User talk:Minard38

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Thank you for your guidance
I have changed my username per your instructions. I noticed that the spelling of Mary Rutherfurd Jay for my page was changed to Rutherford with an "o" which is alarming because one of the reasons there is very little known about her is that people frequently spelled her name wrong!! So part of my research has been affirmatively locating and confirming the articles about her that were buried or invisible because of misspelling. Would it be helpful to explain that in the body of the article? Many thanks JayHeritageCenter (talk) 10:47, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Documentation of correct spelling for Mary Rutherfurd Jay
Would it be helpful for me to post a scanned image of her obituary from the New York Times with the correct spelling of her name into Wikimedia? I do not want to violate any copywrite through.... GratefullyJayHeritageCenter (talk) 11:31, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The better option would be to reference it using an appropriate citation. See this page for advice on how to reference things like this. Amortias (T)(C) 11:39, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Okay - thanks. I already have a citation to the obituary listed in my sources but see that I need to italicize the name of the paper etc. -there was no author of the obituary listed, Should I move the citation up as well?JayHeritageCenter (talk) 12:18, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

==Repositioning of New York Times source to support spelling of subject's name ((Thank you- very helpful)) Thank you - that was very helpful and makes the point sooner in the article!69.120.196.15 (talk) 12:26, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Correcting pages title from Rutherford to Rutherfurd
I am so grateful to have my submission on Mary Rutherfurd Jay accepted and will keep working to make it A Class - can you help me correct the spelling of the page itself please. This is very meaningful to me as I am a woman making this entry and adding to the number of histories of women by women on Wikipedia. With appreciation. JayHeritageCenter (talk) 14:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi, I moved the page from Mary Rutherford Jay to Mary Rutherfurd Jay for you, so it now has the correct spelling in the title. The way to move it is on the top ofthe article, there's a heading "more", then click "move". Joseph2302 (talk) 14:28, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank You!
I am much obliged for your very courteous and friendly assistance! Encouraged to contribute more in the future. Will concentrate on perfecting style for now! Minard38 (talk) 15:29, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for accepting my article submission! How do I change the title from Mary Rutherford Jay to Mary Rutherfurd Jay?
((Help me))JayHeritageCenter (talk) 14:08, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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Request for peer review for Joanne B. Freeman
Hi Minard38. While posting a request for a peer review at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review, I noticed that you had also posted a request for Joanne B. Freeman. You added the required template for the request, but you did not create the required review page as explained in Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review. Your request has temporarily been hidden from view, and can be restored once you create the required page. Since you are the one requesting the review, I think you are the best person to explain why. Please try to create the page by following the instructions in requesting a review. If you get stuck and need assistance, then feel free to ask here and I will try and help. If a review is no longer wanted, just remove the template from the request page. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:37, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Adams papers, John Jay template
Nice work on the Adams papers article. Made me realize that John Jay doesn't have a template, so I'm going to work one up in the next couple of days. The enhancement of Wikipedia's founding father's pages are well worth the effort, thank you for your fine work on them. Randy Kryn (talk) 18:10, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind words and positive feedback. As a novice editor, I am especially appreciative of the encouragement and motivated to learn more. Minard38 (talk) 20:00, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ? I don't know what you mean by novice, you've written some very good, detailed, and encyclopedic pages. If by novice you mean "time served" (sentenced to "90 days of hard labour on Wikipedia") you're almost a veteran Wikipedian in anyone's definition. In many areas I'm still a novice and so is everyone editing. There are so many nooks and crannies here that I haven't explored or gotten trapped-in-a-mine-shaft in, and there are others I know pretty well. And wouldn't it be nice if even more knowledgeable and interested people like youself started to edit both their favorite subjects and took on a few others tasks or three. We are all lucky to be here, on more or less the beginnings of this epic worldwide collaborative creation. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:12, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

American people of Huguenot descent
Hi thanks for the recent thanks

Do note that the wiki slasher deleters killed this category because in their infinite wisdom they decided that the Huguenots in the US are now fully assimilated and their Huguenot heritage is no longer relevant.Rsarlls (talk) 21:02, 13 January 2018 (UTC)


