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Hi! Next time, instead of moving articles with mispelled titles by creating a new article and putting a redirect on the wrong-spelled page, just use the "Move this page" link in the column on the left side of the page. It keeps the edit history of the text, and automatically creates the necessary redirect. Keep up the good work! Cheers! jengod 00:24, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was just about to say the same thing in regards to Errett Lobban Cord. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 22:10, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Image license
Hi Cuppysfriend,

I've added to Please see Special:Upload, which says
 * Image:1935 Auburn Speedster Front.jpg
 * Image:Auburn Auto Historic Marker.jpg
 * Image:1935 Auburn Speedster sm.jpg
 * By uploading a file to which you hold the copyright, you agree to licence it under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The GFDL requires that you be credited anyway, which is the requirement you specified.

Cheers, dbenbenn | talk 03:42, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for adding Richard Dillingham and putting him on the list of Quakers. Logophile 09:49, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Did you know?
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Metallurgical Laboratory, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

Quezon and Jews
Amazing! I never knew that Quezon helped the Jews. Actually I've never seen any Jew in the Philippines. There used to be a synagouge though.--Jondel 00:29, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re:Francis B. Sayre
The article said he was a professor at Harvard Law School. So I put academic, since there is no stub classification for "professional diplomat". Do you have any suggestions, then? Otherwise, I will change it back to. Jaxl | talk 00:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's alright. I might have been a bit careless myself. I will change it back to and maybe propose a new stub for diplomats (I've seen quite a few that need their own category, actually). Sorry about that. Jaxl | talk 00:52, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, I have another solution for the time being. What nationality was Sayre? If he was a natural-born American, I can sort him under instead. Jaxl | talk 15:30, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for the information. I'll list him under then. Jaxl | talk 20:02, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Per Anger
Of the existing stub types, poltician comes closest, since we don't really have one for government functionary, and besides, generally one doesn't rise (at least in the US) to the rank of ambassador without playing some in the field of politics. As for the SfD discussion, that's over renaming the stub type from {Swedish-politician-stub} to {Sweden-politician-stub}. With 72 stub articles (71 if Per Anger wasn't counted) there's more than enough to justify keeping the type, but the name doesn't follow the usual rules which are to use the country's name and not its adjective in stub template names. Caerwine 21:39, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Daniel Kirkwood
Hi, Cuppysfriend! By all means, please make the necessary corrections :-). I am glad that you caught that.  I've been through Bloomington, Indiana so many times (live in Louisville and work in Northern Indiana) that my brain just stopped on that obvious detail!!!  I am going back through any redirects I made to Indiana University of Pennsylvania (there were only a couple out of 250 edits) to make sure I didn't mess those up either.  Your assistance is truly appreciated.  Best regards, >: Roby Wayne Talk • Hist • E@ 20:20, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Elias Hicks
Thanks for adding the picture of Hicks. I like your user page very much, by the way. Logophile 07:06, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Freeman Field Mutiny
I really don't think that the sub type of B-25 in this case is pertainant to the article, so that is why I changed it. It is usually perferable to use internal links when possible. There is, however, info about the J model in the B-25 Mitchell section. This section has the same external link that I removed. If you want, you could change the link to B-25J and it would link directly to that section --rogerd 00:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

New FSA/OWI template
Yeah, I just tried to describe the collection in the same careful, complicated way the LOC was doing on its site. As far as I know, the FSA was an independent agency, and never had any connection to the FDA. I think the use of the "Migrant Mother" image for the template is an excellent choice, as it's certainly the most recognizable icon of the FSA effort and very much characterizes the collection.--Pharos 00:40, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Tysto
Thanks! --Tysto 07:47, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

New Look (policy)
Thanks for expand ... writing the New Look (policy) article. -HiFiGuy 05:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Alamo bolide impact
Good job with Kentland.. Sorry about the edit conflict. Please vet my amateur effort at the Alamo bolide impact. --Wetman 23:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Kentland
Damn, I knew about the Kentland Crater and didn't mention it? ThanksM dorothy

your message
hi Cuppysfriend, thank you for your message. I have send you an email back, hope it works out. with kind regards Gryffindor  00:46, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Shadrach Minkins
I see you added the name Shadrach Minkins to those buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal, Quebec. His biography would be of interest based on your description. However, the cemetery has no record of him. Could you please provide the source of your information. Thank you. Marco Thomas

