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It looks like I am the first to talk on your new talk page. Thankfully the bad weather has passed us and Nathalie's family by. Thanks again for the thoughts. I created

22:33, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I am pretty sure you are right about

15:49, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I created

19:31, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I created

22:33, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

02:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I have noticed that the Demographics for Elkland have to be way way off. Elkland is not big but there are way more than 7 people or whatever it says now.

18:57, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Does she speak any Iroquoian languages? To answer you question, no she doesn't but she is interested in learning. The problem is that very few people speak the

01:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Created four more today.

01:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I just created

It's been a long and slow day at Penney's. I completed 4 more today. 2 expanded.

00:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I know what you mean about being worried about dropping the camera in the river. If I took our camera out and dropped it in the water, my wife would kill me! The store is closing in ten minutes!! Woo-hoo! I thought about a picture from the bridge too. There is a walway over the bridge it should be pretty safe. Thanks for the help.

01:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I created

01:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Holy crap! I just created

02:54, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

• I already tried that. It happens on the computers here at Penney's. I usually stop and save, but for some reason it slipped my mind and I didn't tonight. I had been working steady on it for and hour!
  Dincher
  02:58, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

What's up Fisch? I recreated

01:41, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

About 15 years ago. The Williamsport Sun-Gazette ran either an article or a series of articles about "Alvira" and the Ordnance. I don't know if it will contribute to the White Deer Hole Creek article or not and they might be hard to find too, but they were very interesting, including interviews with people who actually had lived in Alvira. You could probably find them on microfilm at the James V. Brown Library in Williamsport.

02:58, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Regarding, White Deer Hole Creek - the colors show up much better on the large map than on the small map for the new version that is. The picture of the valley is a plus. It gives a picture of the size and beauty of the valley and shows the restoration of the forests. I expanded

20:07, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

The map looks a lot better on my computer at home. Perhaps the monitor at work isn't set up quite right. I think that a picture taken from a kayak in the river would be a very good picture of the

05:25, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I am gonna look at your updates on White Deer Hole Creek in a moment. I just finished

18:08, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

The topographic/3D map is another plus. Did you add one to

18:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! You deserve it and worked hard to get it! Does this mean it is a canidate to be the main article on the main page now?

03:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

You're right about Buchanans' birthplace. I will fix it. I thought of you when I was writing up the the Blue Knob State Park.

13:31, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

• Dincher
  13:35, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for everything. I am making the changes now. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 05:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your cons.--Yannismarou 11:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the clean up on Bald Eagle Mountain and all the wikilinks. Have a look at Bald Eagle Valley and Nittany Valley, and please add any interesting content you may have. You may also want to check the older article on Mount Nittany as well. Dhaluza 15:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

60 miles is the approximate straight line distance along Bald Eagle Mountain. After that it becomes Brush Mountain which still needs an article. I would suggest that the information on the communities belongs in the article for the valley, with a link from the mountain page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhaluza (talk • contribs) 17:05, 28 November 2006

Yes, so much to do. I usually upload the picture, then write the caption, so I know that leaves the picture page blank. I should go back and clean up by cutting and pasting the captions back, but in the mean time, there is always "what links here". I'm not sure what to do about the other Bald Eagle Creek, but I was planning to just add it to the main article, rather than make another, because what would you call it? I think that means we need to expand the BEV article south as well. By all means, expand the BEMt article. My only point was that if you describe the socio-political aspects, that should go in the valley article, because almost nobody lives on the mountain. I added some to the WBSV article, and could use some help with it too.

Hi,

When using

by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.

Thanks! :)

Hbackman 01:29, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

I read some of the

04:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Shickellamy, Shikellamy either way is pretty hard to type and spell without messing it up. I expanded

01:55, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

On December 8, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sheshequin Path, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Hello again Ruhrfisch - haven't crossed paths since Janx Jrotum vandalised all the Pennsylvania articles. Great work on Pennsylvania as usual. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations on the FA too. You should have asked me for a vote! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on Sheshequin Path!

13:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Dear Ruhrfisch,

I am writing to you because I wanted to solicit your opinion. I nominated the Ohio Wesleyan University article not too long ago and am looking for help with copyedit for the article. Do you know of any Wikipedia editors who will be willing to help out? Thank you for your time! WikiprojectOWU 00:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Dear Ruhrfisch,

Thank you so much for the quick response! I really greatly appreciate your willingness to help! I have been trying to work with a few people to improve the article and so any help goes a long way! My thinking was that two areas might warrant more immediate attention: (1) Tightening up the article, and (2) POV language.

