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Kamm

I guess Jacob Kamm was taking the same hypnosis correspondence course as Governor Benson... --Esprqii (talk) 21:35, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

scratches head.. wait, what? What's this about? tedder (talk) 21:40, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, that discussion must've been before your time, young man... --Esprqii (talk) 21:45, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Where are my glasses and dentures, I've got to get to Dennys for the early bird!? Aboutmovies (talk) 22:13, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Orchard Park (Oregon)

Updated DYK query On April 3, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Orchard Park (Oregon), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 18:04, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Bag & Baggage Productions

Updated DYK query On April 5, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bag & Baggage Productions, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Ucucha 06:03, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Coincidence or small state

You edited my uncle's page, Ted Newsom.

Also, you went to Hill High. Did you know Tadd Reaney? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joelarken (talk • contribs) 15:46, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it seems I did edit Ted Newsom almost 2 years ago. But, no I didn't know Tadd Reaney. It looks like he was a couple years ahead of me. Aboutmovies (talk) 15:52, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:OregonProvSeal.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:OregonProvSeal.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Aboutmovies (talk) 18:29, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:OregonProvSeal.gif listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:OregonProvSeal.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Aboutmovies (talk) 18:29, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Culture of Salem, Oregon

Very funny. Katr67 (talk) 09:23, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They may not have much, and it may not be original or unique, but it is a whole lot more/better than what Wilsonville had. And besides, I think only Portland has more NRHP listings, and aren't old buildings like culture or something? Aboutmovies (talk) 09:30, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Spangler

You tagged my new article, stating that specific concerns about the article would be placed in the talk page. But the only thing you placed in the talk page was about Project Oregon. You did not specify what you objected to, nor did you make any effort to fix the problem. So what's the problem?Trackinfo (talk) 18:47, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Haswell

What would you think of sidestepping the issue by replacing the image entirely? As I understand the policy given at Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag the portrait of Robert Haswell found here:

http://roberthaswell.net/expeditionsportrait.html

should be in the public domain, and available for the Robert Haswell page. If you read it the same way, it seems better than a non-contemporary tombstone, whatever the size. If you agree, I would encourage the change (not that you need my permission). I will look for other possibilities as well, such as Haswell's own drawings of the Columbia. Agricolae (talk) 02:36, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Thanks for the Warm Welcome

Thanks very much for extending a warm welcome into the wiki family !!! I have lots of ideas and articles in mind to upload on the wiki page as a knowledge reference to the world community in the field of indian music in particular. Looking forward to more regular contributions in the coming days...... Rajesh Chittor 17:23, 15 April 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Csriyer (talk • contribs)

Could you please discuss...

Rather than {{prod}}ing all those articles could you pause and discuss your concerns with me? Geo Swan (talk) 18:07, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District

Very nice work on creating Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District. I had been hoping that you, or another WikiProject Oregon participant would take this on sometime soon. It is clearly worthy of a DYK nomination. FYI, I'll probably now upload to Commons a photo I took last fall of the Sunset Swim Center (with THPRD logo clearly visible) as an example of an older facility run by the district (and one recently refurbished). Did you notice that whoever created the category for THPRD on Commons used "and", whereas you've used an ampersand for the article? As a result, the link to Commons at the foot of the article goes nowhere at present. For now, I've just changed the link in the article by piping it, but ideally (at some point) it would better to change the category in each of the handful of photos there to a (new) using-ampersand version and then redirect the then-empty current cat to the new one matching the name the article uses. (Were you able to follow that? I'm not sure I was.) Anyway, I was glad to see this, and it was a lot more than I'd been expecting to see at the start. SJ Morg (talk) 13:01, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and those were two things I planned on taking care of, just ran out of time this morning. The article has been nom'd at DYK, and a move request has been added to the Commons category to fix the inconsistency. Normally we avoid ampersands, which is why the other person went with that on Commons, but here the district uses it in their official title and a little bit of a majority of the media use it in the more recent sources. Now we just need some articles on the Terrping complex, the nature park, and probably the Conestoga center. Aboutmovies (talk) 21:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your welcome message

Thanx for your welcome message and links! Good luck in your projects! --Yigor (talk) 07:11, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District

Updated DYK query On April 24, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 16:02, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spectrum Culture

greetings. I added the Spectrum Culture entry and see the comment about lack of notability. The site is a respected site across the internet, with references throughout the internet on both artist, fan, and other third-party sites.

