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== US Primary Copper Production Chart ==
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Good day Kbh3rd


I appreciate the effort you went to in putting together that 'US Primary Copper Production' chart on the 'Copper mining in the United States' article on Misplaced Pages, as I have found it to be quite interesting. I have a question in relation to this chart, though.


Assuming you have a free moment, I was wondering if you could point me to where exactly you sourced the figures from in the USGS site?
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:The preceding thoughtfully added to my talk page by ] (adsl-69-154-35-214.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net), connoisseur of ], who obviously doesn't appreciate his vandalism being . Most vandals aren't nearly so entertaining in their gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, so I'm leaving this here. ;-> &mdash;&nbsp;]] 11:08, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


I noticed on the chart that the source is named as being the United States Geological Survey, however, when I visited that site, I wasn't able to work out exactly where the annual copper production data is housed on the site.
== Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke article- ==


If you could point me in the right direction, that would be much appreciated.
The Archbishop Burke article is getting to be a mess.
I asked User:Holly from the Wisconsin WikiProject about
reverting the damage to a neutral point of view and putting the Archbishop Burke article under protection.
Also the external links in the article itself are screwed up.Your help and response would be much appreciated.Thank you-] 12:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


:Put a request on ]. Please open a dialog with ] explaining why their POV edits are not acceptable. I'd suggest creating working copies of the articles (both Abp. Burke and St. Stanislaus Kostka) as ] and work towards a version that's acceptable &ndash; contains the ''relevant'' portion of the ''facts'' that 24.217.202.226 is so keen on, but presented in a way simply to inform, not to sway. &mdash;&nbsp;]] 16:17, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


Thanks in advance for your attention,
== Vn bridge pic ==
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:I'm sure they changed that page and the location of the data in the several years since I made that chart. I'll look around this weekend and let you know if I can find the latest data.
"... it might be good to have a picture of the same bridge before and after fitting."
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:actually those are pretty similar blanks, both Aubert #7. Different fleck figure in each, of course. I'll see if I can remember to scan the blank first, next time. ] 20:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
:Following the Commodities link on that page I found that has lots of documents. I don't yet see data there for the missing years prior to 2018, but more digging might turn up something. --]] 20:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)


== Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder ==
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]This is a reminder that established ] provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. You are receiving this annual reminder since you have averaged less than 50 edits per year over the last 5 years.{{pb}}Inactive administrators are encouraged to reengage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at ]. If you do not intend to be engaged with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the ].{{pb}}Thank you for your past contributions to the project. —&thinsp;] 00:32, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
I noticed your copyvio notice on this article. I've written my own non-copyright infringing version (which is available at ])
:Thanks! I've moved it in place of the infringing version, as noted on the article's talk page. &mdash;&nbsp;]] 04:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


== Administrators' newsletter – February 2024 ==
== What about WP:CP after taking care of an article? ==


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Hey Kbh3rd. ] seems to have already answered your question on ]: as he says, once you've cleared a copyvio (in whatever way) you can just remove it from the listing on the ] page. Thanks for your help with this! --]<sup> ]</sup> 10:37, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


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Would you mind if I extended ? You'll notice they've been getting longer with no collateral damage, and if 2 weeks didn't help, I'm not sure 3 hours will. :) ]<sub>(])</sub> 13:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
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== Ongoing vandalism of article: Hamer_Guitars ==
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thanks for the heads up on the Guitar article reversion - I had to loo once or twice to be sure it wasn't someone's constructive work in progress. But anyway thanks for the pointer to assistance on dealling with the visigoths and v. :: ] : please contact me on my ] : 16:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
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:Yeah, I pretty much regreted saying that as soon as I saved it &ndash; one of the shortcomings of the WikiMedia software is the inability to retract an edit comment. Your spelling is good &ndash; "Caribbean" is one I usually have to look up. (I looked but couldn't find who was responsible for the original poor semantics and capitalization, but I'll assume it was someone else. ;-) &mdash;&nbsp;]] 07:27, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
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:Yeah it was someone else, that presumably English is not their first language, and I focused on correcting "Caribbean" and overlooked the grammar. Anyhow don't worry about it, I've had my fair share of comments I wish I could retract. Thanks for the apology. :)--] 08:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
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== School computers <_> == == Custom signature fix needed ==


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I'd like to apologize on behalf of whoever vadalized that guitar article. This is a school computer and as an avid user of Misplaced Pages, I think it's shameful that someone would just wantonly delete information like that.


