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Trivia Contest
Nice job on the Great Midwest Trivia Contest. I was a trivia master for three years and a tolerated trivia master alumnus for one year. It is always nice to see the old contest get its due. -Acjelen 20:00, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

"minor" edits on Reason (magazine)
Please only mark edits as "minor" when they genuinely are. Any edit that makes significant changes to an article (expecially adding or removing content) shouldn't be marked "minor"). Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 23:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Karl Kraus
Hi! I noticed that the Karl Kraus english page is really poor, while the german one it way better. I think this huge author deserves more, can you translate some of it? I'm starting to work to the italian version, but I can't speak German. --Mauro 22:41, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Historic water tower Brainerd.jpg
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Brainerd
Thanks for your work on Brainerd, Minnesota. I just came across this news report and decided to look up the place in Wikipedia. Good to see a bit of information on the history of the city.

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Nice job on List of Minnesota fish
You might want to join Project Minnesota. Grika Ⓣ 15:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Hyperthymesia
In Hyperthymesia, you said that, "deleting improperly formatted citations altogether was not the best fix", but I think that the quoted bits do need a [citation needed] tag. The citations, as they appear now, seem to be a small chunk of a larger paper that DOES has a proper citation page. I thought that perhaps someone had copied part of a school paper. I wanted to put the tags there to make sure that the page was flagged, and the proper sources were credited, because the citations do not make sense as they appear now (to anyone without the numerical listing of works cited in this particular work). What do you think should be done? --Ryan! 05:37, 11 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, I added in all the cites, not from a longer paper but from the Neurocase article cited at the bottom of the page. The source is clear for the first quote (Neurocase is mentioned explicitly) but I guess the others could conceivably be construed as coming from somewhere else, even if the other outside reference is definitely not the source. I guess the solution would be to format those citations properly (whatever that means on Wikipedia) so that they're clearly from Neurocase in every instance.
 * --Our Bold Hero 03:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I think someone should find that Neurocase article (if you have it, then its even easier), and add the citations by listing them at the bottom of the page and using footnotes to refer to the sources cited in the article. That way, the sources are available for everyone here, rather than making someone search for the source of the quotes.  If you don't have the Neurocase article available, I can just post a request for it on the discussion page, or just look it up myself.  Thanks!--Ryan! 03:38, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you. It looks much better now.--Ryan! 03:12, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota
Hello! I am working on getting Minnesota to Featured article status and need some help. Since you are an "Experenced copy editor" and I write at a 6th grade level :), I could use some help making the prose on the page flow better and sound nicer. Any help would be apprecated, Thanks! -Ravedave 05:06, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

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Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
I’m suggesting a reorganization of sections within Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. As you have made contributions to this article I thought you might be interested in expressing your views at Talk:Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Thanks. Kablammo 18:38, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota meetup
A meetup of Wikipedians in Minnesota is proposed: please stop by the discussion page if interested. Jonathunder 22:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Reminder: Meetup October 29, one o'clock, Mall of America. Jonathunder 16:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota Meetup
 Minnesota Meetup Sunday, 2007-10-07, 1:00 p.m. (13:00) Pracna on Main 117 Main SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota Map Please pass this on! RSVP here.  Spam delivered by Jonathunder 16:33, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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Minnesota Meetup
 2009 Proposed date: Saturday, October 10. Details under discussion. Please share this with anyone who may be interested.  Delivered by Jonathunder (talk) 16:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Invite to Wiki Loves Pride MN!

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