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Contents 1 Good Article Candidates 2 List of counties in Alabama 3 United States Space & Rocket Center and Space Camp 4 Cheaha trail maps nowhere to be found 5 Massively updated "Mobile Bay Jubilee" article 6 Satyr 7 Alexander City - source of name? 8 Kinnucan's AfD

[edit] Good Article Candidates

I have listed two articles in the TODO box which are currently B class and are getting close to GA review. The Alabama article came close in March and some specific suggestions are on the article's talk page. The Mobile article, like Alabama needs some expansion and some sourcing. These are the two articles I know about and there are probably more. Please list them so we can all work together and get the project some GA, and eventually FA, articles.

[edit] List of counties in Alabama

Myself and a group of other editors are working to bring List of counties in Alabama to Featured List standard. Hopefully, you'd agree that the article is pretty close. The main thing holding it back is the lack of a few references in the lead section. Could people here take two minutes to have a quick look, and see if the can use their specialist knowledge of Alabama to help provide those remaining few citations? Every little helps. Tompw (talk) (review) 13:39, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] United States Space & Rocket Center and Space Camp

I am looking for help editing these two articles. Both have been marked as having multiple issues, including advert status for Space Camp. The camp article had been previously marked as advert, undergone revision and status subsequently removed (20:58, 7 February 2008). Crkey (talk) 14:51, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cheaha trail maps nowhere to be found

Searching the web for hours has not uncovered Cheaha hiking trail maps, except for many whole sites dedicated to the Pinhoti trail. Wiki would be a great place to post this info, even beter if it could be linked from a legimate source within a .gov site. Unfortunately it appears the goverments site lacks any maps in this case. 66.245.98.121 (talk) 22:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Massively updated "Mobile Bay Jubilee" article

I just finished a more-or-less ground-up rewrite of the Mobile Bay Jubilee article. I think it looks pretty nice. I also added a self-made map of jubilee locations (small version, huge version) that someone may find helpful for other articles related to the jubilee, or to Mobile Bay. Regards. Cadastral (Talk) 12:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Excellent job, Cadastral! That article was badly in need of attention and you handled it with aplomb. Вasil | talk 13:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Both the rewrite and graphic look great! Altairisfar_talk 14:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. It was fun to research. Re-reading the article, I see that it still has the expected rough-edges and snags... but I've been staring at it for far too long to make any sense of it. If anyone would like to clean-up, add, amend, abrogate, condense or expand... please do. I think there's a strong base now, but it's far from polished. Regards. Cadastral (Talk) 19:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Satyr

Have you replaced User:SatyrTN's User:SatyrBot? We at WP:CHICAGO are looking for a replacement since he is no longer active. Please respond at my talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:41, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know, there are no other bots that cover the same tasks. - auburnpilot talk 18:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander City - source of name?

The Alexander City article failed to answer the question that caused me to look up the article: how did Alexander City, Alabama get its name? The article says it was incorporated as "Youngsville," but does not explain the change. The 1873 entry in the timeline which makes up the history section contains an error-- incongruous words and error of spacing. Maybe the information was supposed to be there.

74.171.113.129 (talk) 18:26, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I removed the history section in its entirety, as it was a copyright violation. As far as I can tell, and Ask Foy said the same, the origin of the name "Alexander City" is not know. The city website doesn't mention the transition from Youngsville, and I can't find any other mention of the name change. - auburnpilot talk 18:44, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kinnucan's AfD

In case anyone doesn't watch Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Alabama: I have opened an AfD on that article. Aleta ^Sing 16:52, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I didn't even know Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Alabama existed, but I had Kinnucan's on my watchlist. I spotted the speedy, and did a quick search for new sources, but came up with nothing. I'm going to do a little more searching this afternoon, before commenting at the AfD (went ahead and made a comment). Thanks for the note, - auburnpilot talk 16:56, 4 June 2008 (UTC)