User talk:Emb021

(talk • contribs) 09:15, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Scouting Project and IP

Mike: you've been showing up all day as your IP, not your user name. You have good contributions to Scouting, and you may be interested in joining our budding project at: User_talk:Gadget850/BSA_article_improvements; if so, please add yourself to the table in the "interested wikipedians" section. Rlevse 20:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Just tipping my hat to you for your contributions to All-American Publications! It's always so great to start a needed page, and then see other people contributing to it. So cool! (You even prompted me to check something that revealed a chronological error I'd made. All to the good!) — Tenebrae 06:34, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Project on American Indians

Hi! As you are interested in the tribal articles, take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America. It's a young project, but very active. I've been trying to add to the articles on the pre-Seminole tribes in Florida, and most recently, on pre-Seminole archaeological sites in Florida. There is a lot to do, as you can see. -- Donald Albury^(Talk) 23:37, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scouting caps

Before we get into an edit war on caps, please take a look at The Language of Scouting (LoS) and look at the entry capitalization under Scouting Terms and Style. The LoS is the official BSA useage, and we are trying to be consistent on this.

On merit badges, we were both incorrect:

merit badge: ... Capitalize the name but not the words "merit badge." Example: "earn the Lifesaving and Swimming merit badges."

So, it should be Camping merit badge.

YIS, --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:07, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS: Not all Scouting literature conforms to the LoS useage, but it is the standard. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:12, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have read the LOS, which is why I didn't go back and change anything. I just don't agree with their cap rules. For instance, to me it should be Junior Assistant Scoutmaster, not junior assistant Scoutmaster, etc. --Emb021 20:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, we need to conform to some sort of standard. Until the project came along, this was all over the place. This use also conforms to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters). I know I can get a bit pendantic on stuff like this, but I am a tech writer! I know some of the writing rules can see odd, but they are usually arrived at by consensus after many long discussions. As another example, take a look at the Army Times: they use the civilian abbreviations for ranks standardized by the newspaper industy instead of the US Army abbreviations. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:23, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've got to go with Emb021 on this one. "Patrol Leader", "Junior Assistant Scoutmaster", and all unit jobs (youth or adult) are titles of specific jobs and as such should be capitalized. Not capitalizing them makes it look like a generic phrase; it's like not capitalizing Systems Engineer on a business card. I know it says otherwise in the LOS and the Scout handbook has them lowercase, but I have always disagreed with it. On the other hand, I do agree with Ed that we need to be consistent throught the Scouting articles. Rlevse 21:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Systems Engineer would be capitalized in that case, since it applies to a specific person: see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters). Where do we want to go with this? --Gadget850 ( Ed) 16:29, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Editing

BTW: We were both adding the same info (Brownsea etc.) to the Boy Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) article at the same time. When I tried to save, I got the edit conflict message and simply pasted my edits back in until I could see what had been added. Weird how that happened.

FWIW, I've been in Scouting since 1969 and Venturing since 1999. Doc Miller's office is about 10 minutes from here: he was my Wood Badge counselor. Seems like we have a lot of the same interests. I've seen your web site, and indeed have referenced it several times, before I knew that was you. It does have a bit of a bandwith cap, so I can only get so many looks before it closes. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 21:18, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scout BSA

I noted on your website the dark green Scout BSA strip for the Leadership Corpshttp://www.geocities.com/yosemite/falls/8826/pics/scoutbsagreenshirt.jpg]. I have one of these in the light green. I was in the Leadership Corps in 1975-76 or so, and may have been given the strip then, but never put it on my uniform. We never wore the forest green shirt. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 20:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I just want to thank you for making that photo work on Steve Fossett. I uploaded the photo and then could not complete the whole thing. I can't thank you enough! PowersPhotos.

Sorry, didn't do anything. Was just adding Fossett to the Silver Buffalo category. --Emb021 20:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Scouting article work

If you are getting this, it is because you do or did work on Scouting articles (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scouting#Participants_and_primary_areas_of_interest).

As the Scouting WikiProject has been formed since early January 2006, we've had many great improvements made in this area of Wiki and I want to personally thank everyone for their help. We don't always agree on things, but we keep moving forward. YIS, Rlevse 22:09, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked?!?

"Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Metavandal". The reason given for Metavandal's block is: "user..."."

Some user named Curps has blocked me because he has blocked the IP I come in from (129.188.33.221), which is a proxy IP. Ridicious!

Unblocked, sorry about that, none of us sysops have any way of knowing if the user is coming from a proxy (I assume AOL) or not, as we don't have IP addresses for usernames. Anyways, you should be able to edit now -- Tawker 18:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ace Books

Hi -- I noticed you're making some improvements to some of the paperback publishing stubs. Glad to see it. One I've spent quite a bit of time on is Ace Books, and I wondered if there was anything you could do to improve the article. I asked for a peer review on it and one thing that was suggested was to get more background information on the success of the company financially over the years. Currently there is very little about the success of the line since the 1970s. Anyway, anything you can do would be much appreciated; and if not, I'm glad to see your improvements to Popular and Dell and so on.

