User talk:Billy Hathorn

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[edit] Clayton Williams

Good edit. Btw, do you have references for them? I need to do so for the edit I did, actually ;) Longshot14 06:38, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lou Bullington Tower

Some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Lou Bullington Tower may not be sufficiently well-known to merit articles of their own. The Wikipedia community welcomes newcomers, and encourages them to become Wikipedians. On Wikipedia, each user is entitled to a user page in which they can describe themselves, and this article's content may be incorporated into that page. However, to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia proper, a subject must be notable. We encourage you to write or improve articles on notable subjects. Vegaswikian 03:22, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bruce Alger

The Bruce Alger article that you wrote seems to be a copyright violation of http://dallaslibrary.org/CTX/archives/MA83-11.html

Normally, I would slap the appropriate copyvio template on the page, and it would be deleted soon after, however, in this case the content seems to have come from a source which is intended for public research, so I would at least like to offer you the chance to re-write the article from scratch, replacing any text from that site with text of your own. Feel free to include details from the Dallas library, but direct mass duplication is not allowed by copyright law. Thank you, and happy editing! -Harmil 23:06, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles are licensed under the GFDL and in any case are not attributed to singular authors (even in such cases as those authors have been the principal [or even sole] editors). Please do not continue to append your name to the Alger article as the author. If you do not desire that your text should appear without attribution, you may, I suppose, remove it; your text, though, has already been released under the GFDL, and, so, to the extent that the article doesn't have copyright violations, any removal of relevant text will likely result in the article's being reverted. Please feel free to query me about this issue on my talk page. Thanks! Joe 04:43, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stop

Do not create temp pages to comment on an article. Use TALK pages. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 15:59, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] facts and sources

You are adding a lot of great facts to Wikipedia, and for that I thank you! However, your edits are not sourced, for the most part. If you're grabbing lots of facts from good reference sources, please cite your sources inline. Thanks! -Harmil 01:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Republican Party (United States)

Hi, I have just been doing some tidying up, disambiguating links to Republican. I see you have been doing great work on lots of articles, but I thought I'd drop you a message because a lot of the edits I have been correcting are yours.

As you'll see, the link in my first sentence here (which I wrote as [[Republican]]) points to a disambiguation page -- in this case, a page which describes all the different meanings of the word "Republican".

In several of your edits, you have used [[Republican]] when the link was clearly intended to refer to the Republican Party (United States).

The way to that correctly is to used this text, which I have italicised here for clarity: [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. That way, the link will appear as Republican ... but it will bring you to the page you want.

Please could you try to use this form of link when you mean to refer to the Republican Party? Thanks! --BrownHairedGirl 12:23, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk. I have moved the "Charlton lyons" article to "Charlton Lyons", and also fixed the Joe Waggonner article.
However, I hope you won't take this the wrong way when I say that although you are doing great work creating lots of new articles, it'd be even better if you took a little more time to learn how Wikipedia works. Apart from the link problems I pointed out, most of your articles are uncategorised, and that makes your hard work much less valuable, as well as leaving it to other editirs to do a lot of tidying up.
If you start by going to WP:HELP, you'll find a lot of guidance there under Editing Wikipedia. Good luck! --BrownHairedGirl 18:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:MOS, WP:NC and WP:ES are your friends

In particular, see WP:NC#Lowercase second and subsequent words. Could you please make sure your edits are compliant with our conventions? Thanks. ←Humus sapiens ну? 06:34, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Election data

As someone who's also working on articles related to New Orleans and Louisiana politics, I really appreciate the work you're putting into articles on Louisiana politicians. I'm thinking, though, that now that I've started a series of articles on Louisiana and New Orleans elections, a lot of the material on specific campaigns and election results that you've added to articles on politicians might be better suited to the new articles on specific elections. See the Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1963-64 article for an example of how I've used your data to add detail to an election article. I'll wait until I hear what you think before I start removing it from biographical articles on politicians, though.--Praxedis G 18:01, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Camille Gravel, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

