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Photo request

Hey! Would it be convenient for you to go to Hartsfield Airport to photograph the Delta Air Lines headquarters? If so, would you mind submitting a photograph of the Delta Air Lines building at 1030 Delta Boulevard, Atlanta? That article really needs a photo of its world headquarters. Try to get a shot that shows Delta Air Lines logos so one can tell off the bat that the building is of Delta Air Lines. Thank you for your consideration WhisperToMe (talk) 22:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Hm. That is only 20 minutes from where I live. Rain is in the forecast for the next week though. Once it clears up, I'll take some photos. Anything else in the area you think we need photos of? --mav

If you want you could also take a sunny day photo of the Atlantic Southeast Airlines HQ (close proximity to the Delta HQ) and the Chik-Fil-A HQ in College Park. If you want to take more pictures at once, there are several things in the tri-cities (College Park, Georgia, East Point, Georgia, Hapeville, Georgia) I could list for you to get, if you want to get more photographs at once. Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 00:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Here's an update: A user on Flickr relicensed his image of the Delta HQ, so I uploaded it to the Commons. However there is another angle with the Delta headquarters that I would like for you to try to get: There is a main entrance area where there is a sign asking people to provide identification. Please try to get a photograph of the main entranceway of the Delta headquarters and any additional shots of your choice. Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 22:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you very much for the photos, Mav :) - I'll add the Chik Fil A photo to its respective article, and I'll add the second shot of Delta's headquarters. Thank you very much! WhisperToMe (talk) 16:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

• The ones above are great, Mav! Thank you for taking them! WhisperToMe (talk) 14:57, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
• BTW, do you have any plans to go back out? If so, around that same area, whenever it is convenient, would you mind taking the following?
  • Sign indicating the entrance to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (I would use this as the top image of the airport article)
  • College Park Elementary School in College Park
  • Harriet Tubman Elementary School in College Park
  • Hapeville Elementary School in Hapeville
  • Tri-Cities High School in East Point, Georgia
  • Atlanta Main Post Office at 3900 Crown Road SW
  • If you want to take more photographs at one time, please let me know and I will mention additional sites to photograph.
• Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 15:10, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
  • You are welcome. :) There are free tours (by special appointment) at the Chik fil A HQ - the owner has a nice collection of cars and other items there. No photography policy according to the security guard. Will take photos of that next time I have out of town family or friends stay over. All of the above requests are doable but I'm not sure there is a legal or safe place to stop to get the airport sign. Will have to take a look (weather and time permitting). --mav

Wikipedia:Featured article review/Geology of the Grand Canyon area/archive1

Hi, you've written a wonderful article about the Grand Canyon that deserves to remain featured. Yet after four years it needs a bit of work to remain at FA standards. Have put it up for review, and hoping you take that in good spirits. Best regards, Durova²⁸⁸ 04:16, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

2012 Election Need Your Feedback

I noticed you were a regular editor on the 2008 election page. Myself and other editors are odds on some edits we are trying to make to the page. Since you have already been involved in probably similar discussion, we would greatly appreciate hearing your feedback on the 2012 election discussion page under the Republicans and Ruled Out discussions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_presidential_election,_2012#Republicans.3F

David1982m (talk • contribs) 20:03, 4 August 2009 (UTC).

AfD nomination of Nude celebrities on the Internet

An article that you have been involved in editing, Nude celebrities on the Internet, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nude celebrities on the Internet (2nd nomination). Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message.  – iridescent 16:43, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Loihi

Sorry to bother you, but Loihi is its third and hopefully last FAC reittering. The article has gone under a lot of work since the first FAC, and I was wondering you are willing to have another lookie-through and see if your conditional support can become a support. ResMar 14:40, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Two elementbox ideas

Hi, I have a couple of concerns/ideas for the element box navigation setup.

First, I noticed that the live setup transcludes a template in your userspace (User:Mav/PeriodicTable/Element). Can we please move that page (and any similar pages) into the template namespace? It's inelegant for such a widely-used template to have such a critical dependency in the user namespace, and templates should follow redirects while we update the main template(s) (with AWB if necessary).

Second, I'd like to replace your blank-string trick for linking each of the tiny element boxes. Since I use some CSS tricks to forcibly underline all (non-interface) links on the site, I see annoying little underline marks on each box. Instead of using string tricks, can't we use [[File:Transparent.gif|7px|link={{{Link|{{{Name}}}}}}|alt={{{Symbol}}}| (the stuff from the previous title attribute) ]] or some such? It would avoid most of the issues with faking empty boxes, and the image size is negligible at 42 bytes for the original.

