Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 22:57, 6 October 2006

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Dralwik, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The five pillars of Misplaced Pages
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Misplaced Pages:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  --Lst27 21:57, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

David Spangler Kaufman

The page on David Spangler Kaufman is still very similar to the Texas Handbook and can be considered a copyright violation. Can you please make the necessary changes so it does not read like an abridged version of that article. Danny 03:09, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• • The changes have been made. Dralwik

County name etymology formatting

Hi, I've noticed that you altered the list formatting I did to most of the U.S. county name etymology articles (Colorado and Texas, to name a couple). When the bullet-point wikicode is formatted like this:

* List item 1
* List item 2
* List item 3

the result is a single unordered list. However, when there are spaces between the bullets in the wikicode, like this:

* List item 1
* List item 2
* List item 3

the result is a separate unordered list for every single bullet; "List item 1" exists in a list of one item, "List item 2" exists in a second list of one item, and so on. Presumably, the effect you are after in doing this is to increase the amount of spacing between list items, but that is a matter best left to the CSS defining the sitewide presentation (and, if you so desire, your own personal stylesheet which can be customized by editing User:Dralwik/monobook.css - see m:Skins for further information). I will most likely switch the formatting on these back, unless there is a specific reason you prefer these articles to be formatted as multiple lists, rather than a single list. Thanks! -- Wapcaplet 21:13, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Another Etymologist

Salutations, Dralwik!
I came across your article on the Texas county etymologies a few weeks ago when I created the article on John H. Reagan and the past fortnight have been working on a companion to yours, List of Ohio county name etymologies. Any thoughts on it? I see you were born in Ottumwa, Iowa. I knew two things about Ottumwa. One, that Radar O'Reilly from M*A*S*H was from Ottumwa, and two, Richard Nixon was stationed there for a time in World War II. Nixon was in the Navy, so it makes perfect sense for him to be in Iowa, n'est pas? Now I know a third thing about Ottumwa, Iowa. Keep up the good work re Texas. I had only 88 counties to do and you've got 254. Have you been tackling Iowa's 99 as well? Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 18:00, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

Re:Another Etymologist

About me taking on the Texas 254, the greatest number of counties in one state, now I'm taking on number TWO! Georgia's 159, List of Georgia county name etymologies. Also Iowa's 99 and Kentucky's 120. Dralwik 22:54, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• • Oh, by the way, thanks for the Ottumwa, Iowa info. I actually was a resident of nearby Fairfield, but I was born in the hospital in Ottumwa. Nice French:-)!

Sincerly, Dralwik.

• Salve, Dralwik!
  If you were a slacker, you'd do Delaware or Hawaii.  ;) Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 14:48, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Texas etymology lists

May I suggest that on List of Texas county name etymologies and List of Texas county seat name etymologies (and any others) you remove the state name in the county/seat article link, and the repetition of the county/seat name at the beginning of each etymology?

For example:

• Anderson County, Texas: Anderson is named for Kenneth Lewis Anderson, the last vice president of the Republic of Texas.

would become:

• Anderson County is named for Kenneth Lewis Anderson, the last vice president of the Republic of Texas.

If you agree with this format, I can help you change the entries. - dcljr 02:06, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• • I prefer the current method. Thanks. Dralwik 20:34, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Most common county names

See Talk:List of the most common U.S. county names when you have a minute... jengod 23:15, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Remaining states

Okay, but you're making me break my "no red-state edits" rule. :) Lucky for you my grandma's from Indiana so I have a soft spot for that state. :) jengod 00:12, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

List of Indiana county name etymologies: DONE! :) Enjoy. jengod 22:22, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

Okay, okay. :) Darn red states always seem to get their way. ;) Anyway, it'll be at User:Jengod/List of North Dakota county name etymologies until it's ready. Best (and Merry Christmas!) jengod 05:45, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)

ND is done in case you didn't see. Going to take on Tennessee now. My rationalization this time is that my uncle and cousins live there. :) jengod 19:01, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

