TimK MSI

The Original Barnstar For adding massive amounts of content, sometimes under the radar, I hereby award you The Original Barnstar. youngamerican (talk) 12:55, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		I award you the Minor Barnstar making minor edits of the utmost quality to the rivers of the United States. Congratulations! Royalbroil 13:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		For traveling to some of West Virginia's most scenic locations and to some of the state's biggest crap-holes to enhance Wikipedia's visual coverage of WV, I hereby award you The Photographer's Barnstar. youngamerican (wtf?) 13:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		To Malepheasant, for photographs of main streets in Minnesota. Together they could be a book—maybe they are. For now part of a feature on the state Wikipedia portal. Thank you. Susanlesch (talk) 04:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

• Archive 1, to 22 Feb 2007

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Weston State Hospital, was selected for DYK!

On February 26, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Weston State Hospital, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 00:25, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Weston State Hospital

My understanding is that bolding is useful if:

1. The title is in reasonably common use (how likely is it that this "alternative title" will be used for a link, or in the search box?)
2. The alternate title is in the first sentence, or at least, the first paragraph.
3. The title is an alternate name for the article topic (e.g. Brady Leaf goes to Ryan Leaf but is not bolded).

Since this is neither the first (it's been called "Weston State Hospital" for nearly a century), nor the second case (the titles are much lower in the article), I don't think it's pertinent to bold randomly in the article. Circeus 13:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Geobox River

Fixed, there was a bug in the subtemplate that handles unit conversions, must have been there for some time. Thanks. – Caroig 08:19, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

New NRHP Collaboration Division

Hey, saw you were a participant in the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject. I thought I would let you know that there is a new Collaboration Division up for the project. The goal of the division is to select an article or articles for improvement to Good article standard or higher. There is a simple nomination process, which you can check out on the division subpage, to make sure each candidate for collaboration has enough interested editors. This is a good way to get a lot of articles to a quality status quickly. Please consider participating. More details can be seen at the division subpage. IvoShandor 11:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

tributaries

Thanks for setting me "right" on the left/right thing (I guess I stuck with the way we list crossings, going upstream rather than down. Daniel Case 13:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Discharge figures

I see what you mean ... sort of assumed without looking too closely that those were the avg daily figure.

Is this something more like what you want (average daily discharges per year)? We could add (2005) to the footnote in question. Daniel Case 04:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Or you could find a way to derive an all-time average from this data. Daniel Case 04:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

That math, I believe, would be OK under the new policy:

Editors may make straightforward mathematical calculations or logical deductions based on fully attributed data that neither change the significance of the data nor require additional assumptions beyond what is in the source. It should be possible for any reader without specialist knowledge to understand the deductions.

I've been incorporating this new data into the geoboxes I've been adding, starting with Wallkill River (which I can look at out my window as I'm typing, and definitely hear ... I live near this. It makes what's already a very time-consuming and painstaking process even more so, but it's worth it.

I love these geoboxes. Since I added one to Catskill Mountains and then Hudson River, I've been on one of my obsessive little tears putting them into every article for which a map was available in the Northeast. That's how I wound up getting so involved in those West Virginia rivers ... you've done a good job there! Daniel Case 16:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Geobox River Clean-up

I'm planning to do some major cleanup to this Geobox. Based on this one I developped a few more similar Geoboxes to cover other geographic features and the "framework" has developped too. I'd like to bring the Geobox River template up-to-date with all other templates in this series. Don't worry, you would probably not notice – no fields are going to be removed, there will be no changes in the output, it's just cleaning-up the code.