Can you provide a bit more detail on what you feel should be included to establish notability?

Thanks for your time.

sincerely,

Walterrichards (talk) 00:19, 26 April 2010 (UTC) Walter[reply]

Going by the links provided in the article, there is nothing there to establish notability. The vast majority of the links are to the company's website, which does not confer notability. Notability in general on Wikipedia is covered at WP:NOTE, which better explains things than the "web content guideline" linked in the template added to the article. But, in a nutshell, you need third party sources covering the topic (here the company) in-depth. The less depth in a single article, the more articles you need.
So, going off what is in the article: The first three references are not independent, they are re-prints of the company's work, plus this would be what we call trivial coverage at best, since the topic covered is the item being reviewed and not the company. As in, we need sources talking about Spectrum Culture, telling us things like when they were founded, who owns them, who works there, and the other items needed to write an encyclopedic article about Spectrum Culture. From those first three sources we could basically write this: "Spectrum Culture is some sort of unknown media outlet that writes reviews about indie films, restaurants, and non-mainstream musicians." We wouldn't know if it is web outlet, someone's blog, a newspaper, a magazine, or even a TV show just from what is covered at those sites, let alone when it was founded, by whom, how many people work there, etc.
With the last few references, basically the same thing, there is either no mention of Spectrum Culture, or no real coverage of Spectrum Culture (in all honesty, doing a search for the name on those pages came up with nothing on the first one and only a search result on the second - with a link that went nowhere).
Thus, to get it where it needs to be, the easiest way is to add sources from regular media outlets. For a Portland based entity, you might try the local newspapers including The Oregonian, Portland Tribune, and Portland Business Journal; local TV stations; OPB; local magazine like Portland Monthly or Oregon Business magazine; or even alternative newspapers like Willamette Week or The Mercury. Then cast your net further for other media outlets across the globe. Just make sure they are providing coverage of Spectrum Culture. Lastly, no press releases or reprints of press releases. Hope this helps. Aboutmovies (talk) 05:11, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the inputs. I will work to improve the source material.

Walterrichards (talk) 11:47, 26 April 2010 (UTC) Walter[reply]

DYK nomination of The Valley Library

Hello! Your submission of The Valley Library at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Allen3 talk 19:28, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The Valley Library

Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Logo Upload Question

Sorry to bother you, but I haven't uploaded logo before and I noticed you recently uploaded File:Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra logo.jpg. When I opened "edit" to review/capture rationale text for my upload job, there was lot of blank items. Looks like much of the text is standard part of logo upload templete with article title and source address as only varibles uploader needs to put in. Is that correct? If its complicated I'll be glad to go to Media Help Desk, but since I saw you upload thought I'd ask you first.--Orygun (talk) 01:19, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, almost all of it is blank and can be kept blank. When you do the "Upload file" and then "logo" option the only thing you absolutely need is the article title, but I also always add the URL source (or wherever I got it from). And that's it, everything else autofills from the template. Aboutmovies (talk) 03:28, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent--thanks!--Orygun (talk) 03:34, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

University of Belgrade

Thanks for grading the University of Belgrade page, which I am currently developing. As an experienced Wikipedian can you give me some advice on how to improve it? I also understand I should provide more references. I am relatively new on Wikipedia. Thanks in advance. --Comparativist1 (talk) 19:32, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a whole lot! This was helpful. --Comparativist1 (talk) 19:56, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

bio for you to check out

Curious about notability and if it applies to other projects you work with. Enjoy! tedder (talk) 07:07, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, I saw that yesterday and didn't get back to it. He would come closest with WP:PROF as dean, but I think with his run for Congress he would meet BIO in general if someone were to source the articles announcing his run plus past news. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:14, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for your help. I am brazilian but want to contribute here in wiki in english. Sometimes I make mistakes and any advise will be helpful. A friend fixed some bugs in the article I created : Braz da Viola. He was very kind in doing this. Thanks a lot. Sincerelly yours. Ricardo Ferreira de Oliveira (talk) 18:34, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hughes

