User talk:Justin.Johnsen

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Justin.Johnsen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  BlankVerse 02:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your list of things to do

It's good to see another dedicated Wikipedia editor from the Long Beach area. You've got quite an ambitious list of things you want to do.

Regarding your photos needed section: One of the items on my too-long list of things I want to do is to go through the Library of Congress website and add at least one old public domain photo for every Southern California community that is older than 1923. Some of those communities will need some research because they have changed names over the years. The only photo that I've done so for is the "porcupine hill" photo for the Signal Hill, California article.

The Puvunga Indian Village Sites are somewhere on the CSULB campus. I doubt that the university will tell where they are, but the local Sierra Club or Audubon chapters may know where they are, or be able to point you to resources that can tell you where they are.

For the historic places/historic landmarks, it would be good to add a list of them to each neighborhood where they are located. It looks like most of them are either downtown or in the Bixby Knolls/Virgina Country Club area. Anything in the Bixby Knolls area could also be added to the Wardlow (LACMTA Station) in a Nearby sights and attractions section (see the Willow (LACMTA Station) article for an example).

For the Long Beach neighborhoods, only a few of them have any official recognition. For those, there are PDF files with maps on the city of Long Beach website. The only neighborhood where I've downloaded a PDF file so far is the Bluff Park, Long Beach, California article. The person who had originally written the article had guessed at the boundaries. Their description of the north and south boundaries where close, but they had the east and west boundaries shifted several block west of the official boundaries. BlankVerse 02:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey there, thanks for the welcome and the tips. I'll add things here and there, and eventually it will get done. I've been looking for excuses to shoot my home city, and catch up on places I've never been to; Wikipedia research gives me that. I like the historic Signal Hill pic. My wife has a few historic Long Beach photos around the house, and I'll search for others. --Justin.Johnsen 17:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the thanks.
For the historic photos your wife has, make sure that you check on the Wikipedia policy on photos so that you know what can and can not be used.
I've been planning on buying a digital camera myself and doing some photography around town. When I first looked about a year ago, it seemed like no company had all the features that I wanted in a single camera that had also had good reviews. Now that it's roughly two generations of digital cameras later, it's the opposite problem—there is a surfeit of choices that all seem pretty good. To make the decision harder, for only a little more than a couple of hundred dollars more than what I had planned to spend, I could probably get an entry level digital SLR.
The Signal Hill pic was a crop from a very interesting panorama shot (there is a link to the panorama version below the photo in the Signal Hill article). There is a whole section of panorama photos on the Library of Congress website, and it will probably be a crop of one of those that I'd like to add to the Long Beach article. BlankVerse 10:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Long Beach#Environment

I'm glad you've started editing the Environment section in the Long Beach, California article. As I wrote on the talk page, I had so many problems with what was written (by an anonymous IP from San Diego) that I would have probably just deleted the entire section and built it up from scratch. I'll try to help out. Hopefully the local Sierra Club or Adubon chapters will have something, or maybe the California Native Plant Society.

For other local ecological zones that have now mostly disappeared, there would be riparian lands along both major rivers, plus the mudflats, estuaries and other wetlands that were once Alamitos Bay and San Pedro Bay/Terminal Island. BlankVerse 10:16, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I award you This!!!

Fixing Boney Peak
For addeding the cool box to the Boney Mountain Page THANK YOU!!!!

Josephseagullstalin 04:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC) Thx! :P

Much obliged. I hope to bring more mountainy goodness to wikipedia soon. --Justin 00:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Very nice

I like what you have done lately to Tijuana, the article... not the city. Like with your "list of things to do", I am right now working on getting pictures from everywhere in Baja just to add them to wikipedia. "A picture is worth a thousand words", they say don't they? --FateClub 01:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I was just thinking the same of your edits to the same... thanks! I visited Tijuana for the first time last weekend, volunteering at a medical clinic there, no tourist stuff - worked out of the delegation offices at San Antonio de Los Buenos, saw the mayor stop by to tour the clinic. I saw this amazing living city and people, then came to read about it here, and the article was crap. I had to do something! So I'm hoping to translate more from the Espanol Wikipedia article on Tijuana, get it up to snuff. We in the USA have such a one-dimensional view on the city, and Mexico in general.
I look forward to your pictures from Baja. A good representative photo really adds a lot to an article. --Justin 01:10, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, and the article has significantly improved lately. I like how clean and organized the Spanish Wikipedia on Tijuana looks like and there is also a Historia de Tijuana article too. This weekend you were helping the needy and I was sipping wine at the L.A. Cetto winery with a friend and lots of family members. I took lots of pictures, and wanted to visit the Russian Museum in Guadalupe but it was closed. Maybe this weekend I will add more pictures.--FateClub 01:40, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aurelia Harwood

