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DYKs, etc

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The tulip Barnstar for hard work and diligence on the tulip mania article, now Featured. --JayHenry (talk) 05:22, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

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Barnstars, etc.

You have earned this 1956 Hungarian Revolution Barnstar István (talk) 05:45, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

		The Content Creativity Barnstar
		Nice work on Richard Leroy Walters. You got an excellent article up in just a little over one day. Nicely done! LK (talk) 08:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Indeed it is a nicely written article, I never knew :) Ottawa4ever (talk) 14:04, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		For dutifully photographing just about everything in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, as well as for the many photos of various sites on the National Register of Historic Places. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 00:22, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

		The Liberty Star
		for many outstanding contributions to Philadelphia articles, including both images and information.DThomsen8 (talk) 15:15, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Smallbones has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, so I've officially declared today as Smallbones's Day! For being a great person and awesome Wikipedian, enjoy being the star of the day, Smallbones! Signed, Neutralhomer A record of your Day will always be kept here.

Diversity

I hadn't looked at the museum's commons category since the initial upload and am quite thrilled with the diversity. By the way, another train on the NRHP, 3936 and 3937, is finished. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 00:22, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Re Wissahickon Creek

Thanks - you might want to contact Editorofthewiki too - see User_talk:Ruhrfisch#Plunketts_Creek. I know of the Wissahickon as it flows through some state parks. Will add it to my ever growing list. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:31, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Re:Ridley Creek

Yeah, I'd be happy to work with you on it. Problem is, I don't know which branch we should use as the main branch, and therefore how long it is. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs/editor review)}~ 00:10, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

I put all the data I had on the Ridley Creek talk page - hope it helps, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:34, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Photo request?

Next time you're out photographing NRHP sites in Chester County, could you try for the North Warwick Historic and Archeological District? It consists of Pennsylvania Route 345 and Harmonyville, Bethesda, Hopewell, Piersol, Trythall, and Northside Roads, in Warwick Township near Hopewell Furnace NHS; coords are 40°11′18″N 75°46′8″W. Nyttend (talk) 05:35, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I well understand transportation difficulties — last time that I was out hunting places in an area with lots of listings, I was on foot in well-below-freezing weather, and I got lots fewer sites (and many photos are blurry, due to my semi-numb fingers!) than I would have in better conditions. I'm just curious to see what the North Warwick district is like, since (like Cope's Bridge that you just photographed) it's officially address-restricted. I have to say that I love File:Edward Brinton House.JPG — wonderful color, especially for December! Combine that with a great angle for the photo, and it's quite a nice shot. And also, good job with File:East Fallowfield Bridge.JPG in getting down to the stream level for the photo. Yesterday (well, actually two days ago, since it's Wednesday now) I was a couple counties south of home, getting photos at a couple of locations, and this is the closest I could get to the stream level, due to a slippery and snow-covered slope. Nyttend (talk) 06:20, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Also — you make me drool with your 1000 listings statement. There are only 96 listings between my county and all five bordering counties, and most of the ones remaining to photograph are far enough away that it will likely be some weeks before I can go out and get any more of them. My hometown wasn't even settled until circa 1850, so "old" here is nothing to "old" where you are. Can you guess why I loved being in Beaver County, where "old" is at least the very late 18th century? Nyttend (talk) 06:26, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

War Eagle Mill vs the Bridge

WOW! That page is looking Awesome! Thanks tremendously for your generous help. As far as the bridge being more notable because of it's Historic Register status...quite honestly I don't really think the redirect works in this instance because most folks are more familiar with the Mill and the Fair as tens of thousands of folks visit the mill and fairs each year. My guess would be that most people searching Wikipedia would be looking for info on the Mill, not nessiarly the bridge. I bet there are lots of local school kids that are required to do reports on it after their field trips every year! Please don't get me wrong, the bridge is fantastic, and I see you really like bridges ( :-D ) but I think that the Mill and the fair are a popular enough landmarks in the state of Arkansas to warent their own page. The Mill is the number one attraction in Rogers, AR according to Trip Advisor. If you might agree, now there is the question of the bridge having its own page, or having it redirect to the Mill page... I will leave that debate up to your expert opinion. Oh and if you do think the Mill can stand alone, can you switch it back as I don't know how ;-) Thanks again for helping out so many entrees (including mine) and making Wikipedia such a great place for clean, supervised, information sharing!Jessicashabatura (talk) 03:04, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

I can try to get more print info on the Mill history and the fair. I think that should be pretty easy to dig up. But what do you think about changing the redirect for the Mill to the bridge. I think it is odd to have the mill be under the title of the bridge when the mill has more history, notoriety and historical impact. What do you think? Jessicashabatura (talk) 14:32, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Owensboro

I have to say, when I saw File:Owensboro2ndStAnn.JPG, I began to think "Smallbones is expanding!"  :-) Nyttend (talk) 05:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Last summer's vacation - cleaning out my files. Also been on the road a bit this week for various reasons. Just disagreed with you a bit on the Project talk page. As usual when things get hairy "it's time for bed". Smallbones (talk) 05:14, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

By the way, with File:Max Keil Building712.JPG — you can get the incorrect name issue fixed easily. Just upload the file under the name that you want and add {{bad name|Braunstein's Building.jpg}}, or whatever name you want to use, to the image with the wrong name. People often place the template on the image with the correct name, so keeping the description you're currently using, including the note about the name being wrong, will make it easier for the deleting admin to see that you've placed the template on the image with the wrong name. Nyttend (talk) 05:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Chester County

I always noted the links when I downloaded them (primarily for referencing purposes), so I have all that I downloaded. If there's a site that's not on the list, it's one that didn't have a form online. Actually, I think it will work better to give it to you in a user subpage; see User:Smallbones/Chester County. Nyttend (talk) 15:11, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

By the way, many sites have multiple forms; these I've designated with a number following the name of the site. If you find that any of these forms have gone down, email me and I'll reply with the file attached. Nyttend (talk) 15:13, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

All I can say is to check the list of sites for those counties. I've worked with the lists for 37 different states, but Illinois isn't one of them, so (1) I don't know what those lists are like, and (2) I don't have any photo requests. Nyttend (talk) 16:19, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Whence

And so, too, does Arabic, although I can't remember them right now. Daniel Case (talk) 18:20, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

NRHP in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

I do have the links and PDFs to the locomotives and rolling stock at Railroad Museum, but I'll do one better. All of the listings where a part of the MPS Pennsylvania Railroad Rolling Stock TR. All of the individual PDFs I downloaded from ARCH are essentially that, but cut into a myriad of pieces for each listing. I can still provide the individual links, if need be, but I find having access to the full document is easier.

I'll be somewhat envious if and when you go to the Railroad Museum :-) I also happen to know of some locomotives there that aren't on the NRHP, but still need some photos. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 17:18, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Off the top of my head: look for the GG1's 4800 and 4935. The museum also has a bunch of locomotives outside, behind the museum (4800 is among them). T'll see what what I can find about the Pioneer. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 18:42, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Nice! Have you thought of writing article on the Pioneer? It seems like there would plenty of material on it. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 22:30, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

First thing I thought. But I'm getting a bit booked, and maybe I don't always follow through on things as much as I should. Also see Pioneer (locomotive). Smallbones (talk) 22:47, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

I know the feeling, I've got material for articles to write but got distracted and moved on to other subjects. Two potential options to disambig the Pioneer locomotives would be to move the current Pioneer article to "Pioneer (G&CU locomotive)" and create "Pioneer (CVRR locomotive) or go with "Pioneer (1837 locomotive)" and "Pioneer (1851 locomotive)". ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 18:11, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Stargazers' Stone

Sorry to take so long to do this, but a few quick notes:

• Try to bring some variety into your sentences. The last six sentences of the intro all begin with "the". It looks sort of disconnected, like articles where different people add a sentence here or there. You can make it flow better.

