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Beford -- I see you've put the wrestling hook in the next update. Consider swapping the current dark photo for a better photo of the other wrestler -- ] . I think it will look much better in small size. ] (]) 02:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Beford -- I see you've put the wrestling hook in the next update. Consider swapping the current dark photo for a better photo of the other wrestler -- ] . I think it will look much better in small size. ] (]) 02:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
== 'Bra & panties match' DYK ==
My apologies, but I've removed from the Main Page this DYK that you approved after someone brought it to my attention. This really isn't the kind of material we should be showcasing on there. :/ '''<font color="#ff9900">]</font><font color="#ff6699">]</font>'''
Thanks for your first hundred with so many on Kentucky and Indiana. Keep up the good work. You are well on your way to the next record Victuallers (talk) 21:21, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
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I award you this Barnstar for your solid, witty, creative, supportive, learned, timely, cheerful, eloquent, and/or otherwise generally great contributions on U. S. National Historic Landmarks' articles. Yippee o yay, we pretty much met our goal of a well-started article for each of 2,442 NHLs by today!
Thanks, and have a great Fourth of July! -- Doncram, 4 July 2008
Hey, i don't know if we busted, or not, but thanks for your work bringing many NHL articles to Start quality! The NHL cleanup drive yields, now, just about 2,442 NHL articles, with more than 1,750 of them illustrated by photos, by the way. Cheers, doncram (talk) 16:35, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
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Hello Bedford. I was recently expanding Willis Roberts and I nomintaed it under the July 5th section but I couldn't tell if I did a fivefold expandsion of it. Could you possibly check if I expanded it fivefold? Thanks in advance. -- RyRy (talk) 08:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Ehehe, thanks. Although, the hook was pretty hard to choose. The first of the two hooks I nominated for the article I think was a POV. Could you check that? I'm not sure if such hooks would be approved. -- RyRy (talk) 08:21, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Your Awards
There is no one to award the participants of 2008 spring Assessment Drive of Biography project. And you can't award yourself so I'm here to award you. :)
Hi, and thanks again for doing the Barnstars for the assessment drive. I was reading your user page and was pleased to see you also are from Indiana. I work mostly in the actors and film work groups and honestly am not all that great in starting articles, though I do some dandy clean up and referencing work. There is an article that I wish someone would start, and I have a bit of resource material for it, if someone would. It's on the Wilbur Wright Birthplace. I was involved with the original committee to preserve it after the state decided to close and sell it as a state memorial, although I am not involved now. The site was just a marker and house foundation for many, many years, and my uncle was almost the only person who bothered with it during the 50s and 60s. He mowed the grass, did the upkeep, went to the site to raise the flag on holidays, organized the small yearly memorial ceremonies and worked tirelessly to get the state to put money into it. That finally happened in the early 70s, when the state turned it into a state historic site, built a shelter house, had an Amish contractor build a reproduction of the house, and somehow persuaded the air force to donate a fighter plane for display. It continued that way, operated by the state, until the early 1990s, when the state began divesting itself of some property. They were planning to sell the land and move the house from the actual foundation of Wright's original home to the reservoir near Muncie. That's when our group stepped up. Eventually, we proved that the site could be operated (I think the original contract was for 3 years) and when we fulfilled our agreement, it was turned over to the local committee. It has been greatly expanded and is partially funded by a local food tax in Henry county. As you can see from the website, a great deal has been done with the funds. It operates independently as a tax deductible organization now. Anyway... if you are interested in it, please let me know. The website doesn't have all of the history of the site itself, which it used to have. Thanks! Wildhartlivie (talk) 23:20, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the wikicookie for the bio drive! yay! question: will there be a summer assessment drive or a fall one?--FeanorStar7 (talk) 23:26, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I just stepped in to give the awards, using my admin status to replace any authority I had in WP:Bio (none). I have no idea about future drives, but seeing as the guy responsible for this one went AWOL, who knows if there is anymore. However, I have a constant drive of my own: get an Indiana article I started to GA, and I give an Indiana Barnstar; I'll give a Bluegrass Barnstar for those who do the same thing to one of my Kentucky articles.--Bedford23:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, about the DYK's I generally don't approve hooks, I simply find approved ones and then add them to the next update set, I won't use new approved hooks unless I absolutely have to because there are no other approved older hooks, also there are a few hooks that are older but have Image recommendations and I generally leave them so that I can place those in the header with there Images so because of that they might have to wait longer to be featured than plain text hooks but otherwise I always use the oldest approved hooks first and then work my way into the newer hooks as necessary :). Thanks and All the Best, --Mifter (talk) 02:52, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Bedford, it is my honor to report that thanks in part to your support my third request for adminship passed (80/18/2). I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me, and I will endeovour to put my newly acquired mop and bucket to work for the community as a whole. Yours sincerly and respectfuly, TomStar81 (Talk) 03:09, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Recent interchanges at DYK
