User talk:Swampyank

**Bellevue Avenue Historic District**

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Oldest Bldgs in NJ

I wonder if you would please take a look at Talk:List of the oldest buildings in New Jersey, as I think the article needs some criteria and your input would be helpful.Djflem (talk) 18:30, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Church, Parish House and Rectory

Do you have any objection to shortening the article name St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Church, Parish House and Rectory (which you originated) to St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania)? This was suggested by Niagara ^{Don't give up the ship}, and I agree with him. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 12:23, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's fine with me.  No objections. Swampyank (talk) 12:58, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
House of C.S. Peirce

Hello,
You have a photo of the birthplace of C.S. Peirce posted on the wiki page for him.
What is the address of that house in Cambridge?
Gardlv2 (talk) 20:25, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Devin[reply]

I don't specifically remember taking that picture, but I took it on a day when I walked from the Harvard T stop to the Mount Auburn Cemetery on Mt. Auburn Street.  So it was somewhere in approximately between those two places, but certainly in area immediately surrounding Harvard Square. I'll take another look sometime and see if I can find a more precise location. Swampyank (talk)
Landmark Medical Center

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Churches in North Carolina

Hello there. Thank you so much for your contributions to Category:Churches in North Carolina. I was able to sort most of the churches into subcategories by city or denomination, but there are still a couple that I do not know the denomination of. I was wondering if you knew the churchs' denominations, or had links to their home web pages? Any information would be much abliged. Thanks! --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 01:23, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay then. Thanks for all your help! There are only 4 churches whose denominations I am not sure of. --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 02:47, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Annmary Brown Memorial

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Thank You!

Thank you for creating these articles: First Baptist Church (Paintsville, Kentucky), Oil Springs Methodist Church and Stambaugh Church of Christ. There is literally a shortage of articles related to Kentucky's Eastern Mountain Coal Field region, especially on history and historic structures. With that said, I would like to invite you to join our task force.

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List of the oldest buildings in Pennsylvania

I like the List of the oldest buildings in Pennsylvania‎ that you have created. I added something about Elfreth's Alley to the talk page, but I am fairly sure there are other quite old buildings in Philadelphia and nearby which should be on this list. For example, there are several buildings in Independence National Historical Park older than 1776. Consider:

American Philosophical Society Hall
Carpenters' Hall, home of the country's oldest extant trade guild.
Christ Church
Congress Hall, U.S. Congress met here for ten years
Deshler-Morris House
Old City Hall, where the Supreme Court met.
Philosophical Hall of the American Philosophical Society
User:Smallbones and I are among the editors adding to the early Philadelphia buildings, especially photographs on Wikimedia Commons.--DThomsen8 (talk) 12:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy between title and content of Maxwell E. Perkins House

Hi, thanks for creating the page, but could you change it so that the content refers to the title? I think you've got the Maxwell Perkins House (which is in New Canaan, Connecticut) mixed up with another place in Norwich, Connecticut, at the other end of the state. At some point I'd like to expand the Maxwell article. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 03:27, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Swampyank (talk) 11:31, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! -- JohnWBarber (talk) 02:24, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Early RI Biograhies

Hi, I'm just beginning to get familiar with some of your articles, and have been impressed with the breadth and depth of your work!  I've been doing some work on two early RI biographical articles on William Arnold (settler) and Benedict Arnold (governor).  How do I get these included in the Rhode Island portal?  Also, I'm not sure why the articles are not showing up on the lists to which they've supposedly been tagged.  Can you help with this?  I'm a beginner wikipedian.  Many thanks.Sarnold17 (talk) 08:38, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your feedback and help with portals.  I had assumed that this is something that some editor-at-large took care of, but with your help I was able to include the portal references on the discussion pages.Sarnold17 (talk) 22:42, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Union Meetinghouse (East Montpelier, Vermont)

Hi, you created the article Union Meetinghouse (East Montpelier, Vermont), but the information seems to be about a different church in Ferrisburgh.  I can't link to the references you cited.  Where is this church located?  I found an article about a historic church in East Montepelier, so I wanted to check.  http://www.central-vt.com/visit/nr/cv33.htm  Thanks.  Jllm06 (talk) 12:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Westerly Burial Ground

Thank you for working on the Westerly article. I wanted to fix the article title, but my research so far suggests that "Westerly Burial Ground" may be as correct as "Westerly Burying Ground", the term used at the physical site. (Can you construct a redirect so that both phrases go to the one article?) There are some hints that the bare term "Westerly" may have been used. There are no true historic markers at the site, only modern-times markers (undated!). We need to get pictures of the two entrance plaques into the article. I wanted to expand the stub by copying the material from the West Roxbury article, but I am going to work on fleshing that out first. All of the Boston cemetery articles need improvement, and better integration. It would be nice to have an article on the Boston Historic Burying Grounds Initiative to tie them all together.  But the website material seems to be stubby/dysfunctional, and I'm not sure the HBGI is still active -- will try to contact city hall and maybe local history society... (Thank you for starting stub articles -- as a diligent anon contributor, my hands are tied when there is no appropriate article to add material to.) I was very frustrated by the NRHP website database -- I could find no way to get a URL linking to their Westerly page! And their actual detailed underlying contents are not online yet...
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List of cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts

Thank you for your work on
List of cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts!
However, it claims to be in alphabetical order, but is not...
maybe founding-date order?
I wasn't sure where to put my addition, just tacked it on at the end.
I think the
List of cemeteries in the United States
article should be broken up into fifty articles --
you seem pretty bold...
-71.174.187.78 (talk) 22:35, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your work on the baptism article

Thanks for your support. It is clear that those two have had their way with this article too long, and are refusing to use WP:RS, simply inserting their POV. I will keep on revising this article, and will go to arbitration if necessary.--Taiwan boi (talk) 15:54, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad someone else is interested in fixing the article. It is really tough to defend the normative viewpoint when people have a strong agenda.  Thank you for be willing to revise or go to arbitration. Swampyank (talk) 16:22, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm interested in your history of experiences with Lima/Esoglou. I have discovered others who have lengthy experiences with him as an obstructive and POV editor, and would like to know what your experiences have been. I can see for myself that you've found it difficult to work with him.--Taiwan boi (talk) 04:34, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your input. I may ask you to supply some diffs if I take this to RfC.--Taiwan boi (talk) 06:38, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ok Swampyank (talk) 06:39, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Since you've been involved in the "Immersion baptism" article, you may wish to comment on the current dispute I have with Esoglou over the 'Archaeological evidence' section. Compare my edit here, with his edit here. I would appreciate your comments on the Talk page.--Taiwan boi (talk) 12:26, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Emory Lindquist

Hi! Oxford College shouldn't be unknown.