Cheers, {{Nihiltres|talk|edits}} 22:50, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

The user space thing was an oversight on my part since I developed everything first in my userspace. Move as you see fit. Go ahead and try those other things you mention. :) --mav

Technetium FAR notice

I have nominated Technetium for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Cirt (talk) 23:19, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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RFC

Hi Mav. I've done a little, and by little I mean little, digging into the RFC process and looking at the page history I see you sort of created the process. I'm interested in doing a piece on RFC for the signpost, so I'm wondering if you'd be prepared to talk about the formation and your intentions and the like? Hiding T 11:54, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Sure - just write-up some questions and I'll try to answer them. --mav

7th Reign Page

Hi, you deleted my 7th reign page, since there was apparently not enough information to prove that the group was notable enough to be included on wikipedia. I included loads of sources and information, so could you please let me know what the article was lacking? and if possible, i could add such information to the article if you were willing or able to restore it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MistaSeth (talk • contribs) 19:19, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Nope - not me. Check with Deb. 17:31, 5 October 2009 Deb (talk | contribs | block) deleted "7th Reign" ‎ (A7: No indication that the article may meet guidelines for inclusion) --mav

Tc isotopes

Hm. I guess you are correct about 98Tc. But clear as day, the CRC handbook (87th ed) shows ~6.6 MYA. I'll clean-up the rest of my mess. --mav (talk) 01:58, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Edition 2002, eh? The CRC has notorious nuclide table printing errors. In the 1970's they got the natural isotopic abundance of K-40 wrong for 4 or 5 years straight. It's too bad, since the thing was the Bible before the internet. Those people who learned chemistry more than 10-15 years ago still feel that way about it. SBHarris 02:46, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Line spectra of the elements

I recall you mentioned adding emission spectra of the elements to the infoboxes, and that you've already done some steps toward that. I'm not sure though whether you meant X-Y graphs of color stripe charts. Anyway, your glance through a discussion here might save some time to someone (note also this page, whose pictures would be nice to have on WP. Materialscientist (talk) 00:23, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

We have permission to use line spectra images from Kalzium under a free license (assuming they are copyrightable at all, which I seriously doubt). Just haven't got around to figuring out exactly what to extract and how to present it. Since space is so limited on the infoboxes, we will likely have to limit spectra to a certain range. I'd also like to experiment with EasyTimeline to see if that might be usable in some way. --mav

Honestly, I tried to get to the actual spectra, but failed so far. Let me know if I could be of some help (I know how to graph data :-). Meanwhile, I was nominated for administrator position and would appreciate your comments here. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 07:41, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Navajo miners

I have blindly brushed up that re-addition to uranium leaving to you to check it (see talk:Uranium for details.) Materialscientist (talk) 23:17, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Gee, thanks. :) Congrats and earning the mob. --mav

I am concerned about this series of deletions and have left some specific questions for you at Talk:Uranium#Mav's edits. 76.254.71.252 (talk) 04:34, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Mono-Inyo craters

Very nice job on expanding the article! It's hard to think of more to add: details on hiking would probably belong in WikiTravel, as opposed to here.

I'm glad you enjoyed the visit to the Long Valley area.. We should try to get together and hike around sometime. —hike395 (talk) 06:02, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. :) I plan to go over all my books that touch on the subject today to see if I missed anything, then check Google books and maybe some journal articles. A final clean-up and peer review, then off to FAC in a week or two. I noticed that Bodie, California is looking darn good. Speaking of Bodie, I uploaded the full resolution versions of all my Bodie photos to Commons and put them on the Commons Bodie page. Would be great to hike together; found out that hiking with someone is a lot more fun for me (one of my friends met-up with me in Death Valley during that trip; had a blast, even with the heat). Next year, however, I probably will be revisiting parts of the Grand Staircase. Not sure which parts yet. --mav

P.S., geotagged some of your 2009 California images over at Commons (as best as I could). —hike395 (talk) 06:15, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Grand Canyon

You mentioned in the Grand Canyon talk page that you were going to start expanding the article. It certainly needs a lot of work. Have you done anything recently on it? I have started making some minor edits, but I think it's going to take a lot of work by a lot of people to get it to FA status, which it should be. I'll be working on it and any input would be helpful. Thanks! -- Drenaline  Talk  18:10, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Started working on it, but then realized I needed better sources. There is also the issue of what to do with Grand Canyon National Park; how do we divide the content? Is a merger needed? I dunno. --mav

