User talk:JGHowes/Archive 4

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January 2010–Dec. 2010

DYK for Frederick Brocklander

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Materialscientist (talk) 12:01, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Service awards proposal

Hello, JGHowes/Archive 4! I noticed you display a service award, and would like to invite you to join the discussion over a proposed revamping of the awards.

If you have any opinions on the proposal, please participate in the discussion. Thanks! — the Man in Question (in question) 18:25, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

photos for the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church page

[original message] "Hi, Eliot456. Just a heads-up that these images you uploaded to Commons have been tagged for deletion in seven days because they lack the required source/author/license information. If you are the photographer and need assistance with licensing them, just let me know. I'm a Wikipedia administrator and will be happy to help. If these images are copyrighted by someone else, however, you should know that only the copyright holder can license them."

Hey, Thanks for the note, i am the photographer, and i would like to do what you said to get them "verified" maybe you could get me a link to a help page that has directions. I saw on your page that you play organ. That is a talent that i very much respect! I am in the process of learning piano and i'm kind of advanced now and am looking to get organ lessons in the near future! I'm very excited! My enthusiasm for organ has led me to desire to get some nice pictures of the Ruffatti Organ from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church on the wiki page. Thanks! Eliot —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eliot456 (talk • contribs) 06:01, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I've replied on your talk page at Commons here. JGHowes ^talk 06:06, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

History of Plywood

a good article on the history of plywood is at: http://www.apawood.org/level_b.cfm?content=srv_med_new_bkgd_plycen 173.202.212.97 (talk) 16:16, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Topeka

I think it would be better for the protection to cover the whole month, due to the nature of the IP edits. Enigma^msg 05:13, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Agree, I've changed it back to your original block setting. Seemed to be an edit (block?) conflict, as I didn't see your ~~block~~protection when I set mine. JGHowes ^talk 05:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Protection conflict. Unlike with edit conflicts, all changes go through if different admins are adjusting the protection at the same time. :) Thanks, Enigma^msg 05:17, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm up too late, meant "semi-protect" not "block"

JGHowes ^talk 06:06, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Warrenton Presbyterian Church (Warrenton, Virginia)

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Please note, I did not create or originate any content in question – I simply moved it from Warrenton Presbyterian Church over a redirect to disambiguate a church of the same name in South Carolina, as noted in my edit summary of 15 July 2007. The content in question was contributed by Teketcham2 (talk · contribs) in January 2007. JGHowes ^talk 04:05, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Danny Lee Thomas

Hi. My name is Brittany Renae Duck/Thomas. Danny was my uncle and I was wondering what all you knew about him. If you could send me and email back asap it would be much appreciated. My email is i_love_mama_d@hotmail.com. Thank you for your time. Sincerly, Brittany. —Preceding tunsigned comment added by 65.79.79.45 (talk) 15:01, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I did not know Dan Thomas, the ballplayer, personally. I just gathered the information from published sources such as newspaper articles. Do you have a family photo of him you'd like to donate to Wikipedia? JGHowes ^talk 16:44, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Fernance B. Perry

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Fixed JGHowes ^talk 00:50, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Question: The following is from the B&O Railroad Museum: Was the #217 built in 1969 or maybe 1869?

Baltimore and Ohio #25: The William Mason 4-4-0 built in 1856, most recently used in the movie Wild Wild West. Baltimore and Ohio #217: Built in 1969 at Mt. Clare, a 4-6-0 camelback locomotive based on Ross Winans' design. Baltimore and Ohio #545: The A.J. Cromwell, a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" built in 1888.

Just a minor problem, that doesn't seem correct. I don't know how to change the current text.

Sidebar. I worked at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago (1946-1947) maintaining the "Q" gauge Model Railroad (30'x 60') exhibit on week-ends. I was in High School and graduated in January of 1947. Attended IIT for one semester and then starting installing central office telephone equipment for Western Electric Installation, for 4.5 years. The Railroad was 1/4" scale which is narrower than "O" gauge. The car bodies were "O" gauge, but the car trucks and engines all had to be machined to the narrower gauge. I was also a member of a 17/64" Model Rairoad Club that used "O" gauge trucks and tracks, but built over size cars to conform to the scale of the rail gauge. They had a fairly large train layout that they operated in a unused train station on Lake Street west of Chicago. Don't remember the exact address. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.57.113.114 (talk) 21:53, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that typo. Yes, Camelback #217 was built in 1869. Was interested to read of your work experience at the Museum of Science & Industry's model railroad exhibit. My dad worked for Western Electric for many years, at the Baltimore Point Breeze plant. JGHowes ^talk 01:18, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Fernance B. Perry

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Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Bermuda

The article currently does not convey the general attitudes towards the administrative power (i.e. the UK), whereas other British Overseas Territories, such as Gibraltar, Turks and Caicos islands and the Falkland Islands mention what the attitudes in the territories are towards the UK. From your experience, how do the people in Bermuda feel about being classified as British? Is there an article on this issue that we can cite? Thanks. --RaviC (talk) 18:12, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

