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List of members of the Maryland House of Delegates
Hey, very nice job on the List of members of the Maryland House of Delegates page!! If I were an administrator I would give you one of those star-things.Marylandstater 20:17, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * If you want me to, I will take the rest of the House members from PG county and start articles on them during the up coming week. That will still leave most of the Senate (and that really cool table you made).Marylandstater 21:33, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I am done for today, only 29 red links left.Marylandstater 22:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, all of Prince Georges County is done, plus I fixed the disambg on Peter Murphy and created a page for him. Anything else?Marylandstater 17:09, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey! we did it!! congratulations on all the hard work. Marylandstater 03:29, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Johannes Rebmann
Thanks for giving me a chance and putting this article on Hold. The fact is, you didnt. Please go to the GA Candidates page and look at how to put an article on Hold status. Thanks, -- Anonymous Dissident Talk 22:31, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok. Thanks for this chance. I have already implemented an infobox and changed some grammar. Sources are proving hard to find, but all the same. Regards, Anonymous Dissident Talk 11:22, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok. Take a look now. Give me your comments. If its not satisfactory - dont fail it, give me the three remaining days I still have on the hold. Thanks, Anonymous Dissident Talk 12:06, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Right. I understand your points about the foundation, but wouldnt you agree such a concern is only adequately based for pieces of text that cite Rebmann's "progress in Africa" or his "historical significance' etc? I mean, it should be fine to cite such a foundation for pieces of information such as "Rebmann lived in a Swabian village" because thats citing a fact, and is in no way making Rebmann seem good. Would you agree with that? If you do, then I would be happy to find sources for those special pieces of text which seem to make Rebmann seem "good" (as such) and remove any of the latter information for which sources cannot be found. I just think that it is unreasonable to suggest that the source is not verifiable at all, even for mundane pieces of information. Regards, Anonymous Dissident Talk 22:12, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Great! Thanks a lot. I will consider your thoughts, and continue to improve the article, even after it has been promoted. So...can I feel free to promote it myself, or will you go ahead to do the honours? Thanks again, Anonymous Dissident  Talk 02:03, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks Gerald. Keep up your hard work in GA areas. Anonymous Dissident  Talk 12:28, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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Be careful with images
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed you have been adding some images to the List of Governors of Maryland, which you are tagging as PD-US because they are from the Maryland Archives. Not all images from the Archives are PD. Some of the paintings of governors, even some that have been dead for quite a while, have only been done recently, i.e. in the 1970s. I've gone through and checked some of your images, but, for future reference, be sure to check when the artist died, and make sure it wasn't within the past 70 years. Also, Image:Henry Lloyd Maryland.jpg was painted in 1939, so I've tagged it as unlicensed. Thanks. --Tom (talk - email) 22:28, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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List of Governor's color coding
Note that the color coding at List of Governors of Maryland is the standard that has been used here for quite a long time. I'm not sure what Circeus is complaining about, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. --Tom (talk - email) 04:27, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I understand that. However, some concerns expressed by people have to be taken with a grain of salt, especially considering this is a very widely used color scheme.  Its not as if featured lists don't use this color scheme; List of Presidents of the United States does, for example. --Tom (talk - email) 04:37, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

William Claiborne GA on hold

 * Nehrams2020 18:49, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

FLC strike-out
It's more usual to insert comment in the middle (AFAIK, anyway). No offense really taken. Circeus 21:25, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

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GA review of George W. Johnson (Civil War)
Thanks for your helpful GA review of George W. Johnson (Civil War), especially in light of the nasty little sock puppet incident. I've tried to address the issues you raised. Please comment on the talk page if you feel that further improvements are needed. BTW, I hope that this article, along with Richard Hawes (currently a GA nom) and Confederate government of Kentucky (hopefully an FA nom this week) will eventually form a featured topic. Any comments or suggestions you could provide that would help me reach that goal would be appreciated as well. Acdixon 15:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