My thoughts - Grand Canyon National Park is the administrative unit, while Grand Canyon is the geographical feature itself. There is a lot of content duplicated between the two, and I think the bulk of the content should bin in the Grand Canyon article. Theoretically, the "grand canyon" includes areas that are not within the control of the GCNP, including tribal areas of the Hualapai, Havasupi, and portions of Lake Mead NRA. -- Drenaline  Talk  21:39, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Elementbox work

Just noticed you did a bunch of Elementbox work in September. Thank you so much. :-) It's been on my to-do list since... May 2007, fuck time passes quickly. Your work looks great. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:27, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

The pleasure was all mine. :) --mav

Inyo-Mono Craters references

I added some references to support the Paiute History as you requested, I just found them by searching the web... I had originally just added that info through personal knowledge and passed to me verbally, most authoritative source is a native woman named Lucy Parker who is a personal friend of mine and lives at Mono Lake: also Ann Eldred, an anthropologist who lives in Portola, Thanks!

--nemestrinus —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nemestrinus (talk • contribs) 22:32, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks! :) --mav (Please help review Mono-Inyo Craters) 14:42, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Mav. I'm going through the references for the M-I Craters looking for use of verbatim sentences from USGov sources. As I was doing this, I noticed that ref 14 doesn't support the sentence that it is next to. Perhaps you meant to place it somewhere else? Not sure. —hike395 (talk) 01:34, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

I'll take a look tomorrow. Thanks for the note and edits. :) --mav

Nicholas Mayall FAC

Hello Mav,

I'd love to get your copy edit help on the FAC for the astronomer Nicholas Mayall. If you have some time, please come take a look and make any improvements you can.

Thanks.

WilliamKF (talk) 01:43, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Tweak on your talk page

On your archive box, archive 20 was listed twice. I've removed the second instance. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 07:33, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Cool - thanks. :) --mav

NCVP

Hey. Just reorganized this article yesterday and reworded the subsections of the Volcanic history section today. I created an sub-article for the NCVP volcanic history as Volcanic history of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province and added it in the Volcanic history section. It's currently a stub, but it will be expanded to include more information than in the Volcanic history section of the main NCVP article when I find more info. BT (talk) 20:15, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Cool - But my intent was to move the current section to the new daughter article and leave a summary of that at NCVP. Further expansion of the daughter article can occur later, and then submit that article to FAC as well. :) --mav

I see. I was actually thinking of nominating the sub-article to FAC as well when it's done. Oh well, I will do your idea because it's good :-). BT (talk) 20:27, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Done. BT (talk) 22:28, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Not a bad start for the daughter article. Once that article is cleaned-up, you can create a summary of it to put in the main NCVP article. Something in the range of 1500 to 2000 words will be needed. More spinning out of detail in the ==Geology== section to articles on specific features would balance things out nicely. -- mav

WP Volcanoes

Hello. If you haven't noticed, I've started a structural reorganization of WikiProject Volcanoes. So far, I've beutified the head page and moved a lot of the stuff to subpages of the project, so as not to bulk the main page. As an active member of the project, this is just a notice about what's going on. Comments go on the talk page. Happy holidays, ResMar 14:08, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi

Just checking in and saying hello again. I'm so pleased to see that you're still around and still dispensing wisdom in small, child-friendly doses. Have a great holiday. --TS 02:03, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the note - the trolls haven't driven me off yet and I doubt they will anytime soon. :) --mav

PS - Wikipedia will die as a community one day, but I think that will be far in the future, when we all have our own personal AIs that gather info from primary sources. Heck, all secondary and tertiary sources will be killed off by the same technology. But it will be fun until that happens. At worst, Wikipedia may need to become less open before the end. --mav

Hi

Yeah, still active - I've seen it all now, totally immune to insults/vandalism/stupidity. I'll see what I can do, I'm quite active at FAC and GAN, but I tend to do ones that interest me. If you've seen my userboxes and know anything about British football, you'll appreciate it's not a good idea to let me loose on the Arsenal FAR (: Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:32, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Glad to hear it! --mav

A favor...

