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Welcome. Please feel free to leave comments/questions as necessary. I will respond here to comments that are posted here, and elsewhere to comments posted elsewhere. Please, don't fragment a conversation just to get my attention—if I comment at a page, it's a very safe assumption that I have watchlisted it. If you are concerned that I might miss a post elsewhere, use {{Talkback}} to notify me here. Thanks! epicAdam

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

--Kumioko (talk) 15:18, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

List of RHPs in DC

Love your recent work on District of Columbia City Hall. You may be interested in the drive by WP:NRHP to get all the DC lists of NRHP sites (start at List of RHPs in DC) fully illustrated and linked to an article on each site. We'd like to do this before next year's Wikimania. Any help appreciated. Keep up the good work. Smallbones (talk) 16:43, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Population Density

Hello, Ok I now understand the difference now. BUT. Take a look at Alabama. Looking at List of U.S. states and territories by area. This article says that Alabama has 50,744.00 sq miles of land. Then if you look at List of U.S. states and territories by population. Here it says that Alabama has a pop of 4,779,736. Pop divided by sq miles equals 94.193. This is still different for the 94.4 that you undid the edit for. Either of us has been right. Rocketmaniac ^RT 13:49, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's definitely odd but there has to be some explanation. As it is, we don't let our own calculations stand without a source because they're not verifiable and basically amount to original research. There has to be something that we're missing, or it's possible the Census Bureau made an error. I would contact them to find out. Best, epicAdam^(talk) 13:55, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I love Wikipedia, but I see so many inconsistent articles. Thank you for your comment vs just undo-ing my edits. Rocketmaniac ^RT 14:22, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for District of Columbia City Hall

On 19 October 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article District of Columbia City Hall, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the trials of three people accused of involvement in assassination attempts on U.S. presidents were held at the District of Columbia City Hall (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/District of Columbia City Hall.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.

Thanks from me Victuallers (talk) 12:01, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Legg Mason Building

Hey I saw the revert that was done in the Baltimore article and the building has changed names. Per http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-10-31/business/bs-bz-transamerica-move-20111031_1_lexington-realty-trust-legg-mason-tower-ober-kaler, this became effective on 11/1. I think that the Baltimore article will need to be updated and the Legg Mason Building article will need to be renamed Wildthing61476 (talk) 13:18, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Thanks for the update. I couldn't find anything about it when I did a quick search. Best, epicAdam^(talk) 18:33, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fine Art Edit-a-Thon & DC Meetup 26!

Fine Art Edit-a-Thon & Meetup - Who should come? You should. Really.

FINE ART EDIT-A-THON & DC MEETUP 26 is December 17! The Edit-a-Thon will cover fine art subjects from the Federal Art Project and the meet up will involve Wikipedians from the area as well as Wiki-loving GLAM professionals. You don't have to attend both to attend one (but we hope you do!) Click the link above and sign up & spread the word! See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 17:24, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

National Archives ExtravaSCANza

You are invited to the National Archives ExtravaSCANza, taking place every day next week from January 4–7, Wednesday to Saturday, in College Park, Maryland (Washington, DC metro area). Come help me cap off my stint as Wikipedian in Residence at the National Archives with one last success!

This will be a casual working event in which Wikipedians are getting together to scan interesting documents at the National Archives related to a different theme each day—currently: spaceflight, women's suffrage, Chile, and battleships—for use on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. The event is being held on multiple days, and in the evenings and weekend, so that as many locals and out-of-towners from nearby regions¹ as possible can come. Please join us! Dominic·t 01:17, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

¹ Wikipedians from DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark, New York City, and Pittsburgh have been invited.

Revision history of List of capitals in the United States

Why did you undo my revision? 98.221.125.119 (talk) 05:55, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History of the Federal City, Washington DC sent in by sheilamccrea@yahoo.com

The entry in Wikipedia under history and founding father misses the historical point as to why Washington DC is in the Constitution as a Federal City. The United States Congress, the capital, was chased out of Pennsylvania in 1783, then the entire US Capital was moved 4 times.....and finally put in a special Federal District (the District of Columbia) where it would not 'be at the mercy of a state government'.

That is the history of Washington, District of Columbia and is in Ron Chernow's book on Alexandra Hamilton.

p. 182 (Ron Chernow's book on Alexander Hamilton) quoted below:

When Pennsylvania refused to put down an uprising in 1783, the capital, the United States Congress, was moved from Philadelphia to Princeton, moved to Annapolis, because of the cramped quarters at Princeton that lacked even a desk, then a year later to Trenton, and in 1785 to New York.

"The Philadelphia mutiny had major repercussions in American history, for it gave rise to the notion that the national capital should be housed in a special federal district where it would never stand at the mercy of state governments."'