Talk to me! -- Captadam 04:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Hello! tyx

Why do multiple anonymous users feel the need to continually add the same nonsense to Weis Markets? -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 04:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC) reply

• I'm wondering the same thing. -- Captadam 12:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC) reply

The guidelines for when it might be appropriate to semi-protect an article are described here: WP:SEMI.

If it turns out that you do need for a page to be semi-protected, the request is made here: WP:RFP.

But if the vandalism is only coming from one or two users at a given time, the appropriate response is to warn them on their talk page using progressively more strongly-worded messages, typically in the following sequence:

1. {{subst:test1-n|Weis Markets}} -- ~~~~
2. {{subst:test2-n|Weis Markets}} -- ~~~~
3. {{subst:test3-n|Weis Markets}} -- ~~~~
4. {{subst:test4-n|Weis Markets}} -- ~~~~

(You can find these template messages and many more here: WP:UTM)]

If the vandalism persists after each successive warning, give him the next one; if it persists past the final warning, go to WP:AIV and follow the instructions there to request that an administrator temporarily block him. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 14:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Ok, I've had enough. I just requested semi-protection for Weis Markets, here: WP:RFP. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 01:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC) reply

It's now semi-protected. That should slow him down a bit, at least. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 01:41, 6 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks! -- Captadam 13:30, 6 October 2006 (UTC) reply

Hey why is this template in your user space? I think it's rather a good idea, because this template could address a few parameters that are missing in the general company infobox that are specific to retail companies. Namely, the number of stores or locations is mildly important when comparing, say, Weis Markets to Albertson's, right? ...And I'm sure there are other parameters that may be helpful. I've come up with a few solutions to this problem and left them at the generic infobox's talk page. Let me know what you think! tiZom _(2¢) 07:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC) reply

That's something we were experimenting with. Feel free to take it and do what you want with it! -- Captadam 00:40, 4 November 2006 (UTC) reply

It's been a month; let's take a shot at unprotecting it. I've responded to a comment on Talk:Weis Markets and I've requested unprotection. If our AOL friend hasn't found himself a new hobby, we can always slap the protection back on. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 04:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC) reply

Sounds good to me. He's probably moved on to bigger and better things to vandalize. -- Captadam 14:12, 7 November 2006 (UTC) reply

Just a quick heads up -- it's unprotected now, but we'll slap the protection back on if we need to. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 02:58, 21 November 2006 (UTC) reply

What's with the "first" and "second" distinction? It was the exact same company, just under new management. Choess 01:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC) reply

Well ... not really. Vanderbilt's group picked up an unused charter and used it for an entirely different project. The fictitious person entity might have been the same, but everything surrounding it--backers, financiers, right-of-way, history--were different. Anyway, I was just trying to figure out a way to differentiate between the two because they had entirely different histories. "First" and "second" might not have been the best choice ... perhaps a better solution will arise. -- Captadam 02:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC) reply

Just for fun, I checked whois for several of his IPs. FWIW, it appears that he lives in Altoona, Pennsylvania:

72.72.192.250 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

71.162.44.179 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

209.158.14.75 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

And he goes to school at Penn State:

128.118.173.47 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Since this is clearly a persistent long-term vandal who has no intention of stopping {see User talk:71.162.44.179}, it would be a good idea to send him {{ test4im}} each time he shows up and posts the same old nonsense from a new IP, then if he repeats it from that IP, report him to WP:AIV with a note about his long-term abuse. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 04:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC) reply

According to [1]: "When you write a song for yourself, people sort of tend to expect the 'I' in the song to be yourself. That's not the case in my songs." So if you want to say that Newman's background is described by "Dixie Flyer," you're going to have to come up with some evidence. Yes, it is based on his experiences, but that doesn't mean everything that happens in the song happened to Newman. (By the way, I see you're a fellow E/Eels fan. I assume you've heard the French interview where E mentions Newman as an influence and the interviewer isn't sure whether or not he's kidding....) Anyway, I have the box set liner notes somewhere and that might have something to say about it when I find them.... Calbaer 01:12, 7 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Good old Randy. If you're curious, I wasn't the anonymous poster who posted the lyrics originally, but I saw them (after you reverted them) and thought, "hey, done right, that could be a cool addition to the entry." -- Captadam 14:29, 7 February 2007 (UTC) reply

