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1) Feb. 9, 2006 - Dec. 26, 2006 |
Well, sorry you just cleaned this all up, figured I would start a new one here! Thanks for working on those templates. I have 400 more articles to assess, then I am going to finish up the townships, then I will help you with those templates. Hopefully I will be able to start helping you soon, haha. Thanks so much for working on those. There are two that if you could get too, [Kankakee County, Illinois]] and Kendall County, Illinois. All their townships will need to be moved since they don't include the county in the name title as the rest of the entire state does first, so they will have to be renamed on the template. I already did it for Kane County, Illinois's template. Got questions, let me know, going to start assessing now.-- Kranar drogin 02:41, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Please remember to mark your edits, as you did to Template:Kankakee_County,_Illinois as minor when (and only when) they genuinely are minor edits (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one (and vice versa) is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.' Thank you.
I figured out the problem, fixed it. Anyways, I am pushing to finish the templates tonight. I have finished off a bunch so far. If you have time, would you be able to help tonight so we can get this done and over with? If not, I understand about being busy and doing other things. Boy do I! Thanks for all your help.-- Kranar drogin 00:45, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
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For you work on Illinois templates, I hearby award you WikiProject Illinois Barnstar. Keep up the good work! -- Kranar drogin 18:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC) |
Now that that is done, i am going to continue to upload the maps for the counties to Commons so that they can all be recolored. Would you by chance still be able to do these? Let me know!-- Kranar drogin 03:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Those Ogle county maps looks great! If you just want to keep creating the township maps, I can post them to the articles and switch the templates over to the Geobox if that is what you would like. I am going to try and finish posting the rest of the maps soon. I have been posting a bunch of images up as of late.-- Kranar drogin 17:27, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
I have been asked if there is any way you could update the current maps for the city of Chicago districts such as Image:US-IL-Chicago-CA41.GIF. Basically, Tony was asking for something similar to Marion Township, Ogle County, Illinois such as how you did the township maps there, same coloring and whatnot. If you decide you would be willing to do this, here is where they should be uploaded to [1] under the same names that exist on the Wikipedia. That way we can have them deleted from here. If you don't want to do them, I think I will be able to do it copying your colors. Let me know man! Appreciate all your hard work.-- Kranar drogin 21:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Another request (sorry!) is that I am beginging to work on the Illinois Freedom Bell, and I can't find a single infobox for bells. I found a generic one, but I was wondering if you would be able to create a template for bells by chance? Maybe called Template:Infobox Bell that would have these fields, prolly PGS coords, place for a picture, and whatever else you can think of? I am not very good at this sort of thing, so let me know when you get a chance on this also.-- Kranar drogin 21:09, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I have tried putting in some free fields, they didn't take. I really think they should be up in features possibly, it was the clapper and yoke but found where they go now. Where would I put the person who designed it? Or in this case it would be Unknown for right now. It looks good, I like the yellow, and I have removed the national map since for something like this the state level should be good enough. Thanks!--
Kranar drogin 00:02, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Looks good guys. Glad I could help in my own little way. VerruckteDan 23:21, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Just figured I would tag on here again. I have started using the new geobox and changing things over. I was wondering, here is a test one I did first on Winslow, Illinois and Davis, Illinois. Seems the Village President is kinda messing up, and am I doing the Township right in it also? Let me know before I start changing all of these. Oh, and are you going to do a mass change of the old geobox, or do we just have to do it ourselves?-- Kranar drogin 03:45, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dan, I finally finished all the Louisiana Parish maps tonight. I made two version of each map (one with district boundaries and one without) except for Orleans Parish (it has no district boundaries shown on the original, so I left it that way - it is also the only map not in its article on Wikipedia). Removing the district boundaries was all by hand, and while I checked against the online census maps at http://factfinder.census.gov whenever I was unsure, it may be there are some errors. If you find any, please let me know and I will do my best to fix them. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Just so that you know...
