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Minnesota

Created Demographics of Minnesota. Have at Minnesota I'll get around to cleanup & expand the sub article eventually. Good to see you editing Minnesota again. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 04:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

User talk:219.195.212.125

Thanks. I must've hit test2a instead of test 2 by accident. I've changed my warning. SkerHawx 16:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Message from IP 217.149.104.84

How do I talk to you? Are you an automated machine??

Replied on User talk:217.149.104.84 Kablammo 15:14, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

demog

Have at it, I'm going to start working on geography. I just wanted to get rid of the population distro. Maybe the religious part should be put into text. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 00:50, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Think the population center is worth including? I saw someone else add it to Illinois: [1] -Ravedave (help name my baby) 23:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
go ahead if you want. You can see it from 94 on the way to St.Cloud -Ravedave (help name my baby) 01:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

blanking user talk pages

I reported this problem to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents‎ Somebody has been using a series of IP addresses to systematically blank user talk pages--he hit mine User talk:Rjensen a number of times as well as User talk:Hlj User talk:Kablammo and User talk:Luna Santin and probably others

What the targets all have in common is we strongly protested Stevewk who tried repeatedly to remove all the information about the Civil War from the Abraham Lincoln article. Stevewk was given a 3R suspension but may be using sockpuppets to hit editors. Thus he may be using 70.110.174.121 151.197.233.65 70.110.155.238 70.110.174.121 etc. Rjensen 23:40, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Palmer Bus Company

Hi; you deleted this from Transportation in Minnesota. This is a significant operation in Minnesota and needs to be linked to from one of the articles. Please suggest an alternative. TerriersFan 22:49, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota

Thanks for correcting a couple of inaccuracies that developed as a result of my editing. I hope you'll accept them as minor in relation to the goal of sprucing up the text a bit. (Ravedave brought me to this article, requesting a review.) –Outriggr § 01:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Also RE minnesota, Thanks for taking the sports section, the sandbox version looks pretty good! -Ravedave (help name my baby) 04:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Error in Revert...

Hi Kablammo,

So sorry, I take responsibility for this revert and my error message. I'd like to blame VandalProof, but I'll take the hit. Please accept my apology.

Looks like we'd both jumped on it at the same time...

Thanks for your understanding.

Lmcelhiney 15:15, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
For hard work in bringing the Minnesota article to FA status Atom 14:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota Sports

Thanks. You've improved the curling bit. D-Looth 18:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Henry Rines Minn Treasure

thanks for fixing him my fingers got to heavy on the delete keySmith03 01:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

notable alaskans edit

Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.237.160.193 (talk) 03:15, 13 December 2006 (UTC).

Hi.

I'm really sorry for vandalism performed by this account--it's shared by an entire elementary school district.65.124.60.14 16:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Salsa music

I may have missed something. Looks like I reverted to your most recent version, just now, but if you find another version that seems better, feel free. :) Luna Santin 00:14, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Popups & edit summary

Re: [2]. In a case like that it would probably be good to leave a note for the user or add something in the edit summary explaining why you reverted. Its important to let IP users feel useful so they become regular users. -Ravedave (Adopt a State) 01:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree, but it wasn't me. Kablammo 03:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
sorry my mistake! -Ravedave (Adopt a State) 16:24, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

What?

How is that vandalism? This makes no sense. I didn't say nything bad did I? look i dont care anymore.

LINERs

Thank you for your response. I did not know that ships-of-the-line were also called liners. I am going to wait another week before creating a disambiguation page just to gather more feedback. Dr. Submillimeter 15:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Liner is now a disambiguation page. Feel free to add more links. Dr. Submillimeter 16:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Reverting removed warnings

Hey there, when you revert the removal of warnings on a talk page, it'd help if you could also add {{removewarn}} while you're at it. Much appreciated. Cheers! --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

No worries. For a list of templates, take a look at WP:UTM. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:19, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Another tip: When using certain template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. Happy editing... and vandalfighting Rettetast

Template talk:Infobox Commercial Ship

I've been in hospital for a bit, will have to get back to you on this subject later JohnClarknew 18:37, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

QM vs. Normandie

Hey, thanks for the heads up. I've edited the succession box to reflect that. I'll take a look at the Commercial ship template. -Pryaltonian 04:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

