User talk:Steve Casburn

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Edward Cardwell
Just wanted to say great job on Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell, especially with setting all the links right. We've needed an article on him for a long time. Mackensen 03:02, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Parens
Why? The sentence is relative to the paragraph and flows with the narrative of the story. Adding parens is what you do when speaking of a diffrent subject or time or place. Nor do you add entire sentences to parens normally unless it's a long passage, it's just not the right usage of parens in this case.Stbalbach 00:45, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Houston mayors
Steve, Good work on Oscar F. Holcombe. Did he really serve 11 terms?!? (wow, more than I realized) --rj  ...Please continue your work with the List of Mayors of Houston, Texas

You forgot to add Oscar to your people list... --Rj 08:10, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)


 * Good catch! I've added it now -- thanks! Steve Casburn 02:02, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

bio-stub
Since you are a biographer, just wondering if you have used   instead of the generic    msg?? --Rj 21:11, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Info Boxes Okay With Me
Salve, Steve Casburn! I have no feelings one way or the other re the succeeded/preceeded box on Alexander J. Dallas. Originally, I put them on all the Associate Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, copying the form from somewhere. And then I did the reporters, probably copying from one of the justices. (Someone else created the article on Dallas and I believe it had a box already for his service in the Cabinet when I got to it; I expanded the article and tacked on the reporter succession.) I did not realize there was an official style for them and if you would like to correct my boxes, have at it. I see you spent some time in the Buckeye State. I'm a native and have been working on many Ohio articles, including List of Ohio county name etymologies. If I can help you with your articles, I'd be glad to help. (See User:PedanticallySpeaking/Articles for what I've done so far.) Ave!  PedanticallySpeaking 21:20, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

You are da bomb
Doing the Speakers stubs ROCKS AND ROLLS. Thank you so much. I should get back to doing politician stubs. I need a new project. :) In any case, THANK YOU!! jengod 19:04, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

RFA candidate
Salve, Steve Casburn! I nominated myself for adminship at Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2 and would appreciate your vote. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 20:04, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Randal L. Schwartz
Looks great, thanks! --Randal L. Schwartz 07:36, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

M. Laugier
She discovered some asteroids. That's significant enough. See Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. Some of us have tried to get biographical information on each person who discovered a significant number of asteroids for their time period (where "significant number" varies according to the time period because the rate of discovery has increased enormously in the last 10 years or so). -- Curps 03:11, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

As it happens, she also has an asteroid named after her... not because she was incredibly notable, but because one of her colleagues liked to name asteroids he discovered after his colleagues. -- Curps 05:31, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Bancroft prize
How will you be handling Arming America? It deserves some kind of mention on the Bancroft Prize page. -Acjelen 00:44, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Recent Changes Camp in Portland
FYI RecentChangesCamp Tedernst | talk 22:09, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
for rewriting the Battle of Khafji article. It was really a mess. - Eagleamn 06:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

John B. Jones
Thanks for catching the senate/age thing. I guess I didn't do the math in my head. — Bellhalla 14:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Spam spam lovely spam
Hi Steve -- thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia! Re the Billy Williams article: that was one of my first, and I was taking my cue to some extent from other articles. Obviously looking back it seems rather POV, considering he's not been convicted (yet)... well, we all live and learn! Dave-ros 23:22, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

WIkiproject Oregon
Wikiproject Oregon is now up and running! I invite you to join at WP:WPOR PDXblazers 22:55, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

re: thanks
no problem, steve. The guy had done something similar to mine, but only indirectly. he changed a userbox template to the same homophobia thing that he had put on your page. i suspect he was using it to make it look the way he wanted and then copied and pasted, but who knows. i just hope none of my friends saw it, i would be so embarrassed. ;) -- stubblyhead | T/c 16:07, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Edward Oliver Wolcott
I've merged Edward O. Wolcott with Edward Oliver Wolcott. I saw on the talk page that you might be willing to do some cleaning up, so I thought I'd let you know. Kevin 07:35, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Library, Archives, and Web 2.0 Research Guide Template
Consider giving your opinion on the research guide template.Shannon bohle (talk) 05:50, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Alphabetization and collation
I am inviting you to comment, in your capacity as a librarian, at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. -- Wavelength (talk) 15:39, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Entertainment economics
I noted your significant edits to Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Somewhat similar to your mission, mine is to enter into the historical record individuals who have made significant contributions to the economic study of creative industries. Most of them are still living, but are at retirement age. They unfortunately do not have a fair representation on the Internet, although their research is well documented in academic literature (which are not freely accessible via the Internet). Please take a look at my first bio, Arthur De Vany. De Vany is a close associate of Taleb, and many of his studies of probability and uncertainty are related. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Allenwlee (talk • contribs) 18:07, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Portland Oregon (March 7, 2015)
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Upcoming Art+Feminism events in Oregon
You are invited to participate in Oregon's upcoming Art+Feminism events, which will be held in Portland and Eugene on Saturday, March 5, 2016. Please see the following links for additional information, or to sign up: About Art+Feminism: Art+Feminism is pleased to announce its third annual Wikipedia edit-a-thon, an all-day event designed to generate coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and encourage female editorship. Last year, over 1,500 participants at more than 75 events around the world participated in the second annual campaign, resulting in the creation of nearly 400 new pages and significant improvements to 500 articles on Wikipedia. For more information, see Art+Feminism.
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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ PNCA Library (April 29, 2017)
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Upcoming Wikipedia edit-a-thon dedicated to artists of color - Thursday, Oct. 26 at PNCA
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Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Jewish Women Artists (March 8, Oregon Jewish Museum)
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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (March 10, Pacific Northwest College of Art)
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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (April 13, University of Oregon)
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Wikipedia Editathon: The Visibility Project - Saturday, January 19
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Oregon State University Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Friday, February 8
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PNCA Art+Feminism Wikipedia Editathon, Saturday, March 9
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International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Oregon Jewish Museum, Thursday, March 7
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, in partnership with social practice artist Shoshana Gugenheim and as part of the Art+Feminism Project, will host the 2nd Annual International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to edit and/or create Wikipedia articles for Jewish women artists. The event will be held at the museum on Thursday, March 7 from 4 to 8 pm. Pre-registration is preferred but not required. Members of the public are invited to come to the museum to learn about the editing process, its history, its impact, and how to do it. We aim to collaboratively edit/enter 18 Jewish women artists into the canon. Support will be provided by an experienced local Wikipedian who will be on site to teach and guide the process. This edit-a-thon will serve as both a public art action and a public educational program. Participants will have an opportunity to select an artist/s ahead of time or on site.

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Kansas Jayhawks Football
The statement you removed is actually true. See List of Kansas Jayhawks head football coaches or from an external page:. All coaches other than Mark Mangino with a winning record at Kansas where the coach before Jules Sikes.

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Portland Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon: March 12, 2022
You are invited! An Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon will be held in Portland, Oregon, on March 12, 2022. Learn more here!

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