New Hampshire

Just wanted to let you know there was a recent kerfluffle over List of New Hampshire county name etymologies. A WikiProject NH representative wants to roll it into New Hamsphire counties and redirect the page which I felt would ruin the rhythm of the state-by-state series. Anyway, things have a quieted down, I just wanted to let you know. Best. jengod 20:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

PedanticallySpeaking

Salve, Dralwik!
I nominated myself for adminship at Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2 and would appreciate your vote. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:44, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

• Salve, Dralwik!
  I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:26, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Misplaced Pages's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to ] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to ] all my contributions to any ], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Three suggestions

1. add comments to your revisions, so it's easier for others to know what you are doing 2. rather than making lots of small consecutive edits, use the preview button before saving one final edit. 3. when adding factual information to an article, add the source of the information to the reference list. Everyone's guilty of not doing this, not least me, but it's very helpful to be able to see where stuff is coming from, rather than going off on a hunt to validate it from other sources.

I'm leaving these comments because I've noticed you're making frequent alterations to Amazon, without comments as to what you're doing, and changing the factual information without saying where your facts are coming from.

Thanks - Worldtraveller 19:28, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello. Please provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Hyacinth 23:53, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

--216.12.204.246 01:45, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

My IP edits

Hi Dralwik, User:69.66.74.11 recently tagged several of your subpages for speedy deletion. I'm guessing that you just forgot to sign in, but I wanted to make sure before deleting the pages. -- Scott e 05:05, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for reverting some IP edits

Hi Kelly, I noticed you reverted some IP edits on my userpage a few days ago. I just wanted to let you know, the friend's computer I was using wouldn't let me log on. But thanks for the reverts, any way, in most situations it's a world of help. :-) And, since you're a suburban Chicagoan, you might like A large project on Chicago I'm doing. Happy edits, Dralwik 12:16, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC).

In general I'm suspicious of IP edits of user pages. I don't revert all such edits, only those that look suspicious, and I guess those edits looked sufficiently suspicious to me, although in retrospect I can't imagine why. We've had a lot of trouble with random user page vandalism lately. Anyway, sorry for the trouble. Kelly Martin 14:16, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Some more IP edits

Recently, an anonymous user, 69.66.35.161 (talk • contribs), tagged a few of your user sub-pages for speedy deletion. For security reasons, I reverted those edits. If that was really you, please make sure you are logged in -- of course, a few have been having problems logging in and out since the software upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5 yesterday. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 30 June 2005 03:15 (UTC)

User's main page edits

Hey. On Talk:Main Page yesterday, you said:

All the other years are linked, but 2003 isn't. Hmmmm...

I don't get what you mean by that. Are you referring to content in Vanilla Ninja? Hedley 2 July 2005 14:36 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Templates for Deletion

It's a shame that TfD is dominated by a handful of people with a grudge against large, useful navigational templates, and want to see them all replaced by smaller, incomplete, less useful ones. And for some of the more fanatical members, even that's not enough; they want to remove all navigational templates and force everyone to only use Categories to find related articles! Maybe lovers of big templates should mobilise ourselves and make a permanent presence on TfD to argue against deleting them? Otherwise, this is just the thin end of the wedge! Miss Pippa 11:21, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chicago

You're welcome. Please tidy up any double redirects... JFW | T@lk 00:04, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I can't seem to find any... Perhaps we need a bot to find them, as the wiki only displays the first 500 links to Chicago, Illinois. JFW | T@lk 00:14, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Cities

Infinity seems about right. Anything else is POV and unnecessary. We can already link to the city name by itself if it's the most major city of that name, through the magic of redirects. --SPUI (talk) 01:33, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Chicago skyline pic

-Hi, I agree that the Skyline pic #3 should be on there, but I noticed that you put your vote in for #1. If you switch yours we'll have a clear majority for it. #3 makes Chicago look great, while #1 looks smoggy and doesn't even show the whole skyline. Its up to you. --Jleon 19:48, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

An Invitation from WikiProject Chicago

Hi. As you seem to be interested in Chicago, I just wanted to let you know about WikiProject Chicago. Our goal is to improve the quality of the Chicago and Chicago related articles. In doing so, we hope Chicago will become a featured article. To read more or join us in our efforts, please see the WikiProject Chicago page. Thanks!

