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Hello, Finavon, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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What?

Why the hell are you messing with my user page? OK, so I forgot that putting up categories would make my page appear in them, but there's no call for just deleting my personal information. Did you not notice the "User" heading? Esqg 03:53, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Scottish notice board

Hi. Have you visited WP:SCOWNB yet?--Mais oui! 14:49, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pete McCloskey

Could you please explain this uncommented edit? I see from randomly sampling a few of your edits that you generally know what you are doing, but I'm confused. His name is McCloskey, not MacCloskey. - Jmabel | Talk 07:14, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's about what I guessed. I suspect that there is no clear Wikipedia convention on this; there is nothing at Wikipedia:Categorization_of_people#Ordering_names_in_a_category. I'd suggest that you start a discussion on the talk page of that page and see if there is a consensus. In the lack of one, I'd suggest sticking with the actual spellings of names (Scottish phone books notwithstanding): people tend to get pretty sensitive about the spellings of names, and in the absence of a consensus, changes like this could be an invitation to endless, fruitless edit wars (like those between people who write 1 August and those who write August 1). Please understand, I don't really care how this resolves, only that people duke it out in one place on the talk page of a project page rather than (potentially) flipping articles back and forth. - Jmabel | Talk 17:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Succession boxes

Hejo, I have seen that you are currently adding succession boxes to articles of peers. If you have not done it yet, it could therefore be interesting for you to read Wikipedia:WikiProject Peerage. Greetings ~~ Phoe talk 20:34, 7 March 2007 (UTC) ~~ [reply]

John Muir's vision

"In general views no mark of man is visible upon it"

John Muir (1912). The Yosemite. New York: The Century Co. Retrieved 2007-04-08.


"Unless reserved or protected the whole region will soon or late be devastated by lumbermen and sheepmen, and so of course be made unfit for use as a pleasure ground. Already it is with great difficulty that campers, even in the most remote parts of the proposed reservation and in those difficult of access, can find grass enough to keep their animals from starving; the ground is already being gnawed and trampled into a desert condition, and when the region shall be stripped of its forests the ruin will be complete.

"... It is also devoutly to be hoped that the Hetch Hetchy will escape such ravages of man as one sees in Yosemite. Ax and plow, hogs and horses, have long been and are still busy in Yosemite’s gardens and groves. All that is accessible and destructible is being rapidly destroyed—more rapidly than in any other Yosemite in the Sierra, though this is the only one that is under the special protection of the Government. And by far the greater part of this destruction of the fineness of wildness is of a kind that can claim no right relationship with that which necessarily follows use."

John Muir (September, 1890). "Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park". The Century Magazine. XL (No. 5). Retrieved 2007-04-08. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
Hi Finavon. In the second quote he mentions the Yosemite region as a "pleasure ground." He also often told people that they should go visit the mountains for the good of their spiritual well-being. Steve Dufour 12:36, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Steve. The section already says "Muir was deeply opposed to commercializing nature" and "While traveling to the park, Muir told the president about ... rampant exploitation of the valley's resources." It seems clear that Muir opposed man changing the area, but I have found no suggestion that he opposed all visitors. How about omitting just "and free of people"? Finavon 13:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Causeways

Please rewrite the relevant section in the Sanday article, if you have the knowledge--saw your edit on Small Isles. Thanks. KP Botany 17:11, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to write more than I can support. Information about new bridge is already on Sanday, Inner Hebrides and Canna, Scotland, although the term used there is sandbanks! I have added a reference which supports my memory (narrow tidal channel) and will review if I manage to visit this summer. Finavon 21:18, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's fine, I agree with not writing more than one can support at the time. Thanks. KP Botany 21:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]


List of islands of Scotland

Thanks for your support at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of islands of Scotland - it was much appreciated. Ben MacDui (Talk) 17:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Suitable recognition for the work you put in. Finavon 17:44, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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