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Jim, thanks for weighing in on the CU/Bank debate. Your comments were right on, and unlike some, they were civil. Let me know if you need any help on the NCUSIF page. Cheers! Dubc072418:17, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Knights of Columbus
Hi! Thanks for voting for the Knights of Columbus on the Catholic Collaboration page! I know that it is not the CCW article for a few weeks, but right now it is up for FAC so if you could see your way over there early that would be great. Right now the only person holding out on supporting it has a complaint about the prose, so copyediting would be particularly helpful. Thanks again! --Briancua14:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Joseph Doria.
I can't find anyone in the online database at www.apo.org with the last name of Doria. I also looked through the "D"s. for Omicron Sigma and even searched for those at Omicron Sigma with the first name Joseph.
Having said that, the database while fairly complete for recent times, lacks a large number of individuals once you get farther back. (Frank Reed and Herbert G. Horton for example. :) I do see some individuals from the 1960s at Omicron Sigma though.
My Father (James Miller '68) was a member at SPC and later an advisor when the chapter was briefly reactivated. He and Joe Doria were members of the chapter at St. Peter's together. My recollection may be wrong about the chapter involved. I don't know the active dates of the 2 chapters at St. Peter's. They may have both have been members of Pi Tau, but I will check with my father when I can. Jim Miller22:27, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Didn't see anything for Pi Tau, but *shrug*. Let me know when you get more info, but it's personal curiosity. I'm thinking of rearranging the alumni by area of "fame". He would definitely go into the politics/government area. Naraht12:23, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Never know if I should respond on your page or mine. :)
Thanx for the info, I have no problem with leaving him there and if I should include him in the list of Alumni I'm doing bios on in the fall on the mailing lists, I'll note to Judy Mitchell that she should check downstairs in the actual card file... Naraht01:27, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Suggestion for your user page (and anywhere else you may have a need for it)
Hiya, I was just looking though recent changes and came across this edit to your user page so I thought I'd share a tip that you may find usefull. If you changed the code to look like the following:
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it will achieve the effect your after. It's pretty much a way of telling the browser "I want the next line to be on it's own and DON'T want it shared with anything above it". An alternative that gets the same results is <br clear="all" />. I use this on my user page to declutter sections - especially with the amount of templates that would overlap otherwise - and to organise my userboxes at the bottom. It's merely a cosmetical thing in most cases, but I think you'll find it useful. Anyway, keep up the good work and happy editing, TheJCTalkContributions03:04, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
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Diocesan Infobox
To the Members of the WikiProject Catholicism
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Hello Jim Miller, you have recently provided a third opinion on the homeschooling talk page. I requested it to include something about the deletion of the financial obligations section. There also have been follow up questions. Can you look into this or should an extra third opinion be requested? Species8473 (talk) 14:37, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Re:2006 New Jersey State Government shutdown
Jim, great work on the article. I've expanded the lead a little and renominated it for GA status. Hopefully the article will pass the nomination this time round. --ZeWrestlerTalk14:51, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
A reviewer has looked at the article. Some tasks need to be handled for it. May you help out with the article some more?--ZeWrestlerTalk04:17, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Good work the other day with your updates. The reviewer is still presenting us with some comments that I've done some work on, but if you could provide some more help, that would be great. Thanks again--ZeWrestlerTalk14:47, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm glad to see the article was finally promoted. It was great collaborating with you on it. Sorry I went AWOL towards the end, real life kicked in again. Looking forward to working on something else with you in the future. --ZeWrestlerTalk03:03, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Didier AFD #3
They keep trying to find reasons to delete it. It is up for a 3rd time. If they would only channel their efforts into improving it. After all, it has been improved and even re-titiled. Presumptive (talk) 03:00, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
NJ town article assessments
Chris, I saw you changed the assessment for Allentown, New Jersey to C class. I wanted to go through and assess all the articles about towns that were in the backlog of NJ unassessed articles. I rated a large number of articles as B, but I agree with your change, and was hoping to come up with something consistant. Do you think all the automated articles should be C class if they have not been further improved? I also have been rating municipalities as Mid importance, and unicorporated areas as Low.
