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Office of Surface Mining

I added some more to the Office of Surface Mining, I started reading the annual report, got through like page 50. I fixed some errors and such. I know that I stopped half-way through, I will finish it tomorrow or such. I also added a template, same as the National Park Service Template.

I found a lot of information in the OSM's annual report, it's divided up into like 6 sections, I found a lot of info in the intro and the section on regulation of mines.

CuBiXcRaYfIsH 07:21, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

IUCN Category

Thanks for your e-mail about Jewel Cave National Monument. For each protected area, you should first look in the World Database on Protected Areas (http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdbpa/), click on "Search for Sites" to the left. (Jewel Cave is shown as "III".) If it is not there, I then guess based the definitions (also on that website) and similar areas that have designations. However, the designation (such as State Park, National Monument, etc.), is never a guarantee of the IUCN designation. There are many examples of areas with the same national designation being in different IUCN categories.

When all else fails, my default mode is:

• Wilderness areas: Ib
• National parks: II
• National monuments and world heritage sites: III
• Wildlife refuges: IV
• Battlefields, historic sites, seashores, recreation areas, state parks, etc.: V
• National and state forests: VI

I also put a non-displaying note in the text of the article, just after the infobox, explaining my guess (see the code for Fort Raleigh National Historic Site).

Also, you can get visitation stats for NPS sites at: http://www2.nature.nps.gov/NPstats/select_report.cfm?by=year

One more thing, if you add the protected area infobox to an article, please also add the wikiproject tag to the articles talk page. Just cut and paste:

{{Messagebox protected areas}}

— Eoghanacht ^talk 18:10, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

US GOV Agencies Wikiproject

Hi Thunk

I noticed that you have helped out with the Office of Surface Mining article, I was wondering if you would like to get involved with the WikiProject United States Government Agencies The goal of the project is to basically try to provide high quality articles on all the different agencies within the United States Government CuBiXcRaYfIsH 21:12, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

MDM - Consultoria e Negócios Ltda.

I've speedy deleted, since it's substantially the same content. There is a trick for re-nominations, but I forget what it is. Rich Farmbrough. 10:05, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Law-related Wikiprojects

Hello, Thunk. I noticed that your profile said you were a law professor, so I was just wondering if you would like to join WikiProject Law and WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases. Please let me know if you are interested, and sign your name on those project pages if you decide to join. I happen to be a 2nd year law student myself, and I can tell you that we could definitely use more lawyers around here.

Thanks, --Eastlaw 17:07, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Earth Abides image

I have replied to your message on my Talk page. --Slowking Man 08:08, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

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Possibly unfree File:Ral Partha miniature.jpg

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WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Thunk,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

• Each casebook will have a subpage.

• Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
• It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
• Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

• I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

• Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
• Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 19:49, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Rust monster.jpg

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File:Casebooks.jpg needs authorship information

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