Nice work. The local Sierra Club's Harwood Lodge is also named for her. I seem to recall that a plant species may have been named for her as well. Anyway, thanks for contributing. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 19:04, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah thanks Will! I hiked the Harwood trail for the first time this weekend, and decided to find out whose name was memorialized on the mountain. Plan to do more of the same - looks like Newton Drury will be another interesting article. In the meantime, my sources for Aurelia will help me flesh out her article, perhaps to a start class. The Sierra Club obit mentioned the Angeles Chapter lodge, and I'll search around for the plant. --Justin 19:25, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Ah. I saw your picture and thought you'd hiked up there just to illustrate your article, rather than the other way around. I'm planning to climb the Ski Hut Trail (it run below Baldy Bowl) on Thursday to help get in shape for a some climbs in the Sierra coming up soon. My camera is broken, otherwise I could take a picture of Harwood Lodge. I think we have a few SoCal mountain climbers contributing- we should organize a group hike. Cheers, ·:· Will Beback ·:· 05:00, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Ha ha, that would've been some dedication. No, the chicken followed the egg this time. I've been up the Ski Hut Trail before, that's a fun one. Is Harwood Lodge in Mt Baldy Village? I'll be back there to hike out of Icehouse Canyon (to Cucamonga Peak) with some people this weekend. If Harwood Lodge is local, I could always get some photos on the way in or out. And a group hike would be awesome, count me in. --Justin 15:38, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Harwood Lodge is at Manker Flats, across the road from the Ski Hut trailhead. If you happen to head up that way, look on your right for a hard-to-spot driveway with small signs for Harwood Lodge and the Zen Center retreat, a hundred yards before the trailhead. Harwood is at the end of the driveway, and it's open most weekends. Go inside if you have a chance - it's an old-fashioned mountain lodge built in the 1930s to replace Muir Lodge that was destroyed the prior decade. You can also park on the road and walk over to it. I love Icehouse Cyn., those tall cedars and the cool clear water of Columbine Spring. user:Geographer is also active in the local mountains and a regular contributor. We'd talked about going up Strawberry Peak's 3rd class route. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 16:04, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
I know basically where that is, I'll stop in this weekend. Strawberry Peak is high on my list of "to climb", even better if we could all meet up for it. I got my first taste of 3rd class (excepting some short desert climbs) on Langley and Cloudripper this summer, looking forward to more. --Justin 17:22, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Langley's a slog, but the view from the top is great. I'm heading back there in a couple of weeks for my 3rd climb. I'm also doing another repeat climb in September, of Mt. Russell, my favorite (easy 3rd clas, very exposed). I 'm hoping to climb a few new peaks too, including LeConte on Sunday (yikes!). I've never done Cloudripper, though I've climbed some of the peaks around there. Judging by your photo it's got an awesome view. Strawberry's easy and fun. The initial approach can be very sunny and hot - it's best in Spring or late Fall. If you want to drop me an email we can see about working out details. email ·:· Will Beback ·:· 16:02, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo caption having dates: WP:M?

Mediation? Huh? Would love to read up on the policy --- where's it from? hike395 02:19, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Appreciate your work on the Sierra Nevada articles: thanks! hike395

Doh! Wrong abbreviation. Should've spelled out WP:Mountains. Adding month + year to mountain infobox captions was one of the goals there, so I added them for my photos (and another).
Ah yeah, here it is: "picture(s) and caption. The caption should include month and year if known."
Glad to be working on the Sierra Nevada topics. I've wondered where the names come from, so it's fun reading up on them. Still haven't found an online source for the Inconsolable Range or Cloudripper though (which started the hunt for me). --Justin 04:43, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Ah, those are definitely neat places. Neither Farquhar nor Secor have their name origin.
That guidance (month+year) was put in without discussion -- we should probably talk about it now. Let's discuss at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Mountains. Thanks! hike395 07:06, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
RedWolf explained his reasoning --- it makes a lot of sense: I can support doing it. Please go ahead. hike395 20:51, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Also: thanks for updating all of the Sierra peaks to use {{coord}}! hike395
Right, will do on the caption dates. The coord template looks like a big plus. It looked like Google Earth wasn't recognizing the old ones any more. --Justin 20:55, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nice pic

This looks great - Image:Baldy bowl snow.jpg. I was almost to the top of Bighorn Peak a couple of weeks ago (not far from where you took the photo, I'd guess), and might climb Baldy next week. Looks like you're out having fun too. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 22:14, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Ah thanks, it was such a pretty snow day. I went up Big Butch Wash on the side of Thunder, then took that shot from just above Miner's Bowl as I recall. Also made it up Strawberry a couple of months back, what a fun trail... will probably be back there with some friends Sunday. --Justin (talk) 03:36, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Right Right Whale

Apparently the California Fish and Game is out of the loop. For that matter, so is NOAA, which just recently recognized the fact there are three species of right whale. The North Pacific right whale's scientific name is Eubalaena japonica, not E. glacialis. The fact it says "Black Right Whale" should have been a dead give away. It should have said North Pacific right whale, or at least Northern right whale. Jonas Poole (talk) 18:46, 5 May 2008 (UTC)