User talk:Niagara/Archive 9
peer review?hey. Awhile ago you peer reviewed Sacred Cod of Massachusetts for me and thank you so much for it. I have just put up another article I created, List of Smithsonian museums, for peer review and was wondering if you would be up to reviewing it as well. Thanks either way. --Found5dollar (talk) 17:04, 31 December 2009 (UTC) Thanks!--Found5dollar (talk) 01:35, 3 January 2010 (UTC) PRR GG1Sorry to be slow on replying - I got caught up in something on AN/I. I agree that the movies section in the current PRR GG1 article looks pretty crufty. It may be that there are references to do an "In popular culture" section, but without them I agree it looks like OR. Choess is a rail buff and may be able to give you a more informed opinion, perhaps even point you to the refs if they exist. Thanks for the waterfalls congrats - hope to get it to PR soon and to send out a special thankspam to all who !voted on the images. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:10, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
MapsThanks, I knew you'd notice! Glad you like it - the original green color was from the Census map (which makes all parks green). The waterfalls article has a new map and is about ready for PR (finally). Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:47, 8 January 2010 (UTC) Dickson Tavern and related articlesHi, I'm sure you may have spotted this by now, but there now appears to be several sockpuppet accounts attempting to remove the good work you did making the above article relevant for wikipedia. They are all newly created accounts, editing only the articles mentioned above, removing templates they have no business removing. I can't imagine that all the accounts just happen to be different people, all who register in the last day, and only edit these articles. It just seems too obvious. Anyways, just wanted to point this out to you. I had previously edited before your version, but feel that your version is more appropaite and doesn't contain the nonsense that this other user seems to want in the article. 142.68.238.33 (talk) 00:42, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
DYK for Dickson TavernMaterialscientist (talk) 18:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC) DYK for PRR 4859Materialscientist (talk) 00:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Article tagging botBack in November, you helped me out by checking a list of categories before they were run through an article tagging bot. Would you be willing to check two more such lists? User:Blargh29/Subcats of Category:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and User:Blargh29/Subcats of Category:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thanks!--Blargh29 (talk) 05:31, 21 January 2010 (UTC) Sommerheim ParkAre you familiar with Sommerheim Park in Millcreek Township? I've just created Sommerheim Park Archeological District, which you might find interesting. Nyttend (talk) 17:55, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Sidewheeler page movesHi, I got your message. The reason for the page moves was to standardize the articles by using current ship prefix (see also Steamboat). My thought was to go with one designation on all article pages rather than having multiple styles as Ship Name (sidewheeler), Ship Name (paddle wheel ship) or Ship Name (steamship). Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships would probably be the best place to double check the current article name. If you like I'll start a thread there.Shinerunner (talk) 22:48, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
You've been mentioned at the above, as having downloaded the Lancaster County files from ARCH. Did you know that if you have the file names, you can still download the files. I'm looking for the file names for the 22 or so locomotives and cars that are NRHP at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, "East of Strasburg". If you have a "table of contents" with these in it - could you e-mail it to me, or attach it to my user space User:Smallbones/Chester County (who cares if the county name is wrong, I'll know where to look). that way I can download them myself. Any help appreiciated. Smallbones (talk) 05:32, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Got the PDF, all's coolGot the Penn. RR Rolling Stock TR pdf and that will give me all the info I can handle. It's funny this came up now (as I'm leaving town for a week), but you might check out Southern Chester County PA NRHP listings for my interest in Strasburg Road, which I've been trying to finish up for several weeks. (Same road, different county). Do let me know what other locomotives/stock you'd like me to shoot. I'd guess that I'll try to shoot everything, but close quarters and lent out or in repair stock may limit me. I'm particularly interested in the CVRR passenger/bagage car, which brought to mind a question that you might be able to help me on (unrelated to the above, and not crucial). Re this text from the CVRR article " Daniel Tyler was hired in 1850 to supervise the line's rebuilding. He hired Alba Smith as Superintendent of the machinery shop in 1850. Smith served as Superintendent of the railway from 1851-1856, and helped introduced lighter weight "single-wheel" locomotives on the line. These locomotives included the Pioneer and the Jenny Lind, bought in 1851, and the Boston and Enterprise bought in 1853-54.[1] In 1999, the Pioneer was moved from its display at the Smithsonian Institution to the as yet unopened National Museum of Industrial History.[2] [3]"
