User talk:Morgan Riley
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Nyttend (talk 11:41, 12 February 2013 (UTC) Statue imagesHi Morgan, Thanks for letting me know that you put those images up for deletion. I can't think of any fair-use argument I could make for them, and I would not know where to start with respect to getting permission from the copyright holders of the statues, so I think I'll leave the images to be deleted. Neelix (talk) 01:57, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Rees's Cyclopaedia #2Hi Morgan, I've just created your suggested page List of Contributors to Rees's Cyclopaedia I just hope there will not be the same kind of flak caused by the creation of the list of long articles, for there were moves to deleted it entirely as being 'un-encyclopaedic'!!. My next job is finish adding info about writers' Rees contributions to their WP pages, so there is a cross reference. Apwoolrich (talk) 13:53, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Good stuffWas snooping your page. Like 99% of what you are for/doing. Go Brave...Squirrels. TCO (talk) 06:58, 16 February 2013 (UTC) GunniesThanks for your comment at the AfD. Out of interest, what could gunnies be merged into? I know that the word stope is sometimes used, but that's just a redirect at present and it seems to be a less precise term. My knowledge of mining is very biased towards SW England, though, so maybe there's another term that's used worldwide? —SMALLJIM 11:23, 16 February 2013 (UTC) Rees's Cyclopaedia #3Putting my money where my mouth is, I downloaded an HTML copy of the OCRd text of Vol 1 from the Internet Archive, ran it through my text editor Note Tab and converted it to a text document. Have made a start at cutting out all the body text, leaving the topic headings which are in Caps, so OCR well. The problem is that the OCRing of the work is somewhat mangled, so it will be a job to produce decent texts of the articles for WikiSource. The work complete is around 100,000 words for that volume. Once I have produced the list I shall have to check it against the original. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. Apwoolrich (talk) 18:10, 17 February 2013 (UTC) Westerns project scopeHi, I removed Monument Valley from our scope, but retained List of appearances of Monument Valley in the media. Reason being, is to help the project mainly focus on fictional articles, otherwise we would end up with everything from cactus to every model of Colt .45, places, and U.S. state shown in a Western movie and it would become unmanageable. The best place for Monument Valley in a Western context is WP:WikiProject American Old West which is more a non-fiction historical project dealing with real outlaws and places, real cowboys and Indians. By keeping fiction and non-fiction apart, I hope to offer a more specific set of articles for members to contribute towards and it will help people find things easier in the project categories. The non-fictional exceptions of course, are biogs of real actors and directors, writers and such who had a notable role in shaping the Westerns genre. Thanks, however, for the list article.. it is perfectly suited to what we cover and need to work on. On a side note, can you please make sure you class newly tagged articles, as I want to avoid a backlog of unassessed articles. Thanks, Ma®©usBritish{chat} 13:16, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Coalwood, WVI agree 100% with your comments regarding Coalwood. Particularly irksome is the reference to Big Creek High School, which resides in War, which is several miles down the road from Coalwood. I would be overjoyed to edit the article and remove most of the Rocket Boy Material, and of course most of the data that has been copied from the Coalwood WV page.....let me know when this can happen because, IF I were to do the edits, there would be a galactic level knee spasm that they can no longer read about Homer Hickam. I know Homer, I have corresponded with him, and the fact that the RocketBoys festival has moved to Beckley, a full 70+ miles from Coalwood, speaks violumesCoal town guy (talk) 17:00, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Article Feedback deploymentHey Morgan Riley; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC) Pit Towns..dammit, I like thatI love the fact that we are providing a global perspective on this facet of history. HOW may I help? My experience is by my own admission US based, as well, thats about the only area I know well.Coal town Coal town guy (talk) 16:51, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Pit Village definition and reference for youI found this take a look its a dam good startCoal town guy (talk) 17:30, 15 March 2013 (UTC) WikiProject MiningThank you for the invitation, but I am not sure what a project is. What would my task be? - Soerfm (talk) 20:50, 16 March 2013 (UTC) Please look at recent edits of Cooling tower by 117.192.117.123That anonymous user added an external link to a company website. When an anonymous newcomer to WP makes only one edit, the addition of a link to his/her company's website, the odds are that he/she is only interested in advertising that company's website. I therefore removed the link ... and 117.192.117.123 added it in again. I removed it a second time and 117.192.117.123 has again added that link. I don't want to continue this edit "warring" any further. Would you take a look and see what you can do? mbeychok (talk) 15:28, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Fantastic work on the Virginia PortalI'm really really impressed with your work on the Virginia Portal. I has bothered me for some time, and I was giving serious thought to proposing its deletion - I figured nobody was likely to properly maintain it. However, the automation is brilliant and I think it looks great. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.--Kubigula (talk) 03:28, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I joined Wikipedia inspired by you. I'm also helping restore a house in Barton Heights, at 2007 Barton. The historical societies that I've contacted say there are no images, yet I've been able to find partial/pieces of images by searching Home St, the nearby houses, etc. I (somewhat obviously) live in Richmond also; If there are any images you've taken or come across that might help us unravel the tangle of bad construction, remodels, owners, etc. I'd be forever in your debt! Any pictures at all would inspire, honestly. Thank you so much for all your hard work! HonorCat (talk) 23:07, 9 April 2014 (UTC) Weyanoke, WV
De-templating for WP:MiningJust saw your removed the template from Talk:Cadwallader Range. That range is the core of the Bridge River goldfield (Bralorne-Pioneer Mine and others. Might I suggest you x-ref these places with mining searches to see why they have WP:Mining on them before you delete their templates? In this case a search for "MINFILE Cadwallader" will find you a bunch.Skookum1 (talk) 00:56, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Richmond meetup for Wikipedia:Wiknic?I actually live in the Richmond area and could probably snag a friend to go if you wanted to tentatively hold something that day. I don't think I have anything planned, but if you're interested in holding something on Saturday, June 22 I'm willing. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 09:16, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
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I am sure Richmond doesn't have nearly as many willing contributors as the larger metropolises. But it also doesn't help that the few that are willing to try to contribute get shot down so frequently. Other people want to share their (fact based) part of the Richmond story, but every time they have done so it just gets wiped. You definitely have the wiki experience to overrule any contributor and you sure aren't shy to use it. But why not take some time to go out of your way and bring their contributions up to code instead of just removing other peoples stuff all the time? Obviously we aren't all experts at Wikipedia. But the result of what you are doing, unintended or otherwise, is that the Richmond Wikipedia page is in no way a true representation of what Richmond is really all about. You have turned it into a one-sided fact book that is seemingly too timid to explore any of the aspects of what makes the city what it is. Sure you have to be balanced-- I get it. But don't just gut the article to make it happen. If that is what you are trying to accomplish, why stop with removing one or two posts every now and then? How about just remove all content and leave the words "Richmond, Virginia". That seems pretty safe, right? Sure, you are a loyal Wikipedia editor, but you are doing a disservice to the city of Richmond and the citizens who love it and want to share it with the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.183.126.166 (talk) 16:19, 24 October 2014 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
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ArbCom 2019 election voter messageFile:De Vinne 1904 - Punch and matrix.jpgHi Morgan, someone in "meatspace" who knows I'm an avid Wikipedian pointed out an apparent error with your File:De Vinne 1904 - Punch and matrix.jpg. The metadata says it's from pages 16-17 of a 1904 work by Theodore Low De Vinne, but it seems to actually be from page 55 from an 1876 work by the same author. If I'm right, I'm happy to make the edits and request a criterion 3 rename over at Commons. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything... --BDD (talk) 20:44, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
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