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[edit] Sleeping Giant

Hi Ken, I was doing some revision of the Sleeping Giant (Connecticut) article and was wondering if you could provide a smaller version of the image from the Giant's chin that you authored. The existing one doesn't fit into the mountain infobox very well and there's no provision in that template to resize it. Great shot, by the way. I was just down that way about a two months ago.--Pgagnon999 (talk) 01:08, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

No, don't crop it. ..it looks too good. Just shrink the size so that it will fit into the mountain infobox without overwhelming the article. It would be great if someone with script know-how could insert an image resizing option into the mountain infobox script (the mountain range geobox has one), but that hasn't materialized yet. Thanks! --Pgagnon999 (talk) 21:53, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Ken. I can resize it from here without sacrificing quality. I'll do so & repost it, being sure to credit you for the photo. On a side note, someone just listed the Metacomet Ridge article for featured article status; if you have a moment to run through it with that fine-toothed comb of yours, it may just have a chance. You can see the featured candidate discussion here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Metacomet Ridge. Be well, --Pgagnon999 (talk) 14:20, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Ken, tried to post a smaller Sleeping Giant pic but the problem isn't with the pic...the issue is with the mountain infobox which automatically forces the image size via the template. It works fairly well for horizontally aligned pics, but tends to inflate vertical pics. So, in short, I left it as is (although there is a smaller sleeping giant now floating around in Wikispace). I posted a request for help with the template (somone should add in a sizing option). Thanks so much for editing Metacomet Ridge. I was surprised at how many typos you picked up; I thought I'd flushed them out by now. Still haven't found a good way to do a spell check on wikitext. Be well --Pgagnon999 (talk) 03:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: High school names

Heya. Yeah, we discussed it and decided that ALL high schools (even the ones without being named after their location) should be High School Name (State). This is because the occurrences of the same high school name in the same state is VERY rare. I've run into maybe two or three occurrences. In that case, it would be High School Name (City, State). We all agreed that this would be best. The policy on the disambiguation of US schools is still a proposal, that's why I didn't go ahead and fix the titles/links yet. But hopefully the proposal will become official soon - It's kind of important that we need to set something in stone, because the disambiguation of US High schools are all jumbled up on Wikipedia currently. But thanks for fixing them. :) --Dan LeveilleTALK 13:47, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photo size for mountainbox template

Hi Ken,

There is now a photosizing element for the template. See Sleeping Giant (Connecticut) to see how it is used. Cheers, --Pgagnon999 (talk) 17:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] State Senators and Representatives

Stubs are done for all Senators and the Majority and Minority Leaders of the House. You may want to use those as a pattern for other leadership positions in the House (which has a total of 398 members, so that's a lot of stubs to try to create all of them). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flatterworld (talk • contribs) 21:17, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Cysero

An article that you have been involved in editing, Cysero, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cysero. Thank you. --Eruhildo (talk) 17:37, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks re NH NHLs

Thanks for improving List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire. While there's lots more improvement needed, that red-link for Derry Village was grating on me, and your other wikilinking is helpful too! Knock on wood, perhaps you will make other improvements, develop descriptions and so on? :) cheers, doncram (talk) 01:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Got your note back. It would be great if you would take pics and post them! Current pics to replace the old b&w ones, or dated pics from 1980 and so on, are useful too, besides pics for the articles that have none whatsoever. And a couple pics for each site are justified. See William H. Seward House or St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York) as multi-pic example articles within List of National Historic Landmarks in New York. By the way, have you clicked on the "show all on a Google map" option down in the external links section of the page? It shows locations of 15 of the 22, could help in your trip planning, although I wouldn't fully trust its locations are exactly accurate. I see you could score 8 of them within a mile, around Portsmouth.... Good luck! doncram (talk) 16:05, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May be of interest

Hi, you mentioned in the DRV today that you have an interest in local high school articles, so you may find this interesting: List of high schools in Connecticut. It was a real pain to make it a sortable list, and I wouldn't go so far as to actually recommend something similar to anybody, but you might want to know it's out there. Cheers, Noroton (talk) 01:29, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Metacomet Ridge now a featured article