1. Any idea what ever happened to this museum in Allentown? 2. What ever happened to the Pioneer? and how can we get it back! Smallbones (talk) 17:57, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
WikiCup 2010 January newsletterWe are half way through round one of the WikiCup. We've had some shakeups regarding late entries, flag changes and early dropouts, but the competition is now established- there will be no more flag changes or new competitors. Congratulations to Sasata (submissions), our current leader, who, at the time of writing, has more listed points than Hunter Kahn (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions) (second and third place respectively) combined. A special well done also goes to Fetchcomms (submissions)- his artcle Jewel Box (St. Louis, Missouri) was the first content to score points in the competition. Around half of competitors are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. 64 of the 149 current competitors will advance to round 2- if you currently have no points, do not worry, as over half of the current top 64 have under 50 points. Everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places in round 2! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! J Milburn, Garden, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:18, 1 February 2010 (UTC) Elk County helpCould you read the discussion at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Elk County, Pennsylvania? I'd appreciate having the URL for the St. Marys HD; could you give me the link if you have it, or email me the form if you don't have the URL? If you'd rather email the form, I'll use Special:EmailUser to send you my email address so that you can reply with the form attached. Nyttend (talk) 03:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC) More deletionWould you like me to delete your old user page and user talk page? User talk:Youroldusername redirects here, so that reduces the effectiveness of changing your username. Nyttend (talk) 06:03, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
OK here we go, found the Talk linkI am the webmaster for The Knickerbocker and I live in Linesville. The statement in the Linesville section about The Knickerbocker is this: One other point of interest in Linesville is The Knickerbocker Hotel. This is now famous for its' appearance on the A&E show, Paranormal State, and was investigated. Their conclusion was that there was nothing paranormal there. The Knickerbocker has been investigated many times since the Paranormal State Episode and there is a great deal of paranormal interest surrounding The Knickerbocker. The statement, "Their conclusion was that there was nothing paranormal there." is the problem I have. As to whether or not there is something paranormal there is something of a paradox. If the paranormal could be proven or dis proven it would be a different ball game. What I can say for an absolute fact is that there is a thriving online and offline community interested in the paranormal that gravitates to The Knickerbocker. Our website gets several hundred visitors a day, mostly to watch our nine live webcams. If I can not add to the statement to balance it, let's at least take the conclusion out. It does not directly relate to the community of Linesville and it is in fact misleading. The Knickerbocker it a hub of paranormal speculation. If I remove the statement, "Their conclusion was that there was nothing paranormal there." Will you just put in back? Thank You Tom Deighton 04:43, 8 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom Deighton (talk • contribs) 24 Waterfall salute!
Image ProjectI would like to invite you to The Great Pennsylvania Congressional Image Scrape of 2010.--Blargh29 (talk) 06:06, 16 February 2010 (UTC) PitholeI have been noticing your good work on Pithole, Pennsylvania. I'm afraid that when I visited, the visitor center was closed, and I did not get a photo of it. There's not much left to see at Pithole. However, I have added an old photo from the Library of Congress website, and a photo of the Grant Well Office now at the Drake Well Museum. Regards, Plazak (talk) 15:50, 21 February 2010 (UTC) New PA NRHP articlesFYI, to support disambiguation, i recently created Manchester Historic District (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and one or two other PA NRHP articles that i'll try to mention later. For the Manchester one, i worked mention into the Manchester (Pittsburgh) article. I imagine having a separate detailed article about the architecture of the HD makes sense, but you may judge differently. Enjoy. :) --doncram (talk) 21:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Template questionHi Niagara, a question has arisen on the possibility of making columns optional in a template for tables of US Judges at Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States/archive1 and User talk:Brianboulton. I do not know if this is even possible, but since you have a much better knowledge of the workings of templates that I do, I wondered if you'd mind taking a look at it? Thanks in advance, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 14:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC) Thanks so much! Glad you like the chinchillas - not sure if they'll let me post that ;-) Ruhrfisch ><>°° 20:46, 27 February 2010 (UTC) WikiCup 2010 February newsletterRound one is over, and round two has begun! Congratulations to the 64 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our first round. A special well done goes to Sasata (submissions), our round one winner (1010 points), and to Hunter Kahn (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions), who