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Happy happy!

Happy New Year!
North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:39, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Woo-hoo! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 01:43, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy happy, joy joy! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:45, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

America the Beautiful Quarters

Mudwater, Thanks for adding the new quarters. I appreciate it. Loudornbach (talk) 00:01, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

@Loudornbach: My pleasure. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 00:34, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Important message

• Click on the image for an important message. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:19, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Ha ha, I was wondering if I'd be hearing from you today. Well, have a safe and happy "AFD", Captain America! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 19:44, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Cheers! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:47, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Check this out. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:04, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Good work. It's very "meta". — Mudwater ^(Talk) 20:40, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Anna Frodesiak § People who like lists. Lists. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:56, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject Organized crime

	Hello, Mudwater. You are invited to join WikiProject Organized crime, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Organized crime topics. Please check out the project, and if interested feel free to join by adding your name to the member list. North America1000 21:32, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

(or the snack of your choice)

A brownie for you! Splendiferous work on Reunions of the Grateful Dead -- you rock like Mayer putting his heart into "Althea"! Cheers - Middle 8 (t • c | privacy • COI) 21:56, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

@Middle 8: Thanks! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 22:39, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

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Name of the RFK 1989 boxset.

I am thinking about the correct wikipedia name for the RFK 1989 Grateful Dead release. It was me that added "RFK 1989" as the next album after DP23. I forgot to login.

On http://www.dead.net/store/music it currently says: "RFK Stadium 1989 Box" but I believe that you think: "Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C., July 12 & 13, 1989" is a better title.

Maybe it is possible to handle two titles for a album. A short or long version? Maybe something else? TraxPlayer (talk) 14:08, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

@TraxPlayer: Hello, and thanks for the note. Yes, what's the "real" title of that album? Good question. Generally I think it's best to go with whatever it says on the album cover, that would seem to be definitive. In this case, "Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C., July 12 & 13, 1989" is long and unwieldy, but sometimes that's the way it goes with album titles. I'm thinking that "RFK Stadium 1989 Box" is the name of the article or write-up about the album on dead.net. I'd say it's not a problem, though. After the first mention of the actual album title, in the lead sentence of the article-to-be, it can be referred to with a shorter "nickname", like RFK Stadium or whatever. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 15:15, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

@TraxPlayer: Looking at the page on dead.net, here, it says, "ROBERT F. KENNEDY STADIUM, WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 12 & 13, 1989 includes two previously unreleased concerts taken from the band's master 24-track analog recordings..." Sorry about the all caps, copied from that page, but that seems to mean that that actually is the title of the album. I hadn't noticed that before. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 21:53, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at my talk page

You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Northamerica1000 § DYK for Bagel and cream cheese. Inre: American Jewish cuisine. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:32, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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@Malinaccier: Thanks! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 01:27, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thanks very much for creating the new American Jewish cuisine article. North America1000 01:08, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

American Jewish cuisine has been nominated for Did You Know

Hello, Mudwater. I've nominated American Jewish cuisine, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed, to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:00, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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• N.b. More hooks are requested at the discussion. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:36, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Okay. Thanks for the heads up. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 20:54, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm considering withdrawing the nomination, simply because I'm not finding content from the article that can be culled to create more alt hooks. However, I will wait, in case you can think up a new hook. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:13, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Can you withdraw the nomination "without prejudice" -- so the article can be renominated later, if we think of something cool? If yes, I'd say go ahead and get it over with. That wouldn't bother me, by the way. Did You Know is cool, and all, but I'm happy that the article was created, and turned out pretty well. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 00:17, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Never tried the without prejudice thing before; probably wouldn't work, though, because after 7 days people may say that the article is not new enough... North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:21, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Per the above, easier to just leave the discussion open, in case we can devise a hook... the other option is withdrawal. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:22, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: In that case, hold on, don't withdraw it yet. Let me ponder this a bit further. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 00:27, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

No problemo. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:28, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: This might do it. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 01:02, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Sure. All that's needed is a hook and an inline citation at the end of the sentence that contains content of the hook in the article (see WP:DYKRULES). Since this topic isn't my specialty in terms of cuisine, I will leave it to you to devise a hook. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:10, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Hmmm... How about this? It's supported by the two footnotes at the end of the recently added paragraph. ... that within American Jewish cuisine, whether a person prefers their gefilte fish to be savory or sweet may correlate with which region of Eastern Europe their ancestors came from? — Mudwater ^(Talk) 02:22, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

 Done. Thanks, I have added the hook to the DYK nom page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:33, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Good, thanks! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 06:07, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

DYK for American Jewish cuisine

On 1 September 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article American Jewish cuisine, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that American Jewish cuisine has been influenced by a geographical gefilte fish line? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/American Jewish cuisine. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, American Jewish cuisine), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih^Talk 00:04, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Some cool GD stuff

May be usable to improve the GD article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:28, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

• Buck meets the Grateful Dead
• Grateful Dead on the Today Show

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We nominate Mudwater as Editor of the Week for his persistent and continuous creation and editing of articles over the past 10 years. He digs lists and has worked diligently to improve them. List of breweries in Illinois and List of regional dishes of the United States are just 2 examples. He works at WikiProject Albums and is a fan of The Grateful Dead. His editing interests range from Gun laws in the United States by state to Sonoran hot dog to American Jewish cuisine. One of WP's most active editors (with over 42000 plus edits), Mudwater is an invaluable editor who has created many articles. Check out the "Articles I've Created" list on their talk page for his decade of high quality contributions, with varied interests and pursuits. His diplomatic ability has been honed on the talk pages of hundreds of articles he has created.

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Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 15:12, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

@Buster7 and Northamerica1000: Awesome! Thanks a bunch!! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 15:52, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks again for your great work, and also for your collaborations, which I appreciate a great deal. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:29, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Eddy Award

Congrats Mudwater! And well deserved too! Signed, Marcia Kreutzmann

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Halloween cheer!

Happy Halloween!

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Americana

Hi MW: I've been working on Diner lingo, specifically the list at this point. It's rather interesting stuff. Since you and I have worked on lists and other content regarding Americana topics before, I felt that this may interest you. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:41, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Very nice. Seen this? — Mudwater ^(Talk) 15:10, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Yep, it's an EL in the article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:58, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Amazing how many unique phrases there are in diner lingo and slang. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:39, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Happy turkey day

Northamerica1000 is wishing you a happy Thanksgiving. If you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, don't forget that "Any time is turkey time" (see image). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:10, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Thanks, you too! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 12:09, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

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Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated <font> tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors.

You are encouraged to change

<font face="cursive">— [[User:Mudwater|Mudwater]]<small><sup> ([[User talk:Mudwater|Talk]])</sup></small></font> : — Mudwater ^(Talk)

to

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@Anomalocaris: When I go to Preferences --> User Profile and try to set my signature to what you suggested, I get a message saying, "Invalid raw signature. Check HTML tags." — Mudwater ^(Talk) 23:23, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I omitted a close quote. Try this:

<span style="font-family: cursive;">— [[User:Mudwater|Mudwater]]<small><sup> ([[User talk:Mudwater|Talk]])</sup></small></span> : — Mudwater ^(Talk)

—Anomalocaris (talk) 02:52, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris: Ah, that's better. Thanks! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 02:56, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, too! —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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