• Use {{convert}} to automatically add metric equivalents to all the English ones you have. Daniel Case (talk) 04:53, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Purdue State Bank

I frequently get into trouble (not serious trouble) for being "too creative" on wikipedia. I like the way that the stepdown sized pictures look, plus they seem to fit better into the divisions that already exist in the article. However I feel no particular attachment to the way that I formated the page and you should feel free to make any improvement that you feel would help the page. My real issue was to get the pictures up ASAP. They are not particularly new, I did most of the Louis Sullivan pilgrimages years, even decades ago but . . . "ask and ye shall receive" and there they are. Have at it. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 00:42, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Communist

I'll check it out, but I think most of the people spoke, not wrote, the word. --Againme (talk) 18:12, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Done. Two revertions. Thanks. --Againme (talk) 18:48, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Smallbones (talk) 21:16, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Arch Street Presbyterian Church

See Clarence E. Macartney. Nyttend (talk) 17:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Looks good. Smallbones (talk) 22:01, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Francis M. Drexel School

Thanks for posting the note about the demolition. Question on your camera — you say that the picture was taken on the morning of the 15th, but the EXIF data says 2:44 PM on the 14th. Have you set the date wrongly, or was "15th" a typo? Nyttend (talk) 01:15, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

I was thinking I was 12 hours behind, but something else has happened (batteries?). It was about 8am today, Philly time, Feb. 15th. For comparison, the Arch Street photo was about noon on Valentines day, Sunday the 14th. Smallbones (talk) 01:58, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Aha, that can always be a problem. See this image; its EXIF data says that it was taken in May 2008, but I took and uploaded it more than a year before that time :-) By the way, see Francis M. Drexel School, which I wrote after leaving the first comment. Could you try to find any sources about its demolition? I'm using one of your pictures as a source (a photo of equipment knocking down walls is good evidence that it's being destroyed!), but I'd rather a print or online news source. Thanks again! Nyttend (talk) 02:40, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Good article - please send it to DYK. There's lots of info at Francis M. Drexel School. That's LOTS of info. and a demolition photostream. Smallbones (talk) 04:48, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Length is 1,640 characters, so it's long enough for DYK; it was previously just 1,639, but then someone changed "Philadelphi" to "Philadelphia" :-) Why don't you nominate it? Going for DYK was your idea, so you might as well get credit for nominating. I'm hesitant, however, to use the website, since (1) I don't know who runs it, and (2) it doesn't seem like a WP:RS. Nyttend (talk) 05:44, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the expansion and for the nomination! I've added one of your photos to the nomination. Nyttend (talk) 02:10, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, too, for removing the extra header; since there's a section for the photo included in the add-a-nomination template, I've never before added a photo after the nomination was created, so I copy/pasted from another nomination and clearly failed to remove some of that nomination. Nyttend (talk) 02:44, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Smallbones (talk) 02:56, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. Someone has left a comment on your hook. Nyttend (talk) 04:37, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Another comment has been added, asking for a complete rewrite of the hook. Nyttend (talk) 02:49, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Don't know if you've noticed, but the Drexel School is now in the prep area; it should be at DYK this weekend. Nyttend (talk) 13:49, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Drinker

Sorry that I never got back to you before now on the Drinker House photo.

You can see its report from the CRGIS — if this link doesn't work, go to https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/login.asp, select "Ask ReGIS", and search for properties with a historic name of "Drinker" in Philadelphia (without specifying NRHP status); this should give you information about the Edward Drinker Cope House, Drinker's Court, and the John Drinker House. Unfortunately, it's not been nominated to the Register, so there's no nomination form, but it does say that the house was built in 1765. Finally, you can find the HABS photos of the house at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa1197.

The nomination form for Drinker's Court indicates that it's exclusively the two buildings on Delancey St. Apparently the buildings were built by the same guy in the same year, but they aren't included in the HD. Overall, I'd guess that the owner misunderstood what had happened (perhaps thinking that it was part of the HD?) and placed the plaque; it's private individuals, not the NPS, who place these plaques. Nyttend (talk) 23:28, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

PR move

Hi Smallbones, I moved your comments at the PR to Wikipedia:Peer_review/Shakespeare_authorship_question/archive1 - two PRs on the same article were opened in less than an hour, so I deleted the second one (where you originally commented) and moved your comments to the first one. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:16, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Barnstars

File:WilliamPennHotel.jpg

William Penn Hotel

How nice. Thanks very much :-) What would you think of adding this photo to Barnstar? Nyttend (talk) 22:24, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm definitely not against listing it there. My only reservation is that some folks might think awarding 17 barnstars at a time might be a bit over the top (not in your case of course). Barnstar inflation and all that. Perhaps if it was made clear that it's for NRHPs, where multiple barnstars should be the norm :-). Smallbones (talk) 23:37, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Ben Franklin Hotel

No, I meant the article on barnstars, not the idea of Wikipedia barnstars. I have to say: when I saw your Ben Franklin Hotel picture, I was very surprised by its similarity to another hotel — check out this picture of the NRHP-listed William Penn Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. Nyttend (talk) 20:30, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

When I first started using CRGIS, I had to download something (can't remember what it was) from the website before it would work properly. I'm on a Windows computer, so perhaps your computer is the problem. Nyttend (talk) 22:10, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Hotel Syracuse

To me, the Hotel Syracuse also looks similar, at least it would from the left side with the 3 wings. Seems like a pretty standard hotel design, having three big wings. Maybe works well with floor layouts having central elevators? I wonder if there is an architectural term, like an "E-pattern" design. --doncram (talk) 20:12, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

I noticed your adding pic for College of Physicians of Philadelphia to the old sandbox of 2007-then-pending NHL nominations, in this edit. Would you like to work together to dvelop the draft at Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/NHLsandbox6 (about same length as The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, but with a good reference), and put up for DYK? Certainly there is plenty of info available for it. There's stuff i could add to the sandbox. Or if you want move whatever material to the mainspace article, and develop there. --doncram (talk) 17:08, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

I added NHLSUM reference to the sandbox version. No easy way to renumber one of the lists. Actually i know that User:Sanfranman does the renumbering in an Excel spreadsheet, but i never figured that out; i do it manually. The pic of plaque is nice to have; i dunno about using the pic itself in the article (there even could be copyright issues), but quoting lengthily from the plaque quote, perhaps in entirety, is fine AFAIK. --doncram (talk) 17:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Good about the list-articles. Don't sweat the overall counts any further--there are in fact others (Nyttend and esp. Sanfranman59) who focus on getting the counts updated, and no further notice to them is needed. About your comment that "The 'The' in the article name doesn't look right to me", I agree. I suggest just moving the mainspace article to drop "The", and i guess not to include the word "Building" either, but am okay either way about latter. Note the NRHP name doesn't have the "The". It is just the NHL program name with the "The" (however that means it should show that way in the List of NHLs in Philly list article and in the infobox, to be consistent. I can't do real editing of the draft article now, will return later to try to add to whatever you develop. --doncram (talk) 19:45, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Great. Smallbones (talk) 19:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Actually, I don't work with recent listings; it's just that I watch all the lists in the majority of the states and thus notice Sanfranman's work, and I clean up any mistakes that he makes. And no, you didn't make any new work for me :-) I had a lot of work, but that was because many names were messed up on the list of NHLs in Philadelphia — it was work that should have been done a long time ago. Nyttend (talk) 14:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

All you have to do is to move "The College" to "College"; it's not a move that requires an admin's help. Nomination forms for NHLs are always longer, by the way: NHLs are much more significant than the average NRHP listing, so they have a much higher standard for the forms. Nyttend (talk) 14:35, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

No, no complaints about HABS; I just wonder, though, why you'd upload pictures of sites you could photograph yourself. Color is better than black-and-white :-) However, I'd advise you to make at least one change — in the source line, instead of giving the URL for the image that you're uploading, it would probably be better to link to the HABS/HAER record, as I've done with File:Knabb-Bieber Mill.jpg. This allows someone to access the different sizes of the image and the caption page(s), as well as enabling them to look at other images and related data. Nyttend (talk) 22:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

[unindent] Hmm, does sound interesting. You'll definitely have an interesting time writing the article! I encountered somewhat of a similar situation when I wrote Lake Ridge Island Mounds — the site was listed in 1974 as an HD, but some time after they were listed, one was excavated and found not to be a mound at all; it appears that all of them except one have been removed, since there's no point in preserving natural little hills that are in the way of putting in convenient driveways. I learned everything about the post-listing excavations by talking with a personal acquaintance, so it would have been OR to include that; therefore, I did my best to say "this is what was thought in 1974". This isn't the only NHL misidentification; read Florence Mills House for an interesting example of an NHL error. Nyttend (talk) 23:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Here are two different links: the first is the CRGIS, and the second is from ARCH, whose servers are (at least temporarily) still working. I expect that the ARCH should be downloadable, but it can't hurt to try the CRGIS link; perhaps it will let you attempt to download since you're bringing it up in a new window. CRGIS and ARCH. Nyttend (talk) 03:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Bucks County

