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Matheson House (Gainesville, Florida)

You were the creator of the above article. Do you have any information as to why it is a place of historical interest, which could be added to the text? Thanks. LessHeard vanU 21:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I added a bit more info. I stubbed the entire List of Registered Historic Places in Florida, and I didn't want to spend too much time on each one, or I'd have never gotten done. As it was, it took me several months. But I figured at least something existed. Sometimes the hardest thing for folks to do is create an article; adding to an existing one is easier. I did include links in all the stubs as well, as information sources for expansion. Cheers! --Ebyabe 17:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

NRHP

What would you call a criticism section to limit its inclusion criteria? For instance, National Register of Historic Places, right now, has a section I have called "Academic criticism" but I want to broaden its coverage to include those within related fields. As academic implies "peer reviewed" I cannot well include a non peer reviewed magazine, Architect in the section as is though an editorial in a June 2006 issue contains relevant criticisms. What to do monfrair? IvoShandor 16:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Say hemina-hemina-what? You could just call it "Criticism", if you don't mind being too generic. Or "Criticism", with "Academic criticism" being a subheading. "Intellectual criticism"? No, then you'd have to have "Non-Intellectual criticism". And there's enough of that in the world!
I went on a roadtrip yesterday. Didn't start until noon, and covered near-ish places (within an hour or here). I'm going to go back now to my pretty picture. You making me thinka too much on a Sunday morning. Which is even more gorgeous than yesterday, but I decided yesterday was good enough. Gotta plan out my future roadtrips a bit better. :0 Ebyabe 16:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Man, the weather near Chicago is phenomenal too! Sorry to make you think. My main problem here is that I wanted to limit random additions of any joe blow who criticizes the Register. I started with "Criticism," now I have "Academic Criticism". I will have to think on this. IvoShandor 18:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm looking out the window and there is not cloud one in the sky, and it's breezy. Which helps since it's getting into the '80s. Wait, I take that back; I can see one wispy lil' cloud near the horizon. We definitely need to take advantage whilst it lasts. :) I understand your reasoning; it's like the "Trivia" sections in articles that invite all sortsa junk to be added. Or fansites, gods help us. Good luck with the cogitation. Sorry I'm not feeling too Jack Handey today. :) --Ebyabe 19:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Heh. Oh check it. User:IvoShandor/sandbox2/Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Frank Lloyd Wright collaboration, I dunno, I made a template and we could tag a bunch of articles with it if you wanted, might get a bunch of people interested, perhaps. I don't know if you like the idea of the division page or not. I seem to like to make them, : ), that and groovy templates. Oh and speaking of FLW... Check this, I am really going to try and go, expensive but such a cool opportunity to see something really special, and something rarely seen by the general public, for the most part anyway. IvoShandor 07:25, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Went live with it, new FLW division. Feel free to add to or take away wherever. IvoShandor 08:08, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Ogle County Courthouse

I hate to always be beggin' for help but . . . another of my articles is just about ready for Good article candidates, Ogle County Courthouse. It needs some copy editors though, any help is appreciated. Shouldn't be any huge glaring errors or omission but if you note anything other than minor copy edits let me know on the talk page. Thanks (if you have the time of course : ) ). IvoShandor 12:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed some fiddley bits, which is amongst the kind of stuff I like doing. And dude, you've done so much work for the Project, I don't mind at all contributing my little bit. You also always ask nice, which counts big in my book. I like to help, it's one of the things I like about the Wikipedia. If I can make time, I will, and I usually can. Cheers! --Ebyabe 12:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
While I'm thinking of it, pictures. The one in the infobox is lovely, imho; one of my favorites you've done. Another one or two pics wouldn't be amiss, though. Especially in that additional section. Like one of the cannons, or the fountain; like that. I have a feeling you've got them somewhere, as you're as much of a photo nut as I am. :) --Ebyabe 12:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I have the cannons, and the soldiers' monument, I didn't get the war memorial or the fountain, as I wasn't aware of them (didn't even see the fountain as a matter a fact and the war memorial looked to new to be relevant) because I hadn't discovered HAARGIS yet. : ) Feel free to drop another photo from common in their, there is some of the monument, the cannons are on another hard drive, not at my current locale, but I will grab them in the next couple (luckily lack of photos alone is not enough to fail a GA (I have been participating rather regularly)) according to the criteria. Phew! Okay, I am done, thank you Ebyabe. Is that some kind of weird anagram-like concoction btw? I have always wondered.IvoShandor 12:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh, and thank you for the compliment. : )IvoShandor 12:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
I thought the snow looked particularly awesome, it never turns out right, it has texture there....IvoShandor 12:57, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome!