I see that you've removed some places from the county listings. For those incorporated communities, I'd originally included them from personal knowledge (e.g., have relatives who live at or near the communities, previous visits to the communities, etc.). For one of the unincorporated communities - Wicomico, I took this information from a map of Charles County (the county where I live) that was produced by the State of Maryland. The map I used can be found at this link. (need Adobe Acrobat Reader). Since I haven't been able to cross-check "Wicomico, Maryland" with a ZIP Code, I'll not add it back for right now.
Also, I had thought about listing "Suitland" (where the Census Bureau is located and the community where I lived more than 10 years ago) without the "Silver Hill" reference, but decided to leave it as Suitland-Silver Hill for the moment. There's no such unincorporated community as Silver Hill. "Silver Hill" is actually the name of the housing subdivision contained within cul-de-sacs (the subdivision has Suitland ZIP Code 20746) and, from what I know, it's still that way. Ditto for Lanham-Seabrook (I work in Lanham; the entire area is simply known as "Lanham, Maryland" with the ZIP Code 20706; if I could remember from years ago, the area referred to as "Seabrook" was situated along Maryland Route 564 (Lanham-Severn Road), which is about 3 miles or so from my office. I gather that the existing information about the counties and communities was carried over from Census Bureau's records.
About the non-breaking spaces - I had originally added the code for non-breaking spaces ( ) for multiple word locations to accommodate different sizes of video displays and to keep the entire name of the city, town or community from breaking across lines when a reader sizes down the browser window. → Lwalt ♦ talk 03:06, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I am glad to hear that things are still moving. I am still using the geoboxes. Thanks for all the help with the templates, they are coming along very nicely. I will begin to assist you in changing them over. I will start at the bottom of the list, and move my way up. So if you just want to double check what I am doing. With the example Fayette County, Illinois, all those redlinked places you have in villages are actually unincorporated, see [2]. I would say in prolly all cases that a populated place is in red, it is unincorporated. Thanks man for all your hard work!-- Kranar drogin 02:32, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Please keep lines in both directions. I like the lines you've got right now rather than the normal "table borders", myself.
Which town are you from? I'm from Oxford. Otherwise, I wouldn't venture being awkward enough to ask, haha. Aepoutre 22:48, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Is the article on its way? Alansohn 21:41, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dan, I have been making more US state locator maps and realized that some are less than 288 pixels wide. Is this a problem? I know that the Protected Areas Infobox maps are 288 pixels wide, but I wasn't sure what the requirements for the Geobox locator maps were. I can make the maps wider if need be, just let me know. There is a list of all the maps on my user page. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the Lake Mead reminder. I felt proud that I went back and added in the Great Salt Lake in Utah on my own. I am at 43 done (plus your DE) and they are all the easy ones - the remaining 6 all need foreign coasts and/or are more than one screen to stitch together (and there is a fair amount of distortion, so the stitching is a pain). Texas is four screens to stitch, plus a bit of the Mexican Gulf coast. Oh joy. ;-) Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:48, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Added to Natchitoches, Louisiana since I am a native check it out.
Gwangan Bridge map added as per request. JPBarrass 17:51, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your work in getting the template code into the correct namespace. The only thing to keep in mind is that the GFDL requires attribution information to remain intact with the page, so it would have been better to move the page rather than to copy-and -paste it. (In this case, I've fixed up the page histories for you.) The resultant redirect can then be tagged for deletion; I usually consider it a CSD G6 case (non-controversial housekeeping). Thanks. — TKD:: Talk 03:01, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I suggest, Dan, that you compare your coordinates with mine where you actually look at the resulting maps on the List of crossings of the Ohio River. Mine are closer to the mark than yours. I suggest you revert your changes, or I will. Denimadept 03:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. The question is. Who wants to do all the conversions to the new box for the Pennsylvania State Parks? Doesn't sound like much fun to me. Dincher 23:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
(Unindent) GNIS are very fast - I emailed them and they fixed the coordinates and switched the source to the PennDOT map already (I have to double check their coordinates vs the articles).
