User talk:Ken Gallager/Archive 6

Nomination of List of New England prep schools for deletion

The article List of New England prep schools is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of New England prep schools (2nd nomination) 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 good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Orlady (talk) 18:41, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Ken, give me a call

Ken - this is Dave Brooks at the Telegraph. Can you give me a call at your convenience (594-5831)? I want to bounce an article idea off you. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:45, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Laconia Motorcycle Week

Not wanting to fall foul of 3RR myself, would you take a look back at Laconia Motorcycle Week where the editor you reverted is carrying on his/her POV pushing and edit warring. Thanks. --Biker Biker (talk) 17:18, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

I have had the article protected to stop the edit warring and have asked for comments at Talk:Laconia Motorcycle Week if you are interested. --Biker Biker (talk) 17:28, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Just a hello

And a Keep up the good work. I'm not a Barnstarry kind of guy but I did just want to send an acknowledgment of your work patroling popular New Hampshire-related pages. Saw your handiwork a couple of places again today, as I always do whenever alighting on pages like Mt. Chocorua, Mt. Washington, Mt. Passaconaway, et al. Good show. Cheers. Wikiuser100 (talk) 18:09, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Oh, bugger that. Here's my first, for work well done on popular New Hampshire pages. You earned it. Cheers.Wikiuser100 (talk) 18:15, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, thank you! I should add that it's always a pleasure to run across your name in my watchlist. The changes you've been making to the leads of the mountain articles just now, for example, are a big improvement in readability and interest. See you, --Ken Gallager (talk) 18:24, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. And thanks for the positive feedback. It's good knowing you're there watching. Cheers. Wikiuser100 (talk) 17:12, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Category:Roman Catholic parishes in New Hampshire

The parish (area) is not a part of the church (building). So "Category:Roman Catholic parishes in New Hampshire" can't be under "Category:Churches in New Hampshire". Proper steps are: church -> location or parish, Roman Catholic parish (faith) -> Roman Catholic diocese. --WlaKom (talk) 17:26, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I've removed the "Churches in New Hampshire" category, so now the way to get to it from New Hampshire religion is through the Diocese of Manchester. That brings up a question I've had for a while, though, which is why are there two seemingly identical categories for NH parishes? They are titled "Roman Catholic parishes of Diocese of Manchester" and "Roman Catholic parishes in New Hampshire". Since the Diocese of Manchester corresponds exactly to the state boundaries, is there really any need for both categories? What has been done in other states where this is the case? --Ken Gallager (talk) 17:39, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

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Mount Chocorua back and forth over Scissorfight

Hi Ken -

My name is Graham Smith, and I'm a New Hampshire native, and a senior producer at National Public Radio in DC. I know a lot in particular about the arts scene and the music scene on the NH seacoast.

For the last couple years, I've occasionally added a citation about the internationally touring NH rock band Scissorfight on the Mount Chocorua page, and you have repeatedly removed it, leaving only the classical music citation and poetry. I understand you might not like rock music, but I don't believe Wikipedia is supposed to reflect your personal taste.

I believe the inclusion of the information I've put on the M-C page falls within Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and I hope you will leave it be this time.

You can read the guidelines here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

Thanks and best -

Graham Smith gsmith@npr.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grahamsmith (talk • contribs) 23:09, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Graham, you're mistaken both about my enjoyment of rock music and who most recently removed your Scissorfight entry. Check the article history, November 24, 2009. --Ken Gallager (talk) 18:35, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Help with getting lengths of rivers from the National Map

Hello, I noticed you've been adding lengths of rivers from the USGS National Map. I've been preparing to work on some articles about U.S. streams, and I've hit a wall trying to figure out how to use the National Map to get this information. Would you happen to have any hints for getting started, or a link to some part of the site's help pages that I've missed? (I'm also wondering if I must use some other GIS software to access the data from the hydrography dataset. I downloaded some hydrography data for a couple of sub-watersheds but couldn't open the files.)

