User talk:Clariosophic

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Thanks for helping out on Armenian-American related articles, I really appreciated.

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		I award you this Barnstar for your tireless contributions on Armenian-American related articles. VartanM 19:57, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Clariosophic. Thank you for your contributions to the biography of Joseph Henry Kibbey. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 12:55, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the comment! Hope I haven't given the impression that I'm abandoning the Anglicanism project: I'll keep an eye on it. But, I really am going to stick to a narrow path to avoid some of the weirdness that goes on here. I actually find Wikipedia to be a fun hobby. I imagine Secisek (talk · contribs) really has retired for good. I know he is active in politics in real life so probably doesn't want to play pointless politics on his free time. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 00:04, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am asking whether WP:IE should have a barnstar for members and ordinary users who contribute a lot to it. i have a design for the barnstar if it is created on my computer so all I ask is should I create this barnstar? Yours sincerely --Markreidyhp 12:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to hear about your kitty. I have a calico who is much loved. Best wishes, -- Secisek (talk) 22:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Condolences for your cat. I have a friend whose cat is the spitting image of your beloved Kitty. Take care. Wassupwestcoast (talk) 03:14, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where h is pronounced e.g. harvest - use A, Where h is silent e.g. honour - use AN, Where h is pronounced but the first syllable is unstressed e.g. historic - use A
Wikipeebee (talk) 07:29, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not so in the United States per Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, p.1: "Before unstressed or weakly stressed syllables with initial h both a and an are used in writing, a historic an historic, but in speech an is more frequent whether h is pronounced or not." See also See A and an#Discrimination between a and an. Moreover, articles on US subjects should use U.S. English, not British or Canadianclariosophic (talk) 14:13, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I stand corrected; each to their own. I must admit I say an historic, and certainly wouldn't change any page. regards
Wikipeebee (talk) 15:24, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Clario -- I've continued cleaning up dab pages, including First United Methodist Church just now. There's an informative intro in that one, which should be deleted by MOSDAB guidelines and/or practices of enforcer dab editors. I won't delete it but someone else likely will. I think the intro, which is interesting, should be recycled to create an article for First United Methodist Church (Dallas, Texas). I wonder if you would like to do that. If you do, please add an entry for the Dallas one into the dab list, and please replace the dab intro by simply: "First United Methodist Church may refer to:". Hope u r well. Cheers, doncram (talk) 08:14, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, glad u r getting rest. :) You might take note of User talk:Tassedethe#Renaming churches and other articles where i mentioned you recently.... I don't expect Tassedethe is necessarily entering into the dab fixup field more generally, but i am in fact lonely there. :) As stated there, i have worked out certain principles with dab editors, but then the dab pages i have worked on are deficient in other ways, like being incomplete on non-NRHP places having wikipedia articles already. My worklist is at Category:NRHP dab needing cleanup. Feel free to add to that category and/or to work on the backlog. doncram (talk) 23:29, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This Foothills Baptist Church (Essex, New York), aka Church of the Nazarene, is neat, certainly a nice Richard Upjohn / carpenter Gothic. Not sure if it is on your watchlist from when u edited/developed it before. I added NRHP doc and photo links recently. Unfortunately no HABS pics available. It makes me want to get up to that part of NYS and photograph it plus several NHLs nearby. Cheers, doncram (talk) 04:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another new article is United Methodist Church and Parsonage (Mount Kisco, New York), whose NRHP doc describes it as Carpenter Gothic. It would be great if you could visit those two articles and add relevant categories and/or develop the articles otherwise. doncram (talk) 20:27, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that you are part of Category:Inclusionist_Wikipedians. I would like you to consider joining the Article Rescue Squadron. Rescue Squadron members are focused on rescuing articles for deletion, that might otherwise be lost forever. I think you will find our project matches your vision of Wikipedia.

