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Thanks again for copyediting the Zagreb Synagogue!

I'd be really grateful if you could lend a hand with Croatian Apoxyomenos - the article is nominated for DYK, but apparently a "light copyedit" from a native speaker is needed. The article is in decent condition and the topic is fairly interesting I'd say, so could you take a quick look and improve the language a bit? GregorB (talk) 15:24, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No problem at all - the DYK reviewers certainly won't press it, and extra time is OK. I appreciate your help! GregorB (talk) 14:00, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, since 10 days or so have passed, the review must go on, so I'll make some changes to the wording in certain places and make additional tweaks; if you happen to have some time, you can make a quick pass and fix the remaining issues. GregorB (talk) 21:22, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! GregorB (talk) 22:07, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bradsby

I've corrected about a half a dozen refs on the Scranton Strike article that you've made to a ref named bradby. I have been correcting them to "bradsby", but you seem to have undone one of those corrections. If this is an error and you indeed mean to ref an author named bradby, please add and name the correct ref. Otherwise please take care to cite the correct ref name.

There is currently one broken ref name on the article (see the error message on the reference section). I will correct in the morning assuming it is intended to reference bradsby (with an s), unless you otherwise indicate that there is another reference attributed to a bradby (without an s) that hasn't yet been added.

All the best, and thanks for your interest in the article. TimothyJosephWood 02:06, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Timothy - So sorry to lead you to those corrections; must have gotten really tired. Kept meaning to go back to the original source; can't remember how I got confused on the spelling. Thanks for all your work on this and especially on the general article.Parkwells (talk) 02:11, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also on the W W Scranton article, again, I appreciate your help, but sources are badly needed there. Not sure where you got that info, but please add it. Could also help me find more info for the article as I haven't really gotten knee deep in it yet. TimothyJosephWood 02:14, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pittsburgh Railway Riots

I have been working on building a skeleton for the 1877 events in Pittsburgh based on McCabe. If you find yourself in need of a project, pop on over and spend some time there. It is turning out to be a much larger project than Scranton. I'm almost at 10k bytes and I'm not yet done with a single source, where Scranton ended up at 44k bytes with 41 sources. TimothyJosephWood 21:56, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Aaand apparently Armncraft is back to disrupting the scranton article for no reason. Definitely keep that page on your watch list. They've been banned before for edit warring so I fully expect this kind of behavior to continue. TimothyJosephWood 19:36, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I had checked on the article and noticed that. So tiring. It was good to work on Pittsburgh and really interesting to see some of those early accounts. So many different perspectives on what was going on. I came across more info that said the union guys kept some trains running on the other side of the river in Allegheny City (now North Side). Have to remember where I found that.Parkwells (talk) 02:00, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, thanks for the suggestion for the material from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. I've just started working on that article and issues, and it will take a while to catch up. Are you recommending the content on the tribal site? It looks as if they have up-to-date information. Parkwells (talk) 16:07, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Consolidation was one of the very first northern industrial employers to make large-scale use of African American labor. As such, it helped pave the way for the Great Migration of the early 20th century.

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Consolidation was one of the very first northern industrial employers to make large-scale use of African American labor. It recruited Southern workers who were part of the Great Migration of the early 20th century, when more than 1.5 million African Americans moved north out of the rural South.

This change explains the Great Migration, a useful thing, but it also makes the hiring of blacks by Consolidation (starting in 1880) into part of the Great Migration. Since the Great Migration is usually seen as an early 20th century thing, this seems wrong. That is why the original wording was "paved the way". I don't want to get into a (rather slow) edit war about this, so I thought I'd ask first before taking any action.Douglas W. Jones (talk) 20:43, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

- Hi, thanks for your note. How about if I identify when Consolidation started hiring African Americans, to put it in context and then relate to paving the way for the future Great Migration? Having learned about the latter, I try to include it in articles where it seems appropriate, to provide information that many people don't know.Parkwells (talk) 22:06, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Seems a sensible route, but it's important not to belabor the issue. Douglas W. Jones (talk) 14:31, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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From the 17th century, Virginia and other colonies passed laws making the children of slave mothers born into slavery, regardless of their paternity and of how much European ancestry they had.

I think you mean that these peops were treated as slaves?...but it is not crystal clear? Bosley John Bosley (talk) 17:48, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know it needed clarification.Parkwells (talk) 18:18, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I seem to have more-or-less reached the end of my sources for this article, and still have about a three week gap where I have little or no information. Just something to add to your to-do list if you're so inclined, since you seem to be good at this type of thing.

Also, I nominated Scranton general strike for GA. Let's hope for the best. TimothyJosephWood 22:59, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TimothyJosephWoods - looks like you have a substantive article. I made some copy edits but haven't been able to follow up on other elements. Was sick for the last week. Hope to get back to it later this week. You contributed so much substance to Scranton general strike. The review should go well.Parkwells (talk) 18:11, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This has another perspective on 1967, as well as the relatively recent arrival of African Americans in this industrial city in the postwar years. Wisconsin Historical Society.http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=Nrc:id-5,N:4294963828-4294963805&dsNavOnly=N:1095&dsRecordDetails=R:CS2652 Parkwells (talk) 17:24, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your notes; will have to recheck. They had a fur trading post at Kodiak by 1800. and other posts and missions in the Aleutian Islands.

I'm fairly familiar with the history of whaling in the Arctic Ocean, having read some of John Bockstoce's writings on it along with other sources. Without researching it, I still feel confident in saying that the Russians didn't whale off the Arctic Alaskan coast. That was New England whaling territory. However I thought there might have been a whaling station on Wrangel Island, off the NE Siberian coast. The Wikipedia article on the island doesn't confirm that. I recall there was an expedition party that was shipwrecked there, most surviving a long time and eventually being rescued. I think an Inupiat woman from Nome, a cook for the party, had the skills they needed for subsistence survival. Also, I noticed that your edit on the Reeves County item on GEO's page is partly redundant, in the lede and below. I'll leave it to your discretion to edit it. Thanks for your tenacity. The contrarian typically wears other editors down until getting his or her way. See the archived TALK discussions from 2013. Activist (talk) 15:03, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Where did you hear about a whaling station on Wrangel Island? I've never heard of one there and doubt anyone would build one in such a hard to get to location. As for the Juneau article, I was giving him time to remove the claim in question as the Russians - as you stated above - didn't do any whaling there at that date. I only know of Otto Lindholm sending a few whaling and trading expeditions to the Bering Sea in the 1880s, but I don't recall if they passed through the Bering Strait or not. I'll probably remove "whaling" from the sentence as well as the citation needed tag. ST1849 (talk) 23:39, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please comment on Talk:Volunteer (Ireland)

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Anthony Velonis

Hey - I saw that your sandbox linked to Anthony Velonis and wanted to mention that I just now published a pretty complete overview of him. Since I'm guessing you're interested in the topic, I figured I'd ask if there's anything you'd want to change about the page? I think I have a pretty decent set of references, but I am still fairly new to editing on Wikipedia so I'm sure there's some way to improve. Any input would be much appreciated. Thanks! —Atvelonis (talk) 22:54, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Terrific article - I did some minor editing but really admire the work you did. I have long been interested in all the various areas of work supported by the WPA - a real investment in the future of the country, both for artists and infrastructure and its workers.Parkwells (talk) 15:07, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]