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Hi!

How do you know? --Againme (talk) 18:22, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your answer. No, I don´t need a source because I work there, lol. It was my mistake and I was just wondering how did you know better than me, hehe. Also I secretly wanted to know if you were a NW fellow. --Againme (talk) 18:45, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Chantry Chapel

Hi, you once, if I remember correctly, added a picture og the chantry chapel to the Wakefield article which I removed. I said I ought to write an article for it, which I did, eventually. Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield is the result. I thought you might like to see it.--J3Mrs (talk) 13:09, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Hale

Done. Connormahtalk 03:30, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

No problem - I was a bit worried about it though, the difference in ink width, etc is sometimes hard to do. I'm quite pleased with the result, also, I must say ;). On a side note, if there any chance that you could locate a daguerreotype of Richard Mentor Johnson, or John L. Helm? Connormahtalk 03:37, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
I definitely know what you mean - I've searched for ages for Helm (and Polk) - it's frustrating. Connormahtalk 03:41, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
No problem, or rush. Connormahtalk 22:23, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi MarmadukePercy - any chance you can find anything on George Mifflin Dallas? Thanks. Connormahtalk 01:58, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Cushing Homestead in Hingham, MA an NHL?

Hi Marm ... Do you have a source for the Cushing House in Hingham, MA being designated as a National Historic Landmark? A search for "Cushing" in the National Park Service NHL database only returns the Caleb Cushing House in Newburyport. I know that it's listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but that doesn't make it a National Historic Landmark. --sanfranman59 (talk) 22:23, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply and no worries. I'm well aware of how confusing it can be to determine which designations a given historic property has. So will you take care of removing the Cushing House in Hingham from List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts? --sanfranman59 (talk) 23:06, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Jarvis

I've completed your request at WP:GL/PHOTO. Cheers. Connormah 22:36, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Akins

Hey. Just so you're in the loop, Wyvren was indef blocked following a discussion at ANI. He was also sock puppeting on Commons, and was banned for a week there. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 19:34, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Abram Penn

Hello, thanks for your constructive criticism on my discussion of Abram Penn and the Henry County militia on the Patrick County, Va., entry. I have updated the discussion with direct information from the NPS handout, which you can see there. By the way, I'm also a professional journalist. Currently, I edit a small newspaper in western N.C. Ftjrwrites (talk) 18:04, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Photos (Akira Kurosawa page)

I just wanted to note that I have followed your advice about photos for the Akira Kurosawa page. Thank you. Please see my reply to your comment in the Discussion section of my User page. Dylanexpert (talk) 16:49, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment on the photos on my Akira Kurosawa page. I would still appreciate your advice on how to turn my page (which is almost done) into a featured article and then into a "Today's Featured Article" for September 10th. By the way, check out my Discussion page, where I replied to your comments about Ran. Did you get to see the film this summer? Dylanexpert (talk) 17:06, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Colonel Thomas Westbrook

Sorry to intrude into your time away, but wondering if you can provide some direction to a newby about images? I saw a city seal being used for the City of Westbrook wikipedia page and assumed it could also be used to illustrate an article about the person that Westbrook, Maine is named after? Please let me know.

Sincerely RWIR (talk) 05:33, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Re: Mark Armstrong

Hi MP - though i can somewhat understand you removing redlinks from the Armstrong (surname) dab page given the length of the list (even though it is not standard practice to do so), I'm not sure why you moved my correction of the link for the astronomer Mark Armstrong. Your edit means that it now points to a disambiguation page. Any particular reason? Grutness...wha? 23:42, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks - and I've added back in the one new article created since its redlink was removed. :) Cheers, Grutness...wha? 00:05, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

AN/I notice.

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which your name was discussed. The thread is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Incivility / harassment by User:7mike5000. 7mike5000 (talk) 10:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

NH Images

Thank you for your kind comments about images. My New Hampshire antecedents (two families) were all on the side of the then-new United States but their children or grand children moved north into British territory, probably motivated by a desire for land. Some others, from New York, were loyalists. None ever went back.

