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Melbourne, FL

I put the section back in, mainly because although a bit gaudy it was all true, and all seemed to be valid articles.

Perhaps get rid of the arrows, move to the back?

The Georgia Page

Actually, now that I think about it, I went to the Georgia page and went through the links of the major cities. When I went to each cities page I checked out there metro status and Macon came in third behind Atlanta and Augusta.

Dated cleanup tags

Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot does not generally add tags, but merely dates those that are already there. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 12:11 7 August 2007 (GMT).

Catholic Churches

You offered some comments last week about a proposed deletion of Incarnation Catholic Church and School (Glendale, California). You correctly noted that the article was rough, as it had just been started. I have been preparing articles on some of the significant parishes in Los Angeles and wondered if you'd have a few minutes to take a look and make suggestions on format, content, info boxes, etc. One of your notes indicated that the number of members was key data, and I agree, but do you know of any verifiable source to determine membership for Catholic parishes? Examples of the parishes I have so far created articles for are: St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Pasadena, St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church, St. Charles Borromeo Church (North Hollywood), and St. Finbar Catholic Church and School (Burbank, California).

Brandywine

Brandywine is a general disambiguation page (which Brandywine Creek and Brandywine River) point to.

I went through all the Brandywine references and updated them to point to the appropriate articles. There were and are many pages referring to either "Brandywine Creek" or "Brandywine River" and not necessarily pointing to the correct one.

"Brandywine River" can refer to: "Brandywine Creek (Christina River)" or "Brandywine Creek (Cuyahoga River)". or the fictional (Hobbit/Rings Trilogy) Middle Earth river.

"Brandywine Creek" refers to at least 25 different ones in the U.S.

(5) Brandywine in British Columbia, (2) Brandywine in Nova Scotia, and more outside of North America ...

Rivers are officially disambiguated by their downstream_parent, for instance Brandywine (Christina River), only when that fails, then a reasonable civil sub-division. See WikiProject Rivers for more details.

If you undo my updates, you are on your own...

Charles Adams

I am not particularly familiar with Vermont but I try to edit pages with correct links, sources, etc. Adams' page says the town so it has been fixed to that. Any correction to my corrections can be made. Thanks for the thanks!

Florida template

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Melbourne Village -- smallest muni (sort of)

I found that the change that you made on 21 January, which includes the link to the Florida Today article, to be somewhat misleading. You added the bit about the "smallest municipality in the county" in the portion of the article that deals with land size.

However, Melbourne Village is not the smallest municipality by land size. That's Palm Shores. Melbourne Village is the smallest by population, which is what I wrote originally in the lead-in section. In addition, the Florida Today listing of municipalities is by population.

This is, admittedly, a subtle point, but one that I think should be corrected.

TMVMayor (talk) 01:47, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing that!

TMVMayor (talk) 01:47, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: Talk:Mar Thoma Church

I edited some stuff (including creating the logo) back in the earlier days but when the edit wars started more than a year ago, I kinda backed off, not being Mar Thoma and all. My interest in this article was merely to provide some Malaysian context to help "internationalise" the article since I was privy to some of the activities that the Marthomans do here. - Bob K | Talk 08:04, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in replying. No i dont think the population stats gives the denominational breakdown are available online. But i have print copies with me.

The Kerala Syrian Christians squabble and argue in real life too and they would make a mess out of history, if left alone to them in wikipedia. So i think presence of non-indians is good. Are you sure you are not an immigrant Indian? Some of you seem to have a bit of info about our churches. But Saint Thomas Christian history of Kerala is like a huge jigsaw puzzle and unless one has all the pieces with him/her, its impossible to understand it. Especially since most church websites are propagandist in nature. If you check out the websites of all these churches, you will see each presenting contradictory view of history. I created an account in wiki only because i was outraged seeing the propaganda written in the pages of these churches and one in particular tarnishing the indian orthodox church. I only hope to present a neutral viewpoint. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mathenkozhencherry (talk • contribs) 14:23, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Review, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldho_Mor_Baselios

Would you kindly review the new page, of Eldho Mor Baselios. Please let me know , what all changes are necessary.Fyodor7 (talk) 08:17, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Final discussion for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

1. Proposal to Close This RfC
2. Alternate proposal to close this RFC: we don't need a whole new layer of bureaucracy

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 03:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Catholic Church - Arbitration Committee

