Happy Holidays. Thanks for all the help in 2010. I can't give out physical gifts, so here are some ebooks :-)

• A Christmas Carol; Charles Dickens; Chapman & Hall; 1843. (Online HTML eBook)
• Wikipedia : The Missing Manual; John Broughton; O'Reilly Media; 312 pages; 2008; ISBN  9780596515164. (Download 30MB PDF eBook) (Online HTML eBook)
• Kansas : A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc; 3 Volumes; Frank W. Blackmar; Standard Publishing Co; 944 / 955 / 824 pages; 1912. (Volume1 - Download 54MB PDF eBook), (Volume2 - Download 53MB PDF eBook), (Volume3 - Download 33MB PDF eBook)
• The Story of the Marking of the Santa Fe Trail by the Daughters of the American Revolution in Kansas and the State of Kansas; Almira Cordry; Crane Co; 164 pages; 1915. (Download 4MB PDF eBook)
• Russell County in the War : Being a Record of the War Activities of the County and the Part that it Played in the Great Struggle; John E. Wilson; Capper Printing; 190 pages; 1921. (Download 11MB PDF eBook)

• Sbmeirow • Talk • 19:06, 24 December 2010 (UTC) reply

Thanks. And, thanks for the Barnstar. -- FUBAR007 ( talk) 19:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC) reply

Hello, FUBAR007/2011! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

-- Kumioko ( talk) 16:22, 4 January 2011 (UTC) reply

Welcome to the project. -- Kumioko ( talk) 22:27, 8 January 2011 (UTC) reply

With the first of what I hope will be monthly newsletters I again want to welcome you to the project and hope that as we all work together through the year we can expand the project, create missing articles and generally improve the pedia thought mutual cooperation and support. Now that we have a project and a solid pool of willing members I wanted to strike while the iron is hot and solicite help in doing a few things that I believe is a good next step in solidifiing the project. I have outlined a few suggestions where you can help with on the projects talk page. This includes but is not limited too updating Portal:United States, assessing the remaining US related articles that haven't been assessed, eliminating the Unrefernced BLP's and others. If you have other suggestions or are interested in doing other things feel free. I just wanted to offer a few suggestions were additional help is needed. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments or suggestions or you can always post something on the projects talk page. If you do not want to recieve a monthly message please put an * before your name on the members page.-- Kumioko ( talk) 03:27, 12 January 2011 (UTC) reply

Starting with the February 2011 issue WikiProject United States has established a newsletter to inform anyone interested in United States related topics of the latest changes. This newsletter will not only discuss issues relating to WikiProject United States but also:

1. Portal:United States
2. the United States Wikipedians Noticeboard
3. the United States Wikipedians collaboration of the Month - The collaboration article for February is Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
4. and changes to Wikipolicy, events and other things that may be of interest to you.

You may read or assist in writing the newsletter, subscribe, unsubscribe or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following this link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page or the Newsletters talk page. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:45, 4 February 2011 (UTC) reply

My guess is that if we include the "auto" parameter:
population_density_sq_mi = auto

then this line is not needed, thus is why I deleted it from articles:
population_density_km2 =

• Sbmeirow • Talk • 03:36, 7 March 2011 (UTC) reply

I decided to write up a quick article to guide other authors on updating the 2010 Census for city articles in Kansas. This is the approach that I'm going to take for modifying articles. This is considered a live user article, so likely I will change it as I find errors and get feedback. Obviously, everyone can do whatever they want, but hopefully they will take my changes into account. User:Sbmeirow/RecommendedChangesToArticlesFor2010Census • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:08, 9 March 2011 (UTC) reply

What you've got so far looks good to me. Three additional items you might consider mentioning: 1) Urban/Metro/CSA population counts in the Infobox, 2) City area data, which affects population density, in the Infobox, and 3) the community demographic breakdown data (race, income, etc.) in the Demographics section. As far as I know, the Census Bureau has not yet released this information for Census 2010. Until it does, there will be a noticeable disjoint between those data points and the updated 2010 population counts. I can see this throwing off some editors and users. My recommendation is that these sections be left as is, with notations where necessary to clarify discrepancies (e.g. city population count is from 2010, but metro area count is from 2009), until the Bureau releases the updated info. At that point, add sections to your template covering how to update these items. FUBAR007 ( talk) 15:24, 14 March 2011 (UTC) reply

Logging in during lunch hour, will respond more tonight. Thanks for reading and your reply. After editing, please remove city name from User:Sbmeirow/ListOfCitiesInKansasToBeEditedFor2010Census so we will know which cities haven't been edited. Thanks. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 17:58, 14 March 2011 (UTC) reply

I've been watching Live edit log of all Kansas articles very closely since the census has been released and have fixed edits from all users. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 18:01, 14 March 2011 (UTC) reply

The April 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
-- Kumioko ( talk) 19:25, 6 April 2011 (UTC) reply

The May 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
.-- Kumioko ( talk) 02:13, 6 May 2011 (UTC) reply

The June 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
-- Kumioko ( talk) 18:42, 12 June 2011 (UTC) reply

United States National Archives WikiProject

Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts. There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic· t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC) reply

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-- Kumioko ( talk) 00:51, 24 July 2011 (UTC) reply

Curious, why did you change the reference on "population_footnotes" from http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL2.ST13&prodType=table to http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml ?

FactFinder2 is the biggest piece of junk ever, and it isn't easy to find simple stuff like FactFinder1. The link I have been using isn't the best, but at least a person can easily get the population from that link. If I had a better link, I would use it.

I'm not throwing rocks at you, but trying to understand why you changed it. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 09:31, 19 August 2011 (UTC) reply

The demographic breakdown data I'm pulling for the Demographics section is in a different census report than the one you were citing. It also contains the basic population count, and, to streamline things, I decided to consolidate the census citations into a single reference, cited multiple times, rather than to try and cite each census report individually. A bigger reason is that FactFinder2 is a work in progress and the Census Bureau is periodically updating material and moving some of it around. Linking to the FactFinder2 front page points to the data source without having to contend with that. Also, pointing to the front page of a database is standard WP practice e.g. FactFinder1, GNIS, etc.

I absolutely agree that FactFinder2 is not user-friendly or intuitive at all. But, it is the current official source, and, for better or worse, that's what we have to work with.

The only other thing I'll add is that, the way I see it, our responsibility as WP editors in this regard ends with providing a reference to the source of the data we have used. If that source is poorly organized, that's not our fault or our problem. FUBAR007 ( talk) 13:31, 20 August 2011 (UTC) reply

I didn't know if you have a link to these web pages, but thought you should get a copy of them. I copied these lines from the bottom of my user page.

• Recent edits of most WikiProject Kansas articles
• Last 200 edits of all WikiProject United States articles

• Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:33, 14 September 2011 (UTC) reply

Hi. Is it possible that you could check these lists from time to time. We need to find some other people to help check these too. I haven't been watching the bottom link as much, and noticed vandalism in various lesser known articles by anonymous IP editors. click "Show only IP Edits" box, then click "Go!" You don't need to respond. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 20:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC) reply