User talk:MatthewUND/Archive3

This archive includes all comments from July 2006 through December 2006.

Commons

Please, see hier, thanks. Koehne 11:46, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

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World's Largest Buffalo

Please do not delete the information that I have posted on the World's Largest Buffalo page. All of the information is 100% factual and it deserves to be posted there. There is not one thing posted that is not true, do your research before you delete information, if you have to make a phone call, do it. Don't assume that you know everything, because you obviously do not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Idontsteal (talk • contribs)

Please stop deleting the information I have posted about the World's Largest Buffalo. It is all factual information and has a right to be posted on that page. Please email me with your problems regarding my information, I will be happy to speak with you about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Idontsteal (talk • contribs)

I have taken the time to edit the entry to incorporate most of the new points in a clean and encyclopedic manner. --AlexWCovington (talk) 18:19, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for looking into this matter, I appreciate the help and concern. I hate to see factual information left out of articles. I believe that the page is now better and more informative. I will add more information later, as I obtain sources. Idontsteal 18:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

The information that I contributed to the wiki page is also contained in the link I provided in the external links section (RealND). The Chia pet claim is difficult to cite, as it has no online presence, however through personal relationships with those involved in this magnificent project, and as the projects official publicist, I am able to verify it's credibility. I would also go so far as to consider some of this information abouot the sculpture 'common knowledge', however I understand the importance of citation and do not intentionally overlook it at any time. In any case, the only "unusual" facts about the World's Largest Buffalo are those regarding actually being a large concrete buffalo, and the Chia project. I do not feel that the cost numbers, dimensions, location details, or construction materials are unusual. This kind of information is included in many references and I felt that it deserved its place on the Wiki as well. Thank you for your concern on this matter and I look forward to working on other articles with you in the future.

Wiedersehen. Idontsteal 02:55, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the edits on the UMC article. You must be sleepless in Grand Forks too. I was not very proactive in reading through the guidelines for article tone but will ensure that future additions will be appropriate.--Farmboy6 15:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Edits to WDAZ Article

Hi, I made a minor edit to the news team list on the WDAZ article. I removed Lori Cowan from the anchor list, as she left in early July. John Bernstrom will also be leaving August 2nd. --Rick Abbott 01:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

NDSU Page

Hello,

Sorry, I am new to wiki and not sure exactly how everything works. The only reason I copied the mission etc. is because I saw other schools do it and there is no way to reword it.

The other stuff I put up knowing that someone would show me how its suppose to be edited (I suppose this isnt the best way to go about it). Anyways, I was planning on reworking much of it. I was using another school as a guide, they had copied alot directly so I assumed it was alright for other stuff.

I will remember this for the future.

Thanks --Ndstate 06:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Red River High School

your edits include a lot of information that is irrelevant with the abstract at the beginning, and does not encompass enough information within the body. It is simply a list of a few sports awards and drama classes. This is a high school that focuses on academics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.111.53.82 (talk • contribs)

cleaning up an article doesn't involve removing everyone elses edits. you may have been here a long time but that doesn't give you the right to choose what is put on a page and what isn't. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nbansal4732 (talk • contribs)

uh oh! what will I do!? did I make you sad? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nbansal4732 (talk • contribs)

hello, I would like to apologize for my recent comments. I was a bit frustrated and should not have attacked you like that. I hope we can both enjoy a great wikipedia experience together. Best regards, Nbansal4732 18:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

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Camp of the Cross

Nice to have an edit conflict with you! --AlexWCovington (talk) 05:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

WPND AFD Alert: Hawktree Golf Club

Hawktree Golf Club is up at AFD. Please vote to keep this North Dakota related article. --AlexWCovington (talk) 02:16, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