You seem to be a very experienced member of Misplaced Pages and we would really appreciate your help with the project. We are trying to bring Chicago up to featued article status and would very much like the help of a member who both knows the city of Chicago and who has a little experience. Please consider joining. Thanks, --Gpyoung  04:58, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Chicago Picture Vote

Hi, I wanted to talk to you about your change of the ending date of the Chicago main page picture vote. I noticed that you changed the ending date to August 13th, this is much too long in my opinion, especially since I plan to nominate the article for Featured Article status ASAP and the lead picture is the last great hurdle. I understand your desire to make the voting period long enough for everyone to voice their opinions, but I feel that this is much too long. Please contact me if you object to this change as I would very much value your opinion. Thanks, --Gpyoung  01:54, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

My vote on the Chicago FAC

Hi, Could you elaberate on your comment about the Chicago lead section. I understand and agree with what you said about taking out some of the numbers, especially the area, but what kinds of things would you like to see added? I would like to keep some mention of the city's population in there becuase Chicago being large has a lot to do with its identity, it that ok with you? Please Advise. --Gpyoung  17:18, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Cleveland Historical Population

Hi Drew, you just added some interesting population statistics to the Cleveland, Ohio page. Could you please add their source, as well? (If you have already done so, and I missed it, I apologize.) Mamawrites 19:47, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Benazir Bhutto cleanup

Are you interested in joining the discussion of cleaning up Benazir Bhutto? Talk:Benazir Bhutto--Raju1 03:16, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

TerraServer-USA links

Hi. TerraServer-USA contains a link to a subpage in your userspace. Userspace links from the main space aren't a good idea, as they break mirrors (who often, and quite rightly, only show the main article namespace). Can you figure out what a sensible solution for this problem is - perhaps to remove the link or move the linked material into the main article space? Thanks for your help. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 03:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Come and vote your mind

Dear Christian friend,

I saw you on the list of Christian Wikipedians and wanted to let you know about something. The other day, someone nominated 12 Christian biography entries for deletion! They include a Christian university list of people (not unlike 68 other lists like it), presidents of universities, and authors of many books.

Since that time, people have been voting. Please take this message as a call to vote; not a call to vote a certain way. I respect you and your ability to come, read the entry, and make a wise decision. In other words, I’m not vote stacking or campaigning; simply letting you know something that you’d probably like to know.

By the way, my friend recently started an organization called Wiki4Christ. If you’d like to join a network of Christians with a purpose on Misplaced Pages, please see the site!

Below are some of the links that need attention. Thanks for your consideration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Louisiana_Baptist_University_people_%28second_nomination%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Neal_Weaver

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jimmy_DeYoung

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/James_Combs

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Robert_Morey

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Daniel_Dorim_Kim

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/J._Otis_Ledbetter

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ron_Moseley

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mike_Randall

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Charles_Pack

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mal_Couch

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Thomas_Ice

God bless you, Wiggins2 06:58, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

New Main Page Election talks

A discussion has begun on how to handle an official election for replacing the Main Page. To ensure it is set up sensibly and according to consensus, your input is needed there. --Go for it! 22:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Your signature

Hi, do you really have to use that HUGE pic in your signature? I mean, I don't mind pictures, but not that big. I am sure you would hear more complaints latter on, but can you change it to some smaller icon? BTW, nice work on Chicago. Renata 05:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I see you're using a template in your signature. A much better method for a custom signature I'd suggest (which I use for my signature) is the raw signature method. If you prefer using a template, please substitute it per the guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Template substitution. // Pathoschild (_admin / ) 00:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Back

Howdy! Good to know a fellow Iowa City person! Atrivedi

Talk:Main Page

Hello. Thank you for archiving Talk:Main Page. But I'm going to undo some of it. I ain't sure if the dialogues are complete. I don't suggest removing anything less than 2 days old. -- PFHLai 23:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

It's okay. No need to apologise. We should all thank you for regularly cleaning the page up. I think we can gradually fill up archive 58 in the next day or so. Cheers. -- PFHLai 00:05, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Regarding 'archiving'

I was just wondering where exactly the material you deleted here was archived? The complete discussion isn't in the archive as far as I can see.

