User talk:TimK MSI/archive1

Hey I just want to say that I didn't put in that Mae scares me thing, that was from an IP address.. not me ThanksAndercee 05:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

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WestVirginia-geo-stub
Hi - thanks for the thanks :) I didn't do the bulk of it - I only worked out what needed to go in which category. Most of the work of actually changing the stubs over was done by other stub sorters. But I'm glad it was appreciated! Grutness...  wha?  06:33, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

WV Roads
Apparently Gruntness let us all know on the geo-stubs, from that I noticed he contacted you in about WV. If you're in WV, myself and Caponer have been working on West Virginia State Highways. We could use some help. Thanks --71Demon 13:02, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Minnesota rivers and streams
I think I got all the Minnesota rivers in. I'll let you develop the river articles, tweek the list, etc. I think I got all the streams for the list of Minnesota streams in as well. However for the streams, I did not put in any links. If you look at the structure, though, you will see that I have commented out the stream's location. Also, the streams page gives an error warning saying that the article size is too large. I don't know if the error warning will take care of itself as links are developed for that page or if it would just get worse. If you have better ideas, please incorporate. CJLippert 22:46, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

West Virginia photos
Hi Malepheasant. I've added a bunch of your West Virginia photos to Category:Images of West Virginia. Thanks for your contributions! Mike Dillon 03:44, 8 January 2006 (UTC)


 * FYI, I also just created Category:Images of Oklahoma and some other missing categories for images of states. (I noticed you had added some Oklahoma images) Mike Dillon 18:13, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Image Source Attribution (Deletion) Feedback
Mahalo Tom - After migrating from Metro-MN to NE-Kansas, I got recertified as a EarthSea-Keeper via the Kansas Environmental Ledership Program (KELP) For our Advanced Leadership Project (ALP), we were "clueless" where to find sharable (public domain) high-impact images!

So, I updated the Arkansas River article's reusable visual learning objects (RVLO) after contacting Deb Baker at our Kansas Water Office (KWO) plus environmental educators at a new public works Water Center in Wichita, KS.

FYI - The Wichita-WC adopted HamlineU's CGEE Waters to the Sea CD-ROM that includes movie clips of Oklahoma Great Plains bison herds!

Cheers! RJBurkhart 23:24, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

U.S. Collaboration of the Week
Hey Malepheasant, I took the liberty of nominating West Virginia's main article as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week since it is in much need of a major upgrade and reorganization. Please feel free to support the nomination or make a comment either way at the US Collaboration nomination page. Thanks! --Caponer 04:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Cmadler 14:27, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Embarras River
I am embarrassed that I added an extra s. Actually, I found lots of documents, including official state of Illinois DNR and Coles County tourism sites, that had two s's, and I figured they would know. I've crossed that river so many times that I don't look at the sign that closely. You appear to have the preferred spelling. Take what you want from my article and then turn it into a redirect (or I can do it later later if you don't have the time). Your article is much better.

It really is amazing that we both did the article at the same time! -- DS1953 talk 06:18, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


 * By the way, I noticed that you gave "Ambraw River" as an alternative name. I have never seen it spelled that way but that is the way most people pronounce "Embarras" (although some string it out to three syllables as "Amberaw"). -- DS1953 talk  06:35, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/California Road
I listed this "article" by RJBurkhart for deletion but find that so far the comments are far more positive than I expected. To me, it is just more of his junk. Could you add an opinion. Rmhermen 01:58, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Skillet Fork
Sorry. As I recall, when I clicked the ref, it took me into a maze of pop up ads.M dorothy

Oh good!
Thanks, I was hoping they were ok. I saw just a few minutes ago that there was a river project so I wasn't sure if there would be some "push back" for some reason. Anyway, I'll slowly work through them...thanks again! Rx StrangeLove 06:48, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Another WikiProject that might interest you...
You might consider checking out the relatively new WP:WPMN... Cheers, Tom e rtalk 07:24, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

User name
I can't help but wonder if your name is a clever pun on malfeasant :) Isopropyl 14:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

50th and France
I am removing the adversment temp. for the article. ...and much more colloquially represents that there are many different kinds of shops, to many in fact to list. Take for example the mall of america. If you were writting an article on in, would you want to list every store in the mall. Hopefully not. And also, if you think its an adversment, then try fixing the article, for example, removing the much more part if thats the only part that makes it like an adversment. Thanks.--Gephart 07:06, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Two new articles
I started two new stubs, Summersville Dam and Summersville Lake and would value any input you may have, as the hydrology of WV seems to be your specialty. Cheers.  young  american (talk) 13:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Wabash
The illustration of the Wabash is nice, but the watershed shown extends about 15 miles west into the Kaskaskia watershed.M dorothy

River template
Thanks! I knew it was missing something; you provided it Daniel Case 16:33, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Bridges, lakes, skylines, etc.
Thanks for the kind words. As far as the stubs go, I would not object to a merger some day, I just wanted them both to be out there. I supposed that they would either have individual article or one would redirect to the other: either way I wanted both seeds planted and current and fututre wikilinks to not be redirects.

As far the the Byrd Bridge, it is the only one of Huntington's three that has a walkway. Mind you, the walkway is narrow and the traffic barrier is quite low and the guardrail is even lower, so it wasn't the funnest thing ever. I had to confront many of my greatest fears: narrow spaces, heights, water, bridges, and--most chillingly--Ohio drivers. Also check out East End Bridge (Huntington), Bob Evans Restaurants, Marshall University, and Carter G. Woodson for some other area photos. Now if I can just get the text of the Huntington article to a better level of quality. Cheers.

PS. Let me know if you have any Tristate area photo requests.  young  american (talk) 12:07, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

The barnstar
Feel free to move it over here to your talk page if it cramps your style. I, however, personally think you should wear it with pride on your main user page for all of the work you do on American rivers and other water features.  young  american (talk) 13:46, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota
Hello, I am working to get the Minnesota article to featured status and could use your help. Could you perhaps take on the lakes/rivers section? Any help would be apprecated! Thanks, -Ravedave 05:04, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow
Nice work on the Cranberry River article. (I was gonna get a pic next time I was visiting my folks, but you beat me, dammit). Hopefully I'll be there when its low or I can go to the headwaters by the Glades and get something there to supplement the two excellent photos that you have taken. Cheers.  young  american (ahoy-hoy) 12:04, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * As for the WV encyclopedia, I have not yet got to see it, but I hear good things from my father.  young  american  (ahoy-hoy) 12:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Cherry River photos
Pardon my OCD, but are those photos looking upstream or downstream?  young  american (ahoy-hoy) 15:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

West Virginia river names
My apologies man, I'm on here so sparsely anymore that I sometimes forget to read the latest discussions on naming. Thanks for the note! --Caponer 20:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Blackwater Falls
Nice photo of Blackwater Falls. I think it is the best photo I've seen you post. WVhybrid 22:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

West Virginia mountain articles
Being that we're known as "The Mountain State", shouldn't we have more articles on our various mountains? I've written some stubs for mountain ridges in the Eastern Panhandle but noticed that many of the bigger boys towards the center of the Allegheny Mountains and Allegheny Front did not have articles. Is a West Virginia Mountains WikiProject in order? --Caponer 22:01, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Are you familiar with Allegheny Plateau rivers?
From Cumberland Plateau
 * Generally speaking, the Allegheny Plateau is dominated on the Allegheny River system, while the Cumberland Plateau is dominated by the Cumberland River and Tennessee River systems.

I don't think a river usually dominates a plateau or mountain range but I don't know what it actually does to it. :) Any suggestions? -Crunchy Numbers 15:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Paulins Kill
Please do take a look at the begins of a major edit I've done at Paulins Kill on 24 August 2006. I have noticed you have contributed to the article, that is why I'm letting you know...and would love to have your opinion. There is more that I will be adding to the article in terms of content and photographs in the next few hours/days (in case you see it in the middle of some work). Please feel free to drop me a line as to any suggestions or comments or questions, etc. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 20:38, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I put the Paulins Kill article up for Peer Review (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review/Paulins_Kill) with the hope of passing this step and next nominating the article as a Featured article. When the time comes, I'll let you know...but in the meantime, if you'd like to comment on any improvements/suggestions, feel free to join the Peer Review conversation at the above link. Thanks. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 18:10, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Blackwater River
Do you have any information about the automatic lime addition machine on a tributary of the Blackwater? Do you think that information would be helpful to the article? WVhybrid 05:02, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I added a section on acid mine drainage treatment on the Blackwater. Please edit as you see fit, but also, please be gentle, as this is one of my biggest edits to date. Thanks WVhybrid 04:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the kind words. And thanks for the good edits.  Especially the entry to the 3rd paragraph.  Also, it looks like there's now a problem with the location of the "edit" buttons.  I think I know how to fix that, but it will have to wait until tomorrow. WVhybrid 04:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

NH Rivers
Hi there -- I only just now noticed your comment on Talk:List of New Hampshire rivers and have added a list of the deleted rivers, per your suggestion. Thanks for the idea. Now you've got me thinking that I should go back and put in anything that's named a river. That would include not just the ones that were deleted, but a whole slew of other things named "River" that nobody had thought of yet. I'd resisted the idea earlier, because some of those "rivers" are amazingly puny, while other water bodies named "Stream" or "Brook" are quite large. Do you find an interest, in other states, to see anything that's named a river, no matter its size? --Ken Gallager 19:07, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

List of West Virginia state parks
> no more red links ==

Hey MP, all state parks in WV now have articles/stubs. When you have time would you please look over the articles and suggest improvements. You can leave a list on my talk page, on the SP list talk page, or on each park's talk page. Next, I'm going to consolidate the SP list into a table, I hope by the end of the week. WVhybrid 02:16, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

James River (Dakotas)
Thanks for putting up a picture! -- AlexWCovington  (talk) 05:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Hawks Nest
Malepheasant,
 * I just wanted to let you know I've written a new article for Hawks Nest State Park that replaces the redirect you had created to the Hawk's Nest incident. I did keep a wikilink to the other article, in the introduction.  If you decide that you want to revert back to the redirect, please drop me a note first, so we can discuss in more detail.  Also please see the paragraph I wrote on the park's talk page.  I didn't make the switch to try to hide the tunnel incident, or anything like that.  I just thought that the park deserved its own article (one that I hope will be improved over time.)


 * On another note, I have observed you have written or improved a lot of articles around Huntington, WV. Do you still come back to Huntington, or have contacts there?  I was wondering if you could drop down to Beech Fork SP and take some good photos of the park and lake for the SP article?  Thanks, WVhybrid 19:15, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota meetup
A meetup of Wikipedians in Minnesota is proposed: please stop by the discussion page if interested. Jonathunder 02:13, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Reminder: Meetup October 29, one o'clock, Mall of America. Jonathunder 16:45, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Maury River Eco-Challenge Courseware :: Pathfinder of the Seas Memes Mapping (6o19am)
Please devote equal attention to human geography "lessons learned" from this wateshed's earth science leadership by example set by VMI's Physics Chair - Matthew F. Maury and his grandfather - Reverend James Maury for whom this watershed was renamed!
 * (rv nonsense, links to Kansans and "Honor systems")
 * FYI - Kansas Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Gernon was both a member of Sigma Nu fraternity founded at VMI in 1869 and a University of Virginia graduate who championed honor systems in the (less common) public sector's ethical conduct of community stewardship.
 * -- geoWIZard-Passports 11:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you...
...for your support of my recent RfA. Consider me your hookup for all of your admin needs. Just holler when ya need something. Cheers.  young  american (ahoy hoy) 16:04, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Did you know nomination for Rice Creek (Minnesota)
Howdy! Whilst browsing through Special:Newpages for potential articles to feature as part of the Did you know? section of the Main Page, I ran across the article Rice Creek (Minnesota), which you created. The process doesn't require any additional work on your part, but if you wish to see the proposed blurb, it's listed at Template talk:Did you know under the date heading corresponding to the creation of the article. I'm adding this notice here for two reasons: Firstly, if you feel the blurb I wrote is inaccurate or misrepresents the subject, feel free to propose a correction below it, or add a note to my talk page. Secondly, barring a large backlog or a significant problem cropping up with regards to the article, you should expect to see it on the Main Page within a week, so if you wish to add some polish to it before getting a sizable influx of eyeballs looking it over, you'll need to do so fairly soon. Regards and good luck, GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 19:59, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I'd hoped that your note on the Suggestions page would've been enough to stop any overenthusiastic editors from lining the hook up for the Main Page until the ambiguity had been resolved. A bit late now, but I've fixed the error on the template. Thanks for working hard to bring the issue to light, a shame it got past us this time. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 08:32, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Historical population figures
I noticed that you had added the historical population figures for South Charleston. Could you let me know where you obtained these? I'd been wanting to find similar information for communities in the Eastern Panhandle. Thanks! --Caponer 23:17, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

River Lengths
Great job on all those rivers in Ohio, West Virginia, etc..! I was just curious where you got lengths for some of those rivers such as Moxahala Creek. Thanks --ChristopherM 01:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

WV related ships category
This started with WV related ships. WOuld be gratful for any help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_27#Category:US_State_Related_Ships--71Demon 22:19, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Miami and Whitewater Rivers
Ah, you are right! Thanks for pointing that out, I'll fix that map now. That's what I get for eyeballing watershed units.. I knew the Whitewater was a tributary, just very close to the mouth of the Miami. I blame.. um, the baby crying in the next room, yea.. :-) Pfly 06:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Paulins Kill now a Featured Article
As of a few moments ago, Paulins Kill was promoted to Featured Article status. I just wanted to thank you for your contributions to and suggestions for improving the article over these past few months and that I appreciate your help in bringing this article to notice as a Featured Article. Once again, thank you, and keep up the good work. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 22:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Droppin' some knowledge on ya
WikiProject West Virginia. Ya heard.  young  american (ahoy hoy) 00:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Wilmington, DE image
Nice job with the downtown Wilmington image! Love the reflexion in the water.--Oakshade 00:29, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Nice work on Laurel and Glady Forks
Laurel Fork and Glady Fork look great, right out of the box, referenced and all. Out of curiosity I searched USGS GNIS for these names and found a few other Glady Forks and quite a few other Laurel Forks. When I've made new stream pages I've been inclined to add a tributary or state disambiguator, even if no other wikipedia articles exist yet for that name. Do you think it makes more sense to leave it simple and disambig later if the need arises? Cheers! Pfly 21:30, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Re:Sloppiness
Dear i used that tag for stub.that artilce does not show any stub? can you find it for me. Khalidkhoso 10:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ish! --Malepheasant 10:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Read this Stub,you will get some idea Khalidkhoso 10:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * ??? --Malepheasant 10:24, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok check this [](i put stub in it) and article when stub not used[]. Khalidkhoso 10:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Please leave me alone!!!--Malepheasant 10:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)