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DMacks ( talk) 03:20, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Re your comment on the talk page for the article about turnin' the damn frogs gay, there is an easy way to AfD the article. First remove the scientific cites, since they violate WP:SYNTH; remove non-RS cites; remove anything else which violates WP content policy. The remainder of the article will be basically a stub that says two guys said something crazy, with a couple media sites for citations: that is a slam-dunk for AfD. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad ( talk) 16:23, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, WeirdNAnnoyed,
You really messsed this page up. To start a new discussion on an AFD, you create a new AFD, you don't remove a previous discussion from the original AFD discussion page. Now, a new AFD page has to be created and all of this new content moved over to it.
Please do not ever do this again as it creates work for other editors/admins. Use Twinkle to tag pages for deletion or deletion discussions and Twinkle will take care of the process so we don't run into problems like this one. Oy, vey. Liz Read! Talk! 21:18, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm with the people who refrain from overusing these initialisms an acronyms, especially the ones that turn into words in sentences. They hide what the underlying things really are, and obfoscate more than elucidate, to the extent that they've been parodied with things like "OMG TLA WTF BBQ!" since at least 2006. "BEFORE" is, really, doing reasonable searches for sources beforehand and more. Of course when viewed that way it encompasses everything from the very reasonable reading the sources already cited in an article by the editors who wrote it, to doing far more than counting hits on one of Google's searches.
At this point, we're still in the GNIS mess, and we still have huge amounts of cleanup of what are bad data dumps to do. If you're looking for ways to approach this, there are several, but the most basic advice is that AFD is not a hammer. It's not meant to be an ultimatum to get other people to do the research.
To that end, quite a lot of us have undertaken quite a lot of cleanup projects, AFD not being cleanup. Hog Farm and I, for example, went over California with a history book of springs, and the resorts that blossomed and after a few decades withered around them, in hand; at the very least making Wikipedia correctly represent something as a "spring" or "resort" for the next editors to come along, so that they don't have to do all over again the work to find what the (at this point) zero-information "unincorporated community" in GNIS article text is obscuring. I took the Wikipedia:Reliability of GNIS data/Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection sources in hand and did some of that state, merging the creeks and tributaries into a sane coverage (some of them have lots about them to say, from all of the running-prose-documented tributaries to how the schools and post-offices moved around over the years) that actually reflects the history that Rennick researched rather than how the GNIS (and the cancellation of its further phases) has basically frozen dots on maps.
As to the research, there are several things to do when one first hits a bad GNIS data dump article:
Why springs and waters and stuff? Because the actual towns and cities were put into Wikipedia by Ram-Man years before the bogus GNIS record dumpers came along, and it's the hundreds of thousands of things that were imported as (usually) "unincorporated community", a term that has been so abused that it effectively means nothing in terms of a Wikipedia article, that are the problem. They turn out to be anything, from springs, through reservoirs ("tanks" ), and landings on rivers, and survey corners that mark the corners of the boundaries around the encyclopaedic subjects, to places where steam trains on long routes through unpopulated areas stopped for water and refuelling (sometimes, we've found, named after railway employees).
Of course, these examples are just from the states that have got the most attention; what applies to California in terms of looking for comprehensive histories and geographies and geologies and whatnot, applies to other places as well.
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I was looking for stuff todo (on vacation, and got sick. So anything is fun), and started adding seconds to deletion requests from the list. I noticed you were doing a lot of them for nowhere cities in California. I did remove one because it was actually notable, but hey even a broke clock is write once or twice a day. I also added one you hadn't got to yet. But, after a few of these I began to sense something bigger was going on.
I can spend a little time helping here and there. A read of your talk page and some of the background pages seems to show there are many thousands of these todo. I'm curious why your not speedy deleting them, and I'm wondering do the admins really expect these to be reviewed one by one in such great detail as described by Uncle G? I want to help with it since is so huge, but I sense if I plow in without some background that I might irritate more help.
Can you spare a minute to catch me up on the situation? James.folsom ( talk) 00:02, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Even for California, there are a whole load of things that are hot springs, with histories of resorts and stuff from when that was a booming industry, which Hog Farm re-stubbed three or so years ago, that need writing, not least from an excellent hydrographical report documented all of the hot springs in California that we found, which indicates which ones we should go looking for in the history books as resorts. And there are things that turn out to be hiding entire histories of past ranches and suchlike underneath dots on maps, that also need writing. There are in-depth histories of the individual counties of California that need combing through, to find out the GNIS "unincorporated communities" that are really, for example, Gold Rush boom towns; or well-documented stops on settler trails; or what old Mexican land grants had turned into.
Project:WikiProject California/GNIS cleanup task force is not for the drive-by taggers. The history, geology, physical geography, and human geography of the states in the U.S. has actually been fairly well documented in places like Kentucky and California, not least because people mined them, and it involves hard work writing stuff to fix the utter GNIS mess of thousands of "unincorporated community" lies that people have left us with.
If you want an easy task, get out a copy of Lippincott's gazetteer (several of which, for different decades, are freely downloadable on the WWW) and fix each "unincorporated community" that's actually a "post-town" or "post-village" (which Lippincott's distinguishes from mere post offices) and correct "unincorporated community" to "town" or "village" to help the next editor at least have a fighting chance at knowing what the Hell some of these "unincorporated communities" are, to research them further, like Hog Farm did for the hot springs. Half the work in researching one of these things at AFD is still getting over the hurdle of what even to look for. Is it a railway stop? A town? A village? A landing? A cave?
We already did a mass-deletion of the Carlossuarez46 substubs, for which talk to Alexis Jazz et al.. Much of the low-hanging fruit was picked some years ago. This is a harder phase, now.
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Very good to see somebody filling out those old town articles. Something that's needed done for a while... I have one request though. With diffs like this I humbly request you make a clipping first -- even after the bot fixes the TWL proxy link, the URL goes to a page and not to a clipping, i.e. nobody can read it unless they're logged into newspapers.com, versus a clipping which can be seen by anyone. I wrote a browser extension that helps with this by automatically formatting cites for n.c, if it is any use to you. jp× g 🗯️ 04:14, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey there. I'm working on the List of California tornadoes, and there was one in October 1972 in Pacific, California. NOAA mentioned the location in their October 1972 edition of Storm Data, which is viewable here. Just wanted to give you the heads up, regarding your proposed deletion. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 22:57, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
Howdy. I've been very happy to see all your good work recently cleaning up non-notable WP articles. I see that you are also updating articles with links to newspapers.com.
One minor issue is that when we WP users use the WP:LIBRARY, the urls have https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ in them, which is only useful to WP editors who meet the WP Library requirements and are logged in to the WP Library. Fortunately, on a daily basis, the User:BsoykaBot fixes those and changes them to https://www.newspapers.com automagically, so it is not a problem.
A more significant issue is that links to newspapers.com images will only work for people with newspapers.com accounts, the fix is to clip the article and use that URL. For example, https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/47174163/?terms=dinsmore&match=1 will get fixed by User:BsoykaBot to https://www.newspapers.com/image/47174163/?terms=dinsmore&match=1 which probably won't work for WP:LIBRARY users. The fix is to clip the article, see Wikipedia:Newspapers.com#Using_the_"Clipping"_function, which results in https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/article/the-times-standard-dinsmore-battle-of-t/137967887/ Either that URL can be used and User:BsoykaBot will fix it, or the URL https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-standard-dinsmore-battle-of-t/137967887/ could be used.
An additional benefit is that https://archive.org will archive those clippings. I added the clipping by hand (see https://web.archive.org/web/20240103185822/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-standard-dinsmore-battle-of-t/137967887/) but I believe that archive.org will automagically archive similar links. Newspapers.com might not be around forever, but I'm fairly confident on the longevity of archive.org
I realize that this is all minutia, but as you are a prolific editor, I thought you might want to know about the issue. I'll see about Again, many thanks for all your cleanup efforts.
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Hello, WeirdNAnnoyed,
You added {{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ranch House Estates, California}} to the AFD daily log for January 5th but this is a closed AFD discussion from 2020. Perhaps you meant to add a different AFD discussion page. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 08:58, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
On 26 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Humboldt Wagon Road, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that stagecoaches on the Humboldt Wagon Road could make a 400-mile trip in under four days? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Humboldt Wagon Road. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Humboldt Wagon Road), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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I've been going over some of the places you skipped over and doing much deeper studies on them as you may have noticed. I don't know if you have an opinion on Goose Prairie, Washington? It was never a community,just what I'd call a Bald, but the lingo differs in other parts of the country. It's obviously notable, but I think it should be moved or merged and the language about it being a community removed. I was wondering what you think about that. James.folsom ( talk) 22:15, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
Also what about Fruitvale. I can't pin it down, and the only thing that gives me pause is https://www.newspapers.com/image/857930665/?match=1&clipping_id=141306728. That says it's in different county, though. All the other mentions in the papers are so vague, I can't say for sure whether it's a town or just an area. I would argue that lack of information is reason to prod it. But I thought your local knowledge might help here. James.folsom ( talk) 23:29, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
I don't have time for them myself, but I have collected a source or two starting at Talk:Yakima River#Geological History. Enjoy. Uncle G ( talk) 04:41, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
I'm going through that Meany source looking for things that fit the pattern of not existing as candidates for AFD. (See below ) @ Uncle G@ Mangoe
James.folsom ( talk) 22:58, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Have you considered working up a list page for Washington, like the ones for other states at Wikipedia:Reliability of GNIS data#Cleanup efforts?
Uncle G ( talk) 08:32, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
What do you think about merging Hyak, Washington into Snoqualmie Pass, Washington or even more extreme merge both into the county? James.folsom ( talk) 21:59, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Also this one Suncadia, Washington, is a resort development. James.folsom ( talk) 22:16, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Whats you opinion on CDPs? I ask because I notice a particularly tricky one in Yakima county. That Wiley City, Washington and West Valley are in Ahtanum, Washington CDP. Ahtanum also appears to be the name of an unincorporated community, but has no mention anywhere. Something ought be done to make this clear on Wikipedia. I see several options, 1)leave the Wiley City article and add info about West Valley and Ahtanum to the CDP article. Add the CDP peice to Wiley city 2)Put them all toghether in the CDP article. 3)convert the Ahtanum article to be about Ahtanum, (probably meets resistance). What do ya think? James.folsom ( talk) 20:16, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
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DMacks ( talk) 03:20, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Re your comment on the talk page for the article about turnin' the damn frogs gay, there is an easy way to AfD the article. First remove the scientific cites, since they violate WP:SYNTH; remove non-RS cites; remove anything else which violates WP content policy. The remainder of the article will be basically a stub that says two guys said something crazy, with a couple media sites for citations: that is a slam-dunk for AfD. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad ( talk) 16:23, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, WeirdNAnnoyed,
You really messsed this page up. To start a new discussion on an AFD, you create a new AFD, you don't remove a previous discussion from the original AFD discussion page. Now, a new AFD page has to be created and all of this new content moved over to it.
Please do not ever do this again as it creates work for other editors/admins. Use Twinkle to tag pages for deletion or deletion discussions and Twinkle will take care of the process so we don't run into problems like this one. Oy, vey. Liz Read! Talk! 21:18, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
I'm with the people who refrain from overusing these initialisms an acronyms, especially the ones that turn into words in sentences. They hide what the underlying things really are, and obfoscate more than elucidate, to the extent that they've been parodied with things like "OMG TLA WTF BBQ!" since at least 2006. "BEFORE" is, really, doing reasonable searches for sources beforehand and more. Of course when viewed that way it encompasses everything from the very reasonable reading the sources already cited in an article by the editors who wrote it, to doing far more than counting hits on one of Google's searches.
At this point, we're still in the GNIS mess, and we still have huge amounts of cleanup of what are bad data dumps to do. If you're looking for ways to approach this, there are several, but the most basic advice is that AFD is not a hammer. It's not meant to be an ultimatum to get other people to do the research.
To that end, quite a lot of us have undertaken quite a lot of cleanup projects, AFD not being cleanup. Hog Farm and I, for example, went over California with a history book of springs, and the resorts that blossomed and after a few decades withered around them, in hand; at the very least making Wikipedia correctly represent something as a "spring" or "resort" for the next editors to come along, so that they don't have to do all over again the work to find what the (at this point) zero-information "unincorporated community" in GNIS article text is obscuring. I took the Wikipedia:Reliability of GNIS data/Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection sources in hand and did some of that state, merging the creeks and tributaries into a sane coverage (some of them have lots about them to say, from all of the running-prose-documented tributaries to how the schools and post-offices moved around over the years) that actually reflects the history that Rennick researched rather than how the GNIS (and the cancellation of its further phases) has basically frozen dots on maps.
As to the research, there are several things to do when one first hits a bad GNIS data dump article:
Why springs and waters and stuff? Because the actual towns and cities were put into Wikipedia by Ram-Man years before the bogus GNIS record dumpers came along, and it's the hundreds of thousands of things that were imported as (usually) "unincorporated community", a term that has been so abused that it effectively means nothing in terms of a Wikipedia article, that are the problem. They turn out to be anything, from springs, through reservoirs ("tanks" ), and landings on rivers, and survey corners that mark the corners of the boundaries around the encyclopaedic subjects, to places where steam trains on long routes through unpopulated areas stopped for water and refuelling (sometimes, we've found, named after railway employees).
Of course, these examples are just from the states that have got the most attention; what applies to California in terms of looking for comprehensive histories and geographies and geologies and whatnot, applies to other places as well.
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I was looking for stuff todo (on vacation, and got sick. So anything is fun), and started adding seconds to deletion requests from the list. I noticed you were doing a lot of them for nowhere cities in California. I did remove one because it was actually notable, but hey even a broke clock is write once or twice a day. I also added one you hadn't got to yet. But, after a few of these I began to sense something bigger was going on.
I can spend a little time helping here and there. A read of your talk page and some of the background pages seems to show there are many thousands of these todo. I'm curious why your not speedy deleting them, and I'm wondering do the admins really expect these to be reviewed one by one in such great detail as described by Uncle G? I want to help with it since is so huge, but I sense if I plow in without some background that I might irritate more help.
Can you spare a minute to catch me up on the situation? James.folsom ( talk) 00:02, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Even for California, there are a whole load of things that are hot springs, with histories of resorts and stuff from when that was a booming industry, which Hog Farm re-stubbed three or so years ago, that need writing, not least from an excellent hydrographical report documented all of the hot springs in California that we found, which indicates which ones we should go looking for in the history books as resorts. And there are things that turn out to be hiding entire histories of past ranches and suchlike underneath dots on maps, that also need writing. There are in-depth histories of the individual counties of California that need combing through, to find out the GNIS "unincorporated communities" that are really, for example, Gold Rush boom towns; or well-documented stops on settler trails; or what old Mexican land grants had turned into.
Project:WikiProject California/GNIS cleanup task force is not for the drive-by taggers. The history, geology, physical geography, and human geography of the states in the U.S. has actually been fairly well documented in places like Kentucky and California, not least because people mined them, and it involves hard work writing stuff to fix the utter GNIS mess of thousands of "unincorporated community" lies that people have left us with.
If you want an easy task, get out a copy of Lippincott's gazetteer (several of which, for different decades, are freely downloadable on the WWW) and fix each "unincorporated community" that's actually a "post-town" or "post-village" (which Lippincott's distinguishes from mere post offices) and correct "unincorporated community" to "town" or "village" to help the next editor at least have a fighting chance at knowing what the Hell some of these "unincorporated communities" are, to research them further, like Hog Farm did for the hot springs. Half the work in researching one of these things at AFD is still getting over the hurdle of what even to look for. Is it a railway stop? A town? A village? A landing? A cave?
We already did a mass-deletion of the Carlossuarez46 substubs, for which talk to Alexis Jazz et al.. Much of the low-hanging fruit was picked some years ago. This is a harder phase, now.
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Very good to see somebody filling out those old town articles. Something that's needed done for a while... I have one request though. With diffs like this I humbly request you make a clipping first -- even after the bot fixes the TWL proxy link, the URL goes to a page and not to a clipping, i.e. nobody can read it unless they're logged into newspapers.com, versus a clipping which can be seen by anyone. I wrote a browser extension that helps with this by automatically formatting cites for n.c, if it is any use to you. jp× g 🗯️ 04:14, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey there. I'm working on the List of California tornadoes, and there was one in October 1972 in Pacific, California. NOAA mentioned the location in their October 1972 edition of Storm Data, which is viewable here. Just wanted to give you the heads up, regarding your proposed deletion. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 22:57, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
Howdy. I've been very happy to see all your good work recently cleaning up non-notable WP articles. I see that you are also updating articles with links to newspapers.com.
One minor issue is that when we WP users use the WP:LIBRARY, the urls have https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ in them, which is only useful to WP editors who meet the WP Library requirements and are logged in to the WP Library. Fortunately, on a daily basis, the User:BsoykaBot fixes those and changes them to https://www.newspapers.com automagically, so it is not a problem.
A more significant issue is that links to newspapers.com images will only work for people with newspapers.com accounts, the fix is to clip the article and use that URL. For example, https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/47174163/?terms=dinsmore&match=1 will get fixed by User:BsoykaBot to https://www.newspapers.com/image/47174163/?terms=dinsmore&match=1 which probably won't work for WP:LIBRARY users. The fix is to clip the article, see Wikipedia:Newspapers.com#Using_the_"Clipping"_function, which results in https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/article/the-times-standard-dinsmore-battle-of-t/137967887/ Either that URL can be used and User:BsoykaBot will fix it, or the URL https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-standard-dinsmore-battle-of-t/137967887/ could be used.
An additional benefit is that https://archive.org will archive those clippings. I added the clipping by hand (see https://web.archive.org/web/20240103185822/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-standard-dinsmore-battle-of-t/137967887/) but I believe that archive.org will automagically archive similar links. Newspapers.com might not be around forever, but I'm fairly confident on the longevity of archive.org
I realize that this is all minutia, but as you are a prolific editor, I thought you might want to know about the issue. I'll see about Again, many thanks for all your cleanup efforts.
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talk) 19:01, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, WeirdNAnnoyed,
You added {{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ranch House Estates, California}} to the AFD daily log for January 5th but this is a closed AFD discussion from 2020. Perhaps you meant to add a different AFD discussion page. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 08:58, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
On 26 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Humboldt Wagon Road, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that stagecoaches on the Humboldt Wagon Road could make a 400-mile trip in under four days? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Humboldt Wagon Road. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Humboldt Wagon Road), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Z1720 ( talk) 12:02, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
I've been going over some of the places you skipped over and doing much deeper studies on them as you may have noticed. I don't know if you have an opinion on Goose Prairie, Washington? It was never a community,just what I'd call a Bald, but the lingo differs in other parts of the country. It's obviously notable, but I think it should be moved or merged and the language about it being a community removed. I was wondering what you think about that. James.folsom ( talk) 22:15, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
Also what about Fruitvale. I can't pin it down, and the only thing that gives me pause is https://www.newspapers.com/image/857930665/?match=1&clipping_id=141306728. That says it's in different county, though. All the other mentions in the papers are so vague, I can't say for sure whether it's a town or just an area. I would argue that lack of information is reason to prod it. But I thought your local knowledge might help here. James.folsom ( talk) 23:29, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
I don't have time for them myself, but I have collected a source or two starting at Talk:Yakima River#Geological History. Enjoy. Uncle G ( talk) 04:41, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
I'm going through that Meany source looking for things that fit the pattern of not existing as candidates for AFD. (See below ) @ Uncle G@ Mangoe
James.folsom ( talk) 22:58, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Have you considered working up a list page for Washington, like the ones for other states at Wikipedia:Reliability of GNIS data#Cleanup efforts?
Uncle G ( talk) 08:32, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
What do you think about merging Hyak, Washington into Snoqualmie Pass, Washington or even more extreme merge both into the county? James.folsom ( talk) 21:59, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Also this one Suncadia, Washington, is a resort development. James.folsom ( talk) 22:16, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Whats you opinion on CDPs? I ask because I notice a particularly tricky one in Yakima county. That Wiley City, Washington and West Valley are in Ahtanum, Washington CDP. Ahtanum also appears to be the name of an unincorporated community, but has no mention anywhere. Something ought be done to make this clear on Wikipedia. I see several options, 1)leave the Wiley City article and add info about West Valley and Ahtanum to the CDP article. Add the CDP peice to Wiley city 2)Put them all toghether in the CDP article. 3)convert the Ahtanum article to be about Ahtanum, (probably meets resistance). What do ya think? James.folsom ( talk) 20:16, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
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