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thanks for the help

Just noticed you are ticking off the unchecklisted ones too. :) Chris Day 09:00, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem. Also I've noticed that this page has a number of non-articles there. As I've said before, people trying to insert weird stuff on the wiki tend not to subpaginate. John Stephenson 09:01, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

A good way to catch it before it enters the stream. Chris Day 09:02, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your disambiguation of Labour. I have been trying to sort out a terminological mess, and that helps. Nick Gardner 05:56, 5 June 2009 (UTC) PS I don't see the need for footnotes: what did you have in mind?Nick Gardner 06:11, 5 June 2009 (UTC) ):

Thanks for the U.S. political help

It sometimes helps to have eyes on terminology, especially when a well-intentioned "native" author is working from journalistic sources rather than direct experience in the operations of politics. You have a good eye.

While I do have considerable direct political experience, I learn things from visitors. I'll never forget the observation of a friend, Swedish-born and European raised, now living in the U.S. and indeed teaching U.S. history as she finishes her doctorate. I was playing tourguide in Washington, DC, where I lived for about 40 years and know rather well, and we had first visited the Lincoln Memorial (which still has an emotional effect on me like few others). We walked two blocks to the Vietnam War memorial, "the wall", and Pia Kate commented "how appropriate these two monuments are so close!"

Puzzled, I asked her to explain, and she asked "weren't these the two times your country had the greatest internal instability?" One might make a couple of other suggestions, but it was a profound insight. Howard C. Berkowitz 07:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Write a Thon Wednesday!!

Hey John--when you awake, please join us at the write-a-thon, to discuss thoughts (and books) Aleta Curry 23:36, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Obama personal article vs. administration article

What is your thinking about how closely the articles should be tracking? For example, I put material about the National Security Council reforms into the administration but not the personal article, because Obama himself was not especially part of the discussion. True, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs was talking about his official relationship to the President, but I felt it wasn't James Jones talking about his relationship with Barack Obama. Howard C. Berkowitz 04:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for adding more to this article. Yes, I agree with you - material on the personal article should relate more firmly to Obama himself, and the activities of the many members of his administration are for the Obama administration article. John Stephenson 03:28, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Recursive redirect

"English in Japan" now redirects to itself. I assume you intended it to redirect to something else -- true? Bruce M.Tindall 01:21, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes - thanks for spotting that! John Stephenson 06:23, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Hawaiian language

I want to write an article on the Hawaiian language, but I am afraid that I just wouldn't do it justice. Perhaps after I write up the basics, you could look over it for me? I'm don't have any formal education in Linguistics, nor do I have any real experience with Linguistics, but having grown up in Hawaii, I do have some experience with the language.Drew R. Smith 10:20, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

I have created the Hawaiian language article. Could you please take a look at it?Drew R. Smith 08:14, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Inactive Editor bot

I've now created this bot, the code for which can be seen at User:Caesar Schinas/pwb/cg_inactiveeditor.py.
Two examples of the changes which it would make are this and this.
What do you think? Caesar Schinas 13:40, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

I have run the script through the list of editors, and it's a bit depressing to see the number go down from over 300 to under 50... Caesar Schinas 23:20, 29 June 2009 (UTC)