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Deirdre - just a word of thanks for your excellent spelling, typo and punctuation corrections ! I'm very tempted to put a link into constructed wetland into all my articles and edits just to get a free clean-up service. For those of us on very slow and intermittent connections, someone else tidying up loose ends is a real boon. Thanks

Velela 14:47, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hello, Deirdre. Belated welcome!!! I noticed you on Velela's Talk page. You're "somewhat of a compulsive proofreader", eh? So am I sometimes. My wife says I'm the only person in New Zealand who ever proofread his performance appraisal; well, that was the only thing worth doing to it; fortunately that boss left the council's employ soon after. My knowledge of Alaska is 50% derived from Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska", which is one of my favo[u]rite songs. But I enjoyed a glance at your Ester, which I used to think was just a chemical term or a typo. Great to see that a 1600-person CDP can get such a writeup. My Plimmerton is only a little more populous but also an independent-minded "suburb". I must try to give it some more text.

Kind regards from across the Pacific Ocean. Robin Patterson 21:40, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

RE: Edgar Alwin Payne
Thanks for catching my grammatical errors in Edgar Alwin Payne! I get in a hurry to finish and make silly mistakes. I had "his", wanting to make it "after his passing", but then in mid sentence made it "after his passed away", just silly. I am working on the plurals, not thinking. THANKS! WikiDon 1 July 2005 16:06 (UTC)


 * A list of artist by state/county would be fine, just make them fairly well known or the list could get ugly (as in extreamly big and hard to edit) in a hurry.

Did you look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artists_by_nationality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:U.S._artists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_painters

These should give you some ideas/help.

Shacknasty Jim
Hey, nice work on the cleanup! Thanks. --Scimitar 4 July 2005 16:43 (UTC)

Dean Shan
2:52 PM 8/2/2005 Hey thanks for updating Jay Hammond's page to reflect his death. By the way, which UA school do you work for?

Doug Swingley article
I saw your edits on some mushing related articles, and wanted to request your help on the Doug Swingley article. This winter I am hoping to go to a race which Doug has entered (not Iditarod though). If I go, I hope that he will let me do a small interview with him. If you have any ideas for useful questions, please let me know and I will add them to my list. CanadaGirl 10:38, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Inclusive Democracy
Hello! I am writing to you because I saw that you had at some point edited the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_Democracy

What's going on is that I am trying to add some links to criticisms of this project, and those around it have deleted them and are almost certainly going to do that again, possibly forcing me to revert and/or protect the page. I believe that it is against Wikipedia policies that those whose work is discussed in an entry will always have the last word regarding anything related to that entry.

Would you be so kind as to keep an eye on the page (after you read the talk page, and assuming you feel what I'm saying makes sense). Thanks in advance!

Paulcardan 04:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Inclusive Democracy 2
OK, thanks a lot for taking the time to leave the note on my talk page. The whole thing has become too complicated now, with pages being deleted and so on, so no need to worry.

Paulcardan 05:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Birches
I checked up in the Flora of North America which clearly gives Betula nana sensu stricto as native in North America as well as Europe and Asia, so the two pages should be merged. I'll add more details on the Dwarf Birch page to reflect this. I've also added more details from FNA to Alaska Birch and American Dwarf Birch; the FNA and a couple of other refs I checked all gave maximum heights for American Dwarf Birch of 1.5-3 m so I've changed the figures for it to that. - MPF 14:10, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Project Alaska
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 * RE:WikiProject_Alaska/Alaska_recent_changes - No, don't bother worrying about alphabetical or anything, feel free to add to the end of the list. The list is just a compilation of all our pages/images/lists/etc so that the link Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Alaska/Alaska_recent_changes works as a community watch list if you will.  A way we can all track recent changes (good or bad) and not have to clog up your individual Watchlist as well.  For me, right now I'm working on expanding community descriptions & history.  After that, probably transportation related articles.  Once again, welcome!

Long time no see.
Nice to see you on the site... and surpassing me in contributions. I've been slacking lately, I guess. --Cgranade 11:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Alaska libraries, Russian-language or aboriginal-language materials
I saw the discussion about Anchor Point Public Library. I just wanted to suggest that, where possible, you mention whether a public or academic library has non-English materials related to the past and present Russian-speaking or aboriginal-language-speaking communities, or special materials related to whaling, mining or petroleum exploration and production. Regards, TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 17:15, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Diane E. Benson
Totally agree. Everyone seemed to be looking at it as a WP:C&E question only. What I'm going to do is store the name on my homepage, wait for her to lose the election (which looks pretty likely), and then try to get a version of the article built around her writing undeleted. Vizjim 10:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't forget to vote on the new Afd! ;) Vizjim 09:04, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Vandalism on Jamie Smith
No problem on the Jamie Smith vandalism revert. I found it among the Dead End pages because it had been stripped of categories and links. I had a look at the vandalism and it looks like the page has become a target for different sets of teenagers mostly because Jamie Smith is a common name. I'm not sure what you can do except keep an eye on the page. Flowerpotman 22:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Muskox
The muskox had to be deleted before Musk Ox could be moved over. Its done now. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 02:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Esterites
Yeah, there aren't many of us openly Estery folk on here. This is Ian, by the way. For the most part I'm just a wikipedia lurker, fixing minor things here and there when I run into them, rather than doing any real contribution. Foryst 20:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Here ya go....
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Greeting from another WP:ALASKA person
Hey, I just thought I should say hi, since I see you're another active WP:ALASKA person. I've been busy adding the project tag to categories that didn't have it, preparatory to updating the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alaska/Alaska recent changes page, which doesn't seem to have been updated in a good long while. I joined the project... um, mid-February or so. --Yksin 01:45, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