I know Dincher used Topozone for the coordinates in almost all cases, and these seem to generally take their data from GNIS, so I think it is fine to use. I have added the PennDOT county map(s) link(s) to all the state park articles, which provide a check. In all but a very few cases (Prompton, Allegheny Islands, Erie Bluffs) these show the parks in question. So I have been doing trust but verify - enter the coordinates and then double check against Google Earth by clicking on them (the photo in Google Earth and park outlines help you see the park itself in most cases, though a few in IL are missing.
The checklist is a very good idea - I also want to add the townships at least to all of the articles (for large parks and parks in more than one county I am not sure about adding them to the Geobox, but in many cases to the Geobox too). I also switched Susquehanna State Park (Pennsylvania). Ruhrfisch ><>°° 16:13, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Go here to search for whateer you're looking for. VerruckteDan 21:13, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I saw that you have been making those changes and I think I fixed Sand Bridge and Ricketts Glen to conform. I agree with you. Dincher 23:17, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Dan, I will let GNIS know of the discrepancy with Buchanan too - I just point out what seem to be errors or omissions and so far they have agreed with me (corrected or added the data) in all but one case (not a park). Ruhrfisch ><>°° 12:29, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Can you help improve this article or get other people who live near (and preferably on) the Mississippi to clarify and source information. I feel like I'm reading some brochure in LA about going on vacation to the Mississippi. 64.122.208.184 15:45, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
While making county templates for Iowa, I've run across a unique or nearly-unique problem: Lee County has two county seats. I don't know how to do this on the standard US county navigation box template that I've used for other counties, so I've used a basic table template instead. Would you please fix it here? Nyttend 21:42, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
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Is there a simpler direct acre to square kilometer converter template that you know of? I can't find one, so I am still using {{ convert}} to do that, but think it is on the way out (bot edits). I did find an acre to hectare converter, but the hectare is not officially favored here or in SI as an area unit. I also noticed the new PA and DE maps show up in the Geoboxes, finally solving that problem. Finally, thanks for fixing my "map last" forgetfulness. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 13:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
(unindent) Thanks - feel free to tweak the course of Lehigh Gorge State Park as needed. If you want I can do Laurel Ridge's course - I have the maps and think I might do it based on the hiking trail from mile 1 to 60 (or whatever is the last mile). The other three were downstream order for the associated river, but here I figure the trail is easier. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I was planning to inform you about the new Geoboxes but you've noticed anyway. I would like to thank you first for your support to the geoboxes, mainly to replying to all the questions raised at theit talk pages. I should have been doing that myself being their creator yet … I was working on the new Geoboxes, vacationing and … you're always so promt with your replies! Thanks again.
So why Geobox 2.0? There was still some work on the Geoboxes: eliminating bugs, adding new features or improving old ones and after each step there came spreading the update to all Geoboxes. Also Geoboxes for other geographic fetures were requested; I was somehow reluctant to create them as it would mean even more templates to watch and update. As most Geoboxes contain more or less the same fields plus a few specific to each perticular Geobox the idea to have "one to serve them all" crept into my mind. So here we are.
