User talk:Alan Canon

Pope Lick Monster
I was inclined to speedy-delete-tag this when I first saw it, but a quick Google showed that it was, amazingly, a genuine example of a mythical creature. Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 17:05, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

RE:Mohler
Very nice. I think you've about covered it as neutrally as can be done. As I said on the talk page, even Mohler publicly admits he's controversial. The addition of the supporting view to counter the "Taliban" comment was very good. I don't think it's going to get better unless someone who's more familiar with him than the two of us comes along and starts working on it. =) Xaa 20:49, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I think asking Flex if it satisfies him and he would like to remove the tag would be a good idea. If it does, great!  If it doesn't, oh well.  You did your best. =) Xaa 21:03, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm glad my advice helped, and you're very welcome. =) Xaa 08:06, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

2005 South Asia earthquake
Thank you for your contribution at 2005 South Asia earthquake. Please keep it up!!!  Pradeepsomani  ( talk )

Thanks
Hi Alan, It's been great working with you on these articles. It refreshes me and reminds me I'm not alone when I see other people like yourself out there who are devoted to making wikipedia better. Don't let the Pope Lick Monster get you when you're down there poking around, we need you on wikipedia!

--Victoria h 20:45, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Good article
Keep up the excellent editing. One thing you might want to consider is including footnotes which are becoming more and more of an important part of really high-quality articles on Wikipedia. There isn't consensus right now on how to footnote (there are a number of examples listed on Wikipedia policy page), but a good set of footnotes is vital if you want to take the article to featured article status. Consider filing a peer review request too to get more ideas for how to improve the article. After you do that, apply for featured article status and, if successful, you'll see your work featured on the front page of Wikipedia! Best of luck, --ScienceApologist 18:57, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * The footnotes styles on Wikipedia do suffer from a lack of consistency, but I'm sure an editor as good as yourself will find a style that works for the article.


 * The size restrictions on Wikipedia are more of guidelines rather than policy. I could see, though, a number of decent spinout articles that could be made with respect to your article. If you decide to do something like Geology of Mammoth Cave or History of Mammoth Cave you can use the template under the appropriate section and "offload" some of the content to new articles while keeping a brief summary of the content in the major article. Doing this for articles that may be interesting in their own right (for example, there may be people interested in the geology but not the history or park management or other subjects included in the main article) is often the best way to go to avoid people nominating your articles for deletion.


 * Also, it dawns on me that you could even have two different articles one for the Mammoth Cave system itself and another one for the National Park. They are two different subjects after all. To create a new article from the redirect above, just click on the small link at the top of the page and you'll go to the redirect page which you can edit with new content. Let me know if that sounds appealing to you and you have problems doing it.


 * Good luck, --ScienceApologist 19:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Yarmuth
Hey there! Are you the one vandalizing John's entry?? ;) (Just kidding) - David

Patty Jo Watson
A tag has been placed on the article Patty Jo Watson, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person, group of people, or band, but it does not indicate how or why he/she/they is/are notable. If you can indicate why Patty Jo Watson is really notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on Talk:Patty Jo Watson. Any admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. You might also want to read our general biography criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that admins should wait a while for you to assert his/her/their notability, please affix the template  to the page, and then immediately add such an assertion. It is also a very good idea to add citations from reliable sources in order that your article will be verifiable. Stifle 20:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

mammoth cave national park
hi alan, its just a cosmetic thing. if you still have the GA tag on the discussion page, then its still a good article. Zzzzz 20:19, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Church of Christ Article Improvement Drive: Support.
Taking this to your Talk page to reduce clutter on AID page. You mentioned attention to the Church of Christ in the media...I wonder if it's the murder in Selmer, Tennessee, and then Rusty Yates (a mass-media celebrity because of the murders of his children by Andrea Yates) has remarried within the Church of Christ. Creepy, but perhaps those were impetus to several to edit. I did a lot of editing today and yesterday, but it was all mostly cleanup of what people had put before: there were so few, gigantic, sections that there was no way to get a handle on things. I like the idea that the article is sitting in "neutral" territory (i.e. in a secular encyclopedia) so that here maybe of all places, the different factions can come together and each contribute something of what they know of the Churches of Christ, subject to the WikiPedia editorial policies to resolve disputes and so forth (hey the big problem with the Churches of Christ is they can't agree on the ground rules of debate, so why not the wiki policy?) I also think that makes the article a good candidate for the Article Improvement Drive. Alan Canon 22:23, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I did mean the murder, but I know next to nothing about the details of that event, so I didn't want to be too specific. I am aware that it is in the media now, and thought maybe that's why the article was getting so much attention. It's come a long way in the last week though and I just thought maybe we could get it up to featured article status :D - cohesion  t 22:27, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Spoilers on opera articles
Hi I see you put back the spoiler tag on La fille du regiment. I've reverted and would like to explain why. There was a big discussion about spoilers on the Opera Project talk page and as there was unanimous agreement about removing them from all opera articles, we removed them. - Kleinzach 23:27, 23 April 2006 (UTC)


