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Arlington County, Virginia

Hey Drum Guy, I wanted to let you know that I have nominated Arlington County, Virginia as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week. The article is in need of much help and with a little group effort, it could be brought to Featured Article status! I brought this to your attention as I have seen you have contributed to the article in the recent past. Please cast your vote with your signature at the US Collaboration of the Week page under Arlington County, Virginia. --Caponer 01:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Holy Mother

LOL, thanks. :) I try my hardest, and do what needs to be done. We all have done a hell of a lot of work in the last year or so, so I'm glad to be part of the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject. Thanks for the kind words. ;) Hurricanehink (talk) 11:43, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Please stop the metrification of US articles

Please do not use metric precedence on articles about US stuff where non-metric units of measure are normally used. I don't write articles about US topics in Swahili, and I don't denote road distances in metric. By converting US-centric articles to metric, you are enforcing your own POV on metric and are making the articles less useful for Americans.

US articles should have standard units of measure first and, where needed, metric in parenthesis.

If you want to see a good example of an international article where metric and standard units of measure are given precedence based on which country is being discussed, refer to speed limit.

Nova SS 03:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Nova, I second that. Like it or not U.S. Customary Units take precedence in U.S. centric articles. Also, the first units in any article should be spelled out, e.g. 6 miles (10 km).—MJCdetroit 15:18, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Nova, I'll third that motion. The nagging problem with the situation, that I couldn't bring to words, are now written. --Supercoop 17:07, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. I have gone and reverted several of his metrification attempts. I encourage you to check his contributions and see if you can find more damaged articles and "un-metricify" them. Nova SS 17:52, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I would hope that Drumguy would see that such edits are not wanted and just stop. For a global sense, yes the metric system should be added in there but not in manner in which he is adding them to U.S. specific articles. I would except such editing from a European but from a fellow American is surprising. I know Canadians that don't even like the metric system. Basically, if the article is about Paris, France— then Metric units (Eng), but if the article is about Paris, Texas— English units (Metric).Happy Editing!—MJCdetroit 20:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

You should see what he just left on my talk page. Somehow we are being "culturally imperialistic" (his words) if we use our own units of measure on articles about us. Go figure! He also shot himself in the foot by exposing clear POV motivations for his edits. And this guy wants to be an admin? Nova SS 20:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Moved from User:supercoop per my posting policy [1]:

I hardly consider the articles where I've added metric conversions "damaged." The US conversions are still in tact if not expanded on all articles I edit. It may be a moot-point to argue here, but the entire planet uses the metric system and it seems logical to me that those units (which the United States will ultimately convert to) take precedence at an international encyclopedia.. otherwise we're just being culturally imperialistic. Beyond that, the only thing you and the other editors who spoke to me have a problem with is the order in which the measurements are written.. which as far as any of us know (per source data), the decision is not backed by Wikipedia policy: the MOS does not specify which unit should go first beyond the unit a reliable source originally provided. To prevent Americans from feeling culture-raped I will use the format "customary (metric)" but by no means is it beneficial towards a standardized, useful encyclopedia for the other 6.2 billion people that live here on Earth.

Per WP:MOS - Dates & Numbers - Units of measurement I will spell out the first unit used and start using " " in the conversion as to not break lines.

This message is not personalized, it is being sent to each of the three editors who .. in rapid succession .. reprimanded me. drumguy8800 - speak 20:41, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I do thank you for your reversal in your position. As for me, I don't plan on hunting down your edits to reverse them—someone else will probably do that anyway in time. As for your reference to most of the world using the metric system—true. However, it should be noted that most (67%) of the native English speakers are Americans. Just based on that fact, more people who read Wikipedia English use the English system of measurements than metric. Now add in the Canadians and the British you do not use/like the metric system and that's a lot of people. But anyway... happy editing.—MJCdetroit 00:06, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I have no evidence, but it seems reasonable that the majority of the readers of the English Wikipedia are not native speakers. Ardric47 03:40, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Dallas urban area

I've added a reference from the US Census but they only have figures for 2000 so I changed the figure to that. The 2005 figure I originally placed is an estimate from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report but I figured a Census reference is better for trying to become a featured article. Polaron | Talk 03:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Amarillo

Thanks. It is not quite ready to be nominated to be a Feature Article. There are some issues that need to be straighten out such as the current look of the city flag which is currently "disputed." The reason I used the metric system as the primary measurement in that article is that the majority of the world uses it. However, I do agree with User:Novasource even if it isn't a policy (or part of the Manual Style Guide) to keep U.S.-centric articles have the U.S. customary as the primary measurement. In addition, if you look at the U.S.-centric featured articles, they put the emphasis of using the U.S. customary as the primary measurement. I probably flip/flop the measurements later in the Amarillo article when I have the time. --Who What Where Nguyen Why 04:45, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Redirects

I've noticed you're 'fixing' numerous redirects that really aren't broken. Please review this link to see why this isn't necessary. Thanks! --Rehcsif 20:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Dallas, Texas

I have moved all of the tables to templates so the page size will decrease in preparation of future WP:FAC. You know how they are about the size of the article—they don't like it too large. Anyway, the page size has been reduced from 68KB to 58KB. Feel free to revert if you disagree with my edits. —RJN 01:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Maine not Main

You are quite correct. Thanks for fixing that. I guess I didn't notice the typo since the link came up blue (albeit not the link I wanted!). BTW, are you interested in Wikipedia:Texan Collaboration of the Month? Best, Johntex\^talk 14:54, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Texan Collaboration of the Month

Johntex\^talk 19:14, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Template for U.S. Cities