It is wonderful to find pictures like that -- and I always do so accidentally. Most of those Florida places have no photos whatsoever. A photo makes it all so much more marvelous! Sincerely, --Mattisse 19:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I have trouble finding anything on the commons. I don't know how to look, I guess. There appears to be no way to save galleries on my user page there. So I am always in a fog and run across pictures by accident. Yours, probably I'll never find again -- except now I know there is a User's Page category. But maybe I won't be able to find it again! Sincerely, Mattisse
Thanks for verifying that it isn't just me. I have spent hours hunting around that place for a pic. I find a jewel just enough times to keep me going back. None of their so-called instructions seem to be helpful at all. And unfortuately, very few people seem conscientious about categorising there pics, as you do. So a person never can tell where a picture might be found! Sincerely, --Mattisse 19:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

How do you find the category?

Category: Registered Historic Places is Florida -- how to find? I just tried with no luck! --Mattisse 19:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

O.K. It does work, clicking on that link. Thanks! --Mattisse 20:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
By the way, feel free to change anything I do, as I really don't know much about all this. I just figure (because it works for me) that when there are photos in an articles it inspires people to work harder on it! Sincerely, --Mattisse 20:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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West Palm Beach Seaboard Coastline Railroad Passenger Station

Here's the evidence that the West Palm Beach Amtrak/Tri-Rail Station and the W.P.B. Seaboard Coastline Railroad Passenger Station are one in the same.

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Hope you find this informative. ---- DanTD 23:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

A Class

I just saw your comment now, sorry. : )

From what I have found A-Class reviews are performed at the project level but should require a formalized process, unlike stub, start, and usually B Class articles.

Check out what I have floating around in my sandbox: User:IvoShandor/Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/A class review. That's just the basics. I have this too, but I don't know if there is enough interest, but we could have it set up so the peer reviews here are transcluded into the main peer review page.

The only hurdle I see to starting up an A-class review at NRHP is that we would have to outline, in writing, some kind of criteria based on, a)other projects b)our own projects needs for articles (what they should include) c)what is written about A-class criteria. My basic assessment is that A-Class is just slightly below GA, which means the GA criteria could be useful in formulating our A-class criteria, because A-Class should basically mean, fix these things and go to GA. It would also make the cool way the template at Talk:University of Illinois Observatory all the more useful, i.e. A class assessment and promotions could be added to the article milestones. I am thinking, essentially, a toned town version of GA, based on specific parameters and needs laid out by the project. Any thoughts? IvoShandor 12:35, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

In addition, I have just worked out a rough draft of NRHP A-class criteria. I will need help with the "Project compliance" criteria, as to what you use to do your assessments based upon our project. Feel free to comment on the talk page there. This is just a preliminary outline. I will probably add some specifics kinda like the GA criteria are outlined. IvoShandor 14:07, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Any thoughts? Nice pic for contributing property btw, I haven't seen any plaques like that (exactly) in Illinois. Though most of the contributors to the Sycamore Historic District had plaques with the name of the place, year built and address. IvoShandor 16:04, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
See, the thing about A-Class is that it's on the grading scale between GA and FA. That's confusing, since both those ratings have to go thru peer review. In my random rating mania, I've run into very few articles already rated as A-Class. Which leads me to think I'm not the only one who's assumed that Stub, Start and B were the only ratings not needing peer review.
Meaning? I do like the idea of having a not-quite-ready-for-good-article rating, which is indeed what A-Class seems to be. To throw another option out, see how the WikiProject Korea folks do it. Maybe adding too much complication, but makes one think of other options.
The plaque was a pleasant surprise. Ran across this one in Newberry too. Props to them for doing the historic district thing right. Ironic, since I've been thru there a number of times, when I still lived in Gainesville. Even filmed some pretend-news bits for a play I did a few years ago, in front of both those buildings. Truth is stranger than fiction. :) --Ebyabe 17:33, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Cool. I mean about the play. So it would seem that the Korean project folk don't use a peer review process for A class huh?
I am of the school of thought that it should require a through review by independent editors. Of course, we are free to propose this and go with consensus within our project. It could even be something simple like GA reviews, one editor goes over it based on the criteria and then assesses it, we could even have some list templates that provide the criteria and ratings and such, like at GA, which btw, Ogle County Courthouse is about to become, thanks for the copy edit help on that one btw. IvoShandor 06:13, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
But I like the idea of the noms too, like FA, where its a more open process. We can propose numerous options and see where consensus goes. I will even create sandbox pages for each option.
What did you think of the interpretation of A class criteria. What needs to be added to the "project compliance section," since this NRHP thing was kinda your baby, you may know better than I. IvoShandor 06:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Those plaques are freakin cool. Wonder where the hell they got their capitalization lessons from though, heh. Oh, and have you looked at main article National Register of Historic Places lately. A problem has arisen in the main history article, a complaint about it being too bureacratic. Read it over, edit where you can. It's difficult for me to see the objection because the article is about the history of a giant bureacracy. How about that lame collage I did for Property types, : ) IvoShandor 06:19, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Rapid Heart Pictures

