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Thanks, you beat me to my own talk page. --Rayc 01:39, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

TLAs
A proposal has been made at Requested moves to move TLAs from AAA to DZZ and other related pages to Wikipedia namespace. Please visit Talk:TLAs from AAA to DZZ for the related discussion. -- Francs2000 | Talk 00:44, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

The E=MC2 Barnstar
This E=MC2 Barnstar is awarded for contributions in astronomy. --Gaff talk 19:50, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey yourself
Hey Russ, Yeah I just started WPing not too long ago. Doubt there is a Multiverse High page, and I wouldn't want to start one (a little too obscure, y'know?). Good to hear from you again. Looks like some interesting work you're doing, based on the articles here. I generally stay on the cleanup side, but I did write a stub on my great-uncle: Ralph Holman. See you 'round the multiverse. BonsaiViking 04:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Japanese emperors
The Japanese emperor double redirect that you fixed will actually be correct, once all of the articles themselves have been moved to the proper titles (about 100 out of 125 have already been moved). Anyway, there are a lot of such double redirects for the Japanese emperor articles, and I just want to make sure you don't waste any time on them unnecessarily. Thanks -Jefu 01:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Done
Sorry about that. A banned user was attempting to use IPs to edit articles contrary to the terms of his ban. It became necessary to lock articles to stop this. The problem has now been solved and the user now realises that he could not edit articles while banned. It is now up to the arbitration committee to decide whether they wish to vary the terms of his ban or even repeal it. I've unprotected the article. I hope it didn't cause you too many problems. FearÉIREANN \(caint) 00:09, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Finances and Religion in Iraq
You tagged this article for merging with Iraq War on Oct 23. Personally, I think the thing should be deleted as it just seems to be the author's personal views.

Cool user name by the way. Reyk 04:46, 11 November 2005 (UTC) Ya, probably should just delete it. I was doing new pages and didn't know how to delete it. Thanks, by the way, my user name is my initials.--Rayc 05:37, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Bessel function
Its the gamma function. linas 23:55, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks!--Rayc 02:40, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Whoops
Sorry about that! I didn't mean any offense, just trying to get IPers to contribute :-) JHMM13 19:12, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject:Nebraska proposal
Sorry it's taken me this long to get back to you. I had given up all hope on convincing anyone to work on Nebraska-related articles; now, that seems like it might be a more realistic goal.

People who are or who could possibly be convinced to support such an undertaking:
 * 1) You
 * 2) Me
 * 3) 76
 * 4) MONGO
 * 5) Bkell

If any further momentum builds, we can go about formally starting the project. –Swid 22:22, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Here is another list that you could check: Wikipedians/Nebraska. No one has moved it over yet. ---Rayc 00:03, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Heh, six months later, it still seems that you and I are the only ones interested in this project... – Swid (talk 15:39, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Observatory
What kind of infomration are you looking for about UW-Whitewater's Observatory?
 * Just it's name, location, and webpage would help.--Rayc 01:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Home this helps. Tom e rtalk  17:29, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for voting!
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you!  Páll  (Die pienk olifant) 22:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

karl stephan

 * The picture was from a biographical article. The picture was released publically. He has been deceased for a considerable ammount of time I wouldn't worry too much about someone bugging you about the copyright. The site said it was copyrighted but released.

JJstroker 23:34, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

WikiRPG
Do you want to be first WikiMaster ? ;) Here is a link to the new quest - Welcome WikiRPG/Welcome If you want, write the narrator's note. Przykuta 12:37, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Do people sign up if they want to play, or is it a find it, play it on you own type thing? We could include in the "Welcoming Quest" a mention of the game and keep the quest going until we have enough player to flesh out the actual mechanics of the rest of the game.--Rayc 15:55, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

We have to find players. If they want to play, they will. Now we need a good tutorial - I cerrected quest - you are the WikiMaster and you give points for realized quests. Players only put links to their realization. I show you what a player should do ;) Przykuta 21:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Notability of newspapers
Thanks for your interest in helping out with the list of newspapers. To answer your question...well, when I created the list, I really didn't have a notability in mind, so I simply went on the lists that were mentioned. I wouldn't really even know where to begin for a suggestion, and frankly I'm not sure if the notability information is available for most of the papers, but for a SWAG, lets say 5,000 circulation? That would seem like reaching enough readers to be significant. Weekly papers maybe more, say 10,000. Again, those are just best guesses, from an uninformed user who created the list because he likes creating lists. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 04:09, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorting other backlogs
Hi, I proposed on the village pump proposal section that all active cleanup backlogs should be sorted by bot into X by date. They said I should ask you about it. Is there a bot that could do that?--Rayc 02:39, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I pulled the VP discussion to Wikipedia talk:Maintenance so it wouldn't get lost, and replied there. -- Beland 16:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Albion HS reply
Hey. Sorry for the delay in replying. Your idea sounds fine to me. I think if you were to either categorise or maintain a list of these pages as you went it would be very good.