What are your thoughts? There are a couple of new fields and a couple of new features. Among them also the icon-flags, an idea which you didn't seem to be very happy with but I quite like it. There have been some redesign as to in which order the various fields are displayed in order to accomodate all the possible fields. I've also changed the calibrated templates' name to start with {{Geobox locator as requested by some users, it's more logical now given the maps have the word locator in their names and the Geobox field is also named map_locator. Don't worry, it's rather an internal change, no changes in any of the existing pages using Geoboxes are required, just if you add a new calibration, please use the new name. – Caroig ( talk) 21:06, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
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Mr. VerruckteDan. I have lived in Towamencin for almost 30 years. I will not go into details as to what brought me to the "WikiProject Pennsylvania", but when I found that Towamencin Township, was in Wikipedia and I could contribute, I was elated. I am sure you have seen the additions I have been making to the Towamencin article. I was anxious to move it along, and was enjoying the process. However, I got sidetracked on another article I wanted to ADD to Wikipedia, but ran into some philosophical issues with one of the volunteer administrators, Leebo. Well needless to say, he is an aggressive editor, and now that I know he is not only monitoring my other article, which he nominated for deletion, but has injected himself into the Pennsylvania project, I will no longer be involved. I will only say I can not work with him. I appreciate your restraint as I tried to make the Towamencin article better, but since I will not be finishing what I started, you may want to remove everything I have done. Thanks again. Ailde 13:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Ailde 14:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, there's now a tool to convert any page using Geobox 1.0 to a page using Geobox 2.0; well, it just produces reformatted text which have to paste in the page manually but still … here's the announcement: link. Unfortunately, I do not not how to create bookmark for IE or Firefox that could take a parameter (the page address). – Caroig ( talk) 23:09, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you were working on a geobox for bridges (sandbox6). Any samples to show yet? I saw that someone made a geobox 2.0 template for bells and I think we could make one for bridges as well, based on the Geobox|Building template. I was thinking about making one, but I wanted to see what you've already come up with first.
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Sorry I never responded from the last round of messages on this. I got distracted and it slipped my mind. I'm gonna take a look at it and make some comments later in the week. VerruckteDan 01:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
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In reference to {{ McKenzie County, North Dakota}}, please stop adding a SOUTH Dakota category to an article about a NORTH Dakota county. I will create the ND navigational box category and place this template in that category. -- MatthewUND( talk) 23:44, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Would you please have a look at Template talk:Geobox#Issues and add your comments? Thanks. – Caroig ( talk) 09:24, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey, can you help me create more county templates for the state of Wisconsin. I started with the Milwaukee area, and now I'm going alphabetical. Thanks from all the Cheeseheads! WisconsinCheeze 00:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Sure, not a problem. I will make it the next state I tackle. VerruckteDan 21:31, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Ailde 17:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Ailde 10:28, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
I have looked at the edits, and I agree that the entire Towamencin Township Strategic Plan does not belong on Wikipedia, and that its removal is within the guidelines and policies of Wikipedia. Ailda, I'm sure you will be disappointed with my opinion, but that's that it is. If you continue to feel that this situation is unfair, then I too encourage you to pursue it further within the procedures of Wikipedia. I don't really feel a need to get involved in a long and drawn out discussion on this topic, I did not comment any last month because I thought the situation had played out by the time I read the messages. So, I'll leave it at that and hope that everyone can move forward. VerruckteDan 01:38, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Could you give me a link to where you're getting all the info from such as coordinates and population density and elevation? The coordinates change you used puts the city in a dirt patch in the woods. Also I'd like to see why such a drastic difference in population density than the source I used when I installed the new info box. Thank you. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 23:26, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
for letting myself drag out this discussion with Ailde on your talk page. It's a discussion that should be taking place at his talk page or mine. Sorry. Leebo T/ C 01:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I noted on the New Orleans Wikipedia project talk page months ago that I often have a chance to take some photos around town about once a week. I took a fair number around the CBD recently, but only noticed now that there are many articles about New Orleans skyscrapers (often started or substantially improved by you) that lack images. So, let me know if there's anything you might like me to take a couple pix of in town. P.S.: Thanks for your good work! Cheers, -- Infrogmation 20:53, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination this year. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started ( 2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1 2007, voting starting December 1 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual main page will resemble either an excerpted list format or an abbreviated text format. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dan, Larrys Creek is going to be Today's Featured Article on Friday, October 19. Would you mind taking a look at it before then? I and some other editors have looked closely at it recently. Based on what we found, I have gone through and done a lot of little nitpicky cleanup edits, but would appreciate it if you could take a look.