Jim, IMO, I think that articles that have not been improved from the automated bot information should either be stub-class (if short for a CDP for example) or start-class if it contains the usual municipality information. Fortunately, WP:NJ members like User:Alansohn have been adding details to nearly all of these articles, so there are few that are in that category. Many are now either start-class or C-class. B-Class articles should be well referenced and have broad topical coverage. Also, at least one photo, IMO. As for importance, low-importance is for things that are only of ancillary concern to WP:NJ. Examples include Annie's Road and Evil Clown of Middletown. IMO, all communities should be mid-importance, except for major cities, which should be high-importance. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:15, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Doctor Who poem quote - Houston, we have a problem
I was thinking about how best to include the poem reference, so I decided to look at the citation for the poem's inclusion a bit closer. You might want to do so as well, since it appears that anyone can sign up for a TV.com account (I signed up as user BlatantExample in less than three minutes); I almost added a mostly spitballed reference comparing Donna to the Virgin Mary and the Doctor's severed hand being in reality the invisible hand that Adam Smith refers to in The Wealth of Nations. I only didn't because I don't need to vandalize another website to point out its weaknesses here. With respect to U-Mos, we haven't the foggiest as to who added the reference, but I am willing to lay pretty good odds that it wasn't the good folk at BBC - if it had, it would have been a part of the press release, or deserving of a mention in Doctor Who Confidential. As the provenance of the source is debatable, neither it nor the attendant statements can be included. - Arcayne(cast a spell)21:36, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Finding information about small companies from that era is difficult. The "modern" electronic databases often provide little help. In some cases it is possible to find one or two newspaper or magazine articles. Sometimes obscure sources may provide insight (such as the Caltech interview of Victor Wouk[1] that has some history about other battery companies during that period) or an enthusiast's page, such about the Sonotone Company[2]. I don't have information about Apollo Energy Systems. The Electrosport had a printed sales brochures and Motor Trend did an article about the car, but finding anything about the Electric Fuel Propulsion Corporation itself has not been fruitful so far. Nevertheless, I will contribute to the Apollo Energy article whenever I run across something their origins! — CZmarlin (talk) 05:23, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
hello. since the 3o has been removed due to the RfC (on article Tucker Max), would you mind providing a comment? The reason I ask is because the RfC actually links to the wrong discussion, which could create confusion. i attempted to resolve the bad RfC link problem, but couldn't, and so that is why I created the 3o instead. now that the 3o is gone, i am worried that we will not get enough outside opinions. so would you mind taking a minute and commenting on RfC2? thanks Theserialcomma (talk) 23:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thanks for the help cleaning up the RfC link (to make it actually work) and the outside comment on the discussion page. my next question is, do you suggest that i create another RfC? the reason i ask is because my original RfC was about whether the anonymous blog should be a source, and after multiple outside editors came and said that it shouldn't be, the source was simply moved to an external link by the same editor who removed my RfC. i felt that if the RfC stayed up, outside editors could have clarified that this link should not be considered encyclopedic. but now, since the RfC is gone, when i try to remove the link from the article, my edit is reverted as 'vandalism.' should i start another RfC, the same as before, except now change the word "source" to "external link" so that i am not accused of vandalism? or any other advice? thanks. Theserialcomma (talk) 00:58, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Jersey City External Link - JCTransit.com
I read the terms and while I understand the potential of conflict of interest which you noted, JCTransit.com is a free website which fills a large gap of missing public transportation info for jersey city residents. The site is a free directory which offers unique info and tools to aide residents in navigating jersey city's fragmented transit system. I think that if you were to check out the site you would instantly see the value it offers to jersey city residents and it would validate its inclusion in the jersey city wiki links section. thanks. -Ken Burke —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kjburke1 (talk • contribs) 22:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:
Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
Rollback can be used to revert vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
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WikiProject NJ work
I have been working on cleaning up the WP:NJ pages a bit. I added a section to the templates page to include the Eduction by County templates you made. I have left space for all of the counties, but wondered if you had any intention to make the rest of the templates? Also, as the founder of WPNJ, I would like to hear your opinion on the proposed new layout I have made at User:JimMillerJr/Sandbox/WPNJ redesign. Thanks. Jim MillerSee me | Touch me00:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for all of your recent New Jersey-Related work, especially on WP:NJ, which has been unfortunately largely dormant as a project. In the midst of all of my other efforts, I will be completing education by county templates. I have reviewed your redesign and it's a major step forward, especially in adding the statistics box as a summary. It really shows that we have a tremendous amount of articles, but need a bit more depth. Your efforts are greatly appreciated and I remind you that my status of founder of WPNJ grants me no special standing on these changes. Keep up the work! Alansohn (talk) 01:04, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm just heading home, should be there in about half hour and then I'll send it out, unless I hear otherwise, cool? –xeno (talk)23:26, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry it took me so long to reply. You've done great work again. Sadly, as Alansohn stated, the project has been on the inactive as of late. This work you've done looks great and should help allow us to regain momentum in this project. --ZeWrestlerTalk00:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