I happened to notice some recent interchanges at DYK involving yourself. I'd ask you to please try a bit harder to remain collegial, you seem to have gotten into a bit of a feud with other participants, which is somewhat unseemly. Someone with as many DYK contributions as yourself needs to set a good example for others, and that doesn't seem to be the case right now. Thanks. ++Lar: t/c11:03, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
You would be better served rebuking Doncram for it, instead of me, as he's the one creating the problem. As you didn't, but instead chose to rebuke m e, the protagonist to Doncram's antagonist, I can not respect this request.--Bedford16:30, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I'll look into that but the advice (not a rebuke, merely advice) stands. "Be better than the other fellow "has always served me well. Whether you "respect" the advice or not is your affair. Best wishes. ++Lar: t/c18:19, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Since this seems to be related to this, I'm commenting here. Yes, I approved two of your hooks from that date. I asked, and will repeat the request on his talkpage, that Don not review your hooks anymore (frankly, I think, to avoid COI issues no one from one project should be the main reviewer of DYK hooks and GAs from another user of that project. And things like what's happened here). But you don't have to rub him the wrong way either.
I feel we all get along great at NRHP, and am sad that you have chosen for the time being to delist yourself from it. However, this is purely from the DYK side of things. I really do like your hooks, and will probably add NRHP infoboxes to the articles I reviewed later. So I would like to see more efforts to get along (and, frankly, don shouldn't be reviewing your hooks). Daniel Case (talk) 03:47, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
I do thank you. I agree on those in same WPs not approving; its why I haven't approved the Bank of Indiana or placed it on the next update, even through there are space for two US hooks on there right not. As for removing myself, I will still work on those in Indiana and Kentucky, but due to ill will with Doncram, who runs the WP, I must remain separate for it unless her goes on a ling wikibreak.--Bedford03:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Someone is in charge of WP:NRHP? That's news to me. I was under the impression that we were all just creating articles and engaging in various areas of historical geekery. Aren't we all on the same team? --Elkman05:01, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
It is your choice to take a principled? stand against better referencing and to resign from wp:NRHP in a huff, or whatever, because you take offense, rather than responding reasonably, to my request that you do better in your referencing. I am not in charge of wp:NRHP and have not ever pretended to be, I am just a wikipedian trying mostly to develop articles and lists on NRHPs. I am rather amazed at your commitment to do poorer referencing, simply because i suggested you do better, and to otherwise sabotage the quality of your own articles. And amazed at your taunting and insults. I would have hoped that you and I would have had some better quality of relationship than that, so that you would have elected to respond to some constructive criticism more positively. I believe that i handed you a number of DYK topics of interest to you as a Civil War buff, and that i handed you a great reference resource for numerous of your DYK articles on Civil War memorials. But, whatever! doncram (talk) 23:19, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
Wanted to let you know not to take my comments on the discussion page personally. I posted Mary Turner's comments for the record because I felt it was approperiate. She really doesn't care who put what where. She sees grandpa with rose-colored glasses and how dare anyone say anything negative about him. *shrug* Lonadar (talk) 22:36, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I didn't; I've received far worse rebukes. It's understandable she feels strongly for her granddad; I wonder how old y'all were when he died.--Bedford22:41, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Mary was, I believe, in her early 20's at the time. I, unfortunately, came into the world a month later and never met Vic Sr. --Lonadar (talk) 13:38, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Re: DYK Update
Glad to hear that I didn't screw anything up too badly. Ah, I can see that there is some extra space on the Main Page. I took the entries that had been listed at Template:Did you know/Next update, assuming that that was the approriate number/size. Looking at the history, though, I see that more than six entries do get added. On the offchance that again there aren't enough the next time the update comes around, can some just be grabbed from Template talk:Did you know that have been overall approved? Thanks for your help. -- Natalya02:28, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
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Re: Madame Walker Theatre
I'm not usually up in that area of town but I'll see if I can get over there and take a few pics. Speaking of NHL Barnes and Thornburg Building was recently created and it's a NHL. The page is very bare and doesn't even have a NHL Infobox. Since you're the expert on NHL I thought I'd let you know. HoosierState06:39, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
If you mean concerning the Grand Lodge of West Virginia, it's because they are trying to portray the GL as racist, when the separation of black and white lodges is two centuries old and not necessarily racist.--Bedford18:19, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
The 2008 Home Run Derby took place yesterday. Justin Morneau defeated Josh Hamilton in the final round, 5 home runs to 3, although Hamilton broke a record with 28 home runs hit in the first round.