Many thanks for your work on the encyclopedia, and for any assistance you might be able to provide. --Malepheasant (talk) 03:12, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi - I'm sorry to say I don't have an elegant method that I'm using. I wanted to be able to select from the dataset by name of river, for example, and get a quick summary statistic of length, but I haven't found that tool in the viewer. Downloading the datasets is what they want you to do, and there are free GIS packages out there that will help with the selection and summarizing once you have the data. I don't really want to download entire drainage basins' worth of stream networks, however, so for now I'm rather painstakingly selecting stream segments by hand and totaling the lengths. Also, I've found that just selecting by stream name within a basin will occasionally produce errors: for example, when a tributary river enters a reservoir, its segments become coded as "Null", even though maps show the river name continuing to where it joins the main stem in the center of the reservoir. So, I'm still looking for a better way to do things, but will probably continue with my slow method for a while. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:56, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much! That's helpful, and I'll give it a try. --Malepheasant (talk) 16:04, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Quick question... how do you select the stream segments? I cant seem to be able to... Shannon^talk _contribs 02:41, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm using the Identify tool, actually. I turn on the hydrography content, then after selecting Identify, I uncheck all hydrographic layers except for the medium resolution flowlines. I haven't learned yet how to select a set of stream segments and save to disk. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:33, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Lately I've started simply downloading an entire subregion of NHD at a time. The download takes time in the background, but once on the desktop it's a lot easier to have total stream distances calculated. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:30, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Santa's Village

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Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For fixing the order of tributaries in List of rivers of California. I'd been dreading this task for years, so I'm very glad to see you tackling it. Stepheng3 (talk) 21:27, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

It's definitely ongoing... Thanks for the thumbs up! --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:27, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, and a question

Saw your edits to my first wiki edits. Thanks. Can you help a newb? In one case you changes my line breaks to something else to make the page line up better. What does the token you added actually do? Where's the best place to look for all those lovely magics? (And if it's someplace stupid like the wikipedia quick reference, I'm sorry for wasting your time). Thengeveld (talk) 18:24, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi there - the token is equivalent to using {{clear}}. I have no idea how it works; I've just noticed other editors using it, and I've noticed how it's more flexible in its results than hard-coding. I wish I could send you to a list of templates, but the things I use are just things I've picked up over the years... It's kind of amazing the number of tricks people have. So welcome to Wikipedia! --Ken Gallager (talk) 18:38, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Nebraska rivers

I see that you've recently been adding lengths to rivers in Nebraska. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, could I ask you for a few river lengths?

• I've tried in vain to find a source for the length of the Keya Paha River, which is a tributary of the Niobrara.
• The current article on the Loup River only treats of a short length, below the junction of the North and Middle Loup; it has redlinks for the three branches, North Loup River, Middle Loup River, and South Loup River. I think this is a mistake: that the whole system should be treated in a single article. That expansion of the article is on my to-do-one-day list; it would help very much if I knew the lengths of the three branches, as well as having a source for the length below the junction.
• There's presently no article on the Cedar River (Nebraska), which flows into the Loup in Nance County, Nebraska; or on the Calamus River, which flows into the North Loup in Garfield County, Nebraska. Writing those articles is also on my one-of-these-days list.

I'd very much appreciate your calculating these lengths and, in the case of the unwritten articles, leaving them in a note at my talk page. If this'd be a lot of work, please feel free to decline my request. I've tried to figure out how to use the Nat'l Hydrography Dataset for myself, after reading the discussion earlier on this page; but it apparently calls for more GIS skills than I've got (which are approximately none). Thanks--

Ammodramus (talk) 18:54, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi - I'll be happy to. The only constraint is the time required to download the watershed datasets from the NHD (I'm going subregion by subregion), but once I have them, I'll get you the lengths. --Ken Gallager (talk) 19:05, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I'm sorry that I couldn't figure this out myself, and I appreciate your doing it. There's no hurry at all: I've got several articles slowly moving through the pipeline now, and I haven't even started researching the Nebraska-river articles yet. Ammodramus (talk) 19:13, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks again, and thanks immensely. I've spent lots of time with Google and lots more in libraries trying to find this data, and it's great to have you doing it. Excellent, too, that you're supplying sourced lengths for all of these rivers—the values that I do find online, mostly from fishing-and-rec related sites, tend to vary quite a bit. Ammodramus (talk) 21:36, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

And yet another thanks, if you're not getting tired of them.