What are we going to do about this? BlueValour seems to be on a campaign to get rid of the golf course articles. --AlexWCovington (talk) 06:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I've talked with BV and he seems willing to let us work this out on our own from here out. If we start merging a lot of golf course articles, we should probably create a List of golf courses in North Dakota so we can come back to all of them eventually. --AlexWCovington (talk) 15:41, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I suppose we can do it on a case-by-case basis; Articles that have more than the basic stub text placed by Leopold should be kept, and the rest merged in if we can't think of anything to add. The list of golf courses should contain links to the communities the pages were merged to, so the information can be quickly retrieved for future breakout articles. --AlexWCovington (talk) 18:33, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Aye, just merge in a few at a time, I guess. I'll help out when I have time... lot of homework this week. --AlexWCovington (talk) 02:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Grand Cities Mall

WPND has to work as a unit on this one, just like with Hawktree. I just wish these weren't both done in such short order... sigh... There's a reason I have my bookmark for AfD labelled as "Hell". --AlexWCovington (talk) 15:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I just did what I thought would help out. Brian deserves just as much credit. --AlexWCovington (talk) 06:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Please vote on this discussion

I see you are quite an active editor. I have been discussing with another editor whether or not my company qualifies under WP:CORP We feel that it does under the first point. The other editor keeps bringing up things that are not in the rules outlined under WP:CORP Please comment on this discussion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Enigma_software_group

thank you,
EnigmaSoftwareGroup

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Roland Reimers

Seeing as you like writing North Dakota articles, you should re-write the Roland Riemers page. It is pretty bad right now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyleroar (talk • contribs)

regarding Rene Clausen

I have recently noticed that you have attempted to delete my article on Dr. Rene Clausen. Let me assure you, Dr. Clausen is a well-known and respected figure in modern choral arts. You opinions on his notability seem quite questionable. Tell me what I am doing wrong in your view and please respond quickly! I severly wish for my article not to be deleted!

Thank you, User:wittj

North Dakota, South Dakota, it's all the same...

Just kidding of course. I don't know why I did that... brain fart, maybe. Jcam 04:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Major Highways

Major Highways capitalized is standard in most states. Please check the history of Cass County, North Dakota, and note that you were the last person to edit that page before my edit. The Major Highways section was capitalized then, and you were the last person to edit that page before my edit, why didn’t you change the format then? --MNAdam 05:18, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I have to disagree with Adam. Capitalizing "Highways" goes against the MoS even if it is common in other states' articles. --AlexWCovington (talk) 05:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you Alex and I just said so at Adam's talk page. --MatthewUND^(talk) 05:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I checked the Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. counties, for a template for counties and found that there it is posted as "Major highways", however when the template was first written all headers were capitalized, which probably explains why some states have headings capitalized. The capitalization of the headings in counties was removed from the template on December 5th, 2004, so anything before than would have been capitalized... Thanks, --MNAdam 06:17, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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Barnstar

Thank you, Matt! I hope we all can keeping working together to make North Dakota's articles shine. --AlexWCovington (talk) 15:14, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Golf course issue is back

Check it out. --AlexWCovington (talk) 06:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Who panties are getting in a wod about the golf courses? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leopold Samsonite (talk • contribs)

Vandalism to North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party articles

As you have seen, the vandalism has increased in staggering numbers today to articles dealing with the ND Dem party. 45 instances from this IP, and 73 instances from this IP. I listed the party page itself, and Dorgan's article for page protection. If it persists, I will list the other articles that are constantly being vandalized. Hopefully this will subside as the election drifts further into the past. Weatherman90 23:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, for what its worth, I think you both would be well suited for adminship - but my opinion doesn't count for much against some of the RFA Nazis around. Weatherman90 03:16, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

The vandal returns

It appears that the ban of the IP range that continually vandalized ND Democrat articles was lifted sometime last week. Today, the vandal returned under the IP he/she had used before - 165.234.100.1, vandalising the same articles that were done before (ND Dem-NPL page, Joe Satrom, Heidi Heitkamp, Byron Dorgan, Earl Pomeroy, Quentin Burdick, Roger Johnson, as well as One of Alexwcovington's userboxes). On Satrom's page, the vandal continually reverts to some garbage he wrote several weeks ago about Elves - which this time went un-noticed for over 3 hours. On the other pages the vandal just reverted back to the vandalised version that he created last time around. Is a permanent block too much to ask for on an entire range? How far does the range span? - it would be unfortunate to have to block editing from all public computers in the state. Weatherman90 00:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Lock it. -Leopold Samsonite

Judge Davies

Matthew, do you know the difference between fun and foolishness? Judge Davies did. Now there's something personal for you-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Schmithj (talk • contribs)

Huh??? -Leopold Samsonite

It has something to do with this. --MatthewUND^(talk) 03:19, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

World's Largest Buffalo

It seems that there's a very good chance that Idontsteal fabricated the Chia Pet claim as with most of his other edits. The new link he just put in there is tightly linked with "idontsteal.net"... yeah...