First off — for any ARCH questions, see User:Nyttend/Pennsylvania forms. You want to ask Pubdog for help. For the "Pugh building", do you mean the Pugh Dungan House? Click for photo, nomination form, and map. The odd situation with the three NHLs grouped as one isn't unique, by the way: see Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums in Wyoming, an NHL composed of two NRHP-listed buildings and one other, or Camden Expedition Sites in Arkansas, an NHL composed of either eight or nine sites (the National Park Service seems to contradict itself here!) that are all NRHP-listed. Anything else I can do for you? Nyttend (talk) 14:46, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Bucks County Request

Bucks County, PA request: Sorry, but I could not find documents for two properties. I went through what I have twice, opening up each document.--Pubdog (talk) 11:10, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Property	Arch Link 1	Arch Link 2
Doylestown Historic District	http://www.arch.state.pa.us/pdfs/H077427_01B.pdf	http://www.arch.state.pa.us/pdfs/H077427_02C.pdf
Pugh Dungan House	No docs
Fordhook Farm	http://www.arch.state.pa.us/pdfs/H082507_01B.pdf
Oscar Hammerstein II Farm	http://www.arch.state.pa.us/pdfs/H095189_01B.pdf
Shaw Historic District	http://www.arch.state.pa.us/pdfs/H001700_01B.pdf
Tabor Home for Needy and Destitute Children	http://www.arch.state.pa.us/pdfs/H079508_01B.pdf
Fretz Farm	No docs

See the section above for Pugh Duncan. CRGIS has five photos (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) for Fretz, but no nomination form. Nyttend (talk) 16:01, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

You can write the NRHP and they will send you a copy of the nomination form if it is not available elsewhere (for free - your tax dollars at work). Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:52, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Wonderful...You've got some great looking photos, there. I should be able to write separate, DYK-worthy articles for most of the individual locomotives, however, an all-around rolling stock article might be doable (similar to List of preserved Southern Pacific Railroad rolling stock).

PS: I've already started work on an article for #460. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 20:15, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for no reply until now; I wasn't sure what to say, but if Niagara's already getting going, you can't argue with that. Nyttend (talk) 14:41, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey, PRR 460 is up. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 23:57, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I ran across the video while browsing Youtube awhile ago and was reminded of it while writing the article, also it shows up if you search "lindbergh engine" on Google. I think there might be an April Fools DYK in there, but I'm not sure whether it's humorous enough. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 01:19, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Not on the NRHP, but I was able a write a short article for the little, Hawaiian locomotive you photographed. Sorry if these notes are getting annoying. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 17:32, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Wonderful, keep up the good work, and don't worry about annoying me. The engine and its history is amazing, the article very good, the DYK hook wonderful, and last, but not least, I like the photograph :)

I liked taking photos of trains so much, I've been wondering about taking a trip to the B&O Museum in Baltimore. But no NRHPs there that I can find, the article seems pretty well illustrated, and the only locomotive I know to snap is the Pioneer. Any suggestions? Smallbones (talk) 21:31, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

A GG1, PRR 4876, I believe is sitting outside the museum, somewhere... ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 00:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

I decided to flip the photos. Slightly out of focus, but the head-on view still looks good for an infobox. No problem about the tree, I assume it's going to be trimmed or removed, so hopefully it'll be an uneventful few days. ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 02:30, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

PRR 520 is up. You're welcome to tweak the hook (I'm not entirely pleased with it, but it's the best I could come up with, without being misleading). ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 18:31, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Freight train, the PRR Niagara, comin' through right on schedule! Keep it going as long as you can - I'm just sitting back, watching in awe. The hook looks OK to me, I've written much worse. Smallbones (talk) 19:11, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Yet another... Also, I see you got a photo of the Becuna (submarines were so tiny way back when) :-) ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 02:42, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

I visited the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in August, and I quite enjoyed it. They have a notice posted that photographs must be limited to personal use, but I have no idea how serious they are about that statement. I did take a good picture of a GG1 there, but I have not uploaded any photos from there, or from the Strasburg Railroad across the street. --DThomsen8 (talk) 18:23, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Joseph Priestley's other house

Thanks - I never thought JP had television! I seem to recall that he stayed in the Philadelphia / Germantown area initially, had not heard of this domicile. Agree it would need a reliable source to include on Wiki. I like trains and bridges, so that's my kind of list! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:51, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

In what way does the uneven roofline suggest to you that it's an old house? Nyttend (talk) 12:40, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

It was obviously built in sections at different times, and has settled unevenly. The roof beams may have sagged or warped, though to me it looks a bit humpbacked, probably caused by the garage wall not settling as much. Smallbones (talk) 12:46, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Taking a look at the picture - the chimney probably marks the dividing point between the old house and modern garage. There is warping above the main door. Also there is a local historical society plaque (not legible) just below the 119 by the door. Smallbones (talk) 12:56, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Okay, thanks; I've never paid attention to that kind of thing before, so I didn't know what to look for. As far as I know, the only log cabins around here are (1) one that's still preserved in a park in my county seat, and (2) one that's owned by some people that used to attend my church; it's been so heavily modified that they didn't know that it was a log cabin until they started remodelling the interior some years ago. Nyttend (talk) 13:01, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Wiki Takes Philadelphia 2

Are you free to participate? Seems like you've taken a lot of pictures already. --Mblumber (talk) 00:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

You're invited to the
Wiki Takes Philadelphia
April 11, 2010
Time: 12 pm
Location: Drexel Quad (33rd and Market)
University City, Philadelphia

RSVP

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Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia is a photo scavenger hunt and free content photography contest to be held all around Philadelphia aimed at illustrating Wikipedia articles.

Scheduled for Sunday, April 11, 2010, the check-in location will be at the Drexel University quad (between Chestnut and Market, 33rd and 32nd) at noon, and the ending party and photo uploading (location to be announced) will be at 6 PM. To reach the Drexel quad, walk south from Market Street at 32nd Street into the campus.

I appreciate the invitation, and would love to meet you and the others, but I have family commitments. I hope it goes wonderfully. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 19:48, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

The list

Thanks for all your contributions! Please make sure to link to the articles that need the pictures. I noted that many of these targets don't have articles, so we might want to create stubs before the event so that the pictures will have a home. --Mblumber (talk) 04:48, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

They all are needed at National Register of Historic Places listings in Center City, Philadelphia or a similar page. I'll try to get stubs or better for all the Center City request before 4/11. Smallbones (talk) 05:03, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

The photos you've been taking are incredibly helpful. Thank you for posting them. BoringHistoryGuy

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New Castle County NRHP listings

Hi, got ur note on this subject. It's probably good that National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware has been split from the rest of National Register of Historic Places listings in New Castle County, Delaware. I see it was split back in 2006. Having myself split some other city lists (including dividing Baltimore's), I expect there are errors in the location of some properties in the list-articles. NRIS info (the basis of our NRHP list-tables) was no doubt used in dividing Wilmington out. NRIS is very accurate in terms of county identifiers, but the town/city item just means "in or near". The only way to clean that up is for someone to have an official city map and to check the linked google/bing maps. Google, Bing and mapquest (the latter is good for county boundaries) don't have city boundaries, AFAIK. There's an official map of Wilmington's neighborhoods here, from the city -- it looks good enough to use for city boundaries although it only shows approximate locations of the neighborhoods. Glancing at Google map for the New Castle County list-article, offhand, it looks like the location of coords for Liston Range Front Lighthouse put it inside the Wilmington city limits, so its row should probably be moved. Also multiple items in the Wilmington list appear to be located outside the city boundaries, so should be moved the other way. I'm not too psyched to delve into this myself, but i could help some if/when you want, i think u suggested in a few weeks. --doncram (talk) 20:18, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

I just realised that I need to run, so I'll give input later this evening when I get a chance to examine the situation better. Nyttend (talk) 21:06, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure the city line is a meaningful boundary here. Delaware has city/town/village limits at the center of a community surrounded by large areas in the counties that use the same address and where people generally consider themselves part of that community. (And more people live in unincorporated Wilmington, New Castle and Newark than do in those respective city limits.) This is in marked contrast to states with a township system.