GA review of Governor of Maryland
Thanks for getting back to me! And THANK YOU for the hardwork put in to this article. The main problem with this article was the flow and organization. All the info under Functions and Responsibilites was mixed up and in an difficult to read order. I began fixing some of it but i figure, you've put the work in to, so craft it the way you'd like. Take in to consideration what I have done so far. Also, there is one or two things that needs to be cited and those have been marked. What I meant about the footnote, is that footnote reference number 3 was reference 10 times in the article all leading to the same page with a bunch of links. I was asking if you would go through the links, find the specific page with the info you are looking for and link each reference to a specific page. Thanks again! Alex 23:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Papal conclave, 1549-1550
I believe I have addressed your objections already. Savidan 21:58, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture
Hi Gerald! Please stop by and cast your vote for the color :-)--Legionarius 15:42, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of people associated with Jesus College, Oxford
Thanks for your comments - I've done some further work on the list since you left your views and would appreciate your further thoughts/comments. Regards, BencherliteTalk 09:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Help - List of sister cities in Florida
Hi Gerald! Please, I would like to have your expert opinion on this list, if you could: List of sister cities in Florida. Just a quick look before I bother people on FLC. :-)--Legionarius 10:05, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * That's an impressive list. Only thing I noticed is the one missing citation (Canaveral-Ithaca). When I put Sister Cities in Maryland up, I was asked to have a citation for each and every entry. Geraldk 10:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Ithaca came as part of the general reference, but I will add a specific one as well. Plus of course you noticed that I copycat your list. :-)--Legionarius 11:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: Timing
Today there is a note in the Community Portal asking people to come to FLC because of a lack of reveiwers. I had no idea that the system is run on a time period instead of a threshold of having enough people look at it. I had the imppresion it wa backlogged because of not enough reviewers. I normally just do peer reviews and don't comment on featuring (except for a few articles I have gotten attached to at peer review). I would never have commented on any lists at FLC if not for request at the community portal and it was not done with the attention of upsetting you or making things difficult for you. I am sorry if it has done so, but I think my concerns were both valid and important enough to warrant opposing.-- Birgitte SB  03:07, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Geraldk, I've added a comment over on Birgitte's talk page. Hope that helps. Colin°Talk 11:03, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Tables at WP:FLC
Geraldk,

I noticed the little tables you've added to the noms. I've no strong opinions about them—if they help editors and the closing editor then that's good. But can I suggest you rename "Current vote" to "Opinion". It is a common mistake to think that FLC is a vote that one can add up. Rather, it is based on consensus and a minimum level of support, and a single well-reasoned Oppose could fail a list that had 10 supports from fans, for example. I'm sure you already understand this but I think we need to be extra clear with the text we use. Cheers, Colin°Talk 08:43, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Hey there. I was thinking the exact same thing, but Colin beat me to it :) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 14:28, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Geraldk, It is a good idea to use the Edit summary religiously. Your addition to Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates may well have gone unnoticed in people's watchlist because: a) You didn't use the [+] button, but merely extended the previous discussion b) You didn't supply any edit summary. Have a look at the history page to see the effect.

I'm interested in seeing other people's opinions, before I give mine. Colin°Talk 18:50, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Bay Bridge
what if i think the statement about the bridge being credited for economically developing the easrern shore is pov and inaccurate? i made the edit in good faith; we should at least say both. WillC 21:49, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Renominating FLCs
Hello Geraldk! When you are renominating the FLCs, in the talk page, could you leave the FLCfailed template and just add the archived page. Here, you removed the FLCfailed template, next time please do like this. Also, try to find the exact failed log and add "/archive1" next to the link, like what I did here. Thanks.-- Crzycheetah 20:52, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

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Featured lists updates
Watch out! Circeus 22:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/United States Secretary of Energy
Sorry I took so long to comment on your oppose. Hopefully now you can better review your vote.-- Southern Texas  19:32, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator election
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Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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FL Main page proposal
You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination recently. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1 2007, voting starting December 1 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual content will resemble the current content at the featured content page. Such output would probably start at the bottom of the main page. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:45, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

