User talk:Uyvsdi/Archive 4

Slave narratives
Hi Uyvsdi, thank you for the link that is quite interesting. Have a good day. Mcelite (talk) 05:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Natural dye
I've started the article natural dye, and it needs information on natural dyes in Native American crafts. Do you have anything you can add? Any help would be appreciated! - PKM (talk) 08:34, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Certainly, I'll try to find some sources for dyes. BTW have you ever read Victoria Finlay's "Color: A Natural History of the Palette"? It's an extraordinary read about dyes. -Uyvsdi (talk) 20:09, 9 January 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * Thanks for your contributions. I'm trying really hard not to make this too Eurocentric.  I have not read that book - I'll seek it out. - PKM (talk) 01:32, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for creating the article! I threw in the mushroom dye information, just because I find the subject completely fascinating. Color is a quick, really enjoyable read. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 01:36, 10 January 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Question about editing conflicts
Do you have any idea to whom I complain about 76.121.154.140 removing tags from the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky without discussion of any kind? In fact, he has done this repeatedly. He has also become very verbally abusive and personal on the disucssion page for deletion of the article. Chuck Hamilton (talk) 01:38, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * This question has already been resolved. Chuck Hamilton (talk) 19:41, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

AfD
Please see: Articles for deletion/Wasi'chu Jaque Hammer (talk) 15:06, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

User talk:Artvoyt and possible non free images/COI issues
I noticed you once interacted with them on their user page and also know that you are more knowledgeable about such issues than I am. I've started a conversation on their talk page here about these issues and have yet to receive a satisfactory response. I may not be getting thru to them. Maybe you would have more luck? I'm trying to avoid noticeboards and admin intervention for now, altho it may escalate to that if the editor doesn't address the issues. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.  He  iro 22:07, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * It appears that he is putting all his images under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and GNU licenses, so if he wants to give away rights to his work - that's crazy, but that's up to him. Since the article is clearly self-promotional, I just proposed the article for deletion. It seems that the COI rules get bent all the time, for instance, with this kerfuffle. -Uyvsdi (talk) 23:50, 24 January 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * I noticed that kerfluffle a few days ago, but havent yet went to check out the AFD page or add any input. Thanks for the input on the above matter. I'm not sure if the editor in question is the artist or someone who represents the artist or someone who copyvio'd the artists website for those images. They have so far denied being the artist, but using what seems to be their name as a username and licensing their images seems to imply they are. We'll see where it goes from here. Thanks again for your input. He  iro 23:58, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky
Natty4bumpo seems to be intent on killing the article - even if you and others recognise it as worth life. Is it the case that one man's passion decides what gets allowed on Wikipedia? After all the discussion on Afd it seems Natty4bumpo will have his way - tell me what you think - please - when the afd is decided. I dont want to waste one minute of my life on Wikipedia if concensus is no more than ppl like natty4bumpo. Mark Dask 22:09, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The editor has proven less than cooperative in the past but eventually does move on. One person can't drown everyone else, and if they try, just report them. That's what warnings and blocks are for. -Uyvsdi (talk) 22:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Alexander Voytovych
Hi.

I removed your proposed deletion of Alexander Voytovych - basically, I think the article deserves a chance, and see also User_talk:Artvoyt.

No problems if you wish to AfD, of course.

Best,  Chzz  ► 23:25, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program is looking for new Online Ambassadors
Hi! Since you've been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and specifically the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes.

If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. If that's something you want to do, please apply!

You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).

I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:41, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Kelly Church
Hello Uyvsdi, in answer to your remark: "restoring notable Woodlands style painter (she doesn't have to be "typical"" let me rephrase: Kelly Church is not an artist in the discipline of the Woodland School of Art. In other words: she doesn't fit the list of Woodland artists. However, I can easily give you some thirty names or more that do fit that criterium. Kelly Church is not one of them.