Anyway, you seem to be definitely the most active user of this template, the most experienced one so I'd like to ask for some obeservations. Are then any issues, bugs, do you have any ideas for improvement? These would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. (I've checked your edits, there's some inconsistency in some of the note fields concerning the field names, I see you corrected some, thanks for that, I'll try to track all remaning down.) – Caroig 19:57, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

The cleanup's finished. I've checked the cleaned template on some pages and it seems everything's alright, I'll update the documentation and blank templates accordingly. I've renamed (shortened) a few fields but their old names are accepted too. If there are any issues, I'd appreciate if you report them. There are also some extra functions and a field for a second map. I've made some rather cosmetic changes concerning home some values and fields are displayed. I don't think the label Discharge elsewhere sounds very good, any idea? I'm also not very sure whether it wouldn't be better English to have Source confluence instead of current Sources confluence. – Caroig 19:55, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Second attempt. There's certain inconsistency in the template implementation which, until now, hasn't been very clear to me. Well, now I know. The problem was that some older pages have blank fields for metric fields when the values are in the imperial fields. Unfortunatelly, I was checking the imperial units (and actually the whole new code) on Monongahela River which is of a later date and doesn't have those blank metric fields. On initial lauch of the Geobox River I provided only one template which contained both types of fields, the newer blank templates have either metric or imperial values so one can't have problems with this. If you can, please start new pages with one of those blank templates from the bottom of the Geobox River page, they should always contain up-to-date fields. And another thing, when specifying the image or map width, you don't have to (actually shouldn't) put in px, just the number. Under certain circumstances it causes problems with alignment in some browsers. I apologize for the temporary broken output. Should be Ok now. – Caroig 21:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed, the problem was that all newer Geobox use long_EW fields instead of long_WE which is in the Geobox River. The template now accepts both, I'll probably swap this using AWB fro better consistency. I've also corrected this in the blank templates. Again, thanks a lot for your feedback. – Caroig 07:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Big Wheeling Creek

Thanks for joining me on Wheeling Creek and creating the article. I simply started the watershed list and graph because I was curious. I've asked the Wikiproject editors about historical crests and floods, but do you think that should be on the article page or on a separate entry? Mphamilton 06:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Maybe I need clarification...

Maybe you could clarify this for me. I really would like to include flood information on Wheeling Creek most notably the 1963, 1972, 1990, and 2004 floods on Big Wheeling Creek. Can these go on the Wheeling Creek article page rather than in separate articles for each event, or can a subsection be created on Wheeling Creek for historical flood events? Mphamilton 11:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguating Ohio townships

Thanks for seeking to disambiguate the names of a couple townships in Ohio, but the Ohio townships Wikiproject guidelines want all township articles to include the name of the county. Nyttend 23:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: USACE pictures

See my reply on my talk page. ●DanMS • Talk 03:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Williamson Again

Here is another USACE picture of Williamson, WV. Maybe better than the other one? This one seems to have the floodwall finished. [1] ●DanMS • Talk 03:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

• Whoops! My mistake. That picture is West Williamson. ●DanMS • Talk 03:30, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Matewan

Matewan, WV Here is another WV picture for you, not too far from Williamson. This one did not have a date specified. If you can estimate a date, feel free to put it on the picture description. ●DanMS • Talk 04:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Wheeling Creek

On 23 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Wheeling Creek (West Virginia), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 06:20, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

USACE Picture Dates Again

Here is another reason to seriously question the dates given in the descriptions of the pictures on the USACE website. The date on this picture is given as August 1, 1992. Looks a lot more like October than August. ●DanMS • Talk 03:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

New Philadelphia, Ohio, photo

Do you really think the photo of parked cars is a better first impression of New Philadelphia, Ohio, than the photo of Tuscora Park? Why? r3 19:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

DYK nomination

Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Yellow River, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on April 24 where you can improve it if you see fit. MeegsC 20:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 28 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Yellow River (Indiana), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 21:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

External links

Dear Malepheasant,

Why are our links being removed? These maps are community based and official maps of the city commissioned in some cases by the chamber of commerce, parks amd recreation department, or other local community group?

If a the local newspaper or radio station in a community has a link on this Web site for their respective community, then there should be a place for our community based maps.

The cartoon maps are not spamming nor are they commercially selling any item.

I would appreciate a dialog over this issue.

Best regards,

Mark --—Preceding unsigned comment added by Cartoonmaps (talk • contribs) April 28, 2007

External Links / City Articles

Don't you think valid links on how to form a business in the city of Rochester is a valid external link. I don't see how it's not. Kiamori 00:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Was it necessary to come to my talk page to respond and then leave a rude/arrogant comment? Apparently so.

