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Mimagoniates microlepis
Thanks for adding the taxobox to Mimagoniates microlepis. I got lazy but hoped someone would add it and you did. Likewise thanks for cleaning up the refs. Sometimes I just get too eager to go onto the next article! - House of Scandal (talk) 04:26, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

sandhills of Nebraska
How did you arrive at your redention of the sandhills in Nebraska.

blsch@aol.com Bernard Schwartz co-author of Prairie Directory of North America  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.4.143.207 (talk) 18:36, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Omaha FA?
Hey Swid, a while ago you'd mentioned the possibility of collaborating on getting Omaha moved to FA. I've just finished up all the suggestions from the peer review, and I'm looking for any further guidance. Could you give it a once-over or share any of your thoughts with me? Thanks. • Freechild   'sup?   22:50, 30 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, barring your participation I went ahead, cleaned it up, and submitted it to FA review - and now its getting slaughtered. You can see it for yourself here. • Freechild   'sup?   07:26, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi there Swid. Just writing to let you know I think that was a pretty harsh move, proposing to me a year ago that we collaborate on making Omaha a FA and then being the first to critique it in the FA review, after I asked you twice if you were interested in collaborating still, and you not responding. Not very good "Wikiquette." It would be good to see you jump in on the article now, after its achieved GA status, to help get it ready for FA. I hope you consider that. • Freechild   'sup?   08:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

E1b1b article
Hi, we haven't seen anything from you on the talk page. We had a bit of third party observation which helped a lot, but it stopped pretty quickly and the strange discussions are there again. We need another perspective.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 17:54, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, the mediation banner has been there so long without anything happening now, that I wonder if that should be closed off? It might just be chasing away potential editors now. The article has improved in the meantime, but it would have been helpful to have a third party on some issues at the time the discussions got out of balance.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 21:00, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

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Maps
I basically used every genetic study done up till this day. Some are combined some are single studies. Please let me know if any numbers don't look right (I spent a couple of hours putting it together to avoid mistakes!) Cadenas2008 (talk) 21:44, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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MedCab
Hiya, I haven't seen you at Talk:Haplogroup E1b1b (Y-DNA) for awhile, are you still interested in mediating that one? Or should we ask for another mediator? --Elonka 21:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

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Call for opinion on a neutrality accusation in a human genetics related article
As a member of the WikiProject HGH may I ask for opinions on this accusation?--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 11:57, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello, concerning the page R1a, advice sought
Talk:Haplogroup_R1a_(Y-DNA) We need to resolve by consensus a concern over what the best section names are using the R1a1a or R-M17 format, I know you were involved in a discussion last year and you input or opinion would be appreciated.PB666 yap 03:57, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

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Independent Cinema
Hi Swid, I see you long ago created a page Independent cinema, which redirects to Independent film. In the UK, the term "independent cinema" usually (as far as I know, always) refers to a movie theatre, not to movie production. Do you feel the redirect should be changed to point to Independent Cinema in the United Kingdom or do you think a disambiguation page is required? Tesspub (talk) 08:42, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Nebraska
It was recently suggested that WikiProject Nebraska, to which you are a member, may be inactive or semi-active and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there haven't been much active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. I have begun a discussion on the projects talk page to see how the members of the project feel about this suggestion. Another user has added the project to the WPUS template and I added it to the list of supported projects in the WPUS main project page but before I take any further action I wanted to contact each of the active members for their input. --Kumioko (talk) 13:52, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J1_(Y-DNA)
Please review the map, the work of Tofanelli et al, Hassan et al, and comment in the discussions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HG_J1_(ADN-Y)

http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2004_v74_p1023-1034.pdf http://ychrom.invint.net/upload/iblock/94d/Hassan%202008%20Y-Chromosome%20Variation%20Among%20Sudanese.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC384897/figure/FG1/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_J1_(Y-DNA)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Haplogroup_J1_(Y-DNA)

Essentially, the question revolves around whether the areas where 60-100% is listed for J1 are justified. John Lloyd Scharf 09:28, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

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Former Nebraska school district list
I found the State of Nebraska's defunct school district list (the state started documenting them from 1990) and there seem to be way more of them compared to other states, even ones like Iowa. I wonder if Nebraska had more one room schoolhouses than others? WhisperToMe (talk) 20:19, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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