That being said, I notice one of the items on the Wilmington list (Village of Arden) is actually the name of a different municipality which is indisputably wrong.RevelationDirect (talk) 03:45, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

If the consensus doesn't go my way, I don't want to be a jerk and make people do extra work though. Here are the 22 sites I identified as being outside of the city limits. Thanks for putting the feedback request on my talk page, btw. RevelationDirect (talk) 04:27, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Heart of a Dog

Who could resist? just as soon as I get a bit of time to call my own. Great pic! HeartofaDog (talk) 15:42, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: Detroit, Chattanooga, what's next?

Thanks! To be honest, I'm taking these pix mostly for my own self, as it's fun to sort through the historically significant places in a city to get a sense of the place. However, it's gratifying that someone else appreciates it, so... I'm gratified. :) And, although I think you mean your question rhetorically, I do have an answer for you. I went to Chattanooga to help my wife set up for a fine art & craft fair. She was selling for a couple days, so I had time on my hands to walk around and take some pix. Next month, she's got another fair in Nashville, so I'm planning to do the same thing. Andrew Jameson (talk) 12:15, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Zook House

Do you mean that there are only two Zook Houses, not three? Nyttend (talk) 14:30, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes (I was going to get to you on this (I can get the reference to the funky PA NRHP site if you'd like). The older house was moved after it was listed, then delisted, and relisted. It was only moved about 300 yards, so they could build a new department store in the shopping mall (I have a picture of the store, but it probably isn't needed). The newer "Jacob Zook house" is south of the highway, about 150 yards away. It isn't a boundary increase on the older Zook house, but a move. I'd just delete the 1976(?) listing, with comments under the moved listing. Smallbones (talk) 14:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Please do add a comment; it will help future readers. Could you perhaps compose a stub on the house and include the delisting-and-relisting note? I should note that this is definitely not a common situation — the only other time I've encountered it was with the Kent Jail, which you can find at the Portage County, Ohio list. And about removing, I'm sure that won't be controversial; since you've shown that they're the same thing, I don't expect anyone to complain. I've never heard of any problems from removing Village of Mariemont from National Register of Historic Places listings in Hamilton County, Ohio after I discovered and showed that it was simply the NHL name for the Mariemont Historic District, which was NRHP-listed nearly 30 years before being declared an NHL. Thanks for the response at my talk; I had forgotten about asking you this question, so I'd not have thought to check back here. Nyttend (talk) 01:08, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, yeah; at least it's "Zook", not "Aook". Nyttend (talk) 01:18, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for the nice words but comp0letely undeserved. Due to a (my) cock up I had loaded User:JamAKiska/Griffith Hughes (naturalist) into mainspace. Its now deleted and back in user space, The article I am working on is Colonel Mordant's Cock Fight which I'd ne pleased to have comments on or a DYK nom? Victuallers (talk) 14:55, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

John Penn ("the American")

John Penn ("the American") is being cited for deletion. Can you help with a supporting comment on notability, or improvement in the article itself? --DThomsen8 (talk) 22:01, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

St. Paul's Episcopal

I'd just make sure all relevant info in the infoboxes syncs up (which I just noticed you did) and then redirect one of the pages. CDP's, technically, do have distinct boundaries that are decided by the U.S. Census Bureau (see Exton's). However, I'd use Exton in the disambiguation as West Whiteland Township is a mouthful and the church uses Exton in its mailing address. Sorry about the lack of the new trains; I got distracted again ;-) ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 14:20, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Check request

In light of your (1) sterling capabilities and (2) demonstrated interest in Pennsylvania history, could you take a quick gander at Sally Wister? I was surprised to see there was nothing on her in Wikipedia, and whomped this up, but it seems to be missing something. Thx. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 15:33, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

New Jersey?

Do you ever get into New Jersey? I just found this site, which might be a nice visit if you're ever east of Camden: it's on a suburban street on the northern side of Haddonfield. There's a memorial marking it as the site of the first known discovery of a complete dinosaur skeleton. Nyttend (talk) 23:26, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

I love your (certainly not by me) comment :-) Nothing wrong with having the toys on the edge of the picture that you're using on the county NRHP list; they're simply part of the background. Overall, the marl pit photo is best; I've added it to the article. Is that the advice you wanted, or did you mean something else? Nyttend (talk) 21:50, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

s/b? Not familiar with that abbreviation. I'll see what I can do about the archaeological site, but I fear that it will be hard to get access to it even if I can find it — so many of these archaeological sites are far from roads. And a good idea to go ahead with the extra pit picture; more pictures are always better. Nyttend (talk) 23:49, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

See page 5 of this PDF — the map is quite detailed, but please note that it's not oriented to the north. The location is approximately 40°11′26.5″N 74°43′36.5″W, along the tops of the bluffs southeast of the intersection of Independence and Park Avenues, southeast of Spring Lake, and northwest of the junction of I-195 and I-295. The ridgeline can best be seen in a topo map; do you know how to find any good ones online? If not, check out http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gazpublic/getgooglemap?p_lat=40.1470545&p_longi=-74.7218267&fid=875750; move the map to the north-northwest of the leftmost red marker to find Spring Lake. Nyttend (talk) 00:09, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

You may also find this journal article informative; while I can only read the first page, it has some locational data. If you can find somewhere to go that has JSTOR access, you may be able to get a lot more information. Nyttend (talk) 00:10, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

By the way, see Commons:Category:Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site. Nyttend (talk) 01:21, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Lima Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Depot

Just saw your comment at the page's talk. I'll admit that I don't like the name, either; however, I don't know what name to use other than the NRHP listing name. Any ideas? Nyttend (talk) 02:00, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

More rail pix

Neat! Eyecatching, that LVRR engine. Was that color scheme standard for the LVRR? ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 02:29, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

HABS pictures

I just uploaded File:Clemuel Ricketts House drawing 2.png to make sure (and managed to screw it up the first time ;-) ). I open the largest TIFF in Windows XP, so it appears in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. I then right click and choose "Open with" and use MS Paint to open the file (I tried Paint.NET but it choked on cropping). I saved it as a PNG format file, and then resized it to 40 percent of the original size (otherwise the thumbnail is too large to show up). Please ask if this is unclear. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

My guess is saving it as a PNG and reducing the size of the file should work on a Mac too - good luck, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 11:42, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

NRHP assessments

You might find this discussion illuminating about the issue. Daniel Case (talk) 17:46, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Talk:DeTour Reef Light‎

Smallbones, Thank you for reranking that. Most of the Michigan (and other Great Lakes) lighthouse articles (which I worked on) are similar and should be similarly classed. Please take a look and see what (if anything) you could do. It is a source of frustration for me that the solid work I've done is classified as "start" or "stub", when plainly this is wrong. At least I pulled together all the available on line sources on most of these articles). Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 13:42, 5 June 2010 (UTC) Stan

See for example, Alpena Light. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 13:50, 5 June 2010 (UTC) Stan

WPA Latrine

That is one fine (and solid) looking latrine! Thanks for sharing, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:12, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Gloucester County pics

Whitney Mansion, in Gloucester County

Hey, nice pics being added by u to National Register of Historic Places listings in Gloucester County, New Jersey. I like the Whitney Mansion pic with, i think, a deodar cedar in front of a building of rounded stones. :) --doncram (talk) 06:19, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

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Autoreviewer rights

I put in a request on your behalf. Hope that's okay. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:34, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Truth

...is closer to the truth than most here realize. Out of curiosity, what impelled you leave her with me (in words, now what have I done?) Truthkeeper88 (talk) 20:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Help request on article peer review

Hello, I posted the article strip club for peer review and saw that you are a volunteer in the Society and social sciences category. It would be a big help if you could provide comments on any of the criteria points (well-researched, structure, etc.) for the article before I post it for WP:FAC. Thanks! - Wallanon (talk) 14:11, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

WP:Articles_for_deletion/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes_(3rd_nomination)#Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes exists

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Your trip

Nice to see the Kansas pictures; I was rather surprised to see you producing pictures that far west. It would have been funny if you'd run into Ammodramus, a Nebraska resident who's also gotten some Kansas photos. Nyttend (talk) 20:41, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Wow, what a trip! Yeah, I've found it quite a long task to upload lots of pictures; it took me most of a day just to upload a bunch of pictures on the Ross County, Ohio list, and that was far less than what you've done. Don't be ashamed of the gate photo; look at my Elm Court photo at National Register of Historic Places listings in Butler County, Pennsylvania or my Gartner Mound and Village Site photo at the Ross County, Ohio list. Oh, also — about the Denver guy, do you mean Denverjeffrey? Nyttend (talk) 20:54, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

It might be a while before you get anything back; Jeffrey hasn't edited all month, and he's had only ten edits since late May. To me, he's never seemed proud or anything like that: many of the downtown Denver pictures are mine (from a spring break trip last year), and typically lower quality than his. He easily could have replaced some of them, such as those of the Capitol Life Insurance Building, the Curry-Chucovich House, and the Neusteter Building (indeed, it would have been nice if he had!), but he's never done that. You didn't get up to Laramie, Wyoming, did you? If so, I hope that you got the Cooper Mansion; my picture from the same trip is quite horrid. Nyttend (talk) 21:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Best to go with File:Richthofen Castle 1.JPG; at least it shows part of the castle, unlike the gate and gatehouse photos that show nothing at all of the main building. A pity we don't have access to light airplanes in most circumstances, or we'd have a far easier time; images such as File:Zimmerman Kame overhead.jpg represent rare opportunities. Nyttend (talk) 22:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Enjoyed the Gothenburg pictures. You beat me on the library—I've got some pictures in my edit queue, but haven't got around to them yet. As I recall, I shot them on a cloudy day, so yours is probably better anyway.

Also nice to see the Kansas courthouses. I'd like to get down into Kansas and shoot more of those; but there are still forty-some courthouses in Nebraska that need to be photographed...

--Ammodramus (talk) 01:54, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Very nice pictures from North Platte. Looks like you had great light for them, and made good use of it.

--Ammodramus (talk) 20:39, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Glad you had good photography weather in Nebraska. I just did a combined birding-and-photography run through the southeastern part of the state, and the sky was a bit perverse: when I was birding and would've appreciated the shade, the sun came out in force; and when I was in a town trying to take pictures, the sun went behind a cloud, making my summer-in-Nebraska pictures look like November in Stockholm.

I'm afraid I don't know Omaha at all well, so I can't offer useful advice re. the Dundee HD. I spend most of my time and take most of my pictures in places with low population densities; for me, Omaha is little more than the place where I go to take people to the airport.

--Ammodramus (talk) 21:19, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Got my Gothenburg library pictures uploaded; spurred by your example, I also got Midway Stage Station (also NRHP in Dawson County) up. As I recalled, the library photos look pretty gloomy; it was a pleasant day, but very definitely an overcast one.

--Ammodramus (talk) 22:57, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Denver pictures

Hey, thanks for your note. I think there is a mistake with your Fox Street shot. If you look closely at the address, it is South Fox street. Your shot is of a house on North Fox street, so it's the wrong place. Ellsworth is the North/South dividing line in Denver, and your picture is north of Ellsworth.

I also went out to shoot the Richthofen Castle and decided not to use any of my pictures because I couldn't get a good one.

Regarding the Cheesman Park Esplanade shot, your picture is technically out of the esplanade as it is inside the listed street boundaries.

Thanks,

Jeffrey Beall

Your Denver pictures are fine. I generally don't replace others' pictures, so yours are likely to be there a while. I was thinking of hiring a helicopter for the Castle and a couple of the historic districts, but I will probably never get around to doing it. I did once take a picture of the Roth house, and it's here, but it's covered by so much foliage I didn't see the point of uploading it. I meant to go down there this winter (when the leaves are gone) but never did it. Perhaps I'll go there this December. Cheers. Jeffrey Beall 01:28, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Kripalu Center

Hi. A long time ago you participated briefly in discussion about Kripalu Center. The article has some of the same issues now that it had in March 2009. I got involved after the article's name appeared on a couple of noticeboards and a user talk page that I had watchlisted. I don't have the time or inclination to address everything about the article, and I think that multiple sets of eyes would be helpful there. Could you please resume watching/participating there? --Orlady (talk) 20:40, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

PHMC Markers

Don't worry, I will have no trouble getting the remaining counties' info into tables similar to how I have the lists for Adams County and Philadelphia now. That shouldn't take long. The wikilinks will need to be check and disambiguated, but I want to get all the pages for each county set first before I proof further, and I'm sure editors interested in the particular counties and topics will also help out with that once they discover the lists.

Not to worry, I'm well aware of the copyright issue on the markers and their text, and the only photo of a marker that is appropriate is probably the one I added to the main PA list page as an example of what a marker looks like since I specifically discuss it in the caption. As you know, PA's historical markers are different than NRHPs or others, and including people, events, as well as buildings, and other subjects, ....often things that are long gone. I therefore envisioned the photos to be placed in these tables to be a mix of photos of the buildings ala the NRHP lists, but also of people and events. The subject field should help clarify that for structures because "buildings" is specified when they are the subject of a marker. For a marker for, say Ben Franklin, I intended an image like this could serve the purpose. I'm going to get the basic information into the tables first before I worry about the images though.

In any case, thank you in advance for any future contributions. Let me know if you have any suggestions along the way. CrazyPaco (talk) 04:45, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

To give you an idea of what I was talking about, here is how I've started to fill in the Allegheny County table. I try to keep the context of the actual historic marker in mind. CrazyPaco (talk) 22:09, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Champaign County, Illinois

Are you referring to File:Sidewalk 200s Market St Champaign.JPG? I'd advise that you go to File:Graphic Press Champaign Illinois 4173.jpg, since the sidewalk isn't a contributing property. Nyttend (talk) 12:04, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Hmm. I never imagined that the sidewalks would be included. Given that fact, the sidewalk is a good idea; nice work. Nyttend (talk) 16:59, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Henry Roth House

Curious, why remove File:5 Fox St Denver.JPG from the Henry Roth House line of National Register of Historic Places listings in Southeast Denver, Colorado? Nyttend (talk) 01:45, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Ahh, I'm sorry; I've been to Denver on three trips, but the first and third trips were only on I-70 and various highways in the northern part of the city, and during the second (which produced all of my Denver NRHP photos), the only time I was in the southern part was going on I-25 on the way to Colorado Springs. Curious, though — why do you say it would have been the last one for Denver? Speer Boulevard also has no photo in Southeast Denver. And congrats to Mrs Smallbones, who must find historic sites more interesting than my friends and family members do. The only ways I can get photos are (1) taking trips by myself [possible now that the doctors have finally allowed me to drive :-D] (2) getting photos such as File:Interstate view of St. Joseph's, Topeka.jpg that appears at National Register of Historic Places listings in Shawnee County, Kansas, which only works when we're driving past them anyway, or (3) persuading them that two minutes' detour to get one quick photo won't be too badly out-of-the-way. By the way, DJ's photo would seem to me to be reasonably usable; yes, it doesn't show much of the house, but it's better than nothing (and a nice picture overall, even though it doesn't show the house too well) until he can get back there. Nyttend (talk) 03:57, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

DJ has tagged the photo as cc-by-sa, so there's no legal or policy-based restriction on using it, but I thought I'd ask his permission before uploading it. I have a friend in Aurora, whom I tonight considered asking for help, but he isn't at all the type to get pictures of historic sites — when I was in Denver over spring break, he walked along the 16th Street Mall shopping with the rest of the people from my school for most of the day; I had to leave them for some hours to get the photos that are online, and he seemed to think me rather odd for walking all over downtown and North Capitol Hill. As far as Iowa City versus Chicago, it's likely an issue of someone putting together some detailed MPS work; why does Fredericktown (included in the Knox County, Ohio list) have 24 listings, when it's nowhere near 1/4 of the size of Iowa City nor 1/12 the size of Chicago? Nyttend (talk) 04:37, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for getting it uploaded and placed; I had no idea until yesterday that we could fill out the entire list. You did everything right; as you guessed, the only thing not yet done is the Flickrreview process, and only admins or trusted users can do that. I would have uploaded it this morning, but I learned last night that another building had been listed in a previously-all-illustrated county just 30 minutes from me, so I went out to get several photos. Nyttend (talk) 16:23, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Found your comments about 220th Trail rather funny; you just need more experience in areas where they have grid roads :-) I've replied more in-depth at WT:NRHP; in short, they're just using the same system as the rural parts of the county do. If you'd go to a typical tiny community in Indiana, you'd find that the main streets both have numbers in the hundreds. Nyttend (talk) 22:21, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

1RR

You've reverted changes twice today, on an article with a 1RR restriction.

• In this edit, you removed the assertion that "Mass Killings of Non-Combatants have occurred under different types of Government."
• In this edit, you reverted my deletion based on a talk page discussion, which you clearly didn't even bother to investigate.

BigK HeX (talk) 20:51, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

A) Obviously should be removed - what other article starts out "Other shit happened"? I was just correcting obvious grammatical and stylistic errors. Try writing in English if you don't want your text edited.

B) Removal of a Reliable Source just because you don't like it? Why don't you count this as an RR for yourself?

In short, I'll inform the 1RR people about your disruptions. Smallbones (talk) 21:50, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Minquas Path photo

It's a nice idea, but the photo really isn't too helpful for one simple reason — it's a bit too blurry. Any idea if you could revisit the spot? 1935 is old enough that you need only look for a copyright notice on the marker; if none is present, the text is PD-US-no-notice; you could tag the photo like I've done with File:Fort Defiance historical marker.jpg. Nyttend (talk) 00:06, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

image question

Smallbones,

I too like the look of that old marker. As far as ©, technically, it is possible it is under copyright since it came about after 1923. I'm a little bit fuzzy on 3-d art, but the artist of the plaque would retain rights for 70 years after their death, or 100 years from its creation. That said, prior to 1978, works of art such as statues or sculptures that were permanently installed in a public place were considered in general to be published, so I'm pretty sure it would fall under Template:PD-US-no notice (see Commons:Freedom of panorama#United States). I'm betting there was no notice on that plaque, and therefore I don't think there is any issue as it would fall into PD, but you may want add that PD-US-no notice tag to the file.CrazyPaco (talk) 00:11, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

I've just uploaded an image of an historical marker as File:Nettle Lake Mound Group historical marker.jpg for this very reason. Nyttend (talk) 01:26, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks - I've added the no notice tag. I'll probably re-take the pic from closer up, if I can find somebody to watch my back while I crawl on the curvy road to get closer. (That said the main reason it's not clearly legible is the patina/rust on the plaque - I don't think I'll try to clean that off!). It and similar photographs are legible if you view them at full size - and there is no copyright notice. Smallbones (talk) 02:38, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Country Tea Room

The coords for the Country Tea Room are pretty close, but not quite on. I didn't go hunting for that site particularly, but I was planning a drive to Carpentersville to visit my brother, and found I was passing right by the Tea Room. I did a little online research before heading out, and found out that the Country Tea Room is on the grounds of the current "Milk Pail" Restaurant (here's a cite). So I stopped in the Milk Pail parking lot and snapped a few pix, including the "1870's farmhouse located on the grounds." The actual location is here (sort of a side view of the house). Andrew Jameson (talk) 01:00, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

BTW, I noticed you wrote an article on the Milk Pail Restaurant. I had a couple more shots of more modern portions of the grounds, so I uploaded them & pasted them into the article. Andrew Jameson (talk) 14:05, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Chicago Historic & Inducstrial Sites

Lava Lamp Factory, 1650 Irving Park

I've uploaded multiple Chicago sites if you're interested, including the factory at right. I'll probably do some more tommorow. For more, browse, my contrib log at Commons. Andrew Jameson (talk) 21:37, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Philadelphia NHLs

To answer your questions in turn:

1. I don't really know. Lots of NHL lists have few or no coords, even though many or all of the NHLs will have coords given in their county-level NRHP listings pages.
2. See http://www.nps.gov/history/nhl/designations/Lists/LIST10.pdf for a list of NHLs. I don't know why Independence Hall and Gloria Dei aren't there, except for the fact that they apparently haven't had them named NHLs.
3. I doubt that anyone would mind; it was definitely be helpful.
4. No opinion on sorting this way.
5. Unlike Purdue, Indiana University has a library science program; I'm doing a Master of Library Science degree. I applied here and Pitt — when I was applying, they were two of perhaps four or five library schools close to churches in my denomination, and I didn't want to consider the other ones because I knew less about them and because they were significantly farther from the churches. I wanted to go to Pitt, but it's far more expensive; along with the you've-been-accepted notice came a statement of fees. It turns out that IU is so much cheaper than Pitt that Pennsylvania residents, despite their in-state rates for Pitt and out-of-state rates for IU, would pay about as much to attend IU as they would to attend Pitt! Combine that with me being out-of-state for both and definitely not well-off, and the decision was simple. Nyttend (talk) 03:45, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Smallbones, the only way to check them is at the PHMC database here. Right now, their website seems to be running really slowly. All the coordinates were entered straight from the database. I noticed when I did that, a few of the PHMC seemed to be incorrect (one or two were even out of state!). The only way I know of to really check to make sure the PHMC coordinates aren't in error is to visit the markers personally, or try to find them on Google Maps (e.g. street view). CrazyPaco (talk) 22:16, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Re: 33rd Street Bridge

Very nice photo - my own favorite recent upload is the panorama at the bottom of Hickory Run State Park. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:43, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

I use Autostitch now - used to use Panorama Factory (shareware), but lost the license when I switched computers. Have tried Hugin. Not sure if any of them work on Macs. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:13, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

My odd habit of photgraphing latrines in state parks continues - this one is in Hyner Run State Park, which was originally a CCC camp. I wonder if this is CCC-built structure? Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:58, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for catching the date error - I have fixed them all now. I also like the Hyner Run photo, but I am a creek geek. ;-) Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:26, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks too for the double decker shot - there's one place I would not want to start on the ground floor and have to work my way up. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:27, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Any "creek geek" or like me, a bridge and train fan, should check out Mill Creek (Lake Erie), especially the Erie Zoo train on the debris catcher bridge. --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Liberte

I've temporarily reverted you and proposed a compromise, see the foot of the talk page.--Wehwalt (talk) 03:58, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Oddity

Odd indeed. My guess is that the webmaster re-used a URL intended for something different. The (near) copying is not so odd, I'm afraid. Anyway, thanks for the note.   Will Beback  talk  16:10, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Dolley Todd (Madison) House

No editor can do all the articles that come to the attention. I have been doing bridges over the Schuylkill River, and a few new articles like Abraham Markoe not related to bridges, but I find that I want to do more than I have time and energy and information to do. I see that you have been doing Philadelphia history articles and photos (Martin School in Fairmount, near my house), so I am suggesting that you create the Dolley Todd House article on Walnut Street. I took the tour of that house and Bishop White's House down the block last year, very well done by the NPS guide. What do you think? I know I have photos, if I can just locate them on the hard drive. --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:10, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

NRHP Photos

I am considering going out to the northeast to take photos later today or tomorrow. It happens that I have photos from Awbury Arboretum and can add a photo of the Francis Cope House (1860) to the NW NRHP list. One difficulty is that I use Commonist for photos, and I always feel that I need to include far more details in the descriptions than most Wikipedia Commons photographers do. For example, last night I came across some photos for Saint Joseph's Preparatory School, uploaded them to the Commons, and added them to the article. I have not found my photos of the Todd house, though.

