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Millersville University

How do I get approval to add to the site where you just deleted my additions. I'm an employee. --Jasmine1368 (talk) 22:05, 15 October 2008 (UTC))

DYK for Waterford Covered Bridge

On 20 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Waterford Covered Bridge, 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.

Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! ^{(with the !) (talk)} 01:24, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Nice article! The structure of the article seems vaguely familiar somehow ;-) Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

What can I say? It was loosely based on Forksville :-) Niagara ^{Don't give up the ship} 02:24, 20 October 2008‎

I saw the front page DYK mention. I note it looks nice otherwise, but there is a display problem now, perhaps exacerbated by a bot's recent edit, that messes up the second infobox and the references. I'm sure you want to fix it. doncram (talk) 06:28, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

It appears someone fixed it for me. The bot plus some recent vandalism caused the display problems. Niagara ^{Don't give up the ship} 14:09, 20 October 2008‎

Did you know that Waterford Covered Bridge has a 1936 entry in the HAER, including four data pages, two nice PD US Government photos, and a PD great b&w drawing of the bridge? See here Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:59, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Glad to help - there are lots of interesting things to write about in the HAER - I want to write an article about a stone bridge over Plunketts Creek in Lycoming County that is on the HAER. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:50, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

(outdent) I will start the stone bridge article in the next few weeks - I think there is enough on it that it could eventually be FA, which would be surreal as it no longer exists (it was severely damaged in January 1996 by ice dams in a flood and was torn down). Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:08, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Seyfert

Thanks for the help on the Seyfert article! I see you're from Erie, so that is right up your alley. I think we need some more personal life details, maybe you can help me track some down? Also, fantastic work on the PA House district articles!--HoboJones (talk) 13:54, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the "talk" edits to my user page, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:40, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem. Niagara ^{Don't give up the ship} 00:10, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Yewcic

Thanks for fixing this one up, I guess I was in a rush.--HoboJones (talk) 15:54, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Sad news

Thanks for letting me know about Gudgeonville Covered Bridge - how sad. I hope it can be rebuilt. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:58, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

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HAER Photos

Yes, I have saved the first image as a JPEG but was trying to decide if I should rotate it slightly and crop, or just crop it. The photo of the light is a nice addition. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:24, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I rotated and cropped the first picture and it is in the Geobox now - thanks. Need to do the rest. Also hope to expand the bridge article a bit more and nominate for DYK. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:03, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, good luck with the DYK nom. I am not sure if the b&w photos are up to FP standards - maybe I am just being overly critical. Will have to try one at WP:PPR eventually. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

The bridge photos do have the historic thing going for them - no one else can take a picture of the bridge today (alas). I also know without a nomination, none of them will ever be FP, so it is worth a try. I knew about your Brig Niagara FP, but not the landing gear - congrats. Good night, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 05:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

New NRHP Date Template

Thanks for updating the Allegheny and Howard County NRHP lists with the new entries from Nov 28 and adding the new date template. I went ahead today and converted the overall Maryland list and remaining county lists to the new date template --- Ted--Pubdog (talk) 22:37, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Erie Land Light

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BorgQueen (talk) 08:36, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

State Street bridge

Great job cleaning up and expanding State Street Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania). Harrisburg is my hometown, so it's always exciting to see it pop up on WP! Best, —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 03:54, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Potter County map thanks

Thanks so much for solving the Potter County map problem! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:46, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		I don't know how you thought of it but I am glad you did. Dincher (talk) 02:48, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for State Street Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)

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BorgQueen (talk) 08:06, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

NRHP city list generator

As you requested a few days before, I've written a script that creates a list of NRHP properties in a city, similar to the county list format. It's at [1]. I tested it out for Minneapolis, MN at User:Elkman/sandbox, so if you want to look at the sample output, you'll find some there.

Sorry it took me a few days to get to this -- I've been busy with holiday stuff and all. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 17:21, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't hate those Phillies :-)

I was cruising the DYK's and came across yours. If I were you I would separate them into two hooks. Each article on its own is interesting enough for its own dyk. For the Phillies I was thinking "...that the Philadelphia Phililies was also the name of a football team?" --brew crewer (yada, yada) 05:55, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Brewcrewer's alternate 3 for the DKY is probably the most accurate. Thank you for the nomination.--Pennsylvania Penguin (talk) 15:24, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for pointing this out. I don't think the concern is the measuring. I think the concern is that when it goes to an arbitrary number, it would be harder to argue about other aspects. I'm not so much concerned with that part. That was left over wording from group discussion before crafting the wording. Ottava Rima (talk) 04:18, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to show that the inaccuracy of byte counting goes both ways. Niagara ^{Don't give up the ship} 04:27, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Philadelphia Phillies (NFL)

