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Welcome!

Hello, OHWiki, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! — Homefryes SayDo 18:45, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New articles[edit]

Hi -- thanks for your new articles; I have added the infobox to each and have done some other minor additions. You might also wish to check out WP:OHSH and join the list. The more, the merrier! Happy Holidays! — Homefryes SayDo 18:47, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ohio Articles[edit]

Keep up the good work!

Milktaco 07:42, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would go by what the Technical Services Straight Line Diagrams say. These come straight from ODOT, and are what I believe to be the definitive source on all state, federal, and interstate routes in Ohio. — Homefryes SayDo 13:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to help! — Homefryes SayDo 13:12, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Original state routes"[edit]

Hi; just a quick note...if Simpson's page states that a route is an "original state highway," then it was certified in 1924. This information can be found at Explanation of the Ohio State Highway System (The Unofficial Ohio State Highways Web Site) by John Simpson. Just a little tidbit for ya! Happy editing! — Homefryes SayDo 13:44, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:USRD Newsletter Issue 1[edit]

The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 1 10 February 2007 About the Newsletter
Departments: Features:
Project News Notability of state highways is challenged
Important deletion debates
Featured subproject
Featured member
From the editor
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Thanks for the infobox city help[edit]

I notice that you did some prep work for me on the Ohio cities. I first noticed because Toledo was messed up but I seen that you fixed a lot of them thanks. —MJCdetroit 04:59, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Richland County school districts[edit]

Hey, another Jeffrey from Ohio! Good job getting articles for Richland County school districts up. Keep up the good work! -- SwissCelt 08:09, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 2[edit]

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The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 2 24 February 2007 About the Newsletter
Departments: Features:
Project News Notability of state highways is upheld
Deletion debates Kansas Turnpike is now a Good Article
Featured subproject U.S. Roads IRC channel created
Featured member Infoboxes and Navigation subproject started
From the editors
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USRD Newsletter - Issue 3[edit]

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Volume 1, Issue 3 10 March 2007 About the Newsletter
Departments: Features:
Project news Inactivity?
Deletion debates Article Improvement Drive
Featured subproject Good and Featured Articles
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Active user verification[edit]

Hello, OHWiki. Due to the high number of inactive users at WP:USRD, we are asking that you verify that you are still an active contributor of the project. To do so, please add an asterisk (*) after your name on Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. Users without one by the next issue in 2 weeks will be removed off the list and off the respective road projects as well. If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks. TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 20:14, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article Rating[edit]

Good day. I noticed you recently rated the Columbus, Ohio article as "B" class. However, there was no explanation as to the reasoning behind this mark. Could you provide some justification for it as well as suggest ways in which the article could be improved? That would be immensely helpful. The article is quite extensive and very well referenced, so I am a bit surprised that it was given the same grade as approximately 1.5 years ago prior to a number of major improvements. --Analogue Kid 14:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ohioan, I've quickly checked out the Columbus, Ohio article and it appears to be ready to become a good article. If you want, nominate the article on the good article nomination page. I'll then review it more completely and will be happy to promote it (if everything checks out).--Alabamaboy 23:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Good deal.--Analogue Kid 04:20, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 4[edit]

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Volume 1, Issue 4 24 March 2007 About the Newsletter
Departments: Features:
Project news March 16 IRC Meeting
Deletion debates Kentucky and Utah projects demoted
Featured subproject A quick look at the structural integrity of state highway WikiProjects
Featured member
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Your GA nomination of Columbus, Ohio[edit]

The article Columbus, Ohio you nominated as a good article has passed. Good luck in future nominations. --Alabamaboy 23:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the nomination. I'll hopefully be working on it some more with the long term goal of having it become a featured article. --Analogue Kid 04:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 5[edit]

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Project news Good and Featured Articles are promoted
Deletion debates Interstate 238 revert war
Featured subproject IRC discussion comes to light
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New Username[edit]

Thanks for letting me know! Milktaco 17:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Media request question[edit]

My name is Alabamaboy and I'm an admin at Wikipedia. I was curious if you'd be interested in talking to Joe Blundo at the Columbus Dispatch about Wikipedia and Citizendium (Larry Sanger's new WP-like encyclopedia). If you're interested, please e-mail me and I'll forward your e-mail to Blundo. --Alabamaboy 20:08, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 6[edit]

