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In Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Human_rights You wrote
Hello all. There is definitely a ton of info out there to justify this project, and I'm sure the users will come pouring in. I would like to join the WikiProject Human Rights, and in doing so, I want to usher in a formidible analysis that has been excluded from the Project so far: Youth rights. There are a large number of articles in Wikipedia that deal with the many angles of youth rights, and I will include them as well. - Freechild 04:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I have responded
petedavo
03:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, List of Communists in Omaha, Nebraska, has been listed by me for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Communists in Omaha, Nebraska. Thank you.
Generally I think your edits are excellent (I said so on your editor review a while back I think), but IMO this list is too indiscriminate, leaves out too many people (a town Omaha's size would have had hundreds if not thousands of CP/IWW members), and seems to confuse communism with socialism (Lawrence Klein a communist?). - iridescenti (talk to me!) 20:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, we might do that. Earthistyouth 22:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for improving that article. I did a quick search for more information when I made the split, but couldn't find anything. I'm glad someone came along with enough knowledge to make it a viable article. Also, do you have any knowledge about the other Zoo Bars out there? I noticed several in my searches...
Regards, BierHerr 15:06, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a good reason why this article has two "See also" sections? (I suspect it's a mistake.) -- orlady 18:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
The page as have userfied as per your request. Once you no longer require it, please tag it for speedy deletion. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 11:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. It was a prod notice so I guess it is contested. Time to take it to AfD I think. Cheers, Mattinbgn/ talk 21:46, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Freechild! You probably noticed I did some editing on the article. I though it would be polite to let you know that I have now removed the reference that contained a link to the UK City Guide. This is because I have discovered it is classed as a Spam website and is always getting removed from other articles by admins and editors, along with its sister websites from the same source. Richard Harvey 09:29, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
I think I understand the motivation for adding the caveat to the sentence "Stevens and P.B. Van Trump made the first documented successful climb of Mount Rainier by a European American on August 17, 1870." However I think it is incorrectly specific, are there any documented climbs by non European Americans? -- Patleahy 17:34, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
I had considered adding a sentence to say Native Americans may have made undocumented climbs of the mountain. However Haines' book (cited in the article) describes the local tribes members being afraid of venturing high on the mountain so I decided not to assume they climbed the mountain. I am aware that Haines has a rather unenlightened view of Native American which may have clouded his writings. -- Patleahy 17:58, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
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I'm the person who added the edit that claimed that Omaha Central High School in on the National Register of Historic Places - an edit that you removed. Here is my opinion on the subject. In support of your edit you included two links, " According to two sources( [1] and [2]) Central is not on the NRHP." . First of all, your first link is using wikipedia to support another wikipedia edit and that is . . .... suspect. The second link that you add has nothing to do with the National Register of Historic Places, so is pretty irrelevant (another opinion of mine). The place to look (yet another opinion of mine) for this sort of thing is [3] here, where you will find the school listed as Building - #79003684. Now back to your first link, the wikipedia one. If you will look at it a little closer you'll find the school there, cunningly disguised as Omaha High School. However, if you, an experienced wikipedian can't make that leap what chance does a novice have? However there is good news. As a form of penance for your insensitive editing your task is to do some real original research and discover who the sculptor was that created the sculpture in the pediment of the school building and let me know. Life is supposed to be interesting. Carptrash 15:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
I found this interesting article, and thought it might be useful to you. If not, then I apologize. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/01/EDGTLOS9C21.DTL&hw=foster+care&sn=006&sc=418 Lindentree 11:30, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I've speedily deleted List of jazz clubs because it was previously deleted in an AFD discussion. You'll need to go to deletion review to contest the previous deletion, rather than simply recreate the article; stating the list may never be complete pretty much brings up the question asked by the AFD nominator. -- Core desat 22:10, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Freechild. Nice job on
Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame! Well done. Thanks.
Note that, so far, there has only been the one group of inductions - in 2005. (There was no ceremony, nor inductions, in 2006). However, a ceremony is planned for 2007. (I can't remember where I saw the announcement; I'll add a link here when I find it again.)
