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[edit] License tagging for Image:Flatirons.jpg

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[edit] Re:Utah-geo-stub

S'alright. For future reference, all geography items are marked with geo-stubs, but there are separate ones for almost all countries and a lot of sub-national regions too (including all US states). Almost all of them are in the form CountryName-geo-stub, so if in doubt try that and use preview to see if it works. if it doesn't, then a generic stub's fine since someone else is bound to be able to fix it up later. Grutness...wha? 20:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Have a look at Wikipedia:Userboxes - that has all the information. Be careful, though - not everyone's a big fan of userboxes, and it's easy to make one that someone will object to. Good luck! Grutness...wha? 21:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Hello, Jimbo Herndan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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It looks like your first message was unfortunately from a bot. Sorry nobody welcomed you personally before this. Thanks for the great photographs! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Again, welcome!  --Ginkgo100talk 04:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I'm Back!

I was on a short break for a while, but I'm back! --Jimbo Herndan 19:57, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hypothetical WikiProject:Boulder

Wow, that's an exciting proposal. I'm inclined to say "no" because I don't have a very clear idea how much of a commitment -- and how much effort -- a WikiProject:Boulder would require. I have a strange feeling that the answer would be "too much for me to sign up now".

I guess I'm not as avid a Wikipedia editor as you are. I'm going to throw out a wild guess that I do fewer edits per day than you, but I might be wrong -- I have a tendency to work on articles by doing a series of small edits, so the "count" might be deceptively high.

You've had a logon to this grand intellectual arena for about three weeks. I've been around for almost nine months. Even so, I still consider myself something of a newbie/outsider in the world of Wikipedia. I'm sometimes aggressive in what I do with Wikipedia articles, sometimes cautious, but I'm still sort of picking my spots. Wikipedia has a vast array of conventions and customs, and I don't feel that I know them very well yet.

For instance, there is a WikiProject:Colorado already. I took a quick look at this project's "home page" (for lack of a better term) and it seems obvious that they have a big task list, and could surely use our help. For that reason, might it make better sense for us to sign up with that group? Furthermore, casually looking around, I saw a number of WikiProjects for states but I didn't notice very many for cities -- none for any city as small as Boulder. It seems to me that starting WikiProject:Boulder would go against a sort of de facto standard. I am not averse, necessarily, to overthrowing unwritten customs, but I don't feel strongly enough about WikiProject:Boulder to buck the tide.

-*-*-* sudden and violent change of subject *-*-*-

I was first turned on to Wikipedia in May 2006, when I accidentally encountered the Boulder, Colorado article as a Google search result. You might find it amusing to go into the change history and see what the Boulder article was at that time. Briefly, it was a long article that contained a lot of outrageous material. In particular, as I recall, there was a section entitled "A Culture of Rioting", and another section containing some objectionable opinions about the Jonbenet Ramsey case. The "people" section featured one person most prominently, the only one to be pictured other than Jonbenet. Can you guess who that was? WARD CHURCHILL! Apparently the article had been the target of "edit wars" for a long time before I showed up, and I contributed my own two cents to continuing edit wars, as you can see from the Boulder discussion page.

Somehow, all of that has calmed down now. I don't know why the Boulder-bashers have retreated, but they have. The Boulder article has improved from awful to okay. Just okay. Feature articles on Wikipedia are better than this one, both in writing style and in the content chosen for inclusion. The article could also use a better "skyline" picture -- the one we have now is a shot of the Pearl Street Mall at night, in which almost nothing is visible.

I am of the opinion that the city of Boulder is a tougher target (for an encyclopedia article) than most other topics.

For instance, you expressed incredulity that Jonbenet Ramsey was not mentioned in the Boulder article. Well, the Ramsey case is so controversial that most previous versions of the article had contained really objectionable material about her. Long-time observers of the Boulder article were holding their breath in anticipation of the Jonbenet wars being revived, which (thankfully) does not seem to have happened. (Good job, by the way -- Jonbenet does need one brief mention in Boulder, Colorado, with a link to her own article, which is just about what we have now.)

Another article that I discovered early on was entitled Colorado Chautauqua Park. Yes, it was about that area that we know and love, located just south of 9th and Baseline. However, the article as I found it was short -- only about four or five sentences -- and every sentence in the article, as well as the title, was misleading if not outright false.

I have renamed the article, and I have been working on The Colorado Chautauqua article, off and on, ever since. To do justice to the history of this wonderful local institution in an encyclopedia article is not easy. I don't feel that I am done with this article -- it's a sort of labor of love for me. I could say some of the same things about the more general article on the Chautauqua movement, which of course I discovered because of the connection to our own Independent Chautauqua in Boulder.

  • -*-*-*

Welcome into the pool. The water is fine, as you have already discovered. I think you're more gung-ho than I, however. Paul 20:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Store names in a table

Hi Jimbo.

I don't know quite what you had in mind here, but how's this? Paul 09:03, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caffe Sole

Hi! You said: Hey, would it be better if I made a Restaurants and Coffee Shops section in the Boulder, Colorado article and moved it there, and added some other restaurants and Coffee Shops? That's not a bad idea, although you should try to be concise. Also, if you like writing about Boulder, maybe you would enjoy contributing to Wikitravel? They are more oriented towards information that would help a visitor. Regards, FreplySpang 20:12, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Colorado!

Welcome, Jimbo Herndan to WikiProject Colorado! We hope you can contribute to our ongoing effort to create, expand, organize, and improve Colorado-related articles to a feature-quality standard.

Some useful links:

What you can do:

  • Add {{Project Colorado}} to talk pages of all Colorado-related articles.
  • De-stub Colorado stubs.
— † Webdinger BLAH | SZ 20:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] how do i block

I wish to block User:67.190.0.146 for constant recent vandalism, how would i go about doing that?

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