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== NY 32 troubles ==

Route 32 may be FARC'd if you continue to delete shields from it. The better idea is to leave them in for the better for the both of us, or we'll end up losing a FAC. Please, just leave them in, FAC or not. Its all we can do, because shields are now USRD standard.<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="-1" COLOR="red">Mitch</FONT><b>32</b><sup>([[User:Mitchazenia|UP]])</sup> 23:38, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

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Hi, welcome to the ninth volume of my talk page.

NPS NHL photo contest

Wow, volume 9 now. About the NPS NHL photo contest, i think you should only submit a couple pics, especially as you'll largely be competing against yourself in the Northeast region. Throw in a submission or two in another region if you can, looking up which states qualify in their rules.

The carousel photo is really very nice, although i wish the people in the pic would have been more animated, or if there woulda been more children and fewer adults prominent, when u look closely. I really know do the pic is nice, i have tried with another carousel, not yet posted, the one in Santa Barbara. And i first got to know Dudemanfellabra because he uploaded a pic about one in mississippi, and hten i went and edited other carousel articles. I can tell you handled several problems, framing it properly with two of the vertical bars on each side, and capturing the full panels above and going all the way down. Also you have the whole thing in focus, i am not sure with a fast exposure on a moving carousel or whether it was stationary. My cameras to date would not do that, and/or i wouldn't get in position, and/or parts would be blurred. I don't know when model release signatures get required, probably not for the people in your pic though. I don't know which of your pics i like best, it would be difficult to pick one. The Elephant House one sticks out in my mind for capturing the NHL so well with the statue or whatever plus the building behind, but maybe others of yours are more striking in an artsy way, like the past NPS NHL winner pics.

But the reason i am here, is to ask if you could fill out your photo credits in the right hand column of Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/PhotoCreditsForNHLsByState, ASAP. This is because I am trying to submit, tomorrow, a nomination of WP:NRHP as meriting a special award in the NPS NHL photo contest. As i mentioned to Dmadeo, they don't have any suitable category, but it is phenomenal that we have created almost all the NHL articles now and produced over 1500 pics, in fact probably over 2/3 the total of NHLs. I thot i might just make a submission, see if they choose to recognize us. To do this, I would really need a new tally of the number of pics we have, by state, and how many are new wikipedian-generated ones. I identified a bunch of yours already, but you could check those and identify the rest of yours faster than i would be able to.

If you can help on this or not, no problem, and your own contest submission is higher priority. I wish you luck in your submission, it would be really great to see you win. I reviewed all of my pics (uploaded and some not yet uploaded) and am afraid i don't have any standouts that could be contenders. Don't miss the postmark deadline tomorrow, if you are postal mailing your submission! Cheers, doncram (talk) 00:11, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hey i don't think we really have any big disagreement. like i note u r very consistent in just putting in year, rather than full date for NRHP date added, which i actually respect. this is consistent. push me with a feather. i just differ mildly.
the Ocean drive one is a nice one. :)
thanks for agreeing to add ur photo credits. i had just gone, so far, thru i think #75 alphabetically in the NY list. doncram (talk) 02:54, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
quick check: I count 1 NHL pic for u in NYC, and 23 in the rest of NY. Ur double-checking that, quickly would be helpful. Altho i may have tabulated most of your RI and other contributions, never mind about your contributions in states other than NY, for today, i am focussing on NY alone (executive decision). doncram (talk) 18:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

Thank you for your help in resolving my being blocked issue. 71.141.114.187 (talk) 03:49, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No thank you

No problem Daniel and I am glad my comments are gone too lol. Neither of us were at our best I fear. I look forward to working with you in the future.Nrswanson (talk) 04:43, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Daniel Case. I've reverted an edit made by 203.54.191.91 (talk · contribs) and restored your talk archive #7. I thought you may want to handle the other post made by this IP at Talk:University of Maryland. Just an fyi. Hope this helps. Take care. --PFHLai (talk) 12:00, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Monfort Cemetery