I had in mind to have lists of inductees by year. (e.g. most of
L.A. Carnival were inducted, but you've only mentioned Arno and Lester.) Are you OK with that?
I noticed you've added OBMHoF to "Museums in Nebraska". Is there a physical place called OBMHoF? If so, do you know where it is located? If not, should it be in the Museums list?
Cheers,
Pdfpdf
01:19, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Wow! You're distressingly efficient, and I'm most impressed! Thanks for the HoF explanation. For reasons that I don't fully understand myself, I have an interest in L.A. Carnival. I can find information on L.A. himself, but can't find anything significant about the other members. Given that many of them were inducted into the OBMHoF, presumably at least some of them are "significant" people(?) So if you can find out anything about them, that would be good. Also, the L.A. and L.A. Carnival pages are still under construction. If you'd like to work your magic on those pages, I'd be most greatful. Pdfpdf 04:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Mmmmm. Well, obviously, I'm biassed, but I would have thought co-writing a grammy winning song, and arranging another song which was a grammy winner would be notable? And as I asked: "Given that many of them were inducted into the OBMHoF, presumably at least some of them are "significant" people(?)". (Or isn't being inducted into the OBMHoF all that notable?) (From South Australia it's rather difficult to judge these things ...)
Regarding "L.A. Carnival" and "The Les Smith Soul Band", you probably have a good point. Perhaps merge them back into
Lester Abrams?
(And thanks for your magic!)
Pdfpdf
05:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
More good advice. Thanks. Gotta do some other stuff now - be back tomorrow. Pdfpdf 05:35, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Regarding "L.A. Carnival" and "The Les Smith Soul Band", perhaps merge them back into Lester Abrams? Pdfpdf 00:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
"Merge the 3 articles"? Lester Abrams and L.A. Carnival. Which is the third? Pdfpdf 01:38, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi again,
"FYI, I have ran into some resistance from other editors over using bullet points in articles, as it appears less encyclopedia-like." Yes, there are a lot of people with a lot of opinions. After some initial "robust discussion", I subsequently decided to take the path of least resistance!
"Consequently I've become accustomed to "paragraphizing" everything I write in WP. I tried this a little bit with the L.A. article, but with all the (awesome amount of) details you've added, I don't want to step on your prose." That's OK by me. Feel free to do whatever you think will cause us both the the least resistance from others. I've had a bit of difficulty getting it to look reasonable; maybe resorting to bullets wasn't the answer ...
"Great job on this article!" Thanks. I'm surprised how intertwined the lives of these guys are, and how much they've done. I've lost count of the number of albums and artists Rick Chudacoff has been associated with, but, in general, "nobody's ever heard of him". I'm also surprised that after 35 years, L.A. and Les Smith are still working together.
But most of all, I can't seem to find anything about anyone (other than Chudacoff) in the 1980s and 1990s. Do you have any leads?
Pdfpdf
08:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, I think that's about all I'm going to do on Lester Abrams for a while. Cheers, Pdfpdf 13:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if you read the World-Herald regularly in your search for Omaha information, but the paper has begun an excellent series on the racial divide in Omaha. The most recent article is available here. – Swid ( talk | edits) 14:45, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you've been doing a number of articles on National Register properties in Omaha. There's just one thing I'd like to mention: The "nrhp_type" field in the infobox should be set to "nhl" only if the building is a National Historic Landmark, which is a higher recognition than just being on the National Register of Historic Places. ( Here's the list of National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska.) If it isn't a National Historic Landmark, then nrhp_type should just be set to "nrhp" or left blank. That way, the articles won't get classified into the wrong category. Otherwise, keep up the good work. -- Elkman (Elkspeak) 23:03, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Just filled in a redlink from the template on the bottom. Thought I'd make sure you saw it. Best, Smmurphy( Talk) 19:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You stuck an NPOV tag on this article (for obvious reasons) w/o explaining it on the talkpage. When you get a second could you do that? Thanks. - Freechild 23:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I've seen lists with citations done on the same line as the entry, and I think that's probably the best practice. I think a citation would be absolutely necessary when there is not one in the article. Those are my thoughts, but I can't tell you I'm any more right than anybody else is. Erechtheus 04:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed you moved Landmarks of Omaha, Nebraska. At the risk of being impersonal, WP:MOVE describes the "best" way to move pages like this. The idea is that if you move a page by creating a new page, merging the contents of the old page, and then making the old page a redirect, you lose the "edit history" (or you at least make it harder to find). This isn't the worst thing in the world, but using the "move" button avoids this, and is a lot more fun. Hopefully that makes sense and is helpful. Best, Smmurphy( Talk) 07:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Why did you put the Registered historic places in Omaha on the First National of Nebraska page? I was looking through the list and I don't see anything that would apply to this company.