Thanks for all contributions in bringing the Metacomet Ridge article to FA status! It wouldn't have been possible without your critical eye. Here's an upgrade from the barnstar I gave you previously:

Image:CopyeditorStar7.PNG The Copyeditor's Barnstar
message Pgagnon999 (talk) 00:45, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Louise Hancock

You spend a lot of time on that little article i made and you're from NH, do you know Ms. Hancock?—Preceding unsigned comment added by DblHelixFelix (talk • contribs) 22:04, January 31, 2008

Hi, I've never met her, but I work at the office (now called Energy and Planning) where she had been the director, so several of the old-timers knew her. Regarding the article, I just have an interest in things related to New Hampshire, so I have a large watch list; I added this article because of her connection to where I work. Thanks for putting it up. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:19, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] John Ratcliffe

Hi, Ken. I'm Emily and I found this article and it's making me twitch. It has a lot of historical accuracy to it, but it's horribly written and just a massive iceberg of words. I would fix it myself, but I'm completely shot for time. I noticed that you've edited it before and I was hoping that you could edit it to a tolerable level or find someone else who could. It's an important article and could really be spiced up. There are pictures of Ratcliffe, books about Ratcliffe, and he's been a subject in many films (not to mention the Disney picture). Thank you for your time and consideration! --User:Hera1aphrodite (talk) 16:19, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Emily, I have to confess I got stuck at the very beginning of the new material, when it started talking about girlfriends of King James, etc. I have no way of knowing, without more citations, whether any of the new material is factual, so I have once again removed it. It just didn't seem worth the time to clean up the grammar and spelling when I don't even know if any of it is true. This time, however, I have contacted the editor who's been putting it in and have requested references to published works. Based on the name of the editor (Ashleymratcliffe), I get the feeling that she or he is passing down some long-standing family tradition.--Ken Gallager (talk) 17:05, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] External map service links

Hello. You have been identified as having added or removed direct external map service links in articles[1]. There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:External links#Issues with inclusion or exclusion of map service links about which should be done, and some more opinions would be good to find community consensus. --Para (talk) 17:15, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

For the quick revert of the non encyclopedic news content edit to the NHS article. Hans Mundahl (talk) 01:47, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Waterville Valley

I'll see what I can do - I've skied and hiked it multiple times, know some people who've worked there, and have probably a hundred photos I can sift through. We'll keep it going! :) Jrclark (talk) 14:07, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing some of my mistakes! Jrclark (talk) 22:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mount Monadnock

Hi Ken ... I've gotten into a slightly silly back-and-forth edit over whether Mount Monadnock is in southern New England (not a chance, say I!). In case you have nothing important to do, your input is always welcome. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 12:46, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bow High School Notability Tag

Your removal of the notability tag in Bow High School is a violation of Wikipedia procedures. Do not do it again. Feel free to actually contribute to the article so that the tag is no longer necessary.Dimension31 (talk) 09:08, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

(For the record, Dimension31 was blocked for 24 hours for edit warring, as of 02:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC).)--Ken Gallager (talk) 13:41, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ray Fox

I nominated the article for WP:DYK, so please improve it as much as you can. Would you check the reference to see if you can figure out exactly what they mean by "Rockingham, NH"? Royalbroil 22:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it's an interesting article. I had a vague memory of reading about auto racing being done at Rockingham Park in Salem (it's now just horse racing), and I was just now able to find mention of board racing on the racetrack's web page. So I'll fix that bit up. Nice job on the article!--Ken Gallager (talk) 22:34, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you and thanks for doing the research to confirm that the track used to be a board track. Board tracks were more common on the East Coast than anywhere else. They are one of the missing pieces of our (U.S.) history that I learned about because of my involvement at Wikipedia! I kept finding references to them while working on old-time racers, so I decided to start an article on the topic. Royalbroil 22:45, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Washington