I have to disagree with your response.

Regarding your question about the external links you're wanting to add to articles about cities in Minnesota -- the links aren't appropriate because Wikipedia is not a directory and it's not an indiscriminate collection of information. Per Wikipedia's external links guidelines, "it is not Wikipedia's purpose to include a comprehensive list of external links related to each topic." "Links should be kept to a minimum." Avoid linking to "sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject: the link should be directly related to the subject of the article." Using more general logic, what if I'm in Minnesota and I want to obtain a driver's license? Should I look to the Wikipedia article about Rochester? No, because that's not Wikipedia's purpose. The same applies to learning how to start a business.

If someone were to want to start a business in Rochester, they would follow those same links to legally register the business. Kiamori 00:41, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree with your removal of those links, having seen the discussion at WT:EL and your additional comments here. I hope the editor will not persist. EdJohnston 03:33, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Cranberry River (West Virginia) anon edit

The anon is correct, though :) youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 22:45, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

No, it doesn't belong in the article unless sourced. You were right in removing it. I was just being a smart-alec. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 03:41, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Chicago Landmark Stubification

I noticed that you have edited Wabash Avenue YMCA this week, which is one of the new WP:CHICOTW stubs. This week, we WP:WPChi are focussing on stubifying the numerous redlinks in Chicago Landmark with a goal of getting over half the redlinks stubified (we began with about 25%). This will improve our chance of getting it approved as a featured list candidate. When reviewing this week's new stub contributing editors your name was absent. You may want to choose a redlink or two from Chicago Landmark and create a stub before this week's project ends on 5/16 so that you can be a part of our drive for featured list status. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Minor barnstar

I have awarded you the Minor Barnstar because I keep finding your name by fine edits on article's histories. This time it was on the Mullet River article. Keep up the great work! Royalbroil 13:56, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

CHICOTW

	Chicago Collaboration of the Week
Last week you helped edit the Chicago COTW, but did not vote. Thank you for your help! Your input in future selections would also be appreciated. This week Magnificent Mile has been chosen. Please help improve it towards the quality level of a Wikipedia featured article. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see an open tasks list. See past CHICOTWs. Note our good articles.
	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago

TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 00:52, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Chicago Landmark Stubification

I am writing you because you either (1) edited Chicago Landmark 5 weeks ago when it was the WP:CHICOTW (2) edited it or created a stub last week when we had the stubification drive for it or (3) you nominated an article to be the CHICOTW in the last few days.

I have finally had a chance to take a tally on last week’s stubification effort. Based on my manual count we now have 109 bluelinks on a total of 241 landmarks. Preliminary indications were that for our article to be successful at WP:FLC we would need to eventually rename it (something like List of Chicago Landmarks) and get the majority of the landmarks linked. Based on my cursory count we need to write 12 more articles to get to a majority. It would be great if you might be able to assist by creating a couple stubs to assist in this effort. Here are some of the stubs that were created during last week’s efforts: Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District, Historic Michigan Boulevard District, Arthur H. Compton House & One North LaSalle. Among the articles still redlinked are 2 buildings on this week’s CHICOTW, Magnificent Mile (Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton Office and Studio, Woman's Athletic Club). Recall that each redlink on Chicago Landmark has a footnote to a reference that gives you enough info to create a stub. If you create a new stub please add it to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chicago#Newly_Created_Chicago_Related_Pages so that we can keep track of the progress. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:46, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Fargo pics

You added some really great pics to the Fargo, North Dakota article. They really add to the article...thanks for including them here. If you have any more of Fargo or other ND cities, don't hesitate to add them. Many of our articles are lacking pics. --MatthewUND^(talk) 21:42, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Did you know?