Strangely, I think my objection to the Albion HS page served a purpose, articles very quickly appeared, as did a third Albion HS! Cheers, -Fermion 02:11, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

High School disambigs
You really expect people to create articles for all of those high schools? Most high schools are not notable. Some guy 05:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree. Those pages hadn't already been created, and there's no reason to automatically assume they would be. It seems to me you are just encouraging the creation of non-notable pages. Some guy 05:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Bowie High School
They're still schools after all, and categorising places the disambiguation article into a findable location for those who may not know the correct article title to begin with. We've done the same type of disambiguation for Andrew Fraser, an Australian name used by several people. It works ok for us. -- Longhair 05:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the Barnstar! Deep maintenance is usually pretty thankless :-) But in all fairness I should point out that clearing the backlog was a joint effort between myself and User:Gardar Rurak, we each did about oh... 600 pages or so. --W.marsh 15:55, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes - thanks for the barn-thingie. You just keep setting 'em up - we'll knock 'em down ;) Gardar Rurak 15:32, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

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U.S. Senators
Exciting! 92.5% complete...the wholesale wikification and incorporation of entire reference works into this glorious encyclopedia of ours is incredibly exciting. Keep up the good work. Paul 21:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

 * not to cast a shadow on the procedings, but with regard to, say, Horace Fairbanks, the box you've added replicates information already included in the "Governors of Vermont" template, which already indicates his predecessor and successor. I would think the article requires only one of these templates, not both! - Nunh-huh 04:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

 * It doesn't just look redundant, it is redundant. But as long as you're aware of the problem.... - Nunh-huh 05:10, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Daemonium
On April 8 you suggested that this article was split but you posted no reasons on the talk page. Please list your reasons for a split or remove the tag if you placed it there by mistake. Thank you. --– sampi ( talk • contrib • email ) 19:06, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see what you meant there, sorry. I used a dablink to indicate Anonymus' album and the band.--– sampi ( talk • contrib • email ) 19:27, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Kensey Johns
There's nothing that a fast internet connection and obsessive tendencies can't accomplish :) Paul 22:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Starting over poll...
I started the poll over again because the first one wasn't official- it was an opinion poll. When I saw that the community would accept the proposal, I put it into an official vote. // The  True  Sora  16:13, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Terrytown, Nebraska
Terry Carpenter ran for mayor of Scottsbluff and did not win in 1931, but he was elected mayor in 1947. See the following sources Source 1, Source 2, Source 3. --Jfitts 23:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

de K5ZC
I found the category you picked for your example on WP:MUPP interesting... Jay Maynard 23:36, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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Marconi merger tag
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No problem with the Merger tag but I couldn't see how long it had been there. You should have also set up a discussion item on the relevant talk page (click the link resulting from the tag). I know it is an obvious merge but it does help for somebody to say yes I agree, let's merge and then do it. --A Y Arktos\talk 10:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Succession boxes
Well, there isn't really any set of rules as far as I know, but I go by what I see. Succession boxes are everywhere, including in articles that already have templates which may make them redundant. I don't agree with the redundant argument, though. --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for handling that cleanup!!! Kukini 23:06, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi -- thanks for your notes to the overdevelopment page. I wonder if you could give me some tips on Wikifying, as Iʻm kinda new to this whole thing. I read the link you posted and it was enlightening about many things, but Iʻm still kinda confused about what to do to the page. Mahalo!Laualoha 00:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Concetta Tomei
Sorry, didn't mean to step on your toes. Was just adding some cats when you made those corrections. Ckessler 23:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Internet slang
I would very fully support porting the whole thing to Wiktionary, since, as you say, WP:NOT etc. The links at the bottom have a couple of problems. Firstly, they aren't actually tied to any of the entries. One has to guess which might be where. More importantly, imo at least, Urban Dictionary, THe Internet Spam Dictionary and Jargon Wiki are not sources of any kind of repute and simply do not belong in the references section of any kind of scholarly work. None of them are peer reviewed and, let's face it, none of them take their task at all seriously. So I don't think the article had any references whatsoever, and also I strongly suspect that most terms cannot be verified from reliable sources, even where they probably do exist. An example of how things can improve with some 'firm' editing is List of sexual slurs or, even better, List of sexual slang. -Splash - tk 03:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't recall on the spot, no. But that's a good place to start. Let's do this at the article's talk, in case other editors want to join in. -Splash - tk 03:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Your comment at WP:UbxW
Um, you do know that the war ended two weeks ago with the implimentation of the german solution, right?--Rayc 18:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Not nesscearily. Many users oppose this because they think it codones userboxes, which Jimbo explicitly opposes. So really, it has merely cooled off, as it has done in the past. Don't be suprised if it heats up again.  Th e   Gerg  19:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Internet slang
MUSH says all the supposed meanings for it are just backronyms. Transwikiing it to Wiktionary would be great (though they'd probably hate it as much as we do), but it could only really be accomplished in an AfD, which rejected it last time. --Rory096 20:00, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Do note that anything can be transwikied at any time without an AfD. It's just the subsequent possible deletion that requires an AfD. That is sometimes helped if it has already been transwikied, because it takes away that slight confusion that often arises and the fear that the 'useful' 'information' might get 'lost'. -Splash - tk 21:10, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * True, but it doesn't help when Wiktionary deletes it because they can't stand the thought of another List of cannabis slang there :o --Rory096 05:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Point well taken re wikification required of John M. Oesterreicher. I actually was about to slap on the appropriate category and also a stub designation. This is definitely a work in progress and requires significant expansion.--Mantanmoreland 01:34, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

re: YHBT
I replied on the article's talk, but on the list of reliable sources there it does have "...where it cites another reliable source", so the question is sort of dodged. I found a Microsoft link for YHBT (I put it on the talk page). See what you think. -Splash - tk 15:31, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

ne unicam senators
I just live in the district and remember chip maxwell and decided to update the page. It was actually my first wiki update ever. I think, however, that there is a former ne legislators page on the unicameral website at unicam.ne.gov

also, the clerk of the legislature has a huge staff down at the Unicam. If someone called him and asked him to get his interns to update all the wiki sites, he probably would make it happen.

