User talk:Googlemeister

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"Culinary"

I lol'ed. Tempshill (talk) 16:25, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

thanks!

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		Thanks for answering my poker hand question on the Miscellaneous Reference Desk!--Ye Olde Luke (talk) 00:05, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Elephants

Thank you! If you decide to register an account, please do pop by my userpage and say hello. --Dweller (talk) 14:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This user has visited 41 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

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thanks!

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		Thanks for answering my Antarctica's GDP question on the Miscellaneous Reference Desk!--Ye Olde Luke (talk) 01:38, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

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		Thank you for answering my "fanfic law sentence" question on the Miscellaneous Reference Desk! --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 18:29, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join Wikiproject Micronations

I note your interest in the subject of micronations.

Wikipedia always welcomes a diversity of opinion, so you might wish to consider registering as a member of the WikiProject Micronations:

I look forward to working with you over coming months to improve and significantly extend Wikipedia's micronation content. --Gene_poole (talk) 01:55, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

I've made this edit :) hydnjo (talk) 17:30, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

US Presidents on RD:H

GM, I'd like to offer a suggestion: if you don't know the answer to something -- if you don't even know the basis from which the answer arises -- then please don't post opinion to the Ref Desk as if it were fact, as you've done here. That sort of misinformation is a disservice. — Lomn 13:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to argue semantics that is fine, but the point is that you are trying to force a square peg into a round hole. The President of the Congress during the Articles of Confederation is absolutely not the same office as the President of the United States any more then The president of United Airlines is. Googlemeister (talk) 15:27, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree -- they're not the same office (my answer makes this abundantly clear). But they're both "President", and it's possible that the OP would be interested in the preceding office. Whereas you "don't know who was in charge (if anyone)" and proceed to answer with something completely wrong. If you don't know, and particularly if you don't even have a basis for guessing, then just don't answer. — Lomn 15:52, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

From the Artical President of the Continental Congress

Beyond a similarity of title, the office of President of Congress "bore no relationship"[1] to the later office of President of the United States. As historian Edmund Burnett wrote

The President of the United States is scarcely in any sense the successor of the presidents of the old Congress. The presidents of Congress were almost solely presiding officers, possessing scarcely a shred of executive or administrative functions; whereas the President of the United States is almost solely an executive officer, with no presiding duties at all. Barring a likeness in social and diplomatic precedence, the two offices are identical only in the possession of the same title.

Because John Hanson was the first president elected under the terms of the Articles of Confederation, his grandson promoted him as the "first President of the United States" and waged a successful campaign to have Hanson's statue placed in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, even though Hanson was not really one of Maryland's foremost leaders of the Revolutionary era.

I mean, what if one of the Lord President of the Council guys called the US a democracy before the AOC were written?. Googlemeister (talk) 16:02, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Neptune @ RD Talk

Oh, dear. :-( I think I erred as I was trying to avoid saying that problematic planets' name. Certainly not "I like Uranus"! Maybe I should use this, but I can see problems with the symbol too! Maybe Neptune could be renamed Pluto, so Pluto would once again be the outer most planet? ;-)) The third rock out ain't too bad, imho.--220.101.28.25 (talk) 03:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nice note

I just realized that my initial response at the Science reference desk might have sounded brusque. Sorry about that if it did. If I were to do research into volcanoes and ice, changes in eruption magnitudes and frequencies would be something I would investigate - it is a logical first step. I'm just not sure if it's correct. Awickert (talk) 06:01, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries & Preview button

Hey there - I just came across your recent series of edits at Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I guess you were trying out the colors, but without edit summaries that wasn't apparent, so I had to go thru each edit one at a time to make sure they were "okay", as all sorts of stuff turns up on this article.

So for future reference: When you're not quite sure about an edit you're working on, rather than saving each of your attempts, it's much better to make liberal use of the "show preview" button, which allows you to see the results of your edit before you hit the "save page" button. That way, all of those edits that aren't quite right don't clog up the edit history (which can be a real waste of time for other editors). Plus it saves you from having to leave an Edit summary for each one. Regards, Cgingold (talk) 20:01, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proper use of sourcing in an edit

Hi again - After leaving the note above, I returned to Deepwater Horizon oil spill and discovered your most recent edit. Since you are evidently still learning the ropes when it comes to editing, please be sure to take a look at my corrective edits, which were necessary to "clean up" your edit. (I see you are active at the Ref. Desk, so consider this an answer to your "unasked question". :) And again, please be sure to leave edit summaries. Cgingold (talk) 20:26, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous#British_aircraft

My bad. I was sitting on the right on the flight in Tasmania. See my amendment at Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous#British_aircraft. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 22:36, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Harold Washington speaking at the commissioning of USS Chicago

I thought that I should point this out as the page will soon archive. -- 110.49.242.117 (talk) 20:29, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of List of speeches given by Presidents of the United States

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unsourced nest of redlinks, better suited as a category

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