User talk:MariAdkins

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Invitation[edit]

Eastern Mountain Coal Coal Fields task force		Welcome to our task force!
		Thank you for joining the Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force. Please take a few moments and look over our project page. We encourage every member to find their niche and work on the parts of the project they most enjoy. If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask on our project talk page. Once again, welcome!

J654567 (talk) 01:10, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome[edit]

WikiProject Kentucky		Welcome to our project!
		Thank you for joining WikiProject Kentucky. Please take a few moments and look over our project page and the various project departments. We encourage every member to find their niche and work on the parts of the project they most enjoy. If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask on our project talk page. Again, welcome!

Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 12:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Coal towns and the task force for Eastern KY[edit]

Hello- I left the same message below to the Task Force Founder (J654567) below and want to know what you think!Coal town guy (talk) 13:53, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi- I LOVE coal towns, hence my user name, Coal town guy. I have joined the Eastern KY task force. I think I can help out a certain category issue here and of course as you created the project, I would love your feedback. IF you look at Mining Communities in KY as a category, it is not very populated. IMO, and I stress IMO, the KY coal towns I have identified in the Coal towns category (640+ pages strong and growing) are a tad better identified for the singular reason that many coal towns, NOT just KY, were NOT mining communities in the definition provided here in Wiki.....I would very much like to help with the creation of a cat for KY coal towns, and of course WV coal towns etc etc. Let me know what you thinkCoal town guy (talk) 13:47, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

MUCH appreciate the reply. When you can, take a look at what is defined a mining community and you will see why I said what I did. ESPECIALLY since you grew up in coal country.....I agree the coal is coked, sure, but SMELTING.....uh no.Coal town guy (talk) 16:01, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please send me a link to where this is going on? I seem to remember this discussion but can't find it, of course. --Mari Adkins 16:12, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Never mind, I found it. I'm such a dork! LOL --Mari Adkins 16:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

No problem. Here is the coal town article.Coal town guy (talk) 16:24, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question or thought[edit]

Do you think it would be a good idea to have a coal town task force??? I do. BUT, I am openly biased. Coal town guy (talk) 16:35, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think we need one. We should make one. --Mari Adkins 17:05, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

GROOVY...I am researching one now. This would encompass more then KY, BUT, given the definitions out there now, its going to be needed.Coal town guy (talk) 17:21, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cool beans. Let me know what you find out and when/if you need anything. I'll do what I can to help. --Mari Adkins 21:51, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes, one thing, get with folks you know are active in Eastern KY task force and spread the word. I will find who I can on the WV and PA end of the worldCoal town guy (talk) 02:28, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kentucky...love it[edit]

Hey, OH YEAH, I have been very busy with Kentucky. I finally created my 2000th article and beyond. There are a few counties I am looking into, Metcalfe and Perry...Coal town guy (talk) 16:01, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incredible. If you need anything let me know. I'm not so familiar with those counties, but I do try to help where I can. MariAdkins

Granny woman[edit]

Its a real term, used by about 2 generations before me, and the term is an Appalachian term, or rather, a word of the dialect there. I will confer with some category masters. HOWEVER, I am VERY suspicious this is a word for word from another text, I have read this, and the recipe was also called a plaster which, I have sadly endured and DO NOT work. Thanks for the heads up.Coal town guy (talk) 03:12, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: My great grandmother was one, BUT, AGAIN, there is also a custom to address others who are elder in a familial way...Oh, that's Aunt so and so........, she was NOT your Aunt, BUT, that was a way you acknowledged you knew her and her status in the area.Coal town guy (talk) 03:14, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the help. and yes - i grew up with the various aunts and a few uncles, too. :)--Mari Adkins 03:25, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

The article in question is almost a total falsehood. In my 20's I was am amateur cyclist, and some of those hollows left me breathing hard, I was spent. To picture, a granny woman, in her 60's hoofing it to get MORPHINE, yes I am quoting, MORPHINE at a remote company store is laughable. My MOTHER lived near Hick Hollow, a steep, merciless WALL, no granny on this planet, did thatCoal town guy (talk) 03:36, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sitting here dying lmao. thanks for chiming in. I can't wait to see what your responses are!--Mari Adkins 16:43, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

My talk page statement is below:

It is a rare term, as I stated earlier it is a real term, BUT this article, to actually have a Start class is a total, JOKE. The places in Appalachia where this term is used do not allow in any application of physics, any elderly woman to hoof a hollow, GET MORPHINE......IN A REMOTE COMPANY STORE IN APPALACHIA, A CONTROLLED NARCOTIC...IN A SMALL STORE......DURING A BIRTH, AFTER SCALING A SHEER WALL, AND THEN BACK AGAIN to administer the drug, MORPHINE topically, which can KILL YOU. With a steady expertise......Why not?, well that's because, IT AIN'T SO, thats whyCoal town guy (talk) 17:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimeetup Kentucky? Join us at THATCamp KY, June 1-2, 2013[edit]

Wikimeetup Kentucky - We need you!

Hi MariAdkins! I'm helping to organize THATCamp Kentucky - June 1 & 2 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Take a look at the Tentative Schedule. Let's get together in person to work on Kentucky-related wikipedia pages, what do you say? If you have any questions, please email the THATCamp KY Organizer, Lee Skallerup Bessette (Morehead State University, @readywriting) at thatcampky@gmail.com. Please sign up to participate Wikimeetup Kentucky. Thanks for editing Wikipedia and I look forward to working with you! Randolph.hollingsworth (talk) 14:51, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pensmore Conspiracy Theories[edit]

Hi Mari,

I saw your post from 2017 on Talk:Pensmore about the conspiracy theories you read about Pensmore. I'm not super well versed in how talk pages work, and I tried to switch that to its own category, which then messed up your user signature, and then I added the link to your user page back, and a whole bunch of other stuff but I think it shows now. Just in case I did screw it up enough that you didn't get a notification or whatever, I wanted to ask you on here if you wanted to share what you read re: Pensmore conspiracies, and send me some of the sources for that, so maybe sometime I'm procrastinating I can add that to the article.

Read through your userpage and talk page while trying to fix all those links-- what a fantastically poetic user page. Your life sounds like a novel in it's own right, and if I ever get the chance someday to read Midnight I would love to. I also saw the notice at the top of your talk page. I hope you're in good health.

Wishing you the best,

Eggventura (talk) 21:42, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]