Also, if you have the time, Dincher and I have another list in Peer Review: List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Any thoughts or feedback there would also be appreciated. If you are busy, don't worry about it. If you have a litle time, looking over either would be great. Thanks in advance, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 17:44, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
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1) Feb. 9, 2006 - Dec. 26, 2006 |
Well, sorry you just cleaned this all up, figured I would start a new one here! Thanks for working on those templates. I have 400 more articles to assess, then I am going to finish up the townships, then I will help you with those templates. Hopefully I will be able to start helping you soon, haha. Thanks so much for working on those. There are two that if you could get too, [Kankakee County, Illinois]] and Kendall County, Illinois. All their townships will need to be moved since they don't include the county in the name title as the rest of the entire state does first, so they will have to be renamed on the template. I already did it for Kane County, Illinois's template. Got questions, let me know, going to start assessing now.-- Kranar drogin 02:41, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Please remember to mark your edits, as you did to Template:Kankakee_County,_Illinois as minor when (and only when) they genuinely are minor edits (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one (and vice versa) is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.' Thank you.
I figured out the problem, fixed it. Anyways, I am pushing to finish the templates tonight. I have finished off a bunch so far. If you have time, would you be able to help tonight so we can get this done and over with? If not, I understand about being busy and doing other things. Boy do I! Thanks for all your help.-- Kranar drogin 00:45, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Illinois Barnstar | ||
For you work on Illinois templates, I hearby award you WikiProject Illinois Barnstar. Keep up the good work! -- Kranar drogin 18:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC) |
Now that that is done, i am going to continue to upload the maps for the counties to Commons so that they can all be recolored. Would you by chance still be able to do these? Let me know!-- Kranar drogin 03:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Those Ogle county maps looks great! If you just want to keep creating the township maps, I can post them to the articles and switch the templates over to the Geobox if that is what you would like. I am going to try and finish posting the rest of the maps soon. I have been posting a bunch of images up as of late.-- Kranar drogin 17:27, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
I have been asked if there is any way you could update the current maps for the city of Chicago districts such as Image:US-IL-Chicago-CA41.GIF. Basically, Tony was asking for something similar to Marion Township, Ogle County, Illinois such as how you did the township maps there, same coloring and whatnot. If you decide you would be willing to do this, here is where they should be uploaded to [1] under the same names that exist on the Wikipedia. That way we can have them deleted from here. If you don't want to do them, I think I will be able to do it copying your colors. Let me know man! Appreciate all your hard work.-- Kranar drogin 21:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Another request (sorry!) is that I am beginging to work on the Illinois Freedom Bell, and I can't find a single infobox for bells. I found a generic one, but I was wondering if you would be able to create a template for bells by chance? Maybe called Template:Infobox Bell that would have these fields, prolly PGS coords, place for a picture, and whatever else you can think of? I am not very good at this sort of thing, so let me know when you get a chance on this also.-- Kranar drogin 21:09, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I have tried putting in some free fields, they didn't take. I really think they should be up in features possibly, it was the clapper and yoke but found where they go now. Where would I put the person who designed it? Or in this case it would be Unknown for right now. It looks good, I like the yellow, and I have removed the national map since for something like this the state level should be good enough. Thanks!--
Kranar drogin 00:02, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Looks good guys. Glad I could help in my own little way. VerruckteDan 23:21, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Just figured I would tag on here again. I have started using the new geobox and changing things over. I was wondering, here is a test one I did first on Winslow, Illinois and Davis, Illinois. Seems the Village President is kinda messing up, and am I doing the Township right in it also? Let me know before I start changing all of these. Oh, and are you going to do a mass change of the old geobox, or do we just have to do it ourselves?-- Kranar drogin 03:45, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dan, I finally finished all the Louisiana Parish maps tonight. I made two version of each map (one with district boundaries and one without) except for Orleans Parish (it has no district boundaries shown on the original, so I left it that way - it is also the only map not in its article on Wikipedia). Removing the district boundaries was all by hand, and while I checked against the online census maps at http://factfinder.census.gov whenever I was unsure, it may be there are some errors. If you find any, please let me know and I will do my best to fix them. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
Just so that you know...
