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BP Pedestrian Bridge

I saw your talk page comment. Could you tell me what screen resolution you are viewing from, whether you are using full screen and what sections are squeezed.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 08:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

What resolution are you viewing from and are you using full screen?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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Hi

HI Julian, knock knock. Can you let the bald guy in. I'm refraining from joining in at the village pump but can I just say that the idea of the bot creating a few articles automatically is so many editors such as myself can no longer spend all our time creating articles on geo stubs and trying to address the huge bias on here, but can focus on quality, on building up stubs to start class articles. I dedicate a lot of time to wikipedia and creating new articles but if I could soley spend my editing time on here writing the articles that exist, things would be looking a lot better. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, give my head a polish on the way in lol. Well perhaps the millions of articles thing was overly ambitious. It would take over a year to create that many and to expand each and every one of them would be a difficult task indeed, time which you or I haven't got. What we can do however it do several thousand at a time and get the wikirpojects involved so we can aim to get a team working at expanding a sensible number of articles of the most notable articles e.g towns with a poulation over 1000 that could quite feasibly be expanded and not remain permastubs. Ideally I;d love to have full and detailed articles on everywhere, but the huge problem is access to knowledge. Realistically if we could get many onto to here like this, it would give us a firm basis to build upon sensibly. I think the new proposal has a lot of positice points, I agree bots are stupid, even Mr Fritz. the bot programmer is the first to say this. But if it is used in the right way and coordinated and regulated closely it can be a very powerful and efficent tool in setting up a foundation to build upon as of course we write the articles!!. I have spent many weeks laone trying to adding infoboxes and refs to the geo articles which already exist by country and the biggest problem by far is lack of consistency and general shoddiness of starting them. Some editors don't get me wrong cna start articles correctly and get things off to a good start but the majority are not done in a manner expected of wikipedia and it takes weeks to sort out the mess. But if we have a bank of articles under the whim of wikiprojects and along with the editors like myself who work on geo articles we can try to build the best we can which help people in the most efficient and consistent way we can. Whatever is thought of me, I would rather not create 2 million perma stubs either and am here to build an encyclopedia of the highest quality and depth. It should be done in stages but we need to start from somewhere. Best regards ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Strapping Young Lad

Hi! Would you take another look at Strapping Young Lad, and its FAC page? I have addressed many of your (and other) comments. Thank you very much. Gocsa (talk) 19:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Timeline of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season

Nice start. Bearian (talk) 19:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: GA review

I intended on placing the 'On hold' icon instead of the review one; I copy and pasted what was in the instructions and thought it would be the On Hold icon. I noticed a few minor prose issues, but nothing that I thought should prevent it from GA. If the article were to go through FAC, however, then I would certainly bring those up; but generally, the article looks a lot better than many current GAs so I figure I would pass it. Gary King (talk) 20:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I think I found what you were looking for

I think I found 2 free images of NY21 here - [1]. Hope this works for you.
Cheers, Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 16:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the welcome. I was born and mostly raised in the area, Rockland County and I love it. Happy to help improve its coverage. I've done some work on articles in its scope, ie. Hudson River Museum before I knew of the project and plan to continue. Have a nice day! _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 17:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

6/6 DYK

On 6 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tropical Storm Arthur (2008), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Thanks. :) Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 22:53, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Some recent stuff

• Thank you for creating the Hudson Valley portal. I loved the first revision: an article I created as a selected article, with a picture I took; then a picture I took as selected picture, and another article I created as featured attraction. The current one is no less flattering to my ego, either.

• I reverted your recent debolding of the title words in U.S. Route 9 in New York because I felt that's within the permitted limits for such formatting within the MoS. Leading with the disambiguated-by-state title, as I've seen too many other USRD articles do, produces some very clunky phrasing, and dogmatically refusing to link the words results, again, in some very awkward phrasing which doesn't make sense on hard copy. So I did it that way even before the article made GA, which gives us the chance to put an interesting fact in the very first sentence.

• I was amused by your complaint when removing the Downing Park picture from New York State Route 32 that there were too many pictures from that stretch of the road. While removing it probably did the article a favor (I assume you have no complaint with the use of the same image in U.S. Route 9W? That view is almost right off Robinson Avenue, the duplexed route at that point, and I like showing a nice face of Newburgh given that 32 otherwise runs through some grungy neighborhoods of the city), it was south-heavy with pictures because that's near where I live. Oh well. I think the two I added to it recently from the Catskills and Cohoes at least partly balance that out (and certainly help the ongoing FAC), though ultimately the article should have at least one from the area north of the Capital District, preferably the US 4 duplex along the river.