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When Culture in Omaha, Nebraska was listed for deletion, it had zero cited references. Thanks to your tireless efforts, it now has 41, so I closed the discussion early. Keep up the good work, and consider informing the Wikipedia community of your wonderful discoveries via the Did you know? feature on the Main Page. Best regards. Yechiel Man 07:27, 10 June 2007 (UTC) |
Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Mogollon, New Mexico, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on June 11 where you can improve it if you see fit. Regards, howcheng { chat} 20:02, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
I want your opinion on the following idea:
There are two templates (that I know of) for the Omaha area:
and
. It looks like there is some overlap between the two, which is probably partly my idea, but I didn't discover the second until recently. I think the first should be strictly places in Omaha proper and the second for all suburbs and the Omaha article itself.
BTW, a lot of your articles should be DYK material. Keep up the good work! DandyDan2007 21:39, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
-- howcheng { chat} 00:12, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Freechild and thanks for all your hard work getting Omaha on the front page. Keep it up! Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 03:39, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey man, do you know anything about hip hop from omaha/north omaha? there seems to be a sizable collection of underground hip hop (like underground hardcore, not "indie") cds/tapes floating around. It would make an interesting addition to the Culture of North Omaha section. Claphands 23:32, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I have repurposed merging National Trails System Act into National Trails System. When this was last proposed it was included in three other proposed merges which you objected to. Your reasoning for objecting didn't apply to this particular merge so I would be interested in hearing your opinion at Talk:National Trails System#Merge from National Trails System Act. -- Patleahy 18:16, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I think I explained why. I don't have the mind-power today to fix it, and may need help. Plus, we're in the middle of a HUGE thunderstorm, and my server may crash if we get blacked out, so I don't want to start a major project this moment. Bearian 22:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed there's a CFD for renaming Category:Historic houses in Omaha, though there's no clear consensus yet on what to do. I suggested renaming it Category:Omaha Landmarks, since it looks like most of the houses in that category are listed by the City of Omaha's Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission. Do you have any thoughts on that? -- Elkman (Elkspeak) 21:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your compliments regarding the "historic house" categories. I have found some of the discussions particularly difficult to deal with, and I really appreciate your encouragement. Dr. Submillimeter 08:15, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
-- Yomangani talk 13:46, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Could you write an explanation in Category:Omaha Landmarks to explain how it is different from Category:Landmarks in Omaha, Nebraska? The two categories are confusing. Dr. Submillimeter 20:35, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Freechild! Good to hear from you, and thanks for the news. You put your message in one of my archives, and I only just noticed it - so sorry for the delayed reply.
I will take great pleasure in "taking a look at it". (BTW: I'm paying attention to your request not to split the conversation, which, btw, I think is a good idea - I'll probably steal a copy of your text!). And thanks for the licence to "fiddle with it". If I make any changes that you don't like, don't hesitate to revert them - I won't be offended. (I might be puzzled! But I won't be offended.)
I would dread the thought that I missed adding anything. - Sorry to disillusion you, but even before I look I can just about guarantee that you've missed something! ;-) (I assume you've heard of Murphy's Law?)
I've had a quick look, and my first reaction was "Having a quick look is inadequate. I need to devote some time to this". My second reaction was "Surf Music in Omaha?????". It seems the old adage "You learn something new every day" continues to be true!
