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So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bit 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind.
Jonathan Swift, On Poetry: A Rhapsody (1733)

What a SUPERB photo!

And I found just the place for it: Henry Jackson Ellicott.
BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:28, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

The Lipshitz and Oldenburg photos are especially good.
I find it fascinating that Ellicott spent 13-14 years in Philadelphia. He did architectural sculpture for the Centennial, so I wonder if some of the Memorial Hall corner statues are his. Also, having spent so much time here (with little known output), I wonder if he worked on City Hall. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:41, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome on PMA. There's some juicy gossip about why Zantzinger & Borie essentially bowed out of the collaboration, letting Trumbauer's people take the lead. And Paul's Cret's blanching at Trumbauer's philistinism. I knew this 30 years ago, but have forgotten it. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:19, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

CB in Columbia County

Thanks - I asked Roy to upload all the photos he had of PA covered bridges that were (or had been) on the Register, but were no longer standing. I will make categories for each on Commons (already did it for Bittenbender Covered Bridge which got taken out by the same flood in 2006 that also destroyed the West Paden Twin CB). I was going to try and get some of those articles expanded and get some of his pictures on the Main Page in DYK. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 20:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

I am still slowly working my through his pictures from oldest to newest uploads, cropping them, adding his category (and checking the other cats). I am done through February 5th, with several hundred at least still to go - my guess is that he is close to 2000 photos uploaded. I was also checking state by state for missing covered bridge pictures, some of which he had. I need to make a list of what I check and what needs to be checked. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 20:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC)me too

Mary Norris Dickinson

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Spanish or Catalan

Hi Smallbones, how are you? It was actually in Catalan, my mothertongue. Thanks for asking! I already updated the Sagrada Familia page ;)--Kippelboy (talk) 18:18, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

COI questions

Hey Smallbones, I'm wondering if you think this draft request for comment would prove fair and useful? User:Ocaasi/coiquestions. Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 18:36, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

WLM US 2013

Hi, I'd like to get a group together to help plan Wiki Loves Monuments in 2013. I understand you were instrumental in planning last year's WLM and it would be great to chat with you. Your advice would be very helpful. Cheers, Mono 01:22, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Smallbones. You have new messages at Mono's talk page.
Message added 02:43, 9 March 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Mono 02:43, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

NRIS AfD

Nine uses of the <ref> tag, yes. Nine references, not so much. Note, for example, this diff, with edit summary add material that I don't think should be permanently part of this article, but which may address ongoing AFD.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 10:46, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

C-SPAN

Hey there, Smallbones. Thank you very much for updating the C-SPAN article based on my request. As my first note mentioned, I've now made second request; this time I'm looking to add in information about a new series, and raise the idea of removing two redundant list sections. I hope you'll be able to help again, but I will also ask elsewhere. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 13:15, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

You say "Some people seem to think this type of thing is against WP:EL", but where does this opposition get mentioned? I've never heard opposition to edits like this one, and I definitely don't have any. It's a good example of WP:ELYES point #3 — "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues..." Nyttend (talk) 02:25, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

National Register Information System at AFD

Because the nominator of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Register Information System and the page's creator have just been interaction-banned, I've closed this discussion. Because it's not fair to participants like you to force you to start all over again, I've reopened it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Register Information System (2nd nomination), and I've copied your comments over there. Feel free to participate further over there. Nyttend (talk) 13:24, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

thanks for removing

the Arthur Ashe beating the children phrase from Monument Avenue. And for your general cleaning up there. Carptrash (talk) 16:04, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing Smallbones_(smalltalk) 16:17, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Cute cat theory of digital activism

I like cat content (especially lolcats) and cute animal content like the next guy, but isn't the external link you've added here quite off-topic for the article? At least I can't see the relevance. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:38, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

But how does this relate to the theory which is the subject of the article? It's not an article about cute cats, cute animals, or lolcats, but about a particular theory involving them. You could spam the external links section with endless examples of these, and it wouldn't help the reader understand the theory, because these examples do not demonstrate anything. Unless you found an example where the effect postulated in the theory can be directly observed, such as digital activism on cheezburger.com – or perhaps knowyourmeme.com. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:58, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Not everything needs to be taken so seriously, even on Wikipedia! Smallbones_(smalltalk) 20:33, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