Thank you again! I very much appreciate your help! WikiprojectOWU 07:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

"In 1787, Caleb Farley settled on White Deer Hole Creek with his family (including his four year old son John), and built a mill on the creek by 1789."

You usually "settle in" an area. Besides, should you call it by name if Caleb is supposed to be second possible source of the name as suggested in the first paragraph of the section? Also, I can't quite imagine a mill built on a creek. They float like a bunch of rocks :) Could you clarify how this paragraph about Caleb links to the previous one?

Also, perhaps you should say "two etymologies have been suggested" instead of "are given". - Mgm|^(talk) 11:08, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• "Settled on" may be proper usage, but for me (non-American) it was confusing so I pointed it out. The connection between the two etymologies should be purely grammatical. You say there's two of them, but you didn't actually state that the story about Caleb is the second one. I'll read the article again tomorrow and see if I can support its FAC nomination. - Mgm|^(talk) 21:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
• Sure, if you feel our conversation is important/relevant enough to the article, then go ahead and copy it over. - Mgm|^(talk) 00:11, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again! I will contact the user regarding help with POV bias. Hopefully, he/she will be able to devote some time. So, that leaves redudancy and tightening up the article as two key areas that we might need some help with. Thank you so much for agreeing to put some time into it! It will really make a difference in improving the article! :-) WikiprojectOWU 19:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you! Big time! WikiprojectOWU 20:05, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your cons about Demosthenes's appearance in the main page.--Yannismarou 07:37, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I expanded

02:23, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for making the stub. I have a question about the IUCN Categories. Do all the state parks really have this label? I am not all that sure what an IUCN is.
  Dincher
  16:37, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

• • That IUCN page is about as clear as mud, the wiki and the web page. I am not going to worry about it for now, I will continue, to keep the map the same, but I am not going to worry about the IUCN tag. Things are actually busy at Penney's so my work is slowing down on wiki for now. I will be working on
    Dincher

Just expanded

22:54, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I finished expanding

02:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

• Dincher
  03:38, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

That's fine, you are helping us anyway. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'm looking forward to your edits and comments. WikiprojectOWU 04:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

White Deer Hole Creek has gotten the gold star. As I said, it couldn't have happened to a better article.

Now let's get it on the Main Page. Daniel Case 05:24, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I see your point. (CTTOI, Larrys Creek has been in the pipeline for some time already ... why not wait until after it runs, because they'd want to wait anyway.)

And, if it waits, you can get those other two photos. Plus it'll be nice to have that lush green photo on the main page in warmer weather. Daniel Case 18:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Supplementing this

You know, for a chemist you write damn good geography articles (and coming from someone with an undergraduate degree in the subject from one of the better departments in the country, I'd like to think that should mean something). You've given me an example to follow for Shawangunk Kill (a similar backwater close to where I live, a tributary of the Wallkill which is in turn a tributary of the Rondout which finally drains into the Hudson).

I'd also like to say that your work on

(the highest peak in the Catskills) for GA, peer review and a run at featured status.

BTW, speaking of that and looking at the other WikiProjects you're part of, have you considered working on

16:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, there's an even better thing to do

		The Original Barnstar
		For all your work making White Deer Hole Creek not only a featured article, but a standout featured article Daniel Case 14:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

OWU alumni

Thank you! Any help is appreciated! I corrected the years based on some more research. WikiprojectOWU 02:46, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks good. I think most of the "?"s can be resolved by trusting the dates on the "List of Ohio Wesleyan University people" page. Bob schwartz 02:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello again! Sorry I've been unresponsive for so long. I've been busy in lab and whatnot and have mostly been doing medieval peerage stuff, which is sufficiently rote so as not to require much mental overhead. Congratulations on White Deer Hole Creek. The depth and texture of these creek articles you write absolutely amazes me. I agree with the commenters above: this ought to be a front-page article. (I just double-checked the railroad info, BTW, and it's fine.) I'm sorry I was too late to get my oar in on FAC, but it seems it didn't need it. :) And thank you for those nice historical maps; have you seen http://www.pennpilot.psu.edu yet?

