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Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 09:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello! I saw your edits at Montoneros, and, being a bit too much curious, found out that you were a law librarian. So I allow myself to attract your attention on Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial and universal jurisdiction entries, which both would benefit from some scholarly improvement. Now that the trial of Pinochet has been unexpectedly suspended (although much of the cases continue to be investigated), it is a bit easier achieving a stable version of this page. Hope you don't mind this notice, fare well ! Tazmaniacs 00:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Welcome to WikiProject Environment and thanks for adopting Barry Commoner. If you run into an issue or need some help, leave me a message in my talk page and I'll quickly come to help you. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 02:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Walshga,

I am a PhD student at Iowa State University who is working syngas fermentation project. I have been trying to write an article for the Wikipproject Energy Development. I need your comment, and help for the expansion of the article. If you can help me, I am gladly be happy for that.

Thanks

Ferit Isik 16:07, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, and welcome to the Novels WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to fiction books often referred to as "Novels".

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• The announcement and open task box is updated quite regularly. You can watch it if you're interested; or, you can add it directly to your user page by including ((WikiProject_Novels_announcements)) there.
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• The project has a monthly newsletter; it will normally be delivered as a link, but other methods are available.

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the members, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! – Liveste (talk • edits) 23:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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I'm happy it helps (-;

Thanks for your encouragements…

cdang|write me 16:33, 27 October 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have nominated F+A Architects, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/F+A Architects. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 17:55, 27 October 2008 (UTC) Nomoskedasticity (talk) 17:55, 27 October 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I am inviting you to comment, in your capacity as a librarian, at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Alphabetization and collation. -- Wavelength (talk) 21:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The discussion has been archived at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 107#Alphabetization and collation, with the instruction "Do not edit the contents of this page." The discussion is still open for comments at Wikipedia talk:Lists#Alphabetization and collation. Thank you for your interest. If you have comments to add, please put them at the very bottom of the section. Please do not edit the navigation templates. -- Wavelength (talk) 16:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

As you probably noticed I have made some edits to the Nu-Way article. I see that you created it and have contributed to the majority. I was just going to let you know I am not trying to take it over. I had been wanting to make a Nu-Way article for a long time, but never got around to it. Next time I looked into creating it, it was already done. I have tried to do some updating and revision. I went back and tried to make my citations similar to yours so that it would look clean and more uniform. I still have some things I had planning on adding. The main one is creating a section just for features, and recognitions. There have been numerous ones, and I figured that would be a good addition. That would add to the content and to the overall notability. Let me know if you have any ideas to work on or if you have any problems with my edits. Let you know your thoughts on it. Thanks. Brinkley32 (talk) 23:35, 30 April 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I am back in Macon for the weekend (been away at college). I can take some pictures if you need me to. I am not sure exactly how to upload them and all, but I am sure I could figure it out. Also what pictures would we need? Just the one downtown? If so, the sign or the "storefront"? I always go to the one at Zebulon, but I don't know how that would go over since that is only one in the chain, not the main one. Let me know whenever you can. I may go ahead and take some tomorrow downtown anyway, since you probably won't have time to respond. Just let me know what you think. Brinkley32 (talk) 05:26, 9 May 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Walshga,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

• Each casebook will have a subpage.

• Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
• It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or ((anchors)) in Wikipedia (example).
• Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

• I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, ((User Hornbook)) to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

• Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
• Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 06:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Your comment(s) at Talk:List of environmental lawsuits#Criteria for inclusion: overinclusive? are welcome. Wavelength (talk) 22:38, 31 March 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi,

I noticed you listed yourself as a participant of the Energy WikiProject.

There are 2 new outlines in this area that attempt to consolidate Wikipedia's coverage of their respective subjects, gathering and organizing the articles about them into one place and including descriptions for convenience. The purposes of these outlines are to make it easier for readers to survey or review a whole subject, and to choose from Wikipedia's many articles about it.

The new energy outlines are:

• Outline of solar energy
• Outline of wind energy

Please take a look at them, and....

if you spot missing topics, add them in.

if you can, improve the descriptions.

add missing descriptions.

show parent-offspring relationships (with indents).

fix errors.

For more information about the format and functions of outlines, see Wikipedia:Outlines.

Building outlines of existing material (such as Wikipedia) is called "reverse outlining". Reverse outlines are useful as a revision tool, for identifying gaps in coverage and for spotting poor structuring.

Revising a work with multiple articles (such as Wikipedia) is a little different than revising a paper. But the general principles are the same...

As you develop these outlines, you may notice things about the articles they organize. Like what topics are not adequately covered, better ways to structure and present the material, awkward titles, articles that need splitting, article sections lacking ((Main)) links, etc.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines.

Thank you. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 00:58, 2 June 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]

P.S.: see also Outline of energy

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The article Robert Siegel (architect) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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A tag has been placed on King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre Managed by Hilton, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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