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List of Texas State Highways

I noticed that you seem to be doing most of the editing in this and the related article. I suggest changing List of Texas State Highways to a redirect to List of Texas highways since they both appear to have the same information. This makes sense based on what links to those pages. Having both seems confusing. Vegaswikian 00:40, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the general guidance is to be bold. Since we had this disucssion and you have been doing the work, I'll make the change. Vegaswikian 19:45, 6 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that you're working on the Texas Highways project here. I'm actually interested in getting in on that, and have been working on my own personal site (link on my talk page). Granted the scope of this project and my site are somewhat different, but there is certainly some overlap. If there is anyway we could do information and research sharing, I would certainly be interested! --Kinu 04:04, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hundreds of street signs on commons

Well... there HAS to be a reason for uploading tons of farm-to-market signs and stuff. But please don't tell me, they are only for this list were no one ever will write articles about them. --Avatar-en 17:34, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I start a discussion on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Texas-roads

Please tell me there, do you want to write a real interesting wikipepia-page about every street?

I think there are other systems for streets like maps.google.com.

(And sorry for my bad english)de:Benutzer:kolossos 18:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, I'd like to thank you for uploading all of those signs. I've already used several (at SH 78, SH 114, SH 121 and SH 190). I was actually curious if you had any plans to getting around to things like Loops, Spurs, Business highways, etc.

And I do hope that somebody makes articles for these farm roads (I'd thought about starting to myself). They're big deals here in Texas! RADICALBENDER ★ 18:52, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Texas Highways

Have you started a WikiProject yet for Texas Highways? I'm just wondering since these pages seem to be really organized. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs - count) 19:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Road stubs

All of the following made their way to WP:SFD:

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:59, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason this template doesn't use the word "state", like all the other stubs for state highways/routes? --Mairi 04:01, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A more standard name would be {{Texas-State-Highway-stub}}. I'll go ahead and move it to that. The category perhaps should be changed to include "state", but another state highway rename at WP:SFD might not be the best idea right, so I'll leave that alone. --Mairi 04:30, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

USS Walton

You're right. I made the change. I didn't mean to intrude on your article. I found it listed in Category:Category needed and decided to put it in a category as an IP edit. I had some trouble figuring out just how to code it. User:12.219.223.159 9 December 2005 (UTC)

21 December 2005

Please do not create huge numbers of empty pages and empty redirects and mis-spelled redirect commands. Hu 04:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps instead of a declaratory 'stop doing XYZ' comment, you could help to educate me as to why what I am doing is a problem. I am in the process of updating the List of Liberty ships page, and more than a few were "laid down" and/or launched with a civilian name but then taken over by the United States Navy and renamed. I thought it would be most beneficial to have a redirect from the civilian name to the Navy name. Is there harm in doing it this way?

Also, my apologies for misspelling "redirect" on one page. (Not all of us are perfect, you know.) — Bellhalla 04:43, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You mischaracterize it. It was a request, since I said "please". It is a Wikipedia guideline Wikipedia:No blank pages, not exactly a policy, but one that I think is worth following. Hu 04:57, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Movement

What do you think of the movement? Reply here. Thanks. --Kin Khan 03:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of Liberty ships

I notice you're doing a great job dividing up the List of Liberty ships. I did an M page just because I was interested in the SS Martin Behrman, but it doesn't have all the data you're coming up with. Please feel free to fill in the blanks, or advise me where to get the appropriate data and I'll do it. Thanks. — Muffuletta 16:47, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also noticed the great work. Thanks. Oldfarm 21:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Liberty ships lists

I had seen lists divided by letter before, but I'd always seen them with a colon instead of a comma. --King of All the Franks 14:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Hndis redirect

I think the talk section to look at is Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)/Disambiguation subcategories. If you go to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), there is a link to an index to the archives. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:48, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John B. Jones

I removed the Texas Senate info from the John B. Jones page. Jones was 15 years old in 1849, so he could not possibly have been elected to the State Senate that year. Also, the Handbook of Texas does not mention his having been in the State Senate. Steve Casburn 21:16, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Texas history and such

I noticed you've edited a couple of articles I've started. Are you a scholar of local history? I certainly am not, just an enthusiast. Any chance I could solicit your attention to a few others I've posted? You seem to have this thing down.

PS neato thing on the handbook of texas template (is that what it's called?). I'm going to have to remember that.

Jordanmills 19:30, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Texas highway templates nominated for deletion.