WPNJ assessments
I saw your assessment of Wyckoff, New Jersey, and "start" seems a tad low. What guidelines are you using as part of these assessments. I'd like to improve these articles and we should have some benchmarks with links to sample Stub/Start/C/B/GA/A/FA articles for the benefit of all those editing and assessing articles. Alansohn (talk) 21:23, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Alan, I agree. A little farther up my talk page is a conversation I had with User:ChrisRuvolo about this recently. Since Wycoff had no history section, no photographs, and only a few expansions beyond the automated information (schools was a good section) I rated it as Start. I have done all the unassessed towns Starting with A and B this way, and was just looking at the end of the last unassessed bot log when I looked at this one. You may also see that MelonBot is going through all of our templates making changes. I asked HappyMelon to update our project banner to the WPBannerMeta standard. WikiProject New Jersey is going to be the primary banner, and Project New Jersey and WPNJ will be redirects. Jim MillerSee me | Touch me | Review me21:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. I know we can use a lot of work on some of these articles, but as per ChrisRuvolo's comments above, we should specify what the characteristics are of articles by class so that there is consensus on what editors and assessors should be looking for. Alansohn (talk) 21:38, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Paul T. Jordan DYK
On 8 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Paul T. Jordan, 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.
Next time you revert a edit as vandalism becuase of the edit summary, actually take the time to look at the edit first before rolling it back. You reinstated vandalism at the Smoky Hill High School article. Got it? --70.121.33.78 (talk) 21:46, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Marilyn Roman nominated at DYK
I have nominated Marilyn Roman for inclusion in DYK, at T:TDYK. You may want to review the requirements. Many of your articles would qualify, and all that's needed beyond writing the article is an interesting hook. Keep up the great work! Alansohn (talk) 05:56, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
The article Leona Lewis on The X Factor has been nominated for deletion again. I noticed that you were a contributor on the discussion for the first nomination, and your opinions on this topic would be valuable once again. Please feel free to offer your comments to the discussion. Thanks — Wiki edit Jonny (talk) 11:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Marilyn Roman DYK
On 17 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Marilyn Roman, 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.
JimMillerJr/Archive 1, I wish to say thanks for your support in my successful request for adminship, which ended with 82 supports, 3 opposes, and 1 neutral. I will do my best to live up to your expectations. I would especially like to thank Rlevse for nominating me and Wizardman for co-nominating me. — JGHowestalk - 19 August 2008
nav bar
I have taken your {{WPNJ navbar}} (Was it Dickens or Twain who said: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"?) and started a new nav bar here: User:G716/sandbox/WPStat navbar. Would you take a look and help me center the portal logo in the table cell? Thanks—G716 <T·C> 21:49, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Actually, it turns out that mine isn't actually centered - it's right justified in the left column of a two column table. Since you aren't using the columns to link talk pages like WPNJ, you don't have the extra padding provided by the empty column. Centering was a lucky matter of column size. For complete transparency, I took a lot of the code from {{WPVG Sidebar}} to begin with. The code in the portal template dosn't allow for it to be centered, and that discussion seems to advocate taking the code and modifying it. I could subst the portal template and modify the resulting code once it's in there. Jim MillerSee me | Touch me23:22, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
As you can see, the deed is Done. 63 users mercilessly spammed =). Let me know if you need me to delivery any future notices/newsletters. Best of luck with the (hopefully now more) revitalized project! –xeno (talk)01:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey Jim. I think most newsletters are delivered in the collapsed form to create a smaller footprint on the people's talk pages. Mind if I tweak it to be collapsed by default? –xeno (talk)18:23, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
I tossed that back and forth for a while. I had it collapsed for most of the time I edited it (which was really a backwards way to do things! type, preview, show, repeat). But I couldn't figure out what would happen to it on the Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Newsletter page once I got multiple editions transcluded there. Is there an easy way, without changing the source, that I can force the Current Issue section of that page to stay expanded, while leaving the collapsed state as the default for everything else? I don't mind it being collpased on delivery, but hoped to keep it uncollapsed on the Current issue page. Jim MillerSee me | Touch me18:29, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
ok, this should do it. default action will be "autocollapse" (not sure how that works), but it's shown as far as I can see. the bot will set the collapse flag as it delivers them. when you move it to past issues just transclude it with |collapsed}} at the end. –xeno (talk)18:38, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I was watching the changes. Makes sense to me. I'll add a comment to the past issues section about the param so I don't forget, and others can see how to do it. THanks. Jim MillerSee me | Touch me18:40, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
The Reboot of Wikiproject New Jersey has certainly stirred up some new activity at the project. Discussion on several improvements and new initiatives have been going on at the talk page. There has been an involved discussion regarding our 121unassessed articles, especially those on municipalities. The current goal is to review and assess all 566 New Jersey muncipality articles by September 30. A suggestion has been made to intiate Wikipedia Takes New Jersey to begin clearing the large backlog of articles needing photos. Let's all grab our cameras and head out into the vast wilds of the Garden State. Town Halls, High Schools, Historic Places - every article deserves a picture.