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Current members of the Maryland House of Delegates
I noticed that you have done a lot of work on the above list. I also noticed pictures of the Delegates on the side(in fact I have added several recently, but have about 2 dozen more). Take a look at Baltimore City Delegation and tell me, if we had pictures of all the delegates, would you mind them being imbedded like, in the latter list, rather than listed outside the box down the side? 1msulax 12:18, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Notice to all members of WikiProject Maryland
There are a few things going on right now in WikiProject Maryland that I thought all members should know about, especially the first one.
 * Not too long ago, Marylandstater raised the question of exactly how many members of the project are still active. For this reason, I'm asking everyone who is still active, and wants to remain in the project, to put an asterisk (*) after their username on the project's participants list.  You have until the end of November 17, 2007 to do so, sometime after that, all the names that do not have an asterisk will be removed.  This is just to clean up the ever expanding list.  If you've been gone and come back to find that you've been removed from the list, don't take it personally, just re-add yourself!  I won't feel bad at all if no one gets removed, in fact, it would be nice if all 30 members still consider themselves active.  Also, this won't affect the two subprojects, but speaking of the subprojects...
 * As of sometime next week WikiProject Baltimore City College will be no more. Myself, Golem88991, and John Carter have decided to make it into a task force of WikiProject Maryland.  If you have any objections, concerns, or comments, please post them in the talk page topic concerning this.

Now for the exiting news:
 * I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Baltimore Task Force! Those interested in contributing to Wikipedia's numerous articles related to Maryland's largest city, now have a place to collaborate.
 * I'd also like to take this time to propose a project newsletter. Any comments should be directed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maryland.

A couple last things:
 * The portal is in desperate need of maintenance, anyone who's interested, go check it out.
 * It's probably a good idea to add the project page (and thus the project talk page) to your watchlist. That way, you can easily see when new comments are posted.

I hope you read through all that ;). Thanks to all members for your contributions to the project's articles so far, let's keep up the good work! Sincerely, -Jeff (talk) 05:52, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

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Featured List of the Day Experiment
I am contacting individuals in the order of the number of featured lists that they had created by Novemeber 10, 2007. You are among those who have created the most. So you are among the first. There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 16:48, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

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List of Emperors of Japan
In my view, your trivial edit was an elegant, subtle change. I like it that I didn't recognize this format flaw until your edit made it plain. Nicely handled. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 01:34, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Works of William Gibson
Yo Gerald, thanks for weighing in with a suggestion at Featured list candidates/Works of William Gibson - I am not exactly sure how to implement it, so if you could post a follow up message I would be most grateful. Regards, Skomorokh  confer 13:45, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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List of counties in Connecticut
Hi Geraldk, I believe you added the etymologies of the county names to the List of counties in Connecticut article. However, there is something not quite right with the source of the name Windham County, i.e. it refers to a place in England that doesn't exist. See my comment in Talk:List of counties in Connecticut. A book is referenced as the source for these etymologies. Can you still get hold of this book and double-check the etymology given? Many thanks! Bazonka (talk) 20:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

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Kicking myself
When I saw that you had gotten active again, I told myself to get the rest of those pictures. I knew you would be back to get that senate list up to featured status. I got a few this session and I am kicking myself because I knew you would be needing the rest.--« Maryland stater » « reply » 03:30, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * There is an opportunity in the next 3 weeks to get the rest, so I will try.

WikiProject Athletics
I noticed that you've written a couple of Marathon and Olympics FLCs. Would you like to join WikiProject Athletics? Still in the proposal stage so any help is much appreciated! Thanks. Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits) WIKIPROJECT ATHLETICS NEEDS YOU!  11:39, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Charles Carroll the Settler

 * Congrats on the DYK and glad to help with the peer review - I think with some work this could be a good article and eventually even an FA (need lots more detail). Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 20:43, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * A model article is useful for ideas and examples to follow - Daniel Webster is an FA. There are more possible models at Featured_articles Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 02:47, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

List of counties in Alabama
Hi Gerald. I've seen the excellent work you've put into List of counties in Alabama, and I think it's off Featured List standard now. I would nominate it myself, but I don't want to take advantage of your hard work. Tom pw (talk) (review) 16:25, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of John G. Cullmann
Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible.

Featured list candidates/List of papal tombs/archive1
Thanks again for your thorough and thoughtful comments. I hope that I have been able to resolve most of them to your satisfaction, although a few of them may require more discussion. Savidan 02:50, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your support! Re: list of popes...I'm actually very saddened that this article was defeatured, but as it stands its a bit of a sourcing nightmare. I'd either have to eliminate the new unsourced information or try to figure out where the article's main contributors are getting this information. I wasn't aware that the ages, etc. of all but the most recent popes could be procured with any certainty. Savidan 19:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Maybe we can put it on our joint to do list for some point in the future. It's kind of an important list, and certainly should be FL. Geraldk (talk) 19:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

dates
Hi, I noticed that you linked a date or two at Anderson Crenshaw. This practice is now deprecated. Please see WP:LINKING and WP:MOSNUM. I'm happy to respond to any inquiries you may have about the matter. Ohconfucius (talk) 08:17, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Just remember that delinking dates in a mass fashion is currently restricted by the Arbitration Committee (see injunction. I would advise you to simply stop linking dates for now, and delink at a later time when the injunction is lifted. Dabomb87 (talk) 12:25, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

List of skittles products

 * Just want to see this list be improved, and not be curropoted as much. Ill keep an eye on your progress, Lookin good so far. Ottawa4ever (talk) 19:18, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Charles Carroll the Settler
For some reason, the review is not appearing on its page. I've moved it here. The article has passed.