Best regards,

Zhaawano (talk) 21:27, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, she is a Woodland painter, as well as being a black ash basket maker, and birch bark biter. I can also give you names for many more Woodland painters; however, they do not have pre-existing Wikipedia so do not belong on lists. You really need to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia policy before you continue editing and reverting others' edits. -Uyvsdi (talk) 21:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Standard cross-cultural sample
Been thinking about your reaction to some of the society names used in the SCCS. There are three people primarily responsible for maintaining the SCCS: Douglas R. White, William Divale, and J. Patrick Gray. It might be a good idea to share your concerns with them. If the next version of the SCCS contains different society names, we can change the names in the WP article. Until then, I'm afraid we are stuck with the obsolete names. --Anthon.Eff (talk) 02:47, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Dush Tooh
Hi, I'm technotarded. Can you help me? I've got some pics I would like help adding to your page. please look at them on my website, NDNregalia.com. I'm not sure how to check messages here. But an email from my site would make me very grateful. The pic on Dush Tooh's page barely shows them, and they are so lovely! Thank you for any help you can give me! Daktps (talk) 05:16, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks - that would be fantastic. I'll try to contact you through your website. -Uyvsdi (talk) 05:24, 7 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Thank you very much my friend, I'm interesting also in Native languages. I would like that you check the Yukatec maya project in Wikipedia. See you. --Marrovi (talk) 08:07, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I had no idea that existed... I have some non-wiki buddies that speak Yucatecan Mayan that I'll share the link with. -Uyvsdi (talk) 08:10, 10 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi


 * This is a page my friend: --Marrovi (talk) 08:13, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you! -Uyvsdi (talk) 08:14, 10 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi


 * You can write here, this is a project Incubator., nice to meet you --Marrovi (talk) 08:18, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Criminy. How did I end up here?! Sheesh. I need my teens to come home. Daktps (talk) 16:14, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikiproject
Hi -

Sorry. While I'd certainly lend a vote to such a project, I'm pretty wiki-inactive these days - just a quick check on my watchlist every now and again, that sort of thing. Let me know if you need votes/members just to get the thing rolling, but otherwise I really can't promise to be any use.

Best, James Vizjim (talk) 13:24, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * No worries! You can voice your support even if you can't join. Best, -Uyvsdi (talk) 20:16, 12 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

notification request
Could you ping me when you write about Navajo topics? I want to add the modern spelling as I did here. A lot of schoolchildren tend to copy this anglicized stuff and then get confused when their teachers try to teach them literacy. Thanks. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 11:29, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure no problem. Thanks for doing the translations. -Uyvsdi (talk) 18:39, 14 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Need advice or help
Hey, I was wondering if I could get your opinions and/or help on something. Over the last few weeks an editor User:Conaughy, who edits subjects mainly concerned with West Virginia prehistory and groups, has made a few edits that were less than stellar. Mostly the problem involves some bad grammar, wording, comprehensibility, etc., almost to the point where I have wondered at times if English was his first language. But the more I've started looking at his edits in the last few days to a week, the more I'm starting to think he copy and pastes from sources and does an incredibly bad job of paraphrasing, to the point of making almost any information added almost incomprehensible. Many times artifacts from the original work are left in the edits, fragments of footnotes such as (Dragoo, 1963:31) and then not including the article, book or paper this footnote seems to refer to in the original text. Their main project seems to be the Prehistory of West Virginia article, which while containing several mountains worth of information, is almost impossible to read and may be the worst put together article I've run across in over 3 yrs at WP. I'm not sure how much of the info they have inserted is copyvio, or if by pasting in half fragments of sentences that are so fragmented as to be devoid of their original meanings is even copyvio. I've cleaned up some of their stuff before, and had several short conversations on article talk pages, they seem to be the sweet well meaning sort. So how do I broach this subject with them? I dont want to come off too harsh or bitey, nor denigrate their well meaning contributions, but I've come to the conclusion that something does need to be done. Suggestions? (I am also going to post this to another editor who works with a lot of archaeology subjects for their input as well)  He  iro 01:44, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, when I first stumbled upon Protohistory of West Virginia, I thought it was a long-neglected piece but was surprised to find all sorts of editors tinkering away with it. You're right, it's hard to sift through. If you go to WP:Warn, the level 1 warnings are polite and understated - such as subst:uw-mos1. You could put the copyedit template on the articles to try to attract proofreading editors. -Uyvsdi (talk) 02:20, 25 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * OMFG, I had so far avoided looking at that one after seeing the one I mentioned about prehistory. That one may be worse. There is an enormous section about Mississippian cultures, Oneota, Caddo, etc. I could see a mention about contact with Mississippian peoples, Mississippian articles being found, how that influenced lifeways and material culture, etc, but 20,869 bytes worth? And thats just one of the sections. And if he's lucky 25% of that article actually concerns West Virginia history. One could probably cut 75,000 bytes of unrelated material from the current article of 101,455 bytes before one got it down to the actual subject of the article. I'll lookat the templates you mentioned and check in to the other thing as well. Thanks for the input, cheers. He  iro 03:03, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for helping on the articles I mentioned. You and Dougweller are life savers. The task at those 2 articles was just overwhelming to even contemplate. I've been working on some of the users smaller articles for the last week, Fort Ancient(total revamp) and a variety of sites associated with it, Hopewell tradition and some stuff associated with it, and over the last few days was starting to feel like Sisyphus. I then glanced at those 2 articles and almost cried, lol. I hope Connaughy takes this for what it is, a few well meaning editors trying to help out. Anyway, thanks, and cheers  He  iro 07:07, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I saw what you were talking about. Some of the sentences I literately could not understand. I'm giving a presentation about Hopewell, Adena, Mississippian next week. Will have to brush up! Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 08:02, 25 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

