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Hi Mike. A summary of a Featured Article you nominated will appear on the Main Page soon. I had to squeeze the text down to about 1200 characters; was there anything I left out you'd like to see put back in? Also, one question: the lead says "native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America", but it also says "outside their native range in the U.S., Southern Europe, Australia and South America" ... so is Southern Europe part of their native range or not? - Dank ( push to talk) 04:17, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hey Mike,
I'm hearing great things from MSU about your work. They are really thrilled. I'm wondering if you have or could set up an onwiki subpage that lists and links to the articles you have created/improved under the WVS position. That would help us show off what is possible with these types of partnerships. Thanks and cheers, Jake Ocaasi (WMF) ( talk) 00:03, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
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It is nice to see " Rainbow trout" on the main page. Congratulations and thank you! Axl ¤ [Talk] 01:07, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Seconded...nice looking article and much more interesting than some of the more recent main page FAs.-- MONGO 04:14, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Some very nice photos on Bleu Horses Mike. Thank you. — Ched : ? 02:42, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Found more photos of Dolan's work on Commons, so created Jim Dolan (sculptor). Ya inspired me! Feel free to add to article! Montanabw (talk) 20:13, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Mike! I hope you are doing well. Would you be interested in writing something short (300-700 words) about your experience as a Visiting Scholar? We are trying to capture some reflections from each of the visiting scholars for both our communications of the positions and to create a short series of blog posts.
Questions that might help prompt your writing: What have you learned in collaborating with a Library on Wikipedia work? How does the access the library provides you strengthen your ability to contribute to Wikipedia? What made your experience distinctive? What did you contribute to Wikipedia during that time? Feel free to compose it on Wiki or email it to me. I would like to have as many of you all in our pilot group represented as possible! Thanks much, Astinson (WMF) (talk) 22:28, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Mike, in your jaunt to (I presume) go fishing on the Jefferson River, did you by any chance pass by the Doncaster Round Barn? I'd give my eyeteeth (well, almost) for a PD image of that building. My next project (I hope) is to improve Spokane (horse). I've posted a bunch of links on the talk page of stuff I've found. If you have any interest in collaborating there, you are most certainly welcome to do so. (You also get paybacks at me for the trout reviews... LOL!) Montanabw (talk) 23:52, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
DYK wikignomes didn't like your inline link at Bleu Horses to Wheat Montana, so I linked it and started a wee stub: Wheat Montana. Feel free to dive in and help out, particularly if you have photos. Montanabw (talk) 03:16, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
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FYI, finally got the blog post out: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/17/wikipedia-research-library/ . We trimmed a few bits, but kept most of the feedback! Keep up the great work! Already getting some comments in from others in the WMF about the great work! Astinson (WMF) ( talk) 16:03, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
There's a civil disagreement going on at Talk:Ulysses S. Grant surrounding Grant's role, if any, in the founding of Yellowstone Park. I asked MONGO and he suggested you as one of two editors who have extensive experience writing on Wikipedia about related pages. Would you be aware of sources which could help? Please consider commenting. Thanks BusterD ( talk) 02:16, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Would you like to sign the relisting comment? [1] Or I can flag it as unsigned by you, but neater if you fix it.
Thanks for the relisting and research, good call. I almost closed it as moved too! But this is by far the better way forward. Andrewa ( talk) 15:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Could you clarify your reasoning for this close? I count seven supports plus the nominator (myself) and three opposes. What gave the opponents' arguments so much weight? Srnec ( talk) 18:27, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Mike
I have been checking the page Greek Muslims and you have closed a discussion which has not had the extended time for it to be properly debated. You state that the issue is "content based". The people who have already answered there are 4 support and 3 oppose to changing the title of the article. As such, the discussion should be allowed to proceed. If anything the impetus was towards change. I was going to change it as it was 4 to 3, but wanted more debate. As an administrator i am not sure if you took those issues into account. The debate should be ongoing as the title page is in dispute and defiantly not resolved. The title page does not reflect the views of people from that community and instead reflects a view that may be viewed as one propagating Greek nationalism. Wikipedia i feel is beyond that.