Hello Ken Gallager. I noticed that you unwikified a lot of links on the disambig page Washington (disambiguation), and just wondering why, such as what specific policies apply to this. Thanks a lot! --DerRichter (talk) 01:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, DerRichter: You can see the policy at Wikipedia:Mosdab#Individual entries. The idea of having only one blue link per line is so that the reader who wound up at the dab page can quickly find the right page they need to go to, since they probably didn't wind up at the Washington (disambiguation) page on purpose. By the way, nice job on finding all those extra Washingtons, especially the sports teams. Happy editing, --Ken Gallager (talk) 00:14, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

You reverted my addition to Tontitown, Arkansas here calling it "silliness." In fact this is completely factual as you can easily verify. Did you remove it because you thought it was vandalism, because you thought it was non-notable, or because you didn't like the form? I can assure you it wasn't vandalism (as you could check with a single click), that the Duggars are by far the most notable (and probably only notable) residents of the town and the only ones with Wikipedia articles—it is customary to list notable residents in geographic articles, especially of small towns. If you didn't like the form, then that is not grounds for removing it. I await your response, otherwise I will add it back in. NTK (talk) 21:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I don't mind you asking about my edit. I deliberately called it "silliness" rather than vandalism, because, first, I saw that your other edits were legitimate, and second, it seemed that the point of the info was simply that Tontitown is a very small town and that one person with a whole lot of children could comprise a significant percentage of the population, said in kind of a tongue-in-cheek way. From the standpoint of the rest of the world (and I run into this with editors in New Hampshire all the time as well), it's really not that important who the local real estate agent is or how big his family is. Might make the premise of a good short story or novel, however. Best wishes, --Ken Gallager (talk) 11:51, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the response. The point is he wasn't just a local real estate agent with a big family, in which case I would say your comments would be perfectly valid. He's a former state politician and US Senate candidate, and more importantly he has gotten and sought extensive national (and to a limited extent international) attention for his family and his lifestyle, so he is a major national public figure. The births of his last several children have been attended by extensive national coverage and he has been the subject of feature-length TV specials as can be seen in the footnotes of their article. The Duggar's sheer fecundity is also notable in the United States. Anyway, my point is that your comments seem to go more to whether Jim Bob Duggar is notable and should have an article at all, which would best be discussed at the main article on him. NTK (talk) 14:38, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of List of shopping malls in the United States

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[edit] underscores

Hi Ken. I noticed you replaced [[Duke University]] with <wiki>Duke University</nowiki>; that's the syntax I prefer, myself, and the way I originally wrote it, but there are enough editors who automatically make the reverse change, that I tend to let it go. The difference is only pedagogical, and they prefer shorter. So it will eventually get changed back (but not by me :-) Pete St.John (talk) 02:37, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I meant this diff, and I got it backwards; the previous editor's comments were about removing underscores, but it looks like he left one that you caught. So my mistake. I'm kinda idiosyncratic in prefering the pedagogical long way (so that the first entry is actually the database's unique key for the item) but sorry for the misread. Pete St.John (talk) 12:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NH Lt. Gov.

Yeah, I was way too tired the first time I went and fixed the problem for states w/o Lt. Governors, so my solution wasn't so great. I just copied what Esprqii did for Oregon. I'm not sure why the Lieutenant Governor field was made mandatory, but I have not idea how to make it optional. Anyway, thanks!--Nkrosse (talk) 19:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wentworth

Thank you for the copy editing! Just for my own edification why did you not feel the Rep's seat numbers relevant? Chipstata (talk) 18:00, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi -- I was going to say that the seat numbers are more information than one needs, but to be frank, I don't really know what they even mean! Assuming I'm no more or less knowledgeable than your average Wikipedia reader, it would seem that you'd need to throw in an explanation of the seat numbering system, but by the time that is done, you're drifting away from the focus of the article, which is simply the town of Wentworth. How would a reader of the article use the information about the seat number? Thanks for putting the government info up. --Ken Gallager (talk) 18:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cedar point

do you belive that the cedar point indiana link in cedar point amusement park is nessarry i belive if someone is looking for cedar point indiana they would be bable to find that out on their own and im sure theres plenty more cedar points why is the indiana one special --Cmedinger (talk) 18:57, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi -- You make a good point, because Cedar Point, Indiana, is quite insignificant. I just did a search on "Cedar Point", however, and found numerous other articles with that name in the title that could be mistakenly linked to the amusement park (and probably some already are). What I'll do is create a disambiguation page and place a link to it at the top of the Cedar Point article. This is standard practice for just about any popular name in Wikipedia. Cheers, --Ken Gallager (talk) 19:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lee, New Hampshire

