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Dear DF67,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I promise to become less ""cute,"" and write with greater focus and brevity... next time.

One of the issues that I am sure is being addressed somewhere is that the people who should be editing The Neversink Gorge page and developing the Forestburgh page are so old that they can hardly deal with email. When I begged several of these people (who hate each other) who have vital collections of one of a kind books, documents, photos, articles, etc to look at what I had written and to edit it, they ""saw/experienced"" a ""googleesque"" one way portal; then, the one man who had the courage to click edit looked, blinked, read, stopped, called me and said, ""You claim it's so easy a dog could do it. If it's so easy then have Remsen edit it."" He hung up.

This is not an ""issue"" that can be fixed anytime soon; however, Remsen will keep working on it.

As for my ""serious"" issue, I just got a nice note from Wesley Northrop resolving it:

Dear Mr Bertine,
Hm, I could have sworn I'd answered you the other day. If this is a duplicate
message, please ignore it.
As far as I can tell, the account ""Petebertine"" has not been banned at all;
the block log is totally empty. Perhaps you have been misspelling your
password?
If you have included your e-mail address in your account, you can have a
password reminder sent to you. If not, well... I suppose you could start a
fresh account (""PeteBertine2"" or something, for instance).
Yours sincerely,
Wesley Northrop

Pete Bertine and Remsen are impressed and thrilled with this experience, gold stars to everyone. We are now more determined than ever to get an 89 year old curmudgeon to contribute to Wikipedia.

My question: can you please direct me to the best, most successful example on Wikipedia of a town, like Forestburgh, representing itself in the ""wiki-community;"" and could you provide at least 2 ""wiki-person-users"" that I should attempt to emulate in my quest to create a ""wiki-forestburgh"" full of ""wiki-correct"" content.

Sincerely,

Pete Bertine

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