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Just moved everything to my first archive. Shiny, new, and ready for talk. Travisl (talk) 18:00, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Redmon.jpg)

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Image:4400-TV-icon-2.png

Could you let me know the font you used for this image, so I can create a vector version? Thanks, Stannered (talk) 23:16, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Done! Stannered (talk) 00:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Maps, Hood Canal

Heya, I hope you don't mind my comment at Talk:Hood Canal, just trying to share info in a friendly-like way. Also, I noticed your map requests on a bunch of waterways in the region -- good timing, I am hoping to make some maps of exactly these places tonight. I think I have a good GIS source with boundary lines for them. Pfly (talk) 18:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

It does seem odd to consider Hood Canal part of Puget Sound. I think in loose, common usage people don't consider Hood Canal part of Puget Sound. In terms of the communities along the two they are quite different. But then, in terms of the water in them, the ships (and submarines!), migrating sea critters, etc, to get from either to the ocean requires passing the narrows of Admiralty Inlet.
The thing about Puget Sound only being south of the Tacoma Narrows area comes from George Vancouver's maps and naming. He named the main basin Admiralty Inlet and Puget Sound only for the southern part. I think this was because Vancouver sailed his big ships well into the main basin, at least to the Seattle area, but had Peter Puget explore the southern basin in boats. Something like that anyway. There's a short mention of it on the Puget Sound page.
Your Tacoma Narrows map looks nice. I usually make maps with ArcGIS. Are you familiar with GIS? It can be fairly complex and technical. And the ArcGIS software costs way too much for mortals for afford. I took a class in it and got it for relatively cheap through an educational discount (although my copy is getting increasingly out of date). There are less expensive and even free GIS packages out there, but the learning curve can be steep. Looks like the WA highway maps were made with some kind of GIS program. I think I have a GIS dataset of coastlines and waterways I can use to make some maps relatively quickly. Going to go check right now.
To make maps without GIS I sometimes find an existing map online, from some public domain source like the federal government, and then open it in a drawing program like Illustrator and painfully freehand draw over it just the parts I want (coastlines, for example). You can make some nice looking maps that way, but it is painfully slow. Pfly (talk) 22:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Zombie

Thanks. I also added that info to the tetrodotoxin article. Looking through the Zombie article History, I see what you mean. Any idea why that article is the target of so much vandalism? I put both articles on my watchlist, just in case. Nightscream (talk) 06:09, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

"Perhaps there's a connection between mindless vandals and the shambling undead." LOL! Good one! Out of curiosity, who is violating WP:Autobio and how? Nightscream (talk) 17:00, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Dungeness Crabs

Travis,

Your statement that anything is fresher when cooked immediately is simply incorrect. Many seafood species can be kept alive in aquaria until use, without noticeably affecting their quality. Dungeness crabs, however, begin starving as soon as they're brought to the surface, and anyone who's eaten a crab that was kept for a couple days in an aquarium before it was cooked can tell you the results. I've replaced my addition to the article. 24.6.157.14 (talk) 06:36, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Washington State Route 531

Washington State Route 531 has recently passed its GA and is up for A-Class review. According to the article history of the article, you are a contributor to this article. Please leave comments at this link. --CG was here. (T - C - S - E) 18:34, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Hello Toll, I am doing the Tacoma Narrows Split. It would be nice if you help me updating all the links that refer to the failure of Galloping Gertie as shown in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge you know changing the [[Tacoma Narrows bridge]] to [[Galloping Gertie | Tacoma Narrows bridge]] Diego Torquemada (talk) 06:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Twilight Zone Next Week's Story

I get these from the DVDs. --Drunkenpeter99 (talk) 11:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Mint julep trivia section

Thanks for removing the trivia section from Mint julep. Those trivia sections grow like weeds and must be cut back periodically or you get a real mess. Rees11 (talk) 11:29, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Anniversary-logo lakewood.gif)

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Looks like it got replaced with a PNG version of the same image. This can be deleted. Travisl (talk) 15:41, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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Looks like it got replaced with a PNG version of the same image. This can be deleted. Travisl (talk) 15:41, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:KRpostcardsmaller.jpg)

