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[edit] Sorry about the vandalism

"Enough of Chris Jewel and the pig. Do your creative writing elsewhere, not Pomfret, NY, Thanks."

I apologize. This I.P address belongs to a high school in Buffalo. I'm surprised my fellow students haven't vandalized this place more than they have. 168.169.176.191 (talk) 18:20, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

(Moved from User:ChrisRuvolo)

I can see by your interests, that you have very little to do with working on New York and not much at all on Hamilton County, New York. I would appreciate that you stop wikifying items just for the lack of something else to do. If, on the other hand, you are about to go forward with a substantial article, be my guest. I don't mind anyone getting involved with my topics, but merely wikifying someone's article without any intention of going beyond that is not useful. Thanks Stepp-Wulf 01:44, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

So, let me understand this. You would rather not have red wikilinks.. to the point of backing mine out? Why? And because I have not contributed heavily to New York or Hamilton County articles in the past, I should not contribute now? And only substantial edits are welcome? Explain this to me. I will add this page to my watchlist, so please respond here. --ChrisRuvolo 02:53, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

On the contrary, I welcome anyone helping out with any articles I am working on. If you really want to write about Lake Pleasant or Piseco Lake or Route 8, etc. go ahead and do so. I feel that some of the topics may be so obscure as not to merit a special page and may be treated adequately in an existing page. However, if you believe that a substantial special article need be created, go right ahead. I can assure you that I have little interest in Route 8, so if that turns your crank, write away. Stepp-Wulf 03:10, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Oneida (town), New York

I cannot find any indication that there is presently a town named Oneida in Madison County. Could this be a historical entity that was absorbed into the city of Oneida? If so, the article should indicate that. older≠wiser 13:52, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

  • There may be a problem here, but the town shows up on my map (2001) and some other material (now discarded). I have also seen references to the town here and there with recent dates. The county claims there are fifteen towns, and the wikipedia list now has sixteen, so something is amiss. Meanwhile, I expanded the article slightly. Maybe someone can help out.
By my reckoning, comparing maps of the places you listed [1] with the city ward map [2], those places I was able to locate appear to be within the city. I suspect that the entire town incorporated as the city (as described on the city's history page [3]). References to the Town may be simply anachronisms, or it is possible that the town may exist at some non-governmental level--in Michigan, even when townships become defunct as governmental entities, they continue to exist as survey townships--all of the land deeds are recorded in terms of townships, even though they no longer have any civil function. older≠wiser 03:03, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I suspect you may be correct. I was aware of the references, but the wording is rather poor, and a critical word in the passage may not be what was intended. Perhaps the area can be dealt with differently or removed entirely. Stepp-Wulf 03:13, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism fix

Hi there. You tried to fix the vandalism on Much Ado About Nothing by replacing the empty page with a stub. However there was a good article before that vandal blanked the page, so you should have reverted to that version instead. I fixed that now, but to avoid a good article to be lost next time you should do it like it is described in Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version. But anyway, thanks for trying to fix the vandalism. andy 07:39, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sherrill, New York

Hi, Stepp-Wulf. In Sherrill, New York; Vernon (town), New York; and List of cities in New York you've added that the city of Sherrill is located within the town of Vernon. My understanding is that in N.Y.S., cities and towns are two separate types of entities and a city would never be part of a town. Do you have any references which back up this assertion? Thank you.[[User:Nricardo|--Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 16:53, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. I believe that the wording in these articles is misleading. The fact that Sherrill is surrounded on three sides by Vernon is a piece of trivia best left out of the articles if readers might misinterpret the statements as "Sherrill is in/belongs to the town of Vernon." This map from the Census Bureau clearly shows Sherrill outside the borders of Vernon. Thank you.[[User:Nricardo|--Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 04:34, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
My intention is not to offend you. I apologize if you feel that I am somehow insulting your contributions. I highly commend you on your efforts. I wish I had the patience to do what you have done (I have Westchester County on my To Do list for fixing of hamlets and have not quite gotten to it). Thank you for your responses to my inquiries.[[User:Nricardo|--Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 05:17, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] What is your problem??