It isn't. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pdfpdf/List_of_Rhodes_Scholars/USA-K-L

Emory Lindquist USA Kansas Jesus College 1930

Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 14:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved? Pdfpdf (talk) 11:53, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the information. Swampyank (talk) 15:37, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
St. James Church, Elmhurst

The nomination form is surely a copyright violation?  Corvus cornix_talk 04:47, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't put it there, but was going to try to glean/cite some information from it before deleting it.  I don't know if its worth the work though. Swampyank (talk) 04:50, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It would be useful to add more information from, but it would need reliable sources.  What is the copyright status of things like that?  If it's PD, it could probably be put into Wikisource and linked to.  Corvus cornix_talk 04:52, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not exactly sure although I believe it is a form submitted to the Federal Government, so probably in the PD but I'm not certain.Swampyank (talk) 04:57, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Email

How do I contact you by email?--Taiwan boi (talk) 10:00, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some editors have been able to email me somehow through Wikipedia, so I thought you might be able to do that as well. I'm loathe to put my email address up here, as it will certainly be harvested and distributed who knows where. Is there another way to do this?--Taiwan boi (talk) 07:21, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You can contact me by email through the Toolbox on my user page. Please email me, I have a question for you. Thanks.--Taiwan boi (talk) 04:10, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't see the email function in your toolbar, but I activated it in mine, so feel free to email me. Swampyank (talk) 06:27, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Hospitals

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Haven brothers

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Your photo of Haven Brothers would be helpful in an upcoming article on Providence. If we use it, how would you like the credit line to read?
208.65.144.247 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:19, 9 December 2010 (UTC).[reply] 

Leave me an email address, and I can contact you with further information. Swampyank (talk) 00:59, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Request permission to use a photo

The Boston Preservation Alliance would like to use your photo of 55 Beacon Street in Boston in the "Architectural Styles" section of our website. How would you like to be credited?
Thanks, Judy

 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.71.112 (talk) 20:39, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply] 

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Swampyank!  WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

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starter NRHP articles

Hey i notice u online by ur recent edit to Slatersville, Rhode Island, somehow on my watchlist.  I wonder if u might be willing to help start missing NRHP articles in Connecticut, where a lot has been done since u were most active there.  NRHP articles for all of Tolland and Windham counties have been started.  I'm occasionally plugging away at Middlesex County now.  I have programmed an alternative to the Elkman generator which provides minimal draft articles (cut-and-paste ready, but hoping for some additional editing) at Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Connecticut/drafts.  Is there any way i could interest u in helping start these?  Or in an different county?  Cheers, --Doncram (talk) 05:23, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

RfC

Thanks for your contribution, much appreciated.--Taiwan boi (talk) 02:28, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree File:Lewis L. Millett.jpg

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Ping

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I did receive one email to which I responded by email.  Did not receive a second that I am aware of.  Swampyank (talk) 18:46, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Years

I understand your concerns, but if a category is for a specific year, then then the facts need to support that.  Having said that, going through this one tree has caused me to have concerns about how we categorize by years.  I have been considering an RfC about this.  My thoughts are that we do away with decade categories in most cases.  The exception being decades in specific areas where they have meaning.  By creating these we just add navigation overhead within the category structure.  By making the lowest grouping at the century level, you get a reasonable number of entries on each page and navigation is simple.  Within the lower level categories, a template can be used to navigate to the surrounding years.  If consensus was that this type of approach leads to no needing century categories but to millennium ones I could live with that.
As to the cases of articles without a specific year.  At some point they need to be categorized.  The question is where?  If you take something that is about 1838-1842 if could be in two decades.  So it probably should be placed directly into a 19th century category as the fail safe.  It would not be correct to list it in two decade categories and listing it in only one could be misleading if in fact the wrong one was selected.  
As I have been going though this, I have also found a substantial number of errors.  Between all of this, my opinions on how this should be structured has changed.
I'll also add that in the area of buildings, the reconstructions is problematic.  How significant and notable does this need to be to deserve a listing in a category?  If it stays in the architecture category, how is it categorized since the building may already be completed.  So in the end a lot of questions.  For now I probably need to drop the unclear dates into the century category to keep them somewhere.  Vegaswikian (talk) 20:46, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I just removed the category from another one.  There are two estimates for when the building was finished.  They are 80 years apart in two different centuries!  Vegaswikian (talk) 00:02, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well, if it says in, I'm taking it to mean that it was built in that year since in leaves no ambiguity.  Doing something so that you can categorize an article in a specific year is not correct if we don't have a source to support it.  This is why many academicians think poorly of Wikipedia.  By removing unsupported information, the quality of the wiki is improved.  Now, if the register says it was built in a specific year, then that could be included in the article text and cited. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:18, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
DYK for Ransom Dunn

 On 1 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ransom Dunn, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that American minister and Free Will Baptist theologian Ransom Dunn rode over thousands of miles of frontier on horseback, collecting donations for the opening of Hillsdale College? 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.
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Long Cane

Swampyankee - nice article on Long Cain Church.  Do you have a connection there?  It's quite obscure IMO.
Tiptopper (talk)

Thanks, no particular connection. I was just adding articles on churches listed on the NRHP. Feel free to add to it if you have further knowledge about the subject. Swampyank (talk) 13:54, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Article on John Coggeshall

Hi Swampyank.  I've been working on Rhode Island's colonial governors, and see that you have written many of the stubs.  I've completed the stubs on all the colonial governors, and am now in the process of writing articles.  I've just finished beefing up John Coggeshall, and would like you to take a look at it while it's still in my sandbox.  It can be found at User:Sarnold17/sandbox.  There are three or four places where I don't have a reference for the material given, and since you did some work on the article, I'm asking you to see if you have any of these references.  Also, I can't seem to find the "citation needed" tag that wikipedians use--I've run across these many times, but now that I'm looking for it, I can't seem to find it.  Anyway, before I go public with this version of the article, I'd like to elicit your comments first.  Many thanks!Sarnold17 (talk) 18:34, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help.  I've done some googling, but haven't found the specific sources mentioned in the article.  I'll keep looking.Sarnold17 (talk) 20:33, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Thank you for your contributions to articles on Rhode Island history, especially the colonial period and its governors (both colonial and independent American). A senior editor with an apparent bias against northern Baptists appears to be on a campaign to vandalize the article by eliminating verifiably accurate contributions to the improvement of the article made by other hardworking editors who have actual knowledge of the state and the historical period.  You may be interested in reviewing the recently deleted sections of the article and/or the recent attempt by the same editor to delete the entire British America article. One point worth considering is that Rhode Island is a small state with not to many allies and experts knowledgeable in its history.  That might also explain why this article was in need of improvement from the beginning.  It's surprising that an editor would work so hard to degrade the condition of an article and, frankly, it's frustrating to others who donate their time and knowledge to the cause of expanding knowledge of the state and its history.  Thanks again for all your hard work.

