User talk:MJonesAz

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Surprise

According to [1], the name of the lake at Surprise, Arizona is Surprise Lake rather than "Surprise, Urban Lake", unless there is another "Surprise Lake", the article should be at Surprise Lake rather than Surprise, Urban Lake, Arizona. If there is a lake with the same name in another state, the usual disambiguation would be Surprise Lake (Arizona). -- User:Docu

Done Moved page to Surprise Lake June 30, 2008

Permissions for image?

Greetings! I saw that you uploaded Image:KinniRamp.JPG, noting that it's under the Creative Commons license and authored by the AZ Fish and Wildlife department. How did you get this image from them, and how can we see that they have released the image under CC? —C.Fred (talk) 17:05, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hrm. If they told you to create the pages and upload the images, they should also have indicated what the copyright status of the images is. (If they didn't say, the assumption is the images are under copyright and non-free). What it comes down to is, who owns the images, how are they licensing the images, and how does Wikipedia know what their intent is? If your instructions were to add the images under a CC license, that would seem to state what the license status and the owner's intent are. (Then the secondary question is how do we know they told you that, but that's another issue entirely.) —C.Fred (talk) 17:31, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:JDDamRR.JPG

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Done MJones Fixed License status, 6/25/08

Style issues

Hello,

I really appreciate you adding pictures to some of the articles about Arizona lakes and streams that were badly needed. However, you may want to take it easy with some of the smaller articles - for example, the lead section of Stoneman Lake is crowded now with the text being wedged in between two pictures. If you have several pictures for an article without much text, you may wish to limit the use to a couple, more relevant photos. Alternatively, you may put extra images in a gallery at the bottom of the article - see Wikipedia:Gallery tag for information on how to do that. This ensures that the article is not overburdened with pictures. Shereth 20:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rio Vista, Urban Lake, Arizona

Is this the same as Rio Vista Pond? BTW would fix the external links to point directly to the specific page and remove those that are not relevant. -- User:Docu

Done moved page to Rio Vista Pond June 30, 2008

Alvord Lake

I noticed your update to Donner und Blitzen River and discovered Alvord Lake is created. That article doesn't really say what Alvord Lake is: is it a municipality? Lake? Shopping mall?

I've found two USGS GNIS features named Alvord Lake, neither of which is in Arizona. Search for Alvord Lake here. For these reasons, I suggest Alvord Lake be a disambiguation page. The proper wikiname for the current article depends on what sort of entity is really is. The current article gives a coordinate for which Google Maps doesn't show anything labeled as expected. —EncMstr (talk) 18:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh sorry. Your work looked quite experienced; I expected you thought Alvord was uniquely named. I'll implement the disambiguation, but it's unclear to me what your article should be named. "Alvord Lake (Phoenix)" and "Alvord Lake (Phoenix, Arizona)" are likely possibilities. See Washington Park for a profound example of this sort of naming problem which also shows several inconsistencies. Is your Alvord Lake a municipal district? Or is it a body of water plus inherent recreational facilities? Is it artificial? Thanks for fixing the lede to clarify. —EncMstr (talk) 18:46, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done The dab page is created. I fixed the lingering redirect at Alvord, Urban Lake, Arizona to point to your article. Thanks. —EncMstr (talk) 19:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Surprise Lake

Just so you know: I rescued your "Surprise Lake" article that got kidnapped; it's now at Surprise Lake (Arizona). Jmabel | Talk 05:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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File source problem with File:Alvord01.jpg

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