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J654567 (talk) 01:10, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 12:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, MariAdkins! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

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Hello- I left the same message below to the Task Force Founder (J654567) below and want to know what you think!Coal town guy (talk) 13:53, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi- I LOVE coal towns, hence my user name, Coal town guy. I have joined the Eastern KY task force. I think I can help out a certain category issue here and of course as you created the project, I would love your feedback. IF you look at Mining Communities in KY as a category, it is not very populated. IMO, and I stress IMO, the KY coal towns I have identified in the Coal towns category (640+ pages strong and growing) are a tad better identified for the singular reason that many coal towns, NOT just KY, were NOT mining communities in the definition provided here in Wiki.....I would very much like to help with the creation of a cat for KY coal towns, and of course WV coal towns etc etc. Let me know what you thinkCoal town guy (talk) 13:47, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

MUCH appreciate the reply. When you can, take a look at what is defined a mining community and you will see why I said what I did. ESPECIALLY since you grew up in coal country.....I agree the coal is coked, sure, but SMELTING.....uh no.Coal town guy (talk) 16:01, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please send me a link to where this is going on? I seem to remember this discussion but can't find it, of course. --Mari Adkins 16:12, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Never mind, I found it. I'm such a dork! LOL --Mari Adkins 16:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

No problem. Here is the coal town article.Coal town guy (talk) 16:24, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think it would be a good idea to have a coal town task force??? I do. BUT, I am openly biased. Coal town guy (talk) 16:35, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think we need one. We should make one. --Mari Adkins 17:05, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

GROOVY...I am researching one now. This would encompass more then KY, BUT, given the definitions out there now, its going to be needed.Coal town guy (talk) 17:21, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cool beans. Let me know what you find out and when/if you need anything. I'll do what I can to help. --Mari Adkins 21:51, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes, one thing, get with folks you know are active in Eastern KY task force and spread the word. I will find who I can on the WV and PA end of the worldCoal town guy (talk) 02:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, OH YEAH, I have been very busy with Kentucky. I finally created my 2000th article and beyond. There are a few counties I am looking into, Metcalfe and Perry...Coal town guy (talk) 16:01, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incredible. If you need anything let me know. I'm not so familiar with those counties, but I do try to help where I can. MariAdkins

Its a real term, used by about 2 generations before me, and the term is an Appalachian term, or rather, a word of the dialect there. I will confer with some category masters. HOWEVER, I am VERY suspicious this is a word for word from another text, I have read this, and the recipe was also called a plaster which, I have sadly endured and DO NOT work. Thanks for the heads up.Coal town guy (talk) 03:12, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: My great grandmother was one, BUT, AGAIN, there is also a custom to address others who are elder in a familial way...Oh, that's Aunt so and so........, she was NOT your Aunt, BUT, that was a way you acknowledged you knew her and her status in the area.Coal town guy (talk) 03:14, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the help. and yes - i grew up with the various aunts and a few uncles, too. :)--Mari Adkins 03:25, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

The article in question is almost a total falsehood. In my 20's I was am amateur cyclist, and some of those hollows left me breathing hard, I was spent. To picture, a granny woman, in her 60's hoofing it to get MORPHINE, yes I am quoting, MORPHINE at a remote company store is laughable. My MOTHER lived near Hick Hollow, a steep, merciless WALL, no granny on this planet, did thatCoal town guy (talk) 03:36, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sitting here dying lmao. thanks for chiming in. I can't wait to see what your responses are!--Mari Adkins 16:43, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

My talk page statement is below:

It is a rare term, as I stated earlier it is a real term, BUT this article, to actually have a Start class is a total, JOKE. The places in Appalachia where this term is used do not allow in any application of physics, any elderly woman to hoof a hollow, GET MORPHINE......IN A REMOTE COMPANY STORE IN APPALACHIA, A CONTROLLED NARCOTIC...IN A SMALL STORE......DURING A BIRTH, AFTER SCALING A SHEER WALL, AND THEN BACK AGAIN to administer the drug, MORPHINE topically, which can KILL YOU. With a steady expertise......Why not?, well that's because, IT AIN'T SO, thats whyCoal town guy (talk) 17:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lexington, KY Wiki Loves Pride 2015

Lexington Pride Festival : June 27, 2015. Location: Lexington Pride Festival venues. Take photographs of the Lexington Pride Festival and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.

Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon : June 30, 2015. 7:00 pm. Location to be determined.