The following articles may be in need of attention:
WPNJ member Mm40 has volunteered to coordinate a new WPNJ Collaboration project. It's been a while since we used the NJCOTW and new volunteers are needed. Join the discussion to volunteer.
Battle of Trenton was recently proposed as a Featured Article candidate. It was not promoted, but has now been nominated for A-Class review through the Military History WikiProject. Take a look at their A-Class FAQ. As we need to set up our own process for reviewing A-Class articles, it may be worth watching the process.
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
The redesign has been well received. There are still some things left to do. This newsletter was one big check mark off the list. Hopefully this can be continued on a regular basis. There are literally thousands of articles in Category:New Jersey that have not been tagged as part of the project, and stub sorting hasn't been run in 10 months. We will need to identify some friendly bot operators to help with these projects. An outreach department (which includes the newsletter) needs to be formalized. Creating an invitation template for easy placement on userpages will also be part of that effort.
There are lots of best practices described at the WikiProject Council with ideas of how to make our project more responsive, welcoming, active, and effective. Task forces? Peer review? Other ideas welcome!
I just wanted to say that the response to my bold makeover of WPNJ has been gratifying, but nothing will improve the project as much as more activity, and that means more members. There are lots of things to do in this new setup, and everyone with an interest should be able to find a way to contribute to the collaboration. I want to thank you all for the patience, the appreciation, and the effort. - Jim Miller
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Woo Hoo! My first! And just for splattering multiple userpages with that lovely shade from the NJ state flag image we have on commons. Thanks for the deliveries! Jim MillerSee me | Touch me19:09, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
At Wikipedia talk:Notability, I believe that you placed some comments under an unrelated section. I believe that you meant to discuss the notability inheritance issue, but you placed the comment in a Sarah Palin section instead. Please attend to the issue and move/copy your comment to the correct section if necessary, so that the RfC involved editors know about your comment. —Kanodin20:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
It's not a question of whether or not the information is true, but whether or not it can be referenced to reliable sources. If you can show a newspaper or magazine article, or another published source where someone has made claims about his assosciations with those groups, it can be added. If someone else hasn't printed these things before, Wikipedia cannot print them in his article here. Jim MillerSee me | Touch me21:41, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
The Maryland WikiProject has put together a great chart comparing the growth of several state WikiProjects, including WPNJ. Take a look at the chart to see how the growth of WPNJ compares to some of our peer projects. Please remember to place the {{WikiProject New Jersey}} tag on the talk pages of any New Jersey related articles you create or come across. You can also add the new articles page to your watchlist. Some updates have been made to the NJ Portal, but much more needs to be done. If a few volunteers can put together Featured Article summmaries, we can automate rotating the portal content. The same can be done for DYK items. Please take a look and see if you can assist.
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Both Jon Corzine and The Sopranos were promoted to Good Article status in the past month. No WikiProject New Jersey articles were promoted to Featured article status. Battle of Trenton was not listed as a Featured Article, and may need more editors to complete the remaining work to be promoted. Also, in an item that was missed last month, Thomas Edison was delisted as a Good Article in July.