  • This is the SECOND time that you have VANDALIZED an article written by me with Useless, Worthless wikification. I erased the first wikification in July with the advisement that if you really wish to write articles on those topics, then you should do so. Since that time you have come up with nothing more useful than to wikify the same things once more, creating two blank pages that will probably NEVER be completed due to lack of information, and a FALSE link to a related topic. Apparently, you have so little interest in Hamilton County, that you did not even bother to look at what was already done. If you really are interested in writing about NEW YORK, then do so. There are many locations that need work. There is no need to be stepping all over the material being worked by other people. I really do not appreciate childish twits trying to have their own way, just to score points. You seem to believe that no one else knows how to use square brackets. More useful than creating unwanted stub articles would be to wikify to existing links (as most others do) or actually WRITE the articles you seem to feel are so damned important. Sincerely Stepp-Wulf 05:01, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
What articles did I "vandalize"? This encyclopedia is a *WIKI*. The whole *point* is to have links to related articles. Why are you so put off by that? What "blank related topics" did I create? How are people supposed to identify areas that need work except by creating stubs and seeing red links? Red links are used to create lists like Special:Wantedpages and Wikipedia:Offline_reports. They are valuable because they show where work is needed. Wikipedia is about more than writing, it is about organization and connection to related topics. On subjects where I don't have text or images to contribute, or I don't find time to write about the topics I am familiar with, I will contribute organization and links. I am very tired of your territorial bullshit. I have and will continue to contribute to articles in New York, as I see fit. Because you contributed to an article does not mean that you get to dictate the form of all further contributions. I am not focused on one topic, and do not believe Wikipedia to be territorial. I do not appreciate my contributions being called vandalism, and you calling me a "childish twit". --ChrisRuvolo 16:28, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I assume you are talking about Lake Pleasant (hamlet), New York. Read the damn history. I didn't even make those edits. User:Friedo did. His only mistake is that Lake Pleasant is a disambiguation page and there is no article on the lake itself. --ChrisRuvolo 20:08, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] what is the nature of Sir James Hall's associations?

You wrote:

Hall was associated with other geologists

What is the nature of this association? For instance, did they work together or simply were alive at the same time?

[edit] New York Towns

Hi, Stepp-Wulf. My intention is to have the links go to the town articles, but some have (town) in the title and others don't. If you look at the original version, I had both links, many of which were red, but there was at least one good link per town and I tried cleaning up as best I could. I figure a link to the disambig page is better than nothing. If you want to fix, please do so by all means. Thanks. Nelson Ricardo 11:54, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Grosvenor square

Thanks for Wikifying Grosvenor Square properly. Have a cookie! --fvw* 04:45, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)

[edit] Geneseo, New York

Hello,

You were right that Geneseo, New York and Geneseo (village), New York do not need to be merged—I'm not really sure why I said that in the first place. There is a problem, however, in that the two articles have the same geography and demographics figures, which means that one of them is incorrect. I'll try to fix this whenever I have time. --bdesham 15:25, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

Thanks so much for helping out with New York. There is a lot of work to do here. However, I question the number of stub articles that you seem to be producing. If you can't produce a few decent paragraphs, it may be better to incorporate the information into another article. I have been doing this for some of the hamlets because there is not a lot of information about them, so I put what there is inside the town article. I would like to point out to you that Wikipedia is already inundated with stubs, so try to resist making one or two sentence articles and creating problems. Of course, if you intend to come back to some of the stubs and fill them out later, go ahead. Thanks Stepp-Wulf 06:08, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC).

I don't think that I agree that stubs or very short articles are such a bad thing. If I'm writing an historical biography that mentions a small community not yet in Wikipedia, I'll create a stub for the place, partly to avoid an ugly red link in my article, but also to provide some basic location information to anyone else running across that place name somewhere. Ideally I will get back to fleshing out these stubs, but better yet, someone with some intimate knowledge of the place will do the job. These little crossroads have some fascinating history and should not be ignored. From a user's perspective, I'd rather find a place name right away with some basic information than to be redirected to a town article, not sure why I was redirected there, and then having to read down through a page of dry census data to find the place name in a list and having learned nothing more than I would have from a one-line stub. Perhaps I could just not call these short articles stubs, but that would remove request for input that stubs provide.Nonenmac 21:26, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:29, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jarvis Andrew Lattin

Will you weigh in on the Jarvis Andrew Lattin deletion vote? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 23:24, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: New York stuff

Thanks! I happen to live here, so more power to me, I guess. JB82 (comment)

[edit] New York State Map Template

Hi - just wanted to let you know that there is a template Template:GBNewYorkState which gives an image of New York State with a red dot on it, wherever you specify. Check out Syracuse, NY as an example. Its an easy way to generate a map that specifies the position of a town or village in New York State.

