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A beer for you!

 * Thanx. I like beer.--Louiedog (talk) 19:11, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Area
The San Jose MSA is inside the 11-county San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Area but it is not fully inside the 9-county San Francisco Bay Area. The latter designation is a popularly defined one, not defined by the federal government. The San Jose MSA includes San Benito County but the San Francisco Bay Area does not. Binksternet (talk) 08:16, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Dohezarsersdah
Too busy to do it right now, but ANI might be the next step. Dougweller (talk) 16:28, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Remember that editor's can blank their own talk pages, you shouldn't revert them if they do. Dougweller (talk) 19:46, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * (S)he's doing it to hide his/her history, to avoid getting blocked.--Louiedog (talk) 22:08, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

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Dallas lead paragraph
Hi Loodog, it's been a while since we talked. I wonder if you could check out the Dallas article. The lead was recently updated. I think the recent revisions reflect the MSA more than the city and should be in the DFW metroplex article. Maybe I'm wrong, not sure. Coud you review please? Much appreciated and thanks, Postoak (talk) 19:26, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * No question, that lead was written for the metroplex, not the city itself.--Louiedog (talk) 20:50, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

los angeles, both recognized and regarded
and celebrated and reviled. good catch. forget about the forest for the trees, i can't see the molecules for the atoms at this point.&mdash; alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 20:02, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Religion fields in infoboxes
Yes, you can stop adhering to Judaism as your religion. The religion field in the infobox does not refer to Jewish ethnicity or descent, only to professed religious belief. It must be accurate for living people. See WP:BLPCAT. Don't do that again or anywhere else. Yworo (talk) 18:29, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

NNDB
NNDB is not considered a reliable source. See for example Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_26. Also, if the source cited does not include the word "Ashkenazi", you cannot assert it based on synthesis or assumption. Yworo (talk) 21:16, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

I mean, there's no source for Einstein being an Askhenazi Jew, yet he is. In general, being of European ancestry and being Jewish is sufficient for being Ashkenazi. There aren't any other variants.--Louiedog (talk) 21:23, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Einstein is dead. The rules are different for living people. Yworo (talk) 22:28, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Warning over violations of BLP policy
Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Ram Dass. Thank you. Yworo (talk) 22:30, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * This is unnecessary. I'm happy to work with you on this, but we've already been discussing.  I haven't made any "poorly sourced" changes since you raised objection and surely you and I are past the point of warning templates.--Louiedog (talk) 22:56, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I also thought it unnecessary until you put Jewish in the religion field based on a source which only establishes being a secular Jew. For the religion field, they must identify it as their professed religion. This individual has made a well-known choice to follow a different religion than Judaism. Yworo (talk) 23:13, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

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"black mecca" in Atlanta intro
I appreciate you getting involved in this, however at the end of *all* that discussion, it still wound up being a sentence that I would add, and would be completely reverted by the other editor involved.

If I can state the issue as neutrally as possible:
 * I believe that "black mecca" is a fundamental characteristic of the city, without which we are not really describing that basic facts about what makes Atlanta, Atlanta
 * the other editor believes it is inappropriate to make reference to any one racial group in the intro, as this is unfair to other ethnic groups and inappropriate (i.e. race simply should not be mentioned).

I would like to invite you and the other editors involved in the discussion to get involved in the actual content editing since we are getting nowhere with just me and the other editor flip flopping on this. Meanwhile the article is really suffering. Keizers (talk) 17:13, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Sock puppet on Atlanta page removing "mecca" from text
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Hello, Loodog! Tell me, please, from where you take examples for curl? I say about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_%28mathematics%29. Please, if it is possible, give me the name this books Solomchik (talk) 22:55, 11 February 2012 (UTC)Solomchik


 * I made them up. They're pretty simple examples.--Louiedog (talk) 20:12, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer!!! Please try to show me where i can search source of this knowledge! And do you have a real physical analogue of the second "more involved example" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_%28mathematics%29? Can you help me, it is wery important for me. My e-mail solomchik@yandex.ru Thank you! Solomchik (talk) 19:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for the answer!!! Please try to show me where i can search source of this knowledge! And do you have a real physical analogue of the second "more involved example" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_%28mathematics%29? Can you help me, it is wery important for me. My e-mail solomchik@yandex.ru Thank you! Solomchik (talk) 19:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.221.163.71 (talk)

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Hey, I just noticed your pie chart for the MBTA services. I really like it, though I've got a few comments.

First, any free use files (like your chart) should probably be uploaded at Wikimedia Commons rather than on Wikipedia itself. This allows other-language Wikipedias to use files (at the moment, there are articles on the MBTA in 14 languages) and for all free-use files to be found in the same place. (Fair use images must stay on individual wikis.) Unless you object, I can transfer your file to Commons so it can be used by anyone.

If you don't have an account on Commons, it's real easy to get one. Just visit [Special:Merge Accounts]] and it'll automatically let you log into Commons and some other Wikimedia projects with your same Wikipedia login.

Second, I'd like to see the graph in SVG (scalable vector graphics) format. It'd provide several advantages - lines are clearer, the thin sections would be easier to see, and it could be scaled to any size. If you're interested in learning, I'd recommend Inkscape as it's free and reasonably intuitive. You could import your graph directly from Excel (by saving as a PDF and importing the PDF into Inkscape) or simply draw a new graph. If you don't want to take the time to learn a new program, let me know and I'll draw one up.

Please don't take this as criticism - I applaud the graph you drew up. I'm just one of those crazy people who's anal-retentive about everything being SVGs.

Feel free to respond here; I've watchlisted your talk page.

Cheers! Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:07, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Fox Point Providence map incorrect
The map in this location http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Provneigh-foxpt.JPG created by you is incorrect. 195 does not cut through the neighborhood quite that way anymore.

Also, if you are a resident of Providence or know about the history can of the moving of 195 can you also write about that. The article still mentions a plan to create a walkway that goes across 195 while when I went last summer it was already there.

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 * Of course, you're right. Haven't had a chance to fix it.  You're welcome to do so.--Louiedog (talk) 19:52, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

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Not hyphenating the compound modifier "light[-]rail" (something), just because "we don't do that"?
Will you please see my proposal at talk:light rail?

Thanks if so, 97.117.19.208 (talk) 19:25, 25 August 2017 (UTC) for now.

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