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[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Weston State Hospital, was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On February 26, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Weston State Hospital, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 00:25, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Weston State Hospital

My understanding is that bolding is useful if:

  1. The title is in reasonably common use (how likely is it that this "alternative title" will be used for a link, or in the search box?)
  2. The alternate title is in the first sentence, or at least, the first paragraph.
  3. The title is an alternate name for the article topic (e.g. Brady Leaf goes to Ryan Leaf but is not bolded).

Since this is neither the first (it's been called "Weston State Hospital" for nearly a century), nor the second case (the titles are much lower in the article), I don't think it's pertinent to bold randomly in the article. Circeus 13:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geobox River

Fixed, there was a bug in the subtemplate that handles unit conversions, must have been there for some time. Thanks. – Caroig 08:19, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New NRHP Collaboration Division

Hey, saw you were a participant in the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject. I thought I would let you know that there is a new Collaboration Division up for the project. The goal of the division is to select an article or articles for improvement to Good article standard or higher. There is a simple nomination process, which you can check out on the division subpage, to make sure each candidate for collaboration has enough interested editors. This is a good way to get a lot of articles to a quality status quickly. Please consider participating. More details can be seen at the division subpage. IvoShandor 11:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] tributaries

Thanks for setting me "right" on the left/right thing (I guess I stuck with the way we list crossings, going upstream rather than down. Daniel Case 13:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discharge figures

I see what you mean ... sort of assumed without looking too closely that those were the avg daily figure.

Is this something more like what you want (average daily discharges per year)? We could add (2005) to the footnote in question. Daniel Case 04:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Or you could find a way to derive an all-time average from this data. Daniel Case 04:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

That math, I believe, would be OK under the new policy:

Editors may make straightforward mathematical calculations or logical deductions based on fully attributed data that neither change the significance of the data nor require additional assumptions beyond what is in the source. It should be possible for any reader without specialist knowledge to understand the deductions.

I've been incorporating this new data into the geoboxes I've been adding, starting with Wallkill River (which I can look at out my window as I'm typing, and definitely hear ... I live near this. It makes what's already a very time-consuming and painstaking process even more so, but it's worth it.

I love these geoboxes. Since I added one to Catskill Mountains and then Hudson River, I've been on one of my obsessive little tears putting them into every article for which a map was available in the Northeast. That's how I wound up getting so involved in those West Virginia rivers ... you've done a good job there! Daniel Case 16:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geobox River Clean-up

I'm planning to do some major cleanup to this Geobox. Based on this one I developped a few more similar Geoboxes to cover other geographic features and the "framework" has developped too. I'd like to bring the Geobox River template up-to-date with all other templates in this series. Don't worry, you would probably not notice – no fields are going to be removed, there will be no changes in the output, it's just cleaning-up the code.

Anyway, you seem to be definitely the most active user of this template, the most experienced one so I'd like to ask for some obeservations. Are then any issues, bugs, do you have any ideas for improvement? These would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. (I've checked your edits, there's some inconsistency in some of the note fields concerning the field names, I see you corrected some, thanks for that, I'll try to track all remaning down.) – Caroig 19:57, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

The cleanup's finished. I've checked the cleaned template on some pages and it seems everything's alright, I'll update the documentation and blank templates accordingly. I've renamed (shortened) a few fields but their old names are accepted too. If there are any issues, I'd appreciate if you report them. There are also some extra functions and a field for a second map. I've made some rather cosmetic changes concerning home some values and fields are displayed. I don't think the label Discharge elsewhere sounds very good, any idea? I'm also not very sure whether it wouldn't be better English to have Source confluence instead of current Sources confluence. – Caroig 19:55, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Second attempt. There's certain inconsistency in the template implementation which, until now, hasn't been very clear to me. Well, now I know. The problem was that some older pages have blank fields for metric fields when the values are in the imperial fields. Unfortunatelly, I was checking the imperial units (and actually the whole new code) on Monongahela River which is of a later date and doesn't have those blank metric fields. On initial lauch of the Geobox River I provided only one template which contained both types of fields, the newer blank templates have either metric or imperial values so one can't have problems with this. If you can, please start new pages with one of those blank templates from the bottom of the Geobox River page, they should always contain up-to-date fields. And another thing, when specifying the image or map width, you don't have to (actually shouldn't) put in px, just the number. Under certain circumstances it causes problems with alignment in some browsers. I apologize for the temporary broken output. Should be Ok now. – Caroig 21:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Fixed, the problem was that all newer Geobox use long_EW fields instead of long_WE which is in the Geobox River. The template now accepts both, I'll probably swap this using AWB fro better consistency. I've also corrected this in the blank templates. Again, thanks a lot for your feedback. – Caroig 07:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Big Wheeling Creek

Thanks for joining me on Wheeling Creek and creating the article. I simply started the watershed list and graph because I was curious. I've asked the Wikiproject editors about historical crests and floods, but do you think that should be on the article page or on a separate entry? Mphamilton 06:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maybe I need clarification...