Nebraska-school-stub
I noticed you've been creating a lot of pages for schools in Nebraska and tagging them as US-school-stub. Every state in the US (with the strange exception of South Dakota) now has its own school stub (following the format of state-school-stub - except Georgia, which is GeorgiaUS-school-stub). Could you switch to this format when you create to save some stubsorting work down the road? Aelfthrytha 14:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Removed your wikify context tag from eCustoms
Go ahead and put it back if you feel I wasn't in the right when I removed it. BigNate37 06:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

 * As mentioned on my talk page, I should have said I removed your context tag—not your wikify tag. BigNate37 15:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

CTH merge
Hi Rayc. I was looking at your merge notice for Honduras Workers' Confederation and Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens. I'm pretty sure they're not the same union. They're not even in the same country! :) one is in Haiti and the other in Honduras. Although Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens could stand to be moved to the English translation - (presumably Hatian Workers' Confederation). Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 01:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Hi Rayc, I had started an article called Culture of Himachal Pradesh which was labelled copyvio by you. I have two questions:
 * There may also be some other articles in which I had copied some text from other sites though it is changed considerably now. What does one do in such a situation? Is it possible to just delete the past version of an article?
 * I do realise the above article is copyvio now that i have spent some time here. So what happens next? Can I just notify an admin to delete the article? In case you are an admin, can you do it please? Thanks -- Lost 01:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, I think I just figured it out. I have put the speedy template to this one -- Lost 01:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

AKU-94
Hey -- just a reminder; when you use the copyvio tag, be sure to remove the text that's a copyright violation as well. Thanks! Mango juice talk 02:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding UNA Observatory
Free photos are always helpful, but it wasn't what I had in mind. What I meant was, it needs to be converted to use a standard template, hundreds of which can be found here. I'm not sure which one would be ideal, but maybe I'll take a look at it myself. — freak([ talk]) 18:46, Jul. 25, 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps Template:Infobox Historic building would be a close fit, otherwise you could create your own template. Just make it generic enough to be reused in other articles. — freak([ talk]) 19:04, Jul. 25, 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify
Hi Rayc. I know that you've been involved in wikifying articles in the past, so I thought I'd draw your attention to this new project. We currently have a backlog of over 6500 articles, so any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated, even if it's only one or two articles! Alternatively, if you know anyone else who might like to help out, please tell them about it. Thanks :) -Ladybirdintheuk 08:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

uncat-bio
I belatedly noticed this suggestion; I think it's probably a good idea, and I've made some related suggestions at WP:WPBIO, which may be of some interest. Alai 07:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia discussion for entry: Brian Giovannini
Hey! A friend pointed out to me that there is a wiki entry for me (Brian Giovannini) regarding my comic "Postage Due" and the discussion says I died in June. Are you the editor for that page? Since you said that you had heard I am dead, I'm curious where you got that info. I stopped my cartooning career in 2002 and am now pursuing a career in law. Cheers!

Also, do you want a sample comic or something to use as a graphic on the page?

~Brian Giovannini thecomicsdude@yahoo.com

Hi Rayc
Hi there Rayc

I note that you contributed to the XPLANE article at one point. If you're still interested, you might want to weigh in at Deletion review/Log/2006 November 24. I am not canvassing here, just thought you might want to know.Dgray xplane 04:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Nebraska
Someone (not me!) started WikiProject Nebraska. I thought you may be interested in participating. – Swid (talk 20:57, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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Krasnoarmeysk
Hello. The spelling is OK according to http://www.mojgorod.ru/saratov_obl/krasnoarmsk/index.html. - Darwinek 09:37, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Clay Center High School
Hello! I'm just letting you know that I've proposed this page (which you created) for deletion. I've done this because this disambiguation page did not link to a single extant article. Let me know if you have any questions, Dar-Ape 23:30, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I think Clay Center High School (Nebraska) should be moved to Clay Center High School. First of all, right now there is no Clay Center High School (Kansas) article, and I'm unsure as to whether there should be one as the school does not seem particularly notable.  Also, if an article is created on the Kansas high school in the future, the disambiguation page may be recreated.  Until then, though, this seems more practical as well as more aesthetically pleasing. Dar-Ape 17:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Clay Center High School (Nebraska), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Dan0 00 05:17, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I was just going on my own instincts. I figured that for a high school to be notable, a well-known person would need to have attended/worked there. If I'm wrong, I apologize. We'll just have to see what that admin says. Dan0 00 05:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Gabriel Spiro (from Wikiversity)

Editing others' posts
Rayc, thank you for your research on MSTing. But I must ask that you not change my posts, as you did for my Cluetrain Manifesto citation (which I have since reverted). Please review Talk page guidelines for why this is not a good idea. I know you meant well, but you left readers with the impression that I struck the ISBN and put a different one in. In this case, you made an understandable mistake, because the 2000 edition of Cluetrain Manifesto is ISBN 0738202444, a hardcover printing. But the citation I gave was for the 2001 paperback (which is why I took the trouble to provide the detailed citation). Page numbers usually differ between editions, so simply changing ISBNs renders the citation inaccurate and misleading. If you absolutely must make a change like this, at the very least you should (A) mark it with an editorial note, e.g., [Rayc]; and (B) insert a noticeably indented commment just below the end of the post to explain the change and beg pardon. Even well-meaning, accurate edits of others' posts are often considered quite rude because they effectively put words in others' mouths. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:26, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikiquiz extension
I think wikiquiz is now ready to use and I can help you at any point if you want to insert it in wikiversity.