Mentioned in discussion

You may wish to comment in a discussion in which you were mentioned at WT:NRHP#Comment on Straw Polls, "decisions" and consensus. Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:20, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello. In order to be transparent, I figured I would message you. I work in the Interpretive Projects department at the Connecticut Historical Society. I hope to improve articles relating to Connecticut history as well as improving the Connecticut Historical Society's page with appropriate use of WP:COI, WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, and WP:RS.
In order to provide better encyclopedic articles, please call me out if you think I am straying from any guidelines.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crofut (talk • contribs) 16:05, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply] 

Guidelines for NRHP private residence?

Hello Swampyank!  I was in RI last week, and had a chat with an old friend of mine who lives in the Edward Searle House in Oaklawn.  I would eventually like to update the wiki stub on that property, and include a current picture.  Is it OK to include current photos of private residences with the owners approval?  I ask, because most of the historic homes that are private seem to have old photos attached.  To what extent do we ensure privacy on privately owned historic properties?  I appreciate any guidance you can offer.  Best regards.Sarnold17 (talk) 12:11, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your feedback on my talk page.  I was just concerned about privacy issues, but I guess it's OK to include a photo of a private residence in a wiki article.Sarnold17 (talk) 15:58, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Article for Deletion Notification

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NRHP Photo Contest

Just a reminder that the WP:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest
will start on Friday, October 21.
Smallbones (talk) 01:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Roger Williams

Swampyank,

Talons06 here. I see on your page that you are a direct descedant of Roger Williams, as I am also.
I am in need of info for my research of our family tree. Please contact me on my Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/Waterbug01#!/ I'll give you my email address.
Roger is my 9x Great grandfather.

Thanks in Advance.Talons06 (talk) 19:00, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Talons06
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List of oldest buildings

I've reverted you there. I'm not sure you can call the Great Wall of China a building, but in any case Mutianyu wasn't built in 500 BC and the photo you added is of the rebuilt wall and that was dated to around 1569. I was there last spring, by the way, it's magnificent. Dougweller (talk) 06:58, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

NRHP articles you're creating

It would be helpful if you could tag all of these NRHP stubs as low importance as you create them. I figured the nearly 40 articles that I just tagged would have shown up on your watchlist, but I guess not. You still seem to be creating them without the tag. Normally articles would need to be subjected to our importance guidelines, but since these have just about zero information on them, the precedent is to tag them low importance, and if future information comes out (e.g. a local register listing or high local significance) the importance can be upped. Thank you!--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 18:15, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for completely ignoring this.--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 18:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for that. I didn't see that you had created Talk:Green City Presbyterian Church with the low importance tag after having seen my edits.--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 18:38, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Is it absolutely necessary to create a small one-sentence stub for every single church in the country? There is no deadline. Is there a reason for creating all of these right now?--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 17:38, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why not?  Creating stubs of notable structures builds the web, creates a beginning for newcomers to create more content, and reduces redlinks.  Dudemanfellabra: you've been equally rude to me on this exact issue, so knock it off.--GrapedApe (talk) 03:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, friend

A Roger Williams descendent -- impressive! Anyway, I was goofing around outside my field a little this evening and came across a short bio bit on Canonicus, a Narragansett tribal leader from the American colonial period. Anyway, I notice you uploaded the "mark" of Canonicus as a graphic -- but it was only a 2 kb file and looks like a pixellated blur at a realistic size. I note that he signed with a bow and arrow, which seems significant. I was wondering whether you could point me to where you found that graphic so that I can put it up at a higher resolution. Thanks! Carrite (talk) 05:49, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall because it was several years ago.  A quick search on google, google books and google images hadn't led me back to the source either unfortunately. Swampyank (talk) 18:57, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Catholic Belltower

FM? Is this Federated States of Micronesia? Just trying to work out what the template should be on the talk page.--Traveler100 (talk) 21:44, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly, thanks. Swampyank (talk) 14:49, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Note the correction made to the infobox and templates in Belltower, can be applied to St. Xavier Academy.--Traveler100 (talk) 21:12, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Swampyank; I was happy to see your added material on Gideon Cornell.  I had no intention of working on him yet, but since he was originally under the wrong name in wikipedia (Gideon "Cowell") I felt I needed to fix this.  As I was working on the Stephen Hopkins article, I felt I needed to sort out all the times that Hopkins served as the RI Chief Justice, so I dug into Smith's RI Civil List, etc., and doing that decided to put together the List of Chief Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.  Unfortunately, Smith ends at 1800, and his 1800-1850 book does not appear to be online.  After 1850, I don't know where to look for the later justices.  Since you are a lawyer, I was wondering if you were aware of any available resources that could be used to expand the list of RI Chief Justices.  The state website does Attorneys General, but is mute on the Chief Justices.  Thanks.Sarnold17 (talk) 08:53, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Spencer Fields?

Hi again.  You were the creator of the List of lieutenant governors of Rhode Island.  You have Spencer Fields as a very short term deputy governor in 1751.  Where did his name come from?  It is not in the official state list, and I cannot find him anywhere on the web.  Thanks for any insights.Sarnold17 (talk) 22:00, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Permission to publish your perfect photo

Dear Swampy Yank,
You have have a photo of the gate of the Touro Cemetery posted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Touro_Cemetery_in_Newport,_RI,_USA.jpg
i would like to publish it in an article in a scholarly Journal.  On  Egyptian revival architecture.  
I understand that the image is free use, but I would be deeply grateful if you could send me a jpg by email, which i think will produce a sharper image.
I believe that I have just registered this account in a manner that will allow you to send it to me by email.
I would be deeply grateful
If you would like a photo credit, I can certainly publish one with the photo..   Or some other acknowledgement I can certainly arrange that.   Or could, if I knew how to communicate directly.
Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PhotoRightsNeeded (talk • contribs) 17:46, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply] 

Kudos for the RI Chief Justices

Where did you find the remaining RI Chief Justices?  I was hoping you'd be able to dig them up; many many thanks!  Looks like you were up all night surfing the web.  Pretty soon you'll have a complete article on Gideon Cornell.  I will likely do one on his immigrant ancestor, Thomas Cornell, in a few weeks/months, to include his son who was accused, and executed, for matricide.  The first Thomas Cornell was in New Netherland with Anne Hutchinson, and I'm wondering if some of his family perished during the Indian massacre in which most of the Hutchinson family perished.  Later...Sarnold17 (talk) 14:17, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pembroke Academy

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Thanks for your offer to post my picture of Pembroke Academy.  I cannot figure out how to email you, as you suggested.  I do not see a button for that purpose, either on your "user page" or your "talk page"  thanksMselegans (talk) 03:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)mselegans[reply]