On 20 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pomme de Terre River (Minnesota), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 00:09, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Chicago Landmark WP:FLC

You helped us at WP:CHICOTW create and improve List of Chicago Landmarks. This week we have nominated it at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Chicago Landmarks. Feel free to make comments about its candidacy or to come by and help respond to the comments of others. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 00:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Straight River

Hi Malepheasant. I nominated Straight River to appear on the Main Page under the Did you know... section. The nomination hook appears here. There is a five day from creation window for DYK nominations, so I wanted to make sure it was in the cue. Please feel free to revise the nomination hook as you see fit. Great job on the article. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 01:50, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Apparently, it already appeared on the front page a few hours ago. See Wikipedia:Recent_additions. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 04:07, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Not too many river articles make DYK. It probably moved up the queue to balance other articles that appeared with it. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 04:17, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I didn't receive a pretty message box, so I'll give one to myself:

On June 26, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Straight River (central Minnesota), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Malepheasant 05:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

More help needed

If you have been following along at WP:FLC#List_of_Chicago_Landmarks you know we need help creating stubs for the List to make it a more useful list and help it achieve WP:FLC status. Since I reminded people of this 7 stubs have been created. We need about 40 more to be safe although we may have a successful candidacy with the article as it stands.

Some of you may also be following the success of WP:CHICOTW at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/COTW/Good Articles. For the last 4 weeks no one has been very active. Thus, I am fearful that Historic Michigan Boulevard District, Harold Washington Cultural Center, Crown Fountain, & Art Institute of Chicago Building will all fail at WP:GAC when their turns come up. Also, Magnificent Mile did not experience the collaborative spirit. Our reputation as a successful collaboration is at stake. In addition to making stubs for the FLC we need your contribution to our collaborations. I am sorry to pull you away from whatever other wikipleasures you may be experiencing, but we need your help. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 17:00, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for the intrusion and thank you for your single edit. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 22:42, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Link

Why would you remove my link from the Mason/Point/Mason County sites? That link is for people who do not know about that site who are from Point Pleasant, Mason, or Mason County to look at and keep up to date on people in their home town and even look at the past. It's nothing bad so why delete it? I mean honestly. It's a great thing that I do and people here LOVE my site and want people to find out about it. I didn't know that showing people a link to the sports of their hometowns was a bad thing

Pretty bad thing to do to take people away from a chance of seeing their past.--—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gobigblacks (talk • contribs) 22:38, 11 July, 2007

First off, I was not ADVERTISING the site. I was putting it on there because it has something to do with POINT PLEASANT kind of like the MOTHMAN or anything of that sort. People appreciate that site and i'm sure people across the nation that went to our school would love to know that it exists. That site is a 100% volunteer site and I do not need to advertise so try again on that one.

People have Mothman links on the Point Pleasant page. Mothman is a figure in Point Pleasant just like high school sports are a figure in Point Pleasant. The Mothman has nothing to do with Point Pleasant, it just happened to happen here.

It was not adverstising. People deserve to know that sites like that exist. ----—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gobigblacks (talk • contribs) 13:15, 12 July, 2007

Very belated reply

Some months ago I prodded you to disambig Laurel Fork to Laurel Fork (Cheat River). I've meant to reply for a long time to say that you are probably right that there is no real need to disambig. Sorry to have made trouble. Contrarywise, I'm not sure if I posted here about it, but your comments wrt the Monongahela maps I made are something I reread now and then; reading them makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Just wanted to let you know if I hadn't before. Thanks very much! Also, I think I'd read something about the "hand" shape of the tributaries including Laurel Fork. I wish there was similar lore about the rivers of Washington state. It seems that in the east, and perhaps especially in Appalachia, there is an old and deep connection to the land, at least among some people. In Washington, there is a strong love of the outdoors, of hiking and wilderness, but even so, there seems to be a lack of depth compared to the Appalachians. ...someday I'll get around to exploring West Virginia! Pfly 06:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Historical Population Figures

I happen to have been looking over your user talk page to see where you got those historical population figures that you contributed to some of the West Virginia city articles like Charleston and Huntington that I saw, so I went to Caponer user talk page and happen to find the web site to all that information. I added historical population figure charts to Ohio city articles like Mansfield, Canton, Springfield, and Chillicothe. If it wasen't for you then I would had never known where to look for all that information that I needed. Thank you so much for your support. Happy editing!---OHWiki 01:52, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Webster Springs anon edit