Quite a few of the NRHP photos are historical ones, rather than modern color ones. What do you think about replacing the B/W ones with color ones? --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:30, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

I have borrowed your {{User:Smallbones/userbox2|25}} NHRP photos userbox for my home page, but I have no idea how to count the number of photos, so I have arbitrarily started at 25, even though I am sure it is far more than that. I suppose the count is by sites, not photos, and of course the count includes all sites uploaded, not just those in use in en.Wikipedia. The Northeast NHRP list is difficult, because I have to look up where all those schools and buildings are at. I added the James Martin School yesterday, all I had time to photograph. Also, I find certain entries quite interesting, such as the Glen Foerd Mansion, and must take care not to be diverted into creating a new article, which can be quite a bit of effort if done reasonably well. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:41, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

List of Carnegie libraries in Philadelphia

Please take a look at List of Carnegie libraries in Philadelphia and tell me what you think. Perhaps it is overly cited, but I needed those references to find out what happened with some branches which were replaced with modern buildings, but the Pennsylvania Center for the Book did not show that. Also, there were several name changes to be documented. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:47, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Five bridges

Nice picture - I know you can see a lot of other bridges from the Walnut Street Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but the are all about the same height so it is harder to make them all out (and I do not think you get 5 in a row like that). Thanks, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 12:38, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

List of the oldest buildings in Pennsylvania‎

The List of the oldest buildings in Pennsylvania‎ is a new list by just one editor. I added something about Elfreth's Alley to the talk page, but I am fairly sure there are other quite old buildings in Philadelphia and nearby which should be on this list. What do you think? --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

When faced with a list like User:Smallbones/NRHP1, my first step is to sort on the neighborhood name. Later today I am going out to Port Richmond, so I can take some photos in the northeast. I see four listings in Mt. Airy, for example, so I will leave those and others in the northwest to you. --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

I added photos of two schools, and I have several photos of the Holme Avenue Bridge to upload tomorrow.--Davidt8 (talk) 02:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places listings in Northeast Philadelphia

National Register of Historic Places listings in Northeast Philadelphia has three more school photos, and a photo of the Holmes Avenue Bridge. I have photos of Glen Foerd at Torresdale, but I will do some research to upload those photos with a good description to Wikimedia Commons.

There are some questions about the list. The Laura H. Carnell School, 1100 Deveraux Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111 is what the School District of Philadelphia web site says is the address, but the list says 6101 Summerdale Avenue. The list says Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, but the School District and a sign on the building say Woodrow Wilson Middle School. I suppose I can leave these kinds of issues to whoever comes along to create articles for these NHRP listings. That kind of effort will eventually happen. Your goal is to have photos for all the entries, and I am working on achieving that with you. I expect to return to Schuylkill River bridges articles soon, but I am tempted to do an article on the Glen Foerd mansion, especially since there is a lot of material readily available. Keep up the good work! --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Northwood definition

I am seeking a definition of the Northwood neighborhood, at Talk:Northwood, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please comment if you can. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:12, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Redone article with your excellent help. --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:19, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Rain, rain, go away - no photos today! Smallbones (talk) 13:40, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

FitzSimons

First off — click the "Move" tab above the page title; if you're on Monobook, it's between History and Watch. I've moved it for you :-)

As far as the red links, what do you mean? If I remember rightly (too lazy to look), there are over 500 entries; have you created articles for over 2/3 of them? And what MPS do you mean? I don't remember encountering a single big Philadelphia MPS.

I'd love to come to Philadelphia; my freshman-year college roommate is a grad student at Villanova, and I know other people in the city whom I've not seen for ages, but I doubt that either my budget or my schedule would admit of it. And I've never been closer than Gettysburg :-) Anyway, I keep track of everywhere I go and how many pictures I have, so even if I did visit, I'd try to get as many pictures of sites as I could, regardless of whether you'd gotten them. Currently at 3,353 photos of 1,164 sites (including 53 NHLs) in 105 counties (20 of which are fully-illustrated) in 11 states. Of course, those 11 don't average out; I have only 12 photos of 8 sites between Illinois, Missouri, and Wyoming (one county each), while I have 2,008 photos of 679 sites in 60 Ohio counties. Ahh well...you might as well go get the last ones :-) It's been beautiful weather here for the last few days, so I expect that you'll get good weather soon if you've not yet started; good to hear of the coming completion. This will be comparable to Denver or to Detroit/Wayne County; I can't remember any other really major cities that are fully illustrated. And finally, I don't remember getting you started; what did I do? Nyttend (talk) 03:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Ah, okay; I'd not been paying attention, so I didn't realise that you had tons of schools yet to do. Maybe I'm just putting more work on you, but why couldn't you create kindof-short articles like I did for the Drexel School? Since they're not really mentioned, you'd probably just be working with two-page nomination forms; there can't be that much information on them, so you shouldn't have too much work involved per school. What tropical storm do you mean? 2010 Atlantic hurricane season doesn't show any going near the Atlantic coast except for Earl. You know, I just don't think about tropical cyclones too much out here in Indiana :-) Perhaps I should; my father talks about one, just short of hurricane strength, coming up the Delaware when he was a Westminster student. Nyttend (talk) 04:07, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

How did the photography go for you today? Nyttend (talk) 01:21, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

:-( Hope you can get the list finished before too long. As far as the Elk's Lodge BPOE No. 2 goes — could you just get a photo of the parking lot? Nyttend (talk) 22:01, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good. Out here, the weather is good, but I don't have much income yet, so it's hard to justify the trips necessary to all-but-finish even the adjacent counties. I'm hoping to make such a trip for the county to the northwest by mid-month, but we'll see how it goes. Nyttend (talk) 22:14, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Lots of photos

Good job on finishing the Northwest Philadelphia list :-) I'm hoping to get as close as I can to finished on a list tomorrow; I have photos for ten of the fourteen sites on the Owen County, Indiana list; three of them aren't far from here, and the fourth is archaeological, so I can't get that. Nyttend (talk) 01:47, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks :-) Last fall, I was visiting friends who are Purdue students; they were all busy at a couple points, so I borrowed a bicycle and went out. I thought of going to the Tippecanoe Battlefield, but it was far enough away that I wouldn't have had time for anything else. Ah well; I'm an IU student, but I don't have and I don't plan to acquire a hatred for West Lafayette, so perhaps I'll go up there again some time :-) Please note that I've changed the coords for the Watson Comly School in NE Philadelphia; they would have had you go to the wrong street. Nyttend (talk) 11:27, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Great! First you finish off the Denver lists, then you finish off the Philadelphia lists...what's next? Are you going to come out here and finish the Indianapolis lists? Nyttend (talk) 02:35, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Holmes Avenue Bridge

How did you get that photo of the Holme Avenue Bridge, Smallbones? I was out there, and I could see the grafitti down at the abutments, but I certainly could not see how to get down there. --DThomsen8 (talk) 18:29, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Atlanta article

I am leaving Atlanta this morning, but yesterday I took some photos of an interesting building near the hotel. There is enough information on the web to create an article. I replied to you on my talk page, but then I added this here. --DThomsen8 (talk) 10:33, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Shawmont station

I took quick look in LexisNexis and found a mention of the Shawmont station in an article in the The Inquirer. It did repeat the claim of being the oldest train station. Also found a snippet of an article on the station in a newspaper for Roxborough (a Philadelphia library might have a copy archived). If you had the time, you could see about contacting the people at SEPTA, perhaps there's a historian among them that would have access to some material you might not be able to acquire.

By the way, congrats on finally finish illustrating the Philly lists. Hopefully, there won't be a bunch of a new listings this week ;-) ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 23:05, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Colonial Germantown Historic District

The wikitable looks great with the color pix - it seems like you had a nice, sunny day walking around the neighborhood. Next time you're in Fairmount Park, there's a bunch of articles that need: Media related to Houses in Fairmount Park at Wikimedia Commons. My interest is in the photo's and detailed "data pages" about the houses found at the Historic American Building Survey.

Can you point me to the commonscat that has the border extension images you're talking about?

— Dogears (talk) 17:28, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

I have uploaded many photos of houses in Fairmount Park to Wikimedia Commons, but I realize now that they are not in the category for those houses. I will do a few today, but there are quite a few. I have most uploads there as DavidT8. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:12, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Actually, a lot of these photos are still on my hard drive, and not yet uploaded. Someday, they will get there. The delay is because I am reluctant to put up photos without good descriptions, but maybe I should go ahead with less. --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:36, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Perry County

Thanks for adding some wonderful pics of Perry County.