Ikip (talk) 00:53, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm trying to organize articles about heritage sites in Canada into more managable categories, based on who says that such-and-such is a heritage site (what level of gov't or what other body). That's why I created Category:Buildings in Canada by heritage register instead. I think we should be working towards the goal of indentifying who says something is a heritage site, rather than making big catch-all categories which are prone to boosterism and hard to police. Do you agree? --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 02:51, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: Thanks for your message. I can agree with you in some respects but disagree on others. Heritage sites aren't necessarily buildings. They can be archaeological sites, battlefields, geological sites (e.g Ayers Rock in Australia, etc. I envision Category: Heritage sites in Canada as an umbrella category which includes the category you created and complements it rather than competing with it. Best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 19:08, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited to sign up as a founding member, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#WikiProject Historic Sites ! :) doncram (talk) 05:16, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic Sites has opened up. I took the liberty of assuming your support for the wikiproject meant you wanted to join as a member, and I copied your signature to the Members list on the main page. Please visit and add to, or remove, your listing there. Please revise my cryptic summary of your interests there! It would be great to hear about what you're interested in the Wikiproject becoming, in your member comment and/or at the Talk page, shortcut wt:HSITES. Thanks for your support! doncram (talk) 17:47, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Show me the list - I'd be happy to take a look at it. Not necessarily tonight, but sometime in the next couple of days. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 22:53, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed your comment regarding Quebec listings, and wanted to let you know you can always leave me a not about it, since I'm myself a Quebecer, and can help with locating "official" (thought of no legal standing) translations of laws (as well as the "official names" for the various elgal designations of site) etc. I've worked on a few pages (Édifice Price, Clarendon Hotel) and had been planned on doing more (aprticularly a hisoric preservation in Quebec page) when I went sort of wikipedia-dormant. Circeus (talk) 14:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you moved St. Davids Church from Radnor to Wayne. I have to ask whether you are an expert on this church or Pennsylvania locations. It's actually quite complicated and historically it's been St. David's church in Radnor. Three county borders meet on the church property dividing the Old Church from the "chapel." But the church was there before the borders and the name St. David's Church at Radnor likely predates the borders as well. And the Longfellow poem ... Unless you have a real expert certainty that this is what the name has to be, I'll suggest changing it back. Perhap you might check with User:Piledhigheranddeeper to see what he thinks. Smallbones (talk) 13:16, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User:Piledhigheranddeeper seems to agree with me, and I'll switch the article name back within a few days unless I hear from you. Please do let me know: I think you made a mistake in a complicated area, but I don't like the idea of just reverting you - I certainly wouldn't want an edit war. Thanks for any help. Smallbones (talk) 09:12, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please take notice of Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 April 17#Template:Church disambig and consider commenting there. doncram (talk) 14:46, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for commenting. Now the discussion has moved towards renaming the related category from Category:Church building disambiguation pages to something more general, perhaps "Church disambiguation pages". That would help allow coverage of denominations and congregations, but seem to exclude synagogues and mosques. Your thoughts behind choosing a Places of worship approach before? And i wonder what was your category name, specifically before. Hope you will chime in again there, anyhow. Thanks! doncram (talk) 09:17, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have proposed that The First Church of Christ, Scientist (Boston) be moved to The First Church of Christ, Scientist since I think the Boston disambiguation is necessary. I noticed you commented in the last move discussion but didn't really give any reasons for opposing. Would you mind commenting at the new discussion here: Talk:The First Church of Christ, Scientist (Boston)#Requested move. I'm not looking to merge any content, just take the (Boston) out of the title, you can see my reasons why at that talk page link. Usually the simplest title for an article is best. LonelyMarble (talk) 16:36, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, any reason you just moved BC (US) to BC without proposing a move or discussing it first? It's been talked about at Talk:Boston College (United States), where it was not only backed by editors (myself included, yes) but meets WP:UNIGUIDE. I must admit that I'm a bit curious as to how/why you would do such a think without discussing it first (and do such a shoddy job, apparently, since the talk page doesn't redirect properly following your move). --Aepoutre (talk) 18:41, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I didn't realise it was you who first raised a stink about it in the first place. Well, now I'd express even more of a concern that 1) you'd make the move when the conversation wasn't going your way and 2) that you'd do it against WP:UNI standards. Not cool at all. --Aepoutre (talk) 18:44, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's not his fault the talk page doesn't redirect because it couldn't be moved because it had another edit in the history, but I have listed it at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Uncontroversial requests so it should be moved shortly. And, I think Boston College should stay as the article title for the college in the U.S. since it's much more notable by an order of magnitude than the one in England, which is why Boston, Massachusetts was moved to Boston, for the same reason I think Boston College shouldn't be a redirect either. LonelyMarble (talk) 18:46, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If the move was to be legitimately done, it should be discussed at Talk:Boston College, not ex post facto here, since a conversation had already been started. I'm especially concerned because no link to a consensus was given in the edit summary and no note was left for me, the "perpetrator" of the original move per WP:UNIGUIDE. LonelyMarble, I'll continue this conversation with you on the appropriate talk page, if you don't mind. Cheers! --Aepoutre (talk) 18:53, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Check out Burke County Courthouse (Georgia). doncram (talk) 00:10, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I removed the speedy tag and developed the disambig page to comply with wp:MOSDAB. I turned one red-link to blue by creating a stub article, and followed up at User talk:Kevin Rector. Think this is done. Thanks Clario for creating the disambig page last year! doncram (talk) 15:56, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment again, now at relisted TfD Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 May 2#template:Church disambig. doncram (talk) 02:45, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Could you please comment anew, at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 May 2#Category:Church building disambiguation pages. Maybe the outcome will be to restore places of worship disambiguation template and category, i don't know if I care or not as long as some template and category is kept. I'm exhausted, anyhow, but I think that one has to hang in to see that the TfD and CfD do not go a poor way due to too little informed participation. doncram (talk) 05:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If that is the standard for this item. I will fix all of the links I have added. EraserGirl (talk) 03:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded a Methuen MA image that you may find interesting. File:Methuen, MA Park St looking south .jpg The third building on the right is the back of the First Baptist Church (Methuen, Massachusetts) I have not as yet found an old image of the building. EraserGirl (talk) 19:30, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note — I'm simply formatting these headers and footers to comply with the vast majority of other county-level lists nationwide. I first saw this format in Dtbohrer's rendition of the Pennsylvania county lists.