RMS Queen Elizabeth picture for article

It seems a shame that there is no picture of this beautiful liner to grace her page (before wreck). Think you can help to get one up that has no copyright problems? I can't find one. JohnClarknew 19:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

RE: Rochester, Minnesota

Sorry, I just thought someone was just putting random hex color codes in the article. My bad. Red Director 17:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note

Thanks for pointing this out to me.Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English is the article I've been looking for for some time. It clears a lot up for me, yet i still feel that there should be a standard english dialect across the whole of wikipedia. However, knowing a lot of americans and aussies, they hold dear to themselves there language and i couldn't be the one to tell them that (possibly) they weren't use their variety of english. I myself would find it a bit rude if i was told to change my spellings, but there you have it. Thanks again, Random articles 22:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Talking about Yanks spellings, i've noticed some blantant and infuriating spellings in my time, thankfully few on wikipedia articles, yet in textbooks and paper encyclopedia from the Collins or Oxford brands, which you cannot edit yourself without writing on the book, something i feel decidedly against doing. In fact, this have inspired me to start to check articles that are decidedly British and correct any american spellings. This shall make me feel better, and make me spend my time more productively (as i currently wander pointlessly through different articles, being no use at all). Thankyou very, very much!!! Random articles 22:36, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Usage

Right, ok, well Ticket Office is fine but you can also use booth if you wanted. Waiting Room is also good, but on british railways, people wait on the platform, which I'm guessing from dictionary definition is a concourse A concourse possibly could be the passenger bridge over the railway to get to the other platforms, but concourse is not a term in use in britain, so i haven't really heard it before. Train shed is the most common use for this term, but i have seen track hall before, so it's not wrong, but it isn't the first term to come to mind.

Would you mind passing me the link to these articles so i can have a better look at the articles and their spelling. To be honest, there are so many variations on spelling and words and phrases in britain, that there isn't a truly correct version of spelling. However, when wrting articles for to read (such as wikipedia) what is called the Queens English is what is generally excepted as correct english. I hope this helps, Random articles 11:53, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

The word Hall basically means a large structure or room which can hold a large quantity of objects, people etc. In this context, just think of hall as a hanger, slightly smaller, for trains instead of planes.
Thanks for the links, and remember to talk to me about any other spelling mistakes that you find!! Thanks again, Random articles 14:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Rift valley

Lake Baikal does lie in a rift valley [3]. I think if you read the article on it (which does not do it justice) you would see it is one of the world's great sites. Since it is in Siberia, it does not get much attention. But you do what you like. I'm certainly not going to argue or contest. And I thank you so much for consulting me about it. Sincerely, --Mattisse 01:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your message and for returning the link to rift valley. I agree it was not to the point for the Great Rift Valley article. Sincerely --Mattisse 02:20, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Discussion about Congress

Would you be so kind as to go here and weigh in on the discussion? Thanks --Appraiser 15:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

WUSTL Project

 Hello, I noticed you've made edits to WUSTL articles or that you are in some way connected to Washington University in St. Louis. I thought you might want to become a member of Washington University in St. Louis WikiProject . We've recently built the project page and started a drive to improve articles in the WUSTL series. Please take a look to edit an article or add one of your own. Once an article's status has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate! 
--Lmbstl 11:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

You forgot to sign your user warning at User Talk:12.16.75.130

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button Image:Wikisigbutton.png located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! Will (Talk - contribs) 19:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Cable TV commercial spam

Kablammo - I've taken the liberty of trying to summarize the views of the responders thus far to this issue here. Would you be kind enough to double-check my summary of your views, and supplement or correct them as necessary.

It appears that [[User:Bill Clark]] is continuing to argue his points with some tenacity, despite the fact that the responses thus far appear to be leaning firmly against his views.

Thanks for your input on this - frankly, I am worried about "opening the door" to this kind of commercial spam - others will want in as well because the "precedent has been set"! Spamreporter1 07:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[[User:Bill Clark]] has posted still another proposal which in my view is no better than his earlier efforts. Would you be kind enough to offer your observation of this latest? Spamreporter1 18:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Regards to Ship Articles

Just wanted to thank you for the useful links; I have a feeling i'll be using them often. Michael Merali 21:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Independence of the Seas

Hi - no, I've not seen any source. I merely trusted that whomever wrote the Independence of the Seas article knew their information. --G2bambino 16:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Reverting my User Page

Thanks for taking care of the vandalism. Cheers! --EarthPerson 21:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Red River Trail

Thanks for helping out with the History of Minnesota article. I'm not totally sure that the Red River Trail needs to be mentioned in the main article. It doesn't seem to be a core topic within the main references I'm using (the books by Gilman, Lass, and Risjord). I wouldn't have any objection to mentioning it in the article, though.

It's an interesting topic and could deserve an article or at least some expansion within the Red River ox cart article. There are three sections on the National Register of Historic Places (in Crow Wing County, Pennington County, and the Old Wadena Historic District in Wadena County). There are also historic markers along Highway 10 in Detroit Lakes and near Elk River, and I seem to remember reading something about how Highway 10 near St. Cloud follows the route of the trail. Let me know if you start an article like this, and I can help out. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 13:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Height of Land Portage

There appear to be two of these in Minnesota in the national register system. The article is on the one in Cook County. I have revised the infobox you added. Thanks.

I had a heck of a time finding the duplication, until I requeried the National Register database for everything in Cook County. It turns out that the one in Grand Marais is simply named "Height of Land", while the one in Embarrass is named "Height of Land Portage". I was wondering why the database (a copy I downloaded and queried using a PHP infobox generator) was telling me that the city was Embarrass. I should probably add a disambiguation note to the top of the article saying that there's another portage with the same name in Embarrass. Gotta love ambiguous names, I guess. Thanks for catching this. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 14:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I was fortunate enough to search for just "Height of Land" the first time, which yielded both results. I should have mentioned the difference in names. There is a "Height of Land Portage" near Lake Nipissing in Ontario on the Montreal to Grand Portage mainline of the voyageurs. There are others; as height of land is a term for divide any portage crossing a divide could be called by the same name. As articles on these others are added we may want to move this one to Height of Land Portage (Minnesota/Ontario) or something to that effect. But this one appears to be the most famous. Kablammo 02:36, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
By the way, I found the National Register nomination for the portages of Minnesota at [5]. They go into a very comprehensive discussion of how the portages evolved and why they're there, but I think the only actual portage they nominated was the one in Embarrass. If you're in the mood for reading lots and lots of information about portages, this is certainly a place to look. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 14:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Help Request

In my last edit to Height of Land Portage the last part is cut off on the displayed article (including the references and categories) but shows when the edit page is called up. What gives? Kablammo 19:33, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

<ref/> should have been </ref> -Ravedave (Adopt a State) 19:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

SNF

Thanks for the work on Superior National Forest it needed it. -Ravedave 06:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Olympic & the Lightship

Hi Kablammo, just responding to your note about the date of the photo of Olympic speeding by the Nantucket Lightship LV-117. I stated somewheres else but decided to leave response with you here. As regards the date of the photo Charles Eaton & John Haas in their book on the White Star Line have the photo in their section on the Olympic. They date in as January 1934 and I have no reason to doubt them for the handrailing on LV-117 has caked snow and ice as can be seen in the foreground of the photo. This most likely makes a wintertime snapshot as opposed to an April springtime shot.

Re: Cities

Elkman-- I saw your changes here. I think Minnesota cities are charted by the state, so they are not subdivisions of counties, even though they are within and geographically part of one or more counties. I'm not sure that makes a difference, or if cities in other states are established or chartered by the counties rather than the state. Kablammo 01:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I think you're probably right about that. I did a cursory pass through Minnesota statutes on the matter (about counties and about cities), and it looks like counties and cities are mostly independent. Townships, though, can apparently exist only in one county. I made a change to the cities project page to reflect this. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 02:03, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I Need Help with Something

I am trying to upload an image for the Freedom-class of ships, but I am having trouble having it appear. It is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Freedom-Class_Comparison.jpg.Gary Joseph 04:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Kablammo, Our Lady of Lourdes looks great! Many thanks for taking an interest and making it better. -Susanlesch 19:54, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On 6 April 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church (Minneapolis, Minnesota), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Geology of Minnesota

Kudos for your awesome work on Geology of Minnesota! I tried to get into geology for the MN article and I just couldn't do it, I guess rocks are just boring to me :). Gimme a heads up when you are mostly done and I'll do a copy edit. -Ravedave 03:59, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Minneapolis

