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Nice Job
My Dad saved the Herald article for me, and I saw it over Easter weekend - nice job, and nice photo! It was quite strange to see it all in print and it will be interesting to look for increased movement on the ProjectVermont page as a possible result. It certainly made me log back in and look around for the first time in a while. Thanks. H0n0r 21:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

RE: ALA self-promotion
Perhaps you or someone else using an established userid who has an ALA affiliation can use the dispute resolution process to work this out? Davidwr 15:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Burke
The Burke material looks to be stuff from a brand new user. It may be from out-of-copyright material anyway, despite my breast-beating on the Burke discussion. It would be nice to shepherd this new user through his/her changes. Could be a useful contributor to NEK stuff. I don't know about all that voting business in the beginning. Where DID that come from??? I HOPE it's a child. If an adult, brrrrr... :)   Student7 12:10, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry it took so long. My old account was GDS918 and I lost my password. Actually, that was not a census for 2005, it was an estimate given by the US Census Bureau in 2006. But somehow I find it unlikely that Guilford lost people, more likely that it gained people. That's all. Take care!

RE:thanks for making the Vermont town pages pretty
Thanks for the unexpected surprise! I love to pretty-fy articles with images :-) Happy editing! --Agüeybaná  21:10, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Shire town/county seat
You say that shire towns in Vermont have signs saying both "shire town" and "county seat". Would you be willing to take a picture of such a sign and upload it to Commons? It would be helpful on the county seat page. Nyttend 02:12, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Your query
I've replied on my talk page.

I'm apologetic that I can't say more, and hope you'll understand. For what its worth, it was rechecked and agreed.

Best,

FT2 (Talk 13:17, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Susan Wiley
If you wouldn't mind please revisiting the Genie (the feral child) article, now that I've included full transcriptions on my own article at countyhistorian for five of the articles that appeared at the time of her parents arrest. All five articles state her name and none of them make any insinuation that any part of the story is private.Wjhonson (talk) 07:01, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Did you read the newspaper transcripts which I provided? Can you point out some policy where once information has been widely distributed we should then suppress it?  As you can see the internet is highly geared toward modern individuals.  People of historical note (before about 1990) are skewed toward modern works, not historical ones.  I provided the exact citations to the newspaper articles which named her as Susan Wiley without any indication than that her name was private in any way.  Can you address that point?  Thanks. Wjhonson (talk) 20:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Bethel, Vermont
So your well-intentioned edit to update your residence was reverted. Perhaps it would be acceptable to list the approximate dates you lived in Bethel so you can be listed as a notable former resident.--otherlleft (talk) 15:27, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I gave you the head's-up because it's clear you know how lightly one must tread in editing one's own entry. Maybe next time I head up that way I'll take a picture of your new mailbox to prove that you moved ;)--otherlleft (talk) 17:11, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Alphabetization and collation
I am inviting you to comment, in your capacity as a librarian, at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. -- Wavelength (talk) 18:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Euclid D. Farnham
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Deletion review for Euclid D. Farnham
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Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Jessamyn! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

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 * 1) Tom West -

Newport (town) notable
You are probably right about the vandalism. I was being irritable and wanted to revert it quickly. There once was a Howard Stern character called "Bigfoot" who lived in Newport city (not town). Howard tired of him and reassigned the designation long ago to someone or maybe a series of characters. So whoever he is now, he doesn't live in Newport. And the title is apparently "owned" by Stern and is reused. I don't mean copyright. It's just that the person is really only "notable" for being a drunk, talking crazy, and/or horribly anti-socially eccentric. or a prisoner or something. Infamous rather than famous. And he isn't "notable" under his real name anymore. I found this out through a lengthy investigation some years back and have had to revert it every few months or so since in several of the towns in the area. It is a nuisance. Student7 (talk) 00:26, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

251 Club
Was that you with the picture of Somerset in the Quechee Journal article about the club? If so, I was much amused at your recounting of your visit to Franklin, a place I've only visited two or three times myself, though I work with several people who call it home, which means, I suppose, that I know half the town!

While not a member of the club, I've visited all but 25 places, one of which is Somerset, and nearly all of which are in the far southern part of our state. One exception is another place you mentioned in the story: Lewis. While I've been to the NEK many times, as my family's originally from there, I've never quite found Lewis. Perhaps one day. Slimepot636 (talk) 12:26, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Mr. Peter Coyote
Hi. May you please tell Mr. Coyote that he's the best voice in Hollywood and all media. Thanks. Apple8800 (talk) 06:02, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd be happy to. I'm always psyched to hear him in the ipad commercials. Jessamyn (talk) 06:07, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Stealth Canvasing
I don't know how Canvassing works, as it is new to me, but would your post here (#925376) be considered stealth canvasing? It's an honest question and not a threat or a veiled accusation. I'm communicating with you "privately" to better understand if you intended with that post to encourage, direct or educate Metafilter readers on how to best handle the GiveWell Wikipedia page. Thank you.