In my opinion, it's not that much of a problem: many states have been in this format since at least late last year, and although I watch every NRHP list for 28 different states, I don't remember seeing such a problem as you mention in any of the lists I watch. If such does come up, it shouldn't be that hard to explain that these are NRHP-only. One difference between the situation now and the situation when you added these headers is that we don't use the "RHP" terminology anymore (forgive me if I'm just telling you things you know); because we specifically use "NRHP", it should be easier to explain to ignorant editors that these aren't just any historic places that are registered somewhere. Nyttend (talk) 00:39, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see why one editor's ideas should be permitted to go against the standards of an entire project. If that were so, I'd still have Mapits at the bottom of all community articles :-) I've restored the Framingham list to a redirect, and it's now on my watchlist; if the editor again reverts, I'll take it to AFD, because there's no clear criterion for inclusion for any non-NRHP sites. If I need support, I'll tell you, and likely Doncram and Sanfranman59. Nyttend (talk) 01:48, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To respond to what you said in the first place — because content forks aren't allowed, I don't see why we need to worry about them continuing to exist. Most editors are reasonable about this kind of thing, so it shouldn't be hard to explain the precise purpose of the list. I can hardly imagine multiple non-sock, non-meat editors wanting to support a fringe idea such as the Framingham list, so we NRHP project people should be able to demonstrate with simple discussion that this is a bad idea. And if there's a problem that way, we can always take it to AFD, where our project standards should make it an easy case. At any rate: what I thought you meant was that people would add non-NRHP sites to these pages, and the use of "NRHP" in the intro I expect will prevent that or make it far less likely that people will complain if they add stuff and we remove it. Nyttend (talk) 01:52, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Framingham editor reverted my redirection with an edit summary of "Restoring content. Please discuss if you feel it does not have reasoning for inclusion.", so I've responded. If he responds more, would you be willing to participate? I'm going to ask Doncram's assistance also. Nyttend (talk) 04:11, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I commented at Talk:Historic places in Framingham, Massachusetts. It's not a great local historic sites list-article, but I am supportive if local editors want to do list-articles about smaller locales that include more historic sites than the NRHP ones. I would not want them taking over and converting our mainline NRHP list-articles, but that is not the case here: the Framingham NRHPs are covered in a county-wide list article. So I don't see a problem with there being a local historic sites list-article. Again, can discuss further there. Cheers, doncram (talk) 06:13, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted your deletion of the various windmills, watermills and cotton mills from this dab page. Reasons given on the talk page. Mjroots (talk) 09:23, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