  It is sort of funny that, given the many built-up areas 32 runs through, I/we've chosen to depict it in mainly in rural areas. Not that they're not beautiful.

• Speaking of FACs, I saw that Amadewit felt we could have better pictures for New York State Route 28. I should at least get up to Phoenicia this summer and take a pic of some of the Catskill vistas up there (the view coming to Balsam Mountain, for one, which I may have an old print or two of). There are other things you could find on Flickr, like downtown Oneonta. Or the Adirondack sections. And there's a whole travel guidebook to Route 28 that could be an excellent source, if it isn't already.

• If you're still looking around for an article I could assign you to do, I have one in mind (the picture already exists, so that's not a problem). Daniel Case (talk) 21:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for responding, and I'm sorry it has taken me so long to do so myself. It's been horrible in this heat lately.

I don't know of any rapid-fire way to assess unassessed articles other than going through them. Back in spring 2007, I did maybe a thousand (yes, a thousand) for WP:FASHION all by myself. I would certainly be willing to help you with a few, but do remember I'd have to recuse myself from any article I had created or substantially edited.

Two more things I meant to add to that bulleted list:

• One of my recent photos for the NY 32 article displaced that one you took from a car headed to the 32/208/299 junction in downtown New Paltz. While that filled some space and made the article more readable, it was sort of unnecessary because we already had a picture of that section of New Paltz in the appropriate section of the article, and it wasn't even next to that section. But also, I'd like to discourage you in the future from taking road pictures from inside a car. You get the tint from the windshield glass (easily correctable, I grant) any splotches on the windshield (not as easily correctable) and not as good an overall picture. From the pics you took in New York State Route 292, I know you can get out of a car when necessary to take a picture, and I wish more people in the roads projects would be willing to park the vehicle and get out. I have only taken one picture that I can recall from inside a car. It's worth it, really. Not lecturing you, just making a suggestion I wish more USRD editors would follow.

• Also this summer, I am thinking of taking some pictures at spots I've already identified so we can have a good Interstate 84 in New York article. We could use this in the HV project too, as it's really the only interstate route that's exclusive to the region. Daniel Case (talk) 17:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

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Adminship

Hey. I was wondering if you've had thoughts about becoming an administrator. I'd gladly nominate you at WP:RFA if you're interested. Granted, I don't know whether or not you have a use for the tools, that's what it would probably come down to. Let me know. Wizardman 20:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Get in line :p. He had an RFA really recently. Malinaccier (talk) 20:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Darn three-month rule. :P Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 20:34, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Heh, well, I'll check back in a few months then. If you do want adminship, start participating more in areas you wish to use the tools on. Wizardman 20:26, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

My Rfa

Thanks, Juliancolton, for participating in my recent RfA, which recently passed with 81 support and 1 neutral !votes. I appreciate all the support and constructive criticism offered in my RfA and I thank you for taking the time to !vote in my nomination. I feel so honoured to be trusted by so many of you and please, if you have any advice, comments or complaints about my actions as an administrator, leave a note on my talk page. I would also like to thank Acalamari, Rlevse and Nishkid64, for their nomination statements. Thank you again. AngelOfSadness talk 23:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of New York Jets head coaches

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Thank You

Thank You for the comment on my RFA. I admit that the RFPP report was a little stupid on my side, and I will do my best to make sure I don't do that in the future. Thanks again for the comment. :) <3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 21:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Trump Chicago FAC

I have reduced the construction photos from 25 to 11. Could you please reassess your objection.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:19, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for striking your oppose at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago). I still look forward to your comments and hopefully your support.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:47, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

O.K. you can come look again.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:40, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

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Re: 1999 NIO season

Okay. I put the infobox parameters inside a hidden comment.Potapych (talk) 02:11, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I think it may take someone with admin privileges to move the original page. If you need to write a quick lede, this page [3] might help a little bit.Potapych (talk) 02:18, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

The featured list contest

Thanks for entering the contest. You are now able to select the topic that you would like to work on. While it is a good idea to know which specific list you will work on before you select a topic, you do not have to submit your list until Thursday. Once you have a topic and a list, you can start work. However, you will not be able to submit an FLC until Sunday at 00:00 (GMT). Good luck and have fun! -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Reviews

Would you mind reviewing three more FLC's? Thanks for the help, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 23:11, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I've finished your comments, and/or replied here. Thanks, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 23:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