Greeting. I wanted to let you know that I've nominated some templates you created for deletion, as they appear to be unused, overly complicated, and contain redlinks unlikely to be filled. The templates are Template:TxHwy/routebox/bottom/FM, Template:TxHwy/routebox/bottom/RM, Template:TxHwy/routebox/bottom/SL, and Template:TxHwy/routebox/bottom/SS, and the discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion. bd2412 T 14:53, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Texas Ten"

I suggest you move it, since the articel refers to them as the 11 for the majority of the time. 68.39.174.238 05:28, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Sayles

I have recently observed a lot of redlinks to Texas politicians on dab pages, and if you're going to write articles on them, that's just fine. If you have no such plans, I'm wondering how all the redlinks make Wikipedia better. But the John Sayles dab page is a little out of control; making a dab page just for redlinks is pushing it just a bit. Even if you actually write an article for John, no dab page will be needed, just a hatnote at the top of the film director's article. This is explained in WP:D. If you have a question, ask here or on my talk page; I'll watch both pages. Chris the speller 22:15, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unusual place names

Hi. Thanks for letting me know about Braggadocio. To give you the background to my salvage2 page ... the real Unusual Place Names page was up for deletion recently, and looked like it would disappear from Wikipedia as a result of overzealous deletionism on the part of some editors. I thought it a wise precaution to take a copy of it. As it turns out it still exists (in fact it exists in two places now, which is perhaps not the result that those nominating for deletion wanted, but they seem happy!). I don't intend to maintain my page, and should perhaps delete it. If you want to add Braggadocio to the main page though, there's nothing stopping you. All the best SP-KP 17:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alpha order on NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team

Hi! I'm very happy to run into another editor from Texas. I saw your edits on NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team, and all of them were very good. However, I wanted to let you know that I put the players from the "Next 10" back in the order they were in. This was the order that they were presented on the show based on the number of votes each of them had from the 14-member panel (Tim Duncan had the most, Kobe Bryant second most, etc.). I've also added a note about this order. Let me know if you have any comments or concerns, and keep up the good work! E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 04:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hndis

Maybe you would be interested in this discussion about {{hndis}}.--Commander Keane 13:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Texas State Highways WikiProject?

I've joined up over at the US Roads Project, with an interest in tackling the massive task of going after the Texas roads. I have a question on your Route Box, though, and I want to make sure I understand its' usage, in the "Junction" section: The terminal intersections of the road should be bolded, and when a road is concurrent, it should be in light blue. If an intersecting road is itself concurrent with something else, use orange, and list all of them? Is that right? I really like the template. I'll be creating the project page this weekend, and will start with rationalizing some of the ones that others have added, based on your work. Any suggestions? Do you think you'll be able to be active on this? --DavidBavousett 01:07, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Succession Box WikiProject

I have created a new WikiProject for succession boxes located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization. Now we can discuss what needs to be fixed in a forum and make it into a larger project among Wikipedians. Not that I want too much infighting, but we all have had some disagreements and never know where to discuss them, so now we have a place. Come and join. Don't forget to sign the participant list if you want in.
–Whaleyland 22:10, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2006 Kansas State football team

we need an article on these giant killers.

-Hejaz

Quick question

I was mulling over the possibility of putting National Democrats (UK) up for Afd (which will include a possible merge rather than deletion), but saw the talk page contained subpages with metadata for the Election box templates which you seem to be involved in. Would doing this have any adverse consequences on your work? Thanks. One Night In Hackney 23:17, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Salsoul.gif)

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Tom DeLay's time in the Texas House

Thanks for adding the TX House succession box to Tom DeLay. Do you know anything further about DeLay's time in the Texas House? It would be nice to have more information about that period of his career in the article, but I've had trouble finding a lot of information about those years. Anything you could add would be appreciated. Thanks, NatusRoma | Talk 19:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Selflink removals

Hey there. It would probably be better to modify the template itself to make the 'candidate=' variable bold by default. In my opinion, it's better to do that than create self links. I was using a tool which searched for self links and alerted me to edit them out, and I haven't thought of a time where they had a place in an article. If you have any better ideas, feel free to let me know. --Sagaciousuk ^(talk) 17:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, David Catchings Dickson, was selected for DYK!

On January 20, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article David Catchings Dickson, 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.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid 64 18:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cite_encyclopedia

Ok, I made the changes you requested with some slight alterations. Let me know if I broke something accidentally. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 20:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos

Great job! Your recent edits to Magical negro show real dedication to Wikipedia's quality standards ... the Examples section has been a cruft-magnet that requires constant monitoring to revert "I think that XXX in YYY is an example" edits by newbies ... having such well organized and regularized citations may give some of them pause ... as for myself, I'll be more careful about using "cite news" and "cite journal" instead of "cite web" when I cleanup other articles where simple external links have been used, and I'll probably spend more time researching the citations to fill in more fields, thanks to your inspiring example. :-) —68.239.79.97 (talk · contribs) 14:19, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Nazty One

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List of Liberty ships, X

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