Saw you were in Seattle. We were at SEATAC airport and the Seattle library (genealogy section) less than 2 weeks ago. The previous time we were in Seattle was during winter when we saw a bus with its front end projecting over the highway as we drove by. Seems a bustling place.RWIR (talk) 08:14, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice on images and the uploading of them to Commons. Will make the attempt but might be taking a bit of an absence from wikipedia myself, family return from out of town soon!RWIR (talk) 01:22, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Collaborative news on quippd

Hey, I noticed that you listed yourself as invoked in the WikiProject Journalism project, and I hoped that you could help out on another collaborative community edited project.

I run quippd, a collaboratively edited social news site, which mixes elements of Wikis, social networking, and social news sites. You can get some more information about what we are doing at: http://quippd.com/about/intro

Basically, we want to get good coverage on news stories, collaboratively edited, like Wikipedia. We are trying to take the ideas of WikiFactCheck -- to make news less biased and speedier (unlike something like Wikinews). By combining social elements to the project, we hope to bring the benefits of wiki enabled fact checking and npov ideas to the masses.

I hope you check us out -- and feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns.

--Yoasif (talk) 04:32, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

My e-mail fixed

Marmaduke, I didn't get your recent e-mail, probably because my preferences identified a defunct account. That has been updated now, so hit me again when you get a chance. Ftjrwrites (talk) 17:50, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Goodbye Gutenberg

See this in which Sultzberger confirms that the NYT will stop printing soon. Another marker of the end of traditional print journalism, and of the fourth estate in it's original sense. I remember talking about this in the 1980s, but I didn't really believe it back then. Goodbye Gutenberg by Anthony Smith (1981) [1]. Regards — Becksguy (talk) 17:32, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

RfA thanks spam

Hello MarmadukePercy, thank you for supporting my RfA!
I was promoted with a final tally of 65/4/3.
I hope I can live up to everyone's expectations, do my best for Wikipedia, and take to heart the constructive criticism. Always feel free to message me if I'm around.

Magog the Ogre (talk) 11:15, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

RfA no thanks spam

Lol, I thought I'd do a one-up on ol' Magog above with a smart statement :) Marmaduke, I dropped in here to thank you for your lovely support in my RfA. It mattered. Thanks and regards. Wifione ....... Leave a message 15:57, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi! Request for clarification

Hi. Got your message, and it is nice to hear from you. I am honored you've been watching me write notes, and it is also probably a very good thing! To be honest I have no specific intention to show this to others right now. But given the walls of confusion being thrown up around this subject by Jayjg [2][3], I simply find it prudent to have a summary on hand.

Obviously any time you are forced to discuss something like this, you end up saying something about what you think other people think, and this is where big side discussions can be started which distract from the main point. (For this reason, if I ever cite this summary, I may strip it down first. The current version should be considered notes from me to myself.)

So, to get things right, looking at your message to me:-

  • I did say that it was a hobbyist journal largely, but I also said that in some instances -- and I named some -- that it would be acceptable.
I agree with this summary also, so can you tell me which bits in my summary disagree with it? Then I can fix it. By the way, I would say this summary you've now made of your position agrees with me perfectly. Perhaps the main thing you are objecting to is that I say you changed position? This could involve the next point...
  • Moreover, you've characterized me as a relatively 'new user,' which is obviously far off the mark.
That was my understanding, but it is not the key point and if I was wrong I was wrong. My point is that at the time of the RSN case I raised the issue of whether you were using the term "self published source" as per WP jargon, or whether you just meant "hobbyist" as per your wording on my talk page today. I have always suspected it was the latter, but I may be the only person involved to suspect that. There is a big difference on WP, and indeed this is why I say that at first you appeared to agree with the extreme anti position, and then appeared to move to the position which I believe became the clear consensus. (Alternatively, I'd say it was always probably the consensus, but the first parts of the RSN case were extremely hyperbolic and confused, making it unclear what people were arguing for and against.) My sentence about your use of the terminology is mainly there in order to explain that I am not actually sure you meant to change position, but in fact I think you did not intend the words "self published source" to imply that you thought the JOGG was an anonymous person's personal website which should not be used, but this is how you were understood at the time. (Certainly User:Jayjg claims you agree with him still.) Does that makes sense? On the basis of your answer we can adjust my summary.