Are you going stream-by-stream through the major watersheds and calculating the length of everything, or are you working from a list of streams with WP articles, augmented with requests like mine? If the former, are you planning to create and post a table with all the lengths? Something like that would be a great resource; indeed, I'm surprised that USGS or the like doesn't have such a thing already.

--Ammodramus (talk) 23:14, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I'm just going through the lists of WP articles. I looked at what it would take to do a whole state (i.e. Alabama) to the standard that we've done small states like New Hampshire and discovered that it's just too enormous a task at this point. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:19, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Too bad, but quite understandable. Maybe we need to start pestering people at USGS about this. Ammodramus (talk) 14:08, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

The Geography Barnstar

		The Geography Barnstar
		For the quality and thoroughness of your work in improving articles and lists related to rivers in the United States. Orlady (talk) 20:31, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:17, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

I second this barnstar, thanks for all your work! I especially appreciate all the length info additions. Pfly (talk) 19:29, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

J. Williams Beal & Sons

Hi there. I noticed that you edited an article on J. Williams Beal & Sons. My great grandfather, Orvile Alden Howard, was employed at J Williams Beal from about 1900 until his death in 1922. I was wondering if you might know if there are any surviving drawings from the early 1900s. I have some of his sketch work, he was clearly very, very talented.

By the way I see you cover New Hampshire extensively. Although I have lived in Canada most of my life I was born in Hanover and visit NH several times a year. After my great-grandfather passed away, my grandmother was raised by her paternal aunt and her uncle Dr. Henry K. Rowe, who wrote the 1937 history of Colby College.

Thanks for any information you might have,

Scott Welch scott@harwel.com Islandeagle (talk) 01:51, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi Scott - Sorry, but I don't have any further information about Beal & Sons. I think my edit had to do with linking Intervale, NH, since I had just created an article about that place. Still, I never know what may turn up as I edit articles, so I'll let you know if I run across anything. Best wishes, --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:18, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

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New Hampshire

Thanks for fixing my goof over the property tax. As an Aussie, of course, I really don't know the first thing about the local legislation, but had to be bold enough to jump in and rephrase stuff which was too rambling for us non-locals! Cheers, Bjenks (talk) 04:07, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

You did a great job with it. I always find it daunting to boil down an interesting but verbose passage, so I appreciate your boldness. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:15, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Naamans Creek

Every other reliable source, including those which might actually know better, lists it as "Naamans Creek" - not "Naaman Creek". If the GNIS is wrong, we aren't obligated to replicate its error. Elpiseos (talk) 21:22, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

I don't have any problem with your changing the title of the article back. I added the GNIS/USGS name back into the first sentence, though, because a lot of people (such as myself) will be looking for the creek based on the name in the federal database or on what they see on the topo map for the area. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:14, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

The Naming of Hollis, nee Holles

Ken, Just curious why you changed "the naming ..." to "Town Name". I take it you found the title too informal or something? Also, the Worcester book is really amusing. Worth a skim if you're interested. If you live in Hollis, you'll find many familiar names in interesting roles. I'll watch here for an answer. TheNgeveld 15:16, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and thanks for the copy editing. Much appreciated. TheNgeveld 15:18, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi - just going with a more succinct title. It's just a personal preference; if you feel strongly about changing it back, that's okay with me. It's a really interesting story how the inhabitants managed to find a sound-alike namesake for the town that was more suitable to them. --Ken Gallager (talk) 15:45, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I prefer the more whimsical title for a somewhat whimsical subject, so I'll change it back. It is a fun story isn't it? I kept finding myself wanting to quote the author because his stuff was so funny. In one place he refers to the "war" between the One Pine Hill folks "allied" with Hollis against the (implied) evil Dunstable folks. Very amusing (esp. since our lacrosse team (D3) wallops nashua (D2) every time we play them. :) TheNgeveld 15:59, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

wrt Hollis: Thanks

Ken, Thanks for making "hollis" look better. That 8-way thing is a pain, I wish there was a way to make it narrower. TheNgeveld 15:37, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Selecting a whole stream in NHD?