Regards. Lrbabe 20:36, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Installing wikiquiz
If you have admin rights, it is simple : require_once 'extensions/wikiquiz.php'; (just rename it as wikiquiz.php)
 * Add this line at the end of the LocalSettings.php file of wikiversity.
 * Add the following files to the extension folder :
 * wikiquiz.php
 * wikiquiz.js

And this is the License. Lrbabe 07:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Extensions folder
At home, the extensions folder, named "extensions" is at the root of the mediawiki folder (same as "bin", "config", "docs", "images"...). If it isn't there, it may be in the "wiki" folder. Please contact me at gmail : lrbabe. Lrbabe 17:37, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikiversity
Hi, Rayc,

you left a message on my user page concerning wikiversity. I am indeed very interested. My problem is lack of time, but I hope I can still contribute something. I have been looking arround on wikiversity a little bit and somebody has just started an interdisciplinary school on African Studies. I am intending to start something about African Philosophy and African Music. How can I start a project on African Philosophy an let it appear both in the philosophy school and the African studies school. I anderstand there is something called a portal, and that is probably what one has to put under African Studies. However, I have not yet had the time to really look into the rules and structures of Wikiversity. Nannus 17:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Kevin Beary AFD Vote
The article on Orange County, Florida Sheriff Kevin Beary which you have previously edited has been nominated for deletion. Please feel free to share your thoughts on this matter. --TommyBoy 03:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank You : Mills Observatory
Dear Rayc, Thank you editing Mills observatory page, I have added reference. Thanks again, --Cyril Thomas 13:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Dear Rayc, Thank you for the information, actually I was trying to merge the page...then thought it will save the time. I have never tried "move" before, I should learn it. Thanks again, Rayc. Warm regards, --Cyril Thomas 12:43, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikifyig pages
Please remember to remove the Wikify tag from the page after you have finished wikifing it. 193.62.251.32 11:31, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed that bad link. Thanks for pointing it out.

Thank you
Thank you for linking to my article on the Iran-Iraq boundary. I wrote it to help understand the current events, and I am glad to see that it was noticed. Danny 03:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey thanks
Thanks for fixing my user page. :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by W1k13rh3nry (talk • contribs) 00:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC).

Talk:Mount Suhora Observatory
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DDO
I noticed you added most of what was in the David Dunlap Observatory, so I thought you might want to go take a look! Would you be interested in helping me take it to GA? Maury 13:57, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on William Fields, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent.

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 * I have removed the speedy tag on William Fields, as it was clearly not nonsense. --Fabrictramp 15:30, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Are you interested?
Rayc Hi! You were recently contributing to articles that are in the scope of the new project WP:KRISHNA, I thought you may want to check the proposal of merger and cast your vote in relation of the additional section to article Krishna. Thanks. -- Wikidās-ॐ 14:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Amateur radio
Hey there, I recently saw you created the amateur radio discussion page at wikiversity. Also i noticed you're involved in amateur radio yourself. Please look at wikiveristy or inmediatelly at this article to review my suggestion on making a cheap DIY IRLP amateur radio system

Looking forward to your findings, KVDP (talk) 13:47, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Brian Giovannini
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Senator Beau McCoy
HI. Thanks for the compliment on adding the photo of Beau McCoy. I have never done anything like this before. I tried to add some important professional and personal information and it was deleted because it wasn't sourced? So I went back and put in links to all of the organizations that had written about him, which is where I got a lot of the information. They deleted it again. I don't know who is deleting it or why. It's really dissappointing to me, as I'm not cyber-blessed and really worked hard to just put in a paragraph or sentence, cite the reference and BOOM...it's gone the next day. Any help in ordinary english? Anglswings6510 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anglswings6510 (talk • contribs) 14:02, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Ray.... Patrolers hunh? I think the one who eliminated my posts should change his name to "god-o" since he believes he can pass judgement so easily. I'm not political, I don't read campaign fliers. I read about Senator McCoy on the internet, in the local newspapers and saw him interviewed several times on TV. I am also proud to know him from real life and what you see is what he really is and what you get. A very honest, patriotic, old-fashioned, non political man who just happens to be a 'Politician' because he believes in America, the constitution, her history, her past and her potential.