You just put in something like {{GBNewYorkState|175|110}} and it will give you a map with a dot at pixel position x=175, y=110. Like this:

The talk page tells you how to convert latitude and longitude to the right pixel position (with maybe a little tweaking needed). PAR 06:31, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

There is an issue with visitors using MSIE: no red dot. Works fine with Firefox, though. I'll mention it to the developer. Jim Dunning 05:28, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tivoli

Hello, at the moment, in Paris, there are not any Tivoli gardens => the article must be deleted or changed (from the French version). Jpm2112 09:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Bonobo

Hello,

On the page for Nyota, you added "Pygmy Chimpanzee" after bonobo. Bonobos are not chimpanzees, much like we are not chimpanzees. The confusion of generations past is adequately explained in the Bonobo entry, and to have this on Nyota's page is propagating inaccurate information. I am not reverting this, as it would just result in a little edit war, but would appreciate that you do, or better yet, put "(Pan Paniscus)" after Bonobo.

Jon Thompson 05:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)


I still respectfully disagree with you on how the term "pygmy chimpanzee" relates to bonobo. There is a historical context, which is explained sufficiently on the linked page for bonobo. Bonobo and Pan Paniscus are the current common name and scientific names of the species and should be the only terms used for individuals belonging to the species. I highly doubt that p. paniscus and p. troglodytes will be merged, just as I doubt H. Sapiens and H. Erectus or P. Leo and P. Tigris would be merged. If there is actually a discussion whether the two species are to merge would be better served on the Bonobo page. Until the event that Bonobos and Chimpanzees are merged, the facts are that Nyota is a bonobo (p. paniscus), not a pygmy chimpanzee, although Bonobos were called pygmy chimpanzees at one time, which is a reflection on the term "bonobo", not on Nyota himself.

Jon Thompson 07:14, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Philip Leder

I have placed a tag on the article Philip Leder, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. I did this because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person, group of people, or band, but it does not indicate how or why he/she/they is/are notable. If you can indicate why Philip Leder is really notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on Talk:Philip Leder. Any admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. You might also want to read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. Please do not just remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 03:55, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent AIV

I've blocked the vandal for a period of time. I noticed there was a problem with the article for some time now. You may want to issue a Request for comment on his edits. --LBMixPro<Speak|on|it!> 01:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Herkimer

Thanks for the alert on Herkimer, NY vandalism. I put it on my watch list and will try to help. Pollinator 05:06, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crompond, New York

Hi, Stepp-Wulff. Why did you move Crompond from Yorktown to Cortlandt? Please refer to the maps at http://www.westchestergov.com/planning/research/Census2000/Oct03Updates/research/censusmaps.htm, which show that Crompond is in Yorktown. Thanks --Nelson Ricardo 03:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

  1. If you are an admin, please remove your name from the list.
  2. If you are currently interested in being considered for adminship, please be sure your name is in bold; if you are opposed to being considered for adminship, please cross out your name (but do not delete it, as it will automatically be re-added in the next page update).
  3. Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.

Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 02:42, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Vladimir Dinets

Hi Stepp-Wulff. I'm interested to see your modification of that page Vladimir Dinets, and I'm wondering about your connection to that individual? Kenneth Charles 09:39, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "==External links==" vs. "== External links =="

For the record, there is no difference between "==External links==" and "== External links ==", they both render the same way. Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 13:59, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nonsense?????

So you are telling me it is vandalism to suggest that people were present in north america before the arrival of europeans?? You being a member of this website is nonsensical vandalism in my view. I will see if a wikipedia superior can have your account shut down so that YOU may no longer add your white-supremacist opinions into wikipedia articles. You are trying to erase history.

64.131.238.191 00:56, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Racist??

What are yout alking about my racist edits to cheektowaga new york????

Have you been taking hallucinogens???

YOU are racist for refusing to acknowledge that there were human being in north america prior to white settlment. What a bigot you are, you can't COMPLETELY erase native americans from history.

64.131.238.191 23:59, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Perhaps you know more...

Is that a vandal that has come back repeatedly? That sort of vandalism is very hard to catch, especially in the diffs it looks like some constructive edits are being made... --HappyCamper 03:43, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Service awards

Hi Stepp-Wulf! In recognition of your long and extensive editing, you are entitled to these WP:SERVICE awards, and may display either or both (or, of course, neither). Herostratus 02:42, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

This editor is an Experienced Editor, and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star
This editor is an Experienced Editor, and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star
This editor is a Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge
This editor is a Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge

[edit] vandalism?

