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[edit] Watch out for double-redirects
You created a page, Lieutenant governor of rhode island, which was a redirect to Lieutenant governors of rhode island, which was a redirect to Lieutenant Governors of Rhode Island. Double-redirects don't work. You need to make sure each one points to the actual article. I fixed this one. Something to watch out for when you create redirects. HTH. -- Fan-1967 16:12, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] License tagging for Image:Dorothy Clarke Wilson.jpg
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[edit] John Dunjee
I deleted the category before I read the entire article. I think he would be considered an alleged Presidential child, at least for now. It is very interesting though and even more interesting if true. It deserves investigation. Tyler was quite the baby maker! Jjmillerhistorian 23:32, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Central Congregational Church
I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Central Congregational Church, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. MPS 15:05, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hello...
Great adds to the Bates College article, thanks! Lostvalley 03:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi - I see that you posted an example of a JD cert from Suffolk - my son just enrolled at Suffolk for the fall summester, and I wondered if you might be able to give us some pointers to life and acedemia at suffolk law school - contact me at m_a_p@hotmail.com, if you're able. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.166.171 (talk) 22:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bamford
Are you related to Suffolk in anyway? Feel free to email me. Yanksox 18:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- I figured that. I think I'm going to try to see Bamford and Carrol speak, it looks good. Yanksox 20:26, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Repost of Astrid Menks
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[edit] Providence, Rhode Island
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[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Suffolk Symbol Seal.gif)
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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Haymarket_Square.JPG
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[edit] Smile!
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Just some random wikilove. :) Cheers! -WarthogDemon 03:37, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Good start
I was doing some newpage patroling, and I wanted to tell you that you made a good start with Frank J. Williams. After all, everyone needs positive encouragement once in a while. Keep up the good work! —ScouterSig 06:09, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dot indeed.
Did you not see in Rabbit Island a link to Rabbit Island (Rhode Island)? So why did you create Rabbit Island.?? Similarly with Greene Island (Rhode Island)? We do not disambiguate with a dot. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 18:29, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kingscote (mansion)
I wanted to let you know that the above article has been tagged for speedy deletion due to likely copyright violation. I personally would rather not see it deleted, so if you can, go by the page and place a hangon tag and work to rid the article of this problem. Sincerely. Altairisfartalk 08:47, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] RfD nomination of Illie nelson
I have nominated for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Soxπed Ninety Three | tcdb 03:18, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Newport Historical Society and Museum of Newport
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[edit] Providence meetup
There is now a planning page to arrange a meetup in Providence. Please sign up if you are interested. --mikeu (talk) 12:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Template?
Your opinion, please? Nyttend (talk) 14:36, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] little ivies
I noticed you reverted the changes made on the little ivies entry. Unfortunately, you didn't give any rationale for why you did this. I assume you realize that "little ivies" have no actual connection to the ivy league, despite what a college guide book may claim. That's why all references to the ivy league were removed.
75.69.133.211 (talk) 12:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
The name "little ivies" is based purely on these schools perceived similarities to the Ivy League.Swampyank (talk) 18:29, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Union village milestone.JPG
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[edit] Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House
What a happy coincidence that you created the article the day before I got back from a recent trip to Rhode Island, right before I was going to upload the pictures I took in Newport in February. Funny how things work out here ...
