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Val,
The old Fort Rock Museum website www.fortrockmuseum.com is no longer correct. Yet it is still listed in the References section for Fort Rock, Oregon. It now leads to a Japanese porn site.
The correct web address for the museum is www.fortrockoregon.com
Can you make this change? I am new to Wikipedia and don't understand how to do it myself.
Thanks! Roguefly ( talk) 03:19, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
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http://notabilia.net/ Valfontis ( talk) 22:46, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I put a fair amount of time and thought into my recent edits on Willamette River. Would like to have a discussion before you undo them wholesale. Much of what you put back was poor grammar and sense. I have lots of experience improving writing without betraying technical issues, as well as familiarity with the subject. My goal here is to help improve it to competitive, encyclopedic standards. Thank you for your many hours of service here -- far greater than mine. But, let's discuss, please. Here.it.comes.again ( talk) 09:54, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
You might take a look at the Flickr stream of " http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadmantalking/". He is documenting NW cemeteries. It is likely that he has photos of gravestones of multiple Oregon notables and location shots of pioneer cemeteries all over the state. He has things copyrighted, but would likely give over any that you asked for to Wikimedia. Here.it.comes.again ( talk) 19:48, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Please be more civil in your edit summaries. Thank you. Nadiatalent ( talk) 17:10, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work on creating articles on unincorporated communities in Oregon. One request: could you please add the appropriate county navigational template to new community articles, and add the communities to the template? I've done this for most of your recent articles, I think, so you don't need to worry about those. Thanks, and keep up the good work! TheCatalyst31 Reaction• Creation 05:40, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Val, I am a PhD student from the Carnegie Mellon University. I am interested in the Wikipedia community, especially the behavior of anti-vandalism and the mechanism of collaboration of the week. I noticed that you have participated in WikiProject Oregon’s collaborations before. Could you please take several minutes to answer the following questions if possible? Thanks for your help!
Q1. On average how often do you revert vandalism? A. More than 10 times a week B. 5-10 times a week C. 1-5 times a week D. less than once a week (please skip Q2& Q3 if you choose this)
Q2. Do you use any tools for anti-vandalism? How did you learn to use those tools?
Q3. How do you revert vandals but not good-faith editors ? How did you learn to identify those two kinds of editors?
Q4. How much do you learn from participating in WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week? A. A lot B. A little bit C. Not at all (please skip Q5 if you choose this)
Q5. What did you learn from participating in WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week? Please provide examples if possible.
Q6. Do you have any negative experience of WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week?
You could leave your answers either in your or my talk page if possible. Thanks for your time! We have the same goal to make Wikipedia a better place.
Cheers -- Haiyizhu ( talk) 21:22, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey, how are you? Today there was a front page New York Times story about the lack of female editors in the project, so we decided to create a new mailing list which should be a better place to discuss this issue and attracting new editors in general. It would be awesome if you could join us! Steven Walling at work 03:19, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Valfontis-- Because you participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Columbia Gorge casino, you may want to see this discussion on the article's talk page. Jsayre64 (talk) 02:43, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey there. Just did a few edits and wound up thinking about you, like I always do when I edit. I have yet to make my talk page look like anything, and all it is right now is a message from you telling me that I ought to sort it out that you posted there more than a year ago now, and well, I was just wondering if perhaps you could spare a bit of time to help me set it up so it looks like the kind of page a credible person might have? That's pretty much it. Hope you're doing well, miss you. Love you. -- Ainekatt ( talk) 04:09, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Val, thank you for the welcome and the links... the style manual is most welcome! I kind of jumped in with writing an article before anything else so I will go back through Mary Jane Haake and see what I missed - I noticed someone else had asked you for a review of their work, and if it isn't too presumptuous I would certainly appreciate any pointers. Also, the Oregon project caught my eye so I will go through my photos and see if anything might be appropriate or helpful. KatKalls ( talk) 04:37, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
I will be working on organizing the listings in each county of Oregon by several categories, including populated places, buildings and structures, visitor attractions and protected areas. This is to help find these items within the state. I have already done so for many states including California, Arizona and others. I do not believe it is over-categorization. With so many diverse articles in each county, it was difficult to figure out what things were. I hope other people find it helpful. Jllm06 ( talk) 13:17, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
-- Jsayre64 (talk) 02:31, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out to me. I took a look in the history, and saw the disambiguation page had been previously put up for AFD and kept at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Les Balsiger (disambiguation). Even though not many people participated in that discussion, it's enough to persuade me it shouldn't be deleted or redirected without going through another AFD. I've reverted my edit [1], and I'll leave that page as it is for now . Robofish ( talk) 15:38, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Val-- Regarding your recent ref work, I'm just recommending that you install the ref formatting tool to your account, as I did here. Then, in one click, you can get the citation bot to fix citations to the article you're viewing. It will probably make tasks like this easier. Jsayre64 (talk) 03:41, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for creating Frank W. Lewis and for letting me know. There are three articles now on people named Frank Lewis (two born in 1912!), so I created a disambiguation page and linked them all both ways. Ma t c hups 20:49, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Mail to you (at some three-letter domain) is bouncing. tedder ( talk) 16:08, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 10 | ← | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | Archive 14 | Archive 15 | Archive 16 | → | Archive 20 |
Val,
The old Fort Rock Museum website www.fortrockmuseum.com is no longer correct. Yet it is still listed in the References section for Fort Rock, Oregon. It now leads to a Japanese porn site.