		The NRHP Table-izer Barnstar
		I award you this Barnstar for your contributions in table-izing multiple states' NRHP list-tables. As one editor put it, just before midnight U.S. Eastern time on July 4, Hey, between us we got it all done. Hooray!! In fact we met multiple goals in table-izing list-articles covering all 83,973 NRHPs nation-wide during February 2008 to July 4, 2009. Thanks for your participation in the NRHP table-izing all along, and especially for your taking the lead in disambiguation, a crucial support task. Hope you had a great Fourth! -- Doncram, 5 July 2008

Hi, I noticed you've edited some articles related to North Minneapolis and I wanted to tell you about a project I'm involved in called InsideNorthside. It's basically a wikipedia for North Minneapolis, built on wikispaces (which is a bit more user-friendly then mediawiki, though not nearly as robust). Anyways, wanted you to know. I'm trying to find some wiki experts to help build an initial user base for the site. Check it out and let me know what you think. http://insidenorthside.org --Ariahfine (talk) 01:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Clariosophic,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

• Each casebook will have a subpage.

• Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
• It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
• Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

• I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

• Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
• Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 20:21, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. In order to clean up Category:Coord template needing repair, would you mind if I changed a couple of instances of {{coord}} in User:Clariosophic/sandbox10? They need to be rolled over to one more minute and zero seconds, e.g. from "{{39|57|60|N..." to "{{coord|39|58|0|N...".
—WWoods (talk) 18:38, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay. I no longer need this is my sandbox anyway, so I've just deleted it. If you find other coordinates needing adjustment, feel feel to do so. clariosophic (talk) 20:36, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! —WWoods (talk) 23:51, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking care of perfecting the categories on churches in Maryland. I created most of the stubs for those articles and I'm very happy to see them being revised and updated! Best wishes--Pubdog (talk) 12:47, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note. I appreciate the work you have done (and are doing) in writing articles on them and taking photos. BTW do you have a photo of St. Peter's Chapel in Solomons? If so, please post it in the article. Best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 14:26, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Clario ... thanks for your kind comments. I'm afraid I don't have a pic of St. Peter's Chapel. Ironically, I was down there just last weekend for a wine festival at Sotterley (Hollywood, Maryland) then dinner at Solomons Island, Maryland. Next time I get down that way I'll be sure to drop by.--Pubdog (talk) 14:33, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the road today and took pic of Trinity Church (Warsaw, New York) just for you. Also revised category on article to the correct Carpenter Gothic reference. Cheers!--Pubdog (talk) 22:47, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another of your favorite Carpenter Gothic churches is at Church of the Redeemer (Addison, New York). I hope to get a pic of it soon.--Pubdog (talk) 13:28, 28 October 2009 (UTC) Actually found a recent pic on Flickr and uploaded that to commons.--Pubdog (talk) 14:48, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would you please take a look at Category talk:Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland? Thanks, . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 11:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I saw from here that it's been exactly three years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 17:56, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure. I was there yesterday and it didn't look like it was being currently used by the UCC -- There are large rental agency signs on it and various organization names, but not, IIRC, any sign of the UCC or the name above. It's not shown on the national or Mass. UCC sites and it isn't one of the names on the large newish signboard out front which you can see to the left of the door(but not read) here . I'm going to guess that it combined with the Brighton Evangelical Congregational Church which is now calling itself the Allston Brighton Congregational Church. Also, see the last line here. and this. And. lastly, the phone given on the church web site doesn't answer -- no machine, just rings. That's very unlike a church phone.