For what it is worth, he or she is kinda correct. :)

BTW, thanks for adding all the cool photos in recent months. Cheers. youngamerican (wtf?) 23:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Geobox 2

Hello, this message is sent to you because you've shown some interest in the Geobox templates in past. There is now a new version (aka Geobox 2) which supersedes all older Geoboxes (aka Geobox 1). The major difference is there are no feature specific templates (Settlement, River, Mountain range etc.) but just one master template which can handle all type of data. There are a couple of new features and many new fields making the template much more versatile so now it can be used for virtually any geography related feature without the need to create a specific template.

The switch to Geoboxes 2.0 is highly recommended as the new template has a much more effective code, which renders faster than the old one (with much smaller pre-expand size, it can be one third to one fourth of the pre-expand size of Geoboxes 1). To convert aa page from Geobox 1 to Geobox 2, there are two ways:

• By changing the template header:

  {{Geobox Settlement

  becomes

  {{Geobox|Settlement

  Although some field names have been changed in order to be unified, the old names are accepted too. For any settlement Geobox use {{Geobox|Settlement and set the settlement type (city, borough, town, village) in category field. Calling e.g. {{Geobox|City will work as well but it's not the recommended way (from technical reasons).
• By a semi-automated tool which reorders the field names in the Geobox 2 style and also renames the few changed field names.

There are several unresolved issues at the Geobox talk page, please add your comments and of course any other ideas you might come with as well as bug reports. – Caroig (talk) 09:36, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments from 206.212.34.79

i don't like to vandalize I just love Jesus!!!! and you should to!!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.212.34.79 (talk • contribs)

Minnesota Meetup

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Sunday, 2007-10-07, 1:00 p.m. (13:00)
Pracna on Main
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Please pass this on! RSVP here.

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River Pix

I see you've uploaded a lot of river photos. I live in Pittsburgh, and if photos of rivers in these parts are needed, I could take some. We've got the big three, plus some smaller ones. I don't see the smaller ones too often, but they could be targets of opportunity. Lou Sander 15:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Please click here broken?

I used your Please Click Here link to add the above River Pix comment. The comment was added, but in a most strange format. Lou Sander 15:20, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I fixed it -- there was an unclosed div class in the message above yours. --Malepheasant 15:51, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

You went to Mullens to get a picture?

Wow, that is dedication to the project. :) youngamerican (wtf?) 12:58, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, BTW, check out your userpage. Congratulations. youngamerican (wtf?) 13:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Lorain

Molina DOES NOT qualify using Wiki's standards. You are bastardizing this page with your holier-than-thou attitude. It is people like you who make this a useless reference site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.241.98.171 (talk) 21:19, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I Saw My Edits Got Removed!

Hi!

I'm new to Wikipedia and I saw that my edits regarding the Wabash River were removed. I guess I didn't site them correctly -- good catch! I'm working from a massive amount of personal journals that were recently willed to me. Fascinating stuff! I do I site this so that this incredible information can be part of Wikipedia?

Thanks so much, and sorry if I scared you! I didn't mean to!

From,

Your friend, Clay (talk) 01:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Also, regarding the State Capitol Building in St. Charles

You were probably right to take that one down. I was working off some stories my uncle had told me. He was an architect. Pretty neat guy actually. I thought he knew a lot more than he did, apparently. Thanks for taking that one down. I think I probably got it wrong.

Thanks again! Can't wait to hear what you think I should do about the journals and the Wabash River.

From Your friend, Clay (talk) 01:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Adminship?