Regards,
Pdfpdf
09:03, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
P.S. The
OBMHoF web site maintenance seems to have been completed, and the web site seems be working.
OK! I've started! This is harder than I expected!!
I've made some changes, and put some comments/questions at
User talk:Pdfpdf/Music in Omaha
Pdfpdf
11:44, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Good question! Generally one would indeed write "1940 to 1961", (and one would mean "from 1940 to 1961 inclusive"). However, it can be ambiguous. The only way to be certain is to use the whole phrase, which, of course, nobody does. (Unless it's really important to be absolutely clear.) (By-the-way: I think what I've just written is a very unsatisfactory answer, even if it is accurate.) So, the choice is yours! Either X thru Y, which is unambiguous but not used outside USA, or X to Y, which is generally quite clear, but not always. (I bet you'll never ask me another question!) Pdfpdf 08:57, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
That's very kind of you. Thank you. Pdfpdf 08:57, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, UK. Yes, because of The Wades. Yes, the Canadian reference is enticing! Also, there are two German sites - no, that's too grand - two German pages with not much on them and next-to-nothing behind them: www.famecity.de and www.famecity-entertainment.com - not highly useful. And Yes, I'm far from impressed with the way the speedy delete jugernaut, once started, seems impossible to stop. Seeing that The Wades seemed to be the only users of Famecity Entertainment, and both Famecity and The Wades seem to be inactive, maybe the answer is to put anything about Famecity on The Wades page? Unless we can find something more notable, I'd say that, by itself, Famecity probably fails the notability test? Your thoughts? Cheers, Pdfpdf 08:57, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
-- Carabinieri 15:04, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to say excellent work on the Tom Dennison article! Ardric47 20:25, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I made an attempt at redoing the culture section on the main Omaha page: tore out some weird stuff, added in some refs from the culture article, did some sprucing up... Check it out when you have time (translation: clean up after me). I'd like to know if you think we should go even farther with this... maybe pull Sports out of Culture and move it up a level? etc. Regards, BierHerr 02:21, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
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In Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Human_rights You wrote
Hello all. There is definitely a ton of info out there to justify this project, and I'm sure the users will come pouring in. I would like to join the WikiProject Human Rights, and in doing so, I want to usher in a formidible analysis that has been excluded from the Project so far: Youth rights. There are a large number of articles in Wikipedia that deal with the many angles of youth rights, and I will include them as well. - Freechild 04:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
I have responded
petedavo
03:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, List of Communists in Omaha, Nebraska, has been listed by me for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Communists in Omaha, Nebraska. Thank you.
Generally I think your edits are excellent (I said so on your editor review a while back I think), but IMO this list is too indiscriminate, leaves out too many people (a town Omaha's size would have had hundreds if not thousands of CP/IWW members), and seems to confuse communism with socialism (Lawrence Klein a communist?). - iridescenti (talk to me!) 20:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, we might do that. Earthistyouth 22:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for improving that article. I did a quick search for more information when I made the split, but couldn't find anything. I'm glad someone came along with enough knowledge to make it a viable article. Also, do you have any knowledge about the other Zoo Bars out there? I noticed several in my searches...