were second and third respectively (640 points/605 points). Sasata was awarded the most points for both good articles (300 points) and featured articles (600 points), and TonyTheTiger was awarded the most for featured topics (225 points), while Hunter Kahn claimed the most for good topics (70). Staxringold (submissions) claimed the most featured lists (240 points) and featured pictures (35 points), Geschichte (submissions) claimed the most for Did you know? entries (490 points), Jujutacular (submissions) claimed the most for featured sounds (70 points) and Candlewicke (submissions) claimed the most for In the news entries (40 points). No one claimed a featured portal or valued picture. Credits awarded after the end of round one but before round two may be claimed in round two, but remember the rule that content must have been worked on in some significant way during 2010 by you for you to claim points. The groups for round two will be placed up shortly, and the submissions' pages will be blanked. This round will continue until 28 April, when the top two users from each group, as well as 16 wildcards, will progress to round three. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup; thank you to all doing this last round, and particularly to those helping at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:51, 1 March 2010 (UTC) Congratulations!Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 5, 2010 Woo-hoo! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 16:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Another PA article from the boonies on the main page! Dincher (talk) 00:11, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Pennsylvania State Capitol imagesAs promised a while ago,
... or guess where I went recently? Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:58, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Wikiproject Pennsylvania logoHey Niagara, I'm not trying to start an edit war or anything here but what I was talking about is that the photo you created is hard to differentiate the art work when its in front of the blue background. I understand that your using the Pennsylvania flag colors but its just hard to see. What about taking the current logo and making the art work and "wikiproject Pennsylvania" larger and a vector image; or just making the art work bigger and dropping "wikiprject Pennsylvania" plus the vector. The green that is on the current logo corresponds with the Pennsylvania portal. When I overhauled the portal I made a the logo for the wikiporject. Let me know what you think. --CPacker talk to me 07:25, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
I finally made it out to the Museum, and just put up 12 new photos at National Register of Historic Places listings in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It's quite a page now - covered bridges and trains. Tomorrow I'll look for leftovers in the camera and probably ask the NRHP talk page how to handle these - individual articles? all on the museum page? maybe a multiple listing page? Also will prob contact a train project to see what they might want. Missed a few. Smallbones (talk) 05:17, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much. In general barnstars don't mean much - it's the people who give them that count. Yours are grade AAA barnstars! Smallbones (talk) 02:09, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Quehanna tornadoHi Niagara, would you mind turning your expert eye to the section on the tornado at Quehanna Wild Area. I wonder if the second paragraph is not a bit too detailed? Any copyedits or tweaks are welcome. Also wondered if you knew of any free federal images of the storm in Pennsylvania, like the radar loop image at Kinzua Bridge or anything else. Thanks in adavance, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 16:57, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Niagara! Just reminding you that you are listed as a member of the Random Picture of the Day! It would be great if you could add a picture or too! Put the template on your user page with {{User:Presidentman/potd/template}}, and encourage other users to add pictures. You can also put our userbox on your userpage using: {{User:Presidentman/Ubx/RPOTD}}. Hopefully you'll help out! Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 21:56, 25 March 2010 (UTC) - Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 21:58, 25 March 2010 (UTC) What was your revert of an Admin page for?Why did you revert the Bot's award of DYK citation?--Morenooso (talk) 17:54, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
WikiCup 2010 March newsletterWe're half way through round two, and everything is running smoothly. Hunter Kahn (submissions) leads overall with 650 points this round, and heads pool B. TonyTheTiger (submissions) currently leads pool C, dubbed the "Group of Death", which has a only a single contestant yet to score this round (the fewest of any group), as well five contestants over 100 points (the most). With a month still to go, as well as 16 wildcard places, everything is still to play for. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Although unrelated to the WikiCup, April sees a Good Article Nominations backlog elimination drive, formulated as a friendly competition with small awards, as the Cup is. Several WikiCup contestants and judges have already signed up, but regular reviewers and those who hope to do more reviewing are more than welcome to join at the drive page. If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) 22:19, 31 March 2010 (UTC) |
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