Calumet Region

I too have been working on the Calumet articles, and I was wondering if the Calumet Region page should redirect to Northwest Indiana (a practically synonymous region) as opposed to the river page, which wouldn't be intended to describe what the region is (historic manufacturing zone, etc.). A better correlation between the river and the region could be made on the NWI page. Thanks, Craig R. Nielsen 19:29, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Category:Aspergian Wikipedians

Category:Aspergian Wikipedians which you have included on your user page has been proposed for deletion you can comment at Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion#Category:Wikipedians by mental condition. The is also a proposal to create an association to meet the needs of users with mental health conditions. --Salix alba (talk) 18:35, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Pittsburgh TV Stations Template

The Pittsburgh Broadcast Stations template needs to be changed. WBYD-CA is no longer a Shop at Home affiliate. Shop at Home went defunct on June 22, 2006. The template should show that WBYD-CA is currently an independent.--Dleav 06:49, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Template:USLargestCities

Thanks for working on this template. Could you please spend a moment and write up in the template's talk the rationale for expanding the list to 75 and why it's cut off at this particular number? Thanks! —  Stevie is the man!  15:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikimania bid

If it comes down to specifics, many MANY conventions will call themselves "Chicago" then actually book in someplace like Rosemont, Naperville, Lombard, etc. over hotel fees, room reservations, being able to get blocks of rooms, and generally lower taxes in the suburbs than the city proper. Many such suburbs are easily accessed of course by car and by Metra. I know of a few annual SF cons that do this for precisely these reasons. Lombard is supposed to get a convention center out by Yorktown Mall VERY soon. Naperville has considered it, but the plan was shelved. Rosemont, of course, has the Stephens Convention Center. Another angle to look at is see if any of the area colleges and universities want to take part at all, officially or unofficially (Naperville/Aurora/Lisle, for example, has North Central College, Aurora University and Benedicting University - this latter is KNOWN for bringing in speakers on "hot" topics). Just some possible ideas! --JohnDBuell 22:37, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Requested move: San Francisco, California -> San Francisco_San_Francisco-2006-08-24T18:16:00.000Z">

Please vote at Talk:San Francisco, California. Thanks. --Serge 18:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC)_San_Francisco"> _San_Francisco">

Now I'm in trouble for "vote stacking". I think you just have to watch the requested moves. The other way to go is start a project page to "professionalize" U.S. city names, and all of us watch that. --Serge 03:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC)_San_Francisco"> _San_Francisco">

Please watch my user page for updates to a list of cities where polls are created. Also, feel free to use the info on that page to create your own polls. --Serge 04:54, 25 August 2006 (UTC)_San_Francisco"> _San_Francisco">

Page movery again...

Remember how you moved Progress island usa? I just checked, it should actually be Progress Island U.S.A., rather then the current "USA". Thanx again... 68.39.174.238 00:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanx. 68.39.174.238 00:51, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Iowa

Hello, I noticed that you edited an article related to, or expressed interest in Iowa. Therefore, I was wondering if you would be interested in joining (proposed) WikiProject Iowa? If so, please add your name to "Interested Wikipedians" at Proposed WikiProject Iowa --Tim4christ17 03:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Hillman/Dig

Please don't edit my user subpages. Certain users have vandalized these pages of notes, and it is easier for me to assume that any edits not by myself are vandalism. So this just makes extra work for me. TIA---CH 02:13, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Chicago redirects

Hi, I've noticed you've been changing a lot of links to "Chicago, Illinois" to point directly to "Chicago". This is unnecessary -- the computational cost of changing an article to remove a redirect is thousands of times the cost of simply following the redirect. The general rule is Misplaced Pages:Redirect#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken. -David Schaich /_Cont 22:57, 6 October 2006 (UTC)