The WPNJ Assessment Drive is ongoing. Please help assess all of the articles about places in New Jersey. There are currently 121 articles that have not been assessed.
Fall has arrived, and with it will come a rush of new Wikipedians. Inviting new editors to join WPNJ is easy to do, and can help us improve our New Jersey articles. Keep an eye out for editors who work on NJ articles who can help the project. The Wikipedia Release version project is in its final stages for the next version. Take a look at the article lists, cleanup where you can, and nominate articles that should be included on the DVD version of WP. Lets make sure that those who end up with a downloaded copy of WP get solid articles about New Jersey. - Jim Miller
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No, not the state - the battleship! On October 15, USS New Jersey (BB-62) was the Featured Article on the Wikipedia main page. Featured articles receive heavier traffic when they are on the main page. Improving WPNJ articles to featured status can help drive more editors to our project.
Seems like a pretty light month in terms of activity at WPNJ. Personally, your editor was doing a lot of travelling and went on a wiki-free vacation for nine days. Time to dive back in and create some new NJ articles. - Jim MillerSee me | Touch me
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I'm inviting you, based on your user page here how much you do for Wiki, in what appears in a non-biased and proper format, to look into this discussion and provide your thoughts since you were not involved in the original discussions and you seem to understand the importance of not deleting existing articles on Wikipedia when they simply could be improved. Here is the link in the deletion review section. [3] Thanks for your time and I laud your talk page in what you strive for Wiki. Thanks. 72.191.15.133 (talk) 22:30, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
See the new little Life Preserver at the top of your page?
Coding:
Feel free to add more articles saved awards to your page, and to award other people this award too, for saving articles from deletion on Wikipedia. Ikip (talk) 20:19, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
You maybe interested in the Article Rescue Squadron
Category Articles tagged for deletion and rescue not found
Hi, JimMillerJr, welcome to the Article Rescue Squadron!
We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying and rescuing articles that have been tagged for deletion. Every day hundreds of articles are deleted, many rightfully so. But many concern notable subjects and are poorly written, ergo fixable and should not be deleted. We try to help these articles quickly improve and address the concerns of why they are proposed for deletion. This covers a lot of ground and your help is appreciated!
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The Articles for deletion (AfD) discussion is where the concerns regarding each article are brought up and addressed. To be an effective member of the project you need to know how AfD works as well as how to improve articles. Introduction to deletion process gives a good overview and some good advice for newcomers to deletion.
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Hi, Jim,
User:Nightscream and I had a disagreement over certain parts of NJ municipality articles; because the discussion could potentially affect hundreds of articles, we decided to bring the discussion to WikiProject New Jersey. I would value your input in the discussion, which you can find here.
Thanks, A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 15:09, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Hudson County border
Djflem, I removed the incorrect description of the Hackensack River being a border of Hudson County because according to the article on the river, it ends between Jersey City and Kearny. The Hackensack never enters Essex County before joining the Newark Bay, and cannot be a border of Hudson County. You reverted my sourced change, and I was wondering if you had another source that contradicts my change. Jim MillerSee me | Touch me19:17, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
I just talked to some fine CU folks in San Antonio. They'd like to get an article about their CU onto wikipedia, but have made some missteps, and now have their entire CU's IP address blocked from editing. Which is way out of line from my POV. It's not like they are trying to spam wikipedia or be malicious, they are making honest mistakes in their attempts. I've given them some recommendations how to get out of jail, but I don't know who I could go to for unblocking their CU's IP. Do you know any CU-friendly admins who could do something about that? Thanks, Morriss. --Mmpartee (talk) 17:35, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for getting back to me! Great news: Her account is now unblocked. I told her she may as well start a new account instead of trying to have her old account renamed via WP:CHU. I'm not sure if that means the CU's IP is now unblocked too, or what the next step is to do that. I've told her about you; she definitely would like input on the CU's article so that it passes muster. I told her what I could about third-party sources, no original research, etc. Thanks for all your help, I'm sure she will appreciate additional help too! Take care! --Mmpartee (talk) 18:09, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Jim! I'm the problem child writing the Firstmark Credit Union article! Thank you for offering to help. If you feel strongly about my keeping the SAT1932CU user page, I am going to trust you. I do want to change my user name to DonnaKP though. Is that possible since I already created a new account with that name?DonnaKP 15:46, 3 September 2009 (UTC) 15:33, 3 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by SAT1932CU (talk • contribs)
Hi Again! I decided to keep the new page after all. I left a trail from my old page to my new one if anyone wants to track me down. So I am ready to start my Firstmark Credit Union article. I am placing what I have on my talk page. Would you mind taking a look at it before I make it live? Thanks!!! DonnaKP (talk) 20:49, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
URL Reference
What are your thoughts on the info and references that I have on the page so far? Is the URL bug at the end of the paragraph the proper way to reference a website? And is the website acceptable as reference? Thanks Jim! DonnaKP (talk) 16:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Good morning Jim! Hope all is well. When you get a moment, could you please review what I have on my sandbox thus far? I am having problems with the way I am referencing things, but the content is there. Thanks for you assistance! DonnaKP 14:02, 14 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by DonnaKP (talk • contribs)
Firstmark Credit Union is Live!