 * First of all I don't have a music degree, but I have helped create the internet, having been active since the beginning of the 1990s. Second La fille du regiment is an opera not an operetta. Third, you are absolutely entitled to your own opinion, but why not put it with the discussion rather than on my Talk page where no-one will read it? Keep up the good work! Best wishes. - Kleinzach 08:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Lipscomb
Ha, I haven't looked at David Lipscomb in a while and somehow it fell off my watchlist. I actually went to school at Lipscomb University for a year and a half before a transfer :) Now I'm going to go read up about him! - cohesion 21:53, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Church of Christ rv
If I did anything to help I am glad and thank you. When was the rv done because I have no memory of it and could not find it in my recent contribs or the article page history?-- Dakota ~ 16:34, 10 June 2006 (UTC)


 * That's OK, yes I remember that one John Dale because the revert and warning worked. Wish they could all be that easy. Thanks again.-- Dakota  ~ 19:25, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Nice edit. Much appreciated. -- Slowmover 16:43, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Daniel Sommer Edit
Thanks for the edit on the Sommer page. How do i send you messages instead of editing your page?

Hope that you liked my edits ...
to the B. C. Goodpasture and Marshall Keeble articles. I only heard Keeble once, as a child, but have been aware of his influences in the C of C and beyond for a long time. In fact, my parents were quite close to Willie and Maxine Cato. Willie, as you may know, was for several years one of Keeble's "handlers", as I called them with no intended disrespect, who served as his liasons to white congregations. I have long felt that Keeble deserved an article and am glad that you started one and hope that I have helped it slightly. As for Goodpasture, I was once admitted to the school bearing his name, but wound up not attending because of the distance from my then-home to Madison. Rlquall 15:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your gracious comments. You might be interested that I was a fairly "big time" caver myself many years ago in my pre-married days, and am still a life member of NSS, but don't do much with it.  (Never enjoyed vertical/"technical"-type work, which was the rage in the 70s.  Regards, Rlquall 11:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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Hi! Are you the Alan Canon who called public radio last night? If so, thanks!

Wow
It's unusual (and fantastic) for someone to take the time to call & say something positive. So thanks again!

Caving
Most of my caving was in the 1970's (when I was young & single!). I was the first one into one passage at Cumberland Caverns on a mapping trip with John Smyre and the Sullivan brothers (one of whom, Mike is now a Knoxville policeman and National Guard officer fairly recently back from Iraq; what became of Pat I don't know, last I heard he was in Ireland). I used to go to NSS events back then & am a lifetime member but haven't done anything in years other than VERY occassionally read the magazine. I'm still interested; my wife will tell you that my "ideal" vacation still involves seeing a commerical cave at some point during the trip, but I've never really succeeded in getting her interested in taking it beyond that. When I was at TVA for a little while in the late 1970's I was involved in searching for "cavities" in the rims of Tellico and the Raccoon Mtn. Pumped Storage; it was like getting paid to go caving and cave hunting (respectively). If you want more specifics (i.e., pre-development England Cove) I can share more. Regards, Rlquall 19:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * To make the dialog easier, I have posted a reply to your last immediately below your latest reply on my own discussion page, which makes it a little easier to go back-and-forth and also, I suppose, for others to follow the conversation, if there are any which really care to do so. Regards, Rlquall 14:00, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Floyd Collins
Hi Alan, I'm thinking of expanding the Floyd Collins article, mostly expanding on the rescue effort and media coverage (based mainly on the Murray/Brucker book), but probably expanding a bit in each of the other sections. You and I are the only ones who've touched it recently, and I don't want to step on your toes if you already have something cooking. Cheers, CliffC 03:02, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Go right ahead, please! I don't have any changes planned. Looking forward to reading your edits. Alan Canon 19:32, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

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Palmer Furnace
Saw your contribution on the carbide lamp page. Wondering if you have any more info on the "Palmer furnace" with regards to origin of phrase, etc. I'm one of Art Palmer's nephews... Macboots (talk) 05:36, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

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Ed Kalnins
Who keeps deleting the quotes from sermons of Kalnins (that critics of Bush's Katrina handling will go to hell, and those who vote for Kerry will not get into heaven)?

Who deletes the source links, such as the page containing the videotapes of the sermons from which the quotes are taken (check the validity with your own eyes and ears).

If Kalnins is so non-notable, why are so many peopel involved in deleting information and the sources?

Why is it impossible to create a link from the terms and expressions on Palin's page to the wikipedia pages for those terms (assuming they are not deleted immediately after they are created? For example, Wasilla Assembly of God has a Wikipedia page, but the link from Palin's page does not get you there?

These three pages were my first, today, and I am but a simple mathematician who is new to this, but I had no idea Wikipedia was controlled by political advocates trying to block and delete information.

- EricDiesel —Preceding unsigned comment added by EricDiesel (talk • contribs) 23:48, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Courier Journal - 9/24/2008
I saw you in the newspaper today, maybe time to edit the CJ's website to point it to you? What about articles on the Mag & Back Door? Just kidding, but keep up the good work.

--Anonymous Drinking Buddy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.138.211.22 (talk) 07:46, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Harvard Bridge revert
Your rewording changed the meaning of what was being said. "Measurement uncertainty" is a specific thing. - Denimadept (talk) 16:02, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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Ramesses III
Alan. Can you please restore the DNA results on Ramses 3 on his page. This is very important information in him that was taken off. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Allanana79 (talk • contribs) 07:36, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Evidently I removed it because of racism or trying to hide THE TRUTH!. Doug Weller  talk 19:02, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

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