Cheers--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 09:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Request

Hi - is there any chance you could perform a search for photographic portraits of William Pope Duval, Edward Coles, John Reynolds (U.S. politician), John Eaton and John Branch? Thank you so much in advance, I really appreciate it. - Connormah (talk) 00:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Geoffroi de Charny

I e-mailed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Wilson_(writer) and asked for a translation of the beautiful brass effigy of Geoffroi de Charny II. He answered but gave me credit for something you did. I e-mailed back to give you complete credit for the brass. He was very impressed. The translation, if you are interested, is as follows: ‘Here lies the noble man Monsieur Geoffroy de Charny at one time seigneur of Thory, in the district of Beauvais, who died the 22nd day of the month of May 1398. Pray God for his soul.’. If you wish to enable your e-mail, I will send you the e-mails. Mugginsx (talk) 16:29, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I didn't do much but upload a nice image, but I appreciate the compliment. Email is enabled so drop the mails if you wish. MarmadukePercy (talk) 07:44, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

General Martin

Thank you for writing the long, detailed article. Do you happened to be related to him? I ask because I am distantly related. By this time there could be very little of his blood in my veins, though I notice from his portrait that we share pattern baldness. Maybe that is where it came from.Hammerdrill (talk) 04:15, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Got yr message. Thanks. Also, I said "distantly related," but I meant many generations, not distant as in third cousin seven times removed, for example. I actually have a straight line backwards: Joseph Martin-William Martin-Elizabeth Martin-Charles D. Brooks-Charles G. Brooks-Parrie Brooks-Frank Allen-me. Curious to know where you split off. Also to know if you have information about Elizabeth Martin's husband, an interesting fellow whom I have been trying to research. (This compromises my anonymity, but I'm too psyched to care.) Hammerdrill (talk) 22:53, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Scythians help

Hi MarmadukePercy. I require assisstance/ feedback in regard to issues on the Scythians article- which you partly followed. Basically, an editor, HonestopL is making POV edits, blindly reverting, and falsifying sources just to so to the opening sentnce in the 'Origins' section read that Scythians came from 'Greater Iran'. Despite the fact that I have numerous times repeated that such a term is vague, and has political connotation, he had disregarded this. Moreover, the actual sources never mention anything about Greater Iran- as I have pointed out in the discussion page. The various sources suggest variuos origins, including the Volga - Ural region, southern Siberia, northern Siberia. All these regions fall outside what is considered Greater Iran.

What's more, user Ian.Thomson appears to have a personal vandetta against me under the cloak that he is upholding WP: AFG and WP:CIVIL. But his carry on [4] plainy exposes his hypocrisy. he has taken it upon bimself to support HonestopL by randomly googling things about Scythians - and showing to me that they were indeed Iranian. they both appear unable to grasp that speaking an Iranic language doesn;t mean that a people come from the geographic region of Iran, greater or not. The Scythians were various groups sharing a similar, nomadic culture from the Eurasian steppe, well north of Iran, with a way of life which was foreign to the type of civilizations in the Iran/ Afghan region, such as the Achemenids and their successors. It's like hitting one's head against a brick wall with these two. i'd really appreciate your advice against what I think is unfair behaviour on their part. Hxseek (talk) 05:15, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Normans

Thank you for your compliments MamardukePercy and good time in Seattle.Nortmannus (talk) 19:57, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Guess Exeter really IS "old school"!...

Its curriculum's still emphasizing(/offering?) Greek and Latin and its still awarding its most prestigious diploma in classics.--Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden (talk) 02:13, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

It's a pretty big school, then? (I always wondered where that expression came from!)--Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden (talk) 02:22, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

DNA, etc.