I've been trying to make some sort of sense of the Protohistory of West Virginia over the last few days, see here User:Heironymous Rowe/Sandbox3 where I created a sandbox page to work on weeding out the unconnected, unnecessary or redundant. I've rewritten the lede and tried moving the prehistoric archaeological cultures into one section (any ideas for archaeological cultures for the rest of the state other than Fort Ancient and Monongahela culture?), then a section on the groups first encountered by Europeans, and a section to deal with the first written accounts in journals, beginning the historic period. I still think about half of the information left in the article is unconnected, unnecessary or redundant. The current mainspace article is so long and convoluted I felt it might be better to work out a better version and then replace it all at once. I have a general understanding of this time period and area, but I'm not real sure of alot for the specifics, i.e. which Native groups were where and when(as they moved around alot at this time), specific european explorers in the area and in what years and where exactly they were in the state, etc. Any help or advice you could offer would be appreciated. You can either start a talk page at the sandbox page or edit the sandbox article, whichever you prefer. (Once you get to the "Historic tribes" section, it's all unfiltered and unedited except to remove stuff that definitely doesn't belong in the article, that stuff is so confusing I haven't made alot of progress there yet and this is the section where I could most use some input, lol) Thanks,  He  iro 18:15, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not very knowledgeable about early West Virginia but I have a good library back home. I can get on Monday. Thanks for doing all the on article! -Uyvsdi (talk) 19:50, 4 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * Cool, no rush. I've been trying to iron out the Shawnee and am trying to move on to the Iroquois groups. I'm trying to keep them short and simple, as these groups should really have better main articles for the majority of the information. I found at least one that should be either deleted or completely reworked. Kanawha valley people should be about the group known as the Kanawha but the article seems to be about all of the different groups who once lived in this location from PaleoIndian onward. It was at one time Kanawha culture, but has been page moved several times. From what I know, such a culture never existed. It has been renamed several times, but never re-written and is pretty much all based on this . Que cera cera. Anyway, as I said no rush, as I'll be extremely busy for the next week or so IRL as its Mardi Gras here. I'm doing a traditional Courir de Mardi Gras on tuesday(fun!) and by the next weekend may be an extra on Treme (TV series) which is doing a Courir related story arc of some kind(dont know the details but sounds like fun).  He  iro 20:36, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * What do you think of this paper? I've finally found what Conaughy seems to have copy and pasted alot of his stuff for the Prohistory article from. Some of it seems reasonable, but alot of it seems to differ quite significantly from most other historians interpretations, such as the identification of certain tribes, etc. I wouldn't mind using some of it, but it seems kinda fringy. Its a quick read, not very long. Opinions?  He  iro 03:23, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