I'm not sure how it's live because I wasn't the one that moved it from my sandbox, but I was planning to do it today anyway. Any idea as to how that would have happened? My plan now is to leave the page alone and see what, if anything, is said about it. Thank you again for your assistance. I'm planning to create an another page on a completely different subject in the near future. I'll let you know when I make it live. DonnaKP 20:33, 30 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by DonnaKP (talk • contribs)
Re: Help with FAC
Good to hear from you. I've been thinking about making the nomination for the government shutdown article for a while now myself, but given my time has been more sparse lately, I wanted to get someone else to work with, to help make sure the nomination moves along. I'll do what I can to help out. Thanks for keeping me in the loop. --ZeWrestlerTalk03:50, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
I worked to help fulfill some of the requests the reviewers have about the article. There are two dead links that they are complaining about. May you find replacements? --ZeWrestlerTalk04:15, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of the last set of comments. Do you think you can find a replacement for the "N.J. Budget With Tax Increases Likely To Influence U.S. Senate Race" source. I can't seem to find one googling. (See FAC for the comment)--ZeWrestlerTalk12:29, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Shame that the article didn't get promoted during the FAC. However, take a look at the changes that were made to the article because of its nomination. I think this article really benefited from being nominated as its quality improved. There wasn't this much activity surrounding the article since it was brought up to good article status last year. Good working with you again. --ZeWrestlerTalk03:11, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
NJRHP
I noticed your well-documented and well-implemented addition of New Jersey Register of Historic Places information to Clark Thread Company Historic District article. Nicely done and footnoted. I am not sure it adds much in this case though, because the NRHP listing supercedes the NJ listing, but it is okay by me.
The NJ source document for Hudson County that you provide does provide other info. Scrolling through it, i find most items are where there is both a NJ listing (SR = state register) and a NRHP listing (NR), or where there is a "SHPO opinion" which I assume means recommend not listing. However there may be places where a place is NJ-listed but not NRHP-listed. Loew's Theatre on page 8 (apparently in Jersey City?) is one. There was apparently an owner objection on that one. I assume New Jersey is the same as New York State, in this: that a historic place can be nominated by anyone, and the State may recognize it on its register, but if the owner objects it will not be NRHP-listed.
Anyhow, if you would like to do articles on the ones that are only New Jersey-listed, I would be glad to help. These would not fall under WikiProject NRHP but would fall under worldwide WikiProject Historic sites (wp:HSITES), which has a general historic sites infobox available similar to the NRHP infobox. Let me know if interested. doncram (talk) 02:55, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the kudos. NJ does operate the same as you state NY does - owners may object to the NHRP listing, but not to the state listing. SHPO refers to a state issued opinion involving funding eligibility. The definitions of the different designations can be found here.
I obviously need to expand the New Jersey Register of Historic Places article since it doesn't mention the state designated, but not federal, sites at all. This, of course, will lead me to the need to create NJRHP categories. At least the existence of the hsites infobox will keep me from having to dust off my template skills (mostly copy and paste!) for a NJHRP infobox. Yikes!