new task force
Hi Deirdre! I noticed the combination of political figures and envronmental/natural history topics in your edit history--I hope you'll consider joining this project! Cheers, Cyrusc 00:50, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Ray Troll
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Rating articles
(quoted from Shunpiker's talk page): Hi, there Shunpiker. I'm still trying to figure out how to rate the importance of Project Alaska articles. I see you've got your own problems here; but when you have a chance, if you know, please let me know how to do this. I couldn't figure it out from the rating project pages...Deirdre (talk) 21:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Deirdre, no problem -- just traveling, so I didn't have quite as much time to burn on Wikipedia as usual. Anyway, sorry for the delay in following up to your comments on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alaska. I'm doing that now! -- Shunpiker (talk) 14:59, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Artists by state
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Help, I need an opinion from an uninvolved neutral wiki-editor on a subject
Help, I need an opinion from an uninvolved neutral wiki-editor on a subject Hello, if you have a few minutes to help a fellow editor out, I wanted to take a moment of your time to get your opinion on a dispute I'm having with a wikipedia editor. if you visit the page on "Homeowners Association", and look at the discussion, the dissent is about a link I placed on the page to the website "Homeowners Association Websites Central." A certain editor "Wangi" not only believes that I have no right to place the link in the external links section, but further has accused me of starting bogus accounts as new users simply to add this link. I figure if I get some well known wikipedians to look at the situation, the link, and add their opinion to the debate, then at least I will know that the crazy accusations of user fraud will stop. Boy, who would have thought this would be such a hassle. Anyway the url for the link in question is http://www.athomenet.com/homenew/homeowners-association-websites-central.asp, and you can see the long history by looking at the history log on the homeowners association page.... Please, whatever your opinion may be, place it in the discussion area page in the topic of external links of Homeowners association central, and if you think the content is helpful, please add or undo wangi's deletion of the page. I will respect whatever your opinion is. Thank you: 69.15.97.162 (talk) 15:45, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Respawning Ray Troll's article
Hi Deirdre, I'm traveling in Central America and having a conversation with a fellow traveler, when my interlocutor mentions Ray Troll. I'm taking this as a sign that it's time to recreate that article, which I'm sure could have been saved had it not been so hastily deleted. There is now a formal request to create such an article. Since he has won the Academy of Natural Sciences' Gold Medal for Distinction in Natural History Art, it won't be too difficult to establish notability. If you have any of the materials on hand, or any versions of the old article squirreled away, please feel free to recreate the article. Otherwise, I'll start researching a new beginning. --Shunpiker (talk) 20:47, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
 * hoo, it's obviously been a while since I have been on Wikipedia! I'll see what I've got. I don't understand this obsession with deletions....Deirdre (talk) 20:17, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
Please read WP:CONFLICT. Don't you think it would be appropriate to declare a conflict of interest when editing The Ester Republic, John Trigg Ester Library, Jamie Smith (cartoonist), T. Neil Davis, etc. and when citing The Ester Republic. --Weetoddid (talk) 21:57, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I hadn't read that statement until very late in the game. Since then I haven't made any edits to these pages. Are you suggesting that I should make a note on the actual page or just in the notes on the discussion pages? I could do the latter.Deirdre (talk) 21:04, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Notices placed on each page!Deirdre (talk) 21:16, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Insurgent49
Regarding the Insurgent49 article, can you demonstrate that it meets the notability guidelines? --John Kronenwetter (talk) 19:47, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It was the only progressive/liberal newspaper in the Anchorage area, and only one of two in the state. It received three awards including Best Column the year it was published from the Alaska Press Club, and broke many important stories. They covered all kinds of stories not explored in the mainstream press, and considering that the alternative press in Alaska consisted of only three publications at the time (with maybe one or possibly two radio stations), this was significant. So yes, for Alaska, it was quite notable, and it can be demonstrated. Deirdre (talk) 17:23, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Ederj .jpg
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Unreferenced BLPs
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Please Investigate Problems on BP (British Petroleum) Wikipedia Page: Intentionally Burying Section on Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster, Changing Name of Oil Disaster to Hide it
Any attempts to correct this (following reasonable Wikipedia guidelines) are met with aggressive reverts and edits. Intentional spinning and manipulation of article in favor of BP? Can this task force investigate this?

Currently there is no easily recognizable section on the current Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster, surprisingly since the US Government has held BP responsible. Instead the "Oil Disaster" Section in the article keeps being given obscure (hard to recognize) names (as if someone is trying to hide the section from the public).

That section also keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the article (attempts to bury it)?

It's as if the BP Public Relations department has staff people who are aggressively spinning the article. Could this Task Force investigate this?

75.166.179.110 (talk) 18:24, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Homer Public Library for deletion
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Nomination of History of the Green Party of the United States for deletion
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Nomination of Wisconsin Green Party for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Wisconsin Green Party


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New Wikiproject!
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Nomination of Homer Public Library for deletion
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Nomination of Richard A. Fineberg for deletion
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Question about University of Alaska Museum of the North article
Hello,

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Thanks,

Slg98 (talk) 04:32, 28 July 2019 (UTC)Slg98

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