My RFB

Thank you for your comments in my RFB. Since it was only at 64%, it was a shoo-in to be unsuccessful, so I withdrew. I didn't want it to run until its scheduled close time because my intent in standing for RFB was to help the bureaucrats with their workload, not give them one more RfX to close. Through the course of my RFB, I received some very valuable feedback, some of it was contradictary, but other points were well agreed upon. I have ceased my admin coaching for now to give me time to revamp my method. I don't want to give up coaching completely, but I'm going to find a different angle from which to approach it. As for my RFA Standards, I am going to do some deep intraspection. I wrote those standards six months ago and I will slowly retool them. This will take some time for me to really dig down and express what I want in an admin candidate. If, after some serious time of deep thought, I don't find anything to change in them, I'll leave them the way they are. I'm not going to change them just because of some community disagreement as to what they should be. Will I stand for RFB again in the future? I don't know. Perhaps some time down the road, when my tenure as an administrator is greater than one year, if there is a pressing need for more active bureaucrats, maybe. If there no pressing need, then maybe not. Useight (talk) 02:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

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Anad in spanish

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Cyclones vs. Hurricanes

I saw you changed the heading in Draining and development of the Everglades to "Tropical cyclones". Though that's probably the scientific name that includes all swirly angry storms, it looks a bit out of place in an article about Florida, especially when the section goes on to describe two hurricanes. Hurricanes are what they're known by here in Florida (indeed, renaming the mascot of the University of Miami probably won't go over well), or, when they're on their way and you're in line to buy plywood for your windows again, their called "godd(*& mother*&**&^#@ hurricanes". Using "cyclones" immediately puts my mental locater in the Pacific Ocean. I don't mind the other edits you're making, and in fact they are improving the article, but this one looks really odd. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moni3 (talk • contribs)

CBOTB TFA

Thanks for the notice.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:43, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Request for copyediting

Hi. I am currently trying to prep the Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song article for GAC. Would you be interested in copyediting it? The sections "Music," "Editing," "Response" and "Legacy" look great, but the rest of the article needs work. (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 23:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC))

FA-Team Mission 4

Thank you for volunteering for Mission 4 - Moni3 has helpfully constructed a "to do" list on our Mission 4! Let's start working! Awadewit (talk) 13:29, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Interstate highways, NYC, sortability issues - done!

Hi Julian. It was much easier doing it than telling you how to do it so here's a diff so you can see what I did. It's probably not the most elegant solution but it works. Most important thing to bear in mind is that the {{sort}} appears to use an alphabetical sorting which means 22.5 will sort after 110. Hence you need to force as many leading zeros as needed. If you need anything else, or further explanation, give me a shout. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 14:45, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Not quite, you forgot the leading zeros! The Rambling Man (talk) 15:04, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Butting in - saw this when I came to leave another message. Another possibility is to use {{nts}}, see List of Pennsylvania state parks for an example. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 20:11, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

FT promotion massacre

Should have noticed that "New York State routes" didn't make sense whatsoever. I was about to move it back - noticing that - and someone :P beat me to it. Nice to know that if I hadn't fixed that mistake you were watching my back. Hmm... maybe you can get started on the "New York State Routes" topic :P Thanks, - « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 19:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Forksville Covered Bridge GA review

Thanks for your thorough review of Forksville Covered Bridge and your kind words about the article. I have replied to all of the issues raised (that User:Dincher did not already beat me to ;-) ). I am not sure about adding the date of construction in History as it is already there in a statement about the three bridges in Sullivan County, but I am open to suggestions to improve it. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 20:16, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the Good Article assessment. When I started it, I did not think I could find as much on the bridge as I did. Now I am thinking it may be up to FA - if you do not mind my asking, what do think of it as a potential FA? Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick reply - I will put it up for peer review first and polish it before FAC. There are one or two minor things to add still (population of Forksville today, the fact that it was built as a county bridge). Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:56, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't have much explicitly on why it was built - the county built it, the highways in the county follow the creeks mostly as the terrain is pretty mountainous, and two of the major creeks meet here, so it is a major crossroads. There are 1915 and 1941 PennDOT maps that show it as the bridge on the major highway. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Again this is an educated guess but the village of Forksville was there, so they seem to have run the road through the village. The modern 87 passes just north of the "downtown". Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 12:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a final count of 42 supporting, 2 opposing and 2 neutral. I would like to thank Keeper76 especially for the great nomination. I look forward to assist the project and its community as an administrator. Thanks again, Cenarium ^Talk 00:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA. The Rfa was successful with 64 Support and 1 Neutral. None of this would have happened without your support. I would also like to thank my nominator Wizardman and my sensei/co-nom bibliomaniac15--Lenticel (talk) 09:12, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

re: welcome

Thank you for my welcome.Cats & dogs forever (talk) 19:48, 20 June 2008 (UTC)Ok Cats & dogs forever (talk) 20:09, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Found it

found your super secret barnstar haha!Cats & dogs forever (talk) 01:33, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Effects of Hurricane Charley in South Carolina

On 21 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Effects of Hurricane Charley in South Carolina, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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NY 28 FA

Julian,

I know I'm a little bit late on this, but do let me congratulate you. Good work.