Judging by the speed at which you get stream lengths from the National Map I'd assume there's a function to 'select all stream segments between two points' or something like that. Is there? Thanks. Shannon^talk _contribs 01:27, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

I haven't found that function on The National Map. Instead, I'm downloading one subbasin at a time and loading into a GIS application, then selecting by name. It still requires a visual check, because there are some inconsistencies in coding certain types of stream segments, but you're right, it does go much faster. --Ken Gallager (talk) 06:31, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Chicago River

The website you referenced doesn't provide the information re length when you click on it. Can you fix that. Also, your description appears to exclude the South Branch, can you fix that too? Alanscottwalker (talk) 19:10, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

The South Branch is shown on topo maps and therefore the NHD as being the ship canal. If that is not correct and there is still a natural channel to the South Branch somewhere, it fails to show up in the NHD or on topo maps. 99.9% of the time, the NHD provides an excellent source for the length, but if the stream doesn't appear on the topo maps (i.e. isn't at the surface), some other source would be better.--Ken Gallager (talk) 11:29, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Length can be acquired from the National Map by turning on the hydrography layers, then using the Identify tool to summarize the stream segments desired. The process is sped up by downloading the data into a GIS application and selecting either by name or visually by stream segment.--Ken Gallager (talk) 11:31, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Sheyenne River

Hi Ken. I was the main contributor to List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), a featured list. Although it's featured, it's not perfect. The Sheyenne River is not on the list but may belong there. You've given its length as 549 miles (884 km), citing the NHD. Could I ask you to doublecheck to see if that is the length of the main stem? Should I add the Sheyenne to the list? Thanks for your help. Finetooth (talk) 23:35, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I double-checked, this time using an improved method, and got 591 miles (951 km). Instead of interactively calculating the length on the National Map website, I downloaded the dataset into a GIS and ran a summary on the river's flowline. The length applies to the river's course as described in the article, from its source north of McCluskey to its confluence with the Red River. --Ken Gallager (talk) 14:32, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I appreciate this and the other work you've been doing on stream lengths. We've already adjusted some of the lengths in List of longest streams of Oregon, based on your calculations. I will add the Sheyenne to the longest U.S. mainstem list. Finetooth (talk) 16:03, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

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Ah choo! No no, it's fine, I love kittens. --Ken Gallager (talk) 15:30, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Centralized discussion of some US census-related issues

With the 2010 Census data becoming a focus for a lot of editing activity, I think we need a US-wide discussion of editing conventions. I've started this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States, which I think is an appropriate venue for it. First topic there is Describing/naming census designated places. Knowing of your interest in US geography-related articles, I think you might be interested in contributing. Please participate in that discussion, if you see fit, and add more topics. --Orlady (talk) 20:12, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Immaculate Conception Apostolic School

Ken -- seeing your work on this page and your "top 400" status, I turn to you for advice.

There have been multiple previous reversions, at least one done by an unregistered one-time editor and another done by an editor who added specific details about the school (probably a staff member), more than one claiming implausibly that information about the Legion of Christ was not even relevant an article on the school. These left an article with the appearance of a brochure. I suspect tampering by individual(s) with a conflict of interest. My expression of concern got me a rebuke from the change patroller, who noted that the links weren't up to snuff as sources, so I thought I would ask you what you thought.

There are sources on the issue that are far stronger from WIKI’s view of sourcing (nationally circulated periodicals and books from major commercial and university presses). If necessary, I can get the page #s from Jason Berry's books and the National Catholic Reporter about practices at the apostolic schools. However these sources have, for ideological reasons, limited source credibility with the subset of the population that is most interested in becoming involved in the activities and institutions of the Legion of Christ.