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:: Done! --] 05:47, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
I noticed you gave a vandalism warning to ]. This individual also vandalized the ] page.] 07:22, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


== Administrators' newsletter – March 2024 ==
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Hi there. I just saw that you reverted an article at ]. In a previous edit, I just made a new edit and erased the vandalism. Would it be better to tell a moderator and if so, how do i know who? Alternatively, do I have the powers to revert an article? I'm new, so I'm still trying to learn this stuff. Thanks. ] 23:07, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


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there was some more vandalism on ] but now it is removed ] 01:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
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:Yeah, saw that but you beat me to it. Thanks! --]] 01:17, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
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I was not "vandalizing" your wiki as you so cared to put it, but removing HIGHLY DAMAGING information to FlyFF. Perhaps if you actually READ the history of your wiki you would notice THIS. So don't say I was vandalizing when I was actually trying to help. K thx bai.
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Anyway, I know what is going on with the Ogalalla. Arizona is about 30-40 years from a water crisis. Anyway, I ''tried'' to transliterate Russian, made a character for "i" on top of an "e" for the sound ee. Anyway could you comment to me on my talk page (If you are so inclined). Even if you are 'religious', some insights would be appreciated. Page: ]. (I worked in Book, Acquisitions, very low position. the head of the 13 member group was an Eastern European, who knew about 8-12 languages. The Univ. of Ariz has a science library,(got books from the shelves: "Atmospheric '''led'''(ice)", and "Gas ee Neftee"" that had been focussing on acquireing Russian books. This was 1981, in main 5 story library 2-buildings away.)(On page: I learned some table stuff today, and did the '''A to Z''' section of ''Humor''.)...Patiently, and, beseechingly...MichaelMcAnnisYuma,AZ...] 03:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
:And...I looked at some of the articles you have listed. I see you know/and or/ like Geology and history. I am partial to terms like Varve, or (Saltation)(also from ]). The Univ of Arizona, is where ] was created. I am kinda into some of the 'stuff' I think techie (in an old fashioned way). ...(I found not even a typo in the 4 or 5, except the Ogallala (spelled correctyly now).)..Chow.(And i am gonna add a note on the deletion page(and try to use ''some'' humor..chow again... ///Michael] 14:02, 22 January 2006 (UTC)


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Thanks for your high-quality attention to the ] article. Did you notice that the Thede reference takes more than 80 lines to put a single line into the article? Is there a benefit to all that bloat? Inquiring minds, & all... Hope you are having a splendid day, and that you continue to do so. Be well, ] 16:38, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
:Oh, I knew there was ''something'' about that book reference template. I don't know why it's like that. I've reduced the reference in the article to a single line that renders identically. Thanks. --]] 19:00, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
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Some weeks ago you claimed that ''large parts'' of the text of the ] article were from his website. Can you be more specific? I'd like to get some sort of closure on this. See ]. ] 20:59, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
:I've added a table of specific examples of wholesale copying of paragraphs to the article's talk page. --]] 21:47, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


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== Ghantoub crystals ==


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== Toy Story 2 ==
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I re-deleted the Toy Story 2 entry over at ] after noticing that you had reverted the deletion of another user (and rightly so, considering there was no rationale or anything). See my thoughts on the article's talk page. &ndash;] <small>(])</small> 05:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
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:I've no feeling on the matter one way or the other (though I did think that TS2 was even better than TS1). While on ] I simply reverted an unexplained deletion by an anonymous user. You're going about it the ''right'' way &ndash; with an edit summary directing attention to a note on the article's talk page. Those who built and maintain that page can hash out the details. Thanks. --]] 08:24, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


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This fellow is at it again and should be blocked. But I'm not an admin. so can you or someone else block him.
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== Administrators' newsletter – June 2024 ==
ng the page One-child policy, this is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. --Kbh3rdtalk 19:36, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


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Welcome to Misplaced Pages. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to ], are considered vandalism. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the hard work of others. Thanks. --Lacatosias 15:11, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


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:It's hardly unexplained. Read that article's ]. You are reverting items that have received thorough discussion. --]] 16:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
::Actually, it looks like I'm the one who hasn't read that talk page in a while &lt;blush&gt;. If it's consensus that the article has a neutral point of view I won't argue you removing the tag. When I have time I may come back to argue strongly that the article is ''not'' neutral, though. I don't have cable and have never seen the commentator or his show, but when I read that article, the editors' bias against him is ''very'' glaring. I can tell when someone is trying to make me see things their way, and that obviously is what that article is all about. --]] 16:07, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