I have expanded the article, brought it up to WP:NRHP standards a little bit, and now I'm going to list it for DYK (you'll get credit for creating it). Daniel Case (talk) 10:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Old Colony House
Thank you again for your work on this article (it took a while to decide what we should call it, but I'm satisfied with this name). I was able in my recent expansion to keep the picture; I have nominated it too for DYK, and included you in the crediting. Also good work starting the Munday and Isham articles too. Daniel Case (talk) 06:13, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Oldest buildings in the United States
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The Original Barnstar | |
| For the creation of Oldest buildings in the United States, which is a very good idea, I hereby award you this barnstar. Basketball110 My story/Tell me yours 02:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC) |
[edit] 5/4 DYK
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On 4 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bellevue Avenue Historic District, 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. |
--Bedford 20:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] List of Historical Societies
Would you mind if I removed your recent addition of Rhode Island HS from the Rhode Island section of List of Historical Societies? All state level societies are listed in a separate "State Societies" section thus adding it to the Rhode Island section is duplicative & would like to keep the article consistent. Thanks for your consideration. FieldMarine (talk) 03:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks...I used to be stationed in Newport & loved it! I went to all the mansions. FieldMarine (talk) 03:56, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] You're welcome
Belated acceptance of your thanks, now that Flying Horse Carousel finally has a picture, the last of the RI NHLs from my trip there two weeks ago. I can now move on to expanding some of the newer ones, hopefully earning you and me more DYKs. Daniel Case (talk) 05:44, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiCookie
[edit] "Light" vs. "Light Station"
Just a heads-up; a while ago on the Lighthouse WikiProject there was a heavy discussion about this; the consensus was that all lighthouses and light stations would be listed as "Light" and not "Light Station". --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 16:11, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] National Register of Historic Places articles
I noticed you've been doing a number of articles about properties on the National Register of Historic Places, and I'm impressed that you've created so many articles. You've obviously been doing a lot of work.
I thought I'd mention that I have a copy of the National Register database loaded on my Web server, and I have some query tools that might be useful. From this site, you can find an infobox generator that generates the {{Infobox nrhp}} code for any given property, including the degree/minute/second coordinates for most properties (where they're published, anyway). I also have listing tools for cities and counties. You're welcome to use them if you're interested. Also, you're welcome to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. Again, good work on the articles! --Elkman (Elkspeak) 04:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Richmond Paper Company Mill Complex
Hi,
I noticed in this article that you created, some of the content was "doubled up". I assume this was an error, so I have removed one of each infobox. However, if this was incorrect, please feel free to revert me. You can see what I did here.
If you're using a template, it might be worth making sure that it's working properly and not creating a whole bunch of articles with doubled up templates. Lankiveil (speak to me) 05:25, 11 May 2008 (UTC).
[edit] NRHP sites in Rhode Island
Just a reminder that, if you know the date of construction of a building, it can be added into the proper category under Cat:Architecture by year. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:56, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Hi
Hi, I noticed you joined WP:NRHP. I know that you have created many nice articles and know your way around already. Glad to see you finally joined! :)
That's a nice pic you just added to your John N. A. Griswold House article. I just added more material to the article; as you see i kinda specialize in adding sources. Perhaps you'll find the NHL nomination PDF document, now linked, helpful in further developing the article. I eventually get around to adding that stuff to articles about NHLs, for which such PDF documents are usually on-line. Let me know if you ever want quicker service... :) Anyhow, keep up the good work! doncram (talk) 01:59, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Uploading images
You have uploaded some really good photographs. I wanted to suggest that you consider uploading them to http://commons.wikimedia.org so that they can be used in all Wikipedias, including the English-language one. Once you've done so, you could add the pictures to the appropriate articles in each of the other languages without having to upload the image to each Wikipedia. --Eastmain (talk) 02:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] South Street Station
Thank you for creating South Street Station. Could you please add a sentence indicating what kind of power station it is, such as hydro-electric, coal, or natural gas? --Eastmain (talk) 02:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Portsmouth RI
Thanks for the historical additions! jmcdaid (talk) 11:33, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] SULS
I see you are a libertarian SULS alumnus. Did you ever have Professor Rounds? DickClarkMises (talk) 21:52, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- Good to hear about the class with Prof. Rounds--I have Trusts with him in the fall. I was never able to find enough people to sign on as members of the libertarian group, but I managed to avoid that problem by becoming the president of the Federalist Society chapter. Since FedSoc bills itself as "Conservative/Libertarian" I guess we'll just focus on the latter at Suffolk. Mostly I just wanted the ability to reserve rooms in which to hold speaker events, so this will work just fine. DickClarkMises (talk) 22:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Nice image!
I love your image of the plaque marking Edgar Allan Poe's birthplace in Boston... it is much better than my version. I was wondering, however, why it wasn't uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org)? Media uploaded there can be utilized on all Wiki-projects, including other languages. Oh, and, if you feel like it, it might be worth cropping just a little bit off the left of the image to help center the plaque (but, hey, that's just my opinion). Keep up the good work here! --Midnightdreary (talk) 23:10, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] NHLs in Maine
Hi, I noticed you created articles for all the remaining sites on List of NHLs in ME, which i was marching through slowly. I don't know if you zipped through this list, or whether you were working off another one of NRHPs, but i see there are stubs for all now.
