User talk:Jameslwoodward/Archive 1
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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 Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place The nature of a welcomeHi Jim! Thanks for your enquiry on my User talk page. The background to my Welcome message above is as follows. On 25 January I was doing some work in Wikipedia on True airspeed, Knots and Nautical mile. When I looked at the history page for Nautical mile I immediately saw your 25 December entry as the only one by a User with a red link to a (non-existent) Talk page. This indicated no-one had initiated your Talk page and therefore you had not yet been welcomed to Wikipedia. I checked your edit count and saw that you had made 51 edits, so a welcome was long overdue. In my experience, most new Users are welcomed after they have made fewer than a dozen edits. Within the Wikipedia community there is a large number of Users who have formed a welcoming committee. They have volunteered to welcome new users and others. They do this by posting a message with links to various introductory pages. You can see their names on WP:Welcoming committee. My username is not on the list, but I understand and support the objectives of the welcoming committee. In Wikipedia, new Users do not automatically receive a machine-generated welcome. Welcome messages come from individuals so they are personal and genuine. They contain an offer of personal assistance if such assistance is ever desired. I have welcomed many new Users, and a few of them have subsequently contacted me with questions, and I have been pleased to assist. If you check the Talk page of a few other Users you will see that most of them, perhaps all of them, have been welcomed early in their career with a brief message similar to the one I sent you. I have not examined in detail any of your edits so I have no idea about the quality or validity of any of your edits. My welcome message was intended as nothing more than a welcome. You should not interpret it as criticism or condescension. If the standard Welcome message offends you, you are at liberty to delete it. Happy sailing! Dolphin51 (talk) 23:12, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Adams-Magoun HouseHi, i noticed your edit to correct latitude-longitude coordinates for Adams-Magoun House, at least the ones in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, Massachusetts list-article. I wonder, could you possibly explain your reasoning and what you did, at Talk:Adams-Magoun House? It would be helpful for others, later, to have some record, i think. I do assume you have specific knowledge and that your correction is helpful. I haven't browsed in your contributions yet, so don't know if you've addressed other National Register properties. It would be great if you could add to other ones as well. Cheers, doncram (talk) 15:19, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
(unindent)In case you're not aware of it, the NPS publishes Google Earth overlays with NRHP sites. You can download these overlays here. They are not completely up to date. The above web page says that the files are "current through the beginning of 2007, but I think they actually have sites listed through at least early 2008. I find it useful to apply the overlay that contains a the geographic area on which I'm working and to export the links from the Wikipedia page as KML and open that file in Google Earth. Then I can see how the locations in the NPS overlay match up with those in the KML export. Where there's not a good match for a given site, I try to find the location from the description in the NRIS database to confirm which (if either) set of coordinates is most accurate. Opening the KML export also allows me to identify any locations that fall outside the applicable geographic borders. I hope this helps. --sanfranman59 (talk) 16:34, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Nice workNo problem about the redirect. Nice additions to the lighthouse and NRHP articles. Swampyank (talk) 17:38, 29 July 2009 (UTC) Bishop and Clerks LightFrom time to time - it's as my fancy strikes me, really. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC) Talkback⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 21:35, 31 July 2009 (UTC) Me again...I've been drawing up lists like the above for each Canadian province. (Newfoundland's next, on deck). Might you be interested in helping to fill the redlinks, once they've been created? There's a lot of work to do to get coverage of Canadian lighthouses. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Massachsetts template for lighthousesFYI, the numbber of lights listed seems to be on the conservative side. Take a look here, list of lights Northern Massachusetts Lighthouse Digest, University of North Carolina. There is another list for Southern MaSsachusetts 7&6=thirteen (talk) 15:17, 3 August 2009 (UTC) Stan
Maine lighthousesGenerally, good - two small things. First off, I added the architecture category to each, mainly because I know people like that on building articles. Secondly, you can tag them with {{US-lighthouse-stub}}, as that exists. Other than that, they look great! --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:20, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Take a look at Tenants Harbor Light, which suggests some useful sources and formats. FYI, the lighthouse infobox you are using is obsolescent. Should have USCG and ARLHS numbers Here is the current Lighthouse template. You can also find the U.S. Coast Guard pictures on line, and they can be uploaded to commons and inserted into the articles. Berrean Hunter did that. Keep up the good work. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:22, 8 August 2009 (UTC) Stan I use Firefox, and have not experienced problems with the Lighthouse infobox. Ordinarily open fields don't show. If you take a look at the lighthouse resource page at the Great Lakes Lightkeepers Association link in Tenants Harbor Light you'll find some links and books specifically about Canadian lights. Most of the Michigan lighthouse articles have a more or less generic (I tried to include specific sources about specific lights) list of information, that is applicable to lighthouses of the Great Lakes, including Canadian lights. If you look up the lights in Toronto, Ontario I put in some Canadian sources. Your doing yeoman's work, so keep it up. Great start. As to expecting help on articles (I've made major contributions to the Michigan lighthouses, and a lot of work in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, and smaller contributions around the sea coasts. Thus far I've not seen much from many editors to help. However, I've had a few that have been very helpful when asked (particularly with a specific task) and suggest that might be a way to go. If you look at some of the Michigan lighthouse articles that I've worked on a lot Sturgeon Point Light, White Shoal Light, Waugoshance Light, Round Island Light, Harbor Beach Light, Seul Choix Light, Huron Lightship for example, you will find a lot of things like wiki links that are common and would be useful to include in almost any article, including the information in the infoboxes. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 12:49, 9 August 2009 (UTC) Stan