Since New Hampshire.com somehow doesn't seem appropriate as a reference for the town, I provide evidence of Bergeron's residency to you. Delete his name if you don't think the proof credible (for privacy's sake, he'd probably prefer it). Best to you, --Hugh Manatee (talk) 17:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

P.S. The Lee Public Library confirms's Bergeron's residency. Apparently he is a regular at the dump.

[edit] Footnotes in Monroe, NH

"Notes" is allowed according to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Guideline. References are also allowed separately. They give Tumbler Ridge as an example, which has both. I prefer not to merge the two together, that is, entire books which were once used along with subscripted footnotes. Student7 (talk) 15:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Potlatch

Ken, I was curious why you removed the reference to the ultimate tournament named Potlach. It is a very significant tournament, in that it is the single largest co-ed ultimate tournament in the world, drawing thousands of competitors each year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.235.137 (talk) 03:21, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I removed the entry about the Potlatch tournament from the Potlatch (disambiguation) page because there is no Wikipedia article about it. It's possible you thought that the disambiguation page was a listing of all interesting things named "Potlatch", but in fact disambiguation pages simply serve as directories to Wikipedia articles that might have that name in their title. There's still no Wikipedia article about the Potlatch tournament, so for now it's not helpful to have it listed on the disambiguation page. You probably already know that the tournament is listed on the Ultimate (sport) page, which is the proper place for it to be listed. Have you considered starting an article about the tournament?--Ken Gallager (talk) 10:03, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge

Just a quick note about how the "coord" thing works. The one you deleted had an entry "display=" which specified both "inline", meaning where it was placed in the infobox, and "title", meaning up top. Removing "title" would accomplish your aims without reducing the information in the bridge infobox. I've made this further change. - Denimadept (talk) 17:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much for pointing that out!--Ken Gallager (talk) 17:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mount Monadnock disambiguation

Hi Ken, I hope you are well. Could I trouble you for feedback on the suggestion I left at the bottom of Talk:Mount Monadnock? thanks--Pgagnon999 (talk) 16:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi -- Thanks for getting in touch. I'd been thinking recently that there ought to be a disambiguation page for the various "Monadnocks" out there, so I've now created one. Let me know what you think. I didn't put the various lesser Monadnocks in there yet, but perhaps they should go in. Happy hiking, --Ken Gallager (talk) 19:53, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Leavitt Peak

Hello, I just wanted to thank you for cleaning up and polishing the Leavitt Peak entry. Many thanks.MarmadukePercy (talk) 17:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! Those Leavitts got around, didn't they? --Ken Gallager (talk) 19:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
They certainly did. Probably just one step ahead of the law. :-) Thanks again for your help!MarmadukePercy (talk) 20:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I noticed you cleaned up some pages again for me. Many thanks and enjoy your day.MarmadukePercy (talk) 23:19, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Really, they're excellent articles already - quite readable and covering interesting topics. I find it useful to put in more links for readers, but mostly I'm also enjoying filling some gaps in my New England knowledge. So thanks for all your efforts! --Ken Gallager (talk) 23:26, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Many thanks and thank you again for taking the time. People like you make this site worthwhile.MarmadukePercy (talk) 17:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Incidentally, I noticed that you've made quite a few edits to the Phillips Exeter page. Nice work!MarmadukePercy (talk) 01:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image request

Hello Ken,

I am contacting you on behalf of 7 group; we are a sustainable design consulting LLC that is currently writing a book for Wiley publishers on integrative design and construction. We would like to request permission to use the following image of Brattleboro, Vermont for the book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BrattleboroFall.jpg

Please let me know what the next step would be. If it is possible, we would need the responsible party to sign a permission request form which I can e-mail or fax to you.