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Perhaps you missed my point. I'll try one more time.
Back at Yoghurt we had the same situation. RM after RM resulted in 50/50 (more or less), and many argued there is no consensus and everyone should move on and work on the encyclopedia, just as you did here. But since the original title of the article was Yogurt, and it had been moved to Yoghurt under dubious pretenses, the policy-based reason (RETAIN) to restore the original title remained. Some of us argued there was no flip-side: if the article was moved back to Yogurt, then there would be no policy-based reason to move it again. That would be a decision truly supported by community consensus. But for years that argument was ignored. Only after an absurd amount of time and effort was devoted to explaining the history and situation was the article finally moved. And guess what? No (serious) challenges yet, and it has been over three years now. Why? Because, as predicted, once that tile was moved back to Yogurt, there would be no policy based reason to move it again.
We have the exact same situation at Humour. The policy based reason to move will remain as long as that article remains at Humour. Only when it is moved back to its original title at Humor will that title have community consensus, because there will be no policy based reason to move it from Humor.
Why is this not obvious? Why is it necessary to go through all the time and effort that we had to waste at Yogurt to get to such an obvious clear resolution? -- В²C ☎ 18:20, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi. As I don't want into get into a move war with another editor, can I request comment re actions following the RM which you closed re this page and Millennials (disambiguation)/ Millennial. It seems to me that these weren't supported by the RM discussion or its closure. Thanks. -- Necrothesp ( talk) 18:06, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
There was recently move debate in which you took part Talk:Melee#Requested move 9 March 2015. The debate continues in a slightly different form on the same page, your participation in it might help build a consensus. Please join the debate on whether it is appropriate to include the maintenance {{ coatrack}} in the article Melee. -- PBS-AWB ( talk) 17:40, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Our mutual acquaintance MONGO suggested a while back that you might be a good mentor for various areas of activity. After the discussion at WT:RM, I've decided I need more experience in this area. I've read the material; I just don't have the deep understanding yet that comes from frequently contributing (and making mistakes closing). I'm planning to plunge a bit deeper. Would you mind answering questions about specifics when i need seasoning? BusterD ( talk) 01:54, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
I'll watchlist the PR to help answer any questions others may have or to fix simpler stuff they raise. If I see anything that bugs me on the article, I'll just BRD. If FAC in the past is any indication, go through the citations with a fine-toothed comb for consistency and check all the images at commons to make sure their copyright tag is OK. Any major additions suggested will probably have to be your work, though if you need something to be checked out at MHS or need to ping @ KingJeff1970: IRL or via email, I may be able to help. Montanabw (talk) 20:50, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Mike. I believe we haven't met yet. Three years ago you closed a move request on Paraguayan War (to change it to "War of the Triple Alliance"). An editor who took part on that move request has opened a new move request with the same arguments (you'll see him on your own talk page archive for January-February 2012). Is there a procedure regarding this kind of situation? For what I saw in that article's talk page, the matter was discussed and long forgotten until now. Since the argument is the same as three years ago, I find it pointless to do the move request all over again. Of course, I'm biased since I support the maintainance of the presents name. What would you suggest? -- Lecen ( talk) 20:46, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
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Just started Doncaster Round Barn (finally got photos!) Want to help me expand and improve it a bit? Montanabw (talk) 21:31, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
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Would you consider decreasing the protection on rainbow trout from semi to PC? It doesn't look like the page had ever been protected before March 2014, when you semi-protected it indefinitely. Conifer ( talk) 02:25, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
It all depends on whose definition of "nice" though, that's the problem. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 18:01, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
My bad. I should have realized I needed to do that. Thank you very much for closing it for me. Jeff in CA ( talk) 01:24, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Per WP:MR, I would like you to review your close of the move discussion at Talk:Foreign Affairs. The closing statement does not address any issue raised in the opening statement or discuss the title in relation to the appropriate guideline at WP:AT. Also, we cannot get evidence that warrants trying again in 6 months without first doing the 3-day trial proposed. DrKiernan ( talk) 13:52, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
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I suggest changing "eminated" to "emanated" as a spelling correction. — BarrelProof ( talk) 12:23, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
Check to see that less reliable sources aren't being used in place of more reliable ones? Talk:Fur_trade_in_Montana#Date_of_sale_of_the_Rocky_Mountain_Fur_Company I don't want to get into the position where I am caring more about this article than the people who did most of the work on it. Montanabw (talk) 02:47, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
May I asked why you marked Talk:Güveç (cooking) as Not moved? Nobody opposed the move (and indeed, nobody could, as there are no grounds on which to oppose). It was an as undisputed move as they come.-- Orwellianist ( talk) 14:59, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Mike, I hope I'm doing this the right way...