Thank you for re-inserting some of the posts the way the 'patrolers' think they should be posted. As for me, I find you a breath of fresh air...and I find those who delete others posts without any 'talk' are just egotistical control freaks. I posted nothing that was gossip or false, and I found the exact quote to the children of why he became a senator and his encouragement to reach for their dreams to be truly inspirational. But I guess that's not acceptable either. From now on I'll stick to newspapers articles, TV interviews, Radio interviews, public editorials etc...and leave Wikipedia because of the "patrolers". It's not worth the time and effort. BUT again...Thank you Rayc. Thank you for having patience and being willing to teach others, and work with them...instead of obliterating their first amendment rights. Good luck and God bless! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anglswings6510 (talk • contribs) 17:47, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for helping with the Beau McCoy article. Per her request, I have not left any further comments for her even though I strongly disagree with several of her statements about me. Oh, well. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:49, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Paroling is a thankless task, and I admire your persistence. Thanks for the help again.--Rayc (talk) 02:53, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

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Nomination of Vega-Bray Observatory for deletion
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MfD nomination of User:Rayc/Nebraska
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Proposed deletion of Palisades-Dows Observatory

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Help, making updates to University of Nebraska – Lincoln Independent Study High School
We are currently looking for help in getting our Wikipedia page updated with correct information. In short, the name for the online high school changed to University of Nebraska High School over 5 years ago (it was formally University of Nebraska – Lincoln Independent Study High School). We’ve had no success in getting this corrected and it’s presented some challenges when people google us. I was wondering if there’s any way you could help us or direct us to where we can get this corrected.

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Nomination of Axtell High School (Nebraska) for deletion
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Wallace Rice

Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice (10 November 1859 – 15 December 1939) was an American lawyer, writer, and vexillographer. Based for most of his life in Chicago, Rice was a prolific writer and editor; however, he is most famous as the designer of the municipal flag of Chicago.

Biography
Wallace Rice was born 10 November 1859, to John Asaph Rice (1829–1888) and Margaret Van Slyke (Culver) Rice (ca 1829–1891) in Hamilton, Canada West, while his parents were temporarily residing in Canada. His father John Asaph Rice was a hotelier in Chicago, owner of the Tremont House and co-owner of the Sherman House Hotel, and noted collector of rare books, manuscripts, and Americana. As a boy, Rice attended grammar school at Racine College. After graduating from Harvard University in 1883, Rice was admitted to the bar in Chicago in November 1884. He married Minnie (Hale) Angier on 8 August 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, and they had two sons, John and Benjamin. Rice was divorced from his wife Minnie prior to 1920 and he never remarried.

Rice was a newspaperman in Chicago writing for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Herald American, and was a literary adviser and editor for several Chicago-based publishing houses. In 1917, he designed the Flag of Chicago. He compiled a number of stories and anecdotes from newspapers around the country. One of his major anthology works was in collaboration with Clarence Darrow in the editing of Infidels and Heretics published in 1929. He was also an accomplished author in his own right, writing historical pageants, including one celebrating Illinois' centennial and another for the semi-centennial of Birmingham, Alabama. He was also a poet and essayist. Rice died on 15 December 1939 in Chicago.

Selected publications

 * Rice, W. and B. Eastman. 1898. Under the Stars and Other Songs of the Sea. Way and Williams, Chicago. 61pp.
 * Rice, W. 1909. For the Gaiety of Nations. Fun and Philosophy from the American Newspaper Humorists. Dodge Publishing Company, New York. 60pp.
 * Rice, W. and F.V. Rice. 1909. The Wealth of Friendship. Brewer, Barse and Company, Chicago. 210pp.
 * Rice, W. and F.V. Rice. 1911. The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse 1885 to 1910. A.C. McClurg and Company, Chicago.
 * Darrow, C.S. and W. Rice (eds.) 1929. Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology. Stratford & Company, Boston. 293pp.

Genealogy
Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:

 * Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice, son of
 * John Asaph Rice (1829 – 1888)
 * Anson Rice (1798 – 1875), son of
 * Asaph Rice (1768 – 1856), son of
 * Amos Rice (1743 – 1827), son of
 * Jacob Rice (1707 – 1788), son of
 * Jacob Rice (1660 – 1746), son of
 * Edward Rice (1622 – 1712), son of
 * Edmund Rice (1594 – 1663)

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That Stubborn Kinda Fellow

That Stubborn Kinda Fellow is the second studio album by Marvin Gaye, released on the Tamla label in 1963. The second LP Gaye released on the label, it also produced his first batch of successful singles for the label and established Gaye as one of the label's first hit-making acts in its early years.

Background
Following the release of Gaye's first album, The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye, Gaye and Motown were in a struggle to agree with the direction his career should take. Despite the failure of Gaye's debut, which featured jazz and blues songs with only a few R&B songs, Gaye had no desire to have an R&B career, figuring he wouldn't get much exposure from a crossover audience singing R&B. Motown CEO Berry Gordy also had difficulty on how to present the music to the buying public. Though artists like The Miracles and Mary Wells had R&B success, they hardly were noticed by pop audiences. And while Motown's first signing act, Marv Johnson, was one of the label's earliest hitmakers, most of his music was released to United Artists, while Motown Recordings and its imprints Tamla, Motown and Gordy, had still not produced much success. Early releases by The Temptations and The Supremes also failed to gain national attention.

Finally, however, after the release of The Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman", which had a younger R&B sound that also attracted pop audiences and became Motown's first number-one pop single, Gordy decided to have its artists produce a much younger R&B sound. Though Marvin Gaye initially didn't want to go along with it, after seeing the success the Marvelettes had had with a song he co-wrote for them, "Beechwood 4-5789" and the emerging pop success of Mary Wells, Gaye changed his mind and began composing songs with collaborator Mickey Stevenson, determined to get footing in the still-fledgling label.

