User talk:Okiefromokla/Archive 1

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Thanks!
Thanks for the compliment on the photo I took! I really appreciate it! --Kralizec! (talk) 17:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * ORU made a great photographic subject. I think the photo I took at the campus entrance  is one of the best pictures I have ever taken.  Thanks again for the kind words!  --Kralizec! (talk) 18:02, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Tulsa FA nomination
I have added my support for the nomination. I do apologize if I have seemed unreasonable or anything. I realize that others may have different views of what needs to be in an article, but I can only voice my opinions. I think in the end the article was significantly improved. (I also hope that the statue gets built so it can be in the lead. :) ) Dsmdgold 23:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I see that the article has been promoted Congrats and good job!!! BTW, I saw one article through to FA article status and found it so exhausting and time consuming that I haven't attempted it since. I hope you are made of sterner stuff :) Dsmdgold 00:20, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I just looked at the Tulsa article for the first time. GREAT job on this.  You should be very proud.  (From another Okie... a Tulsan, in fact.)  Philippe 07:36, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

User Smallmac435
I noticed you warned User:Smallmac435 a few days ago about vandalism - he vandalized Oklahoma today and it looks like he's vandalized a few other pages as well since you warned him. This is all the reporting I am going to do, just letting you know. Thanks. Okiefromokla•talk 03:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I reported the user and the admin blocked him/her for a day. Corpx 04:43, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: OU FA
I'm not giving up. Merely taking a break. I will still work on it occasionally but just not as much as the month or so leading to this FA. It'll get there eventually. And I definitely feel the same as you on some of the issues brought up.↔NMajdan &bull;talk 00:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Tulsa architecture
Hi, you may remember from the the Tulsa FA article discussion that I wanted more discussion of the significant architecture around town. That discussion started me thinking that perhaps a History of the architecture of Tulsa, Oklahoma article would be a good idea. To the end, I have been compiling a list of important buildings in Tulsa's history, with the idea that when the list is complete, the article could written around the list. Please take a look at the list and tell me what you think. I have tried to explain my thoughts on the talk page, I would appreciate your comments there. Dsmdgold 04:42, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your Interest
Thanks for adding my articles on the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Light Opera OK and the Tulsa Signature Symphony to your project. I have also recently created an article on the Tulsa Ballet which you may choose to add as well.Nrswanson 19:48, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for your helpful advice in getting Grand Forks, North Dakota to FA status! --Matthew UND (talk) 22:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * And thanks for the barnstar, too! --Matthew UND (talk) 00:46, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Okie, thanks so much ! It was very kind of you to think of me. Keep up the good work, Sandy Georgia (Talk) 14:26, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Oklahoma
It's looking good (I guess you can tell I'm not a great copyeditor). Why did you remove the word "nation's" from "Oklahoma is the second-largest producer of natural gas, fifth-largest producer of oil, holds the second greatest number of oil wells, and ranks fifth in crude oil reserves"? Those numbers are relative to other states, not the world, right? Also, what do you think of specifying "crude oil" whenever you use the world "oil" (that's correct for the oil industry). Revert anything you don't like. Would it be good to name the Fortune 1000 company? "Home to six Fortune 500 companies and one Fortune 1000 company, the state had the fastest growing gross domestic product in the nation from 2005 to 2006, with a 10.8 percent rate of growth, totaling $134 billion in 2006." Awkward, it reads as if the rate of growth totals 134 billion, when that is actually the GDP, I suppose? This sentence needs an as of date: In descending order of population, Oklahoma's largest cities are: ... I hate cite templates; they really make it a bear to edit. (I avoided them completely in Tourette syndrome, doing all citation manually, so the article would be faster-loading and easier to edit.) I think this is a very fine article. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 19:46, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I just skimmed over it to find anything that would make me oppose it. I worked a bit on the Grand Forks, North Dakota article (my hometown) and I think you reviewed that for the FA nomination.-- milk the cows (Talk) 22:24, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem...sorry it took me a while to get to it. I'm pretty confident that the article will be granted FA status. Good luck! --Matthew UND (talk) 02:38, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Congrats on on reaching FA status with this article! It is a well deserved designation. --Matthew UND (talk) 23:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
But, you know, "...reviewers here have their time cut out just reviewing and trying to maintain standards". Ouch! --Folantin 16:45, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Return the favor?
Could you check out History of American football as a quid pro quo? Thanks... --Jayron32| talk | contribs 18:00, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Proposals
I just re-read your proposal (in regards to naming of US cities) and realized I misread it earlier, and that we essentially have the same proposal with different wording. I would move mine to yours, but mine has already received more attention than yours, so I'm not quite sure what to do.  New  England  Review Me! 01:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I just broke off your re-write of my guideline (proposal 4) into a subsection of proposal four.  I like your wording of it better than mine, but I rewrote yours to clarify that the moves would be discussed individually on each cities talk page (there was opposition to discussion all the moves on one page).  see here  New   England  Review Me! 19:36, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Marshall, Texas
I was the primary editor of the Marshall, Texas article. I am retired from Wikipedia, but unfortunately I several garrulous friends who are not; thus, on occasion I am informed of something that transpires on Wikipedia that tempts me to come out of retirement or at least make a brief appearance. As the primary editor of the article, I am tempted to revise the article to conform to contemporary FA standards. However, in the several years that I was an active Wikipedian I realized that Wikipedia’s standards have a high degree of impermanence and are never equally enforced. Therefore, I do not intend to squander my time updating the article to conform to whatever the arbitrary and ever altering FA standards are today, as invariably on Wikipedia the excellence of today will be the rubbish of tomorrow. -JCarriker 21:44, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar (Oklahoma)