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Hi Kbh! Sorry for the late reply. I am not sure if they translirate it to "El Shempshoon" or "Al-Shamshoon" but the spelling in Arabic is correct. Cheers -- ''] 12:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC)''


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{{User|66.144.52.250}} continues to vandalize. --] 13:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
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:That's a school in Ohio, though I haven't definitively figured out which one -- there are multiple schools in that IP range, though nothing ties to that particular IP. But it's probably ], given their multiple defacements of that article.
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:I'm quickly developing the opinion that schoolboys should strictly be consumers, not editors, of encyclopedias. I can understand, even appreciate, much of their humor and irreverence. But this is not the place for it, particularly the vulgarity, and a disproportionate amount of the vandalism of Misplaced Pages comes from school computers. (Maybe we should add ''Misplaced Pages is not your playground'' to ].)


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:It looks like it all works properly. Thanks! (Of course, when I say "must", what I really mean is, "it ''sure'' would be nice if ..." ;-) --]] 04:13, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


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: No, I am located about 90° west of there. The page got onto my watchlist when I reverted some vandalism I found while on ]. It seems that most articles about schools attract attention from their students, and require protection from the same. That seems to be true regardless of where they are located. Apparently the universal condition of secondary education is that the teachers are clueless and sadistic, the administration is archaic and tyrannical, and all the students (except for the writer) are perverted morons who drool on themselves. So those things, by being ordinary and non-notable, do not merit inclusion in the schools' articles. ;-) --]] 17:29, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
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I have been using your "Image:Isthmus of Tehuantepec.jpg" as a base for building an ] heartland map and several Olmec site maps like ] and ]. In trying to put together a map for the ], I found myself wishing for a little finer detail. Do you still have the ability to create a map of this area? Would you be able to provide me a map of those mountains? The Tuxtlas are the mountains between Veracruz and Coatzacoalcos.
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:Answered on ]. --]] 17:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)


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I warn vandals 99% of the time; mostly, if there is a rash of vandalism, I'll revert it, then go back and warn all the offenders. But thanks for catching my mistake! ] ] ] 20:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
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== Administrators' newsletter – October 2024 ==
=== Humor ===


] from the past month (September 2024).
Goodness gracious! The "godless metric" edit comment was even more tongue-in-cheek that those writing "rules", and it should be obvious that those are for fun as much as to teach by counter-example. I'm sometimes told that my sense of humor is too dry for some to grasp. Hint: the edit comment ended in a winky-smiley: ;-) If I really stopped to think about it, I'd probably think that standards of measurements are fairly agnostic. ;-) --]] 01:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC)


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I am very sorry about my "vandalism" on this sight. I was just excited because it was a chance to have a little fun and mess with people. Now i see that that type of behavior is not tolerated on this site. Sorry again, and good luck finding all the other screw-offs like me. ]
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Nice blockage. We need more guys like you who just cut to the chase. ''']]]''' 00:11, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
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:I actually think that 48 hours is a bit much for what they did. But on the other hand, there hasn't been a non-vandalous edit from that IP all year. So I won't lose any sleep over it. I'd say 90% or more of the edits on my watch list are either defacements or reverts of defacements. (Think about that when the next fund drive comes around.) --]] 06:32, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

US Primary Copper Production Chart

Good day Kbh3rd

I appreciate the effort you went to in putting together that 'US Primary Copper Production' chart on the 'Copper mining in the United States' article on Misplaced Pages, as I have found it to be quite interesting. I have a question in relation to this chart, though.

Assuming you have a free moment, I was wondering if you could point me to where exactly you sourced the figures from in the USGS site?

I noticed on the chart that the source is named as being the United States Geological Survey, however, when I visited that site, I wasn't able to work out exactly where the annual copper production data is housed on the site.

If you could point me in the right direction, that would be much appreciated.


Thanks in advance for your attention, Inchiquin (talk) 23:49, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm sure they changed that page and the location of the data in the several years since I made that chart. I'll look around this weekend and let you know if I can find the latest data.
--Kbh3talk 12:51, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Following the Commodities link on that page I found this page that has lots of documents. I don't yet see data there for the missing years prior to 2018, but more digging might turn up something. --Kbh3talk 20:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Done! --Kbh3 05:47, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:21, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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