User talk:Tim1965/TalkArchives1

Education Minnesota
Hi Tim. I hope I didn't muck things up for you there. I noticed you had added EM to the List of trade unions so I thought I would add the infobox - if I don't do things right when I think about them I stand a pretty good chance of forgetting and never doing them :) Nice work on expanding the article. Cheers. Chris --Bookandcoffee 23:45, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Not a problem! That's what the back-button is for; backing up two pages let me find my added text, and I was able to dump it right back in. YAY! Tim1965 23:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894
Fabulous article. Italo Svevo 04:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree! This article is awesome. Other than the red link problem, I'd say it's almost featured article material; at the very least, a good article. ♠ SG →Talk 05:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Gosh, thanks for the very kind compliments! As for red links, they are always a problem in labor articles, I think. There are so few articles addressing labor! Almost none of the major figures, unions, or events in the U.S. labor movement even have stub articles about them. Almost no public domain sources exist which I could use. I'm trying very hard to collect books and articles about the U.S. labor movement to write stuff, but it's tough slogging: Aside from the sheer expense, few libraries own the books or journals needed, the information is scattered across many texts, and in some cases the only information available is in original-source documents to which I do not have access (either because of distance or access issues). *sigh* I'm pushing ahead as fast as I can, though, and recruiting as many people as I can to write more labor articles. Tim1965 14:41, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Strike cat
Hi Tim. I see you put up the List of strikes on the project page. Good idea. I tacked up the Category:Labor disputes in the category section... does it make sense to put strike categories under that? I see there is already a Category:Miners' labor disputes, but I think it might be worth spliting them out by country. What do you think?

Maybe:
 * Category:Labor disputes
 * Category:Strikes by country
 * Category:Strikes in Canada
 * Category:Strikes in South Africa
 * Category:Strikes in the United States
 * and so on... --Bookandcoffee 20:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * How'd I miss this category? Arrgh! I completely agree that they need to be split out by country. I think there may be enough articles to even do a U.K. category. I'm just learning the rules on how to create and sort Categories, but I think that Category:Miners' labor disputes should really be a Sub-Category of Category:Labor disputes.  What's your opinion? Tim1965 14:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it already is. I suppose that rather than Category:Strikes by country the wording should be Category:Labour disputes by country to keep things more general (although then we run into that damn labor/labour thing again...:) nonetheless, if you agree I think we can just go ahead and get the ball rolling. BTW, categories are a little different than stubs - I think we're on pretty safe ground if we create the labour disputes by countries cat and then add the sub-cats as needed without worrying about a 30 article threshold or anything. (one more wrinkle - WP:NCCAT keeps track of category naming conventions, but I think it should be Labour disputes in Canada, not Labour disputes of Canada... (yeah, we have to worry about things like that! :)) I'll leave a note at the naming conventions project page and hopefully it travels through without too much controversy. But you never know. --Bookandcoffee 16:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Note posted at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (categories)--Bookandcoffee 16:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


 * So I went ahead and started . Of course the first thing I did was accidentally create instead of using the US spelling! I fixed that, and started putting the articles into their countries. Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 23:15, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

List of photographers known for portraying males erotically
As you had made contributions to this page in the past, I thought you might be interested in participating in this AfD. You input and/or suggestions regarding a Category title if it should go that direction would be appreciated. Thanks. Doc &#9836; talk 12:38, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Assessment department
Hi Tim. I've been working with this new assessment thing - and I just wanted to leave you a note about the quality scale. I've marked Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (and a couple others) as "B-Class" - but I didn't want you to think that was because I thought they were sub-standard. My reading of the scale being used means that this is the highest class available until the article has gone through the Good article nomination process. (Which, incidentally, is something that should be done with a lot of your articles!) Cheers. Chris --Bookandcoffee 18:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Back!
Hi Tim. Glad to see you're back. No thanksgiving up here (we have it in October), and instead I have 6" of snow on my sidewalk this morning - very unusual for Vancouver. I hope you like the assessment thing, it seems to have taken off over at Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects. In the last few weeks I've actually scaled back the amount of time I let myself work here (you know - life, and all that), so I'll be a little more intermittent around here, but I’ll see you around I’m sure.

Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 19:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I know what it's like. It's partly why I took my own (lenthy) break. I was committing way too much time. Geez, and they say Net porn is addictive. No way! For someone who likes research, writing Wiki articles is like intellectual meth! I don't see how Italo Svevo writes so damn much. I'm glad of it, but it amazes me nonetheless. Tim1965 18:11, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the labor historian articles
Thanks for your excellent work writing new articles on various labor historians. It's something I've been thinking about for a long time, and I'm glad you're working on it! 71.77.12.236 04:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I chanced onto the category, and thought it such a great idea that I kind of put aside some other labor projects to work on it.  There are more coming, too.  Tim1965 00:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC)