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Two Turn Left founders named Tsee Lee

lol. well, they're not exactly the same. if you look at the names carefully, you'll see that the middle names are different. it's a Chinese naming convention for siblings, identical twins in this case. Xiner 18:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

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Pyramid and Bosnian "Pyramid"

I removed your reference the the Bosnian "pyramid" from the Pyramid article, since there is no proof yet that there are any pyramids anywhere in Bosnia. Maybe someday someone will actually find pyramids there. Maybe it's just a promotional gimmick like the Ukrainian pyramids. Until it's verifiable what is actually there, editors have repeatedly agreed to keep it out of the Pyramid article. --Ronz 17:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Gilberts, Illinois

You added (I think it was you) a 2004 population number about triple the 2000 population number (to the box in the article). Could you take a look? It doesn't seem likely. Jd2718 19:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

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Illinois places

Hi - good to see you creating a few small articleson places in Illinois - a couple of suggestions, though - firstly, could you add {{Illinois-geo-stub}} to them, so that they're listed in amongst the other Illinois geography stubs? Also, some of the coordinates you've added are a bit like overkill - for instance, you listed Blackberry Township, Illinois as being at 88.445828000000006° W. The difference between 88.4455828 and 88.4455829 is only about five inches - that added .000000000000006 of a degree is about 7/10,000,000 of a millimetre - about the same as the thickness of 15 hydrogen atoms. I don't think Misplaced Pages needs to be quite that accurate! Grutness...wha? 00:10, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:Templates

Please see this link Template Talk Page in reguards to Illinois Templates. Most of the information that is being presented on some of the Chicago area counties is unneeded info. The templates were getting WAY too big, and compared to other county templates around the US, the majority of those do not include that sort of information. You would find all that sort of info in the county write-up.--Kranar drogin 01:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I also noticed that you have started doing townships. Awesome! Glad to have another on board for that. What we will need you to do though is include an infobox with them. Here is what you would need to fill in. Any questions, let me know. I will make up the maps for you, so you won't need to include that. Here is an example of a township infobox in use Woodbine Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Also, all your townships are going to need the county name in the article, so they are all going to have to be moved. There are over 1,000 townships in Illinois, so there are going to be many, many doubles.
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Re:Kane County

That is great that you checked, but we are sticking to a system for the Illinois Project and that is to include the county in the title. Simply do a move, and make sure you update the links. They will have to be done sooner or later to be in line with all the other townships. Here is an example of Category:Townships in Ogle County, Illinois and the main page of Category:Townships in Illinois.--Kranar drogin 02:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

It is very simple, when I refer to Marion Township that is what I type there. If I just put in there Marion Township, that takes the person to a page to choose from all the different Marions in the US. Or if I put in there Marion Township, Illinois, it links to two different townships in the state. So, in order to stop confusion, it was set up that the county is included in the name. Check out how other states do it, and you will find that is how they also do it. Pennsylvania and Ohio were what we started basing this whole template and township idea off of.--Kranar drogin 04:19, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Removing Points of Interest on Kane County Template

In accordance with the discussions regarding standardizing Illinois county templates, and against my wishes, I removed them. I actually believe it is worth having points of interest on there, but it seems as if the rest of the group is against including points of interest on the county templates. If you would like to join in the discussion, please do so here: Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Illinois/Templates. Thanks. Abog 05:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Diggstown

Adding the whole cast is a bit of a mess. Perhaps this can be cut to the top 10 or something? Most other movie articles don't list everybody - SimonLyall 09:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

RRCA

Thanks much for starting the Road Runners Club of America article! Still too many red links for essential running articles (e.g., half a dozen on the new Track Town, USA article), but your contribution helps show headway is being made. If you are interested in a suggestion for an article to improve, the USA Track & Field article needs a lot of work (the Craig Masback redlink there is rather glaring), especially with the 2008 Summer Olympics track trials coming up. It's also about time to issue the first newsletter for the WikiProject Running, there are enough new members now... Ombudsman 05:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


Help for read and verify an English Article

Hello, I look for someone reading and cancel mystakes on the English Wiki article Dominique Enon. Is it possible to verify it? Thanks Regards. S.T.

Virginia Newsletter - May 2007

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Proposed merge regarding Seward Township, Kendall County, Illinois

I have proposed that the article Seward Township, Illinois be merged into Seward Township, Kendall County, Illinois. Both articles are about the same place, and the latter page seems to me to be the better home, to disambiguate this township's article from Seward Township, Winnebago County, Illinois. Since you originated both articles, I thought I should invite you to comment--or perhaps you could perform the merge yourself. Useful information in this is available at WP:MERGE.--ShelfSkewed Talk 05:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Steve Weiss

True. I meant besides the trustees who served as students, but I didn't make that clear. Thanks for creating all the board chairmen pages. Some of them like Kiplinger were on my list of pages to add as well. Good work.

In answer to your question, try searching the Cornell Alumni News via this link

Cornell2010 02:24, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Despite my best efforts, I've come to the conclusion that there were no official chairs during that time. I finally consulted good ol' Morris Bishop, and A History of Cornell states that the board acted without a chair for those years. They elected acting chairs at meetings, and I know that George Boldt served fairly often from at least 1909 to his death in 1916.