Watery-eyed stare QQ...ResMar 16:44, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

RE: King of Wikipedia

Hey, just popping in to leave a small note showing how much of a GOD you are!! :-D

I've been on Wikipedia for a good while now and I've made nowhere near as many edits as you have, 785 as I type this.

If all users were even 1% as good as you, Wikipedia would be a far better source of information, so keep up the good work. Many thanks for greatly improving (and continuing to improve) Wikipedia. mÆniac ^Ask! 21:49, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Gee Thanks. :) --mav

peer review?

hi. I recently put List of Smithsonian Museums up for peer review, and saw on the volunteer list that you enjoy "National Parks and Monuments" so i thought this article might be a great fit for you. I would love any imput on the article. Thanks! --Found5dollar (talk) 16:35, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Your photos on Polish Wikipedia

Hi. I am a sysop on Polish Wikipedia and one of my jobs is tracking files and their authors/sources. I found one, which is labelled Photo by Daniel Mayer. Released under terms of the GNU FDL. This file is located here. Could you confirm your authorship/help to sort out if it has correct licence? On Polish Wikipedia we don't allow non-free files and we tend to move most of them to Commons, so your help would be really appreciated. You can reply either on my English discussion page or on Polish one. Thanks! Lukasz Lukomski (talk) 15:06, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Citation templates

Hi Daniel, thanks for the note. I did try the WikiEd gadget, but I found it quite difficult to edit with, though I can't remember why. Perhaps I should try it again and switch it on and off as you suggest. Thanks, SlimVirgin ^{TALK contribs} 19:58, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Mono-Inyo FAC

Thanks for the offer of co-sponsorship. I'm guessing that means I would have to monitor the FAC discussion, responding to comments/edits? I'm pretty busy IRL, so I don't think I can spare time for doing that. :-( —hike395 (talk) 09:19, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Plutonium issue

Hi Mav, the new article Plutonium-gallium alloy looks good, but I do not have a clue if there is somewhere a mojor problem with it. Could you have a look, please?--Stone (talk) 20:22, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

		Like a Box of Chocolates...
		... your contributions at Wikipedia:Featured Article Candidates during the month of January 2010 are greatly appreciated. Ealdgyth - Talk 01:41, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Mono-Inyo Craters geologic map

As a suggestion, you might consider adding a geologic map to the article.[1] Thanks.—RJH (talk) 18:13, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Good idea. Done. --mav

Takalik Abaj FA nom

Hi Mav,

Thanks for taking the time to look at Takalik Abaj. I've moved the images as requested and would appreciate it if you could return to the review page and strike this as resolved. Regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 05:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

FAC - Tropical Storm Marco 1990

I replied to your comments days ago, wanna reply (and or strike them) for me?Mitch32^{(We the people in order to form a more perfect union.)} 15:37, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for checking the image formatting and links for the Takalik Abaj FA nom. Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 10:44, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Petlyakov Pe-8

Auntieruth55 has been kind enough to clean up the text; I ask reviewers to reread the article to see if their objections have been met.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 04:47, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Mono-Inyo Craters note

FYI, I'm really swamped in real life at the moment, and leaving for the field on Tuesday. I don't want to leave your FAC hanging, so I will try my hardest to finish my review this weekend (so I can support before I leave). Awickert (talk) 06:20, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Leaving for the field - I'm jealous! I'm going to be out of town starting tomorrow and won't get back until Tuesday. Any additional feedback will be most welcome and will be acted on as soon as I'm back in front of a computer. --mav

OK - I'll be gone Tuesday, so I'll try to be thorough so that I can support, as we won't have internet at the same time until two Thursdays from now (and that's a while). Awickert (talk) 00:30, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations! Just got back and saw that it got promoted. Awickert (talk) 16:05, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Wendell H. Ford

Hi - Acdixon has responded to your concerns about Ford's Senate campaign, if you want to have a look and see what you think. Cheers, hamiltonstone (talk) 00:03, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Wendell Ford

Thanks for your comments on my FA nom of Wendell H. Ford. I hope I have sufficiently addressed your concerns. Please let me know if further action is required. Thanks. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 15:40, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that addresses my concerns. Congrats on the article promotion! --mav (Urgent FACs/FARs/PRs) 04:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Atlanta

The WikiProject has been marked as inactive. If you feel that this is not the case, please feel free to change it to Semi-Active, or remove the inactive banner altogether. Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 13:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

lanthanoid elements

I have done an extensive clean-up on the lanthanoid elements. I should be grateful if you would look at the text as my typing is terribly error-prone.