Recording and composition
Like most Motown albums of the sixties, this album was produced quickly. Gaye wrote or co-wrote the majority of the songs on the album, often with Stevenson but also including other songwriters such as George Gordy, Barrett Strong, and Norman Whitfield, who had spent the early years of his career in Motown as a member of the label's Quality Control Department team.

For the majority of the songs, Gaye enlisted the background vocal helping of a young group named The Del-Phis. Its members were Gloria Williams, Rosalind Ashford, Annette Beard and Martha Reeves. Gordy later changed their name to The Vandellas after the group had been told to change their name before he signed them. Reeves later recalled that upon first meeting Gaye of how shy he was, wearing a hat, glasses and a cigar but had a crush on him as he took the hat and glasses off and began singing. In reaction to how handsome they perceive Gaye, the Vandellas began adding cooing-type background vocals.

The Vandellas would be joined in the background list of singers with The Love Tones (who did backing vocals for other Motown artists, most notably Mary Wells), the Rayber Voices, and The Andantes and struggling Motown groups The Temptations and The Supremes while the music was mainly handled by the label's in-house background band, later known as The Funk Brothers. Gaye himself added instrumentation, performing drums on a few songs and piano in others. The songs on That Stubborn Kinda Fellow incorporated elements of R&B, blues and doo-wop music, while also incorporating a then-nascent subgenre of R&B titled soul music, which Gaye would become one of the genre's major contributors and popularizers.

Release
The album was issued in December 1962 on the Tamla subsidiary of Motown. While the album itself didn't chart (the R&B album chart wouldn't be created until 1965), several of the songs released off the album did chart. The first single was actually the Stevenson composition "Soldier's Plea", which had been issued initially as a non-album single and didn't chart but was included on the album as a filler track. The second single, "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", was the first charted single for Gaye, reaching #8 R&B and peaking at #46 pop in late 1962. The two other singles released from the album, "Hitch Hike" and "Pride and Joy", would fare even better on the pop charts, with "Hitch Hike" reaching #30 and a single version of "Pride and Joy" reaching #10, becoming his first top ten pop single and was also his first R&B single to reach the top five, peaking at #2 on the chart, nearly selling a million copies. With this album and its singles, Gaye was firmly now part of Motown's growing hit elite.

While not released as singles, the songs "Got to Get My Hands on Some Lovin'" and "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)" became popular in the UK Northern Soul scene of the sixties as did the released singles. The songs on the album also became extremely popular with the UK's Mod scene of that same time period, and some of the songs would be covered by so-called British R&B and beat groups such as The Rolling Stones and The Who (in an early incarnation). Back in the United States, pop producers were also impressed by the sound of the album, including Phil Spector, who was so amazed by the sound of "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" that in his excitement, he nearly collided with another car as he was driving. Eventually Paul Young would cover "Wherever I Lay My Hat" in the UK, where the song became a number-one hit in 1983.

Side one

 * 1) "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" (Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson, George Gordy)
 * 2) "Pride and Joy" (Gaye, Stevenson, Norman Whitfield)
 * 3) "Hitch Hike" (Gaye, Stevenson, Clarence Paul)
 * 4) "Get My Hands on Some Lovin'" (Gaye, Stevenson)
 * 5) "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)" (Gaye, Whitfield, Barrett Strong)

Side two

 * 1) "Soldier's Plea" (Stevenson, Gordy, Williams)
 * 2) "It Hurt Me Too" (Gaye, Stevenson, Ricardo Wallace)
 * 3) "Taking My Time" (Stevenson, Gordy)
 * 4) "Hello There Angel" (Stevenson, Gordy)
 * 5) "I'm Yours, You're Mine" (Stevenson, Anna Gordy Gaye)

Personnel

 * Marvin Gaye – lead vocals, piano, drums
 * Martha and the Vandellas – backing vocals (all of side 1 and "It Hurt Me, Too")
 * The Love Tones – backing vocals (on "Soldier's Plea", "Hello There Angel", and "I'm Yours, You're Mine")
 * The Andantes – backing vocals (on "Taking My Time")
 * The Funk Brothers – instrumentation
 * Produced by William "Mickey" Stevenson

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User:Rayc

Hello. I am Rayc, electrical engineering grad student out of Wisconsin.

Cool, WYSWIG!

Pages done

 * My first edit: The Fick Observatory
 * All the bios in Nebraska Legislature
 * All the bios in United States Congressional Delegations from Nebraska
 * Many observatory on the List of observatories

I also work on stub sorting and wikifying, and hope to form a Wikiproject Nebraska one day.

NEODyS list personal wikiproject
Total number of observatories on list: 1185 List: Number of stubs done+ no information found: 50 Percent complete: 4.21%

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Sandboxs

 * /Flik- sandbox
 * /Wikiquest
 * /Nebraska -Starting stuff for the wikiproject
 * /NebraskaComplete-completed lists
 * /OrphanHSdis-List of orphan Highschool disambiguity pages
 * /Replist-List of missing US representative

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User talk:Jim mendo

Welcome!

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Slippery Rock Creek

Slippery Rock Creek is a stream in western Pennsylvania, a tributary of Connoquenessing Creek.

