User talk:YourNickname

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- Mailer Diablo 04:15, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup tag

Cleanup just means that the article should conform to the style guide. What you added should be formatted better to make it easier to read. I'm not a style expert, but I can try to reformat one entry for you. Being a stub just means that more information is needed. My guess is that many of those pages will wait a long time before anything else is added. I'll do a little formatting on Seligman so you can get some ideas. Keep up the good work of digging up information to get peoper articles started. Vegaswikian 07:50, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Greetings from Albuquirckee! I notice there is no Senator Carl Hatch article yet, but there is a Hatch Act of 1939 article. Perhaps you may be interested. ThanksNobs01 18:53, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. the Hatch Act of 1939 is of interest to me cause I'm currently working on the Ware group. And I know membership in the CPUSA among government employees was illegal prior to the Hatch Act, but I can't put my finger on the specific law (Ware group was in existence as early as 1933). So if you come across any pre-Hatch Act legislation, please let me know. Thanks!Nobs01 19:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Excellant work. I'm just aboput to incorporate it into Campaign finance reform now. Thank you very much. Nobs01 20:03, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

re: Congresses

Hi, and thanks for your input. I agree entirely with your point about the format of the Senate lists—I did it that way at first. I chose the format I did because A) First United States Congress had already been designed as "the" template, and B) the Contents list gets really excessively long, I think, with the 99th Congress format. I'm not really worried about (A) anymore, as the old WikiProject seems to have died. Is there a way to layout a page basically like the 99th Congress, but without the 150+ entries in the Contents? Thanks! Eweisser 23:22, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article French battleship France, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

User categorization

Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new User Categorization scheme. I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in New Mexico (Category:Wikipedians in New Mexico) since your name was listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/New Mexico page. The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/New Mexico page is scheduled for deletion. Thanks! Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 01:07, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

1st District

I like your table for the first district. I've taken the liberty of adjusting the page format slightly to better display the map. I will also adjust the footnotes, but in general, great work... Thanks Lou I 22:21, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Coming to New Mexico

Howdy, friend! Excellent work on NM-related articles. I just wanted to say hey since I might find myself, a lifelong New Yorker, transplanted out west 'round Albuquerque. This isn't definite, but having been to Albuquerque once I can say that I like it very much and it's as good a place as any to relocate to...if you would like to talk about New Mexico or Wikipedia or whatever feel free to leave me a message, if I do relocate I'm going to need to get to know some people. Best, Paul 04:53, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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NM

I'm surprised I haven't noticed you until now. I wanted to thank you for starting the Thomas Catron article, (which has been on my list for a while, but apparently I had just never searched it with his middle initial--make redirects homie!) when I noticed how much you've done on NM. I've done a few articles on the state myself (Sandia Pueblo, Carson National Forest, Rini Templeton, Reies Tijerina) and I just started one in which you may be interested: Spanish Governors of New Mexico. We're going to need a list of Mexican governors, too, and I've got a small one going. Keep up the good work, --Rockero 12:01, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:China imperialism cartoon.jpg

You seem to be the one who added certain text to the picture. See my query on the picture's talk page. elvenscout742 17:05, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Project Congress

As a participant of WikiProject U.S. Congress, please consider placing {{Project Congress to do}} at the top of your User_talk page. Thank you. —Markles 15:12, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, YourNickname! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 03:13, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

US National Archives collaboration

United States National Archives WikiProject

Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts.

There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:49, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]