Hi Marmaduke. Thanks for the link to the DNA study. I wanted to link you to an interesting website I've got bookmarked [5]. It covers archaeology and history mostly, and lists new stories every day; things you wouldn't come across, the odd DNA story pops up as well. I just checked now and saw that that DNA bit you linked to was from only a couple days ago, and I wondered if you knew of this site, or if it might interest you. A bit of a coincidence, on the 7th there was a story on another dozen-or-so Viking skeletons unearthed in England, and the analysis on them [6].--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 20:41, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Ah cool, if it turns out to be viewable online, I'd like to read it too.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 07:44, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey...

...Marmaduke. Thanks for pinging! Everything's good in my neck of the woods. As always, I'm off doing strange projects. How's everything with you?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:47, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Quick Note

Just a quick note to let you know that i have edited an archive you are represented on ~ the archive of the Earl of Clare talk page ~ as several of the conversations had been edited, removing information, before being archived. I'm not expecting you to do anything; this is simply a courtesy note to be sure i'm not thought to be covering up mine actions. Cheers, LindsayHi 21:43, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Incidentally, Marmaduke, i see you're on a Wikibreak currently; hope all is all right, and we see you back soon. Cheers, LindsayHi 21:43, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for your support at my RfA last week. I'll do everything I can to live up to your expectations and if you ever need help from a janitor please feel free to drop me a line! PanydThe muffin is not subtle 22:48, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Littleton Waller

Hi, I see you have edited that page a fair amount. It appears the Later Years section is mostly original research, if you have some knowledge on the subject can you help to clean it up? Thanks! --AW (talk) 03:53, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

High Sheriffs of Derbyshire

I'm curious. You say the source is wrong? How can you tell when standard spelling wasn't invented until later. I realise that you might be saying that he comes from the family now known as Gresley. Are you sure this isnt OR or is this accepted policy elsewhere? Victuallers (talk) 15:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Taylor House in Waterboro Maine

Hi, there is no link available but I can upload scans. My additions to the article were based on 3 diaries that I have in my possession, written by Byron Charles Leavitt when he was a teen. He grew up in Saco and spent summers at his Grandfather James' house in Waterboro, which is now the Taylor House.

There are 2 additional diaries at the Watkins Library at Trinity College written by Ethelinda Innes when she was a young child growing up at the Taylor House. Ethelinda was the sister of Helen Taylor, who wrote the book "A Time to Recall". They allowed me to read and take pictures of these diaries, but I don't have any online source. Watkins used to list these diaries on one of their collections pages, but it is not coming up in the search listing anymore.

I gave typed copies of Byron's diaries to Helen's son William and also to the curator of the Taylor House Museum, Jim Carll, in 2005. I also provided them with pictures of Ethelinda's diaries.

There is an online source which can be cited to correct the date of James Leavitt's death. The James Leavitt of the Waterboro house, died on September 7th 1876, not on April 7th as recording in your article (and in various other online sources). I have a photograph of his gravestone in the Town House Cemetery, with the correct date. It is also listed correctly here. http://www.waterborolibrary.org/view_deceased.php?page=64 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seconds41 (talk • contribs) 15:46, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

New England Dwight family

Ah yes, it was a work in progress, and I ran into an edit conflict. I will try to merge and fill in the info from the one source tonight. It would be great if you double check from other sources and add any more. I did not realize the list got so long when I started with just the Timothy Dwights. Also this list should be linked from each members page; that will take a while. Thanks for any help. W Nowicki (talk) 00:28, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

