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Please refer to state listings of jurisditons instead of US census, because the census is OLD, INACCURATE, NOT LEGALLY BINDING!!! EVERY state has listings but you refuse to find them; instead you take the compiled junk that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT uses to determine how many people are somewhere!!!!11:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)JME1
You recently added a structure called Cornwall Bridge, located in Montreal, Canada, in the list of longest cantilever bridges in the world. I live in Montreal and I've never heard of a bridge by that name. Can you tell me where that bridge is located, so that I might take a picture of it? Would that be over Lachine Canal? --Blanchardb 19:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
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In Vermont, the seat of government is the "shire town" (for example, see here) instead of being the "county seat". Since the US county navigation box has a variable for Louisiana parish seats, could you add a Vermont variable for shire towns? Nyttend 15:02, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dan, I just reverted some vandalism to your user page, thought you'd want to know, take care, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 00:07, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering Dan, if you could convert this map Image:US-IL-Chicagoland-Barrington.png over to the standard colors we are using for Illinois. Except make it blank without showing Barrington there, and allow for it to be used with the Geobox template with GPS coordinates. It is something that a Chicago Project member brought up to me, so I would like to see how it looks. Thanks for any assistance in this.--Kranar drogin 18:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Alright, let me know whenever you have something done. Hope it isn't going to be too hard.--Kranar drogin (talk) 13:57, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Agreed that it's not a CDP; the question is what to name the article. I've pasted in an earlier conversation on the subject at Talk:Robbinsville CDP, New Jersey and i invite your comments on the issue there. Alansohn 23:19, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Who are you to decide that Mark A. Singer's accomplishments are unworthy of inclusion in the notable Metairians section? He is the Bobby Fischer of online gaming, and that makes you a Communist bureaucrat censoring his achievements because they don't fit into your definition of excellence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.167.228.247 (talk) 05:07, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 16:35, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Do you plan to place the ((Taylor County, Wisconsin)) template on the relevant articles? Nyttend (talk) 04:49, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dan, thanks for your support at Presque Isle. I keep wondering if you would ever want to be an admin? You do lots of fairly thankless tasks well around here and have always been very helpful and pleasant with me, so I assume you would make a good admin. I have never nominated anyone, so I might ask one of those who do lots of noms to handle it, but if you ever ran, you would have my support and co-nom, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 16:23, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
<font=3> Thanks for your comments and support - Presque Isle State Park made featured article today! Take care, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 15:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC) |
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Hi Dan, User:Snowolf recently asked me to be an admin so the third time's the charm and I am going to say yes. I have told him that you (and Dincher) want to be co-nominators, so I will let you know when the RfA page is up. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:55, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Please explain to me why you simply must insist upon the horrendously long scrolling list style that you keep reverting the article back to instead of the cloumn style that I've put. I think I've already stated to you that the column style (my opinion only) is a whole lot more user friendly, easier to get around on, and flows better. I notice that you said something about auto alphabetizing names. There aren't any more names to add that I'm aware of, and the list was already alphabetized (albeit manually). Is there no way that we can strike a happy medium here and incorporate the colum style and also have it alphabetize automatically the way you want? Sf46 00:16, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
Ruhrfisch told me that you wanted to co-nom. I've prepared the page here it is. Happy editing, Snowolf How can I help? 17:15, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
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For Making some Useful recent Changes Newlinecinema (talk) 21:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC) |
Thanks for pointing that out. Could you fix it? I cannot access GNIS from work. That's why I changed it. But I agree that the elevation references should be uniform. Feel free to change anything else too. I am working on getting it to GA and welcome the help. Taking a Black Mo break for now. Thanks for the compliment. Dincher (talk) 03:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
<font=3> Thanks for your support, my request for adminship passed 62/0/0 yesterday!
I want to thank Snowolf and Dincher for nominating me, those who updated the RfA tally, and everyone for their support and many kind words. I will do my best to use the new tools carefully and responsibly (and since you are reading this, I haven't yet deleted your talk page by accident!). Please let me know if there is anything I can do to be of assistance, and keep an eye out for a little green fish with a mop on the road to an even better encyclopedia. Thanks again and take care, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 18:12, 15 December 2007 (UTC) |
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Thanks again for all you do - always a pleasure working with you, keep up the good work Ruhrfisch ><>°° 18:12, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear VerruckteDan, I wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year! Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:17, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Dincher (talk) 19:59, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I see you have reverted all of the edits to the Georgia county nav boxes. In principle you are correct, bodies of water (ie rivers, creeks and lakes) are outside the scope of municipalities and communities. But as each county's nav box stands right now (without my additions) they (the nav boxes) are really not serving much of a purpose. All they are doing is listing a handful of communities that are already listed and discussed in the main body of each county's article. Take Fulton County Georgia for example, Template:Fulton County, Georgia. All of the "cities" in the template are listed in the article's main body, and more "Communities" are listed in the article. So what is the template doing to improve the article? In my opinion, the nav boxes could be used to improve these article, giving additional information such as rivers, lakes, creeks, state parks and forests, colleges and universities and other similar items. The way they stand now, they are just taking up space, repeating what has already been written.
