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Sir Havian of Selaren
Can you please indicate where that photo comes from? I get zero search engine hits for "Jared and the Shark", "Sir Havian" or "Thanks Bob! Productions", and no hits for "Steve Menning" which have anything to do with this character. John Barleycorn 05:20, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

I am not certain if this is the correct way to answer you, John Barleycorn, because I am relatively new to Wikipedia and could not find out how in the help section. I am involved in the small, four-person production company that filmed "The River of Fish." We are currently creating Sir Havian's web presence. "Henry Wayne" is in fact a pen name and the author, as I understand it, prefers to keep his real name private. As for the picture of Sir Havian, a member of our production company took the photo. (Tonywiki 05:30, 30 July 2005 (UTC))

Hi, Tony, I hope you aren't turned off from Wikipedia by my comments, or by my nomination of your article. You might check our articles on Vanity page and Wikipedia"Verifiability. Generally, articles written by the people who are the subjects of the article or who are personally involved in it are considered to have a vested interest in an article, and we use the term "vanity" to describe such articles.  It's generally believed that, if something is worth having an article about it, then a neutral party would write about it.  If we can't verify the existence of the subject, or if there are only a very few sources, then the subject is generally considered not significant enough to have an article.  We also get lots of "hoax" articles, where people actively create articles about fictional people and places (and I don't mean your Sir Havian, I mean people they try to pass off as real), and with nothing verifiable, this could be considered in the same vein.  I hope, however, you stick around and create or edit other articles. John Barleycorn 05:49, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

It's not really an administrator's decision on Votes for deletion, it's a consensus effort. Any User who has a reasonable number of edits can vote on whether or not an article can be deleted, and all valid votes are counted. If there is no consensus to delete the article, then it is kept, whether the votes are cast by administrators or not. I'm not an administrator, by the way, I'm pretty new here myself. Have fun, enjoy yourself. John Barleycorn 05:57, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

Signing your comments
Hi, again, Tony. You can sign your comments with four tildes -- ~. This lets other people know whom they're talking with. John Barleycorn 06:00, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

VfD comment
Hi Tony - I recently was reading your comments on the VfD of some page you created. Don't let that stuff get you down. Wikipedia is constantly trying to determine the appropriate amount of noteriety that should warrent an article. Unfortunately, often it devolves into "how many google hits are there." I honestly don't know how I feel about all this, but I just wanted to drop you a note so you don't get discouraged! Happy wikipedia-ing! --best, kevin · · · Kzollman | Talk · · · 23:08, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

JFK favorite book list
Do you happen to know where one might find JFK's list of favorite books, the list that included From Russia with Love? It might be interesting to note in the article what other books were included. 23skidoo 22:46, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't have the list in front of me - I know for a fact that what I said is true, that FRWL was the only work of fiction on the list. I will try to find where I saw the list so that I can confirm. Tonywiki 03:38, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

All right - I found it. I checked each book; From Russia With Love is the only work of fiction. Tonywiki 03:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 - Montrose by John Buchan
 * 2 - From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
 * 3 - Melbourne by Lord David Cecil
 * 4 - Marlborough by Sir Winston Churchill
 * 5 - John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
 * 6 - The Emergence of Abraham Lincoln, vol 2 by Allan Nevins
 * 7 - The Price of Union by Herbert Agar
 * 8 - John C. Calhoun, American Portrait by Margaret L. Coit
 * 9 - Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell
 * 10 - The Red and the Black by Stendahl

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Image:Thermals.JPG
You have this image tagged as "Thermals in South Dakota", but the picture clearly illustrates dust devils, a totally different phenomenon. Consider uploading the picture to Image:Dust devils in South Dakota.JPG or some derivative, and putting the tag on the description page for Image:Thermals.JPG

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Stephanie Herseth
Tonywiki, I just wanted to drop you a note to remind you that with great power comes great responsibility. In this case, that great power is moving pages and the great responsibility is to change any links thereby removing the newly created redirects. I am referring to your moving of Stephanie Herseth to Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. Items which link to Stephanie Herseth can be found here. Please change the links to Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. If you have any questions, please let me know. Regards, Daysleeper47 12:55, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs
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