If you say so :P

I just don't quite get the joke, or point of it, that's why I decided to ask first before doing anything. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 22:21, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

RfC/COI

Hi Smallbones

Concerning my suggestion for an RfC on the COI talk page: There seems to be a fair amount of input, much more than this morning. An RfC may be redundant and even confusing. So, I'll leave that suggestion alone for now, and see if it makes sense to ask for more input tomorrow. Thanks.(olive (talk) 02:47, 21 March 2013 (UTC))

Quote from BP

"On 14 November 2012, BP and the Department of Justice reached a $4.5 billion settlement, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. BP also agreed to plead guilty to 11 felony counts related to the deaths of the 11 workers. Beyond the 11 counts of manslaughter, the government charged several individuals as well. David Rainey, who worked for BP during the spill response, was indicted on charges of obstruction of Congress and false statements. He alledegedly cherry-picked pages from some documents and withheld others "to make the spill appear less catastrophic than it was.” Two other BP supervisors on board the rig when it exploded were charged with manslaughter and other counts[16][17] The settlement has not resolved the fines under the Clean Water Act, which could be as much as $21 billion.[17] Speaking at a news conference, a U.S. federal official said, “The explosion of the rig was a disaster that resulted from BP’s culture of privileging profit over prudence.” The total amount paid out by BP by November 2012 was $42 billion.[287][18] In November 2012, the U.S. Government temporarily banned BP from bidding any new federal contracts.[288][18] Estimates of the total amount of penalties that BP may be required to pay have reached as high as $90 billion.[289]"

Did you miss this? Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 05:44, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

The above quote says that one BP employee was indicted for lying to Congress. It doesn't say that BP itself pleaded guilty to lying to Congress (that's part of the $4 billion fine). It doesn't say that separately BP pleaded guilty to lying to its investors in the SEC case ($525 million fine). Smallbones_(smalltalk) 12:48, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject C-SPAN?

Greetings fellow Wikipedia editor -

I am leaving you this note because I have reason to believe that you are interested in C-SPAN. (I may have made this assumption based on your C-SPAN user box, or perhaps for some other reason.) If this is not an interest of yours, please feel free to read no further and delete this message.

If you are in fact someone who is interested in C-SPAN, then let me put forward an idea that I have been kicking around for a while. What if we started a C-SPAN WikiProject?

The parameters of this (potential) project are up for discussion, but it could include some or all of the following (as well as things that may occur to you that have not occurred to me):

• Creation, maintenance, and improvement of articles and lists directly related to C-SPAN and its programming.
• Use of C-SPAN programming in citations for various topics
• Inclusion of unique and targeted C-SPAN video links for various articles. (Doing this with respect for established guidelines at Wikipedia:External links.) (Example: If you are interested in the submarine USS Wyoming (SSBN-742), then having easy access to the eight hours of programming taped while a C-SPAN crew were guests on that submarine could also be of interest to you.)
• Inclusion of (and possible further creation of) templated links such as {{C-SPAN|laurabush}}, that will easily take article readers to a link of all C-SPAN Video Library links for the person about whom the article is about.
• What else?

I don't know exactly how far we may want to go, nor in what directions, but I do believe (as I have long noted on my user page) that C-SPAN and Wikipedia are both...

...fantastic vehicles for the free exchange of ideas and information in a non-sound-bite manner, and they both invite the participation of any parties (expert or amateur) who are interested in taking the time to absorb and/or contribute to the ideas and information offered. C-SPAN and Wikipedia go together like peanut butter and jelly, and I want to help give other Wiki users easy access to the great work that C-SPAN has done on a variety of topics.

Now, I should mention that I have never started a WikiProject before, and I do not know the best way to go about it. (Perhaps one of you do?) Let me offer one of my sandbox pages, User:KConWiki/sandbox/Wikiproject C-SPAN?, as a gathering area for comments until such time as we gather enough steam to start our own WikiProject page.

Thanks for reading this far, and I hope that you will give some consideration as to whether this is something we ought to attempt. Please feel free to pass this message on to others you know whom might be interested, and please let me know your thoughts and comments.