I was afraid this would happen, my bluntness with this edit when I reverted it here has led to this exchange User talk:Heironymous Rowe. I'm not sure if I'm handling the situation well, would you mind keeping an eye on it as well? I'm really not out to chase the editor away, but I have come to see them as having serious competence issues. Any advise or help would be appreciated and sorry for any inconvenience.  He  iro 22:44, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * This situation is very frustrating. I wonder if anyone out there can actually read either of these articles. But will try to interject and be helpful. Best, -Uyvsdi (talk) 23:33, 20 April 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * Thanks, was worried about this situation. I have made a little progress on this My sandbox redo of Protohistory of West Virginia over the last few days. Still needs to be fleshed out with the Siouan inhabitants, beginning of the historical, first europeans arriving in area, etc.  He  iro 00:03, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * That's when it's good to take a wikibreather :) Your approach to completely rewriting it makes sense. I just knocked off some unneeded material in the external links. I've been tinkering away at Prehistory, but maybe rewriting it is best. -Uyvsdi (talk) 00:05, 21 April 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * I had already checked and trimmed the ELs in my version, so went ahead and trimmed even more. Have been trying to wikibreak some over the last month or so, reason why I haven't just finished up that rewrite and replaced it. Trying to get some IRL painting work done, see here, just one of about 5 I've been working onover the last month, lol. As for the prehistory article, I've decided to just keep away from it as you seemed to be making some progress and protohistory was all I wanted to contemplate fixing. But a total rewrite of it is also probably the best way to go.  He  iro 00:24, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Man, if you ever give painting workshops, give me a head's up. Your work is on a completely different level. -Uyvsdi (talk) 01:05, 21 April 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

South American cultural areas

 * Hello. As for best way to split cultural areas of South America, I'm afraid I cannot be much help. My knowledge is strictly limited to linguistic/language divisions. Wikipedia has a long way to go in this respect, but language-by-language, we'll get there... Drop me a line anytime if you have any questions/ideas/doubts/etc. -Zabucha —Preceding undated comment added 09:39, 25 February 2011 (UTC).
 * I think we're getting there - relying mostly on Steward and then I like NMAI's divisions. Since English-language information is lacking about South American indigenous peoples, I think we'll really actually provide a good service. Cheers, -20:08, 25 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Thanks
Hi! I just wanted to so thanks for revitalizing Indigenous coverage here on Wikipedia. This came as I was re-focusing my Wiki-scope to focus back on my Indian Country research, so, I was so happy to see the notice come up on the community portal. I really look forward to working with you. Missvain (talk) 21:14, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Just FYI
Nevermind i see sorry i was to fast.............................. Just noticed your deleting Wikiproject templates  from article talk pages. You cant realy do this - if possible can you go back and fix this? Pls see WikiProject Council/Guide for more info. How many articles do you believe you have done this to? Moxy (talk) 07:52, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The anon IP adding other wikiprojects' templates on the WPIPA's template seemed a bit bizarre to me. Those weren't articles. -Uyvsdi (talk) 18:00, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Need for NativeMOS
This is tangential to your comments about Kwami's tribe/people actions but also to the RM at Talk:Dan George as well as our previous IPNA discussions on related matters. I know we're not supposed to poll but that's not my intent with mentioning the RM, which I'm reasonably certain will pass anyway, despite one oppose "vote" so far (which is easily shot down, as I just did), but the issue of how to style chiefs and whether or not to is a similar NativeMOS issue. I just for example tried Chief Poundmaker and it redirects to an unspellable Cree name, and not his most common name; there's many like that but until we have a consistent policy/guideline I don't think there's much point in RM'ing it. "Chief" is a white-culture appelation/concept in many cases, but "most common usage" appleis with some like Poundmaker. it's important to use as with Chief Blackbird or course when there's no way Blackbird is appreopriate, and Blackbird (chief) would look awkward (I made Nicola (chief) on that model, but think it should now be Chief Nicola aka Hwistesmexteq'en (Walking Grizzly Bear).Skookum1 (talk) 02:03, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

thanks for correcting me
on the Edmonia Lewis death date. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:42, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
 * No worries, I should have provided the reference in the first edit, since it's new info. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 23:46, 14 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

American Indian elder
What do you think of this American Indian elder?  He  iro 01:38, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it needs to be wikified, and the eye contact segment is just odd. I don't know if an article on the subject is helpful or not. -Uyvsdi (talk) 01:43, 22 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * I'm just afraid something like this could go "New Agey" in a hurry.  He  iro 01:47, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed (that's why article like medicine man, Sun Dance, Blessing Way, etc. make me cringe. The internet is not the appropriate forum to discuss Native American religion). But on the other hand, the articles can dispel myths. Beatrice Medicine is an excellent source (even if improperly cited). I don't if the article should be prod'd or cleaned up. -Uyvsdi (talk) 01:51, 22 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * Yeah, know what you're saying. Figured you'd know better how to proceed than I. While on the one hand I want an informative encyclopedia, I really dont want another weirdo magnet on my watchlist to revert constantly, lol.  He  iro 01:55, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The notion of elders isn't really that culturally sensitive, so it might be okay. Guess I'll see what happens to the article in the next few days. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 01:58, 22 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Proyecto de Wikipedia en lengua maya sigue mejorando
Hola Uyvsdi, estoy informando sobre el avance del wikiproyecto de Wikipedia en lengua Maya.