Im sorry if there is some mistake here... but I have only edited one article in my history on wikipedia. There was one line of obvious vandalism on one of the president pages (I cannot remember which one) that I removed. You must have thought that I put the vandalism there? I do not know. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.233.52.73 (talk) 22:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] [Oswego County]

Hi there - I notice that you removed Pennellville from the list of Cities, villages, towns, etc in the county - while there is no WP page for this place, it is a locality in the county, I am just unsure of its status (village, hamlet, etc), so I have restored it without a link. My understanding of WP is that we don't delete "dead links" because those are to pages that could be created - or have I missed something? If I have erred I will correct it. Thanks. -- Alucard (Dr.) 10:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Montour Family

I was going to start the history of Montoursville tonight, but ran into a problem. The link for Madame Montour is a redirect to Catherine Montour who must have been MM's granddaughter and daughter of French Margaret. I have placed a lengthy discussion about the Montours on the discussion page for Catherine. Will you look at it and let me know what you think? The Madame Montour from Lycoming County should be the Madame Montour on wiki in my opinion and Catherine should just be Catherine. What say you? Dincher 00:41, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

  • I have checked Donehoo's "A History of the Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania" and he mentions the villages in New York destroyed by Sullivan's expedition, but not Catherine's Town (since the book is about PA he may not be complete on NY villages). Can you please cite your source(s)?

    Also the second paragraph: "Montour was reportedly a half-breed Huron (and also claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of a French official). She had been captured by the Iroquois and married to a Seneca chief. After his death she was accepted into the matriarchate of the tribe and was influential in their dealings with white settlers and leaders. She was able to speak both English and French, as well as some native languages." seems to be entirely about the grandmother, who was usually called Madame Montour, and was mother of Andrew and Maragret (of French Margaret's Town and mother of this Catherine and Esther). Thanks, Ruhrfisch 21:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Crotalus tortugensis

Just so you know, this article now has two links to the same article at the SDNHM. When I expanded the article, I didn't actually delete this link; I "moved" it to the Cited references section as an in-line reference to the statement in the Conservation status section (6). --Jwinius 07:35, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Gah-We-Not"?

I was looking at the Grand Island article, and noticed the term "Gah-We-Not" which you added in this edit. Where did you find that term? I googled it and found no reference anywhere except this article. ATren 17:35, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I was reverting some recent vandalism on that page involving the word "gay", and I almost reverted that line because at first glance it looked like it said "Gay-We-Not". I figured it was OK, but I just thought I'd check. :-) ATren 01:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Winchester, Wyoming

Hi. Do you have a source for the edit you made to Winchester, Wyoming today? It sounds like a reasonable addition to the article, but unfortunately, googing anything having to do with Winchester and Wyoming and or history is pretty noisy for obvious reasons. Thanks. - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 03:12, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough - searching around a bit more with specific names found this [4] and this [5]. Works for me. Thanks. - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 03:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bamboo viper

Hi Stepp-Wulf! You recently added Trimeresurus flavomaculatus to the Bamboo viper disambiguation page, with the name "Yellow-spotted bamboo viper." Although this name looks similar to another one I've seen for the same species -- Yellow-spotted pit viper (Brown, 1973) -- do you actually have a reference for it? If so, I hope it isn't a web page, because you can almost never take those sources seriously (plus they're here today, gone tomorrow). PS - Please answer here, as I've got your talk page temporarily on my watch list. --Jwinius 11:29, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Boulevard Mall

Boulevard Mall, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Boulevard Mall satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boulevard Mall and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Boulevard Mall during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 04:01, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greene

Hello Stepp-Wulf. You recently notified me with concern over the Greene page. I understand your concern and respect your desire to eliminate unfamiliar items from the page. However, as a current resident to this extremely small town, I felt it was necessary to include a variety of businesses as well as local personalities that most, if not all residents to this town are familiar with. I think that it is in your best interest to leave the page as it is, and with all due respect, do you do nothing but look over pages of small towns in Central New York? I would be much more understanding if you were a resident, as I am sure you would be as well because you would know what it is that I am speaking about. Thanks! 10:51, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chateaugay & Bellmont

Hi Stepp-Wulf

I noticed your comment a while back suggesting that I add to Chateaugay. Aside from its presumptuous tone, considering that most of what I've already added to Bellmont has been vandalized by someone...why should I bother to do something like that?