I know that I've seen a set of guidelines, rules, and template outline when editing content for U.S. cities. Could you please direct me to the source or help section? I'm needing to prove that demographic information is based on the most recent U.S. Census. Many thanks!--CityGirl 21:29, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Main page proposal now on ang

Your proposal of the main page is now, with some small changes, used on Hēafodsīde in Englisc Wikipedia. Great work, I must say. And I hope you like our Englisc translated version. Cheers and have a nice day/night. :) Michał P. 18:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Texas Collaboration of the month - August 2006

Hello fellow Texan Collaboration of the Month editors,
We have made some good progress with Texas over the past month. However, I am not sure if we have improved the article enough yet to contemplate nominating it for FA (or at least GA). I propose that we spend one more month on it before choosing a new topic.
I further propose that we archive the existing list of future candidate articles. Some of the nominations are quite old. I think we should take fresh suggestions during August for a new article to collaborate on in September.
I look forward to your thoughts. Please put comments at Wikipedia_talk:Texan_Collaboration_of_the_Month#August_2006. Thanks! Johntex\^talk 00:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Fort Worth

Hi, I was just requesting some help on the Fort Worth article...it seems that the article needs much improvement, especially in the history section (on the talk page I've posted a comment about this). I liked your style of Dallas' history, giving a general overview on the main article and then separating it into different subarticles for each distinctive time period. I'm a native Dallasite, but I work to improve the entire North Texas area's articles. I don't know if you're an expert with this, but I could use all the help I could get. Thanks for your time. --Stallions2010 14:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll help out as much as I can. Just like you, I myself am quite dissapointed with the state of the Fort Worth article. Hopefully we can fix this problem. --Stallions2010 22:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Interstate images

I can't figure out how to edit Template:DallasMap and its subpages, so I'm leaving this to you: The images Image:Interstate 30.svg, Image:Interstate 35E.svg, and Image:Interstate 45.svg are being deleted and replaced with Image:I-30.svg, Image:I-35E.svg, and Image:I-45.svg. User:Angr 18:36, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Lake Cliff 1908.jpg

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More information, please

What mountains and what river/lake are shown in your Red Rock Falls image? Rmhermen 22:50, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

moving your pictures to the commons

...would be quite helpful for the rest of the worldwide wiki-addicted.... Since licensing is different in every namespace (especially in the german wikipedia), it would be quite nice if you could upload your photos to the commons. I am especially interested in the photos you shot in Dallas.

CU, Georg from Dresden, Germany

re: [[:Image:Dallas Area Rapid Transit M-Line.jpg}}

Generally speaking, because Wikipedia strives to be completely freely redistributable, images used on Wikipedia have to be free to be copied and used by third parties of any kind for any reason, without any requirement for attribution, for any purpose. This would include commercial use such as selling prints or t-shirts with the image or using on a for-profit web site; using the image on a site or other media that disparages the subject; and altering the image in any way. I know this is pretty strict, but there it is. More at WP:C.

An exception is made for fair use, if the image is used in an article that describes the subject of the image. However, images should be used for fair use only when (1) a free image is likely unobtainable (which doesn't apply here because we coud get a photograph from somebody) (2) it adds materially to the article and is not just decoration. There may be more, details at WP:FU. Anyway we are trying to eventually get away from using fair use images at all.

When the automatated program that sorts through images found this image, it wasn't being used at that moment in any article. Therefore it could not have been fair use (at that moment) because fair use exists only in the context of an article.

Hope this helps, holler if you have any questions. Cheers, Herostratus 17:34, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Main Street Dallas

See comment in discussion section of picture [[2]]. --ProdigySportsman 03:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

What do I do?

I'm a professional travel photographer. ;) No I'm kidding, but what a dream job that would be. I'm not sure it actually exists as a career really. I work in IT, and just happen to have a passion for both travelling and photography. If I can do both at the same time, then so much the better. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:46, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Culpeo

Please reconsider your vote at Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Culpeo. The picture is now being used to display Vibrissae which it does beautifully. -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 14:00, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: AWB

Done! Let me know if you need anything else. Flcelloguy (A note?) 16:53, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

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GA rv.

I reverted you on the GA page, because you can nominate articles which you've contributed to significantly, you just can't pass them. If you still want to remove it, then I'm sorry. Cheers, Mak (talk) 03:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

For peer review, follow the directions at WP:PR, which are basically to create the page Wikipedia:Peer review/Dallas, Texas/archive2, explaining what kind of feedback you're looking for, then add {{Wikipedia:Peer review/Dallas, Texas/archive2}} to the top of the peer review page, and add {{peerreview}} to the article's talk page. Mak (talk) 03:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Tallest buildings in Texas

I saw your post on Talk:Houston, Texasand I've added some buildings to your list. I'm curious, though, where you got the ranking of 12th tallest for the JPMorgan Chase Tower (Dallas). I could only find three buildings (Heritage Plaza (762 ft), 1100 Louisiana (756), and Centerpoint Energy Plaza (741)) between Bank of America Center (780) and JPMorgan Chase Tower (Dallas) (738). I also checked the following cities and couldn't find another building that would fit here:

• San Antonio (tallest is 622 ft)
• Dallas (confirmed what you had already written)
• Fort Worth (tallest is 567 ft)
• Austin (tallest is 515 ft)
• El Paso (tallest is only 296 ft)
• Lubbock (tallest is only 274 ft)
• Amarillo (tallest is only 374 ft)
• Midland (tallest is only 330 ft)

Maybe the building we're looking for is in a suburb. I would think Dallas's suburbs are the most likely candidates. Also, how long should this list be? 20? Or just 15? Let me know what you think. Thanks. Ufwuct 17:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)