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USRD Newsletter - Issue 7[edit]

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Project news April 27 IRC meeting California
Deletion debates MacArthur Maze Fire Illinois
Featured member Circular route shields Pennsylvania
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USRD Newsletter - Issue 8[edit]

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Deletion debates Two debates at USRD Illinois
Featured member A new GA Oklahoma
From the editors Pennsylvania
From the editors Washington
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Template:User Canton[edit]

Thank you for moving the template, and making a few changes. The template looks better than it did before. Thanks again. Cool Bluetalk to me 19:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 9[edit]

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Project news Highways notability guideline? California
Deletion debates Portal debate Maryland
Featured member Three new GAs
From the editors Exit list debates
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Copying Information[edit]

Yeah, I thought that since it was public information, you could just copy it. I've rewritten some of the history sections in some articles since then. Thanks for the help! Milktaco 19:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 10[edit]

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Project news Kentucky subproject promoted California
Deletion debates AID restructuring Maryland
Featured member GA status Pennsylvania
From the editors Notability discussion currently collecting dust
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You have gone way over the WP:3RR limit on the above article. While I appreciate your reporting of it to WP:RPP, the correct response isn't to revert-war. The other anon editor was at something like 8R and has now been blocked from editing - Alison 01:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I appreciate it because there has been too much vandalism going on for the last several days.---OHWiki 01:41, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note also that 3RR doesn't apply to undoing vandalism. Just keep in mind there's a difference between vandalism and a content dispute. Rklawton 20:59, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An important letter[edit]

Dear roads editor,

You may have noticed some changes at WP:USRD lately. Some of them, like the cleanup templates and the stub templates, have been astounding and great. Unfortunately, others have been disturbing.

This has become evidenced by the departure of a few prominent editors at USRD, a few RFC's, and much fighting among USRD editors.

After the second RFC, many of us found the opportunity to take a step away from Wikipedia for a while--as a self-imposed wikibreak, or possibly on vacation.

The result of such introspection was that many of us were placing ourselves in a "walled garden" and on a self-imposed pedestal of authority over the roads department. Also, we were being hostile to a few users who were not agreeing with us.

In fact, IRC has been the main incarnation of this "walled garden." Decisions have been made there to conduct grudges and prejudices against a few valued USRD users with poor justification.

For this, we have come to apologize. We have come to ask your forgiveness.

In addition to this, we hope to work as one USRD team from now on and to encourage cooperation instead of the promotion of interests.

All users are welcome to collaborate on IRC, the newsletter, or anywhere else at USRD.

In the future, please feel free to approach us about any issues you may have.

Regards,

Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 17:15, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 11[edit]

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Departments: Features: State and national updates
Project news Cleanup system revamped Assessment
Deletion debates Stubs renamed New York
Featured member IRC channel goes global
From the editors Minnesota bridge collapses
One year after SRNC: A reflection
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wadsworth[edit]

you had asked about notabul wadsworth citazens. i listed two possibilitys that you might want to consider. (sorry for spelling) —Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:Contributions/{63.3.19.1 (talkcontribsinfoWHOIS)}|{63.3.19.1 (talkcontribsinfoWHOIS)}]] ([[User talk:{63.3.19.1 (talkcontribsinfoWHOIS)}|talk]]) 03:31, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter - Issue 12[edit]

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Rephrasing of town intros[edit]

Thanks for working on improving the intros for various Ohio towns, but please remember not to remove the {{GR|6}} tags, which appear primarily in reference to towns that are county seats. Nyttend 01:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 13[edit]

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USRD Inactivity check and news report[edit]

Hello, OHWiki. We had a few urgent matters to communicate to you:

  1. Please update your information at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants, our new centralized participant list. Those who have not done so by October 20th will be removed.
  2. There are important discussions taking place at WT:USRD relating to whether WP:USRD, WP:HWY, or the state projects should hold the "power" in the roads projects.

Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 23:28, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 14[edit]

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Re: Ohio state highway articles[edit]

I honestly don't know. I do know that SR 761 was tagged with speedy deletion because I was the only one who contributed to the article. There are several Ohio state route articles that only one person contributed to, so maybe they're going after all of them? I'll keep an eye out; maybe the members of the project just need to contribute more to other articles. MilkTaco 18:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter - Issue 15[edit]

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Boardman[edit]

Please offer your opinion on the proposed merger of Boardman, Ohio and Boardman Township, Mahoning County, Ohio at the Boardman, Ohio talk page. Nyttend 13:06, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mansfield-Bucyrus Combined Statistical Area[edit]

Hey, sorry I took a while to get back to you. I just uploaded the image to the page, feel free to put it in there wherever you'd like since you're the one doing all the arranging. Hope it meets your needs. Frank12 18:32, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's ok, nice to see that you are back. Thank you for uploading the map, it looks real good for the article.---OHWiki 18:44, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 16[edit]

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USRD Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 17[edit]

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Richland County officials[edit]

Could you provide a source for the elected officials in the Richland County, Ohio article? Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 06:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The information was removed because that information can be found under Ohio county governments article that I saw.---OHWiki 03:21, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Roads Newsletter, Issue 1[edit]

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USRD Newsletter - Issue 2[edit]

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USRD Newsletter - Issue 3[edit]

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Lexington OH[edit]

Aren't all Ohio village elections nonpartisan? If so, how can the mayor be a Democrat? Nyttend (talk) 22:07, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Dayton, Ohio Roads Meet[edit]

Hi - This is Dan, a frequent contributor to the Ohio Roads Project, and also the webmaster of Ohio Highway Ends (http://www.state-ends.com/ohio/). I just wanted to give you a heads up that there is a gathering of roads enthusiasts, if you will, taking place in Dayton on Saturday, 5/10 at Logan's Road House, 2819 Centre Dr., Fairborn, OH 45324. The first part is a meet-and-greet over lunch, giving people a chance to shoot the breeze, with some attendees potentially bringing some interesting maps, atlases, pictures and more. There may even be a freebie or two floating out there at the gathering (such as a free map). After lunch, we'll divide up and take a tour of some highlights from Dayton area highways, including the almost-completed I-70/75 interchange (the "Freedom Veterans' Crossroads"), reconstruction of the I-75/OH 4 interchange, the newly-reconstructed US 35 through downtown Dayton, and a side tour to an historic crossroad: Dixie Highway & the National Road. We should be wrapped up with the tour by 4:30-5:00 PM. That's a brief synopsis of what the event will entail; I am sending a special invite to all of the Ohio Roads Project editors. These events are always fun, unique and very informative. If you have the opportunity on that day, I would like to invite you to join us. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please let me know in the coming days. Thanks, and have a great week! DanTheMan474 (talk) 13:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

Do you think this edit constitutes any spam? Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 23:47, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure about that one, but to me it might be spam by chance?---OHWiki 23:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I looked at it again, it may be fine to leave under the external links section. It may not be spam what so ever in my mind.---OHWiki 00:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter, Issue 4[edit]

Apologies for the late delivery; my internet connection went down halfway through the delivery process.

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WikiProject Ohio Newsletter[edit]


Issue II - May 2008
From the editor:

Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the News Desk! Have a great May.

The Ohio Portal

The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.

Selected Article: Indian Head Rock

There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it.
With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value.
After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river.
Billy Massie


WikiProject Ohio
Article Assessment

Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping!
Over 10,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}}

Article Achievements

New Featured and Good articles

WikiProject Ohio Barnstar of Merit

  • If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a lot of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage.
    • {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}}
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Stepshep & Billy Massie

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The WikiProject Ohio Newsletter

Issue III - June 2008
From the editor:

This is the third edition of the WikiProject Ohio newsletter. If you have any project announcements feel free to drop them by the NewsDesk. It's request that you watchlist our talk page; so you can chime in on current discussions. Have a great June!

The Ohio Portal

The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.

Getting the Project Moving
  • WikiProject Ohio as an entity doesn't have as much action as other state projects. For this reason it has been proposed that the inactive WikiProject Ohio Townships be added as our taskforce. There is a !poll going on at WT:OH and your opinion is essential in the matter!
  • Stepshep has also proposed sending an invite to everyone in Category:Wikipedians in Ohio with an invite to join the project. If you are already a member you would not receive the notice of course. Once again, please note your opinion on the project talkpage.

The Central Avenue Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located at 201 to 338 Central Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. It consists of late 19th and 20th Century Revival-style houses as well as late Victorian-style houses, which were all originally single-family residences.