The Image:Brianwilson-microphone.jpg included in your Brian Wilson userbox is a fair use image and should not be included in userspace, per WP:USER and WP:FAIR. The image could be deleted from your userspace in the future without warning in order to avoid copyright infringement. I know it sucks, but it is also policy. Please adhere to it. Thanks. - Mtmelendez 20:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply

Sieg heil!! If it happens, it happens. -- Captadam 23:23, 12 February 2007 (UTC) reply

A tag has been placed on Ohio Central Railroad, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{ hangon}} on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Dougie WII 14:17, 6 November 2007 (UTC) reply

I disagreed with this assessment, because Class III railroads are generally considered notable on Wikipedia. I restored the article, so if you're willing to continue expanding it, please do. If you want any assistance with it, or just want to collaborate with others, check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains where you can find a large number of participants. -- Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 15:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC) reply

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The Ohio WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - Month 2008
From the editor This is the first issue of WikiProject Ohio's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you would like to suggest something to be included in the next newsletter please see: The Newsdesk Project News *New features have been added to the project banner. All articles now need to be assessed for importance as well as class. There are approximately 60,000 articles under Category:Ohio that still need the banner added to their talk pages as well. Editors and Contributors Needed *We are in need of editors for this newsletter. If you are interested please visit: The Newsletter Project Page. Also, the The Ohio Portal is seeking Wikipedians to nominate selected articles, sports teams, biographies, and images. The portal is also seeking maintainers. Areas needing attention Assessment requests: There may be Requests for assessment needing to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watch the assessment page. Article assessment: Unassessed Ohio article need you help visit Category:Unassessed Ohio articles & Category:Unknown-importance Ohio articles Featured and Good Articles Recently a number of Ohio related articles have achieved featured status. We at WikiProject Ohio would like the editors of those pages for their hard work. Featured Jack Warner, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Superman Good Articles Halle Berry and Jack Nicklaus Contributors Stepshep 23:44, 28 March 2008 (UTC) reply

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Issue II - May 2008

From the editor: Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the News Desk! Have a great May. The Ohio Portal The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images. Selected Article: Indian Head Rock There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it. With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value. After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river. Billy Massie Article Assessment Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! Over 10,000 articles have been tagged with {{ OH-Project}} Article Achievements New Featured and Good articles Ohio was listed as a Good Article nominee; the result of the nomination was Not listed. Please help get Ohio to GA status! Port Columbus International Airport was listed as a Good Article. WikiProject Ohio Barnstar of Merit If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a lot of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage. {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}} Contributors Stepshep & Billy Massie

Open Tasks

Open tasks for WikiProject: Ohio. Edit or discuss these tasks. Ohio Shortcuts: Categories | History | Portal Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Main listing Cleanup : Ohio articles needing attention ( 80 ) Add city infobox to all town/city articles missing one. Add appropriate bio infobox to all Ohio bio articles missing one. Ohio articles needing cleanup Expand : To Good Article status: Ohio Columbus, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Toledo, Ohio Akron, Ohio Mansfield, Ohio Featured article candidates : No results were found. Featured list candidates : No results were found. Featured sound candidates : Project Content template contains the following errors: No content type parameters found Unable to generate results. See documentation for help Good article nominations : WNWO-TV WOSU-TV Geographical coordinates : Ohio articles missing geocoordinate data ( 55 ) Infobox : Ohio articles needing infoboxes ( 53 ) Maintain :   Ohio portal Map : Requested maps in Ohio ( 16 ) Merge : Schools, Articles to be merged in Ohio Photo : Requested photographs in Ohio ( 342 ) Add a picture to an article in the list of requested photographs in Ohio ( 342 ) (Most towns in Ohio are still on the list) or improve one of the articles with no images. Stubs : Stub-Class Ohio articles ( 10,775 ), Category:Ohio stubs Unreferenced : Unreferenced Ohio articles ( 7 ) Other : Lists to de-redlink: List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio, List of Members of Governors Cabinet of Ohio Lists to complete: List of Ohio state symbols Coordinate with Ohio Portal to provide quality articles for use. Place the {{ WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|OH=Yes|OH-importance=}} banner into Ohio related articles and assess