Regards, BierHerr 15:06, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a good reason why this article has two "See also" sections? (I suspect it's a mistake.) -- orlady 18:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
The page as have userfied as per your request. Once you no longer require it, please tag it for speedy deletion. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 11:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. It was a prod notice so I guess it is contested. Time to take it to AfD I think. Cheers, Mattinbgn/ talk 21:46, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Freechild! You probably noticed I did some editing on the article. I though it would be polite to let you know that I have now removed the reference that contained a link to the UK City Guide. This is because I have discovered it is classed as a Spam website and is always getting removed from other articles by admins and editors, along with its sister websites from the same source. Richard Harvey 09:29, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
I think I understand the motivation for adding the caveat to the sentence "Stevens and P.B. Van Trump made the first documented successful climb of Mount Rainier by a European American on August 17, 1870." However I think it is incorrectly specific, are there any documented climbs by non European Americans? -- Patleahy 17:34, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
I had considered adding a sentence to say Native Americans may have made undocumented climbs of the mountain. However Haines' book (cited in the article) describes the local tribes members being afraid of venturing high on the mountain so I decided not to assume they climbed the mountain. I am aware that Haines has a rather unenlightened view of Native American which may have clouded his writings. -- Patleahy 17:58, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
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I'm the person who added the edit that claimed that Omaha Central High School in on the National Register of Historic Places - an edit that you removed. Here is my opinion on the subject. In support of your edit you included two links, " According to two sources( [1] and [2]) Central is not on the NRHP." . First of all, your first link is using wikipedia to support another wikipedia edit and that is . . .... suspect. The second link that you add has nothing to do with the National Register of Historic Places, so is pretty irrelevant (another opinion of mine). The place to look (yet another opinion of mine) for this sort of thing is [3] here, where you will find the school listed as Building - #79003684. Now back to your first link, the wikipedia one. If you will look at it a little closer you'll find the school there, cunningly disguised as Omaha High School. However, if you, an experienced wikipedian can't make that leap what chance does a novice have? However there is good news. As a form of penance for your insensitive editing your task is to do some real original research and discover who the sculptor was that created the sculpture in the pediment of the school building and let me know. Life is supposed to be interesting. Carptrash 15:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
I found this interesting article, and thought it might be useful to you. If not, then I apologize. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/01/EDGTLOS9C21.DTL&hw=foster+care&sn=006&sc=418 Lindentree 11:30, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I've speedily deleted List of jazz clubs because it was previously deleted in an AFD discussion. You'll need to go to deletion review to contest the previous deletion, rather than simply recreate the article; stating the list may never be complete pretty much brings up the question asked by the AFD nominator. -- Core desat 22:10, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Freechild. Nice job on
Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame! Well done. Thanks.
Note that, so far, there has only been the one group of inductions - in 2005. (There was no ceremony, nor inductions, in 2006). However, a ceremony is planned for 2007. (I can't remember where I saw the announcement; I'll add a link here when I find it again.)
I had in mind to have lists of inductees by year. (e.g. most of
L.A. Carnival were inducted, but you've only mentioned Arno and Lester.) Are you OK with that?
I noticed you've added OBMHoF to "Museums in Nebraska". Is there a physical place called OBMHoF? If so, do you know where it is located? If not, should it be in the Museums list?
Cheers,
Pdfpdf
01:19, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Wow! You're distressingly efficient, and I'm most impressed! Thanks for the HoF explanation. For reasons that I don't fully understand myself, I have an interest in L.A. Carnival. I can find information on L.A. himself, but can't find anything significant about the other members. Given that many of them were inducted into the OBMHoF, presumably at least some of them are "significant" people(?) So if you can find out anything about them, that would be good. Also, the L.A. and L.A. Carnival pages are still under construction. If you'd like to work your magic on those pages, I'd be most greatful. Pdfpdf 04:36, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Mmmmm. Well, obviously, I'm biassed, but I would have thought co-writing a grammy winning song, and arranging another song which was a grammy winner would be notable? And as I asked: "Given that many of them were inducted into the OBMHoF, presumably at least some of them are "significant" people(?)". (Or isn't being inducted into the OBMHoF all that notable?) (From South Australia it's rather difficult to judge these things ...)
Regarding "L.A. Carnival" and "The Les Smith Soul Band", you probably have a good point. Perhaps merge them back into
Lester Abrams?
(And thanks for your magic!)
Pdfpdf
05:30, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
More good advice. Thanks. Gotta do some other stuff now - be back tomorrow. Pdfpdf 05:35, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Regarding "L.A. Carnival" and "The Les Smith Soul Band", perhaps merge them back into Lester Abrams? Pdfpdf 00:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
"Merge the 3 articles"? Lester Abrams and L.A. Carnival. Which is the third? Pdfpdf 01:38, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi again,
"FYI, I have ran into some resistance from other editors over using bullet points in articles, as it appears less encyclopedia-like." Yes, there are a lot of people with a lot of opinions. After some initial "robust discussion", I subsequently decided to take the path of least resistance!