The government of Bermuda's ruling party, the PLP, is officially pro-independence and some people are vehemently anti-British. However, polls show that the majority of the population favours the status quo. When Queen Elizabeth visited Bermuda last November, Her Majesty was very warmly welcomed island-wide. The Royal Gazette has reported the poll results and the independence debate. JGHowes ^talk 12:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Planning Discussions Now Underway Regarding DC Meetup #10

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DYK for Raymond V. Haysbert

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article

Hi Jim. R, him say he start article about you. — JoJo • Talk • 14:19, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Check your mail. ;0-) — Rlevse • Talk • 01:57, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

You and your Cessna

Moved this pic to commons too. — Rlevse • Talk • 19:58, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Put your Sacred Classics pic in the category too. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:18, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Noted. Thanks for the heads up. JGHowes ^talk 22:35, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Ck wiki mail and give my sandbox one last good look over. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:03, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Boy Scout Uniform

Might this be better as a disambig? There's at least two relevant pages it might link on to: Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America and Boy_Scout#Uniforms - there may be others too. Etrigan (talk) 16:43, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

I found an existing redirect, Boy scout uniform, already pointing to Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America. Because that's incorrectly lower case, I added the properly capitalized Boy Scout uniform (per WP:SCOUTMOS) redirect as a fix to eliminate redlinks. A disambig may not be needed, because the term "Boy Scout" is no longer used by most member organizations of Scout (Scout Movement) anyway outside of the U.S. Perhaps a hatnote at Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America would be helpful, informing the reader that information about Scout uniforms worldwide is found in the articles pertaining to each country's Scout movement, or maybe a list article of Scout uniforms by country could be proposed at WP:SCOUT. JGHowes ^talk 17:19, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Any of the above would be tbetter, IMO. The redirect I feel is insufficiently international in scope given the nature of the organisation as a whole. However, I'll let someone else more involved pick that up. Etrigan (talk) 17:24, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

I've asked the Scouting Project coordinator to chime in here. JGHowes ^talk 18:47, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Boy Scout uniform and the like should really redirect to Scouting, which touches on the subject. Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America is pretty clear that is is about the BSA, so no hatnote is needed. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 21:33, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

James G. Howes will be DYK lead

James G. Howes is scheduled to be the lead DYK article, with photo, at 8pm Eastern US time, 1am 22 Jun UTC. Let's give it lots of views! Way to go User:JGHowes!! See current version of Template:Did_you_know/Queue and Template:Did you know/Queue/3 for more info. — Rlevse • Talk • 12:56, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm grateful for all the attention and your work in creating the article. Wow! JGHowes ^talk 14:56, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

No problem, it was fun and interesting! — Rlevse • Talk • 21:49, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

HOO YAH! It's there. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:04, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Check User:Rlevse/files#DYK_listings, you had 3.8K views, a little shy of the 5k needed to be listed on the stats pages, but still VERY GOOD! — Rlevse • Talk • 02:32, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Considering that mine have gotten no more than a few hundred in the past, that is indeed quite good! Juliancolton (talk) 11:59, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

;-) — Rlevse • Talk • 12:37, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Historic Trails Award

New article and DYK if you care to help improve. I wanted to get it up on July 4th! — Rlevse • Talk • 21:38, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

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Fixed JGHowes ^talk

Catherine Pollard (Scouting)

New article and DYK if you care to help improve. Up on July 6th, anniversary of the court ruling! — Rlevse • Talk • 00:48, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Notability

i just noticed an edit you did on 'people from baltimore',removing the lead guitarist of some garage band, and it moved me to register an opinion thus: wikipedia needs to raise its standard for notability generally. i can't really imagine that anyone other than relatives are much interested in female slovenian triple jumpers whose best finish was 11th in the 1961 european championship. that i just made up, but i have seen many of that ilk.just sayin'.Toyokuni3 (talk) 18:12, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia does have guidelines regarding garage band members (who are not individually notable, see WP:BAND) and amateur athletes (see WP:ATHLETE), so when you see such non-notable, unsourced entries on a list and they're not linked to any article to verify notability, they should be removed on sight. JGHowes ^talk 18:33, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Edward L. Rowan

New article on a Scouter, psychiatrist, and author. Very interesting. Pls help improve. Up for DYK too. — Rlevse • Talk • 15:47, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Infobox person

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That's good, it will provide a cleaner layout for bios when multiple infoboxes are called for, such as a military person also notable in another field of endeavor. JGHowes ^talk 17:03, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 11

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File permission problem with File:Belleview-Biltmore Hotel.jpg

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I've added the source call number at the State of Florida archives and its PD status - and moved file to Commons. JGHowes ^talk 01:42, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Belleview.jpg

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I've added the source call number at the State of Florida archives and its PD status - and moved file to Commons. JGHowes ^talk 01:43, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Bermuda Rwy.jpg

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Kelly, under UK Crown copyright rules, works of government have a basic term of protection of 50 years from date of commercial publication. File:Bermuda Rwy.jpg was commercially published prior to 1948 by Her Majesty's Bermuda government, an overseas territory of the UK. As a Crown artistic work other than engravings and photographs created prior to 30 June 1957, it had a copyright term of 50 years from creation. Therefore, its copyright expired in 1998, if not before, and it is a free image in the public domain since then.

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