I probably should have checked all this before I added the church web site to the article -- but I think it's a dead site. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 15:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since you created a stub for this historic place and requested a photo, you may be interested to know that I took one, but sadly it shows this barn is nearly gone. Jonathunder (talk) 06:20, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Clario: Visited St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Woodlawn, Maryland) and added pic. Happy New Year!--Pubdog (talk) 02:54, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

... and another new one for you here St. Michael's Church (Reisterstown, Maryland)--Pubdog (talk) 22:05, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. File:1978 Honda Civic, Stuart, Florida.jpg says it is a 1987 auto photographed in 1978. I'm guessing one or the other of the digits got mixed up there, no?  :-) Please straighten that out. If I can be of any assistance, ask. Thanks for your work! Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 19:19, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Clariosophic! I noticed you display a service award, and would like to invite you to join the discussion over a proposed revamping of the awards. If you have any opinions on the proposal, please participate in the discussion. Thanks! — the Man in Question (in question) 18:28, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject State University System of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the State University System of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks!

• NorwalkJames (talk) 21:51, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! I bought a very inexpensive copy of A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, and have added stuff in there to my lists, if they weren't on it already. I've been taking photos all over the place recently, though in a way I wish weren't, for obvious reasons. In any case, I created a hidden category on Commons for some of them. This is it. There are more that aren't in it yet. If you have any you're specifically interested, just ask, or do a Commons search. I named them pretty much as they are in the Guide. Later! --Ebyabe (talk) 14:24, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I hope you're doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. I've just read your profile and I saw that you're proud to be Irish (I wish I can visit your wonderful country some time soon!), so you understand what are a minorized language and culture and maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... I'm a member of a Catalan association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this hasn't been approved up to that moment. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Supporting us will be like giving equal opportunity to minorized languages and cultures in the future! Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! The picture of the cat is a really good and beautiful one, the cat was really cute, sorry! Keep on preserving your great culture, country, music and language even though you might live in the US like many of my IrishAmerican friends! Slán agat! Capsot (talk) 07:23, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just discovered and read with great interest your recent article on Dawson County Courthouse (Nebraska).

I'm based in Kearney, Nebraska, and have been photographing both NRHP sites and courthouses in the state. If you're contemplating, or working on, an article on a Nebraska site, and you'd like it illustrated, please feel free to drop a note at my talk page. I can't promise quick results, but travel extensively in the state, and would probably be able to produce some pictures within a year or so of a request...

--Ammodramus (talk) 00:24, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. As I recall, it was a rather gloomy day when I photographed Allen's Opera House. I'll try to get back to Cozad on a sunny afternoon.

Incidentally, if you're interested in Nebraska courthouses, you might like to look at Commons:Category:Thayer County Courthouse (Nebraska). I was surprised to find that the courthouse wasn't on the NRHP; a bit of research revealed that it'd once possessed a peaked roof and a tower, which were removed by a 1953 tornado. While this alteration apparently renders it ineligible for the NRHP, it only seems to me to add to the notability of the building.

--Ammodramus (talk) 00:49, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm deeply envious of you for the panther. I lived in Arizona for 25 years and spent a lot of time outdoors, and never once did I see a mountain lion. The closest I came was a possible footprint in dried mud near Tombstone.