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Un-orphaned it to the article the original article got moved into. Travisl (talk) 21:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
It's orphaned again as it adds undue weight to that short. There's several shorts on that article and it'd be impractical to have too many due to layout and NFCC policies and silly to have too little due to POV pushing and undue weight for whichever shorts have their promo card in the article. Best policy in this case is to have none and should a short become notable in it's own right then a spinoff article can be created where an image for that short can be used correctly. If you want to add it again, please talk to me on my talkpage about it. treelo radda 03:15, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Russian Monument (Liechtenstein)

I've amended your coords at Russian Monument (Liechtenstein). Inserting the reference into {{coord}} seems to mean that the coordinates at the top right of the page do not work. I've moved the reference into the edit comment box for my edit. --Tagishsimon (talk) 21:24, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I think that works for me; appears to be a good use of the Notes heading. I'd probably not do the same, but put it in comments or on the talk page, but I'm happy with your treatment. I recall the GeoProject discussion and agree that the template should be capable of carrying a reference without breaking; I've added to the debate, and put a note at Template_talk:Coord#Inline_references_in_Coord. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:32, 5 November 2008 (UTC)


Barnstar

The Geography Barnstar
Great job with coordinate-addition. Thanks for your help, SpencerT♦C 03:32, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm sure we all appreciate your efforts, and keep up the great work. I think that people see the effort, but don't always recognize it (ie. note of thanks, barnstar, etc.) I just think its a great way to express appreciation. Also, if you see something you see in someone else's editing, give that person a barnstar. SpencerT♦C 22:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with File:MapPoint2009.png

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Rationale added. travisl (talk) 17:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Zombie

Alas, you're right. Hope spings eternal (a bit like zombies perhaps), but I've restored the semi-protection for now given the vandalism yesterday. Euryalus (talk) 19:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Your edit to Rock Band 2: The Stars

Just noting that although there isn't a "section" per se about the reality television show about Rock Band 2: The Stars, a single sentence is present in the Rock Band article under the "Cultural impact" section that mentions it. The sentence reads:

"A reality television show, Rock Band 2: The Stars, was created by VH1, featuring several players performing and being eliminated by judges Alice Cooper and Sebastian Bach."

There isn't enough information for it to have it's own section. That is why the {{anchor}} template is used so that Rock Band 2: The Stars can redirect to that sentence instead of the entire section.

--Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 03:02, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Your input solicited...

...here. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:25, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

You basically said "You re-created a template that was previously deleted, even though I'm not providing you with any info on the previous template, compare the two, what's the difference?" Could you at least provide with a reference on the previous template?

I Seek To Help & Repair! (talk) 07:55, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Template:Pierce County, Washington

Thanks for adding the ‡; I'm not sure how we missed adding that. The form that you copied from the King County template is the standard form with county templates nationwide, so you're far from breaking something :-) Nyttend (talk) 15:10, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

InsideNorthside - A North Minneapolis Encyclopedia

Hi, I noticed you've edited some articles related to North Minneapolis and I wanted to tell you about a project I'm involved in called InsideNorthside. It's basically a wikipedia for North Minneapolis, built on wikispaces (which is a bit more user-friendly then mediawiki, though not nearly as robust). Anyways, wanted you to know. I'm trying to find some wiki experts to help build an initial user base for the site. Check it out and let me know what you think. http://insidenorthside.org --Ariahfine (talk) 01:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Travisl/Archive 2,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

  • Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
  • It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
  • Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.
  • I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.
2. If you're a law student,
(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)
3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 19:49, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Templates for deletion nomination of Template:TNTZ episode details

Template:TNTZ episode details has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Magioladitis (talk) 21:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

The Twilight Zone

Hi Travisl, there is a discussion starting on the talk page for the Twilight Zone episode list. I thought that you might want to take a look. Shinerunner (talk) 12:10, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:ZombiesRising.jpg

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File permission problem with File:HighSteelBridge.jpg

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Good job getting permission from the photographer by e-mail. Please now just forward the message on to permissions-en@wikimedia.org so that it can be properly recorded by the Wikimedia community. Thanks! —Ipoellet (talk) 17:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Rod Serling Biography

Hi, I just did a major edit to the Rod Serling page and thought You might be a good source for a peer review. I got your name from the Twilight Zone work group page. I hope to get it to FA status. Thanks in advance for any help you are able to give. Sabiona (talk) 14:45, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Bread and butter

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