Hello. Does Minneapolis, Minnesota look all right to you? Please pardon this form letter that is going to about a dozen people whose user name I recognize from some Wikipedia edit (could have been recent or in the past year). I expect to close peer review by nominating Minneapolis to featured article candidate in a day or two unless other editors have more work they'd like to do. In case the links help, places to make a difference are to edit in place, comment in the peer review, comment on the talk page, support or oppose when and if it gets to featured article candidate, or work on a child article linked from the following template. -Susanlesch 23:56, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

  • OK, I will hold off at least a week or altogether. Hope you have a great vacation. Loodog did some work on the intro too. I will look for your changes when you have time. Best wishes. -Susanlesch 16:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Coord template

I added the new {{Coord}} template to Seagate, Brooklyn. I tried both Inline and Title parameters, but it does not seem to work properly with both Inline and Title together. It does not put the coords in the upper right-hand corner. Also, should the template be set above or below any nav templates at the bottom of the page? I put it above, but I don't know what the convention is. If you put it below nav templates, it is pretty well buried out of sight. ●DanMS • Talk 01:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page!

[6] Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page! I appreciate it. =) – Lantoka (talk) 08:28, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Red River Trails

Good job on creating this article. Please consider submitting it to "Did you know" at Template talk:Did you know#Candidate entries so that it may be displayed on the main page. If you are not interested would you object to me to nominating it? --maclean 19:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On 4 May 2007, a fact from the article Red River Trails, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--maclean 09:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Duplicate notice ~~
Updated DYK query On 4 May 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Red River Trails, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 12:22, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I took a look at the infobox for Red River Trails. I don't know if there's really a standard within Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places or within {{Infobox nrhp}} for multiple-property submissions that span several different areas in a state. When I checked the database, I found that the nominated sections were in Baxter, Minnesota, St. Hilaire, Minnesota, and West Union, Minnesota, so I put them down in the infobox. The trails no doubt spanned a lot of land within the state, but those sections were the ones identified as the most well-preserved sections that could be identified as part of the Red River Trails. I'm sure that several other sections of the trails later turned into roads. There's a roadside sign on U.S. Route 10 on the western border of Anoka County, as well as another one on US-10 near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. On the other hand, other sections probably just became farmers' fields or reverted back to a woodland state. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 02:19, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

It works for me. I might tweak it to eliminate multiple mentions of the state name. Thanks for looking at this. Kablammo 02:25, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Business & State Articles

How does external links of creating a business not fall under the state section? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kiamori (talk • contribs) 23:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC).

Where does it stop? How to file for election in the state? Where to vote? Where to vacation in Minnesota? How to travel to Minnesota? Where to live in Minnesota? How to buy a home, sell a home, obtain a mortage, finance a business, obtain a car loan, find a church, obtain counseling, find a doctor, get insurance? The sort of information you want to add, to this and articles on every city in the state, will invite other articles on every single "how to do it" topic within the imagination of contributors. Once we open that door, how will we close it? Kablammo 02:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Updated DYK query On 6 May 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Traverse Gap, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 16:33, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Minnesota

No problem; I had just made an edit that involved the entire article, so didn't want to lose it all. And, I had left a note to Gimmetrow (talk · contribs) about the problem with editing by sections. If the section editing thing is fixed now, I'll go back to editing by section, and we shouldn't conflict — I'll continue reviewing refs, working from the bottom. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

All done; looks good. Good luck on the main page ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:34, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Well, thank you for the thank you :-) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

MN

Already on it, I have some minor tweaks to the geog section. I am also working on this User:Ravedave/Template:State_parks_of_Minnesota_map which should be cool for the parks page. -Ravedave 01:51, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I checked all of the edits Georgia and you made. Looks great. I'll see what I can do to keep an eye on it. Only 5 days till the main page! Also Do you think Geology of Minnesota would make GA? -Ravedave 02:07, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Geology of Minnesota