Maybe you could clarify this for me. I really would like to include flood information on Wheeling Creek most notably the 1963, 1972, 1990, and 2004 floods on Big Wheeling Creek. Can these go on the Wheeling Creek article page rather than in separate articles for each event, or can a subsection be created on Wheeling Creek for historical flood events? Mphamilton 11:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguating Ohio townships

Thanks for seeking to disambiguate the names of a couple townships in Ohio, but the Ohio townships Wikiproject guidelines want all township articles to include the name of the county. Nyttend 23:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: USACE pictures

See my reply on my talk page. ●DanMS • Talk 03:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Williamson Again

Here is another USACE picture of Williamson, WV. Maybe better than the other one? This one seems to have the floodwall finished. [1] ●DanMS • Talk 03:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Whoops! My mistake. That picture is West Williamson. ●DanMS • Talk 03:30, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matewan

Matewan, WV Here is another WV picture for you, not too far from Williamson. This one did not have a date specified. If you can estimate a date, feel free to put it on the picture description. ●DanMS • Talk 04:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wheeling Creek

Updated DYK query On 23 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Wheeling Creek (West Virginia), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 06:20, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] USACE Picture Dates Again

Here is another reason to seriously question the dates given in the descriptions of the pictures on the USACE website. The date on this picture is given as August 1, 1992. Looks a lot more like October than August. ●DanMS • Talk 03:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Philadelphia, Ohio, photo

Do you really think the photo of parked cars is a better first impression of New Philadelphia, Ohio, than the photo of Tuscora Park? Why? r3 19:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK nomination

Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Yellow River, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on April 24 where you can improve it if you see fit. MeegsC 20:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 28 April 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Yellow River (Indiana), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 21:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

Dear Malepheasant,

Why are our links being removed? These maps are community based and official maps of the city commissioned in some cases by the chamber of commerce, parks amd recreation department, or other local community group?

If a the local newspaper or radio station in a community has a link on this Web site for their respective community, then there should be a place for our community based maps.

The cartoon maps are not spamming nor are they commercially selling any item.

I would appreciate a dialog over this issue.

Best regards,

Mark --—Preceding unsigned comment added by Cartoonmaps (talk • contribs) April 28, 2007

[edit] External Links / City Articles

Don't you think valid links on how to form a business in the city of Rochester is a valid external link. I don't see how it's not. Kiamori 00:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Was it necessary to come to my talk page to respond and then leave a rude/arrogant comment? Apparently so.

I have to disagree with your response.

Regarding your question about the external links you're wanting to add to articles about cities in Minnesota -- the links aren't appropriate because Wikipedia is not a directory and it's not an indiscriminate collection of information. Per Wikipedia's external links guidelines, "it is not Wikipedia's purpose to include a comprehensive list of external links related to each topic." "Links should be kept to a minimum." Avoid linking to "sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject: the link should be directly related to the subject of the article." Using more general logic, what if I'm in Minnesota and I want to obtain a driver's license? Should I look to the Wikipedia article about Rochester? No, because that's not Wikipedia's purpose. The same applies to learning how to start a business.

If someone were to want to start a business in Rochester, they would follow those same links to legally register the business. Kiamori 00:41, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree with your removal of those links, having seen the discussion at WT:EL and your additional comments here. I hope the editor will not persist. EdJohnston 03:33, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cranberry River (West Virginia) anon edit

The anon is correct, though :) youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 22:45, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

No, it doesn't belong in the article unless sourced. You were right in removing it. I was just being a smart-alec. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 03:41, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago Landmark Stubification

I noticed that you have edited Wabash Avenue YMCA this week, which is one of the new WP:CHICOTW stubs. This week, we WP:WPChi are focussing on stubifying the numerous redlinks in Chicago Landmark with a goal of getting over half the redlinks stubified (we began with about 25%). This will improve our chance of getting it approved as a featured list candidate. When reviewing this week's new stub contributing editors your name was absent. You may want to choose a redlink or two from Chicago Landmark and create a stub before this week's project ends on 5/16 so that you can be a part of our drive for featured list status. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor barnstar

I have awarded you the Minor Barnstar because I keep finding your name by fine edits on article's histories. This time it was on the Mullet River article. Keep up the great work! Royalbroil 13:56, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CHICOTW

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TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 00:52, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago Landmark Stubification

I am writing you because you either (1) edited Chicago Landmark 5 weeks ago when it was the WP:CHICOTW (2) edited it or created a stub last week when we had the stubification drive for it or (3) you nominated an article to be the CHICOTW in the last few days.

