• Archive 1: 2006-April 25, 2008
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From Thomas' page:

"...where he continued to practice law and became the territorial deputy attorney general..."

-RWReagan (talk) 18:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Indiana Barnstar
		I was going to award you with an Indiana Barnstar for all your work on the History of Indiana article, but I see you already have one. At any rate, good work on the article, and congratulations on the GA review. That article came a long way in a short amount of time! Mingusboodle (talk) 11:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Mingusboodle! I couldn't have done it without you! Your work on the readability and adding content has been fantastic! It has really turned out great. I am trying to find more information on the 70s until now for the Modern Indiana section and then I hope to get it approved for feature status! Charles Edward 12:10, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Myself, and to a lesser extent Jahnx, have been working on the article for the Big Four Bridge. I think its close to GA. Do you have any ideas on improving it?--Bedford 02:35, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I made a few minor edits. I think it looks pretty good. Some pictures of the train wrecks on the bridge would be cool. I will look around for some and add them if I can find them this evening.) Charles Edward 18:19, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is the "Daniel Parker" article I deleted: "Daniel "Danny" James Parker was born in Casa Grande, Arizona, but moved to Santa Monica, California when he was just 2 years old. At the age 5, he began to sing in church. He sang so loud that his teacher told his parents that "someday Danny will be in show business!" The next year, he started taking dance lessons. By the time he was 8, He performed with Donny Osmond, in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat production. He was the youngest cast member of the show. After a 4-month run, it was over and he cried, because he had so much fun and he didn't want it to be over. Three years later, at age 11, He was chosen to perform at the famous Suzuka Race Curcuit in Nagoya, Japan. Danny sang and danced his way through all the excitement and thrills of speed racing. According to Danny "It was a blast!"

At this time in his life, Danny wanted to seriously compete in ballroom dancing and wanted to become a national champion. (He had been taking dance lessons in ballroom since age 7). His parents arranged to bring world-class instructors to teach him and his partner to compete. He soon achieved success on the dance floor and started to win at various events around the country. All during his early years, he was able to do TV, media and model work for the following; Novell, USANA,Nordstrom and one where he went flying down the ski slopes when I was 7, for a volkswagon commercial! (he was also a member of the Sundance Ski Team for 5 years)

Currently, Danny is working on new movies "Seventeen Again" and "Everwood" out sometime in the future. Also, Danny enjoys spending time with family and friends, going to the beach, chilling out and going to concerts. Also, he likes to go on his Myspace and Bebo pages when he can. Danny has one older sister and one younger brother."

Don't think it's the Daniel Parker you mean! --Orange Mike | Talk 20:30, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In case you were wondering, I stopped responding to that thread regarding "War of Northern Aggression" as I realized I'd just be feeding the trolls. Ivo has been very whiny in some of his posts since then, including a couple of curse-filled rants on totally unrelated talk pages. I've learned the hard way in the past that the best way to deal with an attention whore is to ignore them. Thanks for your comments on my talk page, although I was curious how you thought I was more sympathetic to the northern side; is it because I live in Indiana? Anyways, regards.--Bedford ^Pray 21:34, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

