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Wanship, Utah

I wrote an article for Wanship, Utah, so you can remove it from your "Articles to create" list. By the way, I really enjoy your Utah ghost town articles. Please keep up the great work, and I'll do my part when I can. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GreenGlass1972 (talk • contribs) 03:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Sewer Cover Barnstar

		The Sewer Cover Barnstar
		You have been awarded the Sewer Cover Barnstar because you can read through anything. You don’t know the meaning of attention deficit disorder, laugh in the face of boredom, and are wasting your talents if you don’t become a patent examiner.

I award this to you, Ntsimp, with humbleness and awe. You’ve done what I truly can not: read four whole date-related trivia articles. Greg L (talk) 01:40, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Wahsatch, Utah

On 3 December, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Wahsatch, Utah, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 08:17, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Flagged Revs

Hi,

I noticed you voted oppose in the flag revs straw pole and would like to ask if you would mind adding User:Promethean/No to your user or talk page to make your position clear to people who visit your page :) - Thanks to Neurolysis for the template «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l» (talk) 06:48, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the DYK nomination for the Shelldrake, Michigan article. I just added another image to the article. --Wpwatchdog (talk) 15:58, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Shelldrake, Michigan

On 13 January, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Shelldrake, Michigan, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Dravecky (talk) 22:55, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for finishing the article

Thanks for finishing the Silver City, Utah page. Dave (talk) 20:58, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Knightsville, Utah

On February 11, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Knightsville, Utah, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Dravecky (talk) 03:48, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Ainsworth as a ghost town

Ainsworth may have 50 living souls in it; once it had a thousand or two at its peak, and consitnetly a few hundred thereafter; there are lots of "living ghost towns" in BC and elsewhere; Bralorne used to have 8000, now it has 250, Ocean Falls had a similar population in its heyday, now fewer than 150. A ghost town doesn't have to be somewhere with only ghosts in it.Skookum1 (talk) 16:14, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

BC naming conventions

LOL saw your conversion of Barkley Valley, British Columbia and could only chuckle; there's an ongoing WP;Canstyle naming convention "thing" where one guideline is being enforced across the board; i.e. in the case of unique placenames, or placenames like Dawson Creek where there are no rival possibilities for an undisambiguated title, there is no comma-province. In fact, the U.S. guideline is specifically discounted in the Canadian naming convention; I've often defended the comma-province convention and was at first assured it would apply only to cities; now it's anywhere, though not applied across the board as yet. Another consideration is that only places that were postal addresses should be addressed as if they were. And Barkley Valley was not one of those; it was a community/mining camp, but it was not a town, and had no post office. Also in the case of indigenous villages which pre-existed the existence of British Columbia, e.g. Esla7an, it's improper/bad etiquette. I'm not going to revert Barkley Valley, but just noting that, curiously enough, your invocation of Wikipedia naming guidelines - apparently the guideline that, yes, is a convention for US placenames - is contrary to the Canadian naming guidelines; this was more of a locality than any kind of "address". If there's a Barkley Valley somewhere in the US or elsewhere, there is a point to the disambiguation; otherwise there is not. Why it's called Barkley Valley, as none of the creeks there are named that, I don't know; perhaps one of the original prospectors/miners.....Skookum1 (talk) 16:14, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Skookum1, to be fair, it seems that Ntsimp was simply assessing a bunch of BC ghost town articles, and noted that most of them had the provincial disambiguator, whereas Barkley Valley did not. Ntsimp, the current Canadian conventions are found at WP:CANSTYLE. We're in the (slow) process of moving all location articles to titles based on that convention. Mind matrix 20:49, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Emil Grosswald

Thanks! I was surprised to find that David Bressoud had made it all the way to being President of the MAA without anyone writing an article on him, so I wrote one. In the process I was further surprised to find that there was no article on his teacher Emil Grosswald, so I wrote that one too. I had read Grosswald's Topics from the Theory of Numbers many years ago and liked it, so I was somewhat familiar with him. --Uncia (talk) 02:06, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Hebron, Utah

On February 27, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hebron, Utah, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 14:12, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Sinus-Shaped

Asinara- clarified. Linked; leads to Anal sinuses (the island is wide at the top but narrow at the bottom; for example see this geohack. Thank for spotting it! ResMar 18:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for East Layton, Utah

On March 9, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article East Layton, Utah, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:58, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Unclutter the page

Just curious, what's the real practical effect of adding {{-}} to the Utah NRHP listings? I see that the page becomes slightly longer, but that's all. Nyttend (talk) 03:55, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Both the map and the GeoGroupTemplate were overlapping the top two or three rows of the table before I added that. The section edit link wasn't even visible. Maybe it's browser- or font-dependent; I don't know. Ntsimp (talk) 04:17, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Must be something like that; I saw no problems at all on my screen. Nyttend (talk) 06:09, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Odgen

Thanks, by the way, for fixing the "Odgen" listings in Weber County; I'd reported them, but apparently forgot to fix them. Nyttend (talk) 06:10, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

invitation

You're invited to sign up as a founding member, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#WikiProject Historic Sites ! :) doncram (talk) 07:48, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

NRHP pictures

Great job on getting so many NRHP sites! Nyttend (talk) 04:43, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I see that you found the location for the restricted-address Rochester-Muddy Creek site. Do you have any reliable sources for this being the location? Of course I'm not doubting that this is it, or saying that the location you give in the image description is wrong; if you say "No" I'll simply wish it were otherwise and forget about it. It's just that, if you do, we could use these sources to post its location in the table, replacing "Address Restricted". Nyttend (talk) 11:03, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

And I must say: with all these pictures, it seems like you're becoming another Jet Lowe :-) Nyttend (talk) 11:03, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

First, I really shouldn't take credit. Me, I just dabble. Most of those photos I've used were taken by commons:User:Tricia Simpson. Second, I thought I knew what reliable sources were until you asked me about that site. There is a highway sign marking the exit leading to the site (although I didn't think to get a picture of the sign), and I was taken there by a local archaeologist. As far as posting the location goes, my interpretation of "Address Restricted" is that the NRHP has decided not to publish the location in order to protect the site, and I wanted to respect that decision. Ntsimp (talk) 13:22, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

No flagged revisions category up for deletion

The category associated with the no flagged revisions userbox you have placed on your user page is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009 April 23#Category:Wikipedia users who oppose Flagged Revisions and you are invited to share your opinions on the issue. Alansohn (talk) 05:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

West Layton

Thanks for realising that "West Layton" was an error. This type of location pops up occasionally; I guess that the general meaning is something like "Western side of Layton". By the way, is West Bountiful also a real place? You may notice that two properties are listed in West Bountiful, and if they're just located on the western side of Bountiful, it would be good to know that. Nyttend (talk) 03:41, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes. West Bountiful, Utah is actually a separate incorporated city. Ntsimp (talk) 03:42, 30 April 2009 (UTC)