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[edit] WikiProject Kentucky template redesigned and cleaned up

Hi there. Just completed a major renovation of the template. I hope it solves most or all of the remaining issues with it. If you should need any more technical assistance with it, please don't hesitate to leave me a note. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 02:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kentucky Assessments

I've been dumping counties as mid-importance, and most "local" cities as low. It's my feeling that we need to focus on county development before city development. Now, Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort, Newport, and the like are higher priority than say, Hardinsburg, Brandenburg, etc., or at least that's how I envision it. Soldan 17:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, going through some of these articles, I've come across some very strong ones that we might want to try to push to feature status. Carrie Nation and the Carrollton bus disaster are both very strong, and I don't think it would take much to get them to GA status or better.Soldan 19:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

For that matter, we can go ahead and start posting "close to good" articles on the project page as we find them. Put them somewhere on the main page, which needs a coat of whitewash anyway. I think we'll be closer to obtaining a portal if we get some more good, A, and FA articles. Soldan 19:57, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Cool beans amigo. Going through the Unassessed is tedious, but I guess it's worth it in the endrun.Soldan 20:22, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks amigo. that gets us closer to done.Soldan 21:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other Questions

Would a comic character from Kentucky fall into one we'd want to push towards Good? Soldan 20:25, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Cannonball (comics) It's a damn fine article. Just not something I know about. But I think it's damn close to a GA IMO.Soldan 20:29, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I dunno about the Fruit Guys. I don't think they are as linked to Kentucky as the company, or to the comic character. But I don't know. I've only been editing hard core for a little while now.Soldan 20:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diane Sawyer

Oops -- silly me. I read "Glasgow" in her row on the list and immediately thought of Glasgow, Scotland, without clicking on the link; figured it was one of those traveling parents things and they lived there for work, but she moved to Lexington later in her life. Aha! Well, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks, and good luck in the renomination. --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 23:29, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your message

Hi Acdixon! Good to talk to someone with an interest in KY.  :-) When I looked in to your request to changed the name, I noticed that the name had been changed in the reverse a few months back. [1]. We need to figure out why that happened before we undo it, I think. Do you want to look into it or I can if you rather. Let me know. FloNight 01:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Morgan's Raid

Thanks for the very kind words!!! I submitted this article for a peer review a while back, and the only negative was the lack of citations. I have not had a chance to go back and add them in, but your words are an incentive now to do so. I will try to tackle this over the next couple of weeks while on business trips. Again, thanks for your encouragment! Scott Mingus 00:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:American liberals

  • Looking on your userpage I see that you are a fellow Republican. Even though there is a category labeling "American conservatives", the category labeling "American liberals" is up for deletion. This is obviously by liberals who don't want the bias pov of liberal celebrities and public figures to be known. So they don't want them categorized as what they are...liberals. I'm asking you to go to "Category:American liberals" follow the link to the nomination page and please vote to keep the category. -- AmeriCan 17:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] William Goebel

Hello. I have somehow improved fair use rationale, feel free to alter. Anyway, congratulations on a very nice article. - Darwinek 14:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Hiya I've viewed the fair use rationale on the picture and as soon as the minimum 2 day waiting period has expired I'll be happy to rate the article as GA. BigHairRef | Talk 19:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Your GA nomination of William Goebel

The article William Goebel you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:William Goebel for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. Apologies for the delay in changing the status of the article, was an oversight on my part. BigHairRef | Talk 17:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the warm welcome to the WikiProject Kentucky! Yeah, I've been thinking about making a trip out to Frankfort/Lexington sometime in the near future, which won't be much of a big deal for me since I live in Spencer County. Hopefully I can remember to get the photos you requested. Thanks again, Caliga10 15:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Jim Bunning is already there I think for a GA, if not higher. How exactly does such an article get submitted? Soldan 20:17, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I nominated John Carpenter, because that article is very well written. I see the problem with the Jim Bunning article, and I should probably rescend the nomination.Soldan 20:53, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough. I'm getting goofy=eyed from doing mass ratings. Only about 300 left or so to rate though.Soldan 20:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
It's all good amigo. This will get done by the end of the week, and then I will be working on the new layout for the WP:KY. But I already rescended on Bunning. So we'll see how the Carpenter article turns out.Soldan 21:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
No worries amigo. Has to be done, and well, like you said, it's just you, Stevie, and me at this point getting stuff done.Soldan 21:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caught ya

Darn it, i was gonna leave the lists for you, because I'm lost on them. :p Soldan 17:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough amigo. Or they'll just stay unassessed forever. Or we just make them all into Featured List quality stuff, and own the FL category for a whileSoldan 17:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good Article Question

I wrote 1st Kentucky Artillery a while ago, and I was wondering, what is your opinion on the status, as in what else needs to be done to get it to GA status. Soldan 16:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of counties in Kentucky

There is a problem; see below.