Updated DYK query On 2 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Monfort Cemetery, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 08:49, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Congratualtions Daniel

The 100 DYK Medal for Daniel
Thanks for your first hundred. Keep up the good work. I must say that I have admired your contributions both in terms of articles and in verifications and debates. Thanks Victuallers (talk) 21:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Hello there, you may recall I was mistakenly blocked from editing the other day, due to suspected vandalism. I'm now asking if you can tell me how one goes about alerting or contacting a Wikipedia administrator of vandalism being done by another editor. Specifically, in this instance, IP 193.120.116.178 (please see my history for my reverts of vandalism by this user done today). As you will see, this user has a long history of vandalism, and I am concerned that this user will continue to vandalize Wikipedia. As such, in the future, I would like to be able to alert an administrator when this activity is taking place, if you can advise me of how to do this.

Further . . . I sent a message to this user stating "I have requested that you be permanently blocked from ever editing Wikipedia pages, due to your destructive and juvenile vandalism of pages. Until such time as you are permanently blocked, I will monitor each and every edit you make, and revert said edits unless you immediately provide verifiable reference source to justify your edits." This user has just left a message on my talk page as follows: My Worthy Foe - I accept your challenge. Give me a few moments and then the games will begin. 193.120.116.178 (talk) 22:20, 2 July 2008 (UTC). Thank you in advance for your reply. 71.141.114.187 (talk) 22:31, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Re:Plagiarism remarks at DYK

Hi Daniel, thanks for your response. Doug has been a long-term problem for me, so I apologize if I sounded a bit testy at the DYK page.

Unfortunately, I think we have to look very carefully at every article he creates for plagiarism and other sourcing problems. His first DYK, Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, was blanked for plagiarism/copyvio, then rewritten. I've just been looking at Lithophane, which was on DYK on May 19, and it has significant plagiarism--some sentences are taken verbatim from other webpages, and some sentences are taken from other webpages with only slight rephrasing. Doug clearly thinks that having his articles mentioned on DYK is a feather in his cap--and a guarantee of the article's quality--so I have no doubt he'll be submitting more articles, and they should be carefully vetted.

I do think Doug means well, and he's very enthusiastic about contributing to Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I don't think he understands the problems with the way he writes articles. I have tried to inform him about this in the past, but because I've had extensive conflicts with him in the past, he thinks every criticism I make springs from personal animus. So if someone else could let him know that plagiarism is a serious problem, that might help--but I've found Doug to be extremely resistant to outside input. --Akhilleus (talk) 14:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

MyNameIsKyle block

I saw your unblock review: I agree that erasing a decline is not cool, but it seems to me more like inexperience than intentional vandalism. Can we give him another chance?--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I took it down to 12 (or so) and pointed him toward WP:Introduction before editing again. Thanks!--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I noticed that you reviewed my DYK nom for FBI Buffalo Field Office and was wondering exactly what was wrong with the article that makes it only a "Maybe" for featuring. From what I have gathered the main source that I have used http://buffalo.fbi.gov/ fits Wikipedia's reliable sources criteria because it is published by the U.S. government. Any help fixing up the nom so that I can get it featured on the main page would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance and All the Best,--Mifter (talk) 16:00, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, I have re-directed the first Cite and added a second one, the first one still goes to the page it used to http://buffalo.fbi.gov/specialty_programs.htm, which is the list of the offices two Specialty Program, (There FBI SWAT division and further down the Evidence Response Teams' section) and the second cite that I put in goes to http://buffalo.fbi.gov/investigative_programs.htm which is the complete list of the departments investigative programs. The first cite shows the two Specialty Programs that the Office has and the second shows the over 10 Investigative Programs that the department has, which are the main two points in the DYK. If you could please look over this and if it now meets the reliability guidelines for DYK could you OK it to appear in one of the next DYK updates? Thanks again and All the Best, --Mifter (talk) 16:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fourth of July, or bust, Thanks!