Have you ever though of doing a WP:RfA? It could be helpful with managing photo uploads and whatnot. y'amer'can (wtf?) 13:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Compliment

Hi, in case you didn't see it you received a compliment and a request at Portal:Minnesota/Suggest. -Susanlesch (talk) 04:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Photo request

I noticed that you loaded the Sarajevo Flicker photo Image:Miljacka River.jpg into Wikimedia Commons. I would like the Sarajevo Flicker photo at Inat Kuca brought into Wikipedia to use in spite house and Stari Grad, Sarajevo, but I don't know how to do it. Would you be so kind as to insert Inat Kuca into spite house and Stari Grad, Sarajevo. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 15:40, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

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The Ohio WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - Month 2008
From the editor This is the first issue of WikiProject Ohio's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you would like to suggest something to be included in the next newsletter please see:The Newsdesk Project News *New features have been added to the project banner. All articles now need to be assessed for importance as well as class. There are approximately 60,000 articles under Category:Ohio that still need the banner added to their talk pages as well. Editors and Contributors Needed *We are in need of editors for this newsletter. If you are interested please visit:The Newsletter Project Page. Also, the The Ohio Portal is seeking Wikipedians to nominate selected articles, sports teams, biographies, and images. The portal is also seeking maintainers. Areas needing attention Assessment requests: There may be Requests for assessment needing to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watch the assessment page. Article assessment: Unassessed Ohio article need you help visit Category:Unassessed Ohio articles & Category:Unknown-importance Ohio articles Featured and Good Articles Recently a number of Ohio related articles have achieved featured status. We at WikiProject Ohio would like the editors of those pages for their hard work. Featured Jack Warner, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Superman Good Articles Halle Berry and Jack Nicklaus Contributors Stepshep 23:44, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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"Christiana" River

Sorry, my mistake. It was in a map in today's Washington Post, and I mis-read it. Thanks! RossPatterson (talk) 18:31, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

Issue II - May 2008

From the editor: Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the News Desk! Have a great May. The Ohio Portal The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images. Selected Article: Indian Head Rock There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it. With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value. After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river. Billy Massie Article Assessment Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! Over 10,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}} Article Achievements New Featured and Good articles Ohio was listed as a Good Article nominee; the result of the nomination was Not listed. Please help get Ohio to GA status! Port Columbus International Airport was listed as a Good Article. WikiProject Ohio Barnstar of Merit If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a lot of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage. {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}} Contributors Stepshep & Billy Massie

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I was wondering how I might obtain the rights to your Wilmington, DE photograph, so I may use it on my website? Would it be possible to purchase the rights so I am not obligated to accredit the image on my website? Email me at areed@zuckerman.com and hopefully we can work something out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Areed09 (talk • contribs) 18:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Rights to your photograph

I was wondering how I might obtain the rights to your Wilmington, DE photograph, so I may use it on my website? Would it be possible to purchase the rights so I am not obligated to accredit the image on my website? Email me at areed@zuckerman.com and hopefully we can work something out. Areed09 (talk) 18:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)areed09

WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

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Issue III - June 2008

From the editor: This is the third edition of the WikiProject Ohio newsletter. If you have any project announcements feel free to drop them by the NewsDesk. It's request that you watchlist our talk page; so you can chime in on current discussions. Have a great June! The Ohio Portal The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images. Getting the Project Moving WikiProject Ohio as an entity doesn't have as much action as other state projects. For this reason it has been proposed that the inactive WikiProject Ohio Townships be added as our taskforce. There is a !poll going on at WT:OH and your opinion is essential in the matter! Stepshep has also proposed sending an invite to everyone in Category:Wikipedians in Ohio with an invite to join the project. If you are already a member you would not receive the notice of course. Once again, please note your opinion on the project talkpage. Selected Article: Central Avenue Historic District (Dayton, Ohio) The Central Avenue Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located at 201 to 338 Central Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. It consists of late 19th and 20th Century Revival-style houses as well as late Victorian-style houses, which were all originally single-family residences. On December 16, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Each month a new Ohio related stub is the selected article. If you have a new stub created feel free to nominate it at the NewsDesk. Article Assessment Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! 'Over 15,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}} We have 5,000 articles that need to be assessed for class! Article Info Good Article Nominees, FAR, FLC List of Governors of Ohio was nominated for featured list status. Teh result was promote. Bruce Johnson (politician) underwent a featured article review. The result was demote. William Henry Harrison underwent a GAN The result was promote. Paul Tibbets underwent a GAN. It is currently undergoing review. Columbus Blue Jackets underwent a GAN It is currently undergoing review. Articles for Deletion Results Afd W. S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award was nominated at Afd. The result was Delete Homer E. Woodling and Robert F. Busbey were nominated at Afd. The result was Keep All Ohio High School Conferences were nominated at Afd. The result was no consensus keep. There is an effort to improve these articles here. Ohio Barnstar of Merit If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a good deal of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage. {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}} Article Importance Scheme A new article importance scheme has been proposed at the assessment talk page. Please comment on the propsed system. Ohio NHLs Tabulated The 25 of Ohio's 69 National Historic Landmarks that were red-links all got articles this month, as part of a WP:NRHP drive to finish beginning the 2,430 or so NHL articles needed for nation-wide coverage. WP:OHIO members Stepshep and Sanfranman59 were busy. Contributors Stepshep, Clariosophic, & Doncram

