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[edit] Re: Belcourt
It is from an 1895 Architectural Digest. I am unsure, however, of the copyright status of such a picture. Would you know? The photographer was Frank H. Child and the photo comes from a larger set of 5 - 6 pictures, two of which are on the LOC American Memory (the ballroom and a grand hall). A lot of it seems to be in the public domain, but I am not sure. I have some privately owned colour photos of Belcourt that I took when I spent a weekend there, but they are of a facade which has much changed since Alva's time and it doesn't have the same "feeling" as the vintage photos, if you know what I mean. I have no issues with uploading those photos, but I would prefer the black and white photo from 1895 because it's rather beautiful and from the era. Charles 09:27, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have placed it in the article but please tweak the location if it looks bad. If you want a real sense of Belcourt's size, I suggest standing on the roof next to one of the chimneys! I don't think it's going to be on the tour though, you know with liability issues and all ;-) It was one of the fine points of its design and construction: Belmont wanted Belcourt designed to look smaller than it really is. The effect is still seen today when the castle seems to grow exponentially as you approach it. Charles 10:15, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Carpenter Gothic
Many thanks for your message and the images you've uploaded. They're great. I've belonged to a Carpenter Gothic Church for 25 years and yes, Carpenter Gothic has become a passion. You've made my day. Again thanks! clariosophic (talk) 03:00, 6 January 2008 (UTC) Thanks also for posting the images of St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Cahaba, Alabama) Best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 03:06, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. I've created an article for Waldwic. Thanks again for all your help. Best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 21:28, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for uploading the new pictures. They're great. clariosophic (talk) 01:09, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] T:DYK.
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On 6 January 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mobile Public Library, 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. |
Congratulations! · AndonicO Hail! 12:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
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ps I like your rules. I think they should be mandatory to follow. --JayHenry (talk) 06:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Barnstar
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| For your ongoing contributions to WikiProject Alabama and your dedication to improving the articles about Alabama the Beautiful's parks and historic places. Dravecky (talk) 20:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC) |
[edit] NRHP infobox
Thanks, sorry about screwing up the template. I just made another change, can you see if I screwed up again? Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) (talk / cont) 02:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- Incidentally, is there a reason that this infobox is larger than many others? Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) (talk / cont) 02:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
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-- Well done! Espresso Addict (talk) 13:54, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Carpenter Gothic
Hey there Altairisfar. You seem to take some interest in the Carpenter Gothic article. I am curious to your thinking on your picture editing on the article. The first image is tilted and has telephone or electric cable running through it. The third image, being brick, is stylistically related but atypical of the style. The American Gothic House is both prototypical and quintessential. I will also post this on the article Carpenter Gothic discussion page, which is probably where the discussion should unfold. Thanks. CApitol3 (talk) 16:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- (Cross-posted) Hi, I've never added images to American Gothic or Carpenter Gothic. Clariosophic used a few of my images there, you need to see that user. Altairisfartalk 16:16, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Peer review on List of National Historic Landmarks in New York
Hi Altairisfar -- Your input is invited. :) I've gone ahead and asked for peer review on the List of National Historic Landmarks in New York list, including the List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City (hopefully to be considered by the peer reviewers as well). Open at Wikipedia:Peer review#List of National Historic Landmarks in New York. doncram (talk) 23:34, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Port of Mobile
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Interested in ports-related articles? | |
| I notice you recently made major improvements to the Port of Mobile article, and I thought you may be interested to know there is a WikiProject working to improve articles about port-related topics. Your help would be greatly appreciated on similar articles (especially other US east-coast and gulf ports, which need a fair bit of work) so please consider joining WikiProject Ports. |
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- You're very welcome. Ports information is fairly easy to come by - the hard part is matching the published data with an understanding of how the port fits with the city, region or country it sits in, and getting good-quality free images. Your work on the port of Mobile is great - most gulf coast ports don't even have an article so there's plenty more to do both there and anywhere else in the world. Euryalus (talk) 02:00, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rollback
You have been granted with the rollback permission on the basis of your recent effort on dealing with vandalism. The rollback is a revert tool which can lessens the strains that normal javascripts such as twinkle put on the Wikipedia servers. You will find that you will revert faster through the rollback than through the normal reversion tools such as javascripts and the undo feature, because the rollback feature does not require fetching the data from the page history and then sending article data back to the Wikipedia server as the javascript requires, therefore you could save time especially when reverting very large articles such as the George W. Bush page. To use it, simply click the link which should look like [rollback] (which should appear unbolded if you have twinkle installed) on the lastest diff page. The rollback link will also appear on the history page beside the edit summary of the lastest edit. For more information, you may refer to this page, alternatively, you may also find this tutorial on rollback helpful.Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 02:41, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Pitts' Folly
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--BorgQueen (talk) 13:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Africatown
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--BorgQueen (talk) 07:22, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Richard Upjohn and Faunsdale Plantation etc
HI Altairisfar -- Got your note back in response to my posting at Talk:Trinity Episcopal Church (Mobile, Alabama). I was not aware of the development of the Richard Upjohn article, but I do see now that you have improved it greatly. It is looking good. Very gratifying to see development, on an article that I had visited and contributed to just a little, a while back. I find the ties of common architecture between New York State properties and Alabama properties to be very interesting, personally.
