User talk:Rt66lt/Archive

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Image tagging

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What possible use...

Are all these highway articles? You don't seem to be adding any information to them that's no available on any map. I could see why one might write an article about a significant stretch of highway, but these don't seem to have any extra content. Are you planning to add any more content other than their length and what towns are on them? Thanks -- Sdedeo 03:07, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I plan to add more information to as many of these highway articles as I can. The original List of Missouri highways had been started with a few articles written for some of them. I simply completed the list and attempted to start something for each of them. Some may never have anything more than enpoints, others may have more information by me or someone else (one reason for me going ahead and starting them was a hope that all the Missouri highways would have a similar format).

Another reason is that links can be made with other articles that others can follow from the other article. Example, someone created an article for Interstate 270 (St. Louis). Links were made to the state highway articles and allowed readers to see information on these highways. Again, they may only have endpoints or lists of towns, but hopefully these articles will continue to grow. -- Rt66lt, August 13, 2005

Kevin Tighe

I added a stub template and a category to Kevin Tighe. Please add a proper stub template to very short articles you create. This helps others to find and expand them. The list of available stub types is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. Thank you. DES ^(talk) 03:48, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

US Highway WP

Please use the {{routeboxus}} routebox, that is what the WP is for- not the roads infobox please. Thanks. --Rschen7754

Wikipedia:Peer review/U.S. Highway 66/archive1

I've added a few comments. Let me know when you've read them and what you think. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:22, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

• I would also recommend you to make all history sections, section 3 (===) headers and add a simple section 2 header called 'History' to the top of 'm all to make things clear. - Mgm|^(talk) 04:42, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

US highway article

Not sure I like just 'US 66', although that doesn't reflect what's there now.

More importantly, sometimes you use 'US' without the dots, but in key places, such as the title, you write U dot S dot. Usage is unstable now in this respect, but only some Americans still insist on the dots. The rest of the world has been dropping dots from initialisms over the last few decades (NATO, CBS, etc.). Removing the dots is much neater on the page, and easier to read. Tony 23:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Why not get rid of the dots in the title too? Tony 00:32, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Missouri-geo-stub

Hi Rt66It - thought you'd like to know that {{Missouri-geo-stub}} got the go-ahead and is up and running. separate category rather than as you suggested (which is standard - each stub should have a dedicated category), but other than that as you had it (which was as per WP:WSS standard anyway). Grutness...wha? 00:41, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Missouri highways

Thanks for your comment on WP:SFD. I won't reply there, as the discussion is already somewhat "old". The additions to the category do at least take care of the viability question, but there remains the issue of the name: your wikiproject itself uses the uncapitalised "state highways" when referring to them collectively, and stub naming conventions are that they should end in "-stub", so wouldn't Missouri-state-highway-stub be more logical? Alai 00:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Stubs

In order to prevent further problems... what is the project's definiton of a stub? I'm trying to get a bot set up to do this sort of stuff... --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 02:22, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I'll take care of the stubs over this week... after I give my new bot a spin. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:21, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Or wait... did you do it already? --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:27, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Mustard gas

Thanks for catching that error. I'm not sure what I was thinking... – ClockworkSoul 22:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Image:CO extinguisher 2.PNG

Please use Wikimedia Commons to upload you images. Thanks, Saperaud 22:02, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Fire extinguishers

Hi Rt66It - I have just seen you are wishing to expand the Fire extinguisher article. I have created the article in another wikipedia (it.wiki : http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estintore), and I would have liked to add something to the en.wiki article... My problem that I'm the other side of the Atlantic, and I am EN-conditioned (will they ever reach an agreement?).

However, some of the parts may be used; only English is not my native language, so I'd quite refrain from making those comic mistakes often seen in wiki when translating articles.

Could we work in team? I could translate somehow the parts I feel are missing in en, and would you review them?

BTW, my background is a few years as tech manager in a major European extinguisher manufacturer.

Ruben UbUb 14:57, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

(Wrongly posted previously in your user page - sorry)

I have posted in my talk page some addenda for this article UbUb 17:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Done, thanks - hope to add something UbUb 09:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

{{RouteboxMO}} suggestion

It might be better to not subst the template into the article... it a) makes the template difficult to edit if we need to fix something and b) if we need to change the template for some reason then we have to change all of the infoboxes.

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:56, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Looks pretty good... not subst'ed, consistent, and has decent size. I suppose a junctions list would be nice, but then I suppose that if MO doesn't use mileages that doesn't make it as worthwhile. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:05, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Stars on 45 Medley, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Image:Grade intersection on I-40.jpg

FYI, [1] seems to indicate that the photo was taken west of Albuquerque. User:Alanhwiki has fixed the caption at At-grade intersection. Also see Talk:At-grade intersection. -- Paddu 16:23, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Distance

I just posted a comment on Talk:List of strange units of measurement, and then checked the history to see who added it...and it was the Missouri Highway Guy! Sorry for accusing you of a hoax, but is it actually real? Ardric47 00:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Missouri Business Interstates

For looking all those up when I was too lazy to, I award you a barnstar. Great work! ...Scott⁵¹¹⁴ 19:07, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Alt 71.JPG

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Deist wikipedian

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