The cited source says that Jane Maria Leavitt (1801–1877) was daughter of Thaddeus Leavitt Jr. (1778–1828), so I changed it back. Unless I am misreading it, or that book has a mistake, which of course could be the case. Generaltions often overlapped in those days, but this seems plausible, and the one freebie web site I found seems to confirm. Of course if you find a better source please add it. I am working more on the other branches. W Nowicki (talk) 00:55, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your fix on Daniel Coit Gilman, indeed, these names keep getting recycled. I had just found her NYT obituary which matches what you found. Now to fix the others. As you noticed, I keep finding more and more! W Nowicki (talk) 01:16, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hope I am not causing too much damage. Took the liberty of cropping a picture or two that should work better at "thumb" size. One issue I ran into: there are a bunch of links to Yale College, which was the name of course when many people attended. I always thought it would just redirect to Yale University but it does not. Instead it seems to be an article on the undergraduate residential system put in place around 1933. Not sure if it is worth worrying about, since they were generally undergraduate degrees (but not always). Probably the options would be to argue for merging Yale College into Residential colleges of Yale University (opposite the direction proposed), or just using something like [[Yale University|Yale College]] in the article. I'll mention on article talk pages too. W Nowicki (talk) 18:22, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Swan Article

Hey MarmadukePercy. Where did you find the name for Swan's wife's father? I didn't run across it (I might have, but did realize it...the Church Records are kind of a dry read.) Is he notable because he was the third minister? I am not saying the edit is bad, I am interested in knowing where you found the info! Cheers! Sinfoniansinger (talk) 08:13, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Taking the Count

Are you sure this is an improvement? Comparing the older version and the newer one, the older version was much higher resolution, and while the colors aren't identical, they're pretty close. Raul654 (talk) 17:25, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Biography topics

I'm always hunting for new people to possibly write as biographies. If you worked as a "bureau chief for a national print newsweekly" then may I write a WP article on this person, ie, on you? I need your name and publication. You can email me at thomaswrightsulcer (AT) yahoo (DOT) com.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:01, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

John Leavitt

Sorry, didn't mean to displease when I inserted the infobox. Will leave the article as is.RWIR (talk) 08:21, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Yale University

Hi Marmaduke, Will you negotiate please on this one? That the name 'Yale' derives from a identifiable place in Wales is a material fact of interest, as instanced by the Court proceedings in c1999 by Yale University against Yale College in Wales. Also, if your objection is to the inclusion of bio, then the reference to the British East India company is also inappropriate. Regards, Flying Stag (talk) 13:15, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar!

The Good Heart Barnstar The Good Heart Barnstar
I award you this good heart barnstar for taking the time to thank us "vandal-fighting ninjas" (great name by the way!). We are grateful! Bped1985 (talk) 23:02, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
What can I say? We ninja to the best of our abilities! Bped1985 (talk) 23:26, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks again. I see that you edit quite frequently. If any of your "favorite articles" ever get vandalized, drop me a line and I'll eradicate the little bugger. Knowing the system has its advantages :) Bped1985 (talk) 22:04, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Lady D's Closet

Thanks! I'm about to add a photo of some of the panels to the article entitled Lady Drury's Closet which I created a little while ago. My only real reason for amending the Hardwick article was an attempt to provide some linkage for the closet article so that it wasn't an orphan, so I'm grateful if the link can survive somehow! Your article is splendid, Best wishes, Eebahgum (talk) 02:27, 15 March 2011 (UTC).

Page Progress in Mid-March

Your attention and input is needed again on the Thomas Jefferson talk page. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:12, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Filemover

Hi MarmadukePercy to qualify for filemover on en.wikipedia you should have moved pages (apart from files), you should have done some work on images shuch as fixing licenses and doing some fair use rationales. I like to see use of commons as well, but it sounds like you satisfy that criteria. Do you have filemover on commons? If you can show that you have used it effectively according to policy, and know how to do fair use and licenses then I would allocate the bit. Otherwise several dozen fileuploads and several dozen helful edits to en.wikipedia file space will prove the need. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:47, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Since 99.9% of your file work is on commons I think it would be worthwhile to ask for the permission there. Use commons:Commons:Requests for rights. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:14, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Pantigo Mill

The photo would be worthy of inclusion, but it's upside down. If it can be edited to put it the right way up, then include it. I don't dispute its notability, but left as it is, the picture is just confusing.Ghughesarch (talk) 01:25, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Now showing the correct way round, feel free to re-add it to the windmill article. Mjroots (talk) 06:56, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Thomas Dudley Ancestry

