User talk:Pmeleski

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I'm no IT expert, but I've always assumed that you can't edit the history page -the comments are those you make manually when you edit the article, or are automatically generated by rollback or various bots. AFAIK, only developers can change history, and they are unlikely to do so without a very good reason.

You're right about vandalism, I have all the NAm species I've seen on my watchlist, and articles like Bald Eagle are regular targets

Let me know if I can help with any info for the missing articles. Most of these, almost by definition, are peripheral to the US, but I have the Croom Helm family guides for several families, and the field guides for Venezuela, Costa Rica and T&T for species having ranges extending that far south.

Good luck, jimfbleak 05:51, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Template:Infobox city ma1

Hello, I noticed that you made a copy of Template:Infobox Town MA and changed the leader field to default to "Mayor". Were you planning on making any additional changes to the template? If that was the only change you were planning to do, your template is not really necessary as you can change the leader_title to whatever you want with Template:Infobox Town MA. -- Gogo Dodo 20:24, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Re your message: Ah, okay. Thryduulf already fixed the problem that prompted me to contact you [1]. I'm not familiar with how the government of cities/towns are usually setup in Massachusetts, but if the Worcester setup is common, you might want to modify the Infobox Town MA template to support the city manager, mayor, and city council. That way it can be used with other cities/towns. -- Gogo Dodo 22:18, 12 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Osprey

Your comment reminded me to ask a US editor to look at Osprey to check two points.

  1. Is the distinction bewteen the American and nominate ssp correct?
  2. The sex and age plumage distinctions are based on the nominate form. Do they apply to the American ssp too?

Thanks for any help you can give

jimfbleak 06:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for comments - I've been away for a few days, so lots of catching up to do. jimfbleak 15:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rock pigeon link removed?

Hello,

If you could take a minute, I'd like to know why you removed the link I added to the Rock pigeon article. Were those birds not rock pigeons? The article is just a stub, I'd like to expand it. Please reply on my talk page or the article talk page when you get a minute. Thank you!--Son of More 06:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{CongBio}} and {{CongBio2}}

One should only use {[tl|CongBio2}} for People who served up to or after 1991. Otherwise, use {{CongBio}}. See Caleb Cushing. —Markles 18:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of current members of the United States House of Representatives

Great work!—Markles 05:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Import Wikitable from US House Current Members

Expanding on your idea of another list, how's this: I'd like to import the wikitable someone created for the List of current members of the United States House of Representatives and import it to the Congressional roster of the 110th Congress. The graphics I think make for a better read, although it does extend out the article a bit more. The other option is to link the table from a seperate article to the 110th. I'd also like to create the same wikitable for the U.S. Senators over the next few weeks. They then could be used as a template for future congresses as we move forward. Any strong thoughts either way. No comments I'd interpret as to go forward............ Pmeleski 12:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Sounds great, having this information (in the nice table format) integrated, rather in a separate article. Either way it will definitely be an improvement over the past situation. Let me know what I can do to help - it seems like you've got a lot of this under control. :-) Qqqqqq 18:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Sortable Table

Well, you can put them by state now by clicking on the sorting button in the state column. I'm not an expert with the techie stuff, the sortable CSS class only works when the cells are equally sized. But thank you for the compliment otherwise, feel free to help me finish that table off and/or expand it into new categories! Just H 01:05, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maine's 5th congressional district

Great Article! Sounds like a notable contribution to Wikipedia. I would reccomend you put a source and also some external links for pages with more info. Again, THANKS A LOT!!! Nenyedi 01:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of United States Representatives from Foo

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States Representatives from Minnesota. It is about to get deleted (any day now) and I think that would be a shame. —Markles 21:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bird lists

I just have to say that we have been doing almost the exact same thing the last few days Special:Contributions/Basar. Good thing we didn't do it for the same state. Basar 05:08, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Massachusetts

Yellowdesk, I've made a first attempt at narrowing the focus of the Massachusetts article. I've also noticed there are now two articles of famous people from Massachusetts. One is the List I've created moving all the names off the Massachusetts article, the other is a previously named article . They should probably be merged. You can find them at the see also area for Category:People from Massachusetts. Let me know what you think of my consolidation.Pmeleski 00:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

It's a start.
* Probably desirable to create a stand-alone list for the federal parks/heritage/wildlife areas, and cite that list in some section.