Mike Christie 17:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America Newsletter - July '06

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Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent

Hi Michael, thanks for coming back about your additions to the Valérian article. I note that you state that you don't have a cite for Fantasy Flight's intentions to print two further titles in the series but you also state that you have been keeping a list of European comics for which English translations have been made or scheduled. Presumably this information came from somewhere - either a press release from the company or a trade publication? Is it just the case that you never kept track of where you picked up the info in the first place? Given that the other editors on the article are keen to put it up for WP:GA, we're a bit sensitive about contributors adding uncited material at the moment. I would propose to keep the line with the {{fact}} tag on the article until the GA nomination is initiated - if either you (or another editor - I'll do some research myself) can find a cite then well and good, if not I think we'll park the line on the talk page until someone can come up with a suitable cite. I'll also copy our discussion onto the main article talk page for the other editors to see. I hope you understand - by the way, the other changes you made to the article were very useful. Regards — Joe King 21:53, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sea Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)

I added images for ranks, positions and other awards for Sea Scouting (Boy Scouts of America). I am not a Sea Scouting expert, so I would appreciate a review to ensure I have the images labeled correctly and that I am not missing anything. Now that we have images, we should be able to cut a lot of the descriptive verbiage. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 15:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

APO Songs

Greetings, my name is John Patrick. I am the one that emailed you about trading APO materials. I am interested in children's songs, scouting songs and fraternity songs. Do you know any songs from your college days? BSA songs...especially the unofficial songs.

serendipitousstl (email) 19:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposed: Pines Comics → Nedor Comics

It has been proposed to merge the content of Pines Comics into Nedor Comics. Since you have previously edited one of these articles, I thought you might be interested. You're welcome to participate in the discussion if you like. --B. Wolterding 17:10, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ellsworth H. Augustus International Scout House

The Augustus Scout House was located at Schiff. The National Office was mearly an office building in New Brunswick. It was at Schiff that the Scout House, Musuem, etc, were located. --Emb021 August 21, 2007 —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 15:50, August 21, 2007 (UTC).

Michael, are you certain? I've seen many references to the "Johnston Historical Museum" being located in New Brunswick at the national office and NOT at Schiff. Just seeking clarification since I only visited what used to be Schiff once in 1995. --Jdurbach 17:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Parliamentary Procedure

I just wanted to let you know about the formation of WikiProject Parliamentary Procedure. We hope to cover all the major motions and parliamentary procedure terms. You are welcome to join. Thanks, Obuibo Mbstpo (talk) 19:42, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of The Objectivist Forum

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Appears to lack sufficient notability to justify its own article. Maybe roll into a section on magazines/newsletters published by Rand?

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No TOAP at 2010 NBSJ

Apparently there is no TOAP at this jamboree (not really sure what that is though). See http://oashows.blogspot.com/ . Also can you add a ref for the 2010 events.Naraht (talk) 15:20, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of The Ayn Rand Column

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WikiProject Scouting elections

You are receiving this notice as an active member of WikiProject Scouting. To change your status as a member, please edit Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Members.

Rlevse is retiring as our lead coordinator; see Stepping down as ScoutingWikiProject Lead Coordinator. Election for a new coordinator will be held after the new year. If you are interested in nominating yourself or another editor, please add the name to Project coordinator election.

Yours in Scouting
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Unreferenced BLPs

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Craig Dirgo - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Audio theatre an article to audio dramas

Please if you have time and you know anything to it (I have seen that you have made edits in the article area which owns relations on it) , please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what you would say to the merge and the delete discussion. And possibly it could help to contact other people that they should help also. )-: Merry Xmas --Soenke Rahn (talk) 13:41, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Emb021! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

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Proposed deletion of Sarge Steel

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fix

some one fix the grammar in the wrestling wikipedia thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.136.67 (talk • contribs) 19:08, 27 May 2012

Robert Hogan

I was looking at this article as a new page -- I suspect that someone may put a speedy tag on it because there is so little information. I did find this page [1] but I can't discern whether this is a reliable source or not, or even if the information is remotely correct. I thought I might pass this link along to you in case you could use it to build up the article a bit in case someone tries to speedy it. Ubelowme (talk) 18:51, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Invitation to a Wicnic in Gainesville on Saturday, June 22nd

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Some baklava for you!

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Still around

yup, still around. I just don't do as much editing as I used to. --Emb021 (talk) 23:55, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Knights of the Galaxy

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Nomination of Prankster (Charlton Comics) for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Mercury Man

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Category:DC Comics Western characters has been nominated for renaming

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Proposed deletion of Jaguar (Archie Comics)

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The article is a pure plot summary with a bit of publication history. The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline requirement nor the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) supplementary essay. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you. PS. If the PROD is not challenged, I encourage the closing admin to do a SOFTDELETION and redirect this to ist of Archie Comics characters#Other superheroes .

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Nomination of Wonder Comics for deletion

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