I thought about emailing Sansome, Ojakangas and Matsch and seeing if they would look. What do you think?-Ravedave 02:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Sure, why not? I also have some refinements to make to the description of regions. Ojakangas and Matsch use a more general geographic approach, while Sansome approaches it from the nature of the terrain-- her "West Central Minnesota" is more gerrymandered than I have indicate (which is why a map is needed) and basically covers the moraine, knob and kane country regardless of the watershed it is in. Kablammo 02:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Sansome doesn't seem to have a public email addr (and may be dead [7]), but the other two do. [8], [9]. Would you like to email them, or shall I? When looking for thier email addrs I stubled on this page which has some nice gfx that might be easily re-created [10] -Ravedave 02:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Feel free, if you don't mind. You may be more likely to get a brutally honest response, which is what we want. Kablammo 02:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Glacial River Warren

Thanks for starting the Glacial River Warren. It was on my "list of things to do eventually." I suppose I have a slight preference for River Warren, but it's not important. I've seen "Glacial River Warren", "glacial River Warren", and "River Warren" all used. I suppose adding the word glacial indicates that it was only a temporary outlet for the watershed area, even though it lasted 2300 years. Are the facts and figures in Lake Agassiz congruous with your article? It would be nice to have a picture of high bluffs over a dry valley (perhaps one in Mendota Heights would work). I'll try to find one or take one sometime - probably not before DYK though. - oh - i hope you don't mind me nominating it.--Appraiser 15:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

  • You've inspired me to do some more writing. Take a look at this and modify it or make suggestions if you'd like. I wanted to work on it some before moving it to main space. Thanks--Appraiser 21:42, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
I think it looks very good-- clearly ready for prime time. The question is whether you want it as a separate article, or as part of River Warren. (I'm probably going to move on to other things now-- I only created River Warren because I was tired of looking at redlinks, it was an article that needed to be started anyway, and I already had the sources.) If you decide to add it I'll be happy to add the section breaks and transitions, or let you could just take it over and handle those as you choose. Do whatever you think is best; I'll be glad to help either way. And keep an eye on Minnesota this week! Regards, Kablammo 22:04, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Updated DYK query On 9 May 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Glacial River Warren, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 00:28, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for writing such an interesting article. I learned a lot about the geology a bit west of where I live. I have traveled through most of the areas that you discuss. I will be looking at these areas in a different light the next I travel through the areas. I can't wait to see the five mile wide valley cut out by the river. Royalbroil 02:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
I have driven the entire stretch of the Mississippi River from its merge with the St. Croix River to Hanibal, Missouri. I also went to Minnehaha Falls once many years ago when my brother lived briefly in Richfield. I will look carefully for signs the next time I am at Lake Pepin (I have been there several times). I like how the article has the name "Glacial", keeping the standard that I have heard used to discuss other glacial lakes (in Eastern Wisconsin) that I learned about in college classes. Keep up the great work! Royalbroil 03:54, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Biscay, Minnesota‎

Hi Kablammo, I noticed you have contributed to making the Minnesota an FA. I was hoping you could help me with the Biscay, Minnesota article. I found this article yesterday when I was going around fixing typos. It was a disaster. I tried to clean it up, but it is completely unreferenced. It should probably be blanked and restarted. To add to the problem User:134.29.33.108 has reverted my changes. As a Canadian who has only visited Minneapolis once, I don't really want to adopt responsibility for this Minnesota article. I also hate to see the integrity of the Wikipedia project damaged by a poor article like this one. Therefore I am hoping you could take a look at Biscay and perhaps adopt it. Clerks. 13:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I'm not sure I want to adopt an article, but will keep an eye on it. I see that another Minnesota editor is also. Thanks for pointing this out. Kablammo 16:13, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Photos

WP instructions tend to be wordy and spread out. I'll distill it for you.

  1. Use the info here or here to craft an email to person. The details about the license must be *very* specific.
  2. Wait for reply to the email
  3. Upload the photo at wikimedia commons here (can be used on all language wps then) with all the permissions and info.
  4. Forward email (with added WP link) to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org
  5. Eventually someone qualified will use the OTRS system and leave a note like here:

Any Qs? -Ravedave 02:43, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Retraction for User:Grrrmrgrrr

I agree that it might not have been vandalism (per se) and adjusted my post to his talk page accordingly. Thanks Grika Ⓣ 21:24, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Minnesota

The Original Barnstar
To Kablammo, for your work preparing and defending the Minnesota article when it was featured on Wikipedia's main page. Not too soon to say, also for some great new articles. With sincere thanks. Susanlesch 19:59, 12 May 2007 (UTC)