-- Green Cardamom (talk) 04:45, 14 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm probably the wrong person to ask, since I can assure you if I thought it was stealth canvasing I wouldn't have done it. People asked questions about how to deal with a dispute on Wikipedia about a topic they cared about and, honestly, that's the way disputes are dealt with. I haven't edited the GiveWell page and I haven't encouraged people to go edit the page to give the illusion of some sort of "grass roots" swell of support for "my" side. People who were already trying to edit the article were getting frustrated with their edits being reverted and were asking how to manage the situation they were in and that's basically how to manage it. If you have larger concerns with the way I'm interacting on MetaFilter or on Wikipedia, you might want to get input from a completely disinterested party or some other admin since I've obviously got a bias towards feeling that my own behavior is okay. Jessamyn (talk) 14:31, 14 September 2011 (UTC)


 * "People who were already trying to edit the article were getting frustrated with their edits being reverted," can you be more specific what you mean by that? Which people? I don't believe I reverted. Green Cardamom (talk) 17:33, 14 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Before I came to the page people were saying they were doing things to the page that were getting undone. I am reporting what people told me, not what I personally saw. Jessamyn (talk) 19:55, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

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December 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
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Wallace F. Miller
It seems you may have deleted what I posted about Wallace F. Miller, a 3 war veteran born in Williston on a farm. He is in 3 Vermont books of War Veterans and has won the Bronze Star in Vietnam for heroic deeds. To assist you on the Matter for verification contact The State Of Vermont Veterans Affairs Office in Montpelier. Mr. Miller did much more for this country and state then any of the other so called notables. he gave his life. So please explain why he has been deleted. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldtripper (talk • contribs) 15:40, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

So how do I add that page now or is it there ? I am trying to Honor my father as he deserves it for what he did for this country and the state of Vermont. he is on a Memorial in Essex Korea Memorial at the 5 corners and the VietNam One in Sharon he is also in three War Books of Vermont Veterans. I am also a war veteran and suffer from PTSD so now this is getting too complicated and I could not figure out how to add a picture of him in Viet Nam getting a medal from the General for his actions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldtripper (talk • contribs) 22:40, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Thats a shame, I try to do a page and keep getting a run around. Ben and jerry are not born in Williston, I do not care what they did. Then there are others on the list that are not True Vermonters nor born in Williston. Each time I do the page, it is not allowed, thats a shame, so I do not need to put a TRUE VERMONTER HERO ON SUCH A PLACE WITH THE LIOKES OF A CIA MAN OR A COUPLE OF PEOPLE who mad rice cream, They have not done anything like my father did for this country, state or town. Ben and Jerry have no respect fpr Veterans as far as I am concerned, I asked at B& J some years ago , if they could help me do a Veterans house, NO interest from them as far as I am concerned maybe you are anti military also, so keep your page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldtripper (talk • contribs) 01:49, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
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Invitation
--1Veertje (talk) 20:36, 13 September 2014 (UTC)


 * thanks, did that Jessamyn (talk) 19:09, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
 * No thank you! 1Veertje (talk) 23:29, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

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 * Thanks. I replaced it. Jessamyn (talk) 18:15, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you. I really tried to make it good, accurate and wiki-ready. Jessamyn (talk) 02:06, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

"Line house"
Hello.

You express an interest in public libraries in Vermont. Just yesterday I came across information on the web about the Haskell Free Library, whose building is partly in Vermont and partly in Quebec. I hadn't heard of it before. I also came across the term "line house", which I'd never heard before. I found four Wikipedia articles using the term, three of them as a common noun (and the fourth I'm not sure I understand yet), one of them in a red link to the term. Those three seemed to assume that the reader knew what the term means. So I created a stubby new article: Line house, with four articles and three redirects linking to it. Here's a hard question: is the term line house commonly understood only in New England? Maybe only in the three New England states bordering on Canada? And is it in fact sufficiently widely understood there that people in New England might have used the term in those in those three Wikipedia articles without it occurring to them that it might be unfamiliar to some readers? Given your involvement in WikiProject Vermont, maybe you can help civilize the article. Or maybe not. I posted a comment on that WikiProject's talk page not long ago, and as far as I can tell, no one's seen it. (I'm accustomed to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics, where comments are usually answered by multiple people within a couple of hours.) Michael Hardy (talk) 21:06, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Brattleboro meetup
Hi! I saw that your mentioned living in Vermont. I am going to be visiting the Brattleboro in May, before I move there in August and I wanted to see if anyone would be interested in doing a Wikimedia meetup there during my May visit. If you are interested, it would be great if you responding at the event page at Meetup/Brattleboro to help me schedule such a meetup! Sadads (talk) 18:47, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Coolabahapple looking at the Caldecott Medal page and thinking huh?
Hi Jessamyn, thank you for reverting the recent edits to the Caldecott medal page. I had just come accross them and as i don't have rollback (is that what its called?) was about to manually edit each edit! Not sure who the editor(s) are, but looking at their edit history maybe attempting to imbed a hoax?

Coolabahapple (talk) 03:09, 3 May 2015 (UTC) 


 * thanks.Coolabahapple (talk) 06:31, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Learned League Userbox
I'm creating a Userbox for LL; see my userpage for a preview. The image should be 43px, but I'm not sure of the best way to go about making that. As the originator of the image, I thought I'd get your opinion. Thanks. — Preceding undated comment added 20:55, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

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Hey
You are the best, Jessamyn. signed JP Jporcaro (talk) 19:13, 5 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks man. Jessamyn (talk) 23:09, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Help decide the future of Wikimania


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Art and Feminism Event in Bennington March 5
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Advice for writing biography
Hello, Just a notification that I sent you an email and would be chuffed if you find time to respond to this newbie writer All my best.

Unblock
--UTRSBot (talk) 15:56, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I have made Jesssamyn IP Block except. Sadads (talk) 18:01, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Jessamyn (talk) 18:02, 16 January 2017 (UTC)