Al mismo tiempo una invitación para participar en editar y escribir en maya; ya que me dicen que para que se pueda habrir pronto una wiki maya se necesitan cinco usuarios activos y sería necesario que habrieras tu cuenta en la incubadora Wp/yua; hay muchos artículos que necesitan areglos y tu puedes colaborar. También es necesario apoyar en Wikimedia el proyecto, y la página es la siguente:.

Aquí estan las categorías de la wikipedia maya, para facilitar el control de los artículos y el desarrollo de los mismos; así también que sirvan de plataforma para la creación de nuevos artículos de otros usuarios. Mira aquí :

Estoy a tus órdenes. --Marrovi (talk) 18:57, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Hola Marrovi, Lo siento. Mi español no es muy bueno. No puedo leer o escribir en Maya, sino que puedo intentar enviar por correo electrónico a la gente que conozco que que lee Maya sobre el proyecto Maya de la lengua y esperanzadamente uno de él pudo poder ayudar. Buena suerte. Es un proyecto digno. Aclamaciones, -Uyvsdi (talk) 05:13, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Thanks for help in Wikipedia Maya on your conections with other projects, I understand you. In Belize, English is oficial language and Yucatec Maya is the same, but in this moment not find Belizian users interesteds. See you, thanks one more time.--Marrovi (talk) 18:57, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * There's not response on WP:Mesoamerica yet but maybe someone will see it in the next few days. Best of luck! -Uyvsdi (talk) 02:47, 30 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

patrolling...
By the way, saw your to-do list; make a note of this: Shonto Begay: "He is born for ." (Ref:http://shontogallery.com/) &mdash; I hate those "translated" clan-designations. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 03:46, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Right on, that's a good motivator to knock that article out. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 04:52, 1 April 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Jean Beausejour
Hello. I was wondering why you removed an anonymous editor's addition of details of Jean Beausejour's goal in the recent friendly match against Colombia as a test edit? The Chilean Football Association website seem fairly sure it happened... cheers, Struway2 (talk) 12:11, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Whoops, you're correct. I thought it was test editing. I've reverted my revert and hopefully someone can provide citations. -Uyvsdi (talk) 18:41, 3 April 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * I've added a refs column to that table (and filled it in). thanks, Struway2 (talk) 09:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Question
Recently, a large addition was made to Mississippian culture pottery by a new user User:MGMillion. It reads very essay like. One of the works they cite seems to be their own work, or at least they share a name. I'm not sure if it is a professional or if someone has copyvioed that professionals work. I would appreciate your thoughts on it. I'm waiting to do any clean up til I get a second opinion. Hope your well,  He  iro 21:52, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * So sorry, am on the road but will definitely look at it later! Also, will try to get more Hopewellian/Mississippian pottery pics up. -Uyvsdi (talk) 22:12, 15 April 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Re: portal
Hi, thanks ... I added a few items to the random articles list, but mainly was just moving items over to the system recently added to the North American indigenous portal.. After I move the pictures over, I'll switch out the random code on the portal page itself. Feel free to make any tweaks you feel needed. Augwp (talk) 23:34, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The margins on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is weird - if you can fix that- that'd be awesome. -Uyvsdi (talk) 00:09, 27 April 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * I think it is fixed... there was an extra line break in the portal's box-header file that was causing the extra space. let me know if anything is still not showing right.. Augwp (talk) 06:27, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