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Hi Swampyank!  I recently voiced a complaint about the new tagging of RI and other state articles under the WikiProject United States, and have gotten into a discussion about it.  You are the only editor I know who is active on the Rhode Island project, so would you mind taking a few minutes to look at the discussion and give me your thoughts.  I need to know if I'm barking up the wrong tree.  The discussion is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States#What is going on here?.  Many thanks!Sarnold17 (talk) 15:06, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Gideon Cornell House

NRHP plaque for Gideon Cornell house
Hi again, Swampyank.  First, I just let the above issue die; don't think there's enough support for another change.  Second, the Gideon Cornell house has a NRHP plaque on the outside, but there is no article for it.  I think you created most of the other RI NRHP articles, so wonder if you want to add another for this property.  My wife and I have been visiting RI cemeteries for a few days, but stopped to get photos of a few homes as well.  I added a photo of Philip Sherman's house to his article, but it is not a registered house; I think I'll add it to the oldest houses in RI article.  We talked to the owners, and they say the house was started in 1670 based on their paper trail of previous owners.  I want to add another house to the old houses article.  My family owned a 1685 house in Frenchtown, and I have some photos of it.  The property was commandeered by the US Navy in 1942, and they tore down the house.  The property, and old family cemetery, are now on Camp Fogarty, along Route 2.Sarnold17 (talk) 12:08, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Here's an image of the plaque on the house.  Can you tell from the plaque whether it deals with a group of properties or just the single property?  I know the plaque on the Stephen Hopkins house in Providence is different, and has more information on it.Sarnold17 (talk) 09:17, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Stephen Northup

Hi again, Swampyank; I just finished doing a short article on Stephen Northup.  It was tough, as there are very few sources on him, and even fewer sources on the Stephen Northup house.
I would like to change the title on the article Stephen Northrup House to Stephen Northup House to correct a very annoying error to those of us who descend from Stephen Northup.  Even though the NRHP got the name wrong, I don't think we need to keep the error alive.  Therefore, if I have your approval, I will plan to change the name of the article, and add a redirect from the existing name.  Later...Sarnold17 (talk) 17:31, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for changing the name of the article; now I won't get annoyed every time I go to it.  I ended up finding more material on Northup than expected.  The old Rhode Island Genealogical Register that was around for 10 or 15 years had an article with some good material.  Still nothing on the house, though, except for the two sources I quoted in the article.Sarnold17 (talk) 01:44, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ways to improve Hammock House

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I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This page is interesting, However I would advise further information and linking it with the state's portal. Otherwise good work. If you would like further assistance don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page.
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Woonsocket and Pascoag Railroad

Hi, Your article on the Woonsocket and Pascoag Railroad is interesting. I think a few old photos of the railroad would make it even better. I hope you're thinking about putting some in.
Kindest regards
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Thanks, I plan on including some photos of the old railroad line.Swampyank (talk) 19:34, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Poland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

As with my #Carolina Methodist Church comment above, please use the more specific by year categories, in this case religious buildings.  I would really like to do other editing other then cleaning up articles you create.  Thank you. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:27, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, will try to remember to do so, I primarily use Elkman's generator, maybe there's a way to modify it or create another one. Swampyank (talk) 00:17, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Please exercise more care when creating these substubs; First Evangelical United Church of Christ stops in the middle of the word because of an NRIS error, while Evangelische Lutherische Emanuels Kirche, Brethren in Christ Church (Garrett, Indiana), Lemmon Presbyterian Church, and Shiloh Presbyterian Church (Ireland, Indiana) all erroneously say that the churches in question are in places that are actually nearby or several miles away.  I'm not asking for you to do massive amounts of work, but it would help if you did with these what you did at Pleasant Hill Church.  Additionally, ones such as Poland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery or St. John's Lutheran Church and School aren't just a church; if you write about the church only, please use a truncated name for the article.  Nyttend (talk) 23:32, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hammock House in Beaufort, NC

Hello, Swampyank. Regarding your listing of the Hammock House (c1700) as the oldest building in North Carolina, could you please provide some primary source documentation, or at least a link to a NRHP nomination form? While undoubtedly dating to the 18th century, and quite possibly the first half of that century, there is absolutely no evidence that the Hammock House was built as early as its commonly attributed dates - from 1698 to 1709. Based on my research and personal contacts within the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the house isn't listed on the NRHP, primary sources citing the extant structure (as opposed to simply a structure on that site) only date to the middle of the 18th century, no dendrochronological studies have been undertaken, and no solid archaeological or other academic work has been conducted on the structure or its site. There was a book published some years ago about the house, but much of it is based on conjecture, oral traditions, and local legend. None of those are evidence of, well, anything. Most of the other listings at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_North_Carolina appear to have NRHP documentation available and primary sources are easily accessible. The two that don't (aside from the Hammock House), the Lane House and Woodleys Manor, were only recently discovered to have pre-1776 origins within the last six months. Research, documentation, and NRHP nomination is currently ongoing on both structures. After mulling this issue over for the past couple weeks and contacting several officials and professionals in-the-know, not wanting to step on your toes by removing the listing myself, if the date usually attributed to the Hammock House can't be supported, at the risk of damaging the owner's and town's ego, it should be removed. At the very least, it should be given the earliest date that can be documented by primary sources definitively identifying the current structure. Thank you for considering my suggestion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hbh36674 (talk • contribs) 04:54, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply] 

It sounds like you've researched the issue quite extensively. I just did a cursory search on Google Books when assembling the oldest buildings list and was hoping others would add more detailed information to wikipedia article as new information came to light. I've moved Hammock House down the list per your request.Swampyank (talk) 05:31, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Rhode Island villages

Great job starting the new articles on Rhode Island villages! If you write any more, would you mind adding them to the county navboxes so they're linked from the other village articles? Thanks, TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 06:49, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, for letting me know. Think I'm done for the night, but I'll have to remember to do that going forward. Swampyank (talk) 06:51, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
George Soule grave photo

