Your friend, Clay

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Edits to Jefferson City, Missouri

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. Don't worry you went about questioning my rv of your edit correctly. I think you added information on the First Capitol building in Missouri, which is in St. Charles, Missouri not Jefferson City, Missouri. ThanksGrey Wanderer | Talk 00:56, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Edits to Wabash River and St. Charles, Missouri

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Wabash River. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. --Malepheasant (talk) 17:11, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Jean LeRoque

(notifications from incorrect tagging on my part removed) Improbcat (talk) 19:10, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Personal journals

Hi. While personal journals make excellent resources for history scholars, we can't use them here on Wikipedia. By policy, we must rely on secondary sources. We are not permitted to contribute our own original research. Instead, our information must come from reliable, verifiable sources such as scholarly journals, books, and articles. If you have recently come into the possession of a collection of old journals, I would like to encourage you to contact the history department of a nearby university to seek guidance regarding scholars in this particular field. I have little doubt that the right scholars would take a keen interest in your collect, mine it for useful information, and publish their findings. In turn, we can cite these publications. The process may take awhile, but it would best serve the interests of academics and of the readers of this encyclopedia. Best wishes, Rklawton (talk) 20:40, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Jean LeRoque

Rather than speedy delete the article you've written on Jean LeRoque, I've moved it to a page in your user space titled User:Your friend, Clay/Jean LeRoque. Here you are free to expand the article as necessary to meet our guidelines for inclusion, as described by Rklawton above. If/when you are finished, feel free to move it back into the mainspace. - auburnpilot talk 21:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

I Quit

I posted this on that guy Improbcat's talk page, but just in case people check this page (they don't, I'm sure), here it is:

I guess I can't do anything right. First the LeRoque page was marked a hoax then the Mountain Man edits were marked as valdalization. In fact, all my edits were marked as vandalization. This is terrible for me. The last thing I wanted was to ruin my good name and have everybody think I'm a jerk. But that's exactly what I did. I'm embarrassed. I've sent links to my family members (mom, uncles, cousins, etc) and of course my edits aren't there and then they go to my user page and see that everyone thinks I'm a vandal. Great. Like they didn't have a low enough opinion of me anyway. (It's believed by some that I'm gay, though I'm not. I just don't want to marry someone because "that's what's done.")

I admit it. I'm not as smart as everyone on Wikipedia. Yes, I dropped out of college. I had to work. My dad was sick and his business was suffering. No, I didn't want to get into the manufacturing business, I wanted to be a writer, but that's not the way things worked out. Since he died, I've been cleaning out the family cabin up north (I live in Rhinelander, WI, the cabin's in Eagle Harbor, UP MI), and I found a huge trove of journals that my grandfather collected. There's some amazing stuff in there. Reading these journals has been the only bright spot in this long, dark period of my life. I was looking forward to really getting into Wikipedia this winter (there's not a lot to do here, especially if you don't hunt, drink and ride snowmobiles). But I guess it's not for me.

That guy Rklawton had some useful information for me, and I'm going to follow up on it. Thanks Rklawton. You're the only person who's been nice to me on this whole website. Maybe there's someone at Nicollet College who can help me. Or maybe down in Wausau at the University. Someone just who'll talk to me. Oh well. I guess I tried. That's more than a lot of people can say. Needless to say, you don't have to "watch out" for me anymore. I quit.

Your friend, Clay (talk) 15:23, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

• I wish to tender my apologies for my earlier tagging of your edits. I was overzealous in my efforts to mark vandals and marked your edits as such without doing proper research and without assuming good faith. I failed to act as I should, and besmirched your reputation. Once again I apologize and hope that you will rejoin wikipedia and continue to contribute. Improbcat (talk) 19:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

You shouldn't have tendered any apologies, this jerk was making hoax articles and mocking you all on his blog the whole time. The Garbage Skow (talk) 03:47, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Jean LeRoque

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing inappropriate pages, such as Jean LeRoque, is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. The Garbage Skow (talk) 03:43, 21 May 2012 (UTC)