If you don't mind, I can touch up the route description from Kingston to about Cooperstown, the limit of what I'm familiar with along this road. Daniel Case (talk) 19:19, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Reviews

Would you be willing to review three more FLC's? Tell me what you think. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 22:07, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

You have new messages (last change).

Yeah - more new messages. (I don't want to turn your userpage into an orange mess) « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 01:05, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah - before you responded, I already added the source on the list :P « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 01:08, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

[4] Okay - done. Any further comments? « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 01:35, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

More replies. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 20:24, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Even more.... « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 20:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay then. Any further comments? Thanks, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 20:52, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Ding. « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 21:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I was planning to get this to FLC soon – can I get your comments before I do? Thanks, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 21:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

OMG

I can't believe i did that. Delete it. Delete Fire magick/work and Gray witch/work I meant to make it a subpage. Thank you so much. --Condalence] 21:37, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your kind words during my recent RfA. I appreciate your support and will do my best to live up to it. Karanacs (talk) 17:53, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/2006 Major League Baseball season pitching leaders

Hersfold fixed the formatting problem with the images, and other concerns/comments? « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 00:09, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay - thanks for copyediting 2000–01 National Basketball Association Eastern Conference playoff leaders. DO you have any further comments? Thanks, and oh yeah, would you mind reviewing this? Thanks, « Milk's Favorite Cøøkie 01:44, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

FA-Team Mission 4 success!

Draining and development of the Everglades, which in the end we decided not to rename "Complete land rape of South Florida", has achieved FA status! Congratulations and thanks all around! Two down and three to go - head for those copyediting and peer-reviewing parties at Restoration of the Everglades, Geography and ecology of the Everglades and Everglades! Awadewit (talk) 13:53, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

• The Everglades have been saved! Just kidding! Seriously, though, big changes are afoot, as reported by our own Moni3 at Wikinews. These developments have prompted a dramatic increase in traffic to the articles, so let's do Wikipedia proud and spruce them up pronto! Awadewit (talk) 15:37, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

• I think some of us are perfectionists and therefore we see a bit more work to be done! Awadewit (talk) 02:41, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)

You had made fairly significant critical commentary at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) without voicing an opinion. The discussion had to be restarted. I continue to believe that this is the best WP article ever written on a building under construction and hope you might consider voicing an opinion on the matter.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I feel I have addressed your concerns as well as possible.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:39, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

O.K. How is that?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:38, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your continuing efforts. I have responded to your last round of thoughts.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Would you consider supporting if I have addressed your concerns and if you feel it represents the best work of WP?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you kind Wikipedian

Thanks for the Barnstar. It is much appreciated, though I wish I had a legitimate reason for receiving it; in all honesty, you just gave me work to do: I have to format my page to fit this! You jerk! No, I jest. Thank you very much for my first barnstar. See ya' 'round! Leonard^(Bloom) 23:34, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Very valid point my friend, very valid point. And as for formatting, my talk page is fine, I just don't know where to put my award (it's fun to say that :P ). Leonard^(Bloom) 01:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Luke Ravenstahl's GA review

I think we got most of the problems with Luke Ravenstahl resolved. It is currently on hold, so do I need to re-nominate it for a reappraisal? --TheZachMorrisExperience (talk) 07:19, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Deprodding of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_group

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WikiProject Homeschooling newswletter for June 2008

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So, where do we go from here?

To new and even more interesting projects, of course!

As announced in the newsletter, I've been preparing to co-coordinate a large collaboration/competition called Around the World. It was going to be run at the Awards Center, but since that no longer exists, the collaboration will be hosted somewhere else.

Around the World will begin July 15th as planned - it's location will be announced soon.

It'll be a blast. In the competition, participants will be helping to develop over 200 pages (drafts, which will be moved to article space once they are ready), using advanced tools to edit every single one of them!

This is going to be interesting.

And the event shall have awards which are being created specifically for it as we speak!

If you would like me to keep you informed of this and other interesting collaborations I'll be working on and/or organizing in the future, please drop me a note on my talk page, and I'll be happy to keep you in the know.

I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,

The Transhumanist    21:45, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Organizing Around the World

The prep work is taking place on Penubag's (graphics) and Malinaccier's (other tasks) talk pages. We need help both places. The Transhumanist    01:17, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

If you start working on them, start from Z and work backwords alphabetically. This will reduce the chance of conflict between us. Thanks, Malinaccier (talk) 02:24, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good. Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 13:00, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

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