I see that you've removed some places from the county listings. For those incorporated communities, I'd originally included them from personal knowledge (e.g., have relatives who live at or near the communities, previous visits to the communities, etc.). For one of the unincorporated communities - Wicomico, I took this information from a map of Charles County (the county where I live) that was produced by the State of Maryland. The map I used can be found at this link. (need Adobe Acrobat Reader). Since I haven't been able to cross-check "Wicomico, Maryland" with a ZIP Code, I'll not add it back for right now.
Also, I had thought about listing "Suitland" (where the Census Bureau is located and the community where I lived more than 10 years ago) without the "Silver Hill" reference, but decided to leave it as Suitland-Silver Hill for the moment. There's no such unincorporated community as Silver Hill. "Silver Hill" is actually the name of the housing subdivision contained within cul-de-sacs (the subdivision has Suitland ZIP Code 20746) and, from what I know, it's still that way. Ditto for Lanham-Seabrook (I work in Lanham; the entire area is simply known as "Lanham, Maryland" with the ZIP Code 20706; if I could remember from years ago, the area referred to as "Seabrook" was situated along Maryland Route 564 (Lanham-Severn Road), which is about 3 miles or so from my office. I gather that the existing information about the counties and communities was carried over from Census Bureau's records.
About the non-breaking spaces - I had originally added the code for non-breaking spaces ( ) for multiple word locations to accommodate different sizes of video displays and to keep the entire name of the city, town or community from breaking across lines when a reader sizes down the browser window. → Lwalt ♦ talk 03:06, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I am glad to hear that things are still moving. I am still using the geoboxes. Thanks for all the help with the templates, they are coming along very nicely. I will begin to assist you in changing them over. I will start at the bottom of the list, and move my way up. So if you just want to double check what I am doing. With the example Fayette County, Illinois, all those redlinked places you have in villages are actually unincorporated, see [2]. I would say in prolly all cases that a populated place is in red, it is unincorporated. Thanks man for all your hard work!-- Kranar drogin 02:32, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Please keep lines in both directions. I like the lines you've got right now rather than the normal "table borders", myself.
Which town are you from? I'm from Oxford. Otherwise, I wouldn't venture being awkward enough to ask, haha. Aepoutre 22:48, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Is the article on its way? Alansohn 21:41, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dan, I have been making more US state locator maps and realized that some are less than 288 pixels wide. Is this a problem? I know that the Protected Areas Infobox maps are 288 pixels wide, but I wasn't sure what the requirements for the Geobox locator maps were. I can make the maps wider if need be, just let me know. There is a list of all the maps on my user page. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the Lake Mead reminder. I felt proud that I went back and added in the Great Salt Lake in Utah on my own. I am at 43 done (plus your DE) and they are all the easy ones - the remaining 6 all need foreign coasts and/or are more than one screen to stitch together (and there is a fair amount of distortion, so the stitching is a pain). Texas is four screens to stitch, plus a bit of the Mexican Gulf coast. Oh joy. ;-) Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:48, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Added to Natchitoches, Louisiana since I am a native check it out.
Gwangan Bridge map added as per request. JPBarrass 17:51, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your work in getting the template code into the correct namespace. The only thing to keep in mind is that the GFDL requires attribution information to remain intact with the page, so it would have been better to move the page rather than to copy-and -paste it. (In this case, I've fixed up the page histories for you.) The resultant redirect can then be tagged for deletion; I usually consider it a CSD G6 case (non-controversial housekeeping). Thanks. — TKD:: Talk 03:01, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I suggest, Dan, that you compare your coordinates with mine where you actually look at the resulting maps on the List of crossings of the Ohio River. Mine are closer to the mark than yours. I suggest you revert your changes, or I will. Denimadept 03:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. The question is. Who wants to do all the conversions to the new box for the Pennsylvania State Parks? Doesn't sound like much fun to me. Dincher 23:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
(Unindent) GNIS are very fast - I emailed them and they fixed the coordinates and switched the source to the PennDOT map already (I have to double check their coordinates vs the articles).