[edit] Linking, formatting

Hi, Billy. I just ran through your excellent article on Charles T. Beaird to bring it more into line with Wikipedia policies and procedures. In particular, be careful not to violate the neutral point of view policy. Writing that sounds overly praising of the subject is not in keeping with Wikipedia's established style. Also, it is accepted practice to only link to the first occurrence of a term and then not to link thereafter (in your piece, you linked almost every instance of Shreveport and Republican). Lastly, we have many categories for people in particular rather than the broad categories you applied. For example, rather than Category:Philanthropy, Beaird falls under Category:American philanthropists. These categories go at the end of the article, and you can make sure the article will sort correctly (by last name) by using a piped link. For example, putting Charles T. Beaird into a category with text like [[Category:American philanthropists]] will cause the article to be sorted under its first letter, C. To force it to sort by last name, you do this: [[Category:American philanthropists|Beaird, Charles T.]] The category name will show up on the Charles T. Beaird page, and the article will now be filed under the letter B on the appropriate category page. In the end, though, don't sweat the small stuff. You'll pick all this up in time. I hope you stick around and continue editing! — BrianSmithson 17:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Please stop removing links on the Charles T. Beaird page. Also, please read Wikipedia:Dates. It is not necessary to wikilink every simple date. In fact, this is against policy. — BrianSmithson 18:14, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Billy. I have replied to your comments on my talk page. Please let me know if you have any more questions. — BrianSmithson 16:17, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Hello. You are really doing a great job on your articles. Please keep the Categories toward the bottom of the page when creating or editing (not the top). See the Wikipedia:Categorization page example "Adding an article to a category is as simple as editing the article and adding a link to the category. For instance, to add Felis silvestris catus article to the "fluffy creatures" category, you would edit the article and enter at the bottom, but before interlanguage links." Thank you. ACMe 20:42, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] accolades, references

Billy, great job with the new William J. Guste article! It's always impressive to see a new article go up in such good shape. Wikipedia:Footnotes could be helpful for the reference section, if you're so inclined. --Kchase02 T 00:10, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 21:28, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Billy Chandler

Well, just keep trying if you want. But you're not required to create any links, the message is just a general request for anyone to do it at some point. Usually you can just look at some related articles, and create a little new text them if need be. --W.marsh 02:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Re: Edit summary bar

Oleg, the edit summary line. What do we put in the edit summary bar? Just a phrase about the changes made?

Thanks, Billy Hathorn —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Billy Hathorn (talk • contribs) .

Yes, just a short summary of what you changed can go along way. :) Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 14:52, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes, for example if you added categories, "categorized" would be a good summary as would "+Category:whichever ones added". If somebody has died and you add info about that, "Add materal on death", etc... It lets others see what was done, which can speed up editorial review. GRBerry 19:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wayne DuBose

For all talk pages, please remember to sign talk page comments with "~~~~" as the four tildes automatically adds your username and a timestamp to the comment. (Three would be username only, five is timestamp only.)

In Articles for deletion (AFD) discussion, you'll get the most mileage out of opinions out of comments that refer to the policies of Wikipedia, like WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, the general essay on notability WP:NN, or topic specific notability guidelines like WP:BIO, WP:CORP, WP:WEB. Have your opinions explain why the article either violates or meets the standards. For notability, it is enough to meet any one standard. GRBerry 19:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John N. Kennedy

Thank you for you recent edits to John N. Kennedy. I was wondering if you know of, or found any connection between John N. Kennedy and the Kennedy family. I searched around the Internet for more than an hour and could not find anything to prove or refute any familial connection. Given the similarity between his name and that of John F. Kennedy, I am curious about this. If you have any insight on this question, please feel free to contact me on my Talk page. --TommyBoy 02:37, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Tommy Boy, there is no connection between the LA treasurer and the MA Kennedys. The treasurer was born a year before JFK was elected to the Senate.