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You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

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Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Children's Literature Project Relaunch December 2018

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Recognized Content

Congrats to the following editors for having newly recognized content in November and December:

The Adventures of Abdi by IndianBio Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut Lotsa de Casha by IndianBio Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President Stranger with My Face by Fearstreetsaga

When Megan Went Away by Collin Wolf in the Snow Derrick Barnes by Bradv Whose Boat Is This Boat? by GreenMeansGo

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Children's Literature February 2019

Wow! Can you believe that we've gone from less than 5 members to over 20 in just a short time? Thanks to everyone for joining (or rejoining) the project and hopefully we will do some great work ahead. Please feel free to bring any ideas you might have to our talk page.

Recognized Content

The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend Review by ReaderofthePack Locked in Time by Fearstreetsaga Review by Ben79487 Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat Review by Snowycats

Project Tagging - Your help is needed

Thanks to Earwig and his bot some articles had our project banner placed on their pages - this will let us monitor and support these articles better. However, the tagging received some complaints about too many incorrectly place tags (see here). Some help in going through the categories to be used by the bot would be appreciated. That list of categories can be found at: User:The Earwig/Sandbox/Children's Lit

Article Alerts

A great way to stay on top of articles which need particular attention is through the project's article alerts page. You can find out about new Good Article Nominees, Articles for Deletion, and more. If you watch the page you can even see the new additions each night right frmo your watchlist.

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Children's Literature March 2019

More good work has been underway since our last newsletter. Thanks to all the project members for what you to do to support Children's literature on Wikipedia.

Newly Recognized Content

Finding Winnie Review by Guettarda Hello Lighthouse Review by Nova Crystallis Jew in the Thorns by Shrike and Nishidani The Rough Patch Review by Nova Crystallis

Stellaluna by Enwebb Ursula K. Le Guin by Vanamonde Review by Chiswick Chap X: A Fabulous Child's Story by Bobamnertiopsis

Article Assessment

With the completion of our project banner project, we have a large backlog of unassessed articles. Doing article rating is a great way to find interesting articles with-in our project's scope and to also find articles that were incorrectly tagged. This project will hopefully let us better monitor and aid in the development the many articles that this project supports. Thanks to Legoktm for all his work in making this happen.

Google Custom Search Engine

Looking for information on a book? Try out the new Children's literature custom search engine. This custom google search engine will look at designated sites for information. Included so far are Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and Publisher's Weekly. If you have ideas for other sites which should be added start a discussion on our project talk page.

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Children's Literature April/May 2019

This newsletter sees us embark on a project drive around article creation of some medium, or higher, importance topics that are currently redlinks. Read more and consider joining the work.

Newly Recognized Content

A Sick Day for Amos McGee Review by Valereee Children of Blood and Bone Review by Fearstreetsaga Derrick Barnes by Bradv Review by ReaderofthePack The Great Migration: Journey to the North by Malexander (BYU) Harry B. Neilson by Moonraker

The Lion & the Mouse Review by Farang Rak Tham Newbery Medal Scoops (magazine) by Mike Christie A Sick Day for Amos McGee Review by Valereee This is Not My Hat Review by Ceranthor

Awards in Red

MrLinkinPark333 recently pointed out that on some of our Top importance pages about Children's literature awards there are many redlinks. The three pages with these redlinks are Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, and Carnegie Medal (with 0 existing redlinks in the other top importance award article - Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award). As of this newsletter there are 222 redlinks in those three articles. How many can we as a project create over the next 6 weeks? Could we even do better and see if we could create any that earn a Did You Know or even get it up to Good Article status?

As always feel free to head on over to the project discussion page if you find yourself in need of any help as we work to turn these notable entries on some of our most important articles blue.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:20, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mari,

I saw your post from 2017 on Talk:Pensmore about the conspiracy theories you read about Pensmore. I'm not super well versed in how talk pages work, and I tried to switch that to its own category, which then messed up your user signature, and then I added the link to your user page back, and a whole bunch of other stuff but I think it shows now. Just in case I did screw it up enough that you didn't get a notification or whatever, I wanted to ask you on here if you wanted to share what you read re: Pensmore conspiracies, and send me some of the sources for that, so maybe sometime I'm procrastinating I can add that to the article.

Read through your userpage and talk page while trying to fix all those links-- what a fantastically poetic user page. Your life sounds like a novel in it's own right, and if I ever get the chance someday to read Midnight I would love to. I also saw the notice at the top of your talk page. I hope you're in good health.

Wishing you the best,

Eggventura (talk) 21:42, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]