KConWiki (talk) 02:25, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Videos

This is a good one too. I'm not sure if it's appropriate to link to, but you'd probably enjoy it yourself at any rate. petrarchan47tc 18:04, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

NRHP Progress Pennsylvania

When you updated the NRHP Progress page with the Pennsylvania numbers, you asserted in a ref that "Monroe County Courthouse does not seem to have been adding into the previous totals as well." Because of this, the numbers you have are one higher than the national list and the state list. This makes the state totals section on the progress page differ from the national list by one. Could you explain this situation in a bit more detail? I'm just trying to make sure all the numbers add up correctly. Thanks!--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 07:01, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

New images for C-SPAN article

Hi Smallbones, I believe I mentioned to you recently that I was interested in adding a few images to the C-SPAN article; I helped their comms team identify some suitable images to release as CC-BY, uploaded them to Wikimedia Commons, and I've just posted a new request on the C-SPAN Talk page. If you're interested, please check it out. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 19:48, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

WT:NRHP/Progress

Just wanted you to know — I never thought you were complaining about me, and I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough in my response. I basically meant that right now I feel like I'm the only active photographer close enough to Kentucky to get photos. At least this Kentucky is closer than another Kentucky; my job has me working with the other one more than the one that's just south of Indiana :-) Nyttend (talk) 04:07, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Meetup NYC this Sunday April 14

Hi Smallbones! You're invited to our next meeting for Wikipedia Meetup NYC on Sunday April 14 -this weekend- at Symposium Greek Restaurant @ 544 W 113th St (in the back room), on the Upper West Side in the Columbia University area.

Please sign up, and add your ideas to the agenda for Sunday. Thanks!

Delivered on behalf of User:Pharos, 17:56, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

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Hello

Hi, can help me to improve these items, thank you: Tríptico de Nava y Grimón, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.--81.34.255.96 (talk) 17:01, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Public Vault at the Congressional Cemetery

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• Well, "issues" is overstating it. Drmies (talk) 19:28, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

barnstar

		Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Award
		Slowking4Farmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 19:05, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Tina Weedon Smith Memorial Hall

Thanks for cleaning up the naming mess with this building. I only removed the name from the list because the article did not reflect the correct name. I'm glad to see that this is resolved. Good work. — Bill W. (Talk) (Contrib)  –  2 September 2024, 19:05 (UTC)

Thanks Smallbones_(smalltalk) 15:49, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

The Civility Barnstar

		The Civility Barnstar
		Thanks for making me laugh--evrik (talk) 21:41, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Public Vault at the Congressional Cemetery

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ANI

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Mike (talk) 15:42, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Public Vault at the Congressional Cemetery

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

New Castle Leather Raw Stock Warehouse

Hi --- just letting you know I removed the pic for the New Castle Leather Raw Stock Warehouse from the National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware. It was not the right building.--Pubdog (talk) 12:04, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Church Street Historic District (Wilmington, Delaware)

Hi again, I regret to report that the Church Street Historic District (Wilmington, Delaware) does not encompass the Hendricksen House. Therefore, I had to remove that photo from National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware and add the district to the unphotoed list.--Pubdog (talk) 16:17, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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2013 Philadelphia Wiki-Picnic: Saturday, June 22

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Coming? Not signed up yet.--DThomsen8 (talk) 20:38, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Same health problem as last time. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 14:38, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

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Idlewild

The Idlewild photos look great! One can seldom be sure what fixtures are original and what are additions. The sink bracket (that I missed) probably was Furness's own choice, and it's great, both that you spied it and that it's now available to all. I'm away until Thurs. I'll e-mail when I get back. My best to your better half (and you, too). -- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 02:24, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Idlewild (Media, Pennsylvania)

This is a splendid article! (I hope I didn't go overboard with the tweaks.)
I'm not sure that the image of the Cape May cottage fits, and Williamson belongs only if you can tie it to "Idlewild" stylistically or historically.
But, reading this article gives me great pleasure.
-- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:32, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Congrats on NE Portland

Thank you very much. I'm pretty pleased to be making progress toward completion of Portland. Unfortunately, we seem now to be in the position where the remaining 7 in SW and 13 in Multnomah County are inadequately visible from the public right-of-way to get adequate photos of without soliciting permission of property owners. So the rest will be more awkward and time-consuming than the others. Another approach will be to request free licenses from the photographers who supplied the nomination files - those actual pics are already available online.

