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Erdos number

The distance calculator for Erdos numbers works over my cell phone with no subscription or special access. What do you get when you try it? — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:49, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

I get a dialog box asking for a username and password. Since I have none, clicking Cancel gets me a screen including this message: "The computer you are using has not been registered for use with MathSciNet. Please contact your site's library or other appropriate department to verify that your site has a MathSciNet subscription." It didn't occur to me that it might not be telling the truth. I think I'll try whitelisting the site to allow cookies; maybe that's all it really needs. Thanks! Ntsimp (talk) 13:59, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Oh, I see! They simply moved the free page. Thank you very much for solving the problem. Ntsimp (talk) 14:03, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

OK, I am glad it works for you, now - there is always a worry that the link acts differently for different people. — Carl (CBM · talk) 14:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Pair houses in Utah

Ntsimp pic of Anders Hintze House in Salt Lake County

Hi, i'm hoping editor User:MB might choose to develop an article about pair house architecture, which was brought by Mormon immigrants to Utah from Denmark. MB has done articles on similar topics and brought them through DYK process, including Prow house article recently. There's some discussion and a working list of pair house examples currently at User talk:MB#Pair house architecture. I'd be very happy if you'd participate any way you like. Perhaps you could help me get articles started about all the known NRHP-listed examples, or help expand the list, or dig out relevant photos. Please feel free to join discussion there, either way. cheers! --Doncram (talk) 01:36, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Beaver Utah houses

One of the houses

Can you figure out what are the proper street addresses for, and which one is the picture for, the two houses currently Wikipedia-named John Ashworth House (100 West, Beaver, Utah) and John Ashworth House (200 West, Beaver, Utah)? They're on the same block, but street addresses given might be wrong and/or the NRHP-filed documents might be filed at the opposite refnums. The photo seems to be of a largish house, which I would take to be the 1875 older house, rather than the 1880 house. I dunno. The Pair-house article is in mainspace now, FYI. --Doncram (talk) 21:55, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion for List of Masonic buildings in the United States

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Hi, you contributed to similar List of Odd Fellows buildings where the same question may apply. Your participation would be welcomed. --Doncram (talk) 17:20, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your input in this discussion. I have posted a question re inclusion of one property (the Kent house), and I would love to have your feedback. Blueboar (talk) 13:56, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Xenon (cipher) for deletion

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Stockton School

Hi, i went ahead and started a stub article for Stockton School, new NRHP listing in Tooele County, with belief that I could find some news announcements about it. But I can't find much. You provided some descriptive info for it, i.e. that it is now the town hall. Do you have any sources, could you possibly please help develop it? I wouldn't usually create a new article with so little, but it occasionally happens that i guess wrong about what will turn out to be available. I do keep plugging along developing "NRIS-only" articles that have long been in place. Help fixing this one up would be appreciated. :) --Doncram (talk) 01:20, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

I'm going to look for a photo I took of it, and I read the nomination form on the state website sometime last year, but I couldn't find it the other day when I went to add it to the list. I'm pretty busy this month, but I'll see what I can do. Thanks. Ntsimp (talk) 04:50, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Jens Larson Jenson Lime Kiln

Argh, that one is still not much developed.

Hey, thanks for providing pic for Jens Larson Jenson Lime Kiln. I happen to be developing List of lime kilns in the United States and also somewhat trying to bring more Utah counties up to 50 percent articled coverage in wp:NRHPPROGRESS, not sure how long I will pursue that or not. cheers, --Doncram (talk) 01:38, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

By the way, actually I pushed Utah's percent "articled" over 50% (wp:NRHPPROGRESSUT), pushed a couple counties over 50, and got all the lagging counties over 30. I may get Emery and another county over 50, too, but otherwise I am nearly done on this mini-project for now. Cheers, --Doncram (talk) 20:18, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

American Discovery Trail

I don't understand why you deleted my reference to the ADT (it was incorrectly pasted but I was about to fix that) The ADT is a National Millenium Trail, is not commercial in any way. Towns that have the Appalachian Trail or the Pacific Crest Trail etc running through them mention that fact. The section Trails and Byways is found in numerous other Geography sections.

Castle Valley(s)

Hi, I wonder if you could help in editing/sorting out about the one or two (?) Castle Valleys in Utah. There is List of valleys in Utah which lists two of them, Castle Valley (Grand County, Utah) (currently a redlink) and Castle Valley (Carbon, Emery, and Sevier counties, Utah) (which I just started). From new Leander Lemmon House article, in Emery County, i found I wanted to link to "Castle Valley", and it seemed to be one extending through Carbon and Emery counties at least, and then somewhere there was an indication of Sevier County too so I put that in. There exist towns Castle Dale, Utah in Emery and Castle Valley, Utah in Grand.

