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linking to Sioux City Orpheum

Hi, I noticed your edit to List of RHPs in IA which added a link to the Sioux City Orpheum article. I think you didn't understand that the Woodbury County section of the state-wide NRHP list-article is actually in a separate list-article that is mentioned there, at National Register of Historic Places listings in Woodbury County, Iowa, so it wasn't actually necessary to create a new table for it in the state-wide list. But the separate Woodbury County list-article didn't link properly to the Sioux City Orpheum article, either, so because you pointed it out, I edited the Woodbury County list just now. Thanks for making the connection! I also just added to the Orpheum article itself. I hope you might be interested in adding pictures or otherwise developing the Woodbury County NRHP list-article or any other NRHP stuff. If you are interested in NRHP sites or have any questions, please let me know and/or please feel free to post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. Cheers, doncram (talk) 16:51, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Hey, dude, I think you misunderstand how the state-wide NRHP list-article is supposed to be working.  :) Perhaps it could be labelled better or explained better, but it provides, within it, list-tables for each of the smaller counties. For Woodbury counties and other bigger counties, it provides wikilinks over to their separate list-articles. It is not appropriate to copy Woodbury's table into the state-wide list article. The state-wide list-article is already at a pretty big filesize and cannot hold all the bigger counties' tables. I'll open a discussion section about this at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Iowa. It would be most helpful if you could please discuss there before making further changes along these lines within the list-article. I do concede in advance that maybe some better labelling/explanation within the list-article would perhaps improve the situation. Thanks! doncram (talk) 19:18, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Czech slovak museum flood.jpg

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NRHP infoboxes

Hi Brettstout -- As you've probably noticed i have been noticing your new articles on theatres and have been revising them somewhat. For one thing, I notice you have been creating NRHP infoboxes apparently manually, using information from nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com and crediting that source. You may or may not be aware that is a private, for-profit website that serves up National Register data that is in the public domain.

A better and easier alternative, in my view, is to use the NRHP infobox generator that was created by User:Elkman to serve wp:NRHP wikipedia editors. Elkman downloaded the same NRHP database but has further corrected various errors not fixed by the NRHP.COM version. Also, the infobox generator provides a cut-and-paste ready infobox with most fields filled out with official NRIS data. All you do is visit http://www2.elkman.net/nrhp/infobox.php, plug in, say "Polk" and "FL", and it will generate output which you can cut and paste over into an article. The infobox comes in with a reference footnote crediting NRIS and date in April, 2008. That is the date of the NRIS database extract that was publicly provided and that is the source for both NRHP.COM and Elkman. The date should not usually be changed, unless in fact you get new data from NRIS directly. The NRHP infobox thus created gives a good start. You can add other information to it from other sources, in which cases you should probably credit each other addition by footnote to your other sources. The NRIS coordinates data is often slightly off, due mostly to changes of the U.S. coordinates system since much of the NRIS coordinates were gathered off of old U.S. Geological Survey quadrant maps, not exactly compatible with current coordinate system used by Google maps etc. Hope this may be of some assistance to you. Cheers, doncram (talk) 16:14, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Ann Beach

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WikiProject Theatre Newsletter - February 2010

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter (Febrauary 2010)

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter! Issue 5 - February 2010 Welcome to the latest WikiProject Theatre newsletter (the first in quite a while!) bringing you news of what's going on in the project, what progress we're making, and how you can get involved. Latest News All theatre articles currently tagged with a project banner have now been assessed for quality. There are still plenty to assess for importance, though - see the article assessment page for details. There is now a News section on the main project page, updated automatically to keep us informed of developments in theatre articles. Collaboration of the Month Theatre has been nominated as the next project collaboration. This could be an excellent opportunity to improve the quality of one of our most important articles - listed as one of Wikipedia's top 1000 most vital articles - but it needs a lot of work before it can be considered for even good article nomination! Stop by the collaboration page for tips on how to improve an article, to add your support, or to suggest alternative or future collaborations. Jobs you can do Any and all improvements to theatre-related articles will help the project, but if you're looking for something to do, have a look at the to-do list. Some current areas of priority are: Improving top-importance articles Prioritisation of unknown-importance articles Creation of requested article stubs If you are currently working on a particular topic or area of the project, and would like to muster some support from other editors, feel free to add tasks to the to-do list. Or even think about setting up an informal working group - create a project subpage to organise tasks in a central location. Remember you can always discuss ideas with others at the project talk page. New members The past month has seen Poisonborz, 15lsoucy, LaNaranja and Phaeton23 join us - welcome to you all! If you've been editing a theatre-related article recently and noticed another user helping you who also appears to have an interest for the subject of theatre, why not drop them a line and invite them over to the project? And finally... Don't forget to add the {{User WPTheatre}} userbox to your userpage, and {{WikiProject Theatre}} banner to article talk pages to spread the word about the project! You have received this newsletter because your name is on the list of Members on the WikiProject page. If this information is out of date and you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name from the list, or click here to stop receiving it. If you have any news or announcements to be broadcast, do let us know on the talk page.

Not Myself Tonight

Though the info you keep adding may be true, but it is WP:OR and not stated by any article or sources. Thanks. Candyo32 (talk) 22:39, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Project Iowa news

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Hi, you are receiving this notice because you are a member of WikiProject Iowa. I hope you will take the time to check out the developing division called Communities (pre-named and previously red-linked). Keep up the good work.
Please click on the links in the GOOD NEWS notice. RifeIdeas Talk 23:48, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Brettstout! 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) 02:51, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

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