Thanks for the information. Do you have any other biographical stuff that might be used to make an article? Marco Thomas

What you did already is excellent but please do your intended full article as this is a worthwhile and interesting story. Good work and many thanks. Marco Thomas

Image:Time Cover William L Clayton.jpg
To meet wikipedias fair use criteria the photo needs to be doing more than than just showing what he looks like in ar article that isn't about him. It is fine in his article, but not really OK in the Interim Committee article. Have you looked for an image showing all of them together, the image on this page appears to show most of them, and looks better than the individual photos.--Peta 23:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
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5th Indiana Volunteers (?)
This is the only reference to the unit that i know of: Mahlon Dickerson Manson. --evrik 04:33, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Chamberlin Observatory
That looks great, thanks!! I don't suppose you would mind working your magic on Western State College of Colorado. I seem to have had a infobox/image conflict there as well. The picture that I thought of adding is Image:Western State College Gunnison, CO.jpg. Thanks a bunch!--DO11.10 05:10, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Mussels and P
I'm no expert in phosphorus yet, and I would never be when it comes to invertebrates, but I am just a few clicks away from hundreds of people who are, so here's what they have to say.

I guess you're thinking of zebra mussels, but what I can offer is probably still relevant if you're not. A partial skim of a scientific database come up with almost 100 hits on "phosphorus and mussels," mostly on zebra mussels in NAmerica. I saw no suggestion that more P meant fewer mussels. On the contrary, I did see more P associated with more mussels (causal pathways goes both ways, it seems). I also saw that when zebra mussels invaded various NAmerican lakes they sometimes (though not always) reduced the total amount of algae (so greater water clarity), and also may have changed the balance of the species of algae favouring a more noxious one. It appears the way mussels alter the trophic status of lakes (how "healthy" the lakes are) varies among lakes. This all seems like a relatively popular area of research, probably because of the spread of zebra mussels on top of eutrophic lakes through NAmerica.

Does this help? Daniel Collins 03:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

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Fluvial landforms of streams
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One reference is a great start and meets the goal I was striving for on this article. I did put a onesource so that hopefully someone will come along later and do more. But you have met the goal of Unreferenced articles. Thank you :) Jeepday (talk) 02:23, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the message and your earlier one on this. Sorry I didn't get back to you.  I thought I would leave it for you to decide about removing the prod tag.  I see that you have done that now.  I don't intend to AfD the article.  Your comments suggest there is some notablity beyond what I had thought, I am content with that.  Cheers. -- KenWalker | Talk 23:27, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Bancroft treaties still in force?
Hi. In the Bancroft Treaties article, the current text says that "The treaties with Albania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia) remain in force" — citing 7 FAM 1277(b) as a source.

I can't find 7 FAM 1277(b) anywhere online. If it was once on the State Department's web site, it doesn't appear to be there now; the existing link in the article is dead, and a search on www.state.gov turned up nothing. Also, a Google search came back empty except for this Wikipedia article and some other page which had copied the Wikipedia article.

It had been my understanding that the Bancroft treaty with Czechoslovakia was unilaterally terminated (with notice) in the 1990's by the US after the Czech government refused to agree to a mutual recission. If 7 FAM 1277(b) said that this (and the other two) treaties were still in force, I would be interested in knowing the revision date of this section, in order to confirm that it's still current (or not).