But now I am not sure. Looking at Utah via Google topographical satellite view map, it looks like there is one huge valley that might wrap around and up to town of Castle Valley and its Castle Rock in Grand County. Or maybe that is not a watershed/valley at all, or in a different watershed, and is considered to be a different Castle Valley, I can't tell, and I can't conveniently see the county borders either. Mapquest shows county lines, but what's needed is someone familiar with this stuff and/or with better maps than I can find. Grand County should mostly drain into Colorado River? while Sevier etc. drain to the Great Salt Lake? Do you know, should there be just one (big) "Castle Valley (Utah)" or must we have two? If we have two, could we use river or watershed names to identify them, instead of awkward lists of counties (e.g. "Castle Valley (Castle River, Utah)" and "Castle Valley (Other River, Utah)" perhaps? I wonder if you might understand this all and be able to sort it out? cheers, --Doncram (talk) 20:30, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

can u get these?

Richmond Tithing Office, photographed in 2010

Hey, y'all missed a few pics in National Register of Historic Places listings in Cache County, Utah:

• Samuel Baker House (Mendon, Utah)
• Logan High School Gymnasium
• Benson Elementary School, demolished, perhaps a pic might be obtained by visiting or contacting local library?
• Newton Reservoir, maybe you could clarify if historic dam ruins exist, are visible, above reservoir created by later dam downstream? i would guess yes, because NRHP listing was after that was built.
• Hatch's Camp, in Cache National Forest, but it's not too cold yet :)
• Tony Grove Ranger Station Historic District, also in Cache National Forest

Hmm, 70 out of 76 is not bad, but someone got 100% for SLC. :) And maybe some detail pics and/or more pics in better light/weather might be gotten for some others? Like the artsy second photo accompanying NRHP document for Richmond Tithing Office showing its pyramidal shape, and/or pic of the pilasters hidden by its front pillars, and/or other detail of its pavillion, etc.? Hopefully you have copious spare time. :) --Doncram (talk) 22:53, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

They've been on my to-do list for a while. I'll be getting more pics in the next month or so, but I don't have Cache County plans before spring, and we've sort of reached a point of diminishing returns. The Logan High School Gymnasium is almost certainly gone, and Tony Grove Ranger Station is surrounded by tall trees inside a fence with a locked gate. I tried to find the historic part of Newton Reservoir, but had to back out of it when my vehicle nearly sank into mud. The only one I even expect to get next year is the Samuel Baker House. Sorry to disappoint. Ntsimp (talk) 23:45, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Ah, well. Wow you have tried! Thanks for humoring me. :) Hmm, i have walked into one or two ranger stations without difficulty (in AZ), and opened an unlocked gate to drive into one (in CO), in all cases where it seemed quite okay to go in, i.e. not prohibited by posting, and seemingly welcomed at the latter one by interpretative signs and open bathroom for visitors once all the way in. Maybe you just had bad luck on that one? But hey Tony Grove Guard Station Restored and Available for Rent suggests change in 2016 or later, and gives phone number to check about visiting it, so maybe a pic for it could be obtained without climbing over a gate or fence, if/when u were going to be nearby.

Browsing Google satellite and street views, seems like u r right about the gymnasium. Oh, further, Logan High School (Utah) article states "The old boys' gym was demolished in the summer of 1999 and a new gymnasium, lobby, and storage area was built in its place, opening during the 2000–2001 school year," without source, but that was probably it. :( --Doncram (talk) 00:21, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

If not Cache, then maybe Summit? It wants 22 pics now; FYI i just removed one pic thought to be, but not, the Jacob F. Richardson House (as explained at Talk:Jacob F. Richardson House). I think u told me u were not likely going there any time soon though. --Doncram (talk) 13:20, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

If you must know, my plans for next month include Salt Lake, Utah, and (with some luck) Sanpete counties. I'm hopeful for Summit for next year. Ntsimp (talk) 13:27, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Oops maybe, i interpreted that differently than you meant, back then. I went away thinking you meant you were going to be in the city of "Salt Lake, Utah" (where y'already have all the pics) for whatever reasons you have besides NRHP stuff, then maybe Sanpete County. Rather than understanding you probably meant tackling more of Salt Lake County, outside the city, and then Utah County, and then maybe Sanpete County. Oh well, Sanpete County is 100% articled now with User:Zigzig20s's help, and even with most of the coordinates checked/corrected, and some notes at the Talk page for the county list-article, so more ready for going on a photo trip than I have ever had, myself. But not very much done recently in Salt Lake county or in Utah county, oh well. Good luck, anyhow, in getting pics wherever you do go. The coordinates correction is often usually moving from NRIS-identified location about 1/3 block to the west and a tad south, as you probably know from experience. And sometimes it discovers that a building is probably gone. :( cheers, --Doncram (talk) 01:05, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

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do you know anything about making an article a featured article?

I saw you edited this: [1] Infinitepeace (talk) 02:39, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Nope. I've never done it. I know there are a lot of requirements. Ntsimp (talk) 01:37, 26 March 2021 (UTC)