George Soule is my 9th great grandfather.  I am preparing a family history book for private publication to family members.  I would like to use this photo, but it is not clear to me how to properly attribute the photo to Swamkyank.  I am new to participation on Wikipedia.  From what I have read on the site, the photo is licensed to use freely, as long as a proper attribution is included.
Thanks
Emersong (talk) 23:51, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you look to the right side of this "User Talk Page" you will see an option "Email this user."  If you email me, I will give you my personal information and you can attribute the photo to me for inclusion in your book. It is nothing too formal.  I am a 10th great-grandson of Soule myself through one of his daughters. Swampyank (talk) 00:10, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Mount Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Hi, i wonder if you could create an article at Mount Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Arkansas, which currently redirects to a Mount Olivet Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in Kentucky.  I am building out List of Congregational churches in the United States and List of Presbyterian churches in the United States, by the way.  Your helping with other redlinks would also be appreciated. --doncram 15:04, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Nice work on those lists...they should be pretty useful as a reference tool.  Yeah, I had been working periodically on creating stubs for all the NRHP church buildings, so I'll probably get to some of those redlinks eventually. Swampyank (talk) 20:25, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much for your prompt help!  And whatever more you can do would be great.  I think there's only about 20 missing NRHP-listed Congregational churches, and if those were created then I'd add (or you could) the corresponding coords and photos to the list-article.  By the way, please consider my further two edits, trying use of a "distinguish" ( not-to-be-confused-with ) template, which you could feel free to reverse or change, on the Mount Olive one and on the Mount Olivet one.  And i think the "start" template is not good to use, is not prevalent, and usually doesn't make sense for church articles.  Usually the NRHP infobox built date is not the founding date of a given church, so I am not choosing to use that.  Again, thanks! --doncram 20:55, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, further!  The Congregational list is looking better and better.  FYI, i started Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Church‎ which, when approved, will fill in the last redlink on that list. --doncram 22:37, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
And that one came into mainspace, so the Congregational list is all bluelinks for NRHP-listed places.  Thanks for your help!
I'm developing out List of Presbyterian churches in the United States now, have all the NRHP ones listed, and see there are about 60 or fewer redlinks.  Lots bigger list than the Congregational one.  It would be great if you'd take an interest here, too!  I appreciate v. much how you get photos and bring them down to the individual articles, then I see them and can bring those pics up to the church list-article.
I do think these are great reference lists, thanks for saying.  What a huge contribution, to the next person writing a book about church architecture, or about any one denominations' historic churches, or otherwise interested, i think. :) Also, see you past contributions in this map of "articled" NRHPs by county, under discussion/development at wt:NRHP.  Cheers, --doncram 00:51, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I notice you actually already created a bunch of the Presbyterian ones, including several on March 26, when i look at edit history of some.  FYI, i went to "what links here" and then to the corresponding county NRHP list-articles to look for photos and found that photos were available already for several of these.  I was working on Idaho and Indiana within the List of Presbyterian churches in the United States and observed fewer photos in the linked articles than I thought should be present.  I also noticed that coords were missing from one which had a street address in the infobox. Perhaps you aren't very aware, but for virtually all NRHP listings that have a street address, the coords are now available at the county list-articles, even if they are not provided from the NRIS-based infobox generator system.  SanFranman59 and others routinely look up coords for any missing coords on a list-table.  Any way you want to work is fine, but it would add more value for me if you chose to check the county list-articles for photos (and occasionally coords or any notes available in the county list-article Description column), when you start one of these articles.  While developing the church list-articles, I hope to go down to the individual place article and grab what is available.  Either way, it's still really helpful for me that you start the articles;  i can do the photo-checking if you don't want to, and currently you can create the articles more conveniently than me.  Again, thanks for all you've done and are doing.  cheers, --doncram 23:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
NRHP church substubs

O Swampyank!
You've created, and continue to create, a number of very short stubs on NRHP-listed churches, e.g. Saint Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church.  I'd like to try to dissuade you from this practice.
Your userpage suggests that I may be doing nothing more than adding a voice to the chorus.  However, I know that some of our brother editors regard a sufficiently fervent expression of indignation as an adequate substitute for a reasoned argument.  On the chance that you've heard chiefly from such editors, I'll see if persuasion can accomplish what fulmination couldn't.
The root of our disagreement, I think, is this statement on your userpage: "...I believe minimal stubs are better than nothing at all."  I must differ, and differ for several reasons.  First, the existence of substubs can actually impede the work of other editors, and can hinder the creation of a better article.  Second, I think it's reasonable to assume that little or no research goes into the creation of these stubs, so errors and misstatements in the National Register database are unlikely to be spotted and corrected.  Third, these two-sentence stubs strike me as a breach of our implicit promise to Wikipedia's readers: "If you click on this link, you'll find something interesting."

Substubs as impediment
The proliferation of substubs impedes the work of other editors—among them, Yr. Correspondent.
My chief contribution to the NRHP end of Wikipedia is photography.  I'm based in Nebraska, but do a lot of cross-country travel; and as I drive from A to B, I often pick a random county along my route and try to photograph some NRHP sites there.  When I do this, I check up on all the bluelinks for the county.  First, they might point me to particular features of a site that need to be photographed.  Second, if someone's working hard on an article and trying to push it toward GA status, I want to help them by supplying illustrations.
A world of bluelinks would make this impossible.  If there are half a dozen for a county, it's worth my time to check them.  However, if there are twenty or thirty for a county, and if the first half-dozen are two-sentence stubs informing me that X is a historic building and was added to the NRHP in YYYY, I'm likely to give up and just photograph whatever's easiest.  This means that I'll miss the substantial article that's 12th or 15th on the list, and that would have let me know that I really needed to get a photo of the bullet-holes in the front pew, or the tabby foundation, or the slave burial plot out back.
The existence of a substub might also tend to preclude the creation of better articles.  There are editors going through various regions and trying to create good-quality stubs or better for all the redlinks.  The presence of an existing article might well keep such an editor from creating a better one: seeing a bluelink, he or she would move on to the next subject.
A justification set forth for the creation of substubs, as expressed on your userpage, is "The sooner the stubs are up, the sooner everyone can add to them."  The presumption is that even a very minimal stub is more likely to be expanded into a reasonable article than is a redlink.  This is seems reasonable on the face of it; but it doesn't appear to be consistent with the facts.  Some months ago, I tried testing the proposition as applied to articles created by User:Doncram, another prolific creator of robo-stubs.  I checked the NRHP articles that he had created over a ten-day period two years earlier.  Of the 55 articles, 54 were still rated as stubs after two years; and the single exception was an article on a historic district that he had created at someone else's request, which the someone-else had gone on to expand.  I suspect that I'd find similar results if I conducted a similar survey on the stubs you've created: after several years, few if any would have moved beyond stubhood.

Error
Regrettably, the NRHP database isn't error-free.  WikiProject editors have compiled an impressive list of mistakes that we've found: misspelled names, incorrect dates, wrong addresses, and much more.  Some of these have been obvious; others, however, have been discovered only when someone was consulting multiple sources, or when a photo revealed that a cornerstone date conflicted with the one in the NRIS (as was the case, for instance, with Christ Temple AME Zion Church in Dandridge, TN).
Unfortunately, errors in WP are likely to propagate themselves.  A bright young parishioner decides to create a webpage for the historic church; and when urged to include a "History" subpage, goes to Wikipedia and parrots our information, errors and all.  Future Wikipedians, in turn, find the errors on the apparently independent chuch website, and conclude that they must be correct.  (Randall Munroe describes the phenomenon in cartoon form.)  This obliges us as editors to be fervent about fact-checking: once misinformation finds its way into Wikipedia and thence spreads into the rest of the world, it becomes much harder to detect and correct the original errors.
Editors who're genuinely interested in a subject and are trying to produce a quality article consult multiple sources, which makes them very likely to catch errors; even someone producing a stub based on, say, the NRHP nominating form alone has some chance of finding contradictions within the form.  Auto-stubs produced from nothing more than the NRIS database include no such fact-checking process, and are much more likely to contain errors that'll pollute other information sources.