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		Great photos! Dincher (talk) 20:22, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

I am working on trying to get a picture for every municipality in Pennsylvania. I realize that I will probably never happen, but any little bit helps. I suppose my goal would be more realistic if I still lived in PA. Dincher (talk) 22:33, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

I know what you mean. My definition is limited to the legal municipalities. For example a picture of Waterville, Pennsylvania serves as the picture for Cummings Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The townships are easily the hardest to get a "good" picture of since they are so big and many of them have several villages, others are mearly vast areas of Wal*Marts, Blockbusters, Giants and Burger Kings. Those hardly make interesing photos, but I picture of Ickesburg would be great. Doesn't it have an old fashioned grandstand at a local ballfield. I know one of those little places in Perry County does. Dincher (talk) 23:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! I will probably work on them tomorrow. Dincher (talk) 03:22, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Non-free files in your user space

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Thank you Mr. Bot, I'll add the photo back (see Gauler Twin Houses) to the North Side article when the draft is ready to go back into article space (and update the fair-use reasoning) Smallbones (talk) 05:09, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Photo request

If you're ever photographing in Gettysburg, could you try to get a picture of the Alexander Dobbin House? Besides its NR significance, I'd like to have a picture online because its namesake was one of the earliest ministers in my denomination, and our denominational archives might find it useful. Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 22:05, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! A "should be able to" is all that I was asking :-) Nyttend (talk) 00:47, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Lancaster photos

Neat, I've been meaning to go downtown to get photos of the 3 buildings listed collectively on the NRHP at F&M, to replace the postcard.

On a somewhat related note, there was an interesting article in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era a couple days ago about C. Emlen Urban, the Lancaster-architect that designed some the buildings that are on the NRHP in Lancaster (namely the Stevens High School, the Kirk Johnson Building, and the W. W. Griest Building).[1] ​​​​​​​​Niagara ​​^{Don't give up the ship} 16:50, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Neighborhood changes

Could you check to see if these changes are really in line with the source? Nyttend (talk) 11:06, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

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AC pics

I like your AC pics. I took most of the same ones the next day. Just went to look at uploading and found you'd beat me to it! Did you get the Segal Building as well? I'll leave it for you if you did. Lvklock (talk) 04:15, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

I was actually wandering around on foot (my mother being a frequent enough visitor to AC to get us a free room), so fortunately for me, I found a state site before I went out that listed many of the sites as having been demolished. I put a link on the talk page of the county list. Barclay Court and all the Hotels except the Madison (which I could have seen from my hotel if my room had been on the other side) were noted as demolished. The one that wasn't was the Santa Rita Apartments, but I'm pretty sure it was the vacant lot with the white fence around it. Is that what you figured? I feel the same way you do about my pics. If someone has a better one, by all means, switch it out. None of my pictures are significantly better than any of yours. The main difference is that it was bright and sunny the day I was taking pictures, which you'd think would be a benefit. But, I got some pretty deep shadows on the church pics. The cloudier day suits the St. Nick's church better, anyway. My pic of Ascension gets the cross on the top, but the side is heavily shadowed, so it's a toss up. Funny, that for so long there's no pictures then the two of us both get there within two days. I put up my Segal Bldg. pic. I have a new one of the convention center I'm debating replacing the historic one with.

I too had some luck in other counties. I'm visiting friends farther north now, and got some pics in Hunterdon and Warren counties today. Here's my church pic of the day.

High Bridge Reformed Church, Hunterdon County

BTW, yes, the Segal building is the one you had fund in google. And, your church pic is much prettier than mine. The traffic was ridiculous, and I couldn't get to the place where I could have gotten the best shot. I waited over 15 minutes trying, but my chauffeur started honking the horn....I actually got a better picture of the BACK of the church, and a detail of the cool slate roof. Lvklock (talk) 13:43, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Dobbin House

Thanks so much for the image! I've notified the man who oversees the images at our denominational archives; hopefully he'll find it useful. Nyttend (talk) 16:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Kinman in German

Hi Smallbones; as you're obviously the main author of Seth Kinman, I thought that it could be of interest to you that I translated most of this article (only slightly shortened) for the German-language Wikipedia, see de:Seth Kinman :-) Gestumblindi (talk) 20:36, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Washington County, PA NRHP articles

While adding or rating Pennsylvania article templates, I came across the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation article, which has an account of disputes between the Foundation and Washington & Jefferson College, followed by separate lists of bridges, historic districts, public landmarks, and Residential landmarks/farmsteads. These lists overlap the separate article National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

It is an accepted fact in maintaining lists, that having two lists updated separately by different editors inevitably leads to divergent content. Because of the multiple lists in one article, and a single list in the other article, it is difficult to tell how much divergence there is now. I have not attempted to compare.

That said, I am at a loss to decide what should be done about the situation. As a veteran editor with far more experience than I have with NRHP lists, I am seeking your advice. If we can agree on an approach, then that could be posted on the talk pages of the two articles, and contributing editors can be asked to make an effort. Please respond right here on your talk page, to keep the discussion together. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:49, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Alms and Doepke Dry Goods Company

Just wanted to say — I do disagree with a stub assessment, since (1) it's far larger than "an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject", and (2) this was featured at DYK, which doesn't allow stubs. Nyttend (talk) 02:15, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Belfield Estate and Charles Willson Peale House

The articles Belfield Estate and Charles Willson Peale House overlap, with far too little detail in the latter article, compared with the former one. Perhaps they should be merged, or perhaps some of the material in Belfield Estate should be in the CWP House article instead. In either case, there is far more information about Belfield and the estate in books about CWP and online than is covered in either article.

Another puzzle for me is that Belfield Estate has NRHP and HDCP infobox headings, and CWP House has NRHP and NHL infobox headings, but I cannot find either of them in the appropriate Philadelphia lists. Shouldn't they be there? Perhaps I am missing something, though. What would you advise?--DThomsen8 (talk) 20:59, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Quincy Stamping Mill

Good idea, and thanks. Andrew Jameson (talk) 15:31, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I actually had already downloaded that stamping process diagram from HAER. I thought it might be kind of busy, though, so I hadn't uploaded it, but I did now anyway. Andrew Jameson (talk) 13:10, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Re: Thanks for all the Davenport articles!

Thanks for the Iowa WPA guide. I was unaware of it, and even though it's out-dated it offers some information that I can use to expand some of the work I've already done. More to the point, I knew many of things that are written in the guide, but I did not have the reference for some of them so I had to leave the details out of the articles.

I'm not a big fan of "Stubs", but quite frankly there is no other way to deal with some of these properties. I know I've written some stub articles and then went back and expanded them when I was able to locate a reference for them. I've also expanded articles that others created as stubs, so I do see a value in them. To be honest, I'm runnng out of material for the Scott County proprties on the NRHP and so I think we are going to have to resort to stubs for the rest. I am working with someone in the Quad City area on the Davenport articles. He has volunteered to take the photos. I will also take a few as I am able.

Thanks for the contact. Farragutful (talk) 20:25, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Clemuel

Thanks - I was pleasantly surprised when Raul scheduled it. Not a lot of time to make sure it was OK, so I must have forgotten to put the toilet pic in... ;-) Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 17:27, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

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List of Properties (Hartford City Courthouse Square Historic District)

Hello Smallbones. I appreciate the comments on List of properties (Hartford City Courthouse Square Historic District). Unfortunately, I live in Maryland, and will not get back to Indiana (probably) until 2015. If anyone wants to add pictures to the list, especially where they are missing, please do so — the properties without photos on East Washington Street should have the highest priority. Otherwise, I will fill in the missing photos in 2015 (class reunion). You mentioned change name, "finish photos, then apply for featured list." I won't be doing that until I can get the missing pictures, but how does one apply for a featured list? TwoScars (talk) 02:01, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Omaha

Thanks—I don't spend a lot of time in Omaha, but I had to pick someone up at the airport (and to look for the Black-bellied Whistling-Duck that'd been reported at a pond in the city). Some time ago, I'd told Freechild that I'd try to get illustrations for some of the many articles he's written on Omaha sites, so I went down early to give myself some photography time. Unfortunately, it was pretty gloomy: white buildings like the George H. Kelly House and The Sherman (Omaha, Nebraska) really need a blue sky for background.

Enjoy Montreal. I'm writing this from Hendersonville, North Carolina, on the way to Charleston, South Carolina, so I don't expect to be doing any Nebraska photography for a while. Still have about forty folders in my edit queue, though, so I won't lack for things to do...

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Mass killings under Communist regimes

Could you please reverse your recent edit to this article, which violates the 1RR restriction. TFD (talk) 00:20, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

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