Went gallivanting over the back roads of SoLanCo over Thanksgiving — very back roads. River Road along the Tucquan Creek looks like it must flood anytime more than a quarter-inch of rain comes down. Anyway, got pictures of the high bridge at Martic Forge, which rumor has it is slated for demolition, then parked at the put-in below Safe Harbor dam and took in the high bridge there as well. Lock 6 of the Conestoga Navigation is still in relatively good, if dry, condition nearby. Ranged up through Columbia in time to see a local come down the Columbia Branch from Lancaster hauling steel plate from Mittal Steel in Coatesville, drove past the last remaining structure from Chickies #2 Furnace, and saw the sprawling, mostly-derelict mill complex at Steelton before heading home. Nice industrial-heritage-of-the-Susquehanna tour; must work on

05:17, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Susquehannock

I expanded

Dincher

03:46, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and submitted

Dincher

05:24, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

• Just did a quick copy edit on
  Dincher
  05:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

• • I woke up this morning to find
    Dincher
    14:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

I just nominated

03:32, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

• Thinking about if the PK article becomes an FA and then the GA template gets taken away....there should be a template that says..."This article was once a good article, but it's been promoted to featured article". —
  ExplorerCDT
  03:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
  • RE: COMMENTS ON MY TALK PAGE: Added notice to WikiProjs Rivers and NJ. Forgot to do that, thanks for reminding me. Fixed TOC and Ref size. I like the emboldening of the tributary names as I find quotation marks used for emphasize to be distracting. Quotations marks are used for quotations, not for rhetorical notice. Latin names cut out, just don't know how to cut down on it being too listy. I could move the agriculture stuff, but where? It doesn't totally fit in with the discussion of farming in the history section. As for the trees, there wasn't forestry as an industry, just incidental plundering of the stock to build houses, barns, firewood. I refrained from listing the parks because none of the parks actually sits on the Paulins Kill. Feel free to weigh in whenever you want. —
    ExplorerCDT
    17:46, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• I can't see anyway of adding to the lead. What would you recommend? —
  ExplorerCDT
  18:19, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
  • I added some to the lead, leaving out a lines about popular culture and etymology. The latter is too odd and disparate to bring into the intro, and the former is just an afterthought to begin with. Has to be some excuse for people to read the article, not just glance over the intro. —
    ExplorerCDT
    18:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that suggestion, will definitely do that in the next few moments. —

01:51, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

It works. I couldn't wrap my head around it, so I deleted it (the third option). Thankfully you knew what you were doing. —

02:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

• Glad you like it - I already saw Nichalp's message so I left a notice at his(?) talk page. I also just eliminated repetitive names (woodpecker, owl) in a series which makes birds shorter and less list-y. There are probably some inconsistencies between my style and yours - not sure I did all the dates accessed as you did - are you British by chance? I also added some refs on the protected areas and general refs for the animals and hunting. Feel free to supplement or change these too. If you are happy with it and Nichalp is too, you might want to say on the FAC page and the editors' talk pages that you now believe that all issues have been addressed and could they look at it again. Ruhrfisch 03:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

• • Not british, just a new yorker who likes british spellings and european ways of doing things (dates, crossing 7s, etc.). I'm happy with it, so there won't be any changes that I can see right now. I'm just about to take a 1050 mile road trip to florida, so it might take a day or two before i respond next...but...how long does the fa candidacy take usually? why so few people chiming in? —
    ExplorerCDT
    03:34, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

• • • You have an uncanny way of deflating a stand on principle. —
      ExplorerCDT
      17:38, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for adding and having the picture to add the the

13:59, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• Lots of people have been visiting
  Dincher
  21:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Back at work tonight. Earlier today I expanded

02:49, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I expanded

03:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

• I am gonna go with the second tweak. Thanks I thought that mentioning the park earlier would be better. I've looked at Paulins Kill a few times. It looks pretty good to me. Loads and loads of details.
  Dincher
  03:37, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the fixes on Caledonia. I hope it makes DYK someone with a sense of humor should appreciate it. Edith Bunker is one of the funniest characters on TV ever and the fact that she has a connection to a state park in PA just tickles my funny bone. Expanded

05:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I had tried to do that before. Unfortunately, it didn't work (it caused my browser to crash), so I had removed it. Now that I learned a lot about JavaScript (ironically, mostly by writing the PR script), I think I might be able to figure it out. AZ _t 02:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ruhrfisch/monobook.js&oldid=95352908 - the error would be the last line (Retrieved from…), which I think you inadvertantly copied. {{js}} will do the same thing as all of that 'winc' stuff (eg, {{subst:js|something.js}}).

