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Categories for albums numbered third to fourteenth in [[:Category:Albums by number|Cat:Albums by number]] have been placed on CfD. Since you created some of these categories, I thought you might want to join the discussion [[Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 May 15#Category:Albums by number recent additions|here]]. –[[User:Unint|Unint]] 03:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC) |
Categories for albums numbered third to fourteenth in [[:Category:Albums by number|Cat:Albums by number]] have been placed on CfD. Since you created some of these categories, I thought you might want to join the discussion [[Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 May 15#Category:Albums by number recent additions|here]]. –[[User:Unint|Unint]] 03:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC) |
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== West Virginia in the Civil War == |
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Hello, You deleted the paragraph I added to that page, though everything I wrote was verifable, most of which was from Randall's "Civil War and Reconstruction", which is considered a standard work. |
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Revision as of 00:09, 17 May 2006
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Best of luck, Burndownthedisco, and most importantly, have fun! Ombudsman 04:36, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Richard Wilson
Thanks for wikifying - and adding links. I found necessary cites. It would have been nice for there to be something more about my grandmother than as wife of a "famous" man.
- No problem! Of course, I don't really know your grandmother (or grandfather, for that matter), so... hmm. Did she work for any newspapers or anything? That could be something that would flesh her out.
- Maybe a picture of M. Wilson as well? wilhelm 22:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
- My grandmother did work for newspapers and did a valuable and still-cited index of Iowa newspapers when she was at U of I. Despite her advanced degree, she never wanted to make a name for herself. She did a column for a (now) defunct Washington DC paper for awhile but gave it up. For her, it was all Dick (Wilson). As for pictures... got a few around. When my wife's cousin (who works for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) visited a few weeks ago, she wanted to see an actual Pulitzer Prize--and I had one (not the medal, alas)! I will scan/upload a pic to the page when I get some time.
- What I find most exhilarating is that, by creating a page on Wikipedia for an otherwise rather anonymous newspaperman his biography is now available to everyone with Net access. I like that. Besides that accomplishment, my wikialbum contris seem kind of, well, silly. --Fantailfan 00:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
- I dunno... to me, working on the Album Wikiproject gives me some kind of Zen satisfaction; I just kind of get into a groove, and I'm improving the world in a small way. Besides, the album portion of Wiki is so terribly maintained, and it needs all the help it can get. But I know what you mean; contributing to something with "actual importance" is even more fulfilling, in a way. wilhelm 04:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Category:Albums by number categories up for deletion
Categories for albums numbered third to fourteenth in Cat:Albums by number have been placed on CfD. Since you created some of these categories, I thought you might want to join the discussion here. –Unint 03:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC)