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Hello, I'm a rookie editor and talking in an NPOV is not exactly my strong suit, but did I break the rules? Because I'm sorry if I did. Being a former Youngstown resident, I just want to give information on a little piece of home (no pun intended). Any advice? -- Ace Darville ( talk) 01:41, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Please provide reasoning for your reclassification of 941–955 Boylston Street on its talk page. 121a0012 ( talk) 02:37, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

The article was assessed as being B-Class. It was very far from being a B-Class article. According to WP:Assessment, B-Class articles are "mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach Good Article standards. B-Class articles should meet the six B-Class criteria:

• The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. The use of citation templates such as {{cite web}} is not required, but the use of <ref></ref> tags is encouraged.
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• The article is reasonably well written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but it certainly need not be "brilliant". The Manual of Style need not be followed rigorously.
• The article contains supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams, where appropriate. It should have an infobox where relevant and useful. Images are not required, although illustrated articles are encouraged.
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I don't believe that 941–955 Boylston Street meets all of those criteria. Please see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment for more information. -- Daysleeper47 ( talk) 18:02, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Please be more specific (and please do so on the article's talk page, not here, so that other users aside from you and me may participate in the discussion. Looking at the article, and looking at the criteria, it is not at all clear to me what if any criteria you are claiming the article does not satisfy. 121a0012 ( talk) 02:42, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

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Daysleeper, Nice job on the list of Youngstowners! Are you planning to nominate it for FL status? I started to assess the importance of some of the Y-town biographies, but I found that I didn't have the criteria to make consistent decisions. Perhaps it would be a good idea to develop guidelines that people could apply when rating the articles for importance. This is just a thought, but it could prevent the process from becoming arbitrary. Thanks for the welcome back! -- twelsht ( talk) 05:05, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, I apoligize. That was my mistake. But I have noticed on other pages based on a digtal subchannel that the page name used is the official callsign plus whatever subchannel number it was. I very rarely move pages, and I'll take some blame on not paying attention to the move tab at all. I was just streamlining that and the page for WBCB so that it would match up with the other digital subchannel pages. Jgera5 ( talk) 05:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

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Hi -I've seen your work stand out in areas which I need just basic guidance. I am hoping you might perhaps semi-adopt me (I've been a tireless editor for a year, but know perhaps 5 others via this wiki!) Would you assist me with some questions re: some of the following?

1. How to guide others willing to upload photos - I noticed your abilities with the use of a computer, and of Wikimedia Commons, which are areas where I need some help. I'm woefully lacking in a computer education per se, being old enough to have never learned to use them in secondary school and college. But, I'm a quick study, and when given a nudge here and there, am diligent in working hard to see a job done well. I have been editing mostly pages of biographies of musicians, hunting down willing photographers who donate photos to Wikimedia- I just added some to Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi after lobbying for some photos! I do the grunt work. I don't mind, but need to know I'm doing it properly.
2. I am hoping that you might semi-adopt me for a time. My strengths include an ability to reword, and organize pages that have a poor flow of information, including timelines, and I work hard to find references. I've been working on the Wikipedia for a year now, but have little contact with people who can tell me, for instance,
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Hi. Thanks for trying to fix things at Talk:Red Hill Fire Observation Station, but it seems the problem is with the WPBannerMeta template (and the more recent problems are the result of someone trying to fix it). Daniel Case ( talk) 14:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it seems something about {{ WikiProjectFireService}} and {{ Hudson Valley}} aren't getting along. At Talk:Hunter Mountain Fire Tower, the only other page those two share (at the moment), the same problem is happening. I take out either of the other templates and leave the NRHP one, they work fine. Together they don't.

Since neither of them has been edited recently, I can't figure it out. Daniel Case ( talk) 14:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I tried to fix it and it failed. I'm not sure what it is. If it was more than a couple of articles, I would bother investigating, but I'm not too worried. I know you should use a banner shell for 3 or more project templates, but in this case I think we are okay without. -- Daysleeper47 ( talk) 16:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

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I added a page "Cove Acres Volunteer Fire Department and it was QUICKLY Deleted for some reason. I added it to the Fire Portal and don't understand why is was deleted. I would like to get all 20 Fire Departments from the County up and then grow out from there. Please help, the CAVFD page is in my sandbox right now. User Bossman00 Bossman00 ( talk) 19:39, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi! A few days ago a user created the article آتش‌نشانی in Persian wikipedia; which is the general article about the subject "fire service". Now there is some confusion with interwikis! ( [1] [2] [3]) In English wikipedia fire service is a redirect to firefighter at the moment; and here is the problem: In Japanese wikipedia for example, we have the article 消防士, which is about the person "firefighter" and links to "Firefighter" in en.wikipedia, and we have 消防, which is about "fire service" in general (I think) and links to Fire fighting; but this is a bad interwiki in my oppinion. This problem with interwikis becomes more complicated, because we have the stub article Fire department too! :)

The topic "Police" hasn't this problem: in English wikipedia we have Police and Police officer (policeman).

My recommendation:

• move Firefighter to Fire service or
• create a new article under the name "Fire service"; this will become the general article about this topic.
• merge "Fire department" with "Fire service" (or is the article "Fire department" something exclusive to USA?)

Your recommendation?

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Would you please help me? Raamin ( talk) 22:16, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

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