Disappointing the readership
Consider the non-editing Wikipedia reader who discovers that there's an article about the local church.  Our reader eagerly clicks on the link, only to discover nothing more than "St. Madesyn's is a historic church in Sedgewick, Nebraska.  It was built in 1913 and added to the NRHP in 2003".
I suspect that for the great majority of readers, the reaction would be along the lines of "What kind of [adjectives, more colorful than polite, deleted] article is this?"  If the experience was repeated often enough, the reader's low opinion of the article would spread to cover Wikipedia as a whole.
In principle, of course, our angry reader is supposed to be motivated to hit the local historical society, research up the church in question, and expand the article.  In practice, this will probably not occur in the vast majority of cases.  Indeed, by creating the impression that WP has an abysmally low standard for its articles, we risk steering our readers away from WP altogether.

A better course
Please forgive the length of this: while invective doesn't require all that much verbiage, argument often does.
Rather than continuing to produce low-quality stubs, why not revisit some of your old articles and expand them?  All of the South Carolina nominating forms are now online at the State Historic Preservation Office website; the reading I've done preparatory to my photography expeditions indicates that a number of churches whose stubs you've created have fascinating histories.  Wikipedia would be better served with a few dozen good articles than with hundreds of minimal stubs.  I can't help but thinking that you'd find the exercise more enjoyable, as well; the mechanical creation of stubs can't be very intellectually satisfying.
Best wishes to you in your Wikipedian endeavors; and I hope that this is in time to stop you before you produce a substub for my childhood church
—Ammodramus (talk) 03:21, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

tl;dr.  The way to coverage is by starting the articles.  For one thing, that allows locals to add pictures and information, when they would not if the articles were not already created.  Ammodramus, if you wish to cover your childhood church, please do start an article for it. --doncram 03:50, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Further, Ammodramus, please consider simply helping to develop the articles.  I believe you contributed photos for several articles Swampyank started in Nebraska, such as Zion Presbyterian Church (Clarkson, Nebraska), Saint Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, and Presbyterian Church (Bellevue, Nebraska).  Each of which was just developed a bit more by me, by adding the NRHP nomination documents that are, happily, available on-line for most Nebraska NRHPs.  Wikipedia works fine as a collaboration, with different people contributing what they want to do.  I would be happy to work with you to further develop Nebraska articles if you like, A, but we must appreciate Swampyank for getting them started.  It's time to start them all, frankly, and get this done, and it's time to stop criticizing those who are just working ahead, complying completely with all Wikipedia policies and guidelines. --doncram 04:33, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ammodramus, I understand your perspective that a small amount of information (to which further information may be easily be added) is worse than no information at all because it looks we have low standards and that will disillusion "parishioners" from editing. Wikipedia editing probably originates from and rests on the assumption of self-interest and pride (similar to other successful systems resting on the self-interest assumption and distrustful of human nature such as capitalism and checks & balances in government), so I have no doubt that a parishioner will come forward and improve these articles if for no other reason than that they are proud that they know certain information and have that ubiquitous, inherent desire to create which has been with us since Eden. We're a broad tent of wikipedians, and I'm a firm inclusionist.
I disagree somewhat with your analysis about the utility of stubs. You mention that your small random sampling of Doncram's stubs show that very few have moved to non-stub status. My guess is that most of the occasional readers who might care enough to contribute to a particular stub would not know how to go onto the talk page and change the status of the article, and not all useful edits would change a stub into a top-rated article.  I have thousands of stubs on my watchlist and based on my anecdotal observations, hundreds if not thousands of these have had significant, useful information added to them by random individuals (over my past six-years of creating NRHP stubs for MA, RI and various U.S. churches).
Yes, NRHP stubs sometimes have errors in the date, (and I primarily use the Elkman generator information), but dating a building is sometimes difficult and imprecise, and some information is better than no information in terms of a date. Even using dendrochronology and title searches often only produces approximate dates.  If this is your chief concern, perhaps the wording would be better to state "The site's period of significance starts in approximately 1900" etc... You make a point there, but I worry that this may be even more confusing.
If you genuinely care about my "intellectual satisfaction," I do create and add to lengthier articles as well and find it fun both watching stubs grow and actively growing articles myself. Most of the stubs I'm interested in creating have already been created over the past six years. Maybe another hundred churches, and it will be done. I'm not really that concerned at this point...it is just a hobby and I contribute when I feel like it, but thanks for your input. Didn't mean to step on your toes with your home church, but you better act quickly! ;)  lol  Swampyank (talk) 04:32, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nomination of School Street School for deletion

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File descriptions (Watertown MA)

Hi. The file descriptions for two of your Watertown, Massachusetts photos should be revised. Captions in wikipedia articles moved me to visit the Files, but such problems will recur or be reproduced in other uses if the descriptions are retained. 
I drafted this at the Watertown talk page but noticed that you are the source of both photos and determined to post here instead.

Image captions and descriptions
Some captions need revision here and in neighboring articles. I know how to do that but not how to edit a File description, as at File:Gerry Landing.jpg (Gerry didn't land, marker is not in Watertown). That one may be complicated for two reasons.
It is written in the first person, so to speak, "My 2008 photo of the Elbridge Gerry landing site plaque in Watertown, Massachusetts." To me it seems best to retain that in quotation marks and to correct it by extension.
It is stored at Wiki Commons, where I have never registered.
Another one is File:Perkins School.jpg (school moved in 1912).

[signed P64]
I'll be happy to suggest descriptions if that suits you. One point of the first bullet point is I am uncertain whether it is appropriate for me to edit the description of a file you contributed.
At Watertown i will not revise the caption myself without some change in the history it illustrates (Talk: Watertown, Massachusetts#1628–1630), and for that I expect to wait out the weekend. There is great interest in Watertown now at least, there was yesterday ;-) and I hope that some other editors show interest in improving the history.
--P64 (talk) 18:58, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

presbyterian churches

First Presbyterian Church (Cookeville, Tennessee)
Could you possibly please help create a few missing NRHP articles for List of Presbyterian churches in the United States?