Thank you for your time,

Lidia Alechina 7group, LLC 183 West Main Street Kutztown, PA 19530 610.683.0890 610.683.5733 fax www.sevengroup.com

You can email me at intern@horst-inc.com

LAlechina (talk) 14:59, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] re edit to "Hampshire Country School"

Hi Ken. I edited "Hampshire Country School" 14:00 2 May. My edit was deleted 19:09 2 May. I hope this note is going to the right editor; please let me know. Kindly tell why it was deleted. The text started with, "Prospective students, parents of students, and other interested persons". (I am completely new to this.) regards, tim w. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.243.67.202 (talk) 00:21, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi - I deleted the paragraph you added because as written it appears to constitute original research. Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, is a compendium of published material rather than a venue for authors to describe personal experiences. If you are able to find newspaper reports, books, etc. that document the problems you described at the school, a summary of that information with appropriate referencing would be more likely to be kept. Best wishes, --Ken Gallager (talk) 11:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Ok, fair enough - thank you. 68.160.53.203 (talk) 22:45, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nashua airport

As I embarrassed-ly (is that a word?) admitted in the Edit summary, I screwed up on the ATIS frequency at Nashua Airport. The anon was correct. The worst part is that I got the wrong frequency from a wikipedia mirror site that had scarfed an earlier version of the article! - DavidWBrooks (talk) 21:56, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TOSEBO

Greetings Ken, I'm new to this WIKI thing, but not to TOSEBO. It appears you made some edits to the original post and I just wondered if you attended. You're not on my list of over 275 alums that I have located over the last five years. Now as a part owner of the place I am the unofficial historian. More if you're interested - go to the TOSEBO website and click on the alumni link - that will find its way to me. Dave Wallace —Preceding unsigned comment added by DDWallace49 (talk • contribs) 16:06, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Nope, never been there. I just ran across the article and made a small fix. --Ken Gallager (talk) 16:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Franconia Ridge/Range

Hello Ken,

Ideally, there would be an article for both ridge and range, since technically speaking they are different entities. But, since some people use these terms synonymously, perhaps it is more appropriate to have them together as you have done. I like the way you have reworded the opening sentences. However, if we have to choose which one to have an article for, I think actually that the Franconia Range article would be more appropriate, so maybe we should move the article (and reword a bit) accordingly. Then, we could add those other, smaller peaks as well. What do you think? The reference I have on the article to peakbagger.com has a few paragraphs describing the Franconia Range, and speaks of the ridge as a feature of it. Actually, my main argument for the two being different are simply their names -- Franconia Range refers to a mountain range, and we have ample referencing to back up that this range exists and its mountains defined, and Franconia Ridge is a a geographical feature which is a part of the range. The Franconia Ridge Trail as well as the words "Franconia Ridge" on many maps of the area are evidence that this is an existing feature and not the same as the mountain range.

Oh yeah, and I definitely agree that the Mount Garfield is not a part of the ridge. However, to complicate matters, the peakbagger.com mountain range hierarchy (which I find very to be the best and most comprehensive resource on the topic) does list Mount Garfield as a part of the Franconia Range. Maybe this issue could be solved by just making Franconia Ridge a section of the Franconia Range article.

If you agree that moving is the way to go, feel free to do so (I don't know how to).

Regards, Paulba Legend (talk) 00:08, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deering, NH

Thanks for cleaning up my pitiable contributions to the Deering, New Hampshire page, particularly the Ebenezer Locke reference. I'm not sure if Locke merits his own page, he is quite the celeb in Deering (at least was in my younger days). I'm kind of a Wikinoob, so pardon my laxity.

David Wilson (talk) 22:14, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem. It's actually quite refreshing to have someone make an edit to a "Notable inhabitants" section that is 1) factual and 2) verifiable through a reference. So thanks for the update! --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:00, 29 May 2008 (UTC)