I'd love to complete Portland and will keep plugging away. But I'm giving higher priority to advancing NRHP photo coverage for Oregon at large to the 90% level - it's around 86% right now. Meanwhile, thank you for the congratulations and for reminding me someone's watching! — Ipoellet (talk) 02:49, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

MD forms

Thanks for the note. Perhaps we need to revise the WP:NRHP help description in this case? It makes it sound as if we can get the PDFs instead of simply being given some of the text, without maps and illustrations other than the one photo at the top of the page. I've basically spoiled myself with Indiana's SHAARD database by downloading all the nominations I can (I have all but eight on my hard drive), so I'm accustomed to being able to consult maps, documentation, etc. when I'm on the road getting pictures anywhere outside of Ohio. Nyttend (talk) 05:10, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

FDC Candidacy

  Countries described as high-income and advanced economies by the World Bank and IMF About 90% of WMF and FDC distributed funds are spent in the blue areas

Thanks for standing as a candidate in this year's elections. In your statement you say "B. Emphasize funding for the Global South"? I read that and it occurred to me that I've no idea what you mean. Would you care to explain it? Thanks - Pointillist (talk) 06:54, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

“Imagine a World in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

Since about 95% of FDC distributed funds go to the blue areas (the Global North, which should probably include Eastern Europe), we're not doing as well as we could in implementing our vision in the Global South (the gray areas). See the WMF Strategic Plan, in particular under "Targets for 2015" point #5. The FDC has been mandated from the beginning to direct funds to the Global South (in the discussions that led to founding it) and currently has been given guidance (esp. #7) by the WMF Board to emphasize it.

Hope this helps. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 13:09, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

That's exactly what I wanted to understand, thanks - Pointillist (talk) 13:19, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

explanation about a Nebraska church

pic by Smallbones

u commented a while ago, in commons caption about a Sidney nebraska church pic, that it seemed less impressive than another across the street. Seems the answer is this one was associated with some initiative to bring Native Americans into the army, and they came to church here. NRHP nom forms now online for Nebraska. Article currently at User:Doncram/Christ Episcopal Church (Sidney, Nebraska). many of us have had the experience of taking pics, and saying why on earth is this nrhp-listed. cheers, --doncram 02:40, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

FDC Candidacy 2

Hi Smallbones, Use of real name is not compulsory on Wikimedia, but it is quite peculiar that of all the candidates for the Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013, you alone has no real name indicated on your personal details; is there a special reason for this, and do you not think that this may influence voters negatively? Thank you. Kind regards, JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 17:14, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Actually my real name is pretty well known at the Wikimedia Foundation and in FDC circles, and I will be very clear about my real name if elected. There are, however, too many trolls, mobsters etc. on the internet to just let everybody know your e-mail address, real name, real location, and resume, etc. all at once in one place, so I try to limit this information to an as needed basis. It's really my editing history on Wikipedia that matters now. There's at least one other person in the elections who hasn't revealed his real name yet, but as I said, I will release my real name if elected. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:40, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

That is reasonable; good luck, I want you elected. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 10:02, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

NYC Wiki-Picnic: Saturday June 22

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Thank you!

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DYK nomination for Nancy Chang article from Edit-a-thon

I've nominated Nancy Chang, which you started, and I expanded, as a possible DYK. Crossing my fingers (first time I've tried this, so hopefully I did it right.) Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 20:20, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Gunny

I don't know why I was named in the investigation. I am only a university student on holiday and I have always followed the rules. Please tell me about this. What is the problem? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunnery Sgt. Jethro Gibbs (talk • contribs) 20:46, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

No clue, I thought maybe you could tell me. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 23:43, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

I live in a residence hall with many other students. In this situation we have very little privacy, so the bit of privacy we have is very important. All of us share the same IP address. Only one of us edited the article that concerns you. Is there anything else you need to know?

I'm surprised that you care about it. After all, you've only made 5 edits to articles, plus 2 here and one to the SP investigation. I'd think if you have anything to say to anybody, it would be best to go to the page User:DeltaQuad, click on the link there in the left-hand column that says "Email this user" and send him an email with everything that you want to say. In any case I don't think you can get hurt if you have nothing to hide. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 01:39, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Biography review request

Could you take a look at the Bennett Greenspan article and comment on its review? Many thanks. --RebekahThorn (talk) 12:46, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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Mitt Romney's campaign

Thanks for your inquiry. Here is what I know.

