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Thanks, I was inspired my morwen's work and got some tips from her. I created all the maps by tracing the boundaries of maps downloaded from the internet, which is how morwen has been making hers - so I just assumed that this would be fine from a legal point of view. - snoyes 04:10, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, I'll check the site out. - snoyes 04:13, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for comment about my maps. I'm very pleased that you like them. I enjoy making them. Eventually I plan to do all the U.S. territories, including Republic of Texas and Louisiana Purchase too. -- Decumanus 05:19, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thought you might be interested, you got an answer to an old comment. - Hephaestos 17:25, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

re: Wykoff House - yeah, you are indeed correct re: Amersfoort...I looked around and it looks like the actual borders of Flatlands shrank quite a bit over the years; that & your comment give me an idea on how to continue on with the Brooklyn Neighbohoods links: I should probably pick one neighborhood that I have decent info for, and then radiate outward from there, geographically. Thanks for the comment. -- Taco 04:17, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Re: User:Human being. Heph already blocked him. Maximus Rex 04:27, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Relating to the User:Jon500 edits, I have a suspicion the whole thing is a hoax. Fuzheado 06:08, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Take the Sysop Protection Pledge Poll?168... 00:50, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Rick, you voted yes, but your summary said "Vote No". I'm confused... - Hephaestos 01:41, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Makes sense.  :) - Hephaestos 01:51, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The anon you reverted over at Muslim has more than a bit of a history, check his talk page... I sense an attempt to start a flame war, and I'm going to message him if he makes any more "corrections". Pakaran. 04:25, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Ok, I just sensed an attempt to start a flame war, and anyone that's been warned 4 times I take anything they do with a grain of salt. Pakaran. 04:30, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Rick, is U.S. Highway 110 kosher? Given our recent highway-imaginer, this one fills me with unease. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 02:34, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi Rick- Sorry about vandalizing the Bush article! Just experimenting..... I have a question for you: how many people do you think seriously contribute to the wikipedia, on your level of involvement? Why are you so involved in the wikipedia? What do you get out of it? We are students at a university trying to implement a similar project..... We would really appreciate your help/advice.

Thanks.

Hi, I removed the Velvet Revolver page from cleanup as the facts seem to check out. I also moved the discussion on Michael from cleanup to User talk:Jerzy. Angela. 03:43, Feb 9, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Rick; when she made that move, i was about to add the following apology, which would have followed your retort on the Cleanup page if Angela hadn't Edit-Conflicted me by moving the whole Velvet Revolver discussion first, just as i tried to add this there:

• • For the benefit of anyone who thought i was describing RickK as one of those who have whined, i make public my apology. I was careless in making the above comment here, rather than under one of the several other items in the last week or so that concerned the ban on Michael. I certainly should not have put my comment right after one of his, on an item where his name is so prominently posted. I should have dug up a different one, where there was extensive "whining" by people who wanted to edit an apparent Michael article, or not to have their baby (their already posted edits) thrown out with Michael's bathwater. I think RickK behaved admirably with regard to this article, and that his reasoning for listing it here rather than VfD is fine. --Jerzy 04:20, 2004 Feb 9 (UTC)

I hope you'll accept that in the friendly spirit it's meant in. --Jerzy 04:20, 2004 Feb 9 (UTC)

Well, we'll see about the Gdansk formulation. Nico already changed it back to something else once... john 03:52, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Rick, I posted what I am aware of as an answer to your question on the Village pump. Jwrosenzweig 17:21, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The image on Red Square doesn't overlap anything on the right side of my screen, in fact, there is nothing to the right of the image at all. Maybe your Wikipedia display settings are a bit strange? If you are still having problems, may I suggest that you do the cropping/resizing so you can fit it to the page?

europrobe 18:06, 2004 Feb 9 (UTC)

Well, I suppose I'm in good company when it comes to whitewashing East Germany. Encyclopedias, almanacs, and other reference books with country pages listing facts like population, seat(s) of government, government type, ethnic breakdown, health/education/economic indicators, etc. stick with the formal constitutional framework too, not one of a plethora of theoretical models like "totalitarian."

BTW, do you remember the Department of Homeland Security warnings regarding The World Almanac and Book of Facts last December? Maybe there's more to that than what the government is telling you. Maybe the publishers share Hector's pro-al Qaeda and pro-Soviet sympathies? Note their tendency to whitewash evil. For example, in their section on "Nations of the World" in versions published before East Germany was dissolved, the GDR's government type was not listed as "totalitarian." More disturbingly, in their latest version, the government types of Cuba and North Korea (hardcore Axis of Evil member!) are listed as "Communist state." China is a "Communist Party-led state" (maybe the PRC agents who paid off Clinton for nuclear secrets got to them?) Laos and Vietnam are "Communist." So maybe The World Almanac has a pro-al Qaeda, pro-Communist, pro-dictator agenda too? Maybe all reference guides do. Maybe that's why I can hide behind this facade b.s. of "formal constitutional framework?"

Thus, your desire to harass new users, subject them to a one-man policy of auto-revert, and violate NPOV policies is understandable. The nation's leading reference books are pro-terrorist, anti-American, and pro-totalitarian. A cabal of Wiki users, with their so-called "encyclopedic standards," conspires to whitewash evil. With agents for the Axis of Evil freely operating in America right now, using the publication of the major reference guides as cover, American freedom is at stake. Censorship, intimation of those who hold dissenting views, and the politics of Joe McCarthy are the only means of protecting freedom. In this sense, I suppose bullying that new user was fine. Sorry for my comments earlier saying otherwise. 172 05:43, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)