Course and history
From its source in Hilliards in Butler County, it flows through McConnells Mill State Park before flowing into the Connoquenessing in Ellwood City. Then, the Connoquenessing flows into the Beaver River just three miles south from the mouth of Slippery Rock.

There are multiple stories about the origin of the creek's name. In one story, the indigenous Seneca Indians called the creek Wechachapohka or "Slippery Rock", denoting the rocks at the bottom of the stream that could be easily crossed by natives wearing moccasins but not by soldiers wearing heavy boots. In another more prosaic story, the Native Americans coined the name due to natural oil seeps in and around the present-day McConnells Mill State Park that made the rocks slippery; those seeps were later eliminated by fossil fuel extraction.

Recreation
Slippery Rock Creek is a favorite for whitewater kayakers and canoeists from the region. With Class-II and -III rapids and engaging beauty, it attracts regular paddlers from novice to advanced level. Slippery Rock Creek, however, can be very dangerous. The rocks are indeed deceptively slippery, and throughout the year, there are numerous reports of drowning incidents, mostly near the McConnells Mill State Park. In and around that state park, the creek formed a rugged gorge that is popular with hikers, and the Slippery Rock Gorge Trail along the creek and its Hell Run tributary has been named as one of the best hiking trails in Pennsylvania.

Tributaries
Tributaries of Slippery Rock Creek

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TeraGrid

TeraGrid was an e-Science grid computing infrastructure combining resources at eleven partner sites. The project started in 2001 and operated from 2004 through 2011.

The TeraGrid integrated high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and experimental facilities. Resources included more than a petaflops of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes of online and archival data storage, with rapid access and retrieval over high-performance computer network connections. Researchers could also access more than 100 discipline-specific databases.

TeraGrid was coordinated through the Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG) at the University of Chicago, working in partnership with the resource provider sites in the United States.

History
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a solicitation asking for a "distributed terascale facility" from program director Richard L. Hilderbrandt. The TeraGrid project was launched in August 2001 with $53 million in funding to four sites: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, the University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory, and the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

The design was meant to be an extensible distributed open system from the start. In October 2002, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh joined the TeraGrid as major new partners when NSF announced $35 million in supplementary funding. The TeraGrid network was transformed through the ETF project from a 4-site mesh to a dual-hub backbone network with connection points in Los Angeles and at the Starlight facilities in Chicago.

In October 2003, NSF awarded $10 million to add four sites to TeraGrid as well as to establish a third network hub, in Atlanta. These new sites were Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Purdue University, Indiana University, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin.

TeraGrid construction was also made possible through corporate partnerships with Sun Microsystems, IBM, Intel Corporation, Qwest Communications, Juniper Networks, Myricom, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Oracle Corporation.

TeraGrid construction was completed in October 2004, at which time the TeraGrid facility began full production.

Operation
In August 2005, NSF's newly created office of cyberinfrastructure extended support for another five years with a $150 million set of awards. It included $48 million for coordination and user support to the Grid Infrastructure Group at the University of Chicago led by Charlie Catlett. Using high-performance network connections, the TeraGrid featured high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental facilities around the USA. The work supported by the project is sometimes called e-Science. In 2006, the University of Michigan's School of Information began a study of TeraGrid.

In May 2007, TeraGrid integrated resources included more than 250 teraflops of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes (quadrillions of bytes) of online and archival data storage with rapid access and retrieval over high-performance networks. Researchers could access more than 100 discipline-specific databases. In late 2009, The TeraGrid resources had grown to 2 petaflops of computing capability and more than 60 petabytes storage. In mid 2009, NSF extended the operation of TeraGrid to 2011.

Transition to XSEDE
A follow-on project was approved in May 2011. In July 2011, a partnership of 17 institutions announced the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). NSF announced funding the XSEDE project for five years, at $121 million. XSEDE is led by John Towns at the University of Illinois's National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Architecture

TeraGrid resources are integrated through a service-oriented architecture in that each resource provides a "service" that is defined in terms of interface and operation. Computational resources run a set of software packages called "Coordinated TeraGrid Software and Services" (CTSS). CTSS provides a familiar user environment on all TeraGrid systems, allowing scientists to more easily port code from one system to another. CTSS also provides integrative functions such as single-signon, remote job submission, workflow support, data movement tools, etc. CTSS includes the Globus Toolkit, Condor, distributed accounting and account management software, verification and validation software, and a set of compilers, programming tools, and environment variables.

TeraGrid uses a 10 Gigabits per second dedicated fiber-optical backbone network, with hubs in Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles. All resource provider sites connect to a backbone node at 10 Gigabits per second. Users accessed the facility through national research networks such as the Internet2 Abilene backbone and National LambdaRail.

Usage
TeraGrid users primarily came from U.S. universities. There are roughly 4,000 users at over 200 universities. Academic researchers in the United States can obtain exploratory, or development allocations (roughly, in "CPU hours") based on an abstract describing the work to be done. More extensive allocations involve a proposal that is reviewed during a quarterly peer-review process. All allocation proposals are handled through the TeraGrid website. Proposers select a scientific discipline that most closely describes their work, and this enables reporting on the allocation of, and use of, TeraGrid by scientific discipline. As of July 2006 the scientific profile of TeraGrid allocations and usage was:

Each of these discipline categories correspond to a specific program area of the National Science Foundation.