online ambassador opportunity
Uyvsdi-I noticed that you had fixed some of my changes to the Indian template and wanted to alert you to a mentoring opportunity next Fall. I am a campus ambassador at Montana State University and supported students in WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Federal Indian Law and Policy (Kristin Ruppel). Professor Ruppel is going to hold this course again this fall and integrate WP into the curriculum again. There is a tremendous amount of WP work that needs to be done on native American subjects. Your editing experience and interest in NA would be invaluable if you chose to be an online ambassador for some of the students. If you are interested, I'll be sure an alert you as the term nears. Thanks --Mike Cline (talk) 21:40, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Mike, yes, if you can give me head's up when the students start working on their articles, I'd be happy to help with advice and/or edits. I've had students turn their research into Wikipedia articles in the past, and it seems in the last few years the Native American articles are starting to look better and cover more areas. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 18:34, 30 April 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Indigenous people
I have noticed that the bot for article alerts seems to need a minium of tagged articles, so I thought it should be one of the first things to do. I tagged some groups, some languages, and a few specific peoples, places or events Cambalachero (talk) 22:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits to "La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians"
Hi there, Uyvsdi, I'm the Finance Officer at La Jolla. I noticed that only Pala and Soboba had pages, so I decided to change that. I'd be interested in working with you to build up the La Jolla page, since it is apparent that you have a much deeper sense of Native history than myself. I'm at ndasmith@gmail.com. TTYL

Noah —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndasmith (talk • contribs) 21:56, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Just sent an email out. I'd be more than happy to work with you to expand the article and cover any areas of the tribe you think would be important to include. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 22:55, 8 May 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Pow wow
Uyvsdi, I think the move request  for pow wow got tossed by accident in a vandal revert and I somehow never realized it was there. I actually am not sure the move was a good idea and was wondering your reasoning. I more often see it as two words or hyphenated two words than one. Not a moral issue, just would have opposed the move had I noticed it. Montanabw (talk) 04:12, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I proposed the move to powwow on April 6th, with a move proposal template on the article and a comment on the talk page. In 38 days no one voiced any opposition to the move, so I made the move and removed the template. It was previously Pow-wow, which a google search or google book search reveals is definitely not the most common name. If you would like to propose a further move to Pow wow, feel free. -Uyvsdi (talk) 16:34, 15 May 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * When I looked at the history, I think some vandalism got in between your proposal and later stuff, at any rate, I totally missed that it was on the talk page.  I will concur that the hyphenated form is not common, I've been looking at the issue, and there seems to be zilch consensus  on one word or two, (even in my home state, one rez says "powwow grounds," and another rez says "pow wow grounds."   Google seems to slightly favor the two word form.  I'm of the opinion that no one else but the two of us ever seems to add substantive content to this, so seems silly to go through the whole rigamarole of a move request.  So do you have a problem if I just move it to the two-word form?   Montanabw (talk) 01:36, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, that's fine with me, since Pow wow does appear to be the most common. I'm just anti-unnecessary punctuation (i.e. the hyphen). Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 02:52, 16 May 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * OK, and yeah, I tend to hyphen hunt too, but old version had edits, so had to do it via admin request. May want to watchlist here.  Montanabw (talk) 04:19, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Will do. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 05:29, 16 May 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Outline of United States federal Indian law and policy
Thanks for the clean-up and interest in this. Am putting this together to help guide students next term at MSU in the selection of WP assignments. One area you might be more effective at than I is with the Indian agencies. It would be nice to list all the major agencies (the great majority don't have articles) and I've yet been unable to find a concise listing anywhere. Again, thanks for the interest in the article. --Mike Cline (talk) 15:33, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Drop me a line if you need specific help, Mike. The horse articles take up most of my time, but I can do specific tasks.  Montanabw (talk) 17:49, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * D'oh! If these are students, should I leave the article in their hands for a certain period of time? And then suggest things later? Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 17:53, 20 May 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi
 * U, actually no. The professor and my fellow ambassador are going to use the outline as a basis to find the most appropriate assignments for next term.  Students probably won't be working on the outline, so as much work that we can do to make it comprehensive upfront will make finding assignments easier.--Mike Cline (talk) 18:37, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Gotcha - great project! -Uyvsdi (talk) 18:39, 20 May 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Discussion at Articles_for_deletion/Sovereign_Choctaw_Nation_river_clan and Articles for deletion/Choctaw Nation Mississippi River Clan
You are invited to join the above-linked discussions. TransporterMan ( TALK ) 13:15, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the head's up. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 16:17, 27 May 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Taos Pueblo painters
Thank you so much for your edits / formatting to Albert Looking Elk! I took a stab at making the same type of changes to Albert Lujan and Juan Mirabal. If you have a bit of time, would you mind looking them over to see if they look ok - and assign a class status? Thanks so much!--CaroleHenson (talk) 06:28, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem! Thank you for writing the three articles. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 07:09, 1 June 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi