I've noticed you've been changing a lot of links to "Chicago, Illinois" to point directly to "Chicago". This is unnecessary -- the computational cost of changing an article to remove a redirect is thousands of times the cost of simply following the redirect. The general rule is ]. -] <small><sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub></small> 22:57, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

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