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Issue III - June 2008

From the editor: This is the third edition of the WikiProject Ohio newsletter. If you have any project announcements feel free to drop them by the NewsDesk. It's request that you watchlist our talk page; so you can chime in on current discussions. Have a great June! The Ohio Portal The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images. Getting the Project Moving WikiProject Ohio as an entity doesn't have as much action as other state projects. For this reason it has been proposed that the inactive WikiProject Ohio Townships be added as our taskforce. There is a !poll going on at WT:OH and your opinion is essential in the matter! Stepshep has also proposed sending an invite to everyone in Category:Wikipedians in Ohio with an invite to join the project. If you are already a member you would not receive the notice of course. Once again, please note your opinion on the project talkpage. Selected Article: Central Avenue Historic District (Dayton, Ohio) The Central Avenue Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located at 201 to 338 Central Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. It consists of late 19th and 20th Century Revival-style houses as well as late Victorian-style houses, which were all originally single-family residences. On December 16, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Each month a new Ohio related stub is the selected article. If you have a new stub created feel free to nominate it at the NewsDesk. Article Assessment Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! 'Over 15,000 articles have been tagged with {{ OH-Project}} We have 5,000 articles that need to be assessed for class! Article Info Good Article Nominees, FAR, FLC List of Governors of Ohio was nominated for featured list status. Teh result was promote. Bruce Johnson (politician) underwent a featured article review. The result was demote. William Henry Harrison underwent a GAN The result was promote. Paul Tibbets underwent a GAN. It is currently undergoing review. Columbus Blue Jackets underwent a GAN It is currently undergoing review. Articles for Deletion Results Afd W. S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award was nominated at Afd. The result was Delete Homer E. Woodling and Robert F. Busbey were nominated at Afd. The result was Keep All Ohio High School Conferences were nominated at Afd. The result was no consensus keep. There is an effort to improve these articles here. Ohio Barnstar of Merit If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a good deal of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage. {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}} Article Importance Scheme A new article importance scheme has been proposed at the assessment talk page. Please comment on the propsed system. Ohio NHLs Tabulated The 25 of Ohio's 69 National Historic Landmarks that were red-links all got articles this month, as part of a WP:NRHP drive to finish beginning the 2,430 or so NHL articles needed for nation-wide coverage. WP:OHIO members Stepshep and Sanfranman59 were busy. Contributors Stepshep, Clariosophic, & Doncram

Open Tasks

Open tasks for WikiProject: Ohio. Edit or discuss these tasks. Ohio Shortcuts: Categories | History | Portal Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Main listing Cleanup : Ohio articles needing attention ( 80 ) Add city infobox to all town/city articles missing one. Add appropriate bio infobox to all Ohio bio articles missing one. Ohio articles needing cleanup Expand : To Good Article status: Ohio Columbus, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Toledo, Ohio Akron, Ohio Mansfield, Ohio Featured article candidates : No results were found. Featured list candidates : No results were found. Featured sound candidates : Project Content template contains the following errors: No content type parameters found Unable to generate results. See documentation for help Good article nominations : WNWO-TV WOSU-TV Geographical coordinates : Ohio articles missing geocoordinate data ( 55 ) Infobox : Ohio articles needing infoboxes ( 53 ) Maintain :   Ohio portal Map : Requested maps in Ohio ( 16 ) Merge : Schools, Articles to be merged in Ohio Photo : Requested photographs in Ohio ( 342 ) Add a picture to an article in the list of requested photographs in Ohio ( 342 ) (Most towns in Ohio are still on the list) or improve one of the articles with no images. Stubs : Stub-Class Ohio articles ( 10,775 ), Category:Ohio stubs Unreferenced : Unreferenced Ohio articles ( 7 ) Other : Lists to de-redlink: List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio, List of Members of Governors Cabinet of Ohio Lists to complete: List of Ohio state symbols Coordinate with Ohio Portal to provide quality articles for use. Place the {{ WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|OH=Yes|OH-importance=}} banner into Ohio related articles and assess

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