User talk:Youngamerican

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Please click here to leave me a new message and I will respond on your talk page. If I have left you a message on your talk page, please respond here. I have better things to do than to stalk your talk page, just as you have more important priorities that to keep watching and/or checking back with mine (unless you don't, in which case I suggest joining your local YMCA or perhaps adopting a puppy) and, frankly, the idea of someone watching my talk page sorta creeps me out. But then again, if you were not inclined to respond here and instead replied on your own talk page, you probably aren't reading this, so the point is moot. If that is the case, hopefully I will get around to checking my past posts to other users' talk pages sooner than later, but most likely I won't for a while. Either way, I'm sure that you are a valued editor and keep up the good work (unless you aren't, then should instead start, um, creating good work or something).


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[edit] Huttonsville WMA

I noticed you changed the listing of WV WMAs to read Huttonsville WMA instead of Huttonsville State Farm WMA. I'm seeing conflicting listings on the DNR website, but at least as of mid-January the on-site signage still said Huttonsville State Farm WMA along US 250.Brian Powell (talk) 02:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WV State Parks list

I was away from working on Wikipedia articles for quite a while. So I wasn't around when List of West Virginia state parks was prodded. But I noticed what you did, and I want to thank you for saving the list from prodding last summer. (I can't really comprehend the argument raised against it, but....different strokes for .... )

I'm going to try to put some more time in on WV things in the future. B-) WVhybrid (talk) 00:19, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Good idea. I'll try. Some comments regarding WV articles.
  • I've been working with User:Bmpowell on the state park list. I think we are 2-3 photos away from meeting all the requirements of a featured list. But I'm a little biased. Perhaps you could take a look and give me your opinion of the where the article stands vs. the WP:Featured list criteria.
  • I've noticed a lot a plagiarism on WV state park articles. Copying directly from the DNR page, for instance. I'd like to spend some time fixing the problems, but I'd appreciate an administrator's support if I get hassled.
  • I think the state forest and wildlife area lists could get a similar treatment as the state park list.

WVhybrid (talk) 00:36, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Isaac Tigrett‎

Hi, you were the admin that recently protected/unprotected this page, so I was wondering if you could advise on how to proceed. Tigreat (talk · contribs) has been basically adding the same things that you protected the page for. I reverted. He made some more edits after I reverted that didn't seem to be as objectionable, but I reverted anyway, just to be on the safe side (all material was unsourced). erc talk/contribs 17:04, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A-P WMA

Nice photos. I was going to use a wildlife photo for each WMA, but actual photos are much better. (Plus, there are lotsa red links left to fill with wildlife photos.WVhybrid (talk) 22:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

When you think about how long it took to get ~35 pix for the state parks, we've got a quite a chore ahead to get photos for all the WMAs. Oh, well, I need something to do this week-end anyway. B-) WVhybrid (talk) 22:30, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A question for ya

[1] WVhybrid (talk) 02:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

You know what's funny? Watching people update a serious story like Eight Belles' situation in real time. I've got five different PDFs of the articles in less than five minutes. It would be nice if people waited for the true facts, but no, it's better to post first and change one minute later. I merely cut and pasted someone else's trash. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Racer997 (talk • contribs) 22:34, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

It would also be nice if certain people didn't mock the death of an innocent animal by treating it like a car race, Racer997.Posie (talk) 04:29, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WV communities

Good job on creating all those WV communities. Just curious: seeing that you've added some to the templates, are all of them on their respective county templates? Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 03:10, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

If you look at my contributions, I've been making a bunch of new communities also (I support the bot idea wholeheartedly, but I'd like to have some more humancreated places also!) lately. I'm not at all complaining about your adding them to templates before creating them; it's just that, as most of my work is making and placing county templates, it's always a little frustrating when someone writes an article and doesn't place it on the template at all. Thanks ! Nyttend (talk) 14:23, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
By the way, one thing: looking at few (for example, Allingdale, West Virginia), they're unsourced. What's your source? Nyttend (talk) 14:24, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't worried that you didn't have a source :-) So you have images for all these places...I don't have images for any of the many communities that I create. Sounds nice! Nyttend (talk) 16:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WV State Park list peer review

There were some useful comments posted on the SP list peer review: Wikipedia:Peer review/List of West Virginia state parks/archive1. You might want to check them out (as well as my replies). WVhybrid (talk) 04:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Ya know, sometimes its good I have the "screwup" userbox on my page User:WVhybrid. Tonight I nominated "Image:Glade Creek Grist Mill.jpg" for featured status. I had checked the English featured photos to make sure it wasn't already nominated, and I checked the image for any defects that might cause problems. The only thing was, I didn't check the Commons featured photos, and didn't scroll all the way to the bottom of the image article, and yes, you guessed it, the image is already a featured photo at Wiki Commons. Arrgh!. So I caught this error before I listed the nomination at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, but the nomination still exists. How can I fix this mess? Can you delete the nomination page? Sadly.WVhybrid (talk) 01:03, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the delete.WVhybrid (talk) 01:55, 14 June 2008 (UTC)