I revised the page because the new macros used to define the entries provide more information and make the internal format of the page cleaner (at least in my opinion). I shall try to finish the page by moving the rest of the entries to the new table format by the end of today, and then you can propose it as a best list. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 18:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I noticed when I was adding the FIPS codes for each county, that in the list of counties which include histories, Wayne County is missing, but it appears in the census info list. This will need to be fixed; I will put the county in the table with empty history information and you can look it up. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 19:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Your edit of January 26 created two tables listing the counties to change the article from your edit of January 15. Unfortunately when you did the edit of January 26 you left out Wayne County in the new table. You need to see if there is a map image for that county. I was just mostly checking to make sure I hadn't made the mistake. I won't criticize because I've made errors too, and I realized that I could have made the same mistake, so the only suggestion I will make is when doing a long list of items, you might try comparing item by item against another list so you don't miss any; that's how I spotted the missing item. I'm thinking it would have been embarrassing to propose it as a featured list and they point out it's incorrect, or worse, if it gets approved and it's discovered later that it was. :) Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 19:14, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

This is kind of funny.
I gather you copied the entry for Washington County to create the entry for Wayne County. When I was saving my changes I got an edit conflict. So I checked and found you had added the new information for Wayne County. However, the map specified for Wayne County was the map for Washington County! I did correct that, however. I find it kind of funny, so don't think I'm picking on you.  :) Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 20:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two New Points

  1. I have converted the census table from standard table syntax into a macro. The size of the source page dropped from 96K to 53K.
  2. If you look at the internal format of the table entries, the way they are shown is much clearer and better formatted. Also, each row of the table is now one line instead of 11. It definitely makes it easier to update if needed.
Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 10:37, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kentucky spellings

Hi. Thanks for leaving me the message on my talk page. I responded on the article's talk page, as requested. Take care, --Miskwito 17:41, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] question

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[edit] Kentucky Counties

All of them have (each more or less complete) infoboxes. Ancjr 09:44, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of counties in Kentucky

I discovered an issue with the display of List of counties in Kentucky - assuming it was from the addition of Livingston County, I reverted my last change to no avail. Further investigation revealed the display issues were present in previous versions as well. I discussed the issue with another editor who suggested consulting: Wikipedia:Template limits Ancjr 09:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of counties in Kentucky has new feature

Thanks to a new feature added with release 1.10 of the Wikimedia software, I have implemented it on the List of counties in Kentucky. Check it out and tell me what you think. It took me two hours to update the page to add the new feature, then redesign the pages now that the map showing each county is no longer needed. Let me know what you think. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 05:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the extremely impressive image map to List of counties in Kentucky. In the interests or readability, I moved it from the very start of the page to lower down. I restored the individual county maps, as they enable anybody reading the article to instantly see where the county there are interested in is. I also dropped the size of the image slightly to prevent horizontal scrollbars (you don't have to chnage the image maps co-ords for that). Tompw (talk) 11:35, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, as you know, there's another 49 states to work through, should you have any free time :-) Tompw (talk) 11:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Well, actually there are only a total of 46 states in the United States, and there are still 46 left. (Kentucky is the one most people forget isn't a state; even I didn't have it the first time I was asked. I note people can usually get the other three.) Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 19:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on this list. With your addition, it's now even better! I think Tompw's changes are good ones, but there's no question this map is a great new feature. Acdixon 13:35, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Glad to see you like the new feature. I - and others - had been "lobbying" the developers to put some form of clickmap capability in the Wikimedia software for quite some time now and once it was announced that it was available, I tried it out in a couple of pages first (see List of Texas area codes) and how it and each area code page's map interconnects to all the other area codes in that state along with neighboring states. There was a minor error that I - and others - had discovered which was fixed, and now the feature works and it really hepls. I even paid the shareware fee for a program that allows creation of clickmaps, then I use Word Perfect to translate the map from the standard format to Wikipedia's specification.

Where I was first thinking about it was a clickable map of the United States, and this is now also another good feature. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 19:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy delete warning

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[edit] International BBQ festival

I've removed the tag as you've improved it and added sources. Thank you for your contribution and keep up the good work! --Samtheboy (t/c) 18:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Flag of Greenville Kentucky.PNG

Thank you for uploading Image:Flag of Greenville Kentucky.PNG. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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[edit] Re: Pictures of Kentucky

Thanks for your message. I discovered a gold mine of pictures at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library and I have been mining it for all it's worth. They have thousands of pictures there, mostly of lakes, dams, and rivers, of course, since that's what they do. Frankly, most of their photographs are of rather low quality, but they are certainly better than nothing! ●DanMS • Talk 23:50, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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