By the way, I'm considering adding a whole collection of scripts that do automated MoS fixes together (Bobblewik's,

User:Gimmetrow/replace.js, etc.) onto the PR script, and adding a button which would fix everything in one click. Sound good? AZ _t

00:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Alright, it's done – several scripts are now included; there's a new button now (after opening up the suggests.) that automatically does both of Bobblewik's scripts at once as well as some other stuff. I'm going to be on vacation for the next week, but when I return I'll try working on the duplicate link problem. Thanks, AZ _t 02:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

On the talk page for

22:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

See here: Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Map_of_the_Paulins_Kill_and_its_Watershed

I won't be surprised at all if somebody deletes the picture of Edith from the Caledonia State Park article. Wikipedia isn't the most humorous place on the internet that is for sure. Writing the articles about State Highways doesn't interest me too much either. I was just wondering if you knew off hand of somebody who does them regularly. I will look into it now. Merry Christmas my friend.

16:39, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

• I bet you never thought that you and Edith Bunker would be mentioned in the same sentence? It looks like her picture just might stay up there. Merry Christmas again. I am off to the inlaws!
  Dincher
  21:29, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

• I looked for info on the history of
  Dincher
  16:33, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

I made a few tiny changes to

23:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Expanded

01:53, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I am not sure where to put this, as I am new to all this. I did not see an edit button on my talk page. We are a newspaper in Pike county, pa and I see some outside groups with links and I do feel what we cover is very important. Our moto is "News You Should Know" I would like our paper to appear as a resource for folks looking into Pike and the towns herein. If y ou don't mind I would appreciate a responce on my talk page. Thank you for your consideration. User:Pikeweatherman of Tristateobsever.com (03:44, 23 December 2006)

As a news site, we cover many articles, not just pike county, but as you said, we have State, National, and World news, besides local. Maybe we should be listed in all those catagories?? Since you must follow your rules and not list business nor news resources I will help you by placing important infractions here on your page.

In order to follow your rules, as you remove my news resource, please also remove the Pike Chamber of Commerce, hence the word Commerce, meaning business, meaning business development. Also, please visit Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania and remove most of the COTA info under happenings as these are direct links to businesses or artists trying to sell their art, hence business. I will keep you informed as I find more business links.

I removed the commercial link from this page which I see you have reverted. There is no unique detailed information as this reference refers to. Only a commercial page selling apple trees. My thoughts are a better non-commercial reference should be found for this article and this one removed. What you reverted only supports other come to wikipedia and spamming with commercial links. Seasoned editors should be setting an example here. 66.38.39.28 13:40, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Three Four Questions:

1. How much longer will this process take?
2. Why haven't the people who added a "comment" come back to vote? (I will remind them again)
3. Why haven't more people said support or oppose?
4. Will it pass with only 3 supports, no opposes, and two comments addressed by us?

Thanks again for all your help. What's your next GA/FA candidate? Mine is

00:35, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi. This seems to have stopped working. Any idea why? Ben MacDui (Talk) 14:32, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I tried by-passing the cache, quitting Safari, and reloading the template to the monobook, but no joy. The 'peer review' button still appears at the right of the edit page, but clicking on it does not seem to achieve anything. Andy is on a wiki-break. I used it twice a few weeks ago, but not since. Am I missing a step out somewhere? Thanks for offering to do it. I am after one for Flannan Isles which could be pasted here - but no worries if you can't find the time. Ben MacDui (Talk) 17:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks one again, both for the review and the copy edit. I copied your monobook and tried a few more pages at random. Morvern, Black Isle & Aušra worked, but Staffa and Mull did not. Most curious. Can you tell me what the Interiot tool is for? Thanks also for the further offer of help. I'll get back to you if it is not working next time I need it. Ben MacDui (Talk) 15:09, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Ta. I'll contact Andy Z. All the best for 2007. Ben MacDui (Talk) 11:04, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

If you have time will you make the fix for Steamtown on the Gouldsboro article and the Tobyhanna article. I gotta run for the night. If not I'll get it tomorrow.

02:49, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for getting that.
  Dincher
  05:10, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I just expanded

01:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

• I submitted it to DYK. Is there such thing a "Featured Lists" on wikipedia? Do you think that once the PA state park articles are completed that they could be a featured list?
  Dincher
  05:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

• I looked at this list
  Dincher
  14:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

• • The map for the National Parks links to the article for each park. I have no idea how to make it but it is really cool. The map for Alberta seems to be too busy. I like the dots with the links best. I think we should use it if we can make it. The sortable table is pretty cool too.
    Dincher
    21:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

• • • The PA State Parks map looks pretty cool so far. What are we going to do about the parks that don't really fit under a dot? Maybe we'll just have to adjust and make'em a dot. I am glad you like working with the high speed tools. For now I am going to continue to work on getting the articles knocked out. I really don't have far to go. I am working on
      Dincher
      06:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I see that you're working hard on the PA state parks map. Keep up the good work. I was going to do some more work, but I just don't feel like it now. I did finish

21:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that you have had to move a lot of the locator dots on the PA state park articles. Do you have a better way of precisely locating the dot? I've just been eyeballing them in.

23:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking about making a bigger map with smaller dots for this project of ours. I am glad you did it. Thanks for answering the dot question. You sure bit off a big project, but I think it is going to be worth it. I expanded three parks today, lets see if I can remember them, I just did

01:55, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

There is no doubt that the

04:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC) My wife thinks this stuff is really nerdy!

• I just expanded
  Dincher
  16:33, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
• So you are busy adjusting locator dots again. JoePa was actually offered the Steelers job in 1969 before Chuck Noll took the job. If anybody can coach both teams. It's gotta be JoePa he's the original Blue
  Dincher
  05:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I added a couple more maps, Point and Presque Isle. What do you think should be done about

23:15, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Replying to your last message? What kind of reference do you mean? I agree with the county or counties. I haven't found the area for all of them, not even on PADCNR's page. This will take additional research. Streams and lakes is good too. I am just not sure what kind of reference you mean. Do you mean a little blurb about each park or a reference to an external source? Yes, the map does look rather ill. I have never seen measles. I was think about chicken pox! Well I am back at school. This kids will be here tomorrow!

12:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the medal! That one is pretty cool. I played around some on your frog page. I like the system so far. The refs, are a good idea, shouldn't be any questions about the accuracy of our work. I think we should add the year. It gives us a historical context to go along with the geography already included.

23:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking that the map should be added when it is done. No need to wait. Then add the sortable list when it is ready. Yeah we should wait until we have all the info we can find on our own before we ask questions. I have been working on

00:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I finished up

00:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I see that

02:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• I made the changes you suggested for Shawn the groundhog eating sea monster. He's off the main article and on the talk page. I really wish somebody could come up with a source. The Nearby State Parks question is something I wanted to ask too. I think we should have a consistent rule. Maybe all parks within a certain radius? 30 miles or so?
  Dincher
  04:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• So we are agreeed on 30 miles. I will work on them too. This means that not all will have a state park that is "nearby". But there is nothing wrong with that. I will probably be working on the nearby state parks too today. And adding info to the Frog page.
  Dincher
  16:33, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the semi-automated peer review on

00:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy New year! Yesterday, I finished another round of including editors' suggestions for Ohio Wesleyan University. Feel free to take a look when you have the time. :-)

Johntex and Ruhrfisch:

• Thank you for your compliments on all of my hard work! This has been a new experience for me to edit and even start new articles on
  Jordanrschroeder
  22:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

As of a few moments ago,

22:48, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Dincher

16:40, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I am glad that you like the woodchuck. Perhaps the groundhog could become sort of a mascot for our List. I nice and respectful and apparently serious picture of the little critter could be featured prominently on the list page when it is ready for Featured Status. I added him to my user page too. The first animial I ever hit with a car was a groundhog, high atop

17:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• Answers. I think that we should include state parks from other states if they are within the 30 mile radius. For the parks that don't have any within the 30 miles I think one or two closest will be good too. I think I am going to take my PA/NJ AAA issued map off the wall and make a circle with a 60 mile diameter and place the center on the park and go from there. My computer at home is too slow to be going back and forth looking up the coordinates and typing them in and so on. Maybe the circle idea will work. If my cat leaves me alone. She is a pencil freak!
  Dincher
  16:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• • I think that we have found a good solution to the nearby state parks distance question. I like what you did at Ryerson Station.
    Dincher
    17:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I expanded

04:09, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Feeling introspective, and as I respect your judgment and wisdom (even when brutal) and consider you a partner in that you have been immensely helpful in improving the projects I've been working on, I'd like you to take a crack at reviewing me at

22:15, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

• Don't worry about being brutal. Because your suggestions are wise, thorough, constructive and worthwhile, I respect your brutality. Idiots who are brutal get my wrath. —
  ExplorerCDT
  09:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• Also, I wouldn't mind if you also review my current work in progress:
  ExplorerCDT
  09:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
  • P.S. Thank you for the semi-automated PR. Already found an appropriate infobox. —
    ExplorerCDT
    04:22, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Whatever you see on my talk page, or in my contributions that piques your interest. —

05:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)