A good sourceHere is a wonderful article that might be of use. I used it in the article I created on Spectacle Reef Light.[1] I am sure it has a lot of your lights. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:35, 9 August 2009 (UTC) Stan
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templatesSorry, I didn't realize that you aren't a member of WP:LIGHTHOUSES and wouldn't have seen my post there. If no one protests their use here then we should be able to go ahead with it. Some good advice on rating and writing lighthouse articles from NHRP evaluatorUser talk:Acroterion take a look. This gives us a 'to do' list, or at least a blueprint to think about. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 16:42, 21 August 2009 (UTC) Stan Re: Monhegan Light CoordsI used the {{Infobox Lighthouse}} coordinates because the {{Infobox nrhp}} coordinates were obviously invalid, having 60 seconds in the longitude. I agree that three decimal places is excessive, but I left it to someone else (such as yourself) to decide how much rounding is appropriate. I'm not sure what you mean by "harmonize at the template level" but if it makes maintenance easier without impacting users, I'm probably for it. Having coordinates appear in the title is not only convenient for users, but according to the {{Coord}} documentation it's necessary in order to ensure that the coordinates are parsed correctly from raw Wikipedia database dumps. I don't think you'll find any consensus to make Wikipedia pages as simple as possible; it's an intriguing idea, though. --Stepheng3 (talk) 05:27, 22 August 2009 (UTC) Maine Lighthouse Resource TemplateA suggestion. You might want to include He is a unique resource, rather like Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light in the Western Great Lakes. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 00:23, 26 August 2009 (UTC) Stan DYK for Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal— Jake Wartenberg 17:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC) Re: Kennebec River LightsI usually set stub tags apart with an extra space to make them more visible. Some of the stub tags with bland graphics blend into the article body; they're temporary, and it's to call attention to the fact that the article is still in need of work. When the article is no longer stub class, the tags will be removed, anyway. It's just a personal preference. List numbersVery well; I don't understand Excel sufficiently, so I wouldn't do it for fear of making an error and not noticing it. I copy the complete coding into Notepad and order it to change the numbers; for example, changing all instances of "4</small>" to "5q</small>" (the "q" is so that when I order it to change 5 to 6, it doesn't change what was once "4</small>" to "6</small>"; I make sure to remove it before posting the completed version :-). Ten quick find-and-replace commands later, and it's 90% done; I have to go to the former "9</small"s to change the number in the tens column, or the list will have errors such as "37...38...39...30...41...". It's quite fast; I completed the Boston list almost as quickly as I typed this paragraph. Nyttend (talk) 12:40, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Thanks. A toss up, I think between the two methods. Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 12:42, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Lighthouse photosGlad the Cape Cod Highland Light photo was of some use, unfortunately, they were sort of snapshots when I was down on the Cape, but now I know I will bear it in mind if I see a lighthouse on my travels. The only other I have is of Marblehead Light (Massachusetts) which I used when I created the page on it but has since been replaced by a better photo. I will also bear in mind your comment on categories for the future. Take care phil aka Geotek (talk) 13:51, 8 September 2009 (UTC) NRHP listing infoMy thoughts: About the stable and the pavillion, and in general, I think you really need to collect the NRHP documents to know what you are looking at, and sorting out which is what. Unfortunately AFAIK the Masachusetts NRHP documents are not available on-line. Perhaps you should cultivate a contact with the MA state historical preservation office, towards finding some quicker access (is there a Boston location where you could just go in and get copies in person?), but you should also pursue the somewhat slow process of getting free copies of the NRHP applications from the national office, obtained by email request to nr_reference (at) nps.gov. In New York State, where NRHP documents are in fact available online, I've gone NRHPing myself in both ways, visiting to take pics with or without having consulted NRHP documents already. Sometimes i am more curious just to see what is on a given site, first, and I find it boring to read some NRHP documents without having personally visited a place, or it is inconvenient to collect the documents first, so I visit first and get the documents later. Sometimes i learn afterwards that I should have paid attention to some feature when I visited, but hey. Offhand, Refreshment Pavillion is rather generic, and/or it seems a bit grandiose to claim that as a name for just that one place, yes? I think perhaps it should be moved to add (City, State) to its article name already. About Brookwood Farm, since it apparently is in both Milton and in Norfolk County separate from Milton, it should be listed in both NRHP lists. Note how the List of RHPs in MA state-wide list allows for such duplications, of districts or properties that appear in more than one component list. Just go ahead and add it. You should certainly verify by collecting its NHRP documents, that there is not merely a portion of the property in just one of those jurisdictions which is NRHP-listed. I'm glad you are finding the NRHPing sport enjoyable, and hope you will keep up the good work! doncram (talk) 14:29, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Here is a nice article on it, which might be of some use. Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light VRB 25. Nice job on your article, which was needed. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:49, 9 September 2009 (UTC) Stan Take a close look. Since your expertise is showing, maybe you have a coupler of additions. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 15:18, 10 September 2009 (UTC) Stan
I did put in enbed in Round Island Light (Michigan) and Old Mackinac Point Light, but I can't say I see much difference. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 17:10, 11 September 2009 (UTC) Stan O've got it. Thanks for :your example, which I now understand (and will plagiarize). As I have often said, "plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery." I knew I'd won the case when the opinion was my brief. Matter of Del Rio, 400 Mich. 665. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 17:18, 11 September 2009 (UTC) Stan
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