Like you, I'm trying to become a better photographer by trial and error. Of course, part of it is declining to take pictures when the light's not good—as, for example, was the case at Allen's Opera House. However, I decided to shoot pictures just in case; enough Nebraska sites have been lost to fires and tornadoes and the like that I thought it'd be a good idea to have some pictures in reserve, even if their quality wasn't high.

--Ammodramus (talk) 17:59, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recently returned to Cozad, Nebraska on a clear bright afternoon and photographed Allen's Opera House and the Hendee Hotel in better light than on my last trip. Have uploaded the new photos.

--Ammodramus (talk) 06:36, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed that you've been creating and adding the above categories manually. If you'd like some help, I have AWB authority; just give me a list of the sites in a given county and I can add the category for you semi-automatically. It'll save you a lot of wear and tear. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:29, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing - always happy to be of help. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:01, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see you added Villa vizcaya to Category:Historic Florida architecture 1989 AIA survey listings in Miami-Dade County . That seems very interesting, but, I look on GOOGLE and can't see anything about a 1989 AIA survey. Could you please point me to a reference for this? GroveGuy (talk) 02:54, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's a book called A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture. Should be available at most libraries. See the Google results. --Ebyabe (talk) 12:20, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Last Saturday I hit Hampton, Starke, Lawtey and Orange Park. Check here for more info. :) -Ebyabe (talk) 01:49, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In Europe or the Atlantic? Orlady and I seem to (mildly) disagree... I think we would both bow to consensus... but we need a few more opinions in order to know what consensus is. Please share your opinion on the talk page. Blueboar (talk) 22:01, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In case you wish to comment

I'll be in your neck o' the woods this weekend. Going to Miami tomorrow and heading north from there, photo'ing my way through south Florida. Will wave atcha as I pass through your county. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 22:06, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Clariosophic! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 03:29, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the Project!. Please let me know if you have any questions, commments or suggestions.--Kumioko (talk) 15:18, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, I have been watching WikiProject South Carolina for a while and it doesn't appear to be very active and I had a proposition for the members to consider. I would like to pull WPUS under WikiProject United States to some degree. I am not necessarily talking a full merger unless thats what the members of WPSC want but here is what I mean.

1. The project would stay the way it is except for a couple things. I would like to replace {{WikiProject South Carolina}} with {{WikiProject United States}} and add WPSC to the list of Projects supported by WPUS. This would include replacing the WPSC template on the talk pages of the articles with WPUS/South Carolina (if you want to see an examply you camn look at Washington DC).
2. I would also add it to the list of Projects supported by WPUS on the main WPUS landing page.

This would do a couple things that I think would benefit both projects.

1. It would increase visibility of South Carolina and related articles to a much larger user base
2. It would allow WPSC to more easily benefit from the Bots running for WPUS. This includes article alert bot that warns of Articles and Images for deletion or Promotion. This would ensure maximum visibility if an article relating to South Carolina was submitted for deletion or promotion.
3. It would allow the South Carolina related articles to fall under the WPUS and South Carolina scope.
4. It would somewhat reduce the maintenance required by consolidating the templates
5. It would reduce the number of templates visibile on the articles
6. In addition to the above, I typically cycle through all the articles in the WPUS scope every month or 2 fixing various things (sections, typos, persondata, categories, etc) and this would allow the South Carolina articles to fall under that much more easily.

Please let me know what thoughts or ideas you have about this and if the other members would be receptive to this. I also added a message to the talk page of WikiProject South Carolina. Thanks in advance. --Kumioko (talk) 20:25, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