Why is this article LGBT-related? I see no evidence for it in the article. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:44, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

It's the production company of David DeCoteau. Which makes it sorta LGBT-related? Kinda? Cheers! --Ebyabe 23:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Ah, I see. Can you add that into the article please? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:47, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Geezly, people are makin' me work today! :) Added some info about the HoYay factor of Rapid Heart and other stuff. Only 'cause I love me the DeCoteau oeuvre. I mean, who else could make an adaptation of The Raven look like this? Btw, see my lil' confab with SatyrTN a couple of sections up. You may find it of The Amusing. Now, stop making me use the higher brain functions and lemme get back to something mindless. Like categorizing the uncategorized and assessing the unassessed, doncha know.  ;) --Ebyabe 00:20, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Lincoln Memorial

Hi--I've done some recent edits to Lincoln Memorial and saw you edited the info box back in November 2006 to identify the memorial as an "IUCN Category III (Natural monument)" I'm wondering where this info came from. It's not listed in the World Database of Protected Areas; it doesn't seem to fit the description of Category III (cf. article Protected areas); and, as a man-made structure, it's hardly "natural." I don't know much about the IUCN designations; maybe you have additional sources I don't know about. Thanks, RickDC 17:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Apologies. When I converted from the infobox back to the protected area one, from the nrhp one that I changed it to before that, I put in the wrong category. I think I had a dyslexic moment, and saw Natural Monument as National Monument. I put it back to the category (V) it was originally. Kinda funny that no one noticed until now... :) --Ebyabe 18:49, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProjectBannerShell

How did you do that!? Were you working off of my list? Cuz all the sudden, they were all done! Thanks much for that! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 06:04, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

“ "You'd be weird even if you were straight." ”
ROTFL! Thanks for that! And if you ever need some help with anything (not that someone as wonderful, handsome, and fantastic as you would ever need it), but if you do, don't hesitate to leave me a note. Which I'll then ignore! :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 00:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey, Ebyabe! Do me a favor? When you add the nesting functionality to a banner template, would you add the project to the doc? My bot will run a search of articles under that project and let me know which ones to add the WPBS to. Thanks for your work!! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 05:04, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Added the ones I did, and sorted things a bit, 'cause that's just me. The variety is me doing assessments of various wikiprojects, and adding the nested when it seemed apropos. I'd have added {{WP India}}, but it's protected. Another candidate might be {{WP Australia}}, since they have lots. But both India and Australia have subprojects to them, like {{WPBiography}}, so that mightn't work. Anyway, that's the 411 for now. Cheers! :) --Ebyabe 18:30, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Awesome - thanks! India and Australia have already been done. I started with a list of the projects with the most articles, so I hit them, album, milhist, france, and tried for bio. Theoretically, Kingboyk is going to be making that change to bio today. Yayy :) Thanks again for your help! Just add any new ones you do there, and after the bot runs through the projects' articles, I add the project to the Template:WikiProjectBannerShell/doc. Much appreciated! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 19:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

NRHP

Wikipedia:Peer review/National Register of Historic Places/archive1 We lucked out. Our only peer reviewer is a regular at FAC. Has offered to help advise on the article and left extensive tips to be worked on, which I plan too. Also noted he would name drop some other regs if we needed more help, he thinks this has a good shot once its worked out. I know you are busy on here with your own stuff a lot but might I ask of you this, if you get time, this week, could you stub the following articles (you know this, but at least one reliable source. : ) It would really help me out as I work to bring this bad boy up to FA, and put our main article front and center.