What you did, seemingly based on the Elkman generator output for each one, plus perhaps some other quick research, is helpful and will accelerate my involvement with the Maine list. I wonder if you would care to help take them all a bit further, too? Each of the new ones could also be improved by:
- identify NRHP_type being "nhl" in the infobox
- use the corresponding NHL summary webpage to add a designated = date for each NHL date to the infobox (not provided by Elkman output, needed for NHLs)
- footnote that NHL mention with a proper footnote to the NHL summary
- edit text to mention NHL designation instead of, or in addition to, the NRHP mention, using another invocation of the NHL summary footnote.
- drop "Category:Registered Historic Places in Maine" and replace by "Category:National Historic Landmarks in Maine". Note, the NHL category is a "child" category to the RHP one, as all NHLs are RHPs.
For example, you can see what i just added to the Winslow Homer Studio article. By the way, I further added the NRHP text/photo document for that site, which is just a bit further involved. I could continue adding that for other sites, or if you are interested i would be glad to explain more about that. Cheers, doncram (talk) 15:15, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
- Let me re-emphasize, what you're doing is a help. I don't mean to criticize, i just wanted to inform you more about how NHL articles can differ from other NRHP articles. Oh, also, i meant also to convey that the NRHP_type for infoboxes about NHLs that are historic districts, should be nhld, not nhl, so if you encounter an infobox for an NHL with Nrhp_type = hd it should be changed to Nrhp_type = nhld. doncram (talk) 19:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
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- I found a way to automatically put the "nrhp_type=nhl" or "nrhp_type=nhld" fields in the infobox generator output if the property is a National Historic Landmark. There's a table in the database that indicates whether a structure is part of a National Historic Landmark survey, so I'm doing a query against that. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 19:32, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Brighton Center Historic District
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[edit] Question on Clark Cook House
You recently created the article Clark Cook House — indicating that it was in Newport, Rhode Island and is on the NRHP. However, when I search NRIS on Newport, RI, it does not appear. Can you direct me to the information via the NRIS link in the article? Thanks. — ERcheck (talk) 16:18, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- It looks like it's been removed from the National Register. I did a query by city and didn't find it, but when I queried by the reference number I found it. I had to recheck my copy of the database, where I found that it had the status "RN", meaning "removed from the National Register". The next question is, "why was it removed"? --Elkman (Elkspeak) 19:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Thank YOU!
Thank you for the creation of the article on Theatre-by-the-Sea. I've tried to create an article about it, but no no avail. Thanks so much!68.226.93.158 (talk) 23:31, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 1767 Milestones
Greetings. There seems to be some kind of mixup with regard to the 1767 Milestones page you created a few days ago. The coordinates given correspond to a location in Roxbury, not Cambridge. I have tentatively replaced "Cambridge" with "Boston" in the infobox. The page awaits further, appropriate attention on your part. Cheers, Hertz1888 (talk) 03:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image source problem with Image:St. Mary's Hospital Lewiston Maine.jpg
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[edit] Possible forking
Hi. This message is in reference to some of the articles on places on the List of Registered Historic Places in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. I realize what the goal is - to create articles on all of them. However, I wonder if we could do with fewer articles, given how much overlap there is in some of the entries. We have Revere Beach Reservation and Revere Beach Reservation Historic District, but also Revere Beach - would we suffer if we redirected the first two to the third, and added the requisite NRHP information there? Likewise with Anderson, Larz, Park Historic District and Larz Anderson Park and Mission Hill Triangle Historic District and Mission Hill, Boston, Massachusetts. In searching for a remedy, let's keep in mind that Back Bay Historic District redirects to Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, and Beacon Hill Historic District to Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts. Biruitorul Talk 21:28, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, no problem - I can see how that might happen; it's such a big project there are bound to be some glitches here and there. Thank you. Biruitorul Talk 23:29, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