-- Yellowdesk 20:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I found the stand-alone list for federally supervised areas. If you had described your edits all the time in the edit summary, I would not have missed it. It's good practice, and saves editors that are sympathetic to your efforts confusion and grief. -- Yellowdesk 04:43, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I like the box. It seems to be looking much better. Ideally I see the article as a nice box, which it has, then a series of brief intros pointing to full articles. After all, our state is densely populated and has a long history, all of which is central to the history of the United States. Just about every topic can use an article. As to how much of this I will do, I don't know. It isn't my area of interest. One thing leads to another in Wikipedia and before you know it you are contributing to a chain of articles all of which have to be corrected or filled in before you can do the thing in which you originally were interested. Thanks for the invite.Dave 15:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

.Pmeleski, Thanks for inviting me to look over your edits to the history section. Alas, I won't have time to properly read it carefully till next week, and I'll comment then. -- Yellowdesk 01:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Woonsocket

I've fixed the infobox template to show the picture. Nice pic though you may want to crop it a little since it is a bit too tall. --Polaron | Talk

[edit] Snipe

no problem. jimfbleak 06:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stonechat

Hi. You asked me about Stonechats a little while ago. The simplest answer is that there is no common agreement yet on whether the three groups of subspecies should be treated as separate species; however, some authorities haven't yet considered the split proposal, so their current sticking with the status quo (lumping the three) shouldn't be taken as support for lumping. In terms of the American list, I'd suggest sticking with the AOU approach for the moment (you could add a note though, to explain that Siberian Stonechat is the taxon involved). Do come back to me if you'd like to discuss further. SP-KP 11:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bird FA

I'm happy to help. But be warned, it is a huge huge task, and you'll loathe the article. Passionately. But hey, it needs doing. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll do what I can, jimfbleak 06:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
I will too, I think we should add more information of general interest. Right now it appears to dwells a little too much on phylogenetics. Shyamal 01:57, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links

The Nicaragua link is worthless, none of the PDFs open. I haven't checked the other ones but they are probably worth removing too. Have you left a note with the person adding them? Sabine's Sunbird talk 01:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I looked at the third website, it was really hard to navigate so I guess it can go too. I also noticed that the author of the site is the same as the editor that added it. If he persists in adding it you can add a notice to the WP:SPAM talk page asking for help, or to the WP:BIRD. Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:05, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] tags

I appreciate what you are doing, tagging bird articles, a useful and necessary job. However, I have concerns about the number you are tagging as stub level. Few, if any, of the article have a stub tag, and most are a reasonable length. Whilst many could be expanded, they are not stubs, and imho should not be tagged as such on the article or talk pages. Thanks, jimfbleak 11:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bird

It's got some to go yet. Feeding needs citing, the first bit of breeding is a mess, and role in culture needs a clean up. Mostly I'm going as fast as I can find references. Sabine's Sunbird talk 06:35, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Please see my reply on my page. —Markles 13:09, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

I've also noticed some of the delegations (i.e. NH, CT and VT-there may be others ) have A/L representation listed at the ordinal congresses, but listed as district representation when you look at the congressional rosters from each state. The ordinal congresses are cited, so I'm fixing NH right now. Not sure if it's a big deal, but thought I'd try to correct those delegatons. Does take a bit of time.......Pmeleski 11:31, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Can you give me an example of an ordinal congress that has the error you're asking about? Thanks. --Appraiser 02:07, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

The ordinal Congresses seem to be fine, since those are referenced. But the rosters from some states list district representation when they should be at-large (i.e. New Hampshire). For example, from 1789-1847 all reps were elected at-large according to the early ordinal congresses. However, the representative congressional roster shows them elected by distict. Not a big deal, but slightly innacurate. CT and VT also appear this way. There may be other states.Pmeleski 00:59, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Hmm...I would have thought the delegations articles were more accurate. They were all done before I started, but I usually go by them when creating ordinal congress articles. If you find any errors that you don't fix yourself, will you put a note on the corresponding talk page? Thanks.--Appraiser 13:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bird collaboration of the month