I notice that there is another article on the rare earth elements. Would it not be better to merge these two? Your opinion will be welcome. Answer here, if you like. Petergans (talk) 17:35, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Some copyedits done - No big issues found. I think it is useful to have separate articles on the rare earth's and lanthanides since that is the natural place to talk about the similarities that yttrium and scandium have with the lanthanoids. Rare earth element is also the natural place to talk about the search for and discovery of members of the now-deprecated group; stopping the discussion around the time that the concept of "lanthanides" gains wide acceptance. But rare earth element should not, strictly speaking, talk much about chemistry other than the yttrium/scandium similarities and why the grouping is now seen as a wrong-headed approach. --mav (Urgent FACs/FARs/PRs) 18:50, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Many thanks. I'm now working on the actinides, which brings back some memories as my Ph.D. was on uranium(IV) chemistry. Petergans (talk) 08:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!

File:Alpha Capricorni.jpg		Thank You
		For your excellent and wonderful contributions at Wikipedia:Featured Article Candidates during the month of February 2010, you're truly a star! Ealdgyth - Talk 15:52, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Most-read wikipedian!

Hey, Mav. Did you know that you were the most-read Wikipedian editor? That is, your edits were read the most of any editor. Your words were about 1/200 of all words read by readers. Check out the paper http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf

I thought that was way cool! Congratulations! —hike395 (talk) 11:06, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Later: oops, I see that the author contacted you 3 years ago. Well, I still thought it was cool! —hike395 (talk)

I was pretty surprised when I first read about that as well. :) --mav

Marwari horse

Hi Mav! In the past, you have commented on at least one horse breed article at FAC. Marwari horse is currently there (see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Marwari horse/archive1 for the review page), and has dropped into the "older nominations" section of the list. If you would be interested in reading through the article, any comments you have would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Dana boomer (talk) 22:13, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Squirrel picture

Do you remember where you took this picture: File:Golden-crested Ground Squirrel-300px.jpg? I am trying to identify it, but there are two very similar species that this could be and I'm not confident about an identification without geographical corroboration. Ucucha 13:52, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

On the top of Lembert Dome in Yosemite National Park. --mav

Thanks. Then it's a golden-mantled ground squirrel. Ucucha 14:05, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

I realized that a few years ago ; too bad it is not easy to move images. --mav

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink/archive1

I have responded to your concerns at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink/archive1.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:31, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

My husband and went to Fargo/Moorhead this weekend and while he was at his meetings, I haunted two libraries. I don't recall that I got any further information on the Saganagan Orogeny (their libraries, for some reason, don't emphasize northeastern Minnesota lol).

I'm working on a few other articles; I did obtain some information for them.

Thank you for your comments and direction. I will continue to search in literature for more information. Bettymnz4 (talk) 22:11, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the note

Hmm, thanks for giving me credit there. I just saw the state of the article and was bewildered that someone would take the time to insert a tag and not look at any of the linked articles, or even do a quick google. I had a look at the review thing and honestly don't know what purpose it serves. There seem to be some people who write some detailed lists of all the things that should be done, kind of like trees falling over somewhere in a remote forest, it seems to me. I'm sure someone will write a thesis on the Wikipedia community as a model of a slave economy. Really weird. I don't know if I can be of much help. I just google and insert. It seems to take care of most things. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 00:47, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

History of the Yosemite area

Mav, i was going to put this up at FAR, what do you think? in december you put on the talk page you were planning to add inline cites, which is the main thing it needs, though even if these are added it may still be a good idea to go to FAR to check it's in line with latest standards? i've tidied-up image description pages at commons though there are still a few images in the article that need to be moved to commons or that don't appear to have sources, cheers Tom B (talk) 15:19, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Please give me a few hours to make sure I still have all the necessary books. But yeah, I think it is time to re-polish this FA star. Thanks for the heads up! --mav

I have everything but the pamphlet. Good to go for either a FAR or PR. Either way, I'll be working on this article starting this weekend. --mav

Mav, Good work. The first mention of "King" (talking about Olmstead) seems out of place - we don't know what "King's warnings" means. Emargie (talk) 04:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Little Butte Creek (Rogue River)

Thanks for your support for Little Butte Creek (Rogue River)... it was promoted today! Sincerely, LittleMountain5 23:48, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Pretty - picture. -- mav

David A. Johnston

Hi Mav; I remember running into you once or twice before. I'm here to ask you if you are interested in helping Awickert and I bring David A. Johnston up to FA status before the 30th anniversary of the eruption. SandyGeorgia recommended you for help with the article; I remember reading Mono-Inyo Craters at its FAC, a beautiful job there. Are you interested? I'd be glad to hear your thoughts on the work done so far, but I must warn you, it still needs quite a lot more! ceranthor 17:01, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

I can help with some copyediting but I don't have any references on Johnston that add more detail than is already provided by the article. But thanks for the compliment and the reminder about the anniversary; I need to clean-up the eruption and mountain articles. --mav

Happy Mav's Day!