• I looked for some reference information I put into Talk:Scott_Prouty, and I found that someone had deleted not only the reference information I put into Talk:Scott_Prouty but also had deleted the whole page Scott Prouty -- even though there was a Keep decision after a whole AfD debate.
• Since I don't have time to watch over the Scott Prouty page to make sure that those who want to delete Scott Prouty don't cheat and get their way anyway, I thought it would be best to remove the self-referencing link that just points back to the text that contains the link.
• I trust your judgment. If you like the self-referencing link that I removed, I will not feel offended in the least if you revert my removal of the self-referencing link. I appreciate your diligence and your artistic judgment in this matter.
• In the words of Mark Twain, I apologize belatedly for not having time to write to you a concise and short explanation of the situation.

Thank you again. --- Rednblu (talk) 15:25, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for restoring Scott Prouty --- Rednblu (talk) 01:10, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Contact?

• Hi Smallbones, I want to make sure I have the best email address from you for the FDC Advisory Group, as I'm not sure if you've received the emails. Can you kindly let me know which address to use? Many thanks! KLove (WMF) (talk) 17:01, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Two unrelated things

1. Looked at your userpage just now for the first time, and I found the no-parking signs amusing. One of them looked familiar — if you go to the spot where I took File:First Baptist Church in Goodland, Indiana.jpg and walk around the corner, you'll see another "Thou Shalt Not Park Here" sign. I'd never seen another until looking at your userpage :-)
2. I've repeatedly tried to view videos such as File:WoMS Adamstown PA.webm, but apparently my computer doesn't have the software necessary for processing .webm files. What would you recommend I use? Nyttend (talk) 21:38, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Wow, you were in Goodland? It's way out of the way unless you have a local destination, such as two of the five sites on National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton County, Indiana. I've not noticed your movies in articles, but when I see them on other pages (e.g. WT:NRHP), they're always a still image with the standard triangle button that you're supposed to click to play the movie. On the Adamstown video, I see a brick house (Queen Anne?) with a porch on the left side and something like four towers at various points, plus a chimney on the rear, to the right side of the image. Nyttend (talk) 00:51, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Okay, you win; I'm just impressed that you've been in some of these small towns so far west! But I have you beat in one way; back in April, I got lost in Maunie, Illinois (look at it on the map and you'll see why I was embarrased); I was driving all around and couldn't find the road that would take me to Rising Sun. When I stopped and asked for directions, they saw my Ohio plate and asked if I were going to Marion on the interstate, so they must have been rather surprised when I dropped the name of the crossroads a few miles away :-) And about Macs, I just remember you complaining that you couldn't use CRGIS with your Mac — just another reason I prefer to use a computer, not an Apple :-þ Nyttend (talk) 23:31, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

FYI, I know of three sites that were delisted before they were listed. Kent Jail was delisted in 2000 and (re)listed in 2001, while the nomination forms for the Gramelspacher-Gutzweiler House (Indiana) and the John Marshall House Site (Illinois) speak of their subjects as having previously been listed, so the forms are re-nominations. Nyttend (talk) 18:41, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Friendfield Plantation

The article on the Social Register website suggests the Silver Hill Plantation was a different plantation, if I understood it correctly. John Withers's son ended up buying four more plantations on top of the Friendfield Plantation, including the Silver Hill Plantation. But it's not clear whether those four plantations were added to the Friendfield Plantation, or if there remained separate plantations. I am looking for a map of the Old South with all the plantations--this would make life much easier. In any case, here comes the confusion. I am not sure. If there are five different plantations, then each one should have its own page. Btw there is more to be said about the Friendfield Plantation--I think Dr Alexis Forster tried to grow tea leaves at one point, being the first planter to do so in the United States. This page could probably be expanded to GA status given its apparent prominence in pre-Civil War history. How much do you know? It's a work in progress. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 14:02, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Hey - if you're near NYC, drop me an email

if you're interested in getting a coffee. dm (talk) 18:08, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Granada Theater