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DYK for National Football League (1902)

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Waldomore

Thanks for your help improving my recent article on "The Waldomore" I need to work on learning to use the infobox to improve my articles. Garkeith (talk) 06:31, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

List of National Historic Landmarks in Alabama

Thanks for the coding help! Altairisfar _talk 05:14, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my omissions

Thanks for your edits to add Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3 to the Lycoming County NRHP list (what a lot of red links to work on!) and for adding the relevant Wikiprojects to Talk:Candy Cane Lane. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 05:18, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

	<font=3> Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 06:15, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the lovely Christmas photo of Bicentennial Tower. I was planning to use this image for Christmas greetings but the lights did not show up in thumb size. Happy New Year! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 20:46, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Wilmington list

And thank you for cleaning it up. I copied the format from somewhere else: given that it had a reference to a Cleveland, Ohio list, can you guess where I copied it from? :-) Nyttend (talk) 18:30, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Spam in National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerset County, Pennsylvania

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Wyoming County map

I agree that it really isn't a good idea to have that map on the Wyoming County NRHP list, since other counties don't have them. Question, however: what about having them on all the county-specific lists? It seems like it would be useful in helping the reader (including me) who doesn't exactly know where _____ County is located in the state. Nyttend (talk) 02:37, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Legislative Routes

Great idea on using the AWB for this (far easier than me trying to find them all :-) but please be careful — see this edit that I just had to make. Nyttend (talk) 03:11, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Philadelphia County

This morning, I put Philadelphia into a large table, only to find that it was too large to fit onto the page. I split it alphabetically, making the original page just a directory of links to the split pages. However, I'm not sure (and others aren't either) that this is the best idea; could you comment in the discussion at WT:NRHP? Nyttend (talk) 17:56, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

List of NRHP in Schullkill (sp?) County

I was real impressed by the Map that follows from "Map of all coordinates" How did you do that? Smallbones (talk) 03:48, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

I see, it is magic! My interest is mainly due to the article Brandywine Creek (Christina River), and the template seemed to work right out of the box. Amazing. Any tweaks, etc. on that article appreciated. BTW, I have lived within 10 miles of the Skoo-kill River and obviously know how to pronounce it, it's the spelling Schuylkill River that is impossible.

Fabulous. FWIW, there are a couple of colons that are out of place! I should change all the coordinates to decimal, but first should ask why do people use the dms format in the first place; I'd hate to have to change them all back! Thanks :) Smallbones (talk) 18:24, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Reverts on the two Niagara articles

I understood why you reverted the first time at USS Niagara (1813). Indeed, I walked into the dispute about replicas etc., and was unaware at the time. I was not clear at the time as to whether there was (or is) in wiki-land one ship or two -- and that controversy endures. Why you chose to do this the second time in US Brig Niagara (museum ship)‎ is not so clear. Indeed, the pictures of the ship in transit seem to fit in with the rest of the article, and this time it was in the right article. A picture can be 'worth a thousand words.' Think about it. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 20:48, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, and also for the help with the Commons link. I think that is a good addition to the article.

However, I respectfully differ with you in that I thought the picture at http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipbradley/3022241884/ by Skip Bradley of the US Brig Niagara (museum ship)‎ and the Toledo Harbor Light was a good one. I liked its being in sepia (although there were color photos also on that page), and I also thought that the juxtaposition of the lighthouse (and its a really unusual light, see the Wobser/Boatnerd.com article for a description on that) did a really good job of giving the scale of the Brig. Not to mention that the locale helps suggest how this vessel (we all think its a vessel) wanders about.

I think that the link could be put in as a line reference into the article.

Rather than getting into an edit war (I hate edit wars, they are not the way wikipedia should work) I thought that maybe we could collaborate and come up with something short of its being a listed external link, but which might give our readers a way to find it (if they want). Let me know what you think. Thanks. Best regards and cheers. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 21:59, 13 January 2009 (UTC) Stan

Thanks for the favorable feedback on Toledo Harbor Light. Given the obscure stuff I work on, there isn't much of that. Yes, I intend to eventually get on to expanding the article. My little side trip there was just a case of connections, and when I stumbled on it, I decided that it was woefully inadequate. It still it, although now most of the sources are there, so that somebody else could pick it up. Meanwhile, I've been working on the Michigan lighthouse articles, and I still have a ton of them to go -- and that is my first goal. In fact there are some articles that are outright missing, and a number that I have not yet brought up to my standards -- if we don't give them the information, we can at least point them in the right direction to find it somewhere else.

