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Happy Independence Day!

As you are a nice Wikipedian, I just wanted to wish you a happy Independence Day! And if you are not an American, then have a happy day and a wonderful weekend anyway! :) Your friend and colleague, --Happy Independence Day! Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 00:20, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Arkansas Newsletter


The Arkansas WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 2 • July 5, 2008 • About the Newsletter Written by User Chetblong
Project News Recent Project news: {{WikiProject Arkansas}} has been updated and revised. Making many new parameters that can be added, without effecting already tagged articles. The project has a new GA: Gazette Building, thanks to User:Broooooooce. Portal:Arkansas is still being expanded, and is starting to look rather nice. Help out by suggesting changes on the talk page. The project is currently in the process of reassessing a bunch of articles already tagged as Start-Class, to C-Class. Please help out!	Featured article Featured Arkansas article of the month: Monte Ne is an area in the Ozark hills of the White River valley east of Rogers on the edge of Beaver Lake in the U.S. State of Arkansas. From 1901 until the mid-1930s the area was a health resort and ambitious planned community. It was owned and operated by William Hope Harvey, a financial theorist and one time U.S. Presidential nominee. Two of its hotels, "Missouri Row" and "Oklahoma Row", were the largest log buildings in the world. Oklahoma Row's "tower section" is one of the earliest examples of a multi-story cement structure. The tower is the only structure of Monte Ne still standing. Monte Ne introduced the first indoor swimming pool in Arkansas, and was also the site of the only presidential convention ever held in Arkansas. (more...)	State News Recent state news: Suspect in eight murders arrested in Illinois, United States: Following a manhunt in two states, police have arrested Nicholas Troy Sheley whom authorities suspect in eight murders in the United States. The FBI launched the manhunt on Tuesday after four victims were discovered on June 30, 2008. Tornadoes in central US kill nearly two dozen people At least 23 people have been killed in late afternoon in broad daylight, with dark (very dark) clouds tornadoes that ripped through the central United States on Saturday May 10 with over 150 reported injured and at least three people are missing.
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main page redesign proposal

Hi, I saw your comments over on main page redesign proposal and was hoping that you could take a look at my proposal and give me some feedback.--88wolfmaster (talk) 21:20, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I am working on adding additional features within the existing format. I could use some help, especially trying to figure out how to access templates from wikiquote and wiktionary.--88wolfmaster (talk) 04:05, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok so I've come up with an alternative proposal. I didn't want to keep it up because it is quite different to the current design. I would really love some feedback on it especially the new DYK utilizing featured content.--88wolfmaster (talk) 00:24, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Transportation in the United States

I came across your comment on Talk:Transportation in the United States that you left in February 2008, and I'd definitely be interested in helping this article reach FA status. Let me know if you'd like to start working on it and what I can do to help out. –Dream out loud (talk) 16:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, where to begin? My main area of expertise is trucking, since that is my job. When I first read the article there was barely any mention of truck transportation in general, and I added a few bits. Other than that, I think the article is still in the "start" class. There is plenty of information on the internet to be found regarding transportation. The Department of Transportation and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics have lots of good information on the web. The entire article should probably be re-written... as it stands now it seems like a random collection of facts. It needs a proper flow and should address the different aspects of passenger vs cargo transportation within the various modes of transport. Such as passenger trains/cargo trains, trucks/buses, passenger planes/cargo planes.... you get the picture. Right now my laptop is on the fritz (damn microsoft), and my girlfriend's cat chewed through the power cable so I can't even start it up, and even if I could it still has problems. I'm using someone else's computer right now, so if you don't hear from me for a while you'll know why. I've been putting off improving the article mainly due to my lack of knowledge of other industries, sometimes its hard to know where to find information about a subject if you don't even know the first thing about it. Are you familiar with trains, planes, or automobiles? I have trucking covered, and trains are pretty similar in some aspects so I'm sure that will be easy for me too, but I was hoping to get some help on planes and cars. Anyway, let me know what you think and we can get started! I need another project since pretty much all of my other ones are either FA or GA right now and my editing has slacked off lately. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 19:20, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

After looking at the article again I remembered some issues. There are way too many lists, I think these should be either shortened or removed altogether and forked out into their own list article if ones do not already exist, in which case it should just be removed and a link to the list put in its place. Also, many stats are listed in metric units, I think they should be changed to imperial units and listed with metric conversions using {{convert}}. Parts of the "history" section sounds like they're trying to sell us something, it reads like a brochure, not an encyclopedia. I could go on but I wont waste my time critisizing when I could be improving it. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 20:08, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Arkanasas newsletter, updated for August


The Arkansas WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 3 • August 1, 2008 • About the Newsletter Written by User Chet B. Long
Project News Recent Project news: The project is still in the process of reassessing a bunch of articles already tagged as Start-Class, to C-Class. Please help out! Animum created a new script for the project that helps out with tagging WikiProject Arkansas articles. Go and thank him! 2 users have joined the project, User:OverlordQ and User:DH Michaels, making the total member count 25! DH Michaels is new to Wikipedia as well as this WikiProject. Make him feel welcome! Chetblong is currently clearing out Category:Unassessed Arkansas articles, and has gotten to the letter K already. Help him out! The project now has another Featured List! List of Arkansas Razorbacks in the NFL Draft was promoted last week, bringing the total FL count to 2.	Featured article Featured Arkansas article of the month: This list of Arkansas Razorbacks in the NFL Draft includes every former Arkansas Razorbacks player who has been drafted into the National Football League (NFL) since the league began holding drafts in 1936.^[a] The University of Arkansas has drafted 245 players into the NFL, but none has ever been selected with the first overall selection. The Razorbacks' highest draft position was second overall in 1954, when Lamar McHan was selected by the Chicago Cardinals. Arkansas' first drafted player in the NFL was Jack Robbins, who was the fifth overall pick by the Chicago Cardinals in 1938. Six players were selected from the 2008 NFL Draft; the highest selection being running back Darren McFadden, who was picked fourth overall by the Oakland Raiders. (more...)	State News Recent state news: Suspect in eight murders arrested in Illinois, United States: Following a manhunt in two states, police have arrested Nicholas Troy Sheley whom authorities suspect in eight murders in the United States. The FBI launched the manhunt on Tuesday after four victims were discovered on June 30, 2008. Wikinews needs more coverage on Arkansas, maybe you would like to help out?
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Transportation in the United States

I have completely reorganized Transportation in the United States to fix the major "flow" problems you mentioned on the talk page. If you still see factual errors or missing citations, could you help identify them by tagging them {{dubious}} and {{fact}} in the article itself, or mentioning them on the talk page? I too would like to see this topic attain Good Article status, and have greatly expanded coverage.

Some of the existing lists and statistics are present because the article was seeded with the public-domain entry from the CIA World Factbook. [1]. Most of these statistics seem fairly useful to include in the article, though I don't disagree that more prose would be welcome to balance them out. -- Beland (talk) 19:05, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Guess What....

FYI, Interstate 70 in Utah is scheduled to be The Featured Article for December 5. Thought you'd like to know as you helped create it. Dave (talk) 07:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)