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Category:Alabama Sports Hall of Fame

Yesterday I spent several hours populating a new category for inductees into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, using the precedent of the Category:Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and others. My work was speedily deleted by a robot acting on a precedent from last February where the same category was deleted with very little discussion. The original nominator makes reference to a guideline, Wikipedia:OCAT#Award recipients, which seems to contradict a great deal of consensus practice by Wikipedia editors. Certainly I believed the work I was doing was valuable to the project. I'm trying to get the latest deletion reversed long enough to re-open discussion. See Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 May 23#Category:Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. --Dystopos (talk) 17:05, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PS: Clearly Alabama Sports Hall of Fame needs some work itself. I was expecting to jump on it today, but once again I've lost heart. --Dystopos (talk) 17:05, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Alabama portal

FYI, {{Alabama portal}} has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.155 (talk) 04:55, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is part of an ongoing consolidation of individual portal templates to {{portal}}. --Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 21:59, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

And it has now been replaced by {{portal|Alabama}}. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 01:39, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mobile County Public School System

Is anyone in the city of Mobile? If so, Mobile County Public School System needs photos of its schools. I want to add the official MCPSS langauge translations of its own name to the MCPSS commons category once it is opened. WhisperToMe (talk) 14:24, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Birmingham

FYI, there is an effort to create a WikiProject for the city in England, under the name "WikiProject Birmingham", see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Birmingham. 76.66.193.224 (talk) 01:50, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We need one photograph and three street addresses.

List of United States federal courthouses in Alabama is complete except for one photograph and date of first use (for the Seybourn H. Lynne U.S. Courthouse & Post Office in Decatur), and three street addresses for former courthouses. bd2412 T 16:54, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the Customs House in Mobile was on the site of the current GM Building (Mobile). That address is 107 St. Francis St. SW corner of Royal St. and St. Francis St. Rlm0710 (talk) 14:30, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The dates match up. Thanks! bd2412 T 15:54, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I got a photo of Decatur (and other historic sites in Huntsville and Decatur), and an address for Montgomery (from here). --Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 02:47, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Luke Pryor Entry

The 1860 slave schedule on ancestry.com lists Luke Pryor as owning 24 slaves, not two as stated in the article. Author might want to double-check that figure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.204.181.186 (talk) 19:17, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Entry copied to appropriate talk page. Altairisfar 19:20, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Photo request: Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, Wetumpka

For those of you near Wetumpka, Alabama, who wants to photograph the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women? Just get the front entrance, which is located along the state highway. This copyrighted picture shows what to take along the front entrance - You may not be able to park at the facility, so you may have to have a friend behind the wheel while you photograph the prison from a moving automobile. This Google maps view shows a suggested point of photography of the facility. You can also see where the entrance that needs to be photographed is exactly located. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:55, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yargh! I was just in Wetumpka on Saturday. I'll pop up there again soon. Does anyone know where the old Tutwiler prison is? It's listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage. --Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 02:15, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Spyder. BTW, I'm not sure where the old Tutwiler is. I'll see if I can consult Google Maps. I know the old facility is in Wetumpka, near the current Tutwiler prison. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:58, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This map may indicate the current Wetumpka prison. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:05, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alabama articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Invitation to help with WikiProject United States

Hello, WikiProject Alabama! We are looking for editors to join WikiProject United States, an outreach effort which aims to support development of United States related articles in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 03:39, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates

I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:40, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Monte Sano Mountain's Name Origin

Monte Sano Mountain's Name Origin: The Alabama Registry of Historical Places states that the name,"Monte Sano", is a Spanish term (not Italian, as this article states). Also, the Registry documents the use of the mountain as a place of healing and recovery for malaria-stricken soldiers upon their return from the Spanish-American War; hence the use of a Spanish, rather than English or Native American, nomenclature. Martin D. Bishop, Huntsville, AL, 11/30/10 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.81.90.23 (talk) 15:14, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Historical Ecology

Hello! We would like to invite you to join wikiproject: Historical Ecology. We are working on developing sections of pages on the historical ecology of counties all over the United States and are beginning with counties in Alabama. Annadestinmccown (talk) 18:32, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Birmingham Airport

The usage of Birmingham Airport is up for discussion, see Talk:Birmingham Airport, West Midlands . 65.94.44.124 (talk) 05:54, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]