I have finally had a chance to take a tally on last week’s stubification effort. Based on my manual count we now have 109 bluelinks on a total of 241 landmarks. Preliminary indications were that for our article to be successful at WP:FLC we would need to eventually rename it (something like List of Chicago Landmarks) and get the majority of the landmarks linked. Based on my cursory count we need to write 12 more articles to get to a majority. It would be great if you might be able to assist by creating a couple stubs to assist in this effort. Here are some of the stubs that were created during last week’s efforts: Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District, Historic Michigan Boulevard District, Arthur H. Compton House & One North LaSalle. Among the articles still redlinked are 2 buildings on this week’s CHICOTW, Magnificent Mile (Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton Office and Studio, Woman's Athletic Club). Recall that each redlink on Chicago Landmark has a footnote to a reference that gives you enough info to create a stub. If you create a new stub please add it to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chicago#Newly_Created_Chicago_Related_Pages so that we can keep track of the progress. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:46, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fargo pics

You added some really great pics to the Fargo, North Dakota article. They really add to the article...thanks for including them here. If you have any more of Fargo or other ND cities, don't hesitate to add them. Many of our articles are lacking pics. --MatthewUND(talk) 21:42, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

Updated DYK query On 20 June 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pomme de Terre River (Minnesota), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 00:09, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago Landmark WP:FLC

You helped us at WP:CHICOTW create and improve List of Chicago Landmarks. This week we have nominated it at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Chicago Landmarks. Feel free to make comments about its candidacy or to come by and help respond to the comments of others. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 00:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Straight River

Hi Malepheasant. I nominated Straight River to appear on the Main Page under the Did you know... section. The nomination hook appears here. There is a five day from creation window for DYK nominations, so I wanted to make sure it was in the cue. Please feel free to revise the nomination hook as you see fit. Great job on the article. -- Jreferee (Talk) 01:50, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Apparently, it already appeared on the front page a few hours ago. See Wikipedia:Recent_additions. -- Jreferee (Talk) 04:07, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Not too many river articles make DYK. It probably moved up the queue to balance other articles that appeared with it. -- Jreferee (Talk) 04:17, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I didn't receive a pretty message box, so I'll give one to myself:
Updated DYK query On June 26, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Straight River (central Minnesota), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
--Malepheasant 05:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More help needed

If you have been following along at WP:FLC#List_of_Chicago_Landmarks you know we need help creating stubs for the List to make it a more useful list and help it achieve WP:FLC status. Since I reminded people of this 7 stubs have been created. We need about 40 more to be safe although we may have a successful candidacy with the article as it stands.

Some of you may also be following the success of WP:CHICOTW at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/COTW/Good Articles. For the last 4 weeks no one has been very active. Thus, I am fearful that Historic Michigan Boulevard District, Harold Washington Cultural Center, Crown Fountain, & Art Institute of Chicago Building will all fail at WP:GAC when their turns come up. Also, Magnificent Mile did not experience the collaborative spirit. Our reputation as a successful collaboration is at stake. In addition to making stubs for the FLC we need your contribution to our collaborations. I am sorry to pull you away from whatever other wikipleasures you may be experiencing, but we need your help. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 17:00, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for the intrusion and thank you for your single edit. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 22:42, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Link

Why would you remove my link from the Mason/Point/Mason County sites? That link is for people who do not know about that site who are from Point Pleasant, Mason, or Mason County to look at and keep up to date on people in their home town and even look at the past. It's nothing bad so why delete it? I mean honestly. It's a great thing that I do and people here LOVE my site and want people to find out about it. I didn't know that showing people a link to the sports of their hometowns was a bad thing

Pretty bad thing to do to take people away from a chance of seeing their past.--—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gobigblacks (talk • contribs) 22:38, 11 July, 2007

First off, I was not ADVERTISING the site. I was putting it on there because it has something to do with POINT PLEASANT kind of like the MOTHMAN or anything of that sort. People appreciate that site and i'm sure people across the nation that went to our school would love to know that it exists. That site is a 100% volunteer site and I do not need to advertise so try again on that one.