You've met 8 of them, eh? Very impressive. I think I can only claim meeting two and the son of a third. Have you been involved with the board yourself? Cornell2010 02:53, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Cornell Statutory College Names

They may be what New York State Law refers to them as however they are not refered to that by Cornell University ergo, they should not be listed as such on the Cornell University page perhaps within the individuals schools pages however those are not the formally accepted names of the respective institutions--Bcc07 17:27, 9 July 2007 (UTC)


Your arguement is compelling...point taken--Bcc07 17:47, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

New Article Improvment page for WP:VIRGINIA

Seeing as our old Collaborations page at WP:VIRGINIA had no activity in the past year it was decided to replace it with a new Article Improvement/Request Help page that would allow members to list articles in need of attention. Its also a place to request help for an article taht you are working on to see if any other members would like to volunteer and help out. Thanks. T Rex | talk 01:20, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Cornell Central Campus

Well, I've thought that a central campus article has been needed for some time and hopefully by putting out a stub people may start to contribute. The North and West campus articles appeared fantastically quickly when we started them last year(?).

I assume sections on the various quads, architecture styles, history, development, future etc... --Xtreambar 03:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Huzzah! An excellent start! I will hopefully have some time soon to do some clean up and improvement. Thank you for your effort. I concur that some scaling back may be necessary for the individual articles. Also consider pilaging Category:Cornell University buildings for pictures. --Xtreambar 17:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Funny you should mention my Risley paper. I was just re-reading it last night and editing it. Boy, that paper was a fun one to research and write. --Xtreambar 02:47, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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Copyright Issues

First of all, please be civil. A lot of people wouldn't even respond to messages like the one you left me, let alone respect your opinion.

You are correct that the underlying facts cannot be copyrighted. However, the way facts are presented is protected by copyright.

As for the article in question, you obviously copied it from her website, changing a few words here and there. There was at least one sentence that was copied verbatim. That's copyright infringement.

Copying sentences and phrases from others is not original writing. Paraphrasing lengthy passages is not original writing. Original writing results from reading the available sources, putting them aside and writing off the top of your head from scratch. If you stick to that method, I'm sure you won't have any more copyright problems here. Your original contributions are most assuredly welcome.

Happy editing! -- But|seriously|folks  04:47, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Please. What you copied was nothing like "George Washington was the first President of the United States." Other than one sentence you added, the entire article you posted was taken from her website. There's clearly sufficient creativity involved in her website blurb to attain copyright protection.
There are hundreds of copyright violations posted here on a daily basis, and only a small number of volunteer editors watch for them. We simply don't have time to discuss all of them. Frankly, deletion of the earlier version of the article you posted did not merit advance discussion.
In any event, thank you for making additional modifications to the reposted version of the article. In my view, it is no longer obvious that it was taken from her website, so it can stay. -- But|seriously|folks  05:32, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

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Vicipaedia

What is Vicipaedia? You're here in DC? cOrneLlrOckEy 21:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Adminship?

I believe that there should be an administrator in WikiProject Cornell University, and you can be one of them, since you are a good user who is unlikely to abuse tools. Would you accept my nomination or not? Let me know as soon as possible. PS: I know someone who attends Cornell University. NHRHS2010 23:45, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

OK, I'll nominate you. By the way, do you know Jenna Green? She is a freshman in college in Cornell. NHRHS2010 00:19, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
If you accept the nomination, answer the questions here and don't forget to add your signature as well to accept the nomination. NHRHS2010 00:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Adminship failed per WP:SNOW. Please take the comments in there to light. O2 (息 • 吹) 03:56, 15 October 2007 (GMT)


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Joel Ward and Richard Matthews

Hi, I'm the guy who added Saturday's WSJ article as a reference to Forex scam and I noticed that you added the articles on JW and RM. I'm not sure that they are notable in and of themselves - since there are lots of scammers out there. Also, it might be viewed as a "single event" and people are rarely considered notable for single events. Actually the main reason that I didn't add at least one of these as an article is the potential for WP:BLP sensitivies to come up. Believe it or not, over Christmas/New Years I had a bit of a battle keeping references to Martha Stewart's conviction in her article.

No major point here - just saying hello. You might: 1. contact me if people want more detail, second opinion, etc. on these articles. 2. Add some of the material into the forex scam article. 3. Notify me on my talk page if you object to me changing the section heading to "Convicted scammers."

Happy editing,

Smallbones (talk) 03:19, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case

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See final outcome here. Don't sock again. — Rlevse • Talk • 11:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
See . — Rlevse • Talk • 21:04, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Would you like to respond to this . — Rlevse • Talk • 01:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


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Ithaca meetup

I'm an 04 so I wont be attending this reunion, but sometime in DC might be nice. Are there DC wiki meetups? You currently live here? cOrneLlrOckEy (talk) 20:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:ANI incident reported

Your creation of the sockpuppet User:Racepacket after your previous sockpuppet User:Xcstar was permanently blocked, has been posted as the subject of an incident at WP:ANI under "Confirmed sockpuppet User:Runreston still active". You are encouraged to respond to the issues raised there. Alansohn (talk) 12:58, 27 February 2008 (UTC)