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Cloquet River

Malepheasant-- as you are the go-to guy on rivers, would you be interested in turning this link blue? I've mentioned it in a few articles. (And isn't it a little dangerous for your type this time of year?) Regards, Kablammo (talk) 13:21, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

river bank

Hi Tim I'm currently making a slideshow video to accompany my performance of the Spanish Christmas song Riu Riu Chiu (for YouTube). If I use your "yellow river" river bank - (and I strongly think I will) - I will of course add you to the credits. Many thanks for the photo :-) Dwsolo (talk) 16:48, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Update: here's the video.
Riu Riu Chiu
Your river bank worked perfectly for it :-) Dwsolo (talk) 09:15, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

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For what it's worth...

...Salem County, New Jersey plagiarized your creek photo here: [2] 150.250.43.182 (talk) 00:27, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

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Great picture!

I just wanted to tell you what a great picture you took of the Buckhannon River in Rangoon, West Virginia. (Of course, I don't know it as Rangoon - I call it by it's colloquial name, Boulder. :) ) But anyway, it's a wonderful picture! Did you take it down under the bridge, or in that general area? The angle and view look like it. :) SaraWentz (talk) 07:32, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

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We're maturing --This one actually has an agenda! --Bobak (talk) 00:10, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

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Guyandotte River

Hey there- I have lived in a few of the places you are mentioning as being on the Guyandotte, they are not. What resource are you using here?Coal town guy (talk) 01:58, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Openstreetmap; Google maps; DeLorme atlas; and clicking the coordinates link in the upper right of the page so as to get a pin on a Google map in cases where it's not clear. Perhaps I made mistakes; which ones are in question? --Malepheasant (talk) 02:04, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Corinne, Amigo, Itmann, I use the topo data at the WVGS, its far more acuurate as thefolks who did that survey, walked the area. Google maps for that area tend to use a data set that is inaccurate ti within 1 to 3 miles. Its most error prone in Raleigh, MsDowell, and Kanawha Counties...ever try to find a coal town with google maps in McDowell County, I tried, once.A biblical level bad bad dayCoal town guy (talk) 02:11, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry to mix up the replying, I'll keep it here henceforth. As I noted, the GNIS/US Board on Geographic Names puts Itmann's dot on Rt. 16/10. And I see buildings between Rt. 16 and the river in the aerial photo. Malepheasant (talk) 02:24, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

The USGS says the Guyandotte River begins at Amigo (these coordinates are from the GNIS entry): 37.5976146°N 81.3217685°W / 37.5976146; -81.3217685 Malepheasant (talk) 02:38, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