"Consequently I've become accustomed to "paragraphizing" everything I write in WP. I tried this a little bit with the L.A. article, but with all the (awesome amount of) details you've added, I don't want to step on your prose." That's OK by me. Feel free to do whatever you think will cause us both the the least resistance from others. I've had a bit of difficulty getting it to look reasonable; maybe resorting to bullets wasn't the answer ...
"Great job on this article!" Thanks. I'm surprised how intertwined the lives of these guys are, and how much they've done. I've lost count of the number of albums and artists Rick Chudacoff has been associated with, but, in general, "nobody's ever heard of him". I'm also surprised that after 35 years, L.A. and Les Smith are still working together.
But most of all, I can't seem to find anything about anyone (other than Chudacoff) in the 1980s and 1990s. Do you have any leads?
Pdfpdf
08:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, I think that's about all I'm going to do on Lester Abrams for a while. Cheers, Pdfpdf 13:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if you read the World-Herald regularly in your search for Omaha information, but the paper has begun an excellent series on the racial divide in Omaha. The most recent article is available here. – Swid ( talk | edits) 14:45, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you've been doing a number of articles on National Register properties in Omaha. There's just one thing I'd like to mention: The "nrhp_type" field in the infobox should be set to "nhl" only if the building is a National Historic Landmark, which is a higher recognition than just being on the National Register of Historic Places. ( Here's the list of National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska.) If it isn't a National Historic Landmark, then nrhp_type should just be set to "nrhp" or left blank. That way, the articles won't get classified into the wrong category. Otherwise, keep up the good work. -- Elkman (Elkspeak) 23:03, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Just filled in a redlink from the template on the bottom. Thought I'd make sure you saw it. Best, Smmurphy( Talk) 19:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You stuck an NPOV tag on this article (for obvious reasons) w/o explaining it on the talkpage. When you get a second could you do that? Thanks. - Freechild 23:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I've seen lists with citations done on the same line as the entry, and I think that's probably the best practice. I think a citation would be absolutely necessary when there is not one in the article. Those are my thoughts, but I can't tell you I'm any more right than anybody else is. Erechtheus 04:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed you moved Landmarks of Omaha, Nebraska. At the risk of being impersonal, WP:MOVE describes the "best" way to move pages like this. The idea is that if you move a page by creating a new page, merging the contents of the old page, and then making the old page a redirect, you lose the "edit history" (or you at least make it harder to find). This isn't the worst thing in the world, but using the "move" button avoids this, and is a lot more fun. Hopefully that makes sense and is helpful. Best, Smmurphy( Talk) 07:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Why did you put the Registered historic places in Omaha on the First National of Nebraska page? I was looking through the list and I don't see anything that would apply to this company.
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When Culture in Omaha, Nebraska was listed for deletion, it had zero cited references. Thanks to your tireless efforts, it now has 41, so I closed the discussion early. Keep up the good work, and consider informing the Wikipedia community of your wonderful discoveries via the Did you know? feature on the Main Page. Best regards. Yechiel Man 07:27, 10 June 2007 (UTC) |
Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Mogollon, New Mexico, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on June 11 where you can improve it if you see fit. Regards, howcheng { chat} 20:02, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
I want your opinion on the following idea:
There are two templates (that I know of) for the Omaha area:
and
. It looks like there is some overlap between the two, which is probably partly my idea, but I didn't discover the second until recently. I think the first should be strictly places in Omaha proper and the second for all suburbs and the Omaha article itself.