People have Mothman links on the Point Pleasant page. Mothman is a figure in Point Pleasant just like high school sports are a figure in Point Pleasant. The Mothman has nothing to do with Point Pleasant, it just happened to happen here.

It was not adverstising. People deserve to know that sites like that exist. ----—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gobigblacks (talk • contribs) 13:15, 12 July, 2007

[edit] Very belated reply

Some months ago I prodded you to disambig Laurel Fork to Laurel Fork (Cheat River). I've meant to reply for a long time to say that you are probably right that there is no real need to disambig. Sorry to have made trouble. Contrarywise, I'm not sure if I posted here about it, but your comments wrt the Monongahela maps I made are something I reread now and then; reading them makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Just wanted to let you know if I hadn't before. Thanks very much! Also, I think I'd read something about the "hand" shape of the tributaries including Laurel Fork. I wish there was similar lore about the rivers of Washington state. It seems that in the east, and perhaps especially in Appalachia, there is an old and deep connection to the land, at least among some people. In Washington, there is a strong love of the outdoors, of hiking and wilderness, but even so, there seems to be a lack of depth compared to the Appalachians. ...someday I'll get around to exploring West Virginia! Pfly 06:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Historical Population Figures

I happen to have been looking over your user talk page to see where you got those historical population figures that you contributed to some of the West Virginia city articles like Charleston and Huntington that I saw, so I went to Caponer user talk page and happen to find the web site to all that information. I added historical population figure charts to Ohio city articles like Mansfield, Canton, Springfield, and Chillicothe. If it wasen't for you then I would had never known where to look for all that information that I needed. Thank you so much for your support. Happy editing!---OHWiki 01:52, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Webster Springs anon edit

For what it is worth, he or she is kinda correct. :)

BTW, thanks for adding all the cool photos in recent months. Cheers. youngamerican (wtf?) 23:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geobox 2

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[edit] Comments from 206.212.34.79

i don't like to vandalize I just love Jesus!!!! and you should to!!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.212.34.79 (talk • contribs)


[edit] Minnesota Meetup

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[edit] River Pix

I see you've uploaded a lot of river photos. I live in Pittsburgh, and if photos of rivers in these parts are needed, I could take some. We've got the big three, plus some smaller ones. I don't see the smaller ones too often, but they could be targets of opportunity. Lou Sander 15:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please click here broken?

I used your Please Click Here link to add the above River Pix comment. The comment was added, but in a most strange format. Lou Sander 15:20, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I fixed it -- there was an unclosed div class in the message above yours. --Malepheasant 15:51, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You went to Mullens to get a picture?

Wow, that is dedication to the project. :) youngamerican (wtf?) 12:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, BTW, check out your userpage. Congratulations. youngamerican (wtf?) 13:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lorain

Molina DOES NOT qualify using Wiki's standards. You are bastardizing this page with your holier-than-thou attitude. It is people like you who make this a useless reference site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.241.98.171 (talk) 21:19, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I Saw My Edits Got Removed!

Hi!

I'm new to Wikipedia and I saw that my edits regarding the Wabash River were removed. I guess I didn't site them correctly -- good catch! I'm working from a massive amount of personal journals that were recently willed to me. Fascinating stuff! I do I site this so that this incredible information can be part of Wikipedia?

Thanks so much, and sorry if I scared you! I didn't mean to!

From,

Your friend, Clay (talk) 01:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Also, regarding the State Capitol Building in St. Charles

You were probably right to take that one down. I was working off some stories my uncle had told me. He was an architect. Pretty neat guy actually. I thought he knew a lot more than he did, apparently. Thanks for taking that one down. I think I probably got it wrong.

Thanks again! Can't wait to hear what you think I should do about the journals and the Wabash River.

From Your friend, Clay (talk) 01:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship?

Have you ever though of doing a WP:RfA? It could be helpful with managing photo uploads and whatnot. y'amer'can (wtf?) 13:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Compliment

Hi, in case you didn't see it you received a compliment and a request at Portal:Minnesota/Suggest. -Susanlesch (talk) 04:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photo request

I noticed that you loaded the Sarajevo Flicker photo Image:Miljacka River.jpg into Wikimedia Commons. I would like the Sarajevo Flicker photo at Inat Kuca brought into Wikipedia to use in spite house and Stari Grad, Sarajevo, but I don't know how to do it. Would you be so kind as to insert Inat Kuca into spite house and Stari Grad, Sarajevo. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 15:40, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

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[edit] "Christiana" River

Sorry, my mistake. It was in a map in today's Washington Post, and I mis-read it. Thanks! RossPatterson (talk) 18:31, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Ohio Newsletter


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