User:Mav has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Mav's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Mav! Peace, Rlevse 00:40, 3 April 2010 (UTC) A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:40, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Gee, thanks. :) --mav

Request for a review on the IUPAC page

Hi, I have been doing a lot of work on the IUPAC page. I am currently looking for some honest reviews. Could you help me out? And by the way, your cat is cute. ^.^ Salamakajakawaka (talk) 21:38, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Done. --mav

Garibaldi Volcanic Belt

Just thought I would stop by to let you know I did a total rewrite and expansion for this article a few days ago. I don't know where it's at for FAC but it's fairly complete. Perhaps a few new sub-articles should be created to help avoid the article from growing. BT (talk) 22:01, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

7500 words (47 KB of prose) is a lot to read through for a non-Vital/Core/daughter article. Have you considered summarizing the geology section per WP:SS and creating a Geology of Garibaldi Volcanic Belt article? That would leave room for ==Geography== and ==Activity== sections. --mav

Talkback

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Featured

Template:Featured has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. The Evil IP address (talk) 12:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

OK. --mav

Glenrothes Article Peer Review

Hi, yes no problem. I dont want you to feel like your wasting your time through re-inventing the wheel and that the comments from previous reviews have been in any way ignored. I am confident that the comments expressed previously have been addressed. The majority of concern related to the referencing, which has almost been completely redone. Thank you for your help in this. I look forward to seeing your comments.Mcwesty (talk) 09:24, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

National Park capitalization

Hi Mav. There's a discussion at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of National Parks of the United States/archive1 over whether "National Park" should be considered a common noun or proper noun. You've done great work on many National Park (park?) articles, so your opinion at the FLC would be appreciated. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 12:53, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg

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Stop - think. Now look at the file name. --mav

Passing observation

Hello mav, you have recently supported the bog turtle article (one I collaborated on), which has since been promoted to FA. Anyways, I was just in the neighborhood and noticed you had a userbox declaring you have over 70,000 edits. Well, I clicked the verify link, and it says you have over 78,000. Just thought I would let you know (unless you already knew) :)--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 01:41, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm glad that the article was promoted. :) I plan to update the number of edits figure once I reach 75,000 live edits; the 78,000 figure includes edits to pages that have since been deleted. --mav

Oh...okay, cool. Thanks for everything!--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 17:38, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Early 20th century tourists in Zion Canyon.jpeg

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Done. --mav

Moon FAR

Thanks for your review of Moon. The article has been kept! Iridia (talk) 01:52, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Coolness. --mav

WP:Peer Review

You are invited to WP:Peer Review#Iron. It needs help with the origin in stars. Thanks. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 12:10, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Harris Theater (Chicago, Illinois)/archive1‎

Since you were involved in the last FAC within the Millennium Park WP:FT, I thought you might be interested in commenting at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Harris Theater (Chicago, Illinois)/archive1‎.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:39, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

History of the Yosemite area - Featured article review

hi Mav, very well done on all the work, hopefully it can be kept as a FA. to me it looks like the only criteria that can be argued about now is prose and the main objector was Tony, so will see what he says. i'm not really an activist on prose so may not be able to come up with good examples, but you may want to check it flows well. any other probs should be very easy to resolve, Tom B (talk) 18:21, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Please don't let Tony be a barrier to you making a declaration on the FA criteria points you can judge. -- mav

I may have a few additional comments. Is there a way I can contact you directly? An email maybe? Lambanog (talk) 17:45, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

I've made quite a few edits to this article today since commenting at the FAR. I hope you don't think my changes have been too aggressive, but I wanted to give a range of examples of what work I think needs to be done to fix the prose issue, which is probably the only thing holding this article back now. As I said in the review, each sentence when looked at in isolation is pretty much OK, but the narrative is fragmentary; it needs to be pulled together to meet that "engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard" prose requirement. Believe it or not, I'm not trying to pour water on your efforts so far, rather I'm trying to be encouraging and lead by example. Malleus Fatuorum 21:58, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