Starting in 2006, TeraGrid provided application-specific services to Science Gateway partners, who serve (generally via a web portal) discipline-specific scientific and education communities. Through the Science Gateways program TeraGrid aims to broaden access by at least an order of magnitude in terms of the number of scientists, students, and educators who are able to use TeraGrid.

Resource providers

 * Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) operated by the University of Chicago and the Department of Energy
 * Indiana University - Big Red - IBM BladeCenter JS21 Cluster
 * Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI)
 * National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
 * National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
 * National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) operated by University of Tennessee at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
 * Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
 * Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) operated by University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.
 * Purdue University
 * San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
 * Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

Similar projects

 * Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), integrating eleven European supercomputing centers
 * Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE)
 * National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGEGI) involving several supercomputer centers in Japan from 2003
 * Open Science Grid - a distributed computing infrastructure for scientific research
 * Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) - the TeraGrid successor

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Toon City

Toon City is a Filipino animation studio located in Manila. They have produced animation for The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon, Universal, Warner Bros., HBO and Cinegroupe.

Toon City was founded in 1993 by Colin Baker with roughly ten animators. Their first series work was for Bonkers. The studio currently has a floor space of over 3000 square meters and can accommodate over one thousand artists producing the animation in traditional 2D, Flash, CGI and paperless Harmony.

List of animated films and TV series
Toon City has provided animation for:

Feature films

 * Kleines Arschloch (1997, TFC Trickompany Filmproduktion GmbH)
 * The Jungle Book 2 (2003, DisneyToon Studios)
 * Piglet's Big Movie (2003, DisneyToon Studios) (uncredited)
 * Teacher's Pet (2004, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Curious George (2006, Universal Animation Studios) (Digital Ink and Paint only)
 * The Three Robbers (2007, Animation X Gesellschaft zur Produktion von Animationsfilmen mbH)
 * WinneToons (2007)
 * Santa's Apprentice (2010, Cartoon Salon)
 * Titeuf, le film (2011, MoonScoop Productions)
 * The Golden Horse (2014, Acme Film)
 * Henry and Me (2014, Sunset Studios)
 * Der kleine Rabe Socke - Das große Rennen (2015, Seru Films)
 * La Leyenda del Chupacabras (2016, Ánima Estudios)
 * Fritzi – A Revolutionary Tale (2019, Trick Studios)
 * Little Vampire (2019, The Magical Society)
 * Koati (2021, Los Hijos de Jack)

Direct-to-video films

 * Belle's Magical World (1998, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Tarzan & Jane (2002, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Mickey's House of Villains (2002, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004, DisneyToon Studios)
 * Bratz: Starrin' & Stylin' (2004, MGA Entertainment)
 * Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004, DisneyToon Studios)
 * Babak & Friends (2005, Norooz Productions)
 * Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars (2005, Warner Bros. Animation)
 * Tarzan II (2005, DisneyToon Studios)
 * Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005, DisneyToon Studios)
 * Kronk's New Groove (2005, DisneyToon Studios)
 * Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006, Warner Bros. Animation)
 * The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006, DisneyToon Studios)
 * Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007, DisneyToon Studios)
 * Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (2007, DisneyToon Studios)
 * The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (DisneyToon Studios Australia) (2008, DisneyToon Studios)
 * Holly Hobbie and Friends: Fabulous Fashion Show (2008, Sony Wonder)
 * Holly Hobbie and Friends: Marvelous Makeover (2009, Sony Wonder)
 * Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! (2009, Universal Animation Studios)

Television specials

 * Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh (1996, Disney Television Animation)
 * The Last Sheep (2019, Trick Studios)

Online series

 * Helluva Boss (2023-present, SpindleHorse Toons)

Shorts

 * Plastic Man (2006, Warner Bros. Animation)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Louis Ballgrounds

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was SPEEDIED. Despite the faintest element of truth, this article is yet another one of a series created by an anon user determined to populate the US with mythical sporting venues and teams. Manning 04:46, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

St. Louis Ballgrounds
Can't confirm the St. Louis Ballgrounds didn't exist but text is false. Check out St. Louis Browns (NFL) BirgitteSB 01:39, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Please note if you picked any city in America and followed the nome with ballpark you find something that might be what they are refering to. However if you look at the contributions of the creator you will understand it is a hoax--BirgitteSB 02:09, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment The text is not entirely false, just confused and with a few names mangled. Read this excerpt from a page about the park that I think he's refering to, and you'll easily get where the text of the page is coming from:
 * "Old Sportsman's Park and its predecessors [were] first used as such soon after the Civil War and only a few years after the game was introduced in St. Louis by Jere Fruin in 1860. The first ball park there was built by August Solari in 1871 as the Grand Avenue Ball Grounds. ... Its name was changed to Sportsman's Park in 1876 when it became the home of the charter member National League Club known as the Browns." - exceprted for clarification only
 * -Harmil 01:56, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Added a redirect for the correct name from Grand Avenue Ball Grounds to Sportsman's Park, and added note of the old name to the latter page. I don't think there's any remaining value in this page. -Harmil 02:10, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete The name is subtly wrong and any fix would be a total re-write better done at the correctly named page, anyway -Harmil 01:56, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Binadot 01:59, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Created by the same person as fictional NFL teams. See the edit history. --EMS | Talk 03:44, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. What the heck is with this vandal? We need to give him a name.. how about the NFL Hoax vandal? lol Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 05:58, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable. JamesBurns 08:57, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.