From the Editors
Baseball has a history unlike any other sport. It has been played in countless countries throughout the decades, and it will undoubtedly continue play for many more. On this eve, some the finest players the sport has to offer will take the field at the Yankee Stadium. Four popes spoke there, Pelé scored goals there, "The Greatest Game Ever Played" was battled out there, John Philip Sousa lead a band there, George Costanza worked there; but what do all these events have in common? They fail to reach the level of greatness that the baseball that was played there did.
In 1923, a man named Babe Ruth decided to build a new house, and over the years, that house was a home to some of the greatest baseball ever played. If I were to list out all of these great moments, it would be longer than the bill for the New Yankee Stadium. So I'll sum it up by saying that we can remember these great moments by adding them to this place we've gathered at for future generations to read about, to learn about, to dream about; but more importantly we can watch tonight and we can remember how baseball is unlike anything else that we will encounter in our lives. — Blackngold29
Thanks, I noticed he missed the credits, you've saved me the trouble of going back through the suggestions page to try and figure it out myself :) Gatoclass (talk) 08:27, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
If I'm around, I will. However, I have no idea when I will have lunch, so I'll have to work around that. I will, however, go ahead and get it ready.--Bedford16:42, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
The Inferno match was between MVP and Kane, which I went with MVP. Let's see how good a pic we have of Kane, if MVP's not good enough.--Bedford17:40, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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Indiana in the Civil War
Sorry about the A-class review but the folks at MHR tend to be a bit shy when it comes to opposing - usually if someone asks for improvements, many people will just stay away until it gets fixed. NVm, I've started fixing some of them. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:31, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I've had a bum foot all week, which sapped a lot of will to get improvements done that. Someday, I'll make it a FA. Plus, my biggest problem was needing some kind of infobox that could be used for all "STATE in the American Civil War" articles, and I was at a blank.--Bedford05:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
For more specific things that fiery incidents, you can use WP:ANI but for more longer term type things, WP:RFC/U is the place to go. Obviously if the DYK regulars-and I have been enjoying some downtime lately on that front-ignore this person's complaints, then that only leaves the issue of getting under your skin. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:01, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello Bedford. You are over 3RR on this article. I recommend that you self-revert. I'm leaving a note at WP:AN3 that I left you this message and I'm going to bed. If you don't revert it's possible that another 3RR closer might block you. EdJohnston (talk) 05:36, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Bedford, for an admin, you don't seem very knowledgable about 3RR. Please revert COMPLETELY if you are accepting my offer. If not, it's the next guy's decision on whether to block you. EdJohnston (talk) 06:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
OK, I allowed myself to be officially raped, and now Doncram has been awarded for making a nuisance of myself. I did not become an admin for #RR; I became it to help on DYK. I reverted, although it is a sin against me that I had to.--Bedford06:07, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I have declined the 3RR report because it was made in bad faith. However, please remember that only simple, obvious vandalism is exempt from 3RR enforcement. Stifle (talk) 12:57, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
Mike Ayers DYK
On 23 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mike Ayers, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
I'll come over to your talk page now for this! Thanks a bunch for the help with DYK - I'm only a rookie with it and it's hard to know exactly what to do. It's been much appreciated! Ryan Postlethwaite03:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Beford -- I see you've put the wrestling hook in the next update. Consider swapping the current dark photo for a better photo of the other wrestler -- . I think it will look much better in small size. Cbl62 (talk) 02:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
'Bra & panties match' DYK
My apologies, but I've removed from the Main Page this DYK that you approved after someone brought it to my attention. This really isn't the kind of material we should be showcasing on there. :/ krimpet✽
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. I think it will look much better in small size. Cbl62 (talk) 02:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)