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[edit] License tagging for Image:369f1.jpg

Imaged tagged

[edit] Your edit to Arcoon Lodge

Article merged with Scouting in Connecticut

[edit] License tagging for Image:CTMap-doton-EastHaven.PNG

Image tagged but later deleted. Better graphic was uploaded in its place

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:EastHavenSeal1.JPG

Done

[edit] NOAC 2006

I am interviewing as many arrowmen as I can find on this website and was curious as to what you think about NOAC 2006. I am also curious to find out lodge names for Wikipedia users. I'm essentially trying to meet new people on Wikipedia who share a common interest. My lodge is the Anpetu-We Lodge chartered to the Greater St. Louis Area Council. If you would like to contribute to my listing, please place it on my userpage.

Yours in Brotherhood,

Anpetu-We 23:22, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page vandalism

Hi, np for the revert. The guy had just vandalized a page that was on my watchlist, and I noticed he had touched a couple other pages, and so I reverted those. I didn't report it, but he has since been blocked. I think the same guy has four accounts, which all are useless (they are just used to post things on each other's userpages, so it may be brought up as well: the four accounts are User:Gah12345, User:Blade 92, User:Wovelscotch and User talk:Wolvelscotch. Regards -- Jeff3000 18:12, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Eagle Scout

Please take a look at Wikipedia:Copyright problems, secifically the section "What's copyrighted?". I'm not trying to bite, just keeping things level. Please let me know if you have any questions on this. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 02:28, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Look: you did a lot of good work here, but you added some stuff that we just couldn't use. That's been fixed now and I hope we are all past it. Hope to see you back on this. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:50, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scouting in Connecticut

I really like what you've done with the page, it's great, with three caveats.

  • 1 Like the rest of the Internet, Wikipedia abhors large strings of capital letters. Perhaps the way to get around this is to italicize what you now have in caps, or perhaps change the font color.
  • 2 Wikipedia also dislikes "List of..." anything. You can take that out anywhere it appears in the article, and it will sound much better. We changed all these from "List of councils in x state" to "Scouting in x state" specifically so that Wikipedia would not delete them, as it had done to the lists of OA lodges. That was a pity, as the fellow had put a lot of work into it, but lists are bad, m'kay?
  • 3 I don't understand the addition of [[Order of the Arrow|Honor societies]] where it is, can you explain?

I really like how you included the Girl Scout information, I believe this article should be held up as a model of how to do that. I don't know enough about the Girl Scouts, where did you obtain all that, and would you willing to add such info to each of the other states in like fashion?

Brother, this is a load of great work, thank you! Chris 00:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Maybe I should merge the current council into the one subject heading of “Past and Present Councils”
Hi, David, actually, to show historical continuity, it is better to keep them separate. Chris 06:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Do we need to identify each town in a district?
You can, I don't think it's necessary, but that's how the stub articles were written. Maybe make them a paragraph instead of a list. For my own homestate of Colorado, I just located each Council by county or geographic boundaries, but we have 64 counties to your eight. Maybe it makes more sense to least each city, or at least the boundary ones, for Connecticut. Chris 06:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I also found 42 – 43 Boy Scout Camps, past and present, any suggestion how to add them?
For other states, I have been inserting them under the proper council they belong(ed) to. The hierarchy I was using (my idea, not canonical) was council, then camp, then OA, then districts... Chris 06:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] East Haven, Connecticut

Thank you for the message, though I didn't understand parts of it. My biggest problem with the section was the biased and original research-sounding tone; "best-loved annual events", "an excellent midway", "favorite Festival highlight", "very popular". Beloved town festivals, unless they attract large-scale attention, are not notable. I do, however, apologize for cutting the bit on the trolley museum; that was an error on my part, and I plan to re-add it. As for the talk page, well, I was bold. Cheers! Deltabeignet 05:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coments and/or complaints

Vandalism? Why am i being accused of vandalism? Those other accounts are not mine either, I've never heard of Gah12345. And what pages that we "vandalised" are you talking about?-Wovelscotch 18:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I have no idea. If you check above someone else mentioned your name, hence you should take this up with him/her. --dep369 19:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)Dep369

[edit] "rv spam"

"rv" is short for "revert", and "spam" has come to be used as a generic term for links that are commercial, and/or whose only purpose appears to be to attract traffic, or simply don't have any encyclopedic content relevant to the article. Happy editing! -- Mwanner | Talk 17:37, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] East Haven, Connecticut

I did a quick look through the article. All I can say is that it still needs a lot of work (in fact, I wouldn't even recommend placing the article on peer review yet, since to me it looks as if there should be a clean up tag on the article instead). These are the problems that immediately stuck out:

  1. The history section is quite long with many one sentence paragraphs (which should be combined with other short paragraphs). Also, some areas aren't "wikified" (relevant words or phrases linked to other Wikipedia articles). I suggest you summarize that section so that one gets an overview of the town's history. If readers want the details, they can refer to books or websites that you might have used to write that section.
  2. There are a number of lists that I recommend that you don't include (e.g. individual schools, organizations). The organizations listed can apply to any other town (what makes them so important and unique to warrant inclusion?). As for schools, the statistics themselves can change from year to year, which adds to much article instability. It is best to give an overall number of students and schools instead of focusing on each one.
  3. The company listings in the economy section is too much. It is better to just mention the companies in passing. If the reader wants more details, they can refer to the company websites (last time I checked all three companies mentioned have their own websites).
  4. List more sources if possible. There are some claims that are not backed up. Also, you might want to write out the sources instead of merely including the URLs.
  5. Speaking of "wikified," WP:CONTEXT and WP:BTW has some useful guidelines you can follow.

It seems from your message that you want to someday get this article to featured status, though at the moment there are plenty of things that need to be addressed before anyone will consider it worthy of being on Wikipedia's front page.

Since I didn't personally work on this article, just out of curiosity which article did you look at? PentawingTalk 06:25, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 16K? Delete that sucker!

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:SealOfNewHaven.PNG)

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