Hi, I am the Tom Hughes about whom you have created a very complete wiki entry. It is very accurate and you keep it incredibly up to date. Hopwever, recently my place of birth was changed to LaGrande and it has me moving to Hillsboro in 1952. I was actually born in Hillsboro and we moved to a logging camp out side of LaGrande in 1943 then back to Hillsboro in 1952. I am not expert enough to change this, can you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.107.136.193 (talk) 14:39, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was hoping to contact your campaign about that, as the person who originally changed it to LaGrande says they are related to you. Could you do me a favor and use the "e-mail this user" option and send me an email so I can confirm you are Hughes? That option is located in the "toolbox" located on the left side of the screen, which opens up a standard email form like you would find on most websites. Thanks. Aboutmovies (talk) 05:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Advertisement" Article Help

{{helpme}} Can someone give me some advice on the "written like an advertisement" posting on my Sports Management Worldwide article? Not sure to what this refers to. Lisafenderson (talk) 05:04, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cancelled out duplication here; doing on user talk page.  Chzz  ►  06:19, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

John Craig (musician) - Notability Issue

Hi,

I have updated the John Criag (musician) page with further links and references to his accomplishments. It looks like you tagged the article for notability reasons back in January. With the new changes made, can you now reverse those tags so the notability disclaimer does not come up at the top of the page?

Thanks, RyanIntheband (talk) 18:01, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the welcome

I'm kind of lost out here and you are the first human voice I have heard.. Looks like you are a star! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nconwaymicelli (talk • contribs) 01:57, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Official websites in EL section

I know that official websites are listed in infoboxes. But that's not where visitors look for external links. Moreoever, such a critically important link should be in a highly-visible and expected location. And in the vast majority of our articles, including college/university articles, have these links in the EL section; in fact, the College and university article guidelines require the link to be in that section.

So you can please discuss your actions, either with me or the Universities Wikiproject, before you continue to make edits that contravene the established guidelines? Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 03:41, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(Moreover, remember that WP:EL states that we should: "[I]nclude appropriate external links in an "External links" section at the end of the article, and in the appropriate location within an infobox, if applicable." Note that (a) the policy gives precedent to the EL section over infoboxes and (b) the clauses are linked by "and" indicating that we can places links in both sections. ElKevbo (talk) 03:45, 7 June 2010 (UTC))[reply]

DYK for Gilchrist State Forest

— Rlevse • Talk • 12:04, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome! Please help with the syntax and the grammar of El Gran Show: First Season (Dance). Thanks! Darkempiror (talk) 17:51, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help! =) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkempiror (talk • contribs) 23:28, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Karanacs (talk) 17:30, 15 June 2010 (UTC) [reply]

Benny Beaver and AgntOrange

Would you have a look at the Benny Beaver article? AgntOrange is back, and has made a lot of changes and additions that really detract from the topic. Specifically, his Historical Connection section goes into minute detail about the fur trade in Oregon, which is unecessary in an article about a university mascot. He has even added a picture of Abraham Lincoln, presumably because he wore a beaver hat.

I have reverted his changes twice, but he has decided edit warring is the way to go, so I would appreciate your input before I revert again. If you think I am off-base on this, I will let it drop, but I think his changes are not germain to the topic, and really damage what was an informative article.--Edgewise (talk) 13:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

John Craig - Notability

Hi There,

I sent you a message on June 2nd regarding John Craig and your tag on his notability. Again, I have updated the page with more references and links to reviews, etc. If you can please undo the notability tag you put on the page that would be great.

Thank you, Ryan Intheband (talk) 05:29, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article still lacks notability. See WP:BAND for the criteria, but in general you need third party (not really an issue in that article), reliable sources (not a particular issue for the article), that cover the subject in-depth (or substantial, etc). The last part is the problem. Craig is not even mentioned in most of the sources, thus those sources do not confer notability. The best source you have is the Portland Tribune one, but one with that little of coverage is hardly enough. Aboutmovies (talk) 02:45, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of counties in Oregon in July 1, 2009

Hi Tedder and Aboutmovies, I was here at the Grand Forks Public Library [STATION_1] for 1 hour.

List of counties in Oregon

Changed population in July 1, 2009

Total population in State of Oregon in 2009!

  • 3,825,657 +35,597 increased up from 2008.
  • 2000 - 3,421,399
  • 2009 - 3,825,657
  • 2014 - 4,064,906
I used to lived in Portland, Oregon for 15 days in January, February and April 2009. I went to New Avenues for Youth Next, I will visit back to Portland in November 2010! What happened about User:Katr67 is last login in February 28, 2010... I don't know happened.

Have a good day! I have watchlisted Tedder and Aboutmovies. If you reply back me or here.

Effective February 28, 2010: Typewriter #9821

Ross Degenstein I am 1,120 weeks old. I living in Grand Forks, North Dakota 58201. I am deaf. 165.234.184.69 (talk) 01:53, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination for ClearEdge Power

Hi Aboutmovies. I reviewed ClearEdge Power, an article you nominated for DYK. It looks like it's good to go, but I didn't think the image worked at a small resolution. Do you mind running it without the image? Cheers, Gobonobo T C 04:33, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, I only added it since it looked a little bare of free images in the older noms section. Aboutmovies (talk) 00:39, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for ClearEdge Power

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 27 June 2010 (UTC) [reply]

Removing an addition for "no ELs on dab pages"

On the wiki page for the WES acronym, you removed an instance of WES with the remarks: no ELs on dab pages and this would be the only redlink so bye bye

If I'm interpreting your abbreviations correctly, you're saying that there were no external links on the dis-ambiguous page. What do you mean? I had defined WES as the Wireless Enterprise Symposium and linked it to Research in Motions (RIM's) primary website which is www.attendwes.com. What more should there have been?

I don't think it was in the best interest of the community to remove that definition. Please explain your reasoning and/or what should have been done differently. Thanks.

157.130.35.50 (talk) 16:10, 1 July 2010 (UTC)gregofmd1[reply]

(I'm jumping in for Aboutmovies.) Disambiguation pages are explained at WP:DAB. They are intended for navigating existing articles within Wikipedia, hence they may not contain external links. AM's summary indicates that the external website does not have a Wikipedia article, so there's nothing to link the DAB entry to. —EncMstr (talk) 17:38, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks EncMstr. Plus, the last part of my summary ("the only redlink") refers to the fact that we do not allow redlinks (i.e. this means there is no Wikipedia article) to be listed on DAB (disambiguation) pages unless there are incoming links that already exist for that redlink. As in, had another Wikipedia article already linked to "Wireless Enterprise Symposium", then that redlink could have stayed. But since the only link to that redlink (Wireless Enterprise Symposium) was the dab page, it had to go. And yes, we never do ELs (external links) on DAB pages, as the purpose of DAB pages is to get readers to the correct Wikipedia page, not direct people off site. Hope that helps. Aboutmovies (talk) 02:32, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It helps me understand, but it doesn't help anyone in the wireless community that hears about WES understand what that means. I guess they'll just have to use Google instead of Wiki to find out what WES means in the wireless industry.gregofmd1

Andy Woods (sic) page

I saw your tags on the Andy Woods page and did some basic cleanup. First, spelling his name right. ;) (It's now "Andy Wood (comedian)".) Worked on the tone, removed extraneous material and added a number of reliable secondary sources. Are you comfortable with it now? I removed the tone tag before I thought to look up who added it, so heads up if you want to reinstate it (or I will if you prefer). Are you comfortable with notability now? I'm not sure what the protocol is for removing tags. Thanks! Mark Msalt (talk) 19:04, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The tone is definetly better, but the notability remains in question for Wood. It is getting better, but not quite there to be clear. Almost all the articles cited help establish notability for the festival, but much less so for him. The first source is the best one, as it covers him with some depth, but you need more like that. Basically you need third party sources (which is the majority of the current sources), that provide more than trivial coverage of him. As in more than a passing mention. Now it doesn't need to be exclusive, but we need to known about him, since it is his article, so we want biographical info, such as where he grew up, education, career, family, etc. Not just the comedy festival. For more details, see the guideline on notability for people. Aboutmovies (talk) 02:36, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and a question

Thank you for your gracious welcome and for the helpful links. Regarding adding images: I've read that images are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons before being used in articles. In addition, I've been thinking about Creative Commons licence suggestions Unfortunately I have no information on the mechanics of uploading images. If you have information to share or can point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful. Thanks again. Calogera (talk) 05:30, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

an apology

I owe you an apology for posting so hastily, because not two minutes after asking about the mechanics of uploading images, I found the upload link on the Wikimedia Commons page. Thanks for being there. Wish me luck. Calogera (talk) 05:40, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You!

Just wanted to say THANK YOU for all the work you do for WikiProject Oregon. The Collaboration of the Week, keeping a record of the DYK hooks (I never have to add ones I submit to the list), editing, assessing articles, etc. Your hard work is noticed and greatly appreciated. Keep up the great work! --Another Believer (Talk) 16:12, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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