With the first of what I hope will be monthly newsletters I again want to welcome you to the project and hope that as we all work together through the year we can expand the project, create missing articles and generally improve the pedia thought mutual cooperation and support. Now that we have a project and a solid pool of willing members I wanted to strike while the iron is hot and solicite help in doing a few things that I believe is a good next step in solidifiing the project. I have outlined a few suggestions where you can help with on the projects talk page. This includes but is not limited too updating Portal:United States, assessing the remaining US related articles that haven't been assessed, eliminating the Unrefernced BLP's and others. If you have other suggestions or are interested in doing other things feel free. I just wanted to offer a few suggestions were additional help is needed. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments or suggestions or you can always post something on the projects talk page. If you do not want to recieve a monthly message please put an * before your name on the members page.--Kumioko (talk) 02:51, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Starting with the February 2011 issue WikiProject United States has established a newsletter to inform anyone interested in United States related topics of the latest changes. This newsletter will not only discuss issues relating to WikiProject United States but also:

1. Portal:United States
2. the United States Wikipedians Noticeboard
3. the United States Wikipedians collaboration of the Month - The collaboration article for February is Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
4. and changes to Wikipolicy, events and other things that may be of interest to you.

You may read or assist in writing the newsletter, subscribe, unsubscribe or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following this link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page or the Newsletters talk page. --Kumioko (talk) 20:37, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This edit and this one remove a National Register Information System (NRIS) reference number for these two sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). I have restored both reference numbers as their removal placed the articles in a cleanup category. Was there a reason behind these removals, or was this a mistake?--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 19:33, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm uploading 800 or so to Commons, fyi. Use as desired, doncha know. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 01:51, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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--Kumioko (talk) 17:31, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.--Kumioko (talk) 02:03, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not put references, especially in the infobox, on a new line. Per the MoS there should be no space. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:21, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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--Kumioko (talk) 17:36, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You may wish to comment in a discussion in which you were mentioned at WT:NRHP#Comment on Straw Polls, "decisions" and consensus. Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

United States National Archives WikiProject

Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts. There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've managed to get photos of 95%+ of Florida NRHPs, as well as most of the stuff in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture. Much material for article creation, then, doncha know. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 18:26, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh! I can't drive all the way to Palm Beach County right now. I still think it sucks that this is being threatened with demolition. ----DanTD (talk) 23:28, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It was recently suggested that WikiProject Maryland might be inactive or semiactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. I have started a discussion on the projects talk page soliciting the opinions of the members of the project if this project would be interested in being supported by WikiProject United States. Please feel free to comment on your opinions about this suggestion. --Kumioko (talk) 03:06, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Got back from a roadtrip to Savannah and down the east coast of Georgia. Found some neat stuff, like this church in Midway built in 1792. In case your working on any articles about churches in the area, eh? :) --Ebyabe (talk) 03:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed that you are active in the NRHP WikiProject, and I was hoping that you would like to make a comment on a discussion going on there. You don't have to, but it would be greatly appreciated. The discussion is at WT:NRHP#Numbers in NRHP county lists. Thank you. Theking17825 16:08, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 12:20, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

National Archives Backstage Pass - Who should come? You should. Really.
	You are invited to the National Archives in College Park for a special backstage pass and scanathon meetup with Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, on Saturday, October 8. Go behind the scenes and into the stacks at the National Archives, help digitize documents, and edit together! Free catered lunch provided! Dominic·t 16:03, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is the proper use of "Episcopalian" -- to describe a person who is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church? Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:13, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An Episcopalian is a person who belongs to the Episcopal Church. IMHO, a true Episcopalian would never call his or her church the "Episcopalian" church. That terminology is used by non-Episcopalians either derisively or out of ignorance. In any event, I find its use offensive as an Episcopalian. BTW the term Protestant Episcopal Church or P.E. Church, is rarely used by U.S. Episcopalians today, except in an historical context. Best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 17:30, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, always glad to learn something new. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:33, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Clariosophic,

I am a student at Clemson University creating a wikipedia project for one of my English classes. I am suppose to contact two wikipedians asking for feed back on my article.

This is a link to my sandbox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Krondorx/Saluda_%28band%29_sandbox

It is a work in progress but if you see anything that sticks out like a sore thumb please feel free to comment.

Thank you,

Krondorx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krondorx (talk • contribs) 22:25, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The December 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 04:07, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The January 2012 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
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