To sum up my question about US Brig Niagara (museum ship)‎. I guess you answer is that you don't think it adds to the article, and you want it left out? Your decision will resolve the matter, as far as I'm concerned. Best regards. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 22:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC) Stan

Teedyuscung

Thanks for fixing the Teedyuscung file. Very helpful. Dincher (talk) 00:24, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I would bet that it was published before 1923, well before 1923. I am just not up to speed on all the licensing stuff. I'll go ahead and fix it. Dincher (talk) 00:35, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Please take a look at the book and let me know if you think it's worth buying. Also feel free to edit and add to the article. HAve a good night. Dincher (talk) 04:06, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much, I think the image was made for the book, it is the cover image on the reprints. If you could see if they list a source for the image, that would be great but my fear is that the image was made for the book in 1949. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:22, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I looked at the local libraries and the only one with a copy is at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Which is a little too far away, but I could get a picture of Pembroke while there. I will have to think about it. Thanks for getting a look at it. Dincher (talk) 20:26, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Have you tried Interlibrary loan? Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:26, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I meant to leave that on Dincher's page. Here I meant to say thanks for checking the book for the image. There is also a mural of the treaty of Easton in the Northampton County Courthouse that depicts him too - I was hoping it was WPA work (free license) but it is from the 1960s. There is a photo of the mural and old Teedy at picture number 19 here. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:33, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
- The newspaper photo caption says it was painted by Robert C. Burns in 1969. A quick Google search did not find any active mural artists of that name - he may be retired or even dead. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 22:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the help with the pic on this article and the congrats. I haven't decided whether or not to buy the book. All the libraries are just too far. Dincher (talk) 04:03, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Wyoming

I've just put Wyoming into a format similar to how you had Pennsylvania: a separate list for each county and a directory-style for the state itself. Can you check please? Nyttend (talk) 00:02, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the work! I know that you've placed clickable maps for other states, which I appreciate; consequently, I would have done it myself, except I really haven't a clue how to do it. I had a little trouble with those NHL districts; if you were to check the history of all the county lists, you'd see that Teton County wasn't the only one where I put in the wrong code. Nyttend (talk) 01:20, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

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DYK for City of Erie (sidewheeler), Tashmoo (sidewheeler)

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Dravecky (talk) 20:10, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Nice work! Dincher (talk) 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

(ec) Congrats! I have to admit when I saw where the ships were racing to, I was pretty sure who the author was. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 22:12, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

I wanted to personally thank you for your tweaks to the new Stephen Etnier page. You were very kind to give it your attention, and I appreciate your time and contribution. Best to you... Etnier (talk) 01:14, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Alaska maps

Thanks for offering! As I noted, there are two new boroughs, Skagway and Wrangell. Skagway is easy: on this map, it's the small reddish bit that's farther north than any other red. It would be best to have two maps: one with Skagway only, and one with everything else. If you named these in the format that the other borough and census area maps have been named, they would be Map of Alaska highlighting Skagway City and Borough.svg and Map of Alaska highlighting Hoonah-Angoon Census Area.svg. While you're at it, could you make one that won't be in immediate use? Yakutat (map) was only split a few years ago, before which point it was the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area; could you merge the current Map of Alaska highlighting Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area.svg with the Yakutat map, and call it Map of Alaska highlighting Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area.svg? Please don't upload new editions of any maps, since they're all good to show the boundaries as they once were.

Wrangell will be rather more difficult, as it's apparently quite tiny. Beginning with File:Map of Alaska highlighting Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area.svg, you can cut out the portions included in this map produced by Wrangell Borough — it's a few islands and a little bit of the mainland in the southwestern part of the red-highlighted area on the census area map. If this works fine, could you leave the old map (like with S-H-A) online, but also produce one with just Wrangell and one with the rest: to be named File:Map of Alaska highlighting Wrangell City and Borough.svg and File:Map of Alaska highlighting Petersburg Census Area.svg respectively.

Hope this isn't too confusing; but thanks much for agreeing to do what you can! Nyttend (talk) 05:44, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Pennsylvania legisaltive districts

I see that you have done the majority of the legwork on the pages for the Pennsylvania House districts, and I was wondering where you got your historical data? I am pushing to add many more legislator's bios. I have finished adding all of 2006's new representatives, and now I'm trying to finish bios for all the members who retired/were defeated that year. --Protocop (talk) 22:38, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Stephen Etnier

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Dravecky (talk) 22:41, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Stephen Etnier- Thanks!!!

Hey: Stephen Etnier made it to DYK today!!!

Many thanks for your efforts and assistance!

John Etnier Etnier (talk) 02:13, 27 January 2009 (UTC)