User talk:Acroterion/New articles

Wild Mary Sudik

Ah, you're welcome! I was pleased to see the article in the first place, so naturally I was even more excited to edit and expand it somewhat with information I was able to easily gather since I have been in the oil and gas business for 30 years now. I have been to the well site a number of times, once as a rookie landman on a field trip sponsored by my employer, and on other occasions just to soak up the history there.

I am somewhat of a greenhorn here on Wiki and as such I was completely flabbergasted by your experience and the number of articles you have written and edited. The volume of your work is massive, and the quality is excellent. There must be thousands of hours of work invested in your articles. I have written JUST ONE article, Herbert Strong (golfer), and it took me more than a month to get it done. And then a guy came along and deleted half of it, but he did make some improvements (believe it or not) after whitewashing half of my hard work. I guess a rookie editor like me just has to take the punishment. I suppose I did have some unnecessary "puffery" in it since Mr. Strong is my grandfather. That has since been removed by the other editor and also by myself.

Of the articles you've written, one in particular caught my attention - other than Mary Sudik - Glacier Park Lodge. My home town is Kalispell, Montana so being from that area I have actually stayed at the lodge a couple of times. As a high school kid I worked at a nearby restaurant in Babb, Montana to make money in the summers. I must admit I was not a very good waiter. The funnest part about that job was when I got off work. There was a pond on the nearby Blackfeet Indian Reservation at Browning and I used to go there every day after work and catch a couple dozen or more brook trout. I think the government stocked the fish in there because, literally, I could catch a fish on almost every single cast of my bait.

Nice photo of the TWA structure by Saarinen! I like the way you centered it so perfectly in the frame. --EditorExtraordinaire (talk) 17:40, 15 February 2015 (UTC)