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- Thank you! I will definitely be reading those articles JackFromReedsburg (talk) 14:29, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Park Street HD and about photos and NRHP docs and photos references
Hi there! I am not active now but created/developed a lot of National Register of Historic Places articles in the past, and I just noticed your new article Park Street Historic District in my notifications feed, because it linked to some article or another that I created long ago. Thank you for developing it, it looks great! I dunno if you know about or have joined WikiProject NRHP but you might consider that, and either way you can ask questions or otherwise post freely at its Talk page wt:NRHP. About the photo you've included of a plaque/map though, I hope you might be able to lessen its prominence or remove it, in favor of photos you might get somehow of the actual historic artifacts (i.e. buildings and other historically contributing elements) in the district. If you can find or upload more photos to Commons, you should link them all by creating a category there for the district, and including that category upon all of them. About historic districts especially, I think it is great to have a lot of photos in Commons, even more than can be used in the article, and the Commons category itself can be linked from an external links section of the article (e.g. using template {{Commons category-inline}}. In general editors in this kind of topic area have decided we want to show the actual historic things, while it is definitely true that many traveling persons tend to take pictures of the signs/plaques/maps. I don't think it is an issue here, but sometimes such pics can even have copyright issues and might not be properly useable. Anyhow, thanks for creating the article, and I do think the sign helps if it is the only photo available, and keep up your good work! Cheers, --Doncram (talk) 19:20, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
Also consider being in touch with WikiProject Wisconsin, and by the way a couple editors of historic site articles in Wisconsin include User:Jeff the quiet and User:Packerfansam.
Also FYI there is a sort of standard format which works for many references to NRHP nomination documents and their accompanying photos. See wp:NRHPHELP and specifically wp:NRHPHELPWI about that and other resources available.
The format needs to be expanded from basic format: <ref name="nrhpdoc">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|author= |date= |accessdate=}} With {{NRHP url|id=|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures}}</ref>
The source about the Edward M. Hackett House that your article links to is actually not a normal NRHP Inventory/Nomination, but rather a form within a "Multiple Resources Area" collection, and I don't see an author or preparation date to put in. But the following is on track:
<ref name="nrhpdoc-Hackett">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=84000644}}|title=Multiple Resources of Reedsburg: Inventory for Nominated Properties: Edward M. Hackett House |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|author= |date= |accessdate=October 6, 2020}} With {{NRHP url|id=96000812|photos=y|title=accompanying three photos from 1984}}</ref>
which, after further hard-coding to get around some glitch in linking to the photos which i don't at the moment understand, becomes
<ref name="nrhpdoc-Hackett">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=84000644}}|title=Multiple Resources of Reedsburg: Inventory for Nominated Properties: Edward M. Hackett House |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|author= |date= |accessdate=October 6, 2020}} With [https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/88bded53-15ec-4d8d-985e-c80d24b3e3a5/ accompanying three photos from 1984].</ref>
and yields revised footnote: [1]
I hope you will copy-paste that into your historic district article and into the article about the Hackett house. I think it really helps readers to have links to the available photos within a reference, especially!
References
- ^ "Multiple Resources of Reedsburg: Inventory for Nominated Properties: Edward M. Hackett House". National Park Service. Retrieved October 6, 2020. With accompanying three photos from 1984.
Hope this helps. --Doncram (talk) 19:43, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you! I'll definitely be taking photographs of the area, as I live close by. JackFromReedsburg (talk) 20:51, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
- Great! By the way, unless there are literally hundreds of contributing properties in a historic district, I eventually came to prefer taking a photo or two of every single contributing building, contributing object, etc. All can be uploaded into Commons. Some advantages include: provide an "inventory" showing condition of all at one time; if/when one or more get demolished or burned in a fire or whatever, we still have our documentation. But definitely want to get pics of the most significant resources, and you can display many pics in a "gallery" in the article or as pics in a column of a table covering each resource on a row.
- Another resource is wp:NRHPMOS (MOS = "Manual of Style"), which has a section about creating good historic district articles.
- I see you did add the footnote composed above to the Park Street Historic District article. Of course you could do similarly for the reference you have about the Abner L. Harris House too, and to the separate articles about those individual properties. But this is an all-volunteer project, and of course you can and should do what you like to do, specializing in whatever you like and leaving other stuff for future editors; you don't have to mind my suggestions or anyone else's!
- I'm glad you're on board. Cheers, --Doncram (talk) 19:04, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
DYK nomination of International Harvester Travelette
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You may be interested in putting User:JackFromReedsburg/WISCHWY in Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Wisconsin#Goals so that others are explicitly welcome to edit and update the list. Also, Rustic Road (Wisconsin) would be properly assessed as a list, not as an article like Pure Michigan Byway. Imzadi 1979 → 00:33, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
DYK for International Harvester Travelette
On 2 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article International Harvester Travelette, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the International Harvester Travelette (example pictured) was the first six-passenger, four-door, crew-cab pickup truck? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/International Harvester Travelette. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, International Harvester Travelette), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Reminder for transclusion
Hey there! Here's a fancy link WP:TRANS, to remind you about transclusion when you think you need it again. JackFromReedsburg (talk | contribs) 12:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Wis 145
I just became an editor and I love the Wisconsin Highway system. I noticed that they expanded Wis 145 to end at Wis 175 instead of I-41 and no one changed it on Wikipedia. I tried editing the page and was successful up until editing the major junction chart. Since you are good with Wisconsin roads I thought you could help edit the Wis 145 and wis 175 pages. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wisconsin Map Man (talk • contribs) 18:04, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Wisconsin Map Man: Welcome to Wikipedia! I fixed the table on the Wisconsin Highway 145 article. Make sure to sign your posts by typing 4 tildes ~~~~. Feel free to ask me if you have anymore questions or comments. I hope to see you around! JackFromReedsburg (talk | contribs) 18:37, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- Additionally, you may want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Wisconsin and WikiProject Wisconsin Highways. These are large projects dedicated to Wisconsin, and its highway system. You can sign up on there and ask questions on the project's talk page if you wish. Again, welcome! JackFromReedsburg (talk | contribs) 18:41, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Greetings
Hi-Many thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia especially WikiProject Wisconsin. Thank You-RFD (talk) 12:53, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
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