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Welcome to Wikipedia! I was delighted to see that you expanded the article I began on International Voluntary Services. Do you have access to the IVS archives at Goshen? If so, then I encourage you to continue working on the article and, if possible, to add some free-use images. Cheers! -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 16:18, 21 October 2011 (UTC) (Who is located in Auburn.)

Dear Cuppysfriend, I got most of my information from the archives. I was fascinated by the story of IVS and found the history of their involvement in Vietnam especially interesting. Were you involved with the program? If not, what sparked your interest in the organization? When I get a chance, I want to add some pictures from the archives to the pages I've been working on, but who knows when that will be. MrsSimons (talk) 18:09, 27 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I was a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa, but I know several people who were with IVS. I started the Wikipedia article as a sort of spin-off of the article I wrote on Alexander D. Shimkin who was a classmate of mine at Indiana University Bloomington.  I was hoping that maybe you could find Alex's IVS application and upload a scan of his signature to Wikimedia Commons for display in his page's infobox.  -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 16:19, 7 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I spoke with the archivist and found out that IVS applications were not retained. If the archives has a letter from him (many reports from the field came in the form of letters), his signature might be available. But that would take a lot of digging and a lot of time to find.... MrsSimons (talk) 13:53, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

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When you edited the The Pax Program article, you added a link to Congo, which is a disambiguation page rather than an article. If you know from the source material whether it's referring to the Republic of the Congo or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, could you please edit your link to point to the appropriate page? Most common usage referring to the country simply as "Congo" is about Republic of the Congo, not the DRC, but I didn't want to assume that in this case since you're probably more familiar with the topic. Thanks! LarryJeff (talk) 15:08, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks LarryJeff, the source I was using only said Congo, and I didn't even think about the distinction. I changed it to the DRC, since the river mentioned is located there, as well as the town of Stanleyville, which the source mentioned. However, I'm not entirely sure.MrsSimons (talk) 15:26, 2 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Given the location of the river and the town, I'm sure you got it right. I did tweak your edit slightly (add "of the" in the middle of the name) to fix the red link.  Also, I un-linked the year based on WP:OVERLINK and WP:YEARLINK. LarryJeff (talk) 20:18, 2 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Terrific! Thanks much for improving the page!

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Hello, Keithbob. I have removed your proposed deletion notice because George Jay Lapp was an important person in American and Indian Mennonite history. The Mennonites are a relatively small religious denomination. It does not surprise me that you could not find works by Lapp in Google Books because Mennonite works tend to be held by small Mennonite organizations rather than major research libraries that participate in mass digitization projects. I have added some citations to his works and mentioned other roles he played in the old Mennonite Church. I hope that these changes improve the article sufficiently. Thank you -- MrsSimons

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