 * You are welcome. I am surprised by the deletion given that there are several Huguenot Societies represented on Wikipedia. A number of Revolutionary figures were of Huguenot descent including John Jay and Paul Revere. Minard38 (talk) 20:04, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. There are wiki editors who see themselves as the arbiters of what ancestral information is relevant, or not. At a bare minimum I try to add as much in-line information and valid references to make the ancestral categories stick. Rsarlls (talk) 21:02, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for encouraging me to return attention to this article and add clarity. Have an excellent week! Minard38 (talk) 16:38, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, and thanks for the focus and improvements (sorry about the reverts, I hope they make sense). You may have noticed the present RfC on the talk page about the Articles of Confederation. A few of us have been working on founder and founding document pages for the last few months, and just in time to get ready for the 250th anniversaries (the first is the Continental Association in October of 2024, just in time for the presidential election). Enjoy, and good to have you back on the FF page! Randy Kryn (talk) 18:57, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Help! I (or a bug) damaged the Article “Virginia Humanities” via “Joanne Freeman”
I had made a couple of edits to ‘Joanne B. Freeman’ that you thanked me for 🙏🏼. I was re-reading your Article and thought I could maybe update the section on BackStory — which now is part of Virginia Humanities. My entering a Description for Virginia Humanities triggered a Reversion of the Redirect for BackStory. It is very weird! I think this is a bug in Mobile Device or iOS Device edits — it is the third time this has happened with NO SUCH INTENT on my part. I need to kick this problem to more senior editors / tech staff etc. Can you please guide me?? — and help fix the BackStory Redirect to Virginia Humanities? Thanks so much! (FYI, I’m also going notify the other two senior editors who’d caught and fixed the two prior Redirect issues I’ve experienced. — gotta dig those out of my edit history — on my iPhone, which is what I continue to use for all my edits. Catch-22, I guess. 😱) Left Central (talk) 07:29, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

2 UPDATES: 1) I found the Bug report link and will use that to report all 3 of the Inadvertent Redirect Errors I’ve experienced. I will try to get to that today or tomorrow (I am capacity-constrained). 2) The BackStory project that Dr. Freeman was part of DEFINITELY needs updating (and therefore her Article as well). I am eager to work on that and will let you know when I have. (WAY more fun than a detailed Bug report…. But the Bug report needs to come first…sigh. Vegetables before dessert.) Left Central (talk) 16:03, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * Thank you! Hoping to add more over the summer! Minard38 (talk) 11:36, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Founding Fathers
Thanks for all of your work on the Founding Fathers article. I was editing some of the same sections simultaneously. One critical note: some of the reorganization didn't make sense to me. For example, moving the "non-signer" founders up to the top of the re-named "Signers" section.I also felt the specific "Charters of Freedom" needed to be named. Your additions to the Terminology section, particularly J.Q. Adams and Beck, were excellent. Coincidentally, I was about to post my own reference to Adams (his inaugural address) and ran into an edit conflict with your work.

Invariably, we are going to disagree on some things - there's just so much to document and then a mind-boggling number of references to work with. I do want to let you know that with the RFC ruling on the Continental Association (that its signers are not considered founders), I needed to forge ahead with removing them from the article. I didn't see any "quick" solution to getting that done, meaning a fair amount of your reorganization needed to be re-written, and I simply didn't have time. So out of expedience, I did a "mass" delete. I hope you didn't mind too much.

All of which is to say, I look forward to working with you in improving the article. Now that the "base" sections are coming together (I fully expect other changes), we shouldn't be "stepping on each other's toes" too much. I'd like to add more founders to the new Additional Founders section and plan to update/clean up the subsections under "Social background and commonalities". I'll also periodically share some thoughts for improvement on the FF Talk page. I hope you'll do the same. Allreet (talk) 13:29, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

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 * I'm delighted to hear that you liked the article - it means a lot to get such positive feedback! Thank you! Minard38 (talk) 20:48, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

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