The Fourth of July, or bust, Barnstar
I award you this Barnstar for your solid, witty, creative, supportive, learned, timely, cheerful, eloquent, and/or otherwise generally great contributions on U. S. National Historic Landmarks' articles. Yippee o yay, we pretty much met our goal of a well-started article for each of 2,442 NHLs by today!

Thanks, and have a great Fourth of July! -- Doncram, 4 July 2008

I get a chill every time i see a new photo has been uploaded by you! :) doncram (talk) 17:23, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed and well deserved. Though I usually get a little jealous too since invariably, it's a photo I wanted to take as well :) dm (talk) 17:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Please take a look here and join in, or take over some, if u like. doncram (talk) 21:10, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DVineLash

So it had. The fumes from the cyanoacrylate must have turned my brain. Thanks for the update :) --Karenjc 20:50, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:WPTO Newsletter

The Office WikiProject Newsletter
Issue VI - July 2008
Around the watercooler
  • The Office (U.S. TV series) season 2 was nominated for FL-status on June 23
  • Business School was nominated for GA-status on June 24, but is still awaiting a review
  • Initiation was nominated for GA-status on June 25, and is currently on-hold after a review
  • Gay Witch Hunt was nominated for GA-status on June 25, and is currently on-hold after a review
  • There will be no collaboration this month due to the new collaboration process. By visiting the main page, you can nominate and vote on the article which you believe should be the Collaboration of the Month. Ideas for a weekly collaboration have also been tossed around.
  • Please continue to keep a look-out for anyone who has substantial experience in editing articles pertaining to The Office. If they're not already in the project, informing them about it would be a great idea.
  • The WikiProject page itself is still in need of some help. If anyone could spruce it up, that would be a great help.
From the desk of Mastrchf91

Thanks for taking the time to read this sixth edition of the project's newsletter. As always, thanks to anyone who made any type of edit that improved an article relating to The Office. The size of the edit or edits does not matter, as any help ultimately helped out that article, and thus the entire Project. As always, don't forget to check into the project main page every once and a while, where I will periodically post announcements that are related to different events. Have a great month everybody, and happy editing!

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Emma368

Hi there. I am politely requesting that you protect User talk:Emma368 page from editing. The said user keeps on removing his warning notices from his talk page. Looneyman (talk) 22:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Could you please clarify exactly what it is I need to quote? I've cited the statement to a reputable journal, in fact that statement is pretty much the thrust of the entire article in that journal. Sabine's Sunbird talk 00:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is the abstract, which covers my point. More generally, for bird articles I have to use a lot of books and articles that aren't available online, this is where you find better more reliable sources. Sabine's Sunbird talk 03:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
While I understand the importance of verifiability, and put a lot of effort into finding good sources (including spending a fortune on books and photocopies in the library) I am slightly bewildered when people go way beyond what is required for a traditional referenced work. When I write journal articles (well, I'm doing my first) all that is required is the article information. Unless there is an actual discussion of the paper in question there is no need to duplicate or repeat what the actual text said. (I get similarly annoyed by the requirement to put page numbers when refering to books. If people aren't able to use indexes they are unlikely to be checking references, but I digress). The statement you added it to is hardly controversial. Anyone with Google and the title of the paper cited could check the abstract. And while adding the info to the cite may be admirable if unnecessary, it wasn't required for the purposes of verifiability (and cause to hold up a DYK) and if I were addicted to wikidrama I'd be mildly offended you still refer to it as an allegation in the edit summary. Sabine's Sunbird talk 04:04, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Don't even joke! Have a look at my FAs - they are all way way too long as it is. Backing up every cite with a quote? *Shudder*. Seriously, like I said, I agree with verifiability. But punish those who abuse the system, not everyone else. If people cite something that doesn't support, slap them by all means. The rule creep is seriously beginning to suck the fun out of Wikipedia. I'm fast getting to the point where I don't ever want to submit an article to FAC ever again. I'm actually sitting on one at the moment that I could get through, but I just don't feel up to it. If I had to quote every cite like you suggest I promise you I wouldn't and I'd give up FA, GA and DYK like that and just stick to writing articles (and hope that no one noticed me). Sabine's Sunbird talk 04:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Unless I am writing on birds from the Americas all my sources are offline or behind firewalls. Writing the whole article twice (once as text and once as supporting quotes) doesn't appeal. While I agree with some of your points I'm afraid I am still not convinced of the need to quote. Apart from anything else a creative hack could simply make a quote up - it doesn't improve the ability of anyone to check it unless they go to a library or are at uni. I guess I won't be getting many more DYKs. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:14, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Post Office (Mineola, New York)