Lead: Excellent.

Early life and emigration: Excellent. Do we know his mother's name?

Rise to wealth in Maryland: Excellent. I've made some few changes: I changed the title to Career and rise to wealth in Maryland (which I think more accurately describes the section), I made a grammar correction in the penultimate paragraph in the section, and I relocated the image of Carroll's wife to the place in the text where she is actually discussed.

Political power: Excellent.

References and Categories: References have several templates available for use. I've reformatted them accordingly. Categories are listed in numerical and alphabetical order. I've sorted these accordingly.

Comments:
 * Please consider a "Legacy" sort of section. Did Carroll accomplish anything that has had significant influence on modern Maryland or modern Americans? Are his town house and plantation still in existence? Are they public museums?
 * I deleted the genealogical chart. It appears to be one user's OR and therefore unreliable. I relocated the Douai image and the wife image. Images should not be forced.  Simply use "thumb" rather than 150px.

'''What is a good article? Good Article Criteria.'''

1. Well-written: (a) the prose is clear and the spelling and grammar are correct; and (b) it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, jargon, words to avoid, fiction, and list incorporation. 2. Factually accurate and verifiable: (a) it provides references to all sources of information in the section(s) dedicated to the attribution of these sources according to the guide to layout; (b) it provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons; and          (c) it contains no original research. 3. Broad in its coverage: (a) it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and (b) it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). 4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias. 5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day-to-day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. 6. Illustrated, if possible, by images: (a) images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content; and (b) images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions. Kathyrncelestewright (talk) 06:46, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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FA for Charles CArroll
Good luck! It's a great article and deserves FA status. I very much suggest you create a "Legacy" section, especially if Carroll's life has influenced modern American life, politics, culture, or government, I'll be keeping up on the article's progress! Best, Kathyrncelestewright (talk) 20:21, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Nice work
Thanks for participating in the challenge! Yes, the idea is to get it to FL. Once everything gets into tables, then it will need a good Wiki-scrub. Hope to edit alongside you in the future! —Eustress talk 00:23, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

2008 Summer Olympic Games to FA
If you guys (Geraldk and Jonel) are interested in making a push on the 2008 Summer Olympics to FA then I'm up for it. I'll lay out the various sections on the article's talk page and then you can claim the ones you'd like to edit. I've seen these collaborative efforts move articles pretty fast. I'd recommend using the GA process first as a peer review and then moving up to FAC after is passes GA. I'm open to thoughts on that if you have any concerns. Since the GA review process takes so long due to the backlog I may just nominate the article as it currently stands and we can work on it while it waits for a reviewer. I'll propose this on the article's talk page and solicit any thoughts there. Let's get crackin'. H1nkles (talk) 17:29, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Re:A Barnstar
I must admit, I am rather surprised to be receiving a civility barnstar (perhaps you just haven't dealt with me enough), but thank you very much. -- Scorpion 0422  18:38, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * This is just a heads up that I have started a review of criterion 3b here, and any comments or opinions that you have about it would be more than welcome. Thanks, Scorpion 0422  23:19, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of William Joseph (governor)
Hello! there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath and respond there as soon as possible.

