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VEISHEA

Cancelling VEISHEA. What has the world come to? I remember ditching school (with parent's note) to go fuck around in the Union when I was in Fourth Grade, and hang out and see pottery wheel demonstrations at the art department. I feel like a relic of another time. -- Decumanus | Talk 00:18, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

RAGBRAI

I just wanted to say thanks for helping with the RAGBRAI article.

JesseG 03:12, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

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DYK

Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Des Moines Register, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

Well done. 68.81.231.127 10:13, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

I'd like to thank you for your helpful edits to Game show Moments Gone Bananas. I was writing to you not only to thank you, though. I will not be on all of the summer, and I would like to know if you would be able to update the article while I'm gone. Please respond. Jared Wolf

Thanks on Brucemore

Thanks for all the grammar and typo fixes. I'm usually cleaner than that, but must have not been paying attention during my updates! Gaijin42 13:21, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You!

Thank you for your help with the tags! Peitz408 03:45, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks as well

Thank you sir for editing the Rob Borsellino page. May I ask who you are? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.207.66.181 (talk • contribs) .

Fort Dodge Messenger

If you could help me out with any information it would be great on the Fort Dodge Messenger. Thanks! --Josh 01:03, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Iowa

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The WikiProject has been created. Feel free to join it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa.

Dubuque/Asbury reply

Thanks for the feedback regarding the Dubuque, Iowa & Asbury, Iowa articles. I just find it frustrating when I look at some articles that I have contributed a great deal to (and have taken the time to come up with sources for), and they are greatly reduced in quality by some user. It seems to be the same one (Bartowcounty11), so I will once again change the Dubuque and Asbury articles back. This person seems to be obsessed with including certain pieces of information (mostly "unofficial" population figures, projections, etc...). If it happens again, I will file a request for comment. Thanks for your reply.DBQer 21:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reversion

Thanks for reverting edits made by BartowCounty11 to the Dubuque article, and for your warning on his/her talk page. This person is very unprofessional and doesn't seem to understand the basic concepts behind Wikipedia. I will continue to watch for erroneous changes to the article, and I trust you will do the same. Thanks! DBQer 17:42, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mall pages

I just want to tell you that you've done a great job on the mall pages, such as Merle Hay Mall; they're very well-written and well-sourced. Your work's inspired me to improve the various mall pages I've created (check my userpage, there's a link to a list of pages I created). Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Actions • Words)))} 14:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Iowa Public Television

Thanks for the update! :-) I was going to do it myself, but couldn't find suitable data on iptv.org, and I don't live in Iowa any more to snag an hourly ID or anything. RTucker 23:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures to Commons?

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Davenport

What do you think we can add to the Davenport, Iowa page to improve it? Do you think a section for the neighborhoods would be good. I only know very basic details about the neighborhoods. I've lived here my whole life (24 yrs), so I could help! Ctjf83 22:47, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

well, i mean i don't really know many official neighborhood names, and where the boundaries are, etc. If i get time, i'll check out the library, for info. No, I dont think i'd join the Iowa project, because i only know stuff about these 2 cities, so not sure if i would be any help. How much do u know about the d-port neighborhoods? Ctjf83 22:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

what do you think would be some good pics to add to the Davenport and Bettendorf pages..or the whole QC? Ctjf83 ^talk 04:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you have some free time, the Davenport talk page has some suggestions for getting the article to GA status...let me know if you would like to help me with those. Ctjf83^talk 06:20, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Iowa

You seem to be one of the most active people for the iowa wiki project, so read my post and respond if you could under it Ctjf83 ^talk 20:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm doing some famous iowans clean up right now...should we limit it to ppl only born in iowa, what do you think? Ctjf83 ^talk 02:08, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

