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[edit] BP Pedestrian Bridge
I saw your talk page comment. Could you tell me what screen resolution you are viewing from, whether you are using full screen and what sections are squeezed.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 08:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- What resolution are you viewing from and are you using full screen?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- What operating system are you using?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 20:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Hi
HI Julian, knock knock. Can you let the bald guy in. I'm refraining from joining in at the village pump but can I just say that the idea of the bot creating a few articles automatically is so many editors such as myself can no longer spend all our time creating articles on geo stubs and trying to address the huge bias on here, but can focus on quality, on building up stubs to start class articles. I dedicate a lot of time to wikipedia and creating new articles but if I could soley spend my editing time on here writing the articles that exist, things would be looking a lot better. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 17:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi, give my head a polish on the way in lol. Well perhaps the millions of articles thing was overly ambitious. It would take over a year to create that many and to expand each and every one of them would be a difficult task indeed, time which you or I haven't got. What we can do however it do several thousand at a time and get the wikirpojects involved so we can aim to get a team working at expanding a sensible number of articles of the most notable articles e.g towns with a poulation over 1000 that could quite feasibly be expanded and not remain permastubs. Ideally I;d love to have full and detailed articles on everywhere, but the huge problem is access to knowledge. Realistically if we could get many onto to here like this, it would give us a firm basis to build upon sensibly. I think the new proposal has a lot of positice points, I agree bots are stupid, even Mr Fritz. the bot programmer is the first to say this. But if it is used in the right way and coordinated and regulated closely it can be a very powerful and efficent tool in setting up a foundation to build upon as of course we write the articles!!. I have spent many weeks laone trying to adding infoboxes and refs to the geo articles which already exist by country and the biggest problem by far is lack of consistency and general shoddiness of starting them. Some editors don't get me wrong cna start articles correctly and get things off to a good start but the majority are not done in a manner expected of wikipedia and it takes weeks to sort out the mess. But if we have a bank of articles under the whim of wikiprojects and along with the editors like myself who work on geo articles we can try to build the best we can which help people in the most efficient and consistent way we can. Whatever is thought of me, I would rather not create 2 million perma stubs either and am here to build an encyclopedia of the highest quality and depth. It should be done in stages but we need to start from somewhere. Best regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 18:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Strapping Young Lad
Hi! Would you take another look at Strapping Young Lad, and its FAC page? I have addressed many of your (and other) comments. Thank you very much. Gocsa (talk) 19:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Timeline of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season
Nice start. Bearian (talk) 19:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: GA review
I intended on placing the 'On hold' icon instead of the review one; I copy and pasted what was in the instructions and thought it would be the On Hold icon. I noticed a few minor prose issues, but nothing that I thought should prevent it from GA. If the article were to go through FAC, however, then I would certainly bring those up; but generally, the article looks a lot better than many current GAs so I figure I would pass it. Gary King (talk) 20:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] I think I found what you were looking for
I think I found 2 free images of NY21 here - [1]. Hope this works for you.
Cheers, JaakobouChalk Talk 16:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks!
- Thanks for the welcome. I was born and mostly raised in the area, Rockland County and I love it. Happy to help improve its coverage. I've done some work on articles in its scope, ie. Hudson River Museum before I knew of the project and plan to continue. Have a nice day! TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 17:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 6/6 DYK
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--Bedford Pray 22:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. :) Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 22:53, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Some recent stuff
- Thank you for creating the Hudson Valley portal. I loved the first revision: an article I created as a selected article, with a picture I took; then a picture I took as selected picture, and another article I created as featured attraction. The current one is no less flattering to my ego, either.
- I reverted your recent debolding of the title words in U.S. Route 9 in New York because I felt that's within the permitted limits for such formatting within the MoS. Leading with the disambiguated-by-state title, as I've seen too many other USRD articles do, produces some very clunky phrasing, and dogmatically refusing to link the words results, again, in some very awkward phrasing which doesn't make sense on hard copy. So I did it that way even before the article made GA, which gives us the chance to put an interesting fact in the very first sentence.
- I was amused by your complaint when removing the Downing Park picture from New York State Route 32 that there were too many pictures from that stretch of the road. While removing it probably did the article a favor (I assume you have no complaint with the use of the same image in U.S. Route 9W? That view is almost right off Robinson Avenue, the duplexed route at that point, and I like showing a nice face of Newburgh given that 32 otherwise runs through some grungy neighborhoods of the city), it was south-heavy with pictures because that's near where I live. Oh well. I think the two I added to it recently from the Catskills and Cohoes at least partly balance that out (and certainly help the ongoing FAC), though ultimately the article should have at least one from the area north of the Capital District, preferably the US 4 duplex along the river.
