User talk:ErgoSum88/Archive 4

Happy Independence Day!
As you are a nice Wikipedian, I just wanted to wish you a happy Independence Day! And if you are not an American, then have a happy day and a wonderful weekend anyway! :) Your friend and colleague, -- Happy Independence Day!   Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles  Tally-ho! 00:20, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Arkansas Newsletter
-- Chetblong Talk / ARK 02:47, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

main page redesign proposal
Hi, I saw your comments over on main page redesign proposal and was hoping that you could take a look at my proposal and give me some feedback.--88wolfmaster (talk) 21:20, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I am working on adding additional features within the existing format. I could use some help, especially trying to figure out how to access templates from wikiquote and wiktionary.--88wolfmaster (talk) 04:05, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok so I've come up with an alternative proposal. I didn't want to keep it up because it is quite different to the current design. I would really love some feedback on it especially the new DYK utilizing featured content.--88wolfmaster (talk) 00:24, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Transportation in the United States
I came across your comment on Talk:Transportation in the United States that you left in February 2008, and I'd definitely be interested in helping this article reach FA status. Let me know if you'd like to start working on it and what I can do to help out. – Dream out loud (talk) 16:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, where to begin? My main area of expertise is trucking, since that is my job. When I first read the article there was barely any mention of truck transportation in general, and I added a few bits. Other than that, I think the article is still in the "start" class. There is plenty of information on the internet to be found regarding transportation. The Department of Transportation and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics have lots of good information on the web. The entire article should probably be re-written... as it stands now it seems like a random collection of facts. It needs a proper flow and should address the different aspects of passenger vs cargo transportation within the various modes of transport. Such as passenger trains/cargo trains, trucks/buses, passenger planes/cargo planes.... you get the picture. Right now my laptop is on the fritz (damn microsoft), and my girlfriend's cat chewed through the power cable so I can't even start it up, and even if I could it still has problems. I'm using someone else's computer right now, so if you don't hear from me for a while you'll know why. I've been putting off improving the article mainly due to my lack of knowledge of other industries, sometimes its hard to know where to find information about a subject if you don't even know the first thing about it. Are you familiar with trains, planes, or automobiles? I have trucking covered, and trains are pretty similar in some aspects so I'm sure that will be easy for me too, but I was hoping to get some help on planes and cars. Anyway, let me know what you think and we can get started! I need another project since pretty much all of my other ones are either FA or GA right now and my editing has slacked off lately. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 19:20, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * After looking at the article again I remembered some issues. There are way too many lists, I think these should be either shortened or removed altogether and forked out into their own list article if ones do not already exist, in which case it should just be removed and a link to the list put in its place. Also, many stats are listed in metric units, I think they should be changed to imperial units and listed with metric conversions using convert. Parts of the "history" section sounds like they're trying to sell us something, it reads like a brochure, not an encyclopedia. I could go on but I wont waste my time critisizing when I could be improving it. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 20:08, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Arkanasas newsletter, updated for August
-- Chet B. Long Talk / ARK 04:04, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Transportation in the United States
I have completely reorganized Transportation in the United States to fix the major "flow" problems you mentioned on the talk page. If you still see factual errors or missing citations, could you help identify them by tagging them and  in the article itself, or mentioning them on the talk page? I too would like to see this topic attain Good Article status, and have greatly expanded coverage.

Some of the existing lists and statistics are present because the article was seeded with the public-domain entry from the CIA World Factbook. . Most of these statistics seem fairly useful to include in the article, though I don't disagree that more prose would be welcome to balance them out. -- Beland (talk) 19:05, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Guess What....
FYI, Interstate 70 in Utah is scheduled to be The Featured Article for December 5. Thought you'd like to know as you helped create it. Dave (talk) 07:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)