Updated DYK query On 6 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article U.S. Post Office (Mineola, New York), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 07:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Double DYK on 6 July

Updated DYK query On 6 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with facts from the articles Roslyn Village Historic District, and Main Street Historic District (Roslyn, New York), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 13:58, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel, will try to do tomorrow. I'm still headed back from a wedding out of town and don't have reliable internet access at the moment. Do I have ~ 24 hours or is it a now timing? I can't get the DYK talk to load to see when you nominated Clayton. Let me know and I'll get on this ASAP. Thanks for thinking of me TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 16:19, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Look forward to helping you flesh it out tomorrow. If it's the one I'm thinking of, I've been there and quite enjoyed it. My travels this weekend resulted in a "check for Wikipedia articles and create if necessary." I drove up on the Thruway but came down via routes 21 and 17, and passed many interesting sites. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 23:31, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I did some, but it's not as much as I would have tliked. Far too hectic of a day, filed under "one of those days." I need to track down more on the privatization and gov't issues that followed, but I haven't had the chance yet. I'll look at your other category note when I have a moment. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 19:25, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please re-review July 3rd DYK entry

Hello! As per your request, I expanded the July 3 DYK entry for Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century. Please re-review this to confirm it makes the grade. Thanks! Ecoleetage (talk) 19:05, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

For your DYK work

The Original Barnstar
You've been working incredibly hard over at T:TDYK! Thanks for taking on that exhausting task. delldot talk 00:45, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm

Was I too quick to judge on these? -WarthogDemon 03:14, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

- for dealing with those unblock requests from the 3RRN area. Glad to know I'm not wrong 100% of the time ;-) Cheers again. ScarianCall me Pat! 05:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quotes from sources

Hello, I was away for the weekend and didn't notice until this morning that you asked for a quote from the source I used for the Greg & Steve DYK. I added it this morning, although I have no idea if it's an accepted format since I've not been asked to add such a thing before. So I can read up on the guideline, can you point me to where we outline our requirement to provide quote from sources we use, and what the formatting standard is? --Laser brain (talk) 13:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! I did not know about that parameter. It is immensely useful, and I thank you for pointing it out. I often use academic search engines to dig up sources that are hard to verify without library access. --Laser brain (talk) 15:28, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ref

Hi Daniel, Your rate of checking DYKs is impressive. I see you found a blog ref'ed in Edward Oldcorne / Hindlip Hall ... that ref worried me and I found a more reliable one here which confirms that the eye exists ... which is all that I claim in the hook, but I left the blog ref there. Maybe I should have removed the blog ref. Anyway .... if you get a minute then could you confirm that reference number 9 is OK and give it a tick?? Thx anyway Victuallers (talk) 17:41, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Everyother page has