On December 16, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Each month a new Ohio related stub is the selected article. If you have a new stub created feel free to nominate it at the NewsDesk.


WikiProject Ohio
Article Assessment

Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping!
Over 15,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}}
We have 5,000 articles that need to be assessed for class!

Article Info
Good Article Nominees, FAR, FLC
Articles for Deletion Results

Afd

  • W. S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award was nominated at Afd.
    • The result was Delete
  • Homer E. Woodling and Robert F. Busbey were nominated at Afd.
    • The result was Keep
  • All Ohio High School Conferences were nominated at Afd.
    • The result was no consensus keep. There is an effort to improve these articles here.


Ohio Barnstar of Merit

  • If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a good deal of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage.
    • {{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}}
Article Importance Scheme

A new article importance scheme has been proposed at the assessment talk page. Please comment on the propsed system.

Ohio NHLs Tabulated

The 25 of Ohio's 69 National Historic Landmarks that were red-links all got articles this month, as part of a WP:NRHP drive to finish beginning the 2,430 or so NHL articles needed for nation-wide coverage. WP:OHIO members Stepshep and Sanfranman59 were busy.

Contributors
Stepshep, Clariosophic, & Doncram

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Jump-Starting the Ohio Highways WikiProject[edit]

OHWiki: Hope you're having a good July 4th weekend so far. I am working to start ramping up the Ohio Highways WikiProject on a much larger scale, especially coming off of one of the first Ohio highway GAs (Ohio State Route 716). There is a lot of work to do on this project, given a number of stubs and a number of routes that do not even have any pages, but we definitely have the people out there to make it happen...especially including yourself. I wanted to talk to you about some of the possibilities for this; please let me know if you would be interested, and if so we will coordinate from there. Thanks, and enjoy the remainder of your weekend! DanTheMan474 (talk) 17:30, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter, Issue 5[edit]

Apologies for the late delivery; here is the June edition of the newsletter.

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Odwalla[edit]

Hey, I saw you contributed a lot to Odwalla a while ago, and, if you can spare a wikimoment, could you please stop by and help out however you can? Thanks! Intothewoods29 (talk) 21:44, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter, Issue 6 (FINAL ISSUE)[edit]

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Daytona Beach, Florida, Demographics Table[edit]

A while back, you added a demographics table to Daytona Beach, Florida. I had to delete the figures from 1910/1920 because they are likely out of context. You are probably not aware that three separate cities, Daytona, Daytona Beach, and Seabreeze merged in 1926 into a consolidated Daytona Beach (so that the figures you pulled for 1910-1920 were only for the OLD Daytona Beach, which was a tiny city). Daytona was the oldest and largest of the three cities. I don't know if you can still dig up the data, but if you can pull up the populations for all three cities, it would be more accurate. Gamweb (talk) 17:12, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for doing the work to gather the additional info. I will have to figure out where to put the new infoboxes now! LOL - I was thinking about making separate pages for Daytona and Seabreeze - I guess I should do that now. (BTW: Daytona was founded in 1876; Daytona Beach and Seabreeze were both founded around 1900.) Gamweb (talk) 17:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics for Fun Coast, Florida[edit]

Hi, I am working on a new page for Fun Coast (combined Flagler County and Volusia County) in Florida (in my sandbox first). I wanted to ask if you would be interested in helping me on a Demographics section for the article? I kind of like the way the demographics section in South Florida is put together, and am trying to figure out how to find the same data. Thanks for any advice you can offer. Gamweb (talk) 07:31, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request permission to use your photography[edit]

Hello I found your downtown shot of Norwalk Ohio. I'd like to have your permission to present your photograph for use in in a new/remodeled restaurant in Norwalk. Upon approval we would enlarge it to 16x20, mat and frame it for use as wall decor in this single restaurant. Your name would appear in the credit line. Thank you for your time.