That is all. Thanks senor, much appreciated. IvoShandor 19:43, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Would United States Department of Transportation work for Department of Transportation Act, like this: Department of Transportation Act? Because I'm laaaazy and am trying to use as little higher brain function as possible, doncha know. ;) --Ebyabe 22:20, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


Using this sandbox for info storing/experimenting/editting. --Ebyabe 22:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
And this goes directly to edit mode for the history section. --Ebyabe 14:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, you pretty much rule. : ) IvoShandor 15:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
You don't know how much I both loathe and love doing this. This reminds me all too much of writing term papers, which I hated to do. Love the research part, loathed the actual writing. And it's not that I'm a bad writer or anything; I just can't stand doing it for some reason. But I'm pushing thru that for ya, dude. :) They'll be stubs, but at least they should be well-documented stubs, which, Cthulhu knows I should be good at by now. And I am learning some interesting info, which may even help in my pic roadtrips (figuring out historic district boundaries and such). On to the last two! :) --Ebyabe 16:08, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I have learned a boatload of stuff I never knew researching the NRHP for the article. I appreciate you doing this, as I have been busy lately and after this weekend I will be spending most of my time on here trying to work on the National Register article. It would be really great to get this featured, about the DOT, that's probably fine, eventually we will want to create the stub though, it looks like the U.S. code stub for the DOT exists at Title 49 of the United States Code, but its a pretty lackluster stub, we should link it though. IvoShandor 16:30, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Obviously, I am a big fan of writing. : ) Creativity spurs me more than this stuff, but my love for historic preservation and architecture makes this type of writing pretty cool and it sure beats the hell out of covering small town USA city council meetings, or, God help us all, a school board meeting. : ) IvoShandor 16:35, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Also, what do you think of the images in National Register of Historic Places thus far? Any better ideas? Do we have any users in Washington D.C. who are part of the project, or do you know anyone because I found out in an email query to the NRHP (along with the fact that there is no "official seal" or plans to create one for the Register) that the National Register is headquartered in a satellite building from the Main Interior Building at 1201 I Street Washington D.C., 20005, NW. While not the most exciting photo it would be a good addition to the article I think. IvoShandor 17:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Of course, this OR right now, the HQ, but if we could find it somewhere maybe the satellite building where they work from merits inclusion, or is it too detailed? IvoShandor 17:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
How do you get on JSTOR, if you're not at a library? I can't get anything useful from what I can access outside of a library. Could go to the library, which I drive by most days, but don't wanna. :) --Ebyabe 19:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I get home access through the university here. NIU. Most of them have some kind of access for community members too, rather convienent for us non-students, not all libraries allow home access though. IvoShandor 20:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Couple things, I found a link for DOT Act, it should work, I added it to the article. Also, I want to merge/delete Multiple Property Submission and redirect to National_Register_of_Historic_Places#Multiple_Property_Submission. Call it a redirect with possiblities. What do you think? IvoShandor 07:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I found that Title 49 article earlier, but hadn't suggested it 'cause it's little more than a stub. I mean, it hardly says anything about anything. But it is the correct one, so it will do for initial purposes. But prolly add it to the list of ones to expand. :)
I'm fine with the redirect with possibilities for MPS. It merits a longer article, but that's not high on our list of priorities, eh? :) --Ebyabe 12:14, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Down the road perhaps, yes and a longer article could end up coming out this expansion. After I address the peer review I plan to expand on what we have and see where that leaves us, we made need several main articles including MPS, National Register of Historic Places criteria, etc. IvoShandor 12:57, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Seminole Rest

Your last change to its infobox (on March 26) seems to have made the red locator dot disappear. I am not familiar with the parameters for this infobox, or I would have tried to fix it myself. Thought you would like to know. Happy editing! Chris the speller 05:06, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I had to change the infobox template, b/c the dot doesn't seem to want to show up unless it's 8px. It's happened before, but I think I'll leave it at the larger size. :) --Ebyabe 20:35, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

WPChi stats

Thanks for helping fix the template. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 16:41, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

You are more than welcome, sirrah! :) --Ebyabe 20:35, 17 April 2007 (UTC)