I have recently been working on completing the lists of missing representatives. I've noticed in the history that you've been active in this section of the project. I was wondering if there was any specific state you would like to see a complete list on (I'm just going in alphabetical order right now)? I was also looking for suggestions on how to estimate a start value once I get the whole list finished. I hope you can help, and great job on all the articles you've created! --Psychless Type words! 18:25, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
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In regard to my previous comment, I'm not sure your reply helped me. I still need help on approximating a starting value. That project is, however, at the bottom of my to-do list, at least for right now. Hope you'll help on the assessment drive! --Psychless Type words! 02:38, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I'm polbot's creator. Thanks for all the articles on missing reps you've created. It's my opinion that handmade articles will always be superior to botmade ones, but the backlog was out of hand. :-) I wanted to point you to Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/American politicians/Representatives#Polbot can't parse these, to see if you're interested. There will probably be more added to this list when I find more that are problems. All the best, – Quadell (talk) (random) 13:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Please see my request at Category talk:Lists of United States politicians. I think we can use some of the data from User talk:Valadius's work at List of former United States Representatives.—Markles 20:52, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed your recent edit to Social Work. If you have the interest and motivation, I would like to invite you to join the Social Work WikiProject. Ursasapien (talk) 00:19, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Greetings. I would like to use User:Polbot (my bot) to change ((Bioguide)) to ((CongBio)). This use hasn't yet been approved, and it seems to have hit a snag in the approval process. If you could comment at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Polbot 4 about the usefulness or non-usefulness of such a bot, I'd really appreciate it. – Quadell (talk) (random) 12:30, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
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Aloha, LarryQ -- saw your note bowing out of the Legal Status of Hawaii article a couple of weeks ago, and given the contentious atmosphere, who could blame you? But I was glad to see that you made some new edits and hope you weren't completely scared off. I've tried to play a more mediating role there since I don't really have a dog in that particular fight (that's become a bad metaphor these days, unfortunately), and so your continued help is welcome and appreciated. Btw, for what it's worth, the atmosphere seems to have become noticably less tense on the article lately. Cheers, Arjuna 09:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Aloha Larry -- Yeah, the RFC thing is kind of a mess...(I told you not to go there!) I don't want to fight about it at all, but if equality in representation is not acceptable to you, even with good solid contextualization, I guess I will have to. By the way, I was not even thinking of you when I was talking about having to "kick butt" if necessary, but if you stand in the way of fair representation, I may not have much of a choice. Sorry. I do not mean to hurt you in any way, but out of necessity, I am a pitt bull when it comes to ensuring good information and balanced representation. Although I am a peace person by nature, training and profession, when I'm forced to fight, I do fight really really hard. I have to.
Now as for the posted question: One major problem with the original question was that it framed the question in terms of "ownership", which is not the subject of the page and is misleading, as well as inappropriately black-and-white. The page is not entitled "The Ownership of Hawai'i" which would be a completely different topic. It also did not clue people in that this is a native issue, which people should know before commenting, even if you do not feel this is relevant (they may not feel that it is relevant either, but that should be their informed choice). As far as the "fringe" thing, even if you didn't bring it up you opened the way for poorly informed commentary that says just that, which other editors have pushed strongly in the past. And you were certainly trying to limit the equal representation of viewpoints by even raising the "undue weight" question after I had just made a clear proposal for good context (including fair population estimates) and balanced representation. You could have proposed the wording of the question on the talk page first, but you did not, and therefore I had to make changes, as it was misleading. Make sense?
Bottom line is that I do not want to fight, but I will not under any circumstances let go if it means inequality. If you want to communicate and try to work that out, I am very open to that. Aloha, --Laualoha 19:57, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I created George C. Sturgiss and George Sturgiss as redirects to George Cookman Sturgiss.—Markles 10:23, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I find you have added a selection of locations around the Canary Islands to Project Africa and I was wondering why. The Canary Islands are Spanish sovereign territory, have been for the last six Centuries, and are part of Europe. Please advise if there is any reason why I should not remove the Project Africa tags from Canary Island articles. Yours, Dennywuh 13:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
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Do you have any opinion about my proposal?--Appraiser (talk) 22:17, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Larry! I'll definitely look at the articles, though I don't have much knowledge in those areas. Message me if you're ever coming this way again! Aloha!--Laualoha 03:25, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Just so you know, Category:Ancient people is really only for categories, not articles. Ford MF (talk) 22:23, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi! In case you were wondering who recently touched up the article and book list for this page, that would be me! Saw your latest edit comment, and thought that I'd better touch base. Wasn't trying to be unhelpful, but rather quite the opposite. As a Chernev fan, I thought the page looked quite pathetic before, and was simply trying to do my best to honor the man in a way that he deserves to be honored. If I have errored in anyway, it was simply out of ignorance and not out of lack of caring. But to be honest, I'm getting a little frustrated myself, as I'm not really understanding who you are, and how you fit into the Wikipedia picture compared to the average user? Also, why is a reference in hard copy form not considered valid? Or maybe I should be asking specifically, why is an electronically generated book not considered valid? (Webster's Timeline History) Is that one of Wikipedia's rules, and if so where do I find that information? And finally, how do you know that the site OnlyChess.com copied Wikipedia, and not the other way around? (I am asking sincerely!) Again, please understand that I'm not a regular Wikipedia user, and only want the Chernev page to look it's best! Thanks for being patient with me!
Brian
a.k.a. HardDazeKnight64 (talk) 08:43, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
"And finally, how do you know that the site OnlyChess.com copied Wikipedia, and not the other way around?" If you have proof of this, please make a report at [2]. The admins there can determine who copied who and delete any material which was stolen from OnlyChess.com. Copyright violations should not cite the copied source, they should have the offending text deleted. LarryQ (talk)
Thanks for taking the time to get back to me, and especially for the help! I DO appreciate it!
Brian
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which I see in a User page for the first time because I clicked on yours from the Oral History discussion page, though I see you are mainly interested in US congressional history. I shall copy your code for the Multilicensing policy and put it on my user page.
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