Hello Str, Karanacs is trying to open an arbitration case against us and the Catholic Church page. Could you comment on the allegations please at [Arbitration Requests Catholic Church] Xandar 06:17, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Catholic Church - Arbitration Request

Thanks for the message. You can leave a comment on the arbcom request by following this link and adding your own comment or statement after all the others on this case. Xandar 11:52, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi Student7 thanks for coming to add your comment to the arbitration situation. I came by to ask you what you meant by the "votes" comment. I was not clear on what you were referring to - what vote? NancyHeise ^talk 19:17, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

The claims made regarding the SD Metro are indeed correct. What specifically is it you seem to think is not factual? Give a specific expample? Do you live in or work for San Diego? Where are you getting your information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.214.148.195 (talk) 17:12, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Common history

Very often comments appear in Wikipedia under the assumption that Saint Thomas Christians, before the arrival of Portuguese, had a common history, without realizing that there is no such history. The St. Thomas Christians before 1500, consisted of at least four groups: and so they have their own histories. At a close study of these groups, even today their differences in worship and beliefs are clearly visible. All these groups try to put their history and their beliefs into these articles with the result that all related articles become confused.

• 1. . St. Thomas Nazrani (Known as Marthoma Nazrani at the time of arrival of Portuguese) - The original converts of St. Thomas. They had their own elders to lead them.
  2. . Syrian Christians, Northists. – Children of Knai Thomman by his first wife. (who arrived in AD 345),
  3. . Syrian Christians, Southists. – Children of Knai Thomman by his second wife.
  4. . Syrian Christians who arrived from Persia in A.D. 825. It is believed that with them came two bishops.

Visitors from Persia and Middle East used to visit Malabar to meet their friends, relatives (who came earlier from Persia) and their descendents. Whether they were bishops, priests or laymen, most of them were addressed as “Bava” (bishop). These visits made others believe that Syrian Christians were ruled by bishops from Persia. Neither knowing the language nor the culture, these visitors lived at the mercy of the Syrian Christians and spent their time teaching their mother tongue, Syriac. Some of these visitors returned, but most of them lived and died in Kerala.Neduvelilmathew (talk) 22:07, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Voting at Talk:Order of St. John

Hi Stu, We could use your vote at Talk:Order of St. John. This article duplicates the content of Knights Hospitaller and several other articles. Shall we eliminate and redirect? Thanks, Il Castrato (talk) 14:25, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

King of Canada

Hi,

King George VI toured the USA in 1939 in his capacity as King of Canada (accompanied by his Canadian Prime Minister), not as King of the United Kingdom, or Emperor of India, or in any other capacity. This is explained in the linked article Monarchy of Canada. I will put my correction back.

Sir rupert orangepeel (talk) 21:41, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Melbourne Village - Tree size citation

In your edits, you suggested a citation for the height of trees in Melbourne Village. That one has me stumped (pun intended). I don't know of a tree size survey or any such thing. The size of the trees is just a fact, evident by walking outside and looking up.

So, I'm open to suggestions on how to provide a citation for this. TMVMayor (talk) 21:46, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Old Party/New Party

Hey Student7, since you've expressed an opinion on this subject before, could you weigh in on the Old Party/New Party discussion at Talk:Malankara Church? I tracked down several citations for the terminology, but there's some resistance to it.--Cúchullain ^t/c 13:26, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Catholic Church RFC

Would you care to comment on this exchange. You also endorsed NancyHeise's view but not Xandar's. Is your reasoning the same as Marauder40's? thanx. --Richard S (talk) 17:19, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of K. V. Mathew

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Samos

Hi there,

If you look at the population of the various Greek islands, Samos has the 9th largest. So there's no real need to provide a citation. Regarding tourism as the major industry, well, that is the case on virtually all Greek islands, but we can leave it out of the lead if you insist. Cheers, Athenean (talk) 20:22, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Anti-Catholicism

In the edit section of this article, you argued that Hitler couldn't have become German chancellor, had it been known that he was Catholic. This is complete non-sense. The whole of Western and Southern Germany is predominantly Catholic. As of 1880, more than 35% of the Reich's population were Catholic. Just because Martin Luther was a German, doesn't mean Germany is all Protestant. Best regards. Rudefuss (talk) 22:59, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Refresh my memory. When did I do this? Student7 (talk) 01:34, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Greetings from Melbourne