Another note, it has been mentioned to me that in the state of Georgia, now all "towns" and "cities" are, by Georgia law, designated cities. Another editor who lives in Georgia User:JohnnyReb1977 told me this. (I'm sure he will be able to provide the actual source for this claim as he has been a wikipedia editor for a fair amount of time and cites his work). So, this means that techically, we must combine what is currently several categories into one. Therefore the current templates are even less useful (without adding additional info).
I hope all this has been taken without any anger. Have a Merry Christmas. Rocketmaniac (talk) 21:22, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
"In many states there are significant legal differences among the designations city, town, village, and hamlet. Georgia law, however, makes no distinction among cities, towns, and municipalities. Accordingly, the only legal difference between the city of Claxton and the town of Tyrone is that Claxton was incorporated as a city and Tyrone was incorporated as a town." http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-586
"Georgia law declares that the terms city, town, municipality, and village are identical in meaning. Municipalities anywhere are formed when residents of an area ask the legislature to grant a charter. A 1963 law provided three requirements for charter eligibility: there must be at least 200 people living in the area, the proposed municipality must be more than three miles from another one, and 60 percent of the area must be developed and divided into tracts." http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2865
Undoing indent to offer my opinions on several subjects:
By the way, sorry for not adding this comment some time ago; I typed my reply as soon as I finished typing my reply down below, hours ago, but I had a computer malfunction. Nyttend (talk) 05:05, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Just wanted to comment on the CDPs being listed in the county nav boxes. I certainly have no objection against including census-designated places -- they're important to show, as are all the other populated places in the county. However, given that CDPs are "settled concentrations of population that are identifiable by name but are not legally incorporated under the laws of the state in which they are located," I'm not sure why they need to be separated out from other unincorporated communities. (After all, they also are populated places, identifiable by name, and not legally incorporated.) Also, in the case of Bartholomew County for instance, there's an entire section in the nav box dedicated to listing only a single item; including it with the other unincorporated places seems a reasonable simplification that doesn't sacrifice accuracy. Huwmanbeing ★ 00:58, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
I left the following comment on Zzyzx11's talk page:
Could you edit the code for Template:US county navigation box somewhat? Some New England and New York templates (you can see an example on the main template's talk page) display oddly because of the article's title — for example, the shire town of Rutland County, Vermont is entitled Rutland (city), Vermont. Could you make it so that it would display only "Rutland" instead of "Rutland (city)"? Furthermore, there's the occasional county seat that isn't the only place of its name in the state: as the article is named "CITYNAME, COUNTYNAME County, STATENAME", the template title has "CITYNAME, COUNTYNAME County" listed for the county seat. I'd do it myself, but I don't know much about writing template syntax.
To this, s/he replied:
I think you better ask User:VerruckteDan who wrote most of the template, and knows more about it than I do. If I try to do what you ask, I either might break the template or have to rewrite it. Sorry for any inconvenience. Cheers.
Would you be able to write the change I've requested? I was loth to ask you, simply because you're not an administrator. If you want, I can post the finished text for you. Nyttend (talk) 02:05, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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Just curious about the Georgia county template color changes: the color that you changed it away from (#ccf), not the color you changed it to (#cddeff) is the same color as the state template. Most county templates are the color of the state templates; if the other 152 templates were all cddeff, would it perhaps be better to change all 158 to ccf? Nyttend (talk) 18:10, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Dan,
I noticed that you added a couple of Colorado county navigation templates that I'd skipped over (since there was only one community in the county), and that you're now working on Missouri. I thought you might like to know how I did all of Colorado (skipping those counties) in only 2 days.
Well, here's how I did it. Load that 7-zipped spreadsheet into Excel, and follow the instructions on the Instructions sheet. Hopefully the format suits you; it probably wouldn't be easy to change.
-- Ken g6 (talk) 00:31, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dan, User:Caroig is on wikibreak and I was wondering if you had any idea of fixing a bug in the Geobox Protected Area template? For details on the problem see here or ask if this is unclear. If you are not familiar with this, do you know anyone who is (given Caroig's absence)? Thanks in advance for any help, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:50, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Dan, I ran into a problem with the infobox settlement dot on maps. The coversation about it is a follows. They seem to be off by a hair to the south. It didn't really present itself as a worry until the dot was placed in Lycoming County as reads below. Dincher (talk) 15:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
I was in the Big Easy last week and took a lot of pictures. I do not know all the buildings, but most pictures were taken from the skydeck of the Hilton New Orleans. Raime told me to contact you about getting them labeled correctly. I could email them to you or upload them with the default name (IMG_0826.JPG and such). What do you suggest?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 19:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
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As someone who has worked with county navboxes, you may find pages 1 and 2 interesting. I'd appreciate your input. Nyttend (talk) 18:32, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dan, if you have time could you please look at these infoboxes: Opéra (Paris Métro), Bourse (Paris Métro), Châtelet (Paris Métro). The map at the bottom is supposed to center if the box is wider than 280 px, but for some reason it does not (Bourse works as it should, the other two do not). Do you have any idea how to fix this? If you do, User:Lazulilasher would be very pleased (and I would be too). Thanks in advance for any ideas or help on this, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 17:14, 31 January 2008 (UTC)