Hello, and thanks for your note on my talk page. I added the ancestry of Thomas Dudley because the article mentions the royal ancestry of Thomas Dudley through his mother's Purefoy line. The five-generation charts don't allow for a very extensive lineage, and it's probably a dozen or more generations to take Dudley back to royalty. The chart was just a stab to show the Purefoy line, at least back a generation or two. As you said, the paternal ancestry of Dudley is totally in the air. I have no qualms about not including the ancestor chart; it was meant to give just a tad more meaning to Dudley's ancestry, but I realize the chart is pretty scrappy.

Thanks for commenting about my ongoing projects. I've been inspired by all the work that MagicPiano is doing on the Mass. Bay governors, and realized that the collective work on the early RI governors is pretty awful. I've begun the fix by writing stubs for the governors without articles, and now I'm going back to begin the process of putting more meat into the stubs on all the governors. I appreciate your contacting me.Sarnold17 (talk) 10:36, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

I hadn't seen the link on Brown University portraits. The ones of current interest to me are already in wikimedia, and I'm guessing that we have you to thank for that. I haven't learned the ropes of entering photos yet. I've put in a few family photos, and I have the overwelming sense that things were not done correctly, but I've used the photos anyway. The Hingham article is a good one; I knew of Lincoln's Massachusetts roots, but didn't know that Hingham was the town. Thanks again for your kind and comforting words, and your concern about edits that might be taken the wrong way.Sarnold17 (talk) 02:08, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

I feel like I'm being attacked

Hello again. An issue has come up, and I would like an opinion from someone with good manners. I have been working diligently on colonial Rhode Island governors, and I created a template for them because none had previously existed. I spent a lot of time on this, and I use the template every day. Well, this morning I discovered that the template is being considered for deletion, and I found this on the template's talk page:

This should be reversed. The government of the colonies was Great Britain. It wasn't even the same country! There was no "continuity" here. The Royal Governor was unceremoniously shown the door and someone else took his place. The constitutions were different. There was a revolution!
The only similarity is that they had part of the same title. This is wrong. Please reverse it. Student7 (talk) 13:48, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Is this appropriate? This user is an administrator. Do these words mean anything to you? I created my template based on the template for Massachusetts governors, except there are far more convolutions to the early RI governorhood, requiring a much greater number of categories. I was quite offended when I discovered this situation this morning, thinking I had created something of use and something of value, and then finding this cryptic message from an administrator announcing that my work is being considered for deletion, yet offering absolutely nothing constructive as to what is wrong, and what specifically needs to be done. I'm still feeling quite piqued. You know, I just read that whole spiel a month or so ago about how new wikipedians aren't lasting very long. After this, I can certainly see why, and this approach from an administrator has me ready to bail out at any time.

Your feedback is kindly solicited.Sarnold17 (talk) 01:40, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply to my concerns. As expected, your answer was very calming. It may take a few days, but I suspect that things can be worked out. I'm going to sit back for a bit, take a breath, and get back to work.Sarnold17 (talk) 14:41, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for the heads up on the messed on link. Too many wikis out there! Jrcrin001 (talk) 19:22, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the paper money image!

A most interesting "bill" that you have added to the collection of media! As you probably already know, there was a lot of fighting going on in RI, both pre- and post- revolution, concerning paper money vs. "hard" money. This image should play into some of the articles I'm editing from that time-frame. You really come up with some interesting stuff!Sarnold17 (talk) 16:25, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the additional detail. I know where I want to first use the images, as I was recently writing about these money issues. I'm in the middle of some other edits now, but hope to get to this in a day or two. I always appreciate hearing from you.Sarnold17 (talk) 21:36, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Hitler's Toothbrush Moustache

I understand that you may see it as trivial, but it is undoubtedly a part of Hitler's legacy; even more so than the line "Holocaust denial, along with the display of Nazi symbols such as swastikas, is prohibited in Germany and Austria" as this deals with nazism and not Hitler specifically. The toothbrush moustache article s rife with references to Hitler, but no mention at all is made on his page. I do not believe that you are giving me the benefit of good faith. Le Douche? But of course! (talk) 00:34, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