Thank you for responsing so quickly, I will mention our discussion in the article. --TommyBoy 05:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Billy Hathorn 02:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)Billy Hathorn

[edit] Images

Can someone tell me how to find a picture and put it with a Wikipedia selection. I have lost the instructions, and I could not follow the instructions that I had. Thanks Billy Hathorn

See Wikipedia:Images and linked pages. If you have a more specific question, ask. -- Infrogmation 20:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Couhig

Hi. Some of your edits to Rob Couhig sound more like advertising or campaign promotion than encyclopedic description. See Wikipedia:NPOV. Whether the subject is someone we admire or dislike, try to stick to just the facts. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 20:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles you are editing

Thank you for your contributions. Please note that you are editing many articles related to living people. I would invite you to read the policy of WP:BLP, so that you can edit these articles in accordance with established policies. I would also ask you to provide inline references, rather than a bunch or URLs, so that readers and other editors can verify the information provided. Failure to do so may result in most of the text being deleted from these articles as it fails the policy of Verifiability. Happy editing. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 02:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AUTO

I can see that you have written a thesis on the subjects you are editing. I would suggest that you read WP:AUTO as well. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 02:47, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

We welcome people who are knowledgable about a subject writing about that subject; but verifiability and lack of biased editing is important. Sometimes experts about a subject feel their opinion should count rather than supply a source; we can't verify an editor's identity let alone expertise and so we insist on verifiable sources. Sometimes experts have a bias or a conflict of interest that that gets in the way of a NPOV article; behavior on the part of the expert and common sense on the part of observers can lead to the expert being asked to contribute to the talk page instead of the article itself. Sometimes wikipedia inadvertently drives away experts for no good reason at all; I hope things work out ok. WAS 4.250 03:25, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your articles

It seems like you are writing a lot of articles about Louisiana Republicans. Do you work for the state party? Rockules318 21:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

No, but I grew up in Louisiana. I live in Texas.

````Billy Hathorn````

I have written more articles about Democrats than Republicans, I believe the count would show.

[edit] Response to prod

Hi -- just wanted to let you know I've moved your comments in response to the "prod" on Dan Richey to the article's Talk page since the talk page is the appropriate place to discuss an article. --Bookgrrl 02:14, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, but I could not find where on the Talk Page to place comments. The original challenge to the article is in the "edit" section of the article itself. Also, I have been given directions on how to place photos in an article, and I cannot understand the directions. Do you have a simplifed set of directions, listed 1, 2, 3, etc.

Billy Hathorn (I don't know the code for signing the comment.)

[edit] No Dan Richey page found

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The term "small time political figure" in reference to Mr. Richey is demeaning and not appropriate considering his extensive political activities.

````Billy Hathorn````

[edit] Signing comments, pictures

Hi, Billy. I saw a comment from you somewhere that you didn't know how to sign your comments on talk pages. All you do is type ~~~~ (four tilde symbols in a row). When you save the page, the tildes will be converted into your signature and the date and time. The tilde ~ is the key at the upper-left-hand side of your keyboard.

As for adding images to articles, are you having trouble uploading them or simply adding them to the article page? Let me know which, and I'll try to explain it in simple terms. Thanks, — BrianSmithson 22:22, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Brian, but the instructions make no sense to me on either finding the pictures, tagging them, or uploading them.

If you have a specific image you want to use, you can email it to me and I'll place it for you. Just click on my name, then click "E-mail this user" on the left of the browser window. The image hs to be freely usable, though (one you took yourself, or that you have permission to use, or that predates 1924). — BrianSmithson 08:23, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
I've gone through about half the links you sent me, and I'll try to get the rest done soon. I'm uploading them as fair use, since they all seem to be under copyright. This shouldn't be a problem, but don't be surprised if the images get deleted. — BrianSmithson 04:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dan Richey

Just so you know, I did some cleanup work on the Richey article and the links in it.