On the Sugar Mountain Farm page paragraph five sentence one could be corrected from:
Initially the farmers had to transport six pigs at a time 150 miles (240 km) to the nearest butcher.
to:
Initially the farmers had to transport six to 12 pigs at a time 300 miles (480 km) to the nearest butcher.
Some other details that could use correction the number of pigs varies somewhat seasonally and is typically around 400 and the number of breeders varies from about 40 to 100 sows with about nine to twelve breeder boars with seven genetic lines including purebred Yorkshire, Berkshire, Large Black (2 lines) and Tamworth in addition to our farm's own cross lines of Mainline, Blackieline and Mahoganyline. There is also the founding date of the farm. We were doing commercial maple sugaring and forestry back in the late 1980's which is where the farm's name comes from. (Maple Sugaring ---> Sugar Bush (where maple trees are) ---> Sugar Mountain ---> Sugar Mountain Farm). The founding date - when I bought the land - is July 28th, 1989. I can send you a scan of the deed with that date if that helps verify.
The line about "and pasturing males away from females." is simply false. We keep males and females together. See: http://SugarMtnFarm.com/taint where this is discussed. That error comes from a reporter (reference 7) who made a mistake. Reporters do that sometimes. Errors even happen in peer reviewed scientific journals. It's a myth that it is necessary to keep them separate and I would like to see that corrected.
In paragraph one it says:
The pigs are fed acid whey from a nearby dairy farm
which isn't quite true. Some of our whey is acid whey (made from yogurt) but much of our whey is sweet whey (made from butter and cheese making). It would make it more accurate to simply remove the word acid, which is meaningless to all but the most technical. To be absolutely correct it would be acid _and_ sweet whey in the sentence. Most of it at this time is the sweet whey. This varies. I tend to say simply dairy because sometimes it's acid whey, sometimes it's sweet whey, sometimes it's cream, sometimes it's milk, etc. Dairy covers it. Whey has sort of a cache about it and it is most of what we get. It is also not a farm but a "dairy" also known as a creamery. They buy milk from many farms and make butter & cheese. This past year they actually started their own goat farm at another location but the place the whey comes from is technically not a farm but rather a creamery. Perhaps this is too technically hair splitting. Anyways, I would suggest something like this instead for that sentence:
The pigs are fed whey from a nearby butter & cheese maker.
That might be the easiest to understand by the average reader.
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-Walter Might want to have discussions about the article in the articles talk page. With respect to factual corrections (distance animals are trucked for slaughter, for instance) I don't know what the policy is. Do we stick with the quoted source, or can we make the correction that is at odds with the quoted source? Bruceki ( talk) 09:40, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
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Mike, I hope this is the appropriate place to discuss this. You made some edits to an article that I created and I thank you for your time. I do, however, have a concern about one of them. You moved three of the images to float along the right side of the page. This removed the images from the context of the article. I originally had a header, then the appropriate image, then a paragraph of text that supported that image. The way it stands now the images are completely disconnected from the supporting text. This seems to be even more of an issue when viewing the page on a mobile device. With the width of a mobile screen the images are now randomly located in the article.
You obviously had reason for doing this edit but as I had a reason for laying it out the way I did I'm wondering if there's a better way for me to accomplish what I was trying to do. I am admittedly new to creating articles so perhaps I'm going about this in the wrong way. Any insight is appreciated. Spinsheet ( talk) 22:17, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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