How are you? I see you've been doing great work on Melbourne area articles...BZ! I just got back from deployment, but I'm back at it now. Hope all is well. Semper Fi, FieldMarine (talk) 22:42, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

October Deletion

Listen, Student7. I don't want to write this article anymore than you want to read it. However, I have to for a class in order to keep my 3.93 GPA up for the next three weeks until I graduate. After that, you can delete my user page for all I care. Had you taken the TIME to look at the discussion page for my article, it CLEARLY STATES that this article is for a class and I kindly asked that it not be deleted. So if you would kindly un-nominate my article for deletion, that would just be great!!!!! Panzak7 (talk) 03:45, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

There are ten million students in the world, all of whom could use "free" editing. Do the math. Student7 (talk) 17:56, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

I don't want you to edit it. I had to write an article on wikipedia for a class assignment. Thanks.Panzak7 (talk) 20:29, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

There are ten million....etc. all of whom have "class assignments" regarding writing! Wikipedia is not a "school project." It is an encyclopedia which is supposed to be comprised of notable topics, documented by outside WP:RELY, third-party citations. Student7 (talk) 23:05, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Isle La Motte

Before reverting back to something that you are not sure of, you better check the facts. Fort Sainte-Anne was the fifth of five forts on the Richelieu river. The others in order were Fort Richelieu, Fort Saint-Louis de Chambly, Fort Sainte-Thérèse, and Fort Saint-Jean. The first three were built by 4 divisions of the Carignan Régiment in 1665, and the last two, including Fort Sainte-Anne were built in 1666. For your information, the United States did not exist back then, and the forts were in the control of Canada, which belong to the Kingdom of France. (See Canada*Quebec Synthèse Historique pages 90 and 91) The fort has long disappeared. --142.169.118.147 (talk) 23:03, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

(from an unregistered editor with no edit summary, no WP:FOOT changing a number by one!) Student7 (talk) 01:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

D 400

Hi Student7

Thank you for consulting me instead of taking action yourself. This kind of kindness unfortunatelly isn't common among most Wikipedians. However I don't agree with you in delating the template. There are only two cities (Antalya and Mersin ) on the D 400. Most of the other settlements are small touristic towns and depend on this road heavily. Certainly you can't compere this road with Parisien motorways. Cheers. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 15:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Conversions

Hello. Among the most confusing aspects of ship measurement is tonnage, which in most cases is a specialized measure of volume, and not of weight. Both gross tonnage and net tonnage are nominal measures of volume, so conversions to units of mass do not work. (It is different with deadweight and displacement.) Regards, Kablammo (talk) 20:20, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

"Non defining attributes"

Certainly! I tend to believe that navboxes should link topics bidirectionally. i.e.: a navbox that links the major communities of a state or province together. A city is defined by its geographic location, and that location is defined by the cities within it. Thus, all of the cities within that location share the defining trait of being within that state/province.

Templates like the D400 only link topics in one direction. For a road, the locations that it connects is what defines it. A city, however, is not defined by other locations that happen to share one of the roads that passes through it. Given neither town is defined by the existence of this highway, it becomes inappropriate to link Bozburun with Mersin, as an example, in this fashion. It is important to note on the highway article what communities it serves, but the communities themselves don't care that this highway serves other locations.

I also view issues like this in terms of scale. Imagine there was a template like this for every highway. How many of these templates would exist for a city like Chicago? A dozen? you begin to bury high value templates and links under these low value ones. Also in terms of individual highways: I couldn't imagine how big a template for something like the Trans Canada Highway or I-90 would be, as both would have dozens of links. Templates that large offer no navigational benefit, imo.

Just some thoughts on the matter. Cheers! Resolute 15:44, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Well I agreed on the vote for reasons of proliferation, but was wondering about your comment. I found the above to be very enlightening. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 16:28, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Hopefully in a positive way.  ;) Resolute 16:32, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Definitely! Student7 (talk) 16:38, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Robert Oscar Peterson

My, you ARE a stickler, aren't you? ;-D OK, I'll write an article about Bob Peterson, but not this week. Too much else going on in my life right now, and I'll want to do it right. I should be able to get a "Did you know...?" out of it. "Did you know... that Robert Oscar Peterson, founder of Jack in the Box restaurants, was married to the mayor of San Diego during the 1980s?" Then I suppose I'll have to do one about her too. Well, one thing at a time. --MelanieN (talk) 01:25, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, it turns out she already has an article. So I'll just have to do one about him - and then list them BOTH as residents of Point Loma. --MelanieN (talk) 23:37, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

No problem. As you say, he should have had an article all along. Yes, I remember those "Jack will speak to you" signs. --MelanieN

How about that, somebody beat me to it and created the article. It's now nominated for DYK. Complete with "Jack will speak to you!" --MelanieN (talk) 05:14, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Seven Corners

Hi, Student7. I've been following the discussion over at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._Roads about your Seven Corners question. As a fellow Northern Virginian, believe me, I understand.