Although, you might want to find some other location to store the information that you could have had in those Yahoo mail links. Linking to Yahoo mail isn't going to work, because we all can't access your inbox.

But you are making Wikipedia a pretty good resource for information about Louisiana politics and that's pretty good too.

--RobbieFal 21:38, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Richey

I've removed the comments you replicated from the Dan Richey Talk page to the AfD discussion... please don't spam the AfD with discussion from the article Talk Page; it makes the discussion hard to read. Simply add an opinion of keep or delete and explain why you feel that is the correct course of action. Thanks!--Isotope23 19:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD logs

Please do not remove AfD entries from AfD logs (except when relisting to get a more thorough consensus). They need to be in the logs for historical reasons. --Nlu (talk) 06:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

I've finished going through your photo requests. There were an image or two that weren't usable (too small or poor quality), but most of them have been added to the appropriate articles. Sorry it took so long; I have less time to devote to Wikipedia than I'd like. — BrianSmithson 05:59, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your work on Seymour Weiss

Billy, I wish to commend you on your work on the "Seymour Weiss" page. I'm a newbie, and was feeling a bit down over how to clean up, or amend the article to fit within the most proper guildline here. Also, I was at a small loss as how to communicate with someone, who could assist me, or 'carry the ball' for awhile. Your additions, and revisions, are clean, and professional, and very much appreciated. Thanks - Sincerely, Brad Michael Moore bmm at bradmichaelmoore.com67.142.130.35 22:16, 4 November 2006 (UTC)


Thank you for the kind comment, Brad. I find that one of the most difficult things about Wikipedia is how to contact other writers. I happened to have the Dict. of La. Biog. on Weiss and was going to add some of that material to the roster. Then I found that someone had already written on Weiss. So I blended what I had with what you had already presented and made it consistent in style. I don't think I left out any of your points in the editing process.

I really did not know much about Weiss until I did this editing earlier in the week. I had no idea, for instance, that he golfed with Bob Hope, but so many golfed with ol' Bob, didn't they?

Billy Hathorn (I can never remember that user code either.)

[edit] Nicholls

Thanks for your edits to Francis T. Nicholls! Keep up the good work! This article has been added to the maintenance list of the American Civil War Task Force. Feel free to consult the style guideline at User:Hlj/CWediting that we have adopted. Again, thanks for adding to this article, and we look forward to futher improvements to other Louisiana-rleated Civil War bios. Keep 'em coming... Scott Mingus 13:13, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Scott for the kind remarks. I also will add that Cleveland appointed Nicholls to the Board of Visitors of West Point, but I don't know just what that board was (or is). It would also be good to find what Nicholls raised on his plantation, presumably sugar. It would also be good if we could find the exact 1876 election returns between Nicholls and Packard.

Billy Hathorn 16:10, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clements

Someone tried to do mischief to the Bill Clements article. I corrected what was done, but it might need to be watched.

Billy Hathorn 13:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frank Madla article

Thanks for your great contributions to the Frank L. Madla article. With finals coming up, I hadn't had a chance to add some more extensive info on the page. One quick question, though, about the changes to the references that I had. I had been trying to follow other examples on reference usage and had the embedded <ref>(reference info)</ref> tags to indicate what info came from what source, and the <div class="references-small"><references/></div>, in the References section to consolidate them and "pretty" them up. I noticed that your edits moved my embedded references from the info that was being cited, and copied them into the References section. Not having worked on that many bios while making references myself, I want to abide by what's accepted practice for references, so if you have ny thoughts on or reasons for the changes, please let me know. — Bellhalla 13:46, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

To Bellhalla, I d not know how to do the imbedded commands. When I saw that my article was much more extensive than your, I just went with my artice but kept your commands in the Reference section. I think that all your information was already in my article too. I wrote the article without seeing that someone else had already done an article on Mr. Madla. That was a horrible tragedy! Fell free to move your commands back to the exact text. Do you know how to get a photo of Madla in the story?

Billy Hathorn 8:47, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

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