So, along with one article in a national journal by an internationally recognized expert on current issues in the Catholic church [which doesn't go into detail about the schools, but deals more with the investigation overall], I had included links to blogs of people who are of national stature within the subculture of conservative/orthodox Catholic media and to networks of people in transition and recovery from involvement in the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi, which outline the concerns and in particular places go into detail about the apostolic schools.

I want to do what's kosher, but don't want to let a whitewash by a school staffer stand.

Zipcedric (talk) 13:03, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi - sorry I didn't get back to you sooner; I've been away. I did a quick Google search on "Legionaries of Christ investigation" and found a couple of articles written within the last two years from Catholic News and a Mexican news outlet, so I believe you when you mention other sources that you have. If you have information in one of your sources that you think is of sufficient relevance to the Center Harbor school that it should be put in, please go ahead. Just remember that this article is about the school, so anything more than a brief mention of the investigations into the Legionaries in other parts of the world will be seen as getting off topic. Best wishes, --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:24, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Sourcing for 2010 Census data

I wanted to thank you for all of your edits to places in Bergen County, New Jersey, adding updated information for the 2010 Census. I appreciate the time and effort that you have spent to not only add the new population but to go through the articles and make other updates and corrections as appropriate. I am disappointed with the way that the Census Bureau has not yet provided detailed demographic data from the 2010 Census, but whatever your source for the data it would be appropriate to include the source as documentation to support your change. I would also suggest that the fields in the census history infobox for estimates / year / source be blanked out, rather than deleted, as the Census Bureau will be providing annual updates for the next nine years, and these fields can be repopulated again once the 2011 Census Estimate comes out. Thanks again for all of your work in my neck of the woods. Alansohn (talk) 18:42, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the suggestion about leaving in the estimate lines in the census history box; that hadn't occurred to me. I am rather frustrated about providing a source for the 2010 pops. I'm taking them from the Census Bureau's American Factfinder2 website, and I have not found a practical way to link to the individual pages that I use for the figures; they appear to be built on the fly. Do you think just saying "U.S. Census Bureau American Factfinder 2" and linking to its home page would be sufficient? --Ken Gallager (talk) 18:49, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Seeing your edit history, I had a strong feeling that the issue was the problem the Census Bureau creates with linking to their new Factfinder. The 2000 Census data made it easy to provide an unambiguous link to the results, but I also can't figure out how to do that for the 2010 data. This link from the Asbury Park Press does a pretty decent job of summarizing some of the most important results from the 2010 Census, and as a newspaper it's a reliable source in and of itself. I look forward, as you do, to release of 2010 Census data with the old factfinder as an interface, but until then this may be a good alternative. Thanks again for all of your efforts here, I know how big a pain it is to systematically go through articles to make these updates. Alansohn (talk) 19:04, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

The Asbury Park Press tables look really good. I almost went ahead and used it for a source, but decided I wanted to point to the original Census data if possible. So I've worked up a link to the AFF2 home page where the information needed to uncover the population figure is given in the title. Thanks again for your suggestions. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:20, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	Thanks for helping out New Hampshire! Kenlukus (talk) 01:48, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

New Hampshire (2)

I appreciate your work. You backstopped my additions to Wikipedia entries related to mid-state New Hampshire. I enjoy the time I spend in the White Mountains, and I'm heading back up there this weekend to continue my quest to complete the 48 4000-footers. Thanks for all the good editing.Iss246 (talk) 13:18, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I've enjoyed seeing your additions for the places around the White Mountains. Have fun with those 4000-footers, --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:20, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Geographic area of census places for 2010?