You've told me, "Okay, I see that while I was writing this, you did raise the issue on the talk page. That's the way wikipedia works, and now you can let other editors comment and decide what they think is best." yet you stand behind removing my cited and well-known input. How am I ever to get my information added if it's deleted without the littlest debate? Le Douche? But of course! (talk) 00:51, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
No, I understand what you're doing. You made sure to point out "I guess having contributed to that page the image of the cover of Hitler's Mein Kampf" which tells me that you've already assumed you know better than I. There was no debate. You acted unilaterally and now someone else has re-uploaded my original line. Let's watch as more debate-less action is taken while Wikipedia "elites" such as yourself settle this in the end. Le Douche? But of course! (talk) 01:03, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
I called you an "elite" because I found the statement "I guess having contributed to that page the image of the cover of Hitler's Mein Kampf" condescending as you were implying that your opinion carried more weight because you uploaded a picture. Either that or you're really fond of that picture and want me to check it out. I'm inclined to believe it was posturing. Le Douche? But of course! (talk) 02:27, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Request for help with images

Hi again. I am wanting to download two images that are found in a 1907 book, and you are the one I know with the most experience in these regards. The images are found here on pages 10 and 154: http://books.google.com/books?id=iNTD4M9r90QC&pg=PA38&sig=Na083i58jk61Yrkbp2Xj4TeoBOQ&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false. These are in Google books. Is it permissible to download from this source and use for wikipedia?

Also, I found two more RI colonial governor pics on the official state website, and would like to download them (Richard Ward and William Greene). What do I use for the permission when I do this? If things get messed up, may I come to you for help? Many thanks!Sarnold17 (talk) 21:29, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your assistance. I may be back with questions as I stumble through the upload process. I'll take a closer look at the governor pics to see when they were created.Sarnold17 (talk) 01:46, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Hello again. Two RI governor portraits I want to download are found here. The two are Richard Ward and William Greene. Does it look OK to download them from this website? Also, there is a conflict with the William Coddington photo that you downloaded concerning who it is. The above website says it is William Coddington Jr. (1651-1690s?), but the Brown University collection says it is a later William Coddington (1690 - 1700s sometime). I'd like to have the conflict resolved; should I email the two organizations to see if they want to deal with it (that is, RI State Library and Brown University Library)? I always appreciate your opinion, and thanks as always for your assistance.Sarnold17 (talk) 20:13, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Clan Armstrong

Regarding your Clan Armstrong forced revisions upon me, what is a credible source? Is the Domesday Book a credible source? Is King James V/1 a credible source? Everyone knows that these are the septs of Clan Armstrong. I am one!--Tdforbust (talk) 02:08, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

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William Rogers

Thanks for adding all those images to William Rogers (engraver). - PKM (talk) 23:52, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Warning vandals

Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Eli Whitney: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit was inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. --AW (talk) 19:04, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Roanes

Your answer is on page 4 of the cited Tennessee State Library and Archives source:

ROANE GENEAOLOGICAL DATA The Roane’s are of pure Scottish origin. Sire Archibald Gilbert Roane, among the first of the name, was born in Scotland on February 12, 1680. After serving with distinction under William the Third, in the Civil wars of his time, he removed and settled in Greenshaw, Ireland on a grant of land given by the King to him and his heirs “as long as grass grows and water runs” in reward for his service. He had four sons, all of whom came to America. John and Andrew came in 1739 and settled in Lancaster (now Dauphin County, Pennsylvania). William and James came in 1741 and settled in Essex County, Virginia. Andrew Roane, son of Sir Archibald Gilbert Roane was born in Greenshaw, Ireland July 17, 1710; died 1768 in Pennsylvania. He was married first to Mary Bowman, no issue; second to Margaret Walker.