First Presbyterian Church (Cookeville, Tennessee)
New Providence Presbyterian Church (Brownsburg, Virginia)
United Presbyterian Church of Shedd, Oregon
First Presbyterian Church (Wilson, North Carolina)
Greenville Presbyterian Church Complex, Greenville, New York
Hebron Presbyterian Church, Pink Hill, North Carolina
First Presbyterian Church (La Grange, Missouri)
First Presbyterian Church (Shreveport, Louisiana)
Pisgah Presbyterian Church (Versailles, Kentucky)
First Presbyterian Church of Peoria (2012 listing)
The above are all of the missing NRHP ones.  It's very few, actually, on a really huge list.  Your having already created a whole lot of the ones on the list is appreciated. --doncram 01:32, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

King Phillips Rock

Hi Swampyank, 
I am studying King Phillips war and most recently stumbled onto your Wikipedia photos of the Miery Swamp stone and have found the location on my own. I am having a harder time finding King Phillip's rock. Any advice on how I may find it? I can not rest until I see it with my own eyes. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Also why do they call the Yankees the Yankees if it implies New England heritage?

-Joseehan (talk) 14:04, 28 May 2013 (UTC) Josette         frusciante_674@hotmail.com[reply]

King Phillip's Rock is part of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology in Bristol, RI. It is probably less than a quarter mile from the museum building in Bristol.  One of the museum workers can probably point it out to you.  I'm not sure about the New York Yankees, but many New Yorkers with colonial heritage self-identify as Yankees. Swampyank (talk) 01:56, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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NRIS-based articles

I recently returned from an expedition to Arizona, in the course of which I photographed a number of NRHP sites.  One of these was St. John's Episcopal Church (Globe, Arizona), on which you wrote the WP article, sourcing it to the NRIS.
In categorizing my photos, I discovered that the NRIS was wrong on the coordinates, the street address, and the construction date of the church.  (They were, however, spot-on on the fact that it was a religious property.)
In trying to find a reliable source for the church's construction date, I ran into a number of websites that offered the erroneous date.  Fortunately, most of these were obvious echoes of the WP article, using the WP text verbatim, and none of the URLs suggested that they might be authoritative sources on Episcopal churches in Gila County, Arizona.
However, I'm afraid that this corroborates a point that I made earlier: If we rely on the NRIS alone for our articles, without checking the information against other sources, we risk spreading the NRIS's errors through the entire Internet.  Although it didn't happen in this case, there's a very real possibility that a parishioner constructing a website for a church would use WP data in that website—and if I'd found the mistaken date at the parish's website, I'd have accepted it as correct.
I hope you'll forgive my returning to this point—it's been five months since my last, which I hope is enough time to acquit me of charges of obsessive harassment.  However, it's a point about which I feel rather strongly: that minimal-research one-source stubs aren't helpful to Wikipedia, or even merely innocuous, but can actually thwart our goal of getting useful error-free information out to the public.  Ammodramus (talk) 22:08, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Redeemer Seminary for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Redeemer Seminary is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Redeemer Seminary  until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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New England Wikipedia Day @ MIT: Saturday Jan 18

NE Meetup #4: January 18 at MIT Building 5

Dear Fellow Wikimedian,
You have been invited to the New England Wikimedians 2014 kick-off party and Wikipedia Day Celebration at Building Five on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus on Saturday, January 18th, from 3-5 PM. Afterwards, we will be holding an informal dinner at a local restaurant. If you are curious to join us, please do so, as we are always looking for people to come and give their opinion! Finally, be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.
I hope to see you there! Kevin Rutherford (talk)

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You're invited: Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March

Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March  - You are invited! 

New England Wikimedians is excited to announce a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons that will be taking place at colleges and universities throughout Massachusetts as part of Wikiwomen's History Month from March 1 - March 31. We encourage you to join in an edit-a-thon near you, or to participate remotely if you are unable to attend in person (for the full list of articles, click here). Events are currently planned for the cities/towns of Boston, Northampton, South Hadley, and Cambridge. Further information on dates and locations can be found on our user group page. 
Questions? Contact Girona7 (talk)

You're invited!

NE Meetup #5: April 19th at Clover Food Lab in Kendall Square

Dear Fellow Wikimedian,
New England Wikimedians would like to invite you to the April 2014 meeting, which will be a small-scale meetup of all interested Wikimedians from the New England area. We will socialize, review regional events from the beginning of the year, look ahead to regional events of 2014, and discuss other things of interest to the group. Be sure to RSVP here if you're interested.
Also, if you haven't done so already, please consider signing up for our mailing list and connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. 
We hope to see you there! 
Kevin Rutherford (talk) and Maia Weinstock (talk)

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Edit-a-thon invite

You're invited to the Peabody Essex Museum Edit-a-thon Spring 2014

On May 3rd, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts will be hosting a Native American and Chinese Art edit-a-thon from 9:00-5:00 pm. You are more than welcome to attend, as there will be free food and drink, and an outing afterwards. If you are interested, please sign up here, as we would love to see you there!
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Proposed deletion of House at 105 Marion Street

The article House at 105 Marion Street has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:

this is a stub that relies on one source and does not clearly describe the topic.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Gamemaster eleven (talk) 02:08, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Timestamp: 20140509035841 03:58, 9 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it was until I added cited material which you reverted.  Feel free to discuss your objections on the [[Talk:House at 105 Marion Street|article talk page].  There are hundreds if not thousands of articles like this on Wikipedia. Magic♪piano 02:20, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial edit-a-thons

Adrianne Wadewitz edit-a-thons in Southern New England

As you may have already heard, the Wikipedia community lost an invaluable member of the community last month. Adrianne Wadewitz was a feminist scholar of 18th-Century British literature, and a prolific editor of the site. As part of a worldwide series of tributes, New England Wikimedians, in conjunction with local institutions of higher learning, have created three edit-a-thons that will be occurring in May and June. The events are as follows:

May 21st at Northeastern University's Snell Library, in the Digital Scholarship Commons on the second floor
May 22nd at Brown University's Rockefeller Library, in the Digital Scholarship Lab
June 25th at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (exact location TBA), where we will also be hosting a "how to conduct an edit-a-thon" session beforehand
We hope that you will be able to join us, whether you are an experienced editor or are using Wikipedia for the first time.
If you have any questions, please leave a message at Kevin Rutherford's talk page. You can unsubscribe from future notifications for Boston-area events by removing your name from this list.

New England Wikimedians summer events!

Upcoming events hosted by New England Wikimedians!

After many months of doubt, nature has finally warmed up and summer is almost here! The New England Wikimedians user group have planned some upcoming events. This includes some unique and interesting events to those who are interested:

Cape Cod Wiknic and Photography Blitz on June 14th in Barnstable County, with complete travel reimbursements available for those who participate
Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-thon on June 25th at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (exact location TBA), where we will also be hosting a "how to conduct an edit-a-thon" session beforehand
3rd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting, which will feature at least one guest speaker, and possibly many more
Although we also aren't hosting this year's Wikimania, we would like to let you know that Wikimania this year will be occurring in London in August: 

Wikimania 2014 in London
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New England Wikimedians summer events!

Upcoming events hosted by New England Wikimedians!