I am pleased to see you doing some of the important work of updating census population data.
I have a concern that the boundaries of some "places" (municipalities and CDPs) have changed since the 2000 census, so it is no longer valid to report the 2000 land area with 2010 data, or to use the 2000 land area as a basis for population density. Have you figured out how to extract new geographic area information from Census sources? --Orlady (talk) 14:31, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

I've had that question in the back of my mind for some time but haven't looked for the answer yet. Now that I know someone else is thinking the same thing, I'll try to take a look around the Census website. Where possible, I've been replacing pop density figures with "auto". --Ken Gallager (talk) 14:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

I just found in AFF2 the G001 table ("Geographic Identifiers"), which gives land and water area in unspecified coordinates. (It appears to be square meters.) I'm still wondering when someone with script-writing skills will pull all this together for a nation-wide update.--Ken Gallager (talk) 15:07, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

By George (or should I say "By Ken"?), he's got it! I agree that the table gives areas in square meters. The 2000 version of the same table even labeled the units. To my consternation, I find that the official area of my county seems to have changed slightly since 2000 (the land area declined, the water area increased, and the total area declined by a wee bit), which is something that generally isn't supposed to happen. I suppose that the change in total area can be written off as GIS-related error, but it's still disconcerting.
As for finding a script-writer, I think we need to agree on what the scripts should do before we recruit one. Participation in the discussion I tried to start at the US Wikiproject has been productive, but anemic.... --Orlady (talk) 15:40, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

You mentioned the slight change in area for your county, which reminds that I expect we'll see similar slight changes everywhere, regardless of actual changes to municipal boundaries, because the Census Bureau upgraded their GIS base data between 2000 and 2010. It's supposed to be a lot more accurate now, but it does mean that probably every number will change somewhat. Oy. --Ken Gallager (talk) 15:44, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your editing work. Excellent! LuckyInWaco (talk) 00:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Douglas (surname)

You have been tidying up this list. Did you mean to delete *Dean Douglas (producer) (born 1971), UK record producer and music publisher? And if so, why? Otherwise, good job, well done!

In the Politics section, there is an hr tag separating the Douglases from the Douglas-Hamiltons, etc. Do you think this should be replicated in other sections? And what about double ss Douglasses? Shipsview (talk) 20:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh! Dean is a redlink! Was it always? Or has the article been deleted? Shipsview (talk) 20:54, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Shipsview - Yes, I deleted Dean the producer because it was a redlink, and, based on his age, I didn't see any notability yet. Seeing as I just "flew in" to look over the Douglas list, I have no idea if he used to have an article.

Good question about the hr tag. I've never seen it used that way before and personally think it's unnecessary, but because I just arrived on the page without having followed its history, I was loath to change that. I would prefer just putting a blank line between the regular Douglases and the hyphenated Douglases.

As for "Douglass", it has a separate surname page. My personal preference, which I didn't act on, again because I didn't want to step on people's toes, would be to remove the Douglass entries. (I might leave Frederick Douglass, who in my experience is the most famous of the double-esses, but that might just open it back up to any editor's personal preference.) See you, --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:18, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

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International Selkirk Loop

{{Jctint}} doesn't need to be fixed; if you use |state_special=[[Washington (state)|Washington]], you can alter the link for the state column just as |county_special= |location_special= do the same trick for the county and location columns, respectively. (Note, |state=WA is still needed for the county and location links.) Imzadi 1979 → 21:27, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip! --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:26, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Ken, I am new to Wikipedia and have been editing the page about Windham, NH. I am a part of an English class at Clemson University. Our assignment is to update a page on Wikipedia. I chose the town of Windham, New Hampshire. If you have any advice about future edits I would really appreciate it. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cippy12 (talk • contribs) 13:48, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

That's great that you're updating the Windham page. I'll bet there's more history that could be found. I would suggest looking at the Wikipedia articles for some of the other NH towns to see what sort of historical topics could be covered, as well as what sources other people have used. (Though I wonder how well-stocked the Clemson library would be on New Hampshire history...?) Also, you could check out the town website for leads. Occasionally I check the towns' pages to make sure the selectmen are listed correctly, but I haven't done that in a while. Best wishes, --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:52, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your work on Michigan rivers. Bigturtle (talk) 23:20, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome! I appreciate the feedback. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:08, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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