Two brothers (including Archibald's father Andrew) went to Pennsylvania in 1739. The other two brothers (including Spencer's father William) went to Virginia in 1741. --Orlady (talk) 12:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

I sympathize with "missing details" in that source. Finding content in there is like an Easter egg hunt! --Orlady (talk) 19:31, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Thomas Jefferson

Hi, Marmaduke Percy - thanks for the note with the TJ quote and also for your contributions on the TJ Talk page. Some people are not willing to learn, but I find it significant that the TJF (Monticello) had clearly updated their website since 2000 to make their conclusions more emphatic. That may help settle some people down, if not all. Parkwells (talk) 14:25, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

John Leavitt

Not sure if you're watching my Talk page so I thought I'd reply here - and perhaps this should be moved to the Article Talk page? The reason for my removal of that piece from the John Leavitt article is because I don't understand why his heritage is of any importance, and there are no mention in any of the references questioning this or making this point. Surely this is true for many people from this time? It's confirmed he was born in England. And even if there's a question, why is the point about the best determination of John Leavitt's ancestry will come from future analysis important or mentioned? It's an event that may or may not occur, but perhaps a future ancient record might be discovered in a parish church or in some old records? It's the importance of this point which to me is still puzzling and irrelevant. Am I missing a point? --HighKing (talk) 09:40, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

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Battle of Poitiers 1356

Feel like inserting some of your beautiful pics in this article? There are some in the french article Bataille de Poitiers (1356) that are not in the English article Battle of Poitiers (1356) probably more elsewhere. Only if you want to of course and are not busy elsewhere. (don't know why the french article did not link blue). Mugginsx (talk) 16:10, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Photo of Gov. Nicholas Cooke

Hello again! I hope all is well with you. I found a photo of RI Gov. Nicholas Cooke (1717-1782) here 1 and would like to load it into wikipedia. It's apparently a cropped piece from the portrait at the Rhode Island State House, and the current photo in wikipedia is not very good. Do you see any problem with loading this into wikipedia? Thanks.Sarnold17 (talk) 18:58, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Well, I've answered my own question; was able to find the original portrait from the RI State website from which I've previously pulled other pictures, and copied it and cropped it myself, and have put it in wikipedia. Thanks for listening!Sarnold17 (talk) 11:26, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Photographer's Barnstar
For some of the most beautiful images on Wiki that I have seen. Also, I learned alot from you. Mugginsx (talk) 14:45, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Leavitt family of Hingham, Massachusetts

Category:Leavitt family of Hingham, Massachusetts, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 15:56, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Where are you?

I hope you are not sick of us. You are too valuable to lose. Perhaps you are on assignment somewhere in your job. If so, I hope it is not somewhere dangerous. Only other photorapher I knew slightly was Al Rockoff. He gave me a beautiful photograph which I still have. Anyway, come back soon. Mugginsx (talk) 10:31, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Check this out

I don't know if your user name has any significance but I came across this and couldn't resist showing it to you. It is at this website: http://effigiesandbrasses.com/ and the image is this: http://effigiesandbrasses.com/monuments/john_fitz_marmaduke/image/1461/original/ . The Owner of the website is a Wiki editor and is extremely nice man. User talk:Effbr Mugginsx (talk) 20:31, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Images of Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki

Hi! I'd be very happy if you could help with this request. Particularly with the image which will soon be on wikipedia's mainpage as DYK. Thanks. bamse (talk) 09:39, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

List_of_haplogroups_of_historical_and_famous_figures

Hi there, There has been some edit waring here. Could you look into this? Bearian (talk) 15:55, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Ancestry.com

Hi. Having previously been involved in a discussion about Ancestry.com on RSN, could you join a discussion here to offer your opinion? A user is saying that some of the material on that site is not from users, but paid employees, and WP:BLPPRIMARY is also an issue. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 09:33, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Future of Newspapers article

Hi. Hope you are also well. I haven't been active recently either, but I will be glad to look at the piece. We will be discussing this shortly. Thanks and best wishes as well. Becksguy (talk) 15:37, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Ancestry.com

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