After many months of doubt, nature has finally warmed up and summer is almost here! The New England Wikimedians user group have planned some upcoming events. This includes some unique and interesting events to those who are interested:

Cape Cod Wiknic and Photography Blitz on June 14th in Barnstable County, with complete travel reimbursements available for those who participate
Adrianne Wadewitz Memorial Edit-a-thon on June 25th at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (exact location TBA), where we will also be hosting a "how to conduct an edit-a-thon" session beforehand
3rd Annual Wikimedia New England General Meeting, which will feature at least one guest speaker, and possibly many more
Although we also aren't hosting this year's Wikimania, we would like to let you know that Wikimania this year will be occurring in London in August: 

Wikimania 2014 in London
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Dyer Island

Hi Swampyank!  I've been away from wikipedia for about 18 months, but someone put one of my articles up for good status, so I had to come back to do some work on the article because I wasn't yet ready to advance it.  So I'm back doing some edits, and saw your edits on Dyer Island.  Don't know if you put in the material about William Dyer being buried on the island, but if there is no documentation supporting that, then it should be removed.  I put a short blurb on the talk page about Dyer's probable burial location.  Hope all is well with you.  BTW, I now have two RI articles up for good status--William Coddington and Samuel Gorton.  I hope to get the Antinomian Controversy article back on the block pretty soon.Sarnold17 (talk) 21:12, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bethel Presbyterian Church (Alcorn, Mississippi)

Hello. Thank you for creating Bethel Presbyterian Church (Alcorn, Mississippi). A reference I've added suggests the current building was built in the 1840s, not 1828, although the congregation was established in 1826. It is possible that the church was thus established before another building (the current one) was erected.Zigzig20s (talk) 01:09, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Seventh Day Adventist Church (Petoskey, Michigan) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Seventh Day Adventist Church (Petoskey, Michigan) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seventh Day Adventist Church (Petoskey, Michigan)  until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Nomination of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, (Flandreau, South Dakota) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article St. Mary's Episcopal Church, (Flandreau, South Dakota) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Mary's Episcopal Church, (Flandreau, South Dakota)  until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Nomination of St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Fayette, Missouri) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Fayette, Missouri) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Fayette, Missouri)  until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Nomination of St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Weyanoke, Louisiana) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Weyanoke, Louisiana) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Weyanoke, Louisiana)  until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Nomination of St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Franklin, Louisiana) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Franklin, Louisiana) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Franklin, Louisiana)  until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Nomination of St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Middlesboro, Kentucky) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Middlesboro, Kentucky) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Middlesboro, Kentucky)  until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Nomination of St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Monticello, Arkansas) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Monticello, Arkansas) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Monticello, Arkansas)  until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Bates College 2015 controversies

Hi Swampyank. There are recent edits to the Bates College section that try to sum up student concerns about recent administrative decisions. The new material, which cites opinion pieces from The Bates Student and makes accusations, seems worth a look from veteran wiki contributors. While some of what's been added is factual and straightforward, there's a section about a personnel decision that includes a criminal accusation against the college. I wonder if members of the wikipedia community that have expertise in editing and contributing to higher education pages, like the Bates one, could join the discussion. Hjayburns (talk) 23:01, 21 March 2015 (UTC) hjayburns[reply]

Merger discussion for Geodetic Center of the United States

 An article that you have been involved in editing, Geodetic Center of the United States , has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Ammodramus (talk) 16:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC) 

Second Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Missouri)

Thank you for creating Second Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Missouri). There may be a Busch-Orthwein connection. Fun to uncover for beer drinkers if that's the case!Zigzig20s (talk) 11:39, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This Friday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA

You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Cambridge, MA on October 16! (drop-in any time, 6-9pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright Violation on Bates College article: Attempt at progress

Hi SwampYank. The Bates College article has been blanked for copyright violation for more than a month. In Bates Communications, we have been hoping that the Wiki community would address the concerns, which are specific (a few quotes verbatim from Bates web pages) and general (suggestion that the entire article should be checked). On my sandbox page, I've suggested fixes for the former but they have not been taken up by Wiki users, and I know I can't make the changes, respecting the Wikipedia rules. We don't believe there are other copyright violations (and it is in our interest to spot such violations). Any help appreciated. Hjayburns (talk) 17:28, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

	New England Wikimedia General Meeting
	The New England Wikimedia General Meeting will be a large-scale meetup of all Wikimedians (and friends) from the New England area in order to discuss regional coordination and possible formalization of our community (i.e., a chapter). Come hang out with other Wikimedians, learn more about ongoing activities, and help plan for the future! Potential topics: What is a Wikimedia chapter and should we work towards one? Planning of regular Boston meetups (any other New England cities?) Planning for upcoming coordinated events (Wikipedia Love Libraries, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiknic, etc.) Outreach to universities (WikiProject Academical Village) and cultural institutions (GLAM) Wikimania DC is this summer. Your ideas!
	Sunday, April 22 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM	Conference Room C06, Johnson Building, Boston Public Library—Central Library 700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116
Please sign up here: Wikipedia:Meetup/New England!

		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

Paul's Bridge

the red house manor

John Dunjee

Hello...

Bamford

Providence, Rhode Island

Smile!

Good start

Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House

Old Colony House

5/4 DYK

You're welcome

WikiCookie

National Register of Historic Places articles

Hi

Uploading images

Portsmouth RI

SULS

Nice image!

Question on Clark Cook House

Thank YOU!

NHLs in ME, RI, and perhaps MA

windmills

Fourth of July, or bust, Thanks!

NRHP Listings

Bristol County MA NRHPs

Historic places

Historic District stubs

An -> a

Wait a sec on the article creation

DYK nom I added you too

Stub on Ocean Park, Maine

Rhode Island Historical Society

Coordinates for Providence Fruit and Warehouse Company Building

your photos

Template request for NHL pages

Fort Ninigret

Counting error by someone

Russell House, Andover

Category sorting

Picture replacements

Overusing Category:Architecture

Picture confusion

Blazo-Leavitt House

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

NHRP

Hi !

Celia Thaxter

WP:MPS

List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut

Courtesy notification

Re: Nice photos!

merged RI village and historic district articles

King's Chapel

File:Newport from Goat Island.jpg missing description details

Straightsmouth

NowCommons: File:Congressman John Edward Fogarty.jpg

NRHP construction dates

Brookwood Farm

Trinity Church in Holderness, New Hampshire

Barnstar

Articles

Edit summaries

Thanks, again

Well done, Swampyank!

RFC at my talk page

Eureka Schoolhouse

Newport Hospital

Providence Libraries

Providence Libraries

Myles Standish Burying Ground

nrhp docs

St. Peter's Presbyterian Church

Episcopal Churches in Maine

NRHP Notability

St. Michael's Church, New York City

Spare yourself some work?

blocks

Taverns

Need your opinion