It is sort of funny that, given the many built-up areas 32 runs through, I/we've chosen to depict it in mainly in rural areas. Not that they're not beautiful.
- Speaking of FACs, I saw that Amadewit felt we could have better pictures for New York State Route 28. I should at least get up to Phoenicia this summer and take a pic of some of the Catskill vistas up there (the view coming to Balsam Mountain, for one, which I may have an old print or two of). There are other things you could find on Flickr, like downtown Oneonta. Or the Adirondack sections. And there's a whole travel guidebook to Route 28 that could be an excellent source, if it isn't already.
- If you're still looking around for an article I could assign you to do, I have one in mind (the picture already exists, so that's not a problem). Daniel Case (talk) 21:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for responding, and I'm sorry it has taken me so long to do so myself. It's been horrible in this heat lately.
I don't know of any rapid-fire way to assess unassessed articles other than going through them. Back in spring 2007, I did maybe a thousand (yes, a thousand) for WP:FASHION all by myself. I would certainly be willing to help you with a few, but do remember I'd have to recuse myself from any article I had created or substantially edited.
Two more things I meant to add to that bulleted list:
- One of my recent photos for the NY 32 article displaced that one you took from a car headed to the 32/208/299 junction in downtown New Paltz. While that filled some space and made the article more readable, it was sort of unnecessary because we already had a picture of that section of New Paltz in the appropriate section of the article, and it wasn't even next to that section. But also, I'd like to discourage you in the future from taking road pictures from inside a car. You get the tint from the windshield glass (easily correctable, I grant) any splotches on the windshield (not as easily correctable) and not as good an overall picture. From the pics you took in New York State Route 292, I know you can get out of a car when necessary to take a picture, and I wish more people in the roads projects would be willing to park the vehicle and get out. I have only taken one picture that I can recall from inside a car. It's worth it, really. Not lecturing you, just making a suggestion I wish more USRD editors would follow.
- Also this summer, I am thinking of taking some pictures at spots I've already identified so we can have a good Interstate 84 in New York article. We could use this in the HV project too, as it's really the only interstate route that's exclusive to the region. Daniel Case (talk) 17:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #17
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[edit] Adminship
Hey. I was wondering if you've had thoughts about becoming an administrator. I'd gladly nominate you at WP:RFA if you're interested. Granted, I don't know whether or not you have a use for the tools, that's what it would probably come down to. Let me know. Wizardman 20:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- Get in line :p. He had an RFA really recently. Malinaccier (talk) 20:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- Darn three-month rule. :P Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 20:34, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- Heh, well, I'll check back in a few months then. If you do want adminship, start participating more in areas you wish to use the tools on. Wizardman 20:26, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] My Rfa
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[edit] WP:FPOC for Portal:Weather
What is your opinion on the overlap of Portal:Weather and Portal:Tropical cyclones? My thoughts were that we would not have selected content on Tropical cyclone topics at the weather portal to avoid redundancy, but what's your opinion, as one from WP:TROP?-RunningOnBrains 15:14, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Thank You
Thank You for the comment on my RFA. I admit that the RFPP report was a little stupid on my side, and I will do my best to make sure I don't do that in the future. Thanks again for the comment. :) <3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 21:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Trump Chicago FAC
I have reduced the construction photos from 25 to 11. Could you please reassess your objection.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:19, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WBFLN
Hi - Regarding this edit, the attribution to the Wikiproject is from Wikipedia:Featured lists promoted in 2006, per the nomination log at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/April 2006. The bot will undo your edit unless you also edit Wikipedia:Featured lists promoted in 2006. I'm not sure I care very much, but is there some reason you think the Wikiproject should not be credited? -- Rick Block (talk) 20:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: 1999 NIO season
Okay. I put the infobox parameters inside a hidden comment.Potapych (talk) 02:11, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- I think it may take someone with admin privileges to move the original page. If you need to write a quick lede, this page [3] might help a little bit.Potapych (talk) 02:18, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] The featured list contest
Thanks for entering the contest. You are now able to select the topic that you would like to work on. While it is a good idea to know which specific list you will work on before you select a topic, you do not have to submit your list until Thursday. Once you have a topic and a list, you can start work. However, you will not be able to submit an FLC until Sunday at 00:00 (GMT). Good luck and have fun! -- Scorpion0422 18:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Reviews
Would you mind reviewing three more FLC's? Thanks for the help, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 23:11, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- I've finished your comments, and/or replied here. Thanks, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 23:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