About Faunsdale Plantation being part of an MPS. For MPS's each property gets a separate refnum and is on its own a regular NRHP or an HD. Actually Faunsdale may be an HD on its own. But the MPS as a group is not an HD. I do think there should be mention of the MPS, and a way for readers to navigate to other properties in the MPS if they are interested. I noticed no MPS mention in the NRHP infobox for Faunsdale, while you had said it was in an MPS. So I used the Elkman NRHP infobox generator to see what it reported for Faunsdale, and in fact it includes an MPS line. So I copied that line in, and further made it into a wikilink, and further went and started (minimally) an article on the MPS. The MPS article could mostly just be a listing of the members of the MPS. With development of the MPS article, I think that is then the correct treatment for Faunsdale. You're doing great work! cheers, doncram (talk) 07:29, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Old Catholic Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama)
Hi. I've nominated this article for DYK. Look over the hook and see if any improvements could be made. Thanks. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 23:40, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- Nice article. I notice the NRHP infobox mentions a Multiple Property Submission covering Roman Catholic sites in the area, and I don't know if you already know how to get those. You should be able to access that at http://www.nps.gov/nr/research/index.htm. Perhaps it would be a useful reference in the article, and/or support other articles. However the National Register search system for MPS documents is designed for Microsoft Internet Explorer, and otherwise is buggy and sometimes works with Firefox and sometimes not. doncram (talk) 18:42, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Old Catholic Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama)
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--BorgQueen (talk) 09:06, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
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--Bobet 01:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Mobile cobbled streets
Are you familiar with the cobbled or bricked streets once used in downtown Mobile? I was down along the docks the other day and saw some places where the bricks are still visible beneath the cracking asphalt. I would guess there is some historic value there and probably an article modification or creation. However I have never seen any reliable information about the streets. They may link to Fort Conde but I am not sure. I can grab some images if you have any ideas about where to find some information. JodyB talk 19:02, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- Hey, no I'm not really familiar with them, though I have seen small sections of bricks beneath the asphalt too in a few places around town. I checked my books but nothing about brick streets seems to be mentioned there. I have read or been told ? that the Bellingraths got most of the old flagstone sidewalks from the city in exchange for paying to replace them with concrete during the first half of the 20th century. One of my books does mention Old Shell Road and the Bay Shell Road (that flanked the western shore of the bay until a hurricane destroyed it) being paved with oyster shells. It would be very interesting to find out just what happened to the other original road surfaces. I can't remember the exact spots that I've noticed exposed bricks in the past, but they were very small sections on any account, like 6-8 bricks max. It would be cool to get some images of the brick surfaces you mentioned, since they may get repaved at any time. Altairisfartalk 17:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
- The ones I am thinking about are directly in front of the shipyards along a street that parallels the railroad tracks in front of the Bender Shipbuilding gates. And like you said, only a handful of bricks are exposed. I'll see a guy at church tonight that's with DOT. I'll see what he knows. -JodyB talk 21:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] List of RHPs in Alabama, table-ized
Hi -- Perhaps you could comment in this thread? In my view, the new version is good now and Sanfranman59 should be encouraged to move it out of his userspace to replace the current version. doncram (talk) 15:27, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
