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[edit] Knoxville, Tennessee, Bleak House, and wikilinking
Hi, Baxterguy! Glad to see your contributions, especially your article-creation efforts.
Hint: When you create internal links to Wikipedia articles, please make sure that the link actually points to the intended article. The Bleak House links you are creating in the Knoxville article point to the Charles Dickens novel, not to Knoxville's Bleak House. If you create a Bleak House article for K'ville, you will need to give it a unique title (e.g., Bleak House (Knoxville)). Then you can link to it in the format [[Bleak House (Knoxville)|Bleak House]]. Until that's done, please don't linkify "Bleak House".
More hints: When you create new articles, do connect them with other articles via internal links and categories, and please cite some sources. I added some links and categories to your Robertsville article, but I don't know what source you used. The welcome message you received earlier has a link to lots of advice on article-writing -- do check it out.
--orlady 15:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hello. Again, please don't put a link to Bleak House. That goes to a Charles Dickens novel, which is not in Knoxville. They're two different Bleak Houses. --AW 15:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
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- One other thing: Since it appears you're posting articles about historic homes in Tennessee, and since some of these are rather short and might be expanded with help from other editors, consider adding a {{Tennessee-struct-stub}} template at the end each article. I've already done this with your earlier articles. This lets editors know the category of the article, and that it needs to be expanded. If I can help, please let me know. Realkyhick 16:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Yep, just like that! Work on the sources that AW mentioned as you get time. Realkyhick 17:58, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wow!
Hi, thanks for creating articles for all those historic houses. Would you mind also putting where you got the information? You can put an sources section by typing ==Sources== and then put the web urls or books. Also, you ought to join the WikiProject Tennessee! We'd love to have you. Thanks --AW 17:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Regarding WikiProject Tennessee, those template tags are only supposed to go on article Talk pages, not the articles themselves. (One of many nuances that it takes a while for newcomers to figure out...)--orlady 21:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Hi Baxterguy, I responded on my talk page. But don't forget to sign your comments by clicking this
or by typing four tildes ~~~~. It will do this --AW 22:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Baxterguy, I responded on my talk page. But don't forget to sign your comments by clicking this
[edit] Suggestion
You might be able to enhance your articles about buildings by adding map links. I'm a novice at this, but here's what I think I know:
Template:Geolinks-US-buildingscale is supposed to create a set of links to various online maps of a building.
Here's an example of the code to use to add that template to an article's external links list: {{Geolinks-US-buildingscale|35.972882|-83.942161}}
That example code is for the generic Knoxville latitude and longitude; for a specific building you would have to substitute the accurate lat-long values.
Here's what that code generates (unfortunately, the map scale is not what I think it should be for a single building):
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- Satellite image from WikiMapia, Google Maps or Windows Live Local
- Street map from MapQuest or Google Maps
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image from TerraServer-USA
PS - I commented on "Mabry Hood House" over on AWiseman's talk page.
--orlady 15:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to start the stub articles, even though developing the articles will take me more time. I need to do some research on them, to ensure my information is precise - I don't want another architect to take issue with my terminology. I have driven by them so many times, and had relatives who have been in some of them, that it should be fun. I may try to take photos this summer of some of them, which should also help. --Baxterguy 17:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Fair enough! All in good time! Because several of those houses are places I have heard about, but whose locations I don't know, I thought that location maps might be worthwhile additions. --orlady 19:38, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Historic buildings
Hi Baxterguy, I was just wondering what you're using to find those historic houses - are they all on the National Register for example? --AW 20:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
I began by memory (as I am an architect born in Knoxville). I then found that almost all the buildings that I considered significant were on the National Register of Historic Places, with very few exceptions. (ie, The Baker Peters House is not, but a Civil War skirmish took place there, and it is an antebellum home.) So to answer your question, I "backed into" the list. I might create a separate page with a better breakdown, which would return the city page to it's former look and still give those into architecture - historic or otherwise- a resource. Whatdayouthink? --Baxterguy 17:01, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- I think a separate list article is a good idea. List_of_Registered_Historic_Places_in_Tennessee#Knox_County would be a good starting point --AW 17:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks, Awiseman. I have a busy weekend, but I'll try to start an offline draft by Sunday night. Hopefully, no one will delete the list before I can get the less prominent buildings transferred. --Baxterguy 20:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
