User talk:Austin512

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Deleted Page

You deleted my page saying it was copyrighted i have permission from the author can you please re post it. I know i probably should not have written this here but i didnt know where to write it —Preceding unsigned comment added by LFC Sam LFC (talk • contribs) 15:52, 16 June 2009 (UTC) LFC Sam LFC (talk) 15:56, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Tedisco

Nice work over at Jim Tedisco; you've done a fine job with the citations and content. I just raised a point about the image used here. I'd like your input. Also, if you're interested, there's a Wikiproject for capital-region related issues. Feel free to join if you'd like. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 18:59, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA notification

Just so you know, New York's 20th congressional district special election, 2009, an article that you made a number of edits to, was recently rated as a good article. Thanks for helping out on the production of this article. wadester16 | Talk→ 20:10, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Just wondering - re this change why did you feel that small references were appropriate? Thanks. 7 ^{talk | Δ |} 06:22, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Mark this page as patrolled"

Thanks for that. I wasn't aware of this feature. --Dmol (talk) 07:16, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

English vs. American spellings

Thanks for your response on Talk: Orange (colour). Specifically, this matter is governed by our rules about varieties of the English language. Except for articles which have an obvious regional basis, an article is left in whichever variety of English it began. Thus, articles about Aneurin Bevan or Ken Livingston would be in U.K. English, just as articles about Frank Zeidler or Frank Zappa would be in U.S. English. It happens that orange (colour) was begun in U.K. English, and thus it shall remain (repeated indignant efforts to change it to the "proper" spelling by xenophobic Yanks are among the legendary lamest edit wars of Wikipedia). --Orange Mike | Talk 16:43, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for 2009 New York State Senate Leadership Crisis

On June 18, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 2009 New York State Senate Leadership Crisis, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 14:36, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ADAPT the Proppakunnect

I don't believe that this falls under WP:CSD#A7; see Talk:ADAPT the Proppakunnect. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:36, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You wanna be neutral

That bastard killed innocent people for no feasible reason and you want to be neutral towards him? If you support him, you are dead to me. Undoing my change was American and you know it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.140.46.137 (talk) 03:20, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for saving my contribution! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hovhannesk (talk • contribs) 23:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	Thanks a lot for helping to clear out the assessment backlog at WP:NY. I've been working on it by myself for some time, and it's quite refreshing to see others working on the task as well. In recognition of your help, I award you this barnstar. Thanks again! – T M F 22:24, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Austin512 (talk • contribs) 22:54, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Scott Murphy (politician) → Scott Murphy

Good suggestion; I had planned on doing it soon enough myself. Thanks for the effort. wadester 16 21:34, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Assessments

Thank you for the great job on assessing Capital District articles. Bearian (talk) 18:28, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rumah

Speedy? It is a dictionary thingo and I dont think any of the Indonesian project eds that I know of at the mo would want to even consider making it into anything - Satu Suro 03:29, 15 July 2009 (UTC) OK sorry about that - ok I confused you - and yes if thats the procedure - I'll go with that - we have many drive by edits in the Indonesian project - sigh Satu Suro 05:01, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Town of Greece, NY

The sister cities section is not "fake," it just needs citations.. The sister city association with Vitré France was dissolved in 2008. http://www.cityofrochester.gov/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=8589938075 I am working to find a reference for Rhodes.

BlueH2O (talk) 17:37, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Catskills photo at Greene Mountain Inn site

Actually, they don't seem to be when I check it out. Daniel Case (talk) 04:03, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, what I meant is that I don't see the photo. The only background I get is green. Daniel Case (talk) 04:08, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have a large widescreen monitor (which I generally don't use all of when I'm online) and I still don't see it. Daniel Case (talk) 04:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, for some reason it didn't show in the older version of Firefox I use. It does show (and how!) in IE 8. Thanks. I'll be in touch with them (They're not the only ones using it, but the other one (see the link from the commons page) asked). Daniel Case (talk) 14:27, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2008-2009 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 2008-2009. Since you had some involvement with the 2008-2009 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Art LaPella (talk) 02:23, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Appointment of a Lt. Gov. in NY

Hello Austin. Just to comment on our debate on the talk page of the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis: I said that the appointment could not stand up in any court of law for five minutes, and I was absolutely right about it. The Appellate Division, sitting as a court of law, ruled unanimously against it. However, the Court of Appeals reversed, showing that a small majority chose to sit as a court of equity, which is something quite traditional both in anglo-saxon common law and New York state law. The New York Court of Chancery (from 1777 to 1822 superior to the New York Supreme Court) was expressly a court of equity, as was the Court for the Correction of Errors (from 1777 to 1822 superior to the Chancellor, and from 1823 to 1847 superior to the Supreme Court). I intend to write an article on this case (Skelos v. Paterson) soon. I'm not a lawyer, but I've read both the majority and the minority opinions and have to recognize that one is as legally sound as the other. The decision depends entirely on the approach to law itself. Kraxler (talk) 21:05, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pics

Seeing that you worked some OTRS magic to get this and other photos by this photographer, do you think the photographer would be interested in releasing some others? There are much better ones by him of Malcolm Smith, Pedro Espada, Rick Lazio, David Paterson, Michael Bloomberg, and Tom Golisano (to replace a fair use photo, which is not allowed in BLPs), (and these ones of Sheldon Silver and Thomas DiNapoli are better than nothing...), in addition to a great photo of the New York State Senate Chamber. Additionally, this would be great for New York in its government section. I'm surprised, based on his photos (NHRPs, buildings, historic sites, etc) that he doesn't edit Wikipedia and upload his images. Maybe you can press him? :-) upstate NYer 22:10, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ballia

This is a shout out to get you to cast an editorial eye towards the recent edits to Ballia - you helped once before on that page when a SPA IP was inserting copyrighted stuff, now there's a lot of edits adding lists of 'notable persons'. Anniepoo (talk) 02:57, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And there's been another one in the 24 hours since then Anniepoo (talk) 23:50, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays

❄ upstate NYer ❄ is wishing you a happy Capital District holiday! Wikiproject Capital District is coming up on one year of successful work. I'd like to thank you for the help and support, and effort to expand the scope of New York's Capital District on Wikipedia. Enjoy your respective holiday and best wishes for the coming new year (especially related to your content work on Wikipedia)!

Middletown

Someone disagreed with your assessment. I agree with you. See: this. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:20, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

P:NYCD DYKs

Please consider adding some of your DYKs (or new ones) as suggestions for the DYK section of Portal:Capital District. We need a bunch. Thanks! upstate NYer 15:55, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ally Financial logo

Hi there,

The logo shown on the Ally Financial page http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Ally_Financial is actually for Ally Bank. There is a (very slight) variation for Ally Financial (the "a" is purple and the "lly" is black - for the bank, the entire word is purple). The correct logo can be found on the media site: http://media.ally.com/index.php?s=13&cat=7.

Thanks - and let me know if you have any questions! Beth.coggins (talk) 18:23, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are now a Reviewer

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Austin512! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 02:23, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ballia

Howdy. You were helpful in July 2009 dealing with inclusion of large blocks of copyrighted material in Ballia. Same or similar editor has returned. An editorial eye might be good. Anniepoo (talk) 18:12, 31 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Obamacare listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Obamacare. Since you had some involvement with the Obamacare redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Six Sided Pun Vows (talk | contribs | former account) 01:42, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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