On lunch break at work (I can take the break when I want to, even if it is at 2:30) and just finished doing a little for the Kansas City theater; no time right now for the Emporia theater. Check what I did with KC; was this what you were requesting? Nyttend (talk) 18:31, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

South Jersey requests

A number of South Jersey articles have come on line: Port of Salem, Port of Paulsboro, Salem Branch, Penns Grove Secondary, Glassboro-Camden Line. Wonder if you have any photos that might work for the above and/or if you'd mind keeping them in mind? thanks Djflem (talk) 22:44, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Your email

Answering out of order. (1) Saw the barnstar, so thank you! I guess it helps that I, like Ammodramus, am in an area with fewer potential photographers; barring a few KLOTZ images, it's been a while since someone else uploaded an image of a site soon before I was there. I'd like to get all the sites in Indiana's eight remaining counties (imagine being able to say that you'd visited every single site in every single county in a state!), but they're far enough away that I really don't have time for it. At the same time, I've been able to take advantage of how southeastern Illinois has tons of counties with very very few sites; I've gotten every site in thirty Illinois counties, even though I have photos of just 168 sites statewide, and that includes sites in not-fully-illustrated counties. (2) Done with school, but job-hunting and working a couple of hourly jobs to pay the bills. It is rather competitive, but there's seemingly a little less competition for jobs at the smaller schools, and I'm more interested in liberal arts colleges than in research universities. I'll be glad once I'm in a real job; I've not felt settled since I finished my undergrad in 2009. On the advice of others in academia, I'm doing my best to integrate Wikipedia work with the job-hunt; it's complicated, but basically I'm mentioning the education/Wikipedia collaboration potential to a small extent and placing emphasis on how my work (particularly with historic site photography) can help the institution that hires me to collaborate with other institutions, whether SHPOs or community groups, and finally I'm noting that my Wikipedia interests demonstrate my interest in helping students to integrate into the communities where their colleges are located instead of staying in the campus bubble. (3) Didn't yet figure out the videos. I really really wish we were allowed to use real video formats instead of WMF forcing us to use substandard ones. (4) Regarding "add photo", I really like the idea of the simple text! Not a placeholder, simpler, accessible to people with screen readers (although I suppose they'd have a hard time adding photos...), and because it would add text instead of an image, I expect that it wouldn't slow down the process of loading a page like the column of placeholders did. I don't remember mentioning this before, but it frequently took a lot longer to load a page during last year's WLM than it did when we weren't using the images. Wow Sorry for the wall of text! I guess I started rambling and forgot to stop myself... Nyttend (talk) 21:32, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

I was rambling a bit myself. It sounds like your personal stuff is working out, I'll send e-mails if I need more info. The webm format is supposed to become the new standard everywhere, e.g. YouTube, and is built in to HTML-5 (to the best of my limited technical understanding). But MP4 would be great too, and take less time. Thanks on the "add photo". All the best. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 00:22, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

50,000 NRHP sites illustrated

		WikiProject National Register of Historic Places Award
		For helping WP:NRHP to illustrate 50,000 historic sites, I hereby award you the WikiProject National Register of Historic Places Award. You are a HUGE part of the project and have earned this barnstar! Royalbroil 02:15, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

:-)  :-) Smallbones_(smalltalk) 03:08, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the barnstar! (and glad to see you got one too) Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:56, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Prostate Cancer Screening

Hi Smallbones. I saw a familiar name on the Talk page of the article on Prostate Cancer Screening. I have a self-citation COI with RTI International, a non-profit contract research organization, who published a study in a peer-reviewed journal on the subject. The study found that despite recommendations by the United States Preventive Services Task Force not to get a prostate exam, most men believed the advice, but chose to ignore it.

I've been talking to a few editors like User:John Broughton and User:OlYeller21 about this kind of self-citation COI. It certainly doesn't "feel" as COI(ish). But I'd be interested in getting your thoughts here. It's helpful to get input from editors with a more critical perspective on COI (can I say that?), to test if my actions are objectionable by the measure of a critical editor. CorporateM (Talk) 23:02, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Talk about Philadelphia Wikipedia scene

Hello --

I'm a reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer and I'd love to talk with you about your work. Would you mind sending me an email at tschleifer@philly.com so we can connect?

Thanks, and all the best,

Teddy Schleifer The Philadelphia Inquirer