I know Dincher used Topozone for the coordinates in almost all cases, and these seem to generally take their data from GNIS, so I think it is fine to use. I have added the PennDOT county map(s) link(s) to all the state park articles, which provide a check. In all but a very few cases (Prompton, Allegheny Islands, Erie Bluffs) these show the parks in question. So I have been doing trust but verify - enter the coordinates and then double check against Google Earth by clicking on them (the photo in Google Earth and park outlines help you see the park itself in most cases, though a few in IL are missing.
The checklist is a very good idea - I also want to add the townships at least to all of the articles (for large parks and parks in more than one county I am not sure about adding them to the Geobox, but in many cases to the Geobox too). I also switched Susquehanna State Park (Pennsylvania). Ruhrfisch ><>°° 16:13, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Go here to search for whateer you're looking for. VerruckteDan 21:13, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I saw that you have been making those changes and I think I fixed Sand Bridge and Ricketts Glen to conform. I agree with you. Dincher 23:17, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Dan, I will let GNIS know of the discrepancy with Buchanan too - I just point out what seem to be errors or omissions and so far they have agreed with me (corrected or added the data) in all but one case (not a park). Ruhrfisch ><>°° 12:29, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Can you help improve this article or get other people who live near (and preferably on) the Mississippi to clarify and source information. I feel like I'm reading some brochure in LA about going on vacation to the Mississippi. 64.122.208.184 15:45, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
While making county templates for Iowa, I've run across a unique or nearly-unique problem: Lee County has two county seats. I don't know how to do this on the standard US county navigation box template that I've used for other counties, so I've used a basic table template instead. Would you please fix it here? Nyttend 21:42, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
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Is there a simpler direct acre to square kilometer converter template that you know of? I can't find one, so I am still using {{ convert}} to do that, but think it is on the way out (bot edits). I did find an acre to hectare converter, but the hectare is not officially favored here or in SI as an area unit. I also noticed the new PA and DE maps show up in the Geoboxes, finally solving that problem. Finally, thanks for fixing my "map last" forgetfulness. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 13:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
(unindent) Thanks - feel free to tweak the course of Lehigh Gorge State Park as needed. If you want I can do Laurel Ridge's course - I have the maps and think I might do it based on the hiking trail from mile 1 to 60 (or whatever is the last mile). The other three were downstream order for the associated river, but here I figure the trail is easier. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I was planning to inform you about the new Geoboxes but you've noticed anyway. I would like to thank you first for your support to the geoboxes, mainly to replying to all the questions raised at theit talk pages. I should have been doing that myself being their creator yet … I was working on the new Geoboxes, vacationing and … you're always so promt with your replies! Thanks again.
So why Geobox 2.0? There was still some work on the Geoboxes: eliminating bugs, adding new features or improving old ones and after each step there came spreading the update to all Geoboxes. Also Geoboxes for other geographic fetures were requested; I was somehow reluctant to create them as it would mean even more templates to watch and update. As most Geoboxes contain more or less the same fields plus a few specific to each perticular Geobox the idea to have "one to serve them all" crept into my mind. So here we are.