lol, you are welcome, I've read alot of your articles an I find no distinguishable bias in them myself. As far as your "northern persuasion", it was just in reading the slavery in indiana and indiana in the civil war. The tone, to me, seemed slightly northern biased, not enough to accuse one of anything, thats just how it read to me. I've read so many civil war books, certain phrases of things just strike me as "northern" "abolitionist" type propaganda. Not that there is anything wrong with that, as i personally would identify more with that position. Like for instance in the article slavery in indiana, it read to me, slightly, as an inditement of Indiana's lack of commitment to the northern cause. But that was propably more from the article being incomplete than any actual bias. Charles Edward 01:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My old computer went kaput last week, but I still have the hard drive, which includes my entire paper of the Southerness of Indiana. If I ever figure out how to connect the old hard drive to my new computer, I may send you that paper, and see if you think any more of it could be added to Wikipedia.--Bedford ^Pray 01:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thats not good. I noticed you were down for a period of time. BUt yea that would be cool! I still got all those notes and pics i took at the carnegie center i need to go through too. Charles Edward 01:19, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can see I'm not going to win this one… Self-respecting residents from the state are the most frequent editors of the page, which precludes an outsider like me from meddling. However, I went ahead and edited the footnote that you added so that it refers to "nonresidents", and I removed the value judgment that such usage is incorrect. My state newspaper uses the term, ("…with the post-Indianan headline "Clinton's dream all but over."[1]), as do the national papers The Washington Post, ("Joe Andrew, an Indianan who served as Democratic Party chairman during the Clinton administration…"[2]), and The New York Times, (Bill Cook, an Indianan who owns a company that makes medical devices…"[3]}.
Cheers, Ulmanor (talk) 22:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reflecting on how annoying I, and those from my state, find it when outsiders pronounce Oregon "Are-uh-gone" (wrongly, notwithstanding the fact it's in the dictionary too [4]), I've had a complete change of heart. Who am I to dictate how Hoosiers would like themselves to be known? I've edited the footnote and welcome your input. I've said my piece and leave further decisions to others. Ulmanor (talk) 00:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Any ideas on how to expand Hardy Lake a little more? It's not quite large enough for DYK.--Bedford ^Pray 23:57, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have added about 2k bytes. Not sure of anything else to add of the top of my head. I will look around a little more. Charles Edward 02:01, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, it's big enough to nom to DYK, and I made sure to credit you as well as myself. Thanks.--Bedford ^Pray 02:05, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Bedford! Charles Edward 02:06, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thanks, i've been here a while now and finally getting into it, Tom (talk) 20:42, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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--OsamaK 07:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Thought I'd let you know that User:Madman2001 is currently reviewing Indiana in the ACW right now.--Bedford ^Pray 20:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I will keep an eye on it and try to fix anything he comments on. Charles Edward 00:00, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I went through his list as best I can for now.. My wife has been at me for two hours to come to bed.. lol Her french really starts to annoy me after awhile and she got finally "oui ma belle" out of me. When I start with the french too I know I am no longer thinking clearly! I will check it out again tommorrow. Charles Edward 02:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like something else is doing the thinking.  ;) Good night.--Bedford ^Pray 02:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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--BorgQueen (talk) 13:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I found my old documents. Look at User:Bedford/South&Indiana and see if thre is anything more we can mine for Wikipedia.--Bedford ^Pray 21:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thats a very interesting read! I am going to incorporate some of it some more of it into the article. Charles Edward 14:15, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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--Naerii - Talk 23:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thanks Tom (talk) 15:01, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, there was a source from USA Today from a flood story from back in January that you had used to build the article. I think I got all the info out cited to that story out of there, but can you give it a glance over again to make sure? I'll be editing it some more, so hopefully we can get all the information from the January flood out of there! Thanks!  :) -- Me^Holla! 20:01, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm quite nit picky about missing words and such, but hey, good grammar means good lovin'! I visit that page often actually, as well as the William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison V pages because I usually have to look up info about the guys for whatever reason because I'm directly related to them through my Paw Paw [that's Cajun for "Grandpa" if you didn't know. :P] I don't want to take up any more space with irrelevant information about myself though. Thanks for the welcome message. --Katherine Johnson, The Awesome. (talk) 18:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw your review for the GAC of this article. I'll start editing tomorrow (Monday) and should only take a day or two for me to fix those issues that need fixing. I'll get back to you when it is done! Ctjf83Talk 00:41, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I did most of what you said to fix, just need to do a bit more on number 11. All I've been able to find was an established date, I guess that is the same as incorporated? Also, are you serious about needing page numbers for the book with most of the references?! That is gonna be a lot of work! Is that a requirement for GA or just a suggestion from you? Ctjf83Talk 16:10, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, the book isn't check out able, unless they have one that can be, so if it isn't, it will be a while probably before I can get all the page numbers. I'll keep you updated! Ctjf83Talk 17:36, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, in the case, I'll have it done by Friday, if that is the 7 day deadline. Ctjf83Talk 20:21, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I do have the book so I can get specific page numbers, do i just put <ref>the authors last name, the page number?</ref> I will get it done sometime on Friday, so don't fail it yet! Ctjf83Talk 16:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Done let me know! Ctjf83Talk 04:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the pass! Ctjf83Talk 17:18, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Cool10191 - I gather you've already noticed, but I wanted to make sure you were aware that I've reviewed the above article and placed it on hold for a week. Cheers, Sarcasticidealist (talk) 03:11, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I thought you might like to see Beck's Mill. It failed a GA nomination, but I've recently acquired some more info, and put it in this weekend. But I thought you mioght want to look at it first.--Bedford ^Pray 03:11, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I look it over and did a few edits. I think it is a pretty good article. Only thing I would worry about that they may not consider millers of washington county as a reliable source, and it seems that is where alot of the info comes from. I went through and put refs on everything too. I also removed a couple because the links were dead. Charles Edward 15:02, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]