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Disambiguation link notification for March 4

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•  Done Geo Swan (talk) 22:57, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

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Rankin Inlet

I keep forgetting to ask you what the map does? It doesn't show the town or have the inlet marked. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 05:20, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

• I took for granted the very useful tool that was online about a dozen years ago, that would use public domain data (out of date), and supply you with a freely reusable map in just a couple of minutes. I used it to make and upload about 200 maps, mainly orthographic or lambert projection. Media related to Drawings by Geo Swan at Wikimedia Commons I hate Mercator projection. If I had anticipated the unsung volunteers who maintained that site would stop maintaining it I would have thanked them regularly, and used it more often.

  I really missed it.

  When someone drew my attention to the <mapframe> directive I saw it as a partial substitute to that lost site. But I don't know how to use it fully, yet. I suspect that there are additional fields that allow a more skilled user to have the maps rendered by <mapframe> to include municipalities, railways, highways. I wasn't able to find any tutorials.

  So, why did I think this map was useful, even though it doesn't render the town? I didn't know where Rankin Inlet was. The existing map was simply not finely grained enough.

  Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 16:37, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

@CambridgeBayWeather:

Nomination of Billy Evans (hotelier) for deletion

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March 2020

Hello. Your recent edit to Owatonna Senior High School appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person, organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you. Gab4gab (talk) 13:50, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

• Gab4gab, I followed the link to Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Lists_of_people you provided. It is unclear to me which specific passage you thought was applicable.

  I know REDLINK counsels contributors to not remove redlinks to topics about which an article could reasonably be written.

  So, do you think there would have been any value to the project for you to consider whether David Crowley (filmmaker) was someone about whom an article could be written? Geo Swan (talk) 17:39, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

  • We don't generally put redlinks in school notable alumni lists as they invite cruft. There is also no source in the redirect to tie the individual to the school. And to answer your direct question, no. I don't think there is any reason to add to the already way too many bios of marginally important people associated with the entertainment business. John from Idegon (talk) 05:51, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
  1. John from Idegon, first, the quote field in the reference I supplied explicitly linked Crowley to the school.

     Someone else created that redirect, recently - and inappropriately, in my opinion.

  2. I haven't finished my draft of the article on Crowley, but, I assure you, the many RS that cover him do establish he is not just a "marginally important person associated with the entertainment business". When the feature length documentary about his murder of his wife and child, and his own suicide, was released, at least a dozen the reviewers wrote that his descent into alt-right conspiracies had driven him mad, mad enough to murder his family. Geo Swan (talk) 06:48, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

• That's nice. Before he goes into a notable alumni list, we'll need a ref to his attendance. John from Idegon (talk) 09:36, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
  • The reference Geo Swan provided did confirm his attendance. Writing the biography article before adding the name to a notable alumni list avoids this churning. A good thing in my opinion. Gab4gab (talk) 12:12, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
    1. John from Idegon says, the list entry shouldn't have been added unless I also added a ref that substantiated it;
    2. Gab4gab acknowledges that I did supply an appropriate ref, but seems to be saying redlinks should never be added to list. Geo Swan (talk) 16:17, 31 March 2020 (UTC)