When you say on the river, what do you mean? IF you mean, I get up, open a window and see it, no, not so. If you mean on a map it looks close. Sure. By that logic, McLean VA is on the Potomac, and well, its not. I could drive 4 + miles to Great Falls and see it sure. BUT I am not on it. Sorry to seem so picky, but I have hiked Amigo, and Corinne, and filmed Itmann, and walked Mullens and lived in the area for a few years Coal town guy (talk) 02:44, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Read your "edit summary" on Stephenson WV...ha ha ha. Look, the place that GNIS calls Stphension, is actually an old town named Devils Fork and they got it wrong. AND YES, I have spoken to Lou Yost at GNIS about it anmd yes, its a creek that comes off of the river. Stephenson, had mines in Wyoming County, Devils Fork, had mines in Raleigh, BUT GNIS says one became the other, no, not so, sorry. The deal was Devils Fork is from the 20's. AND after spending a few years in the WV Culture archives and after actually interviewing people who worked at the Devils Fork mine, and recalling a creek they fished out of, which did indeed come off of the river, swell. Why not claim Arizona is on the Potomac? Its on the same land mass??????right????? I am sorry I removed the cat, please mark all of them you want, go nuts, do one just for meCoal town guy (talk) 02:52, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Beetree Creek is NOT the Guyandot

Hey there, I actually looked at the Delorme Atlas, in book form, ever hear of Beetree creek? Its that thing that comes off of the Guyandott and what local folks fished out of near Stephenson WV. I will NOT revert your edit.Coal town guy (talk) 03:40, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

(discussion was continued here) -- Malepheasant (talk) 18:17, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

File:Chunky River.jpg and many others

Hi. You have uploaded many good photos :-) I think the files should be copied to Commons so they can be used on other Wikipedias. The transfer to Commons will look much better if the license is changed to "self" but I will not do that unless I'm sure to do it right. Just to be 100 % sure could you perhaps confirm that you are the photographer when Tim is mentioned? --MGA73 (talk) 13:13, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

would like to use your image of the Missouri River at St. Joseph, MO in a children's book, please contact me!

Hello Tim Kiser! My name is Wanda and I'm a media researcher for Capstone, we publish children's educational books for struggling readers. I'm working on a book titled "The Diary of Sally Hester, A Covered Wagon Girl" and in my search for an image of the Missiour river found your great shot on Wikipedia!

I would like to ask for permission to use your image in our book..if you let me know your email I can send you the image I am looking at so you can see just which one I'd like to use. You would get a photo credit in the book as well as a copy for your archives when it is printed.

Well I guess I'll start there and see what you think Tim! Hope to hear from you soon and have a great day!

Sincerely,

Wanda Winch Senior media researcher

Capstone 1710 Roe Crest Dr. North Mankato, MN 56003 Ph: 507.385.8488 Fax: 507.345.1729 Email: w.winch@capstonepub.com URL: www.capstonepub.com

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Tim, thanks for your support on the river conventions. I see you're a big photographer, too. I'm not so into rivers, but like to shoot whatever I see out the airplane window, so I do get some. See my recent pix: User:Dicklyon#Recent and User:Dicklyon#Aerials, where I got some shots of the Yampa River, Bear River Dam, Guadalupe River (California), Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County), Flathead River, Rio Puerco (Rio Grande tributary), and lots of reservoirs, bays, and inlets because they're easier to see. And on the ground, Adobe Creek (Santa Clara County, California), Stein am Rhein. Keep up the good photo sharing. Dicklyon (talk) 17:13, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

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I just commended Shannon1 for their comments but also wanted to praise you. As you know there has been a LOT of contention in this {{Infobox river}} process. I want to thank you for keeping the discussion civil and for raising some very valid concerns! Keep up the great work. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:42, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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Ever considered WP:DISCORD?? I'm on and it might be faster to ping me there for these 1 off issues? Just a thought. I REALLY appreciate your efforts by the way. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 21:20, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

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Hi @TimK MSI, I see that in your page about articles, you have a link to Eagle River in Wisconsin (the river, not the city). I'm writing this comment because I have moved the page title from "Eagle River (Wisconsin)" to "Eagle River (Wisconsin River tributary)" because the old title already was the same as the title of the article about the city except for having "Wisconsin" in parenthesis. But I also changed the old title from a redirect to the new page to a disambiguation page, so the link should be updated. Cyber the tiger (talk) 20:45, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

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