If you have some other, currently verifiable source for the statement that the above three Bancroft treaties are still in force, would it be possible for you to go back to the article and edit it accordingly? Thanks. Richwales (talk) 05:27, 17 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm very surprised to read that the nationality treaty with Bulgaria was still in force — and if you hadn't provided that State Dept. source, I would have insisted that this couldn't possibly be so. I would very much like to find more info as to why the Bulgarian treaty hasn't been unilaterally abrogated by the US in the same way as the Czechosolvak treaty was.  The same set of legal arguments should presumably apply to the Bulgarian treaty, as far as I can imagine.  Richwales (talk) 16:16, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

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Soldier's medal recipients
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 * You're more than welcome to undo the redirect and formally propose a merge, or indeed just merge it outright, but I'm very doubtful that we'd actually gain anything by that - we'd end up with a badly-sourced list cluttering up the main article, which would be duplicated almost entirely by the category here.
 * As to future mergers, no, nothing we do just now is going to cause problems with that. Shimgray | talk | 16:26, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Cheers!

 * I am deeply touched. Thank you! --Cuppysfriend (talk) 22:39, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

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Cuppysfriend will be offline for a little while
I was hit by a car on October 13, 2009, and am recuperating from surgery. Some rehab ahead. Posting this from the hospital using borrowed laptop. Cheers, -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 01:23, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Auburn Cord Duesenberg
You may not agree with calling it an historic district, but the National Park Service classifies the ACD site as an historic district. See http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1105737270&ResourceType=District

Accordingly, the infobox in Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum labels it "historic district" and it is in Wikipedia historic district categories. All I did was add it to the state category (previously it was in the US historic district category). --Orlady (talk) 20:07, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Captain Logan
Your presence is requested over at Talk:Logansport, Indiana and Talk:Captain Logan regarding your correct edits to Logansport, Indiana at 5:57pm on 13 March 2006. I am chipping away at factual errors in the Captain Logan article. —optikos (talk) 21:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Little brown bat
It's hard to know why silly people end up in such odd places. Perhaps they search for terms that amuse them then follow a link from that. They could start at Dyke Marsh or Hellhole while searching for things of prurient interest and when they end up at a bat article, the edit button is just too tempting. Peripitus (Talk) 23:32, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Will Cuppy's Sign
The signature picked from the WWI draft were too confused, Have cleaned them. Hope you won't mind. Jon Ascton   (talk)  22:31, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

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Interim Committee
Would it be alright if I nominated Interim Committee as a good article? Hawkeye7 (talk) 09:16, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd be delighted! -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 15:18, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Rejoice~ It has passed. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:45, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yippee! Most of the credit is yours.  I knew that there was more to be said about the committee's work, and I always kept in mind the possibility of expanding the article to describe it.  But the recommendation on the military use of the weapon and Ralph Bard's later dissent were my main concerns.  Congratulations!  -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 22:39, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

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 * Thanks a lot! The problem is that the file is claimed under "fair use" and the fair use rationale that I wrote is not very convincing. It was OK a few years ago but Wikipedia seems to significantly raise the requirements for fair use since then. I do believe that the fair use claim is valid but it will be difficult to argue if somebody would put it to deletion. Do you by any chance have an Amalrik photo with your copyright that you can release as GFDL or Creative Commons? Or may be you know an Amalrik photo with a story behind it so the fair use claim will be of better merit? Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:26, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Glad to have been of help, but no, I don't have a free-use photo of Amalrik, but I've been looking for one. More things are being digitalized all the time, so maybe something will turn up.  Cheers!  -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 23:36, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Gray fossil site
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Couple others of shells being held up.

TCO (talk) 07:44, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

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 * Done. -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 00:41, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

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Talkback
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Dashes
I suggest you read up on Dash and MOS:DASH. Your RMs don't make sense. Dicklyon (talk) 08:04, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

La Vang
I think they ought to remain separate. One is a secular geographic appellation. The other a name for a Marian apparition. You will note that both Fátima, Portugal and Lourdes, France have separate articles for the places and the appartions, even though like La Vang, the apparition is probably the most notable thing about the place. I think, as the articles grow, we will find they will differentiate. Matters which belong in the place article will not belong in the apparition article and more minute details of the appartition will not belong in the place article. Cheers. And thanks for the message. Mamalujo (talk) 16:31, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * Thanks. The reference was to Hutchinson (publisher). I have corrected the link. --Cuppysfriend (talk) 23:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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