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[edit] Congressional biographies

Where are you copying these from? Please include your source. Also, you must write in complete sentences, this is not a list-serve of snipettes, it's an encyclopedia. Please clean up biographies you have already adding by rewriting in complete sentences, and including the source you copied it from showing that it is not in copyright. Thank you. KP Botany 22:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

It would only take you five minutes more to write the article in complete sentences, whereas I, because I don't have the source handy, spent fifty minutes rewriting one of them. It is worse than having nothing, because the style is so poor they look like the sort of articles that need deleted, and this creates far more work for people to correct, discuss and research, than it would be to just write it in English the first time around. Please just write complete sentences, so that you have robust stubs that can just sit parked until someone is ready to work on them. Also, please quote your source, whether it's copyrighted or not. Thanks. KP Botany 22:35, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. After you post, if you pop a link on my talk page, I will do a quick edit for you. KP Botany 00:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Connecticut delegations

Sorry, I don't think you saw my reply (I put it on my talk page). I thing you should rearrange the At-large reps on the Delegations page before going further with the At-large seats on the At-large page.—Markles 02:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Lists of reps

Saw your work on Vermont's at-large congressional district. I suggest:

  1. Only shading the party column not the entire row (name, years, town, etc.); and
  2. Don't link solitary years (see WP:MOS).
    • Wrong: [[1905]]
    • Right: 1905
    • Right: [[1905-03-04]]

—Markles 12:00, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

  • I repeat: please don't link solitary years. If you don't know the full date, then don't link the year at all.—Markles 14:21, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Cramer (representative)

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[edit] People with the surname Smith

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Instead of adding multiple links to different individuals with the same first name (such as Kenny Smith, American basketball player and announcer, and Kenny Smith, American football player; and Lane Smith, American actor, and Lane Smith, American children's book author and illustrator), would you please consider making disambiguation pages along the lines of Harry Smith, Steven Smith, or Adam Smith (disambiguation) that could be linked exactly once in the top part of the list? --Orlady 02:17, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Aaron Ward (representative)

When you created Aaron Ward (representative), you added the categories Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York and. However, the Members… category is a subcategory of …politicians, so I deleted …politicians. It ought not be used when it's redundant.—Markles 13:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories, presidential

One pretty good reason for

is the difference between a biographical article, and an article about an event having a relation to the process, like a primary, convention, debate, and so on.
-- Yellowdesk (talk) 04:03, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of United States Representatives from New Jersey

Hi! I was cleaning up the NJ US Rep Delegation and came across the aforementioned list. Was going to add/fix links on the New York List as I had time but had a thought before proceeding. Is this type of list kind of duplicative if all the reps are alphabetized already under Category: United States Representatives from New Jersey?????? The list is not as colorful, but most of the same type of info is available there? 1 less thing to maintain??????...Pmeleski (talk) 12:27, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

From time to time these "List of United States Representatives from" articles are nominated for AFD because in most cases they offer less information than the "United States Congressional Delegations from" articles. User:Markles is probably the major supporter of these articles, probably because he spent a lot of time on the one for Massachusetts. There is some discussion about them here. There is plenty of work to do, especially in the New York Delegations article, but I suggest that you work on whichever ones interest you the most. I know you would get resistance trying to delete any "List of United States Representatives from" articles though. Thanks for all your help creating missing articles for members of congress.--Appraiser (talk) 18:07, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Massachusetts birds

Looks ok - any other general info which could go in the lead commenting on avian distribution in MA woul be great. I tweaked it a bit. Link AOU too. I don't know enough about the individual birds to comment on the comprehensiveness of the list but will take your word it's ok.cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:01, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:LOTD

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[edit] Merger proposal

Please see discussion at Talk:United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 2008#Merger proposal—Markles 00:16, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

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