I'm calling up the Arts Center in Jamestown and verifying today. --AlexWCovington (talk) 07:08, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

It seems that the Chia Pet story is true! That's a relief. The Arts Center said, however, that they aren't heading the project, it's the local tourism board. --AlexWCovington (talk) 19:08, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

This is just stupid. Will they make it poop too? -Leopold Samsonite

Images fracas

Images like Image:Johnhoeven.jpg are being questioned today; if you could leave your thoughts on its talk page, I'd appreciate it. --AlexWCovington (talk) 23:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Image:AroundTheWorldInEightyDaysBookCover.jpg

This is to let you know that I've orphaned the fair use image Image:AroundTheWorldInEightyDaysBookCover.jpg, and replaced it with Image:Verne Tour du Monde.jpg, an image in the public domain. For more information, see the book cover replacement project. Thanks. Lupo 20:20, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Image:DrCharlesKupchella.JPG

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Your recent RfA

I think your bid for adminship will succeed this time, being that you have about 2 years experiance and about 8000 edits. I posted a stong support. The Blue Lion 10:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Are you aware that canvassing for RfA support, as you have done with Trishymouse, Opes, Weatherman, Alexwcovington and Poppyhaitian, is frowned upon and may well cost you several 'support' votes? (aeropagitica) 10:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Forgive me if I have errored, but I was simply letting my fellow members of WikiProject North Dakota know about the RfA. --MatthewUND^(talk) 10:58, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Then let them find out the same way that everyone else does. Canvassing to get your friends/colleagues to support you is very poor practice. Both BlackJack and Berig were recently warned about this. Do you read other RfA discussions? (aeropagitica) 11:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

See WP:SPAM for discussion of this topic. (aeropagitica) 11:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Matthew, I just wanted to say that I thought your withdrawal statement on your RFA's talk was quite gracious. You took quite the flogging for an honest mistake, which was unfortunate, and partially a reflection on how tough standards have been getting lately for candidates. I'd suggest you keep doing whatever it is you're doing as an editor and start following other RfAs to get a feel for the policy and process knowledge that the participants are looking for, and what kind of comparatively minor mistakes can hang-up a nomination. Don't worry about your RFA that just past. Put it behind you for a while and come back to look at the criticism later. Much of it's valid, but I'm sure it stings pretty bad, right now.--Kchase T 07:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your friendly words, Kchase. I believe that courtesy and civility are important virtues on Wikipedia (and in "real" life, of course). Thanks also for your helpful advice. I would like to be an admin someday and hopefully the failure of this RfA will, in the long term, make me a better editor and (hopefully) a better admin. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? Thanks again! --MatthewUND^(talk) 07:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

That's an eloquent closing statement that you have made on your latest RfA. For what it's worth, I entirely believe your innocence regarding the question of spamming and I further believe that you attempted it with the highest of motives in mind. Other than this issue, I think that you would wield the admin tools effectively once you have read up on the appropriate policies and guidelines and I will look forward to an opportunity to support you at some point in 2007. Regards and a Happy New Year, (aeropagitica) 10:11, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Userbox

Well, I'm glad to see there's someone else out there that wants to use it! You might also be interested in using my quickbar ({{User:Alexwcovington/quickbar}}) on your page or talk page, It's helped me navigate project articles. --AlexWCovington (talk) 15:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Candidacies

I tried talking to Gene about it a while back any he didn't seem interested (didn't say anything actually). Actually, I think Weatherman might be a better choice than myself; he's done a lot in other projects as well as WPND. --AlexWCovington (talk) 19:03, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Untagged image

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