PS. I'm not speaking for Tony, who might find the present arrangement of the article to be perfectly satisfactory, I'm only speaking for myself. Malleus Fatuorum 22:31, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

To the contrary, I very much appreciate all the help you have been providing. I have learned a great deal about copyediting during this process that I will apply to my writing in general. --mav

The good news is that all of the content is there I think, it's just a matter of organising and presenting it in a way that gets over that 1a) hurdle. On a personal note, the reason I decided to jump in was because my wife and I went on a skiing trip to Lake Tahoe some years ago. On our way back from there to LA for our flight home we set aside some time to look around Yosemite, but it was closed because of snow, so we couldn't get in. What little we could see looked awesome. Malleus Fatuorum 23:15, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Visiting Yosemite and at least seeing Tunnel View should be on everyone's bucket list. It is jaw-dropping and tear-evoking gorgeous the first time if conditions are right. I've been doing some analysis for work today, so I haven't had time to edit the article. VPN is both a blessing and a curse. :/ --mav

There's always a silver lining though, we went on and spent some time in Death Valley. What a desolate and forbidding place that is! Anyway, I've distracted you enough; I just wanted you to know that despite appearances I'm on your side. Malleus Fatuorum 23:29, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Messy situation at Sierra Nevada (U.S.)

Sorry: it seems like I only post to your talk page when there is a problem. I've been trying to work with an anon IP editor at Sierra Nevada (U.S.), but it's been extremely difficult: he/she does not want to participate in the Talk page, instead messes up the page with HTML comments. She leaves (IMO) uncivil edit summaries and reverts the work that I am doing to address his/her concerns. The IP address keeps shifting, too, so it is hard to communicate.

A calm third voice would help the situation, I think. I cannot continue and keep my cool. And, the IP editor seems to have personalized the conflict, thinking of me as the "bad guy". (Oh, well: I wasted most of today on this). Thanks for any help you can provide! —hike395 (talk) 10:20, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

P.S. It's been quite snowy in the eastern Sierra this last month: it's going to take weeks for subalpine to melt out. —hike395 (talk)

P.P.S. If you are too busy (e.g., with FAR), let me know, and I will rope in someone else. Sorry to bother you. —hike395 (talk) 10:20, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Hey there Hike. It turns out I watch Mav's talk page. Who knew? (Hi, Mav.) I'll take a shuffle over there and see what I can sort out. I seem to do a good job of making myself the bad guy lately, though... in any case, at least it will take pressure off of you. Awickert (talk) 05:33, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks - Vsmith also appears to be helping. --mav

I've left you a message for you on your MetaWiki talkpage

It's at the very bottom of your MetaWiki user talkpage. Thanks! ^GB86 19:52, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of I Ching/Archive 1

A tag has been placed on I Ching/Archive 1, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to an article talk page, file description page, file talk page, MediaWiki page, MediaWiki talk page, category talk page, portal talk page, template talk page, help talk, user page, user talk or special page from the main/article space.

If you can fix the redirect to point to a mainspace page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you are fixing the redirect. If you think the redirect should be retained as is for some reason, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your reasoning on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DASHBot (talk) 06:01, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:John Muir2.jpeg

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File source problem with File:Yosemite Valley Railroad.jpeg

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Citation for renaming of Paris in 212?

While I realize this contribution of yours goes back nearly seven years, but do you happen to recall or have access to the source that suggested to you in History of Paris that Paris acquired the name in 212 AD?

Recently fascinated by the topic. Would love to see if you have any sources I haven't perused. Thanks! hargettp (talk) 20:05, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Mt. Rainier

Hi! Would you mind helping bring this article to feature quality? I thought you might be interested due to your membership in the Volcanoes WikiProject--Novus Orator 07:13, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

I've held off on that article due to the issue of what to include in the mountain article and the National Park article. But I'll take another look. --mav

PediaPress renderer for Wikipedia Books

Since you created a bunch of books on elements, I thought you might be interested in this. Basically, this would give you access to the PediaPress renderer used to print books and should allow you to review book as they would be printed (minus covers). If you find errors and problems, please report them at Help:Books/Feedback.

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 19:56, 24 September 2010 (UTC)