What are your thoughts? There are a couple of new fields and a couple of new features. Among them also the icon-flags, an idea which you didn't seem to be very happy with but I quite like it. There have been some redesign as to in which order the various fields are displayed in order to accomodate all the possible fields. I've also changed the calibrated templates' name to start with {{Geobox locator as requested by some users, it's more logical now given the maps have the word locator in their names and the Geobox field is also named map_locator. Don't worry, it's rather an internal change, no changes in any of the existing pages using Geoboxes are required, just if you add a new calibration, please use the new name. – Caroig ( talk) 21:06, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Weather wrapped has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — MJCdetroit 16:02, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Mr. VerruckteDan. I have lived in Towamencin for almost 30 years. I will not go into details as to what brought me to the "WikiProject Pennsylvania", but when I found that Towamencin Township, was in Wikipedia and I could contribute, I was elated. I am sure you have seen the additions I have been making to the Towamencin article. I was anxious to move it along, and was enjoying the process. However, I got sidetracked on another article I wanted to ADD to Wikipedia, but ran into some philosophical issues with one of the volunteer administrators, Leebo. Well needless to say, he is an aggressive editor, and now that I know he is not only monitoring my other article, which he nominated for deletion, but has injected himself into the Pennsylvania project, I will no longer be involved. I will only say I can not work with him. I appreciate your restraint as I tried to make the Towamencin article better, but since I will not be finishing what I started, you may want to remove everything I have done. Thanks again. Ailde 13:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Ailde 14:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, there's now a tool to convert any page using Geobox 1.0 to a page using Geobox 2.0; well, it just produces reformatted text which have to paste in the page manually but still … here's the announcement: link. Unfortunately, I do not not how to create bookmark for IE or Firefox that could take a parameter (the page address). – Caroig ( talk) 23:09, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you were working on a geobox for bridges (sandbox6). Any samples to show yet? I saw that someone made a geobox 2.0 template for bells and I think we could make one for bridges as well, based on the Geobox|Building template. I was thinking about making one, but I wanted to see what you've already come up with first.
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Sorry I never responded from the last round of messages on this. I got distracted and it slipped my mind. I'm gonna take a look at it and make some comments later in the week. VerruckteDan 01:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
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In reference to {{ McKenzie County, North Dakota}}, please stop adding a SOUTH Dakota category to an article about a NORTH Dakota county. I will create the ND navigational box category and place this template in that category. -- MatthewUND( talk) 23:44, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Would you please have a look at Template talk:Geobox#Issues and add your comments? Thanks. – Caroig ( talk) 09:24, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey, can you help me create more county templates for the state of Wisconsin. I started with the Milwaukee area, and now I'm going alphabetical. Thanks from all the Cheeseheads! WisconsinCheeze 00:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Sure, not a problem. I will make it the next state I tackle. VerruckteDan 21:31, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Ailde 17:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Ailde 10:28, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
I have looked at the edits, and I agree that the entire Towamencin Township Strategic Plan does not belong on Wikipedia, and that its removal is within the guidelines and policies of Wikipedia. Ailda, I'm sure you will be disappointed with my opinion, but that's that it is. If you continue to feel that this situation is unfair, then I too encourage you to pursue it further within the procedures of Wikipedia. I don't really feel a need to get involved in a long and drawn out discussion on this topic, I did not comment any last month because I thought the situation had played out by the time I read the messages. So, I'll leave it at that and hope that everyone can move forward. VerruckteDan 01:38, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Could you give me a link to where you're getting all the info from such as coordinates and population density and elevation? The coordinates change you used puts the city in a dirt patch in the woods. Also I'd like to see why such a drastic difference in population density than the source I used when I installed the new info box. Thank you. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 23:26, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
for letting myself drag out this discussion with Ailde on your talk page. It's a discussion that should be taking place at his talk page or mine. Sorry. Leebo T/ C 01:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I noted on the New Orleans Wikipedia project talk page months ago that I often have a chance to take some photos around town about once a week. I took a fair number around the CBD recently, but only noticed now that there are many articles about New Orleans skyscrapers (often started or substantially improved by you) that lack images. So, let me know if there's anything you might like me to take a couple pix of in town. P.S.: Thanks for your good work! Cheers, -- Infrogmation 20:53, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination this year. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started ( 2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1 2007, voting starting December 1 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual main page will resemble either an excerpted list format or an abbreviated text format. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Dan, Larrys Creek is going to be Today's Featured Article on Friday, October 19. Would you mind taking a look at it before then? I and some other editors have looked closely at it recently. Based on what we found, I have gone through and done a lot of little nitpicky cleanup edits, but would appreciate it if you could take a look.
Also, if you have the time, Dincher and I have another list in Peer Review: List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Any thoughts or feedback there would also be appreciated. If you are busy, don't worry about it. If you have a litle time, looking over either would be great. Thanks in advance, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 17:44, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
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