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Welcome!
Hello, Mapsax, 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:
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:Where to ask a question, 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! - OAS talk to me 00:27, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Second that welcome. Try to remember the ~~~~; it makes comments much easier to identify. Thanks, TheJabberwock 23:12, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Welcome to Wikipedia! Is this Marc per chance? Seicer (talk) (contribs) 00:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Yup. My profile should have a URL that looks familiar. :) And note that I've been editing for just under a year now. (Sherman, I assume....) Mapsax 00:11, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Yes. Your expertise is greatly needed at WP:OHSH. And no, I didn't notice you have been here for a while, but a welcome is still a welcome :) Seicer (talk) (contribs) 01:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Welcome aboard! Homefryes Say•Do 10:53, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I fixed it as per your comments. To edit any template, you just need to put "Template:" in front of the name in the double brackets, i.e the wikilink is Template:Townships in Lake County, Ohio. I am slowly going through and making Ohio county nav boxes that list all divisions of each county: cities, villages, townships, census-designated places and other unincorporated communities. See Summit County, Ohio or Hancock County, Ohio. The nav box then goes on every municipality page in that county. Once I get all the Ohio counties with Township only templates set up with true county navboxes, I am going to nominate all of the Ohio Township only templates for deletion, as I am not sure what puprose they serve. Thanks for the tip, Ruhrfisch 20:56, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
PS I put this here and on the Lake County, Ohio Talk page as I was not sure if you were watching it. Harlan Ellison is from Painesville and sometimes spells it "Painsville" on purpose. Ruhrfisch 20:56, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks - I was almost at the point of figuring out the editing when I stopped! I figured though that since templates need to go through a process to be accepted that I might as well just let the creator or another user with more experience with it edit it. Mapsax 21:45, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hampton Roads Beltway
I responded to you on Talk:Hampton Roads Beltway. --NE2 01:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 2
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 3
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[edit] Active user verification
Hello, Mapsax. Due to the high number of inactive users at WP:USRD, we are asking that you verify that you are still an active contributor of the project. To do so, please add an asterisk (*) after your name on Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. Users without one by the next issue in 2 weeks will be removed off the list and off the respective road projects as well. If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks. V60 VTalk · VDemolitions 20:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 4
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 5
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[edit] RE: Miller Park series comments
I read it, and I found a problem in the first sentence: "I wanted to put something in the description about the CLE/LAA series in Miller Park showing how significant the lake-effect snow event was since Jacobs Field has had snow in the past, both at the beginning of the season and near the end (e.g. the '97 World Series Game 4), but has never caused anything that extreme as the series relocation, especially since Cleveland doesn't get much lake-effect relative to the snow belt to the east, making it unusual as well as extreme"... okay, that was long. Basically, the problem was this: "I wanted to put something in the description about the CLE/LAA series in Miller Park showing how significant the lake-effect snow event was since Jacobs Field has had snow in the past."
I don't feel that any more information needs to be included. And even if it did, shouldn't that information go in the Jacobs Field article?
And why is what's already on the article not good enough? That's all the information we need to include. What is wrong with this? Please reply back on my talk page. --Ksy92003 22:11, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- I stopped about half-way. That thing was long. And I didn't need the whole thing to make another point. If somebody were really interested about lake-effect snow or whatever you called it, or if they wanted to know about the weather and climate in Cleveland, Ohio, do you really think that they would first look at an article for a baseball team's 2007 season? I don't think so; that's why I don't feel it belongs here.
- From a baseball standpoint, just knowing that a game, rather an entire series, was postponed because of "heavy snow", that would give the reader a visual as to how heavy it was. The reader would know that it would've had to have been a tremendous amount of snow to cancel a 4-game baseball series. If they wouldn't know that, then they wouldn't look at the article in question in the first place. Do you understand what I mean? --Ksy92003 23:10, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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- You know what? What you did was such an obvious solution to the debate that we had that I never even thought of it. That works out really nicely. Thanks for the compromise. --Ksy92003 21:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 6
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 7
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 8
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 9
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 10
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[edit] An important letter
Dear roads editor,
You may have noticed some changes at WP:USRD lately. Some of them, like the cleanup templates and the stub templates, have been astounding and great. Unfortunately, others have been disturbing.
This has become evidenced by the departure of a few prominent editors at USRD, a few RFC's, and much fighting among USRD editors.
After the second RFC, many of us found the opportunity to take a step away from Wikipedia for a while--as a self-imposed wikibreak, or possibly on vacation.
The result of such introspection was that many of us were placing ourselves in a "walled garden" and on a self-imposed pedestal of authority over the roads department. Also, we were being hostile to a few users who were not agreeing with us.
In fact, IRC has been the main incarnation of this "walled garden." Decisions have been made there to conduct grudges and prejudices against a few valued USRD users with poor justification.
For this, we have come to apologize. We have come to ask your forgiveness.
In addition to this, we hope to work as one USRD team from now on and to encourage cooperation instead of the promotion of interests.
All users are welcome to collaborate on IRC, the newsletter, or anywhere else at USRD.
In the future, please feel free to approach us about any issues you may have.
Regards,
Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 17:07, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 11
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 12
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 13
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[edit] USRD Inactivity check and news report
Hello, Mapsax. We had a few urgent matters to communicate to you:
- Please update your information at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants, our new centralized participant list. Those who have not done so by October 20th will be removed.
- There are important discussions taking place at WT:USRD relating to whether WP:USRD, WP:HWY, or the state projects should hold the "power" in the roads projects.
Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 23:25, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 14
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 14
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 15
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 16
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 17
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An article that you have been involved in editing, Melon heads, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melon heads. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 23:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] U.S. Roads Newsletter, Issue 1
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[edit] AfD nomination of Channelization (roads)
I have nominated Channelization (roads), an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Channelization (roads). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. UzEE (Talk • Contribs) 01:27, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Aux/Bannered/Special U.S. Routes
Please desist moving/editing pages on this subject for now. Discussion is taking place on Talk:Auxiliary U.S. Route that points towards auxiliary being a neologism in this context as well. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 23:33, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 2
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[edit] USRD Newsletter - Issue 3
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sorry, I didn't realize you named it that way. It's just a pet peeve of mine since the highways are "properly" just M-63 to cringe when I see MI-63 or it spelled out like that. Sorry I edited that page that way so automatically.
- 'Salright. I hope I didn't seem too short with my revert; I didn't see the ":-)" in your comment until afterward.
- If you notice, many newspapers by design (style guides, etc.) call state routes "[full state name] xx" - regarding the area of M-63, the South Bend Tribune and The Herald-Palladium both do - the Tribune likely to keep confusion down because it serves two states, but the latter also does it - note the title of one of the articles which I just put as a reference. I titled the subsection of my page like that both due to that practice and to the fact that site visitors might be outside the region and not used to "M-xx". Note, though, that it's "M-63" elsewhere, even on the top-of-page anchor link to that section. On the contrary, if you go back through the newsgroup misc.transport.road, you can see me defending the "M-xx" nomenclature, and as recently as yesterday, I did an MI 63 -> M-63 edit. :)
Btw, anything you can add to St. Joseph Valley Parkway from the IN side of things would be greatly appreciated! Imzadi1979 (talk) 02:13, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- Already have :) Mapsax (talk) 18:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] USRD Newsletter, Issue 4
Apologies for the late delivery; my internet connection went down halfway through the delivery process.
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