Apparently the grandson of an original settler didn't have Kate Turabian at hand, so this primary source document gets deleted? Amazing. This is the same John Smith Kirby that was owner of the Banner House, which I believe is the first Adirondack Hotel. There are so many facts in that piece, that it's a shame to cut it out.

However, I don't give a rip. This is exactly why Wikipedia has a bad reputation. I post that kind of stuff on my own site where I don't have to deal with self-appointed educated fools that have absolutely no clue.

John D. Miles, Chateaugay Lake —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hunsmire (talk • contribs) 02:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please use the Move tab to move/rename articles

Hello, Stepp-Wulf. It appears that you copied and pasted Eighteen Mile Creek to Eighteen Mile Creek (Niagara County). Please do not move articles by copying and pasting them because it splits the article's history, which is needed for attribution and is helpful in many other ways. If there is an article that you cannot move yourself using the move link at the top of the page, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Also, if there are any other articles that you copied and pasted, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you, Shawis (talk) 03:16, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Introduction and question

Hi,

I have been making some small contributions to the Genesee Co. NY region. I grew up near there and it is fun to hunt down and learn from RS about the area. It is also easy to notice the tremendous amount work you have done. In particular I have been wondering about Yancey's Fancy (Kutters Cheese Factory) being notable enough to have its own article. I have looked for some RS to confirm notability but have not found anything. I noticed you did a some work on it recently and wanted your opinion. Thanks. Ward20 (talk) 22:28, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

The environmentally friendly story, and that they have helped set up cheese operations in other countries would be good to include if a reliable source can be found. I just found New York Historical Markers today and was wondering how to use it. I grew up in Indian Falls just above Boulder Park by the way. Ward20 (talk) 03:33, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gowanda Correctional Facility

It is located within Gowanda. Not Collins. My edit was correct. There is a division of the town and village which is Middle Road that Gowanda Correctional and Collins Correctional sit on opposing sides. In fact there are 2 separate Collins prisons besides the Gowanda prisons aptly called C1 and C2 which are located on opposite sides of the road. Unless you actually lived in, around or frequently visited the prisons you wouldn't know this. Be useful and stop changing accurate edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarthaStewartisGod (talk • contribs) 08:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Also: your "corrected" version was repetitive in stating that the prison is located within Erie County, —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarthaStewartisGod (talk • contribs) 08:55, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

I will try to work on your suggestions. I will also put the other two article on my watchlist. Thanks. Ward20 (talk) 22:43, 28 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Gowanda and Gowanda Correctional Facility

Boy let me give you some history on Gowanda Correctional Facility since you obviously feel the need to edit corrections of mine. Here goes: The Gowanda Psychiatric Center closed in the 1980's. The grounds wound up being divided up into two separate prison systems, Collins and Gowanda. Gowanda houses over 1100 inmates and Collins fluctuates around 800. In 1994 the Gowanda Correctional Facility was opened on the exact same grounds as the psych center. The prison was never "part of" the psych center that you edited on the Gowanda page. The psych center and the prison existed at two separate times in history. Using the term "part of" denotes that they co-existed. MarthaStewartisGod —Preceding comment was added at 09:09, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] re: Green (town), New York

Feel free to add in people you feel are actually notable. If you check out the page from before I started hacking at it, you'll see that there were all kinds of jokes and oddly phrased bits that made it difficult to determine which parts were legit and which were just silliness. I thought it would be best to leave a blank slate for a thoughtful editor (like you!) to work with. You're right that the people listed don't necessarily have to have their own page to be notable, but I wanted to make it clear that "so-and-so, who was the inspiration for a cartoon character" was not acceptable. Matt Deres (talk) 03:12, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of Clay Shrout

A tag has been placed on Clay Shrout requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Mh29255 (talk) 02:45, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chester, Warren County, New York

Hi, can you find and add some informations about the Town of Chester and Chestertown in Warren County please? It's very stub-like now. There is also article Chestertown New York which is without sources and which is little bit confused. Thank you very much -- Novis-M 16:10, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you anyway :) I tried to write some information to new article Chestertown, New York, but it is still stub. I have to wait to next year, because next school year I'll be studying on the North Warren Central School in Chestertown thanks to the international exchange program, so when I got some information, I write it down :) -- Novis-M 08:32, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hard Times (song)

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