Those shields within the intersection box, what gives by removing the ones I added? --FatChicksNeedLoveToo (talk) 20:12, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My username has been changed. Just curious why you reverted my edits and not ones on other NY State pages that have shields in intersection boxes. --WoodchuckRevenge (talk) 21:02, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, politics, well ok, thanks for filling me in. >>>WoodchuckRevenge (talk) 22:11, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I like the NY 22 you re-wrote. That's not far from a featured article it looks like. >>>WoodchuckRevenge (talk) 22:14, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I live literally 20 steps north of the Ulster/Orange county line. Those other articles are really nice as well. I used to drive for pleasure a lot more, but with gas prices it's hard to do, but if I'm ever on those routes or others I gather up some pics. >>>WoodchuckRevenge (talk) 23:35, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
And I can't believe NY 32 is on the main page of Wikipedia. It inspired me to sign up and help where I can. I just came on Wiki to check a couple things and to my surprise a road a couple miles from my house was there, haha. >>>WoodchuckRevenge (talk) 23:38, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good, thanks for the invite! >>>WoodchuckRevenge (talk) 03:44, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel -- as you are probably aware, the username policy contains no prohibition against long usernames. I'm going to remove your note to the guy, all it would do is confuse him, since the username policy won't back you up. Mangojuicetalk 22:31, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, no, it's not confusing actually, it's made up of names and quite memorable, but if you think it's confusing go ahead and discuss it with the user. Sure, I wouldn't want to type it all out but I never do so for anyone anyway, because even perfectly reasonable usernames can have lots of close variations. (e.g. User:DanielCase User:Danielcase User:Daniel case User:Daneil Case). As for the bot, remember the bot doesn't detect bad usernames, it detects usernames that should be looked at. Certainly, there is a compelling reason to look at very long usernames. I've seen a number of the form "User:This admin I don't like takes horse cock up the ass" and such, and people do occasionally make complete gibberish usernames long enough to get caught by that. Admins are expected to use their judgement in response to the bot reports: those names are not thought by anyone to be bad necessarily. Mangojuicetalk 22:41, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Rothley

Please explain. Not only is this a notable place in its own right but it has featured heavily in the national media for over a year now. (Please see its 'What links here' entries). Was this an error? Best Wishes Saga City (talk) 11:08, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for prompt reply. Saga City (talk) 14:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Roslyn Grist Mill

Updated DYK query On 8 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Roslyn Grist Mill, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 15:32, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:HAU, Status, and you!

As you may know, the StatusBot responsible for maintaining the status of the Highly Active Users was taken offline. We now have a replacement in the Qui status system. This semi-automatic system will allow you to easily update your status page found at Special:Mypage/Status which the HAU page code is now designed to read from. If you are already using Qui (or a compatible) system - great! - no action is needed (other than remembering to update your status as necessary). If not, consider installing Qui. You can also manually update this status by changing the page text to online, offline, or busy. While it is not mandatory, the nature of HAU is that people are often seeking a quick answer from someone who is online and keeping our statuses up-to-date will assist with this. Note if you were previously using your /Status page as something other than a one-word status indicator, your HAU entry may have been set to "status=n" to correct display issues. Please clear this parameter if you change things to be "HAU compatible". Further questions can be raised at WT:HAU. This message was delivered by xenobot 22:50, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Landmarked building help

I started work on Colonnade Row after walking past it this morning and realising it had no wiki article. I know you work mainly on NRHP and while I find no evidence its on the Register, I think landmarked buildings have some of the same issues. I'm still working on it, although about to go offline now, but I was wondering if you had any input? I want to find more on the history of the row. Luckily a lot of NY Times from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are free. Is there anything else that needs to be included that you can think of? No rush, I'm thinking DYK but I just started it so we basically have 5 days. Thanks for any help. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 00:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I know what the Wiki article says but it appears that the Landmarks Commission disagrees with regard to its landmark status. Specifically footnote 4 in the linked document which says, "4. Of the original nine houses, Nos. 428-434 are extant and are designated New York City Landmarks and this map, which appears to be lacking a key but I believe "20" is the Row. This site has links to the landmarks report which appear reliable and acurate. Appears as if it was nominated for the National Register. It lasted ~2 hrs so has avoided NPP, woohoo. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 03:39, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I don't get it. I'm guessing age as some of the same designated as part of the inaugural crop are "missing" as well. That and the city's website has never been the epitome of functionality. I'm going to play around with it a bit more today and then go take a photo Friday when I'm back down that way. It's fun, if nothing else. I swear my favorite articles to work on are those that are utterly random. Thanks for your help. TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 13:15, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
One more and I'm going away, according to this, it is on the national register under the LaGrange Terrace name. See also here. Whatever it is or isn't, I think it's notable :) TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 14:50, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your help! I'm having a devil of a time figuring out what name the article should be under, although Colonnade Row gets a lot more relevant hits (in terms of info quality, not number necessarily) than LaGrange. I think that's the "media name" now due in part to its sign, which was what caught my attention yesterday. I found a lot more information and am working on it now. I think the LaGrange redirect is a good one, it can be moved later if necessary. Thanks again! TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 15:49, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel -- I know that according to the guidelines on DYK, it says that articles should be 1500 characters, I have expanded it to about 1050 currently, and was wondering if you could re-review the hook, and possibly comment on it? The original DYK person slapped it with a no image, and I don't think planned on going back to the hook. Thanks~ --Admrb♉ltz (tclog) 04:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cedarmere-Clayton Estates; Nassau County Museum of Art DYKs

Updated DYK query On 9 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with facts from the articles Cedarmere-Clayton Estates, and Nassau County Museum of Art, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Congratulations! --PeterSymonds (talk) 11:25, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Sorry I didn't get the chance to help more TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 13:16, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

one that I thnk you'll know well

Roscoe Diner! That needed an article, couldn't believe there wasn't one. Now I can because there isn't nearly as much from reliable sources about the diner as what we all "know" from driving through. I think I can find some more, I hope. :) TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 14:21, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK quotation requirement

Hello Daniel. We need to formally finalize the DYK quotation requirement. I added a proposal at Proposal: DYK quotation requirement for inaccessible Internet sources. Please post your thoughts there. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 15:33, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

July 3 on DYK

Hate to bother you, but while you are checking hooks, there are three on July 3rd that need a yes or no. Two are mine, and another I shouldn't rate as I did an alt hook for it. Thanks.--Bedford Pray 03:20, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

thank you for shutting a banned user up. Darth Anne Jaclyn Sincoff (talk) 16:56, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You reviewed one of this user's other unblock requests, so I figure I should keep you in the loop about this. I've briefly discussed things with the user, and am actually leaning toward unblocking, but don't want to take unilateral action. Since many of the involved users seem to have gone offline since the block was made, I've opted to take the matter to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#86.134.54.54. Any comment would be appreciated, if you're up for it. – Luna Santin (talk) 21:26, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Probably moot; block's expired by now. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:33, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Marine debris GA review

Hi, Daniel. Firstly, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to do such a thorough review of the article marine debris. While a slight downer that it didn't make it (it wasn't even worthy of B-class!), I feel the article is now sufficiently improved to achieve B-class, or even GA, as all of your initial qualms have since been fixed. If you could offer any further guidance before I try for re-nomination, that'd be very helpful :) thanks again — Jack (talk) 00:34, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for allowing and updating the Neversink Valley Area Museum reference.216.6.162.65 (talk) 02:00, 12 July 2008 (UTC)Steve[reply]

Chichester's Inn

Updated DYK query On 12 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chichester's Inn, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 03:50, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please undo your block on User:Chirundu

Given that there is an AFD and the comment is "can't prove notoriety claims", your blocking of this account is unfair. Please can you undo the block so that they can try to fix up the article and make attempts to assert notoriety. See [1]. Also, why do you suggest that they were spamming? The article looks genuine to me. Myrrideon (talk) 06:11, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Emily Blunt in DWP.jpg)

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NY 32 troubles

Route 32 may be FARC'd if you continue to delete shields from it. The better idea is to leave them in for the better for the both of us, or we'll end up losing a FAC. Please, just leave them in, FAC or not. Its all we can do, because shields are now USRD standard.Mitch32(UP) 23:38, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]