Still some things to do with HSITES and template:Designation (looks like California got the color the NJ WikiProject uses from the state flag). I will probably finish adding the info to at least the Hudson County NRHP articles, and then take a look at the infobox for adding the information to the Loew's Jersey Theatre article. Expect to see me poking around at HSITES soon. Jim MillerSee me | Touch me03:40, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Okay, good, and i did mainly mean kudoes. There are various ones with "COE" or with "DOE" indicated, i don't know what that means. Abbreviations for different NRHP statuses are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places#NRHP codes, including one which mentions DOE also but i still don't know what it means. Oh, DOE and COE for New Jersey defined here at this NJ historic preservation office page. Determination of Eligibility and Certificate of Eligibility explained. More SR-listed but not NRHP-listed from Hudson County document:
page 10, the Staten Island Ferry Route and Terminal Sites is SR listed but not NRHP.
page 10, a U.S. Post Office
page 13, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad Company Portal Bridge, (owner objection vs. NR listing)
I see the Hudson county PDF file and other county files are avialable where the codes are defined. Will be glad to see you at HSITES. Thanks! doncram (talk) 05:26, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Further, the NRIS database has info about places like Loew's Jersey Theater in Jersey City. You can get a cut-and-paste ready NRHP infobox for it by searching on "Loew" and "NJ" and checking the box for "Search for properties that have been delisted?" at Elkman's NRHP infobox generator. That has info useful for a historic sites infobox, but since the place was never NRHP listed the NRHP infobox itself should not actually be used. And some of the info put into the NRHP infobox is misleading for non-NRHP-listed places. doncram (talk) 05:35, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Proposed compromise aimed at consensus at WP:NJ
Hi, JimMillerJr. As you may remember, way back in August I started a thread at WikiProject New Jersey to discuss the "Federal, state, and county representation" subsections in New Jersey municipality articles, as User:Nightscream and I had a substantial disagreement on that subject. Approximately two months later, we've hammered out a compromise that we mostly agree upon, and presently I am seeing if there is a consensus for this compromise. I'm leaving this message here not as canvassing, but because you participated in this discussion previously and perhaps would be interested in weighing in on the compromise. The full discussion is here, and the proposed compromise is here. Thanks in advance for participating! A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 03:18, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Did I forget to thank you? ..
Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed nearly unanimously with 174 in support, 2 in opposition and 1 neutral votes. Special thanks goes to RegentsPark, Samir and John Carter for their kind nomination and support. I am truly honored by the trust and confidence that the community has placed in me. I thank you for your kind inputs and I will be sincerely looking at the reasons that people opposed me so I can improve in those areas ( including my english ;) ). If you ever need anything please feel free to ask me and I would be happy to help you :). Have a great day ! -- TinuCherian - 06:02, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
DYK for Anthony Amoroso
On November 1, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Anthony Amoroso, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Education Task Force - The conversion of the former WikiProject Education is New Jersey has been completed. New Jersey education-related articles are now supported by the Education task force. The project banner has been updated to fully support the task force with independent importance ratings.
No More Comments - A proposal at the Village Pump has resulted in the deprecation of comments subpages. These were usually found at Talk:Article title/Comments and contained little more than assessment notes. These pages were not widely watched, and are often a hidden location for vandalism and BLP violations. WPNJ has 104 articles that used these pages. A complete list of them, along with their contents, can be viewed at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Deprecation of comments. It is up to the members of WPNJ to decide what to do with this information.
The following articles may be in need of attention:
Municipality template compromise; School Districts (almost) complete
New WPNJ members
Legislative templates in municipal articles - A rather lengthy discussion ran from the end of August until the end of October regarding the use of our legislative district templates in articles about local municipalities. Many WPNJ members commented on the concept, and a proposed compromise seems to have been reached. The templates will require some adjustments to fit the new wording, but should result in more directly relevant sections about County, State, and Federal representation in our articles on cities, towns, villages, townships, and boroughs. Hopefully, more dicussions like this can result is some kind of Manual of Style to bring greater standardization to all of these articles.
School District articles now comprehensive - WPNJ Founder Alansohn recently reported that almost all of New Jersey's school districts now have articles - "I have created the article for the last missing (non-vocational) school district in the state." Congrats to Alansohn, who I am sure would love more members at the Education task force to help maintain these articles!
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
Editor's news. OK, so I am going to try this again. It's been a little over a year since our last edition, and activity at the project was a bit slow during that time. Things have picked up again over the last few months, so once more into the breech I go. I will try to produce this newsletter on a regular basis (bi-monthly?) to see if we can get some more activity going at WPNJ. Help is always appreciated, and there is plenty to do. - Jim MillerSee me | Touch me
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