 * No problem, it's well deserved, especially when you look at some of the terrible state articles WP has (several have no refs) -Ravedave 00:55, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing it because state articles are an overwhelming amount of work, I almost gave up on MN several times -Ravedave 01:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I got lucky, a wonderful team popped up. This same team is responsible for History of Minnesota, Climate of Minnesota,Geology of Minnesota, and several others. I'vesaid, this is my favorite part of the MN article, the great subarticles. -Ravedave 01:17, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair use image use
Image:Oklahomastateseal.jpg is a copyrighted, fair use image. Per terms of WP:NFCC item #9, the use of such images in portal space is not permitted. Three times now I've removed this image from Portal:Oklahoma/Intro. Please do not add it back again, as you have twice done. If you have questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. Thanks, --Durin 19:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Oklahoma Newsletter
Very nice! Kudos to you, sir! --Kralizec! (talk) 19:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Just to give you a heads up since I will be offline for the rest of the night, we may have an WP:OWN issue on the article. --Kralizec! (talk) 20:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks like I jumped the gun; I am glad to see I was mistaken. Thanks for checking it out (two heads are always better than one)!  [[Image:Smiley.svg|15px]] --Kralizec! (talk) 14:26, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

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Oklahoma on Norwegian.
Hello fellow Wikipedian. I come from norwegian Wikipedia. I translate the Oklahoma article from english to Norwegian. Here is my question: Is this true? "most of Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains and Ozark Highlands". I believed that the Ozark Highlands, as shown here, had just a small part placed in Oklahoma. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jannizz (talk • contribs) 09:14, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Tulsaschoolboard
Honestly I don't really know my self, it just seemed like a nice odd name. Tulsaschoolboard 15:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Consulates
I have gone threw with this before and like before all pages were saved!!!!!! Daltnpapi4u 02:46, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Oklahoma
Trapped in the Closet had a weak chance of making the main page because it was recently promoted, and an episode article was featured a month ago, but now that there is a plausible alternative, that is the nail in the coffin. I'll tell you what, I'll withdraw the request so that you can get Oklahoma up there. Get the request ready and message me when you want me to withdraw it. -- Scorpion0422 00:48, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Go for it, quickly before anyone else grabs it. -- Scorpion0422 00:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Stupid accounts
What are you doing with these? They've been flagged up as long usernames to be blocked. They need to be tagged as alternate accounts not sockpuppets anyway.
 * User:This user is a sock puppet of Okiefromokla
 * User:This is a sock puppet of User:Okiefromokla

Any more? Secretlondon 06:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I removed the accounts from UAA. They were flagged up because of their length. I don't see the point in changing them but you should probably edit their userpage to say that they belong to you (in case someone complains about impersonation). My User:Secretlondon's sockpuppet got blocked by someone because they thought it was impersonating me! I was made to change the tag to alternate account as well, as sockpuppet is seen as negative.. Secretlondon 04:36, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Ad
Hi there. I've got a question and please feel free to get annoyed and say no. I've been looking into making an ad for Wikiproject Oklahoma; Is there any chance you (or perhaps someone else) who has made ads in the past be willing to help? I was planning on making one anyway, but it's been a while since I've made a GIF. Okiefromoklatalk to me 20:40, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes. I will make this one, but it will be ready next week. Miranda 20:41, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Great! Thanks! I am in your wikidebt. :) Okiefromoklatalk to me 20:43, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Qxz-ad107.gif]]
 * ✅ Miranda 07:16, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Oklahoma Newsletter November 2007
You have received this newsletter because you signed up for it here. If you would like to discontinue receiving this newsletter, please remove your name from the same list. Thanks. Okiefromoklatalk to me 06:45, 6 November 2007 (UTC)