BTW, a lot of your articles should be DYK material. Keep up the good work! DandyDan2007 21:39, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
-- howcheng { chat} 00:12, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Freechild and thanks for all your hard work getting Omaha on the front page. Keep it up! Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 03:39, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey man, do you know anything about hip hop from omaha/north omaha? there seems to be a sizable collection of underground hip hop (like underground hardcore, not "indie") cds/tapes floating around. It would make an interesting addition to the Culture of North Omaha section. Claphands 23:32, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I have repurposed merging National Trails System Act into National Trails System. When this was last proposed it was included in three other proposed merges which you objected to. Your reasoning for objecting didn't apply to this particular merge so I would be interested in hearing your opinion at Talk:National Trails System#Merge from National Trails System Act. -- Patleahy 18:16, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I think I explained why. I don't have the mind-power today to fix it, and may need help. Plus, we're in the middle of a HUGE thunderstorm, and my server may crash if we get blacked out, so I don't want to start a major project this moment. Bearian 22:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed there's a CFD for renaming Category:Historic houses in Omaha, though there's no clear consensus yet on what to do. I suggested renaming it Category:Omaha Landmarks, since it looks like most of the houses in that category are listed by the City of Omaha's Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission. Do you have any thoughts on that? -- Elkman (Elkspeak) 21:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your compliments regarding the "historic house" categories. I have found some of the discussions particularly difficult to deal with, and I really appreciate your encouragement. Dr. Submillimeter 08:15, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
-- Yomangani talk 13:46, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Could you write an explanation in Category:Omaha Landmarks to explain how it is different from Category:Landmarks in Omaha, Nebraska? The two categories are confusing. Dr. Submillimeter 20:35, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi Freechild! Good to hear from you, and thanks for the news. You put your message in one of my archives, and I only just noticed it - so sorry for the delayed reply.
I will take great pleasure in "taking a look at it". (BTW: I'm paying attention to your request not to split the conversation, which, btw, I think is a good idea - I'll probably steal a copy of your text!). And thanks for the licence to "fiddle with it". If I make any changes that you don't like, don't hesitate to revert them - I won't be offended. (I might be puzzled! But I won't be offended.)
I would dread the thought that I missed adding anything. - Sorry to disillusion you, but even before I look I can just about guarantee that you've missed something! ;-) (I assume you've heard of Murphy's Law?)
I've had a quick look, and my first reaction was "Having a quick look is inadequate. I need to devote some time to this". My second reaction was "Surf Music in Omaha?????". It seems the old adage "You learn something new every day" continues to be true!
Regards,
Pdfpdf
09:03, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
P.S. The
OBMHoF web site maintenance seems to have been completed, and the web site seems be working.
OK! I've started! This is harder than I expected!!
I've made some changes, and put some comments/questions at
User talk:Pdfpdf/Music in Omaha
Pdfpdf
11:44, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Good question! Generally one would indeed write "1940 to 1961", (and one would mean "from 1940 to 1961 inclusive"). However, it can be ambiguous. The only way to be certain is to use the whole phrase, which, of course, nobody does. (Unless it's really important to be absolutely clear.) (By-the-way: I think what I've just written is a very unsatisfactory answer, even if it is accurate.) So, the choice is yours! Either X thru Y, which is unambiguous but not used outside USA, or X to Y, which is generally quite clear, but not always. (I bet you'll never ask me another question!) Pdfpdf 08:57, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
That's very kind of you. Thank you. Pdfpdf 08:57, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, UK. Yes, because of The Wades. Yes, the Canadian reference is enticing! Also, there are two German sites - no, that's too grand - two German pages with not much on them and next-to-nothing behind them: www.famecity.de and www.famecity-entertainment.com - not highly useful. And Yes, I'm far from impressed with the way the speedy delete jugernaut, once started, seems impossible to stop. Seeing that The Wades seemed to be the only users of Famecity Entertainment, and both Famecity and The Wades seem to be inactive, maybe the answer is to put anything about Famecity on The Wades page? Unless we can find something more notable, I'd say that, by itself, Famecity probably fails the notability test? Your thoughts? Cheers, Pdfpdf 08:57, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
-- Carabinieri 15:04, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to say excellent work on the Tom Dennison article! Ardric47 20:25, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I made an attempt at redoing the culture section on the main Omaha page: tore out some weird stuff, added in some refs from the culture article, did some sprucing up... Check it out when you have time (translation: clean up after me). I'd like to know if you think we should go even farther with this... maybe pull Sports out of Culture and move it up a level? etc. Regards, BierHerr 02:21, 27 June 2007 (UTC)