It sounds to me like you need to get in touch with a field office of VDOT that handles the Falls Church area. See http://www.virginiadot.org/about/nova_quick.asp . The office they mention is:

Northern Virginia District
14685 Avion Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151-1104
(703) 383-8368

It also sounds like you need information on road usage statistics: they're at http://www.virginiadot.org/info/2008_traffic_data_by_jurisdiction.asp, and you can get information for all over Virginia there.

Good luck! --Tim Sabin (talk) 02:43, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Interesting. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 12:07, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Competitors

Are McDonalds, Jack-n-the-box, and Wendy's competitors? Does if it have to be published for wikipedia "police" to let go of the power? seriously...
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.24.24.150 (talk • contribs) 13:37, 26 April 2010

The USAA article has been a target for agenda-driven vandalism in the past. Having said that, I think the addition of GEICO and the usage of the term property and casualty insurance are appropriate as used here. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:43, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Causes of the us housing bubble

Thank you for your recommendation. I will work on it this weekend.

Causes of the us housing bubble

Thank you for your recommendation. I will work on it this weekend. Sguffanti

USAA competitors

Student7 - i question your logic friend. A. the fact that nobody has published a "statement" of USAA competitors does not "imply" that calling GEICO a competitor is "untrue". Your argument follows this logic: if it is published it is true. if it is not published it is false. please stop it. B. even if someone did publish such a statement, it would not make it true. it would just make it a published statement and lots of analysts and journalists publish lots of stupid and wrong statements.

Try using some business logic:

1. for readers, it is germane in a "company" article to identify competitors in the industry - though i think it is crass 2. it is also germane to limit the competitors to the top/major competitors in an industry - especially if the industry has hundreds, or in the case of auto insurance even thousands of competitors 3. when identifying the top companies it is germane to use something quantifiable like market size or revenue since these companies will control the industry 4. it is also germane to group the companies within the industry. example: in banking BofA, Wells, JPMorganChase, Citi are in their own catergory of "mega banks" based on deposits 5. likewise, in auto insurance you have a mega company, State Farm, followed by a group of large national companies: geico, allstate, progressive, natiowide, usaa, farmers, and then you have all the rest whether you group by number of policies-in-force or premiums-written 6. further, in regards to a "niche company" article, it is germane to readers to focus on competitors in the same niche market 7. usaa was established to provide auto insurance to military officers - a niche market therefore a "niche company" 8. geico was established about 10 years after usaa, by a former usaa employee, to offer nco's auto insurance - usaa and geico were not YET competitors, but both were in the "auto insurance military" niche! 9. over time geico and usaa both changed their restrictions with little or no overlap - still NOT COMPETITORS 10. recently geico expanded to become a national player and is no longer a niche player; however, they still have a large portion of the nco and enlisted segments as customers 11. recently usaa expanded beyond just officers to also target nco's and enlisted - making usaa and geico the only auto ins companies that have a signficant portion of U.S. military personnel and families as customers 12. if usaa has a competitor in the "auto insurance military" niche, it's geico - usaa targets geico's nco's and enlisted customers daily! and geico knows it! 13. if one is going to list usaa competitors in the usaa article, then it should focus on the niche!! 14. since geico historically focused on auto insurance for U.S. military nco's and enlisted, and since it has a large share of nco's & enlisted, geico is a competitor of usaa

Satements 1 through 14 are LOGICAL

so, are you gonna be a "wikipedia traffic cop" and take the position that nothing can be used in an article unless it is supported by a published statement, stupidly assuming that all facts are published, and stupidly assuming that published content is correct, or are you going to use LOGIC? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.152.104.158 (talk) 14:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

I have moved this to the USAA discussion page. Please continue further arguements there please, Student7 (talk) 00:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Edward Vincent

Do you have any additional thoughts on your nomination to delete the Edward A. Vincent article? Paul K. Graham (talk) 18:31, 11 May 2010 (UTC)