3b discussion
See. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:32, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Settlers...
Well, I descend from James Veitch (Veatch sometimes, other spellings possible) who died in 1685. Also the Selby family (ancestory William Selby died 1699 Prince George's County) and the Masters family (ancestor William Masters d. 1771 in Prince George's County). Not sure any of these DID much, but the were there and they bred! Ealdgyth - Talk 14:45, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Re:DYK
You don't have to do that, but thank you. Normally I avoid the mass creation of stubs, but I didn't have much time to try to put in an effort like you did with the India one. -- Scorpion 0422  18:42, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Maryland Comptroller election, 2010
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Maryland Comptroller election, 2010, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process&#32; because of the following concern:
 * WP:CRYSTAL

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Stifle (talk) 12:41, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Yaocomico DYK
The article has not been expanded five-fold.  ceran  thor 22:52, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Pres and Vice pres lists
I wanted to let you know that once these get passed (which they will eventually if we both keep after em') I am planning on creating a couple topics related to them. One regarding the Marine Corps chain of Command. (Pres, VP, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, Commandant, Asst Commandant and Sergeant Major of the USMC). I got the Commandant to Featured list status, the Sergeant Major of the USMC (should be passed soon), Pres and VP are pending so the only ones left are the Asst Commandant (been working on this one and should have it done soon), SECNAV and SECDEF (haven't touched these 2 yet). After the USMC I will attack the other services command structures until they are all Featured. --Kumioko (talk) 21:07, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. Happy to be of assistance with the veep list. Geraldk (talk) 21:09, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Xi
Fixed. Please check again, thanks. --BorgQueen (talk) 02:57, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

President list
I wanted to let you know that I withdrew the presidents list. It is taking me more time to change the table structure than I originally thought it would. With that said I think it is coming along nicely. I do have a couple questions though. I am thinking about dropping the VP column and adding a column for State of association so we can eliminate another list. Do you have any thoughts on that. Here is a link to the page I am working on if you want to put any comments on the talk page I would appreciate it. President list --Kumioko (talk) 16:34, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Did you know...
Hello! I noticed that you've been reviewing a lot of nominations at the DYK suggestions page. Thank you for your help, and I hope you will continue to contribute! As you know, you don't need to be an administrator to review hooks or to move hooks to Preparation area, so your help is more than welcome.

You may already be familiar with the DYK rules by now, but in case you aren't, you can check out the official rules and the Additional Rules. You may also want to look into some useful tools that can allow you to review nominations more quickly: the Cut & Paste character counter is a helpful JavaScript to calculate the length of hooks, and DYKcheck is a script you can install on your own Wikipedia account for more heavy-duty verifying.

The best way to learn is by doing, but here is also a quick reference of the things to check for each hook you review:

Thanks again for your help! I look forward to continuing to work with you at DYK, and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask me or anyone else at DYK. Now get to reviewing some noms! Shubinator (talk) 16:37, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

re DYK nomination of Theodore Hoskins
Hello Geraldk, and thank you for reviewing my DYK submission. I have responded to your comment at the T:TDYK page. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 23:56, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you! :) Cirt (talk) 00:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

SN2002cx
Thanks for the assist on the hook! --Falcorian (talk) 04:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Flag of Nunavut

 * Thanks for expanding this article! I don't know why, but it makes me happy! Good job. Bob Amnertiopsis ∴ChatMe! 01:05, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear it. Thanks. Geraldk (talk) 15:14, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Charles Carollton of where?
Just looking for pictures, and found this, and thought you might be interested. Title	Unpublished Letters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton: And of His Father, Charles Carroll of Doughoregan Authors	Charles Carroll, Thomas Meagher Field Editor	Thomas Meagher Field Publisher	The United States Catholic historical society, 1902 Original from	Harvard University Digitized	Jul 27, 2006 Length	250 pages http://books.google.com/books?id=2ZLwslLZQnQC Smallbones (talk) 01:01, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for Battle of Johnstown
Hey there. I wanted to direct you to a proposal I raised relating to the Battle of Johnstown article:. I thought to do this because you were the one who got the article to DYK level (thumbs up for that, by the way). Otumba (talk) 21:54, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

List of counties in New Jersey
Hi there. After working on it, I've nominated List of counties in New Jersey at FLC (which can be found here). Seeing as you've made the most edits to the page, feel free to add yourself as a nominator. Cheers, Mm40 (talk) 02:46, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but I hadn't worked on it in quite a while anyway. Congratulations on the successful nom. Geraldk (talk) 21:32, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

FLRC delegate election
Hi ! I'm just dropping by to let you know of the FLRC delegate election that begins on Tuesday. You may run in the election by following the instructions on the page. If you don't wish to run, please come and vote sometime next week! The election starts Tuesday and ends Saturday. For more information, check out the opening section of the page. Cheers,  iMatthew  talk  at 19:37, 12 September 2009 (UTC)