~~Ivaster ~ March 27, 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivaster (talkcontribs) 12:47, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, why not, you do have permission to use my photograph. I'm more then happy to allow you to present my photograph for use. The photograph will be nice enlarged to 16x20, mat and frame it for use as wall decor in a new/remodeled restaurant in Norwalk, Ohio. If all this gets done, I might sometime go up to Norwalk to see the mat and frame decor.—OHWiki 00:08, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I changed the license on the Norwalk, Ohio
Downtown Norwalk, Ohio on West Main Street.
photograph to Public Domain so that everyone has the right to use the image.—OHWiki 00:53, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Thank you very much! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.178.245.90 (talk) 17:13, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]


Thanks! --Rkitko (talk) 22:07, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Photography[edit]

If you get a chance, could you get out to the Ashland area and get a picture for the Sprott's Hill Mounds Site? You can find coords and location at National Register of Historic Places listings in Ashland County, Ohio. Nyttend (talk) 22:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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PAW[edit]

Dear OHWiki,

Thanks for uploading the Mechanics Bank photo into the Richland County NRHP list.

It reminded me that I had some photos from April 29, 2011 that I hadn't yet uploaded or quite figured out yet. On that afternoon I zipped through town and took photos of about 25 NRHP sites on Park Avenue West. I was disappointed that I couldn't snap all the PAW sites and unfortuneately couldn't quite figure out the adresses on a couple. Is there any chance you could check out or confirm a couple of these for me? Today I switched what I thought was

  • 428 PAW to 437 PAW, and
  • 365 PAW to 415 PAW

I believe they are now correct, but it bothers me that I wasn't sure when I uploaded them. If you see any other apparent mistakes please let me know.

I'm a bit obsessive about completing the NRHP county lists. Do you know that there are only about 22 NRHP sites left to photograph before the Richland County list is fully illustrated? In particular, I'd like to see the John Sherman Memorial Gateway (listed on July 8, 1983 at 699 Park Ave., W. 40°45′32″N 82°32′26″W right next to the Fraser House). I walked by this several times without knowing what I was looking for exactly, and even got a partial photo of half of it while taking a pic of a historical marker. It's right where Brinkerhoff Ave meets Park Ave. West. Any help would be appreciated.

All the best,

Smallbones (talk) 21:47, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - any contribution of NRHP site pix is always appreciated. I'll assume that I finally figured out the right address for the right photo unless you move them around, but in the odd chance that I make it back to Mansfield again (from Philadelphia) I may check again. It looks to me like "Pacific Curios Antiques 365 Park Ave., W. 40°45′31″N 82°31′46″W" has been torn down for the Park Avenue car wash (381 PAW) with 359 immediately to the east. I don't have a clue as to why I didn't find the "John Krause House 428 Park Ave., W. 40°45′33″N 82°31′53″W". I wouldn't be too afraid of neighborhood disapproval in taking these types of pix - for every 100 sites I take, I'd say I get 3 or 4 disapproving glances or comments ("Why don't you mind your own business" or "leave us alone") and 10-20 positive comments ("You know I went to school there - it was a great place" or "I didn't think many people really knew how important this is"). Mostly, of course folks just ignore me!
Smallbones (talk) 01:25, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Good work on the Richland County and Crawford County lists! Smallbones (talk) 00:53, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Just saw your comments at Smallbones' talk. Unfortunately, the Register can sometimes get way behind: the Lockington Covered Bridge near Sidney in Shelby County was arsoned in 1989, and Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St Marys in Auglaize County was listed a full year after it was demolished by its owner. Nyttend (talk) 16:35, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Ohio politicians[edit]

A lot of damage has been done to Ohio politicians, and I was hoping you could help fix it. For one, neither the Ohio House of Representatives or the Ohio Senate is up-to-date. Both have been updated, but have been reverted to show incorrect information. Notably, Louis Terhar, Nan Baker, Sean O'Brien, Bob Peterson, Andy Thompson, and Brian Hill have been deleted. Terhar is also not shown on the Ohio House page.

In the Senate, Larry Obhof has been deleted. Also, Tom Patton has not demonstrated as the new majority leader, and the resignation of Tim Grendell has not been shown. Would you mind recreating these pages, as well as demonstrating the resignation of Grendell and the making of Patton as majority leader? I think it needs to be done.

Could you propose recreating those pages? and updating the specifics in the Ohio Senate? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.51.105.50 (talk) 16:01, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Elektro the robot[edit]

Electro had a story on National Public Radio on Monday [1] He hangs out at the Mansfield Memorial Museum. Any chance you could get a photo? Smallbones (talk) 05:17, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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