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[edit] Lim Fjord

What does the year 1825 have to do with the North Sea? Rmhermen 13:10, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)

Thyborøn Canal, the connection between North Sea and Limfjord, formed then, thus separating Vendsyssel from the rest of Jylland. But I came here to note something else: The geographically correct name is "Limfjord", not "Lim Fjord", so I have merged the content of the new article into the existing one and made Lim Fjord a redirect. The 1825 thing is still miossing from the article, because there seems to be little information available about the event that led to the formation of Thyborøn Canal - if you have any, please feel free to add it. Thanks and have fun. Kosebamse 15:57, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A minor correction: Thyborøn Canal was created naturally during a flooding in 1862. It was another connection between Limfjord and North Sea, the Agger Canal, that was created by a flooding at February 3, 1825. Agger Canal was a few km north of Thyborøn Canal, it was closed in 1877 (naturally filled by sand) and thus does not exist any longer. Byrial 13:26, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Forbes Field

Babe Ruth's last home run and Forbes Field's first couldn't have been the same. Ruth played until 1935; he did hit 6 homers for the Braves that year. But he spent all of 1933 with the Yankees (34 HR), who didn't play at Forbes.

In fact, from what I show, Forbes was opened in 1909, when Ruth was still managing to hang on at that school in Baltimore.

According to Benson's Ballparks of North America, the first HR at Forbes was hit by Mike Mitchell of Cincinnati 5-Jul-1909. Its last homer was hit by Al Oliver 28-Jun-1970, the day the park closed.

Ruth may well have hit his last homer at Forbes in 1935 (I don't recall and don't feel like looking it up), but there were many homers hit at Forbes before the Sultan of Swat ever played there. CharlieZeb 02:54, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wood engraver

What is the point of redirecting Wood engraver to a non existent article wood engraving? Tiles 07:27, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse (no pictures)

Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse (no pictures) per request Pedant 02:02, 2004 Nov 18 (UTC)

[edit] Lamarque, Texas

Are Lamarque, Texas and La Marque, Texas the same place? --Paul A 07:44, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Re: Robert Lovett

Hi. You created a redirect page called Robert Lovett today redirecting to Robert A. Lovett. The only problem was that the rest of the links already in Wikipedia to Robert Lovett referred to a gentleman who served as the President and Chairman of the Southern Pacific Railroad starting in 1909 when Robert A. Lovett was 14.

I've made Robert Lovett a disambiguation page and updated the links to it accordingly. The railroad executive links now point to Robert Lovett (Southern Pacific) while the US government links (only one that I found) now point to Robert A. Lovett. slambo 19:10, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Hey, thanks, I should have checked first. Sorry to cause you the trouble. [[User:Rhymeless|Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 22:04, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)