User talk:Russbus64

Welcome to my talk page feel free free to leave any thoughts or comments Russbus64 (talk) 02:09, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Congregation Emanu-El
Hello, and thank you for your comment. If lack of references was the only problem with the expansion, I would not have reverted the material. Far more important is that the material is a copyright violation. The material was copied and pasted from the Emanu-El website, which is illegal and absolutely forbidden on Wikipedia. There are no exceptions to the obligation of any Wikipedia editor to remove copyrighted material on sight. By the way, this article was trimmed down to a stub several months ago by other editors because that earlier version also included copyrighted material taken illegally from another source. I will be happy to work with you or any other editor to expand this article in accordance with policy. I wrote the Wikipedia biographies of former Emanu-El rabbi Joseph Asher and historian of the congregation Fred Rosenbaum. I was a member of Emanu-El for about 12 years in the 1980s and 1990s. An expanded article is needed, but it must be done properly, or it will be deleted by other editors. Cullen328 (talk) 01:21, 20 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I thank you for explaining your actions. I feel much better about your decision at this point as a fellow congregant. I look forward to possible collaboration in the future. Russbus64 (talk) 04:45, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your reply, and encourage you to add material to the article based on your own writing citing reliable sources such as Fred Rosenbaum's books. I am almost done reading his most recent and most impressive book, Cosmopolitans, which has lots of information about Emanu-El, though not all of it is laudatory. Cullen328 (talk) 04:54, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Russbus64/Marshall Eriksen
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

UCSF project
Hi! I am currently revamping the UCSF project. I created lots of pages and added a lot of content, but there is so much still to do. I saw that you are part of the SFBA task force, so I thought you might be interested and I wanted to invite you to collaborate once more. In particular, we need to add content, do maintenance, and we really would benefit from pictures, so if you are in SF and could help that would be great. Thanks!Eccekevin (talk) 15:11, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!