The correct web address for the museum is www.fortrockoregon.com
Can you make this change? I am new to Wikipedia and don't understand how to do it myself.
Thanks! Roguefly ( talk) 03:19, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
![]() |
<font=3> You're invited to help celebrate Wikipedia's 10th anniversary! Visit
this link for details. An informal celebration will take place at the
AboutUs office located at 107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520 in Portland on Saturday, January 15, 2011. An
Open Space Technology meeting is scheduled from 5pm to 7pm, with a party to follow. Admission is free! -- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:00, 14 January 2011 (UTC) |
---|
http://notabilia.net/ Valfontis ( talk) 22:46, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Greetings, I put a fair amount of time and thought into my recent edits on Willamette River. Would like to have a discussion before you undo them wholesale. Much of what you put back was poor grammar and sense. I have lots of experience improving writing without betraying technical issues, as well as familiarity with the subject. My goal here is to help improve it to competitive, encyclopedic standards. Thank you for your many hours of service here -- far greater than mine. But, let's discuss, please. Here.it.comes.again ( talk) 09:54, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
You might take a look at the Flickr stream of " http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadmantalking/". He is documenting NW cemeteries. It is likely that he has photos of gravestones of multiple Oregon notables and location shots of pioneer cemeteries all over the state. He has things copyrighted, but would likely give over any that you asked for to Wikimedia. Here.it.comes.again ( talk) 19:48, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Please be more civil in your edit summaries. Thank you. Nadiatalent ( talk) 17:10, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work on creating articles on unincorporated communities in Oregon. One request: could you please add the appropriate county navigational template to new community articles, and add the communities to the template? I've done this for most of your recent articles, I think, so you don't need to worry about those. Thanks, and keep up the good work! TheCatalyst31 Reaction• Creation 05:40, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Val, I am a PhD student from the Carnegie Mellon University. I am interested in the Wikipedia community, especially the behavior of anti-vandalism and the mechanism of collaboration of the week. I noticed that you have participated in WikiProject Oregon’s collaborations before. Could you please take several minutes to answer the following questions if possible? Thanks for your help!
Q1. On average how often do you revert vandalism? A. More than 10 times a week B. 5-10 times a week C. 1-5 times a week D. less than once a week (please skip Q2& Q3 if you choose this)
Q2. Do you use any tools for anti-vandalism? How did you learn to use those tools?
Q3. How do you revert vandals but not good-faith editors ? How did you learn to identify those two kinds of editors?
Q4. How much do you learn from participating in WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week? A. A lot B. A little bit C. Not at all (please skip Q5 if you choose this)
Q5. What did you learn from participating in WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week? Please provide examples if possible.
Q6. Do you have any negative experience of WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week?
You could leave your answers either in your or my talk page if possible. Thanks for your time! We have the same goal to make Wikipedia a better place.
Cheers -- Haiyizhu ( talk) 21:22, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey, how are you? Today there was a front page New York Times story about the lack of female editors in the project, so we decided to create a new mailing list which should be a better place to discuss this issue and attracting new editors in general. It would be awesome if you could join us! Steven Walling at work 03:19, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Valfontis-- Because you participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Columbia Gorge casino, you may want to see this discussion on the article's talk page. Jsayre64 (talk) 02:43, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey there. Just did a few edits and wound up thinking about you, like I always do when I edit. I have yet to make my talk page look like anything, and all it is right now is a message from you telling me that I ought to sort it out that you posted there more than a year ago now, and well, I was just wondering if perhaps you could spare a bit of time to help me set it up so it looks like the kind of page a credible person might have? That's pretty much it. Hope you're doing well, miss you. Love you. -- Ainekatt ( talk) 04:09, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Val, thank you for the welcome and the links... the style manual is most welcome! I kind of jumped in with writing an article before anything else so I will go back through Mary Jane Haake and see what I missed - I noticed someone else had asked you for a review of their work, and if it isn't too presumptuous I would certainly appreciate any pointers. Also, the Oregon project caught my eye so I will go through my photos and see if anything might be appropriate or helpful. KatKalls ( talk) 04:37, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
I will be working on organizing the listings in each county of Oregon by several categories, including populated places, buildings and structures, visitor attractions and protected areas. This is to help find these items within the state. I have already done so for many states including California, Arizona and others. I do not believe it is over-categorization. With so many diverse articles in each county, it was difficult to figure out what things were. I hope other people find it helpful. Jllm06 ( talk) 13:17, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
-- Jsayre64 (talk) 02:31, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out to me. I took a look in the history, and saw the disambiguation page had been previously put up for AFD and kept at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Les Balsiger (disambiguation). Even though not many people participated in that discussion, it's enough to persuade me it shouldn't be deleted or redirected without going through another AFD. I've reverted my edit [1], and I'll leave that page as it is for now . Robofish ( talk) 15:38, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Val-- Regarding your recent ref work, I'm just recommending that you install the ref formatting tool to your account, as I did here. Then, in one click, you can get the citation bot to fix citations to the article you're viewing. It will probably make tasks like this easier. Jsayre64 (talk) 03:41, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for creating Frank W. Lewis and for letting me know. There are three articles now on people named Frank Lewis (two born in 1912!), so I created a disambiguation page and linked them all both ways. Ma t c hups 20:49, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Mail to you (at some three-letter domain) is bouncing. tedder ( talk) 16:08, 2 March 2011 (UTC)