this project doesn't seem to be overly active...i'll post it, and if noone responds in a wk or less, one of us can be bold and just delete it, or at the very list, clean it up alot...we standards should we have for ppl to be included Ctjf83 ^talk 04:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ok, i guess the project is dead, cept for us...anyway, what do you wanna do for the "Famous Iowans" section...delete it or clean it up, and limit who gets listed? Ctjf83 ^talk 18:32, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So you don't think we should keep it at all? I think it is interesting to see who is from here...but then again, ppl put in a bunch of cruft to it Ctjf83 ^talk 03:32, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I limit it to just the most "important" people, and link the other page, and keep an eye out for people adding less than important people Ctjf83 ^talk 17:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, if you wanna take a look now. I basically deleted everyone I hadn't heard of, and people not born in Iowa. Not sure if that is the best way to do it, but it worked to cut back a lot on the number of people listed Ctjf83 ^talk 17:33, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm gonna work on getting Davenport and then Iowa to a GAC. Would you be interested in helping with either article.Two users have given suggestions (1) (2) to improve the Davenport article. Let me know if you would like to help! Ctjf83 ^talk 20:41, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Des Moines Coliseum

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Davenport FA

Hey, I'm working on getting Davenport to FA status. I'm very close, but could use a "fresh pair of eyes" to do a copy edit, and look for grammatical, spelling, and other related errors. I was wondering if you had time to look it over? Let me know, on my talk page, please. Thanks! CTJF83Talk 01:52, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help! It looks good!! CTJF83Talk 05:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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U.S. Route 151 in Iowa

Hi I recently created this article off of an old redirect using information from your website. I just have one question. Where do you get your exit #'s from? Is there another source to verify this information? Regards -Marcusmax(speak) 22:08, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I added the IOWA DOT map along with your site, one more thing Question - You say it goes for 108 miles in Iowa, is this accurate? I counted them on the map an it appears to be about that but I wouldn't want to put it on DYK just to fid out it was wrong. -Marcusmax(speak) 02:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks -Marcusmax(speak) 20:59, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merle Hay Mall

Just letting you know that I nominated Merle Hay Mall for Good Article status. Any chance that you could get an internal picture of the mall? Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 00:40, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There you go, it's GA now. Have you done anything else that's gotten to GA? Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 20:18, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Iowa

Hmm. You seem to be fairly well schooled on Iowa malls. Do you have any idea if the McGregor's Furniture store at Westland Mall in Burlington used to be anything else? I can't find anything about it online. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 19:57, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Iowa tourism regions

Hello from Wikitravel! I've been trying to get a discussion going over there [1] to define travel regions for Iowa, but it would seem we don't have a single active Iowan user around. So I hoped I might be able to solicit some help here. If you're not interested, do you know of anyone else who might be? Thanks! --Peter ^Talk 04:34, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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FYI, I tagged it as replaceable fair use, as it should be possible to get a free image of a butter sculpture (from a butter sculptor, if nobody else). There is a related discussion at Commons here. Kelly ^hi! 01:24, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Younkers photos

I'm looking to improve the information on a couple of photos you uploaded. A long time ago, you uploaded two versions of File:Younkers.jpg, which eventually became File:Des Moines Younkers 1.jpg (uploaded in 2004) and File:Des Moines Younkers 2.jpg (uploaded in 2007) on Commons. I suspect someone used the wrong file's description when moving File:Des Moines Younkers 1.jpg to Commons. I'm not from Des Moines, but 1 sure doesn't look like any part of the old downtown store to me. Which store is it? I've requested an undeletion of the original upload at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion#File:Younkers.jpg, but I also wanted to ask you, since you'd probably know. Also, is that a crop of another file? And were the photos actually taken in 2004 and 2007, or scanned in from something older? --Closeapple (talk) 04:52, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first Younkers photo was at Jordan Creek Town Center, and that was taken in 2004 when I still had a film camera. The other was the original store in downtown Des Moines, and that was taken in 2007, after the store closed but before that part of the building burned down. --Iowahwyman (talk) 00:44, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Based on the information, I've renamed File:Des Moines Younkers 1.jpg to File:Younkers entrance Jordan Creek Town Center 2004.jpg and corrected its information, and strengthened the date line on File:Des Moines Younkers 2.jpg. (As you probably know by now, you don't need to overwrite photographs with other photographs: It's OK to upload multiple photographs of similar subjects, and just use different filenames.) --Closeapple (talk) 04:58, 27 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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