User talk:Wildcatman99

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Wildcatman99 (talk) 13:12, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome[edit]

Hello Wildcatman99 and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

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ukexpat (talk) 14:44, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK nomination[edit]

As I mentioned on my talk page, I have nominated this article for DYK, see Template talk:Did you know#Harry Whitney. Looks like a slam-dunk to me. – ukexpat (talk) 15:21, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you did your homework and are doing very well for a first article. Congratulations Even handled the conflict of interest I think. I took the liberty of adding some wikilinks etc. to the article, and doing some touch-up on the photo. Alas, the photos from the book are not great quality, at least the google scan. Take a look and verify I did not introduce any errors. Especially curious where you got the details, e.g. the birth date that is different than the one in the 1878 book (and census records if you go by the Whitney web site). presumably you know about Stephen Whitney (ship)? W Nowicki (talk) 00:32, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks W Nowicki. The photos from the book are kind of fuzzy, but Whitney's pictures are quite remarkable documents and have been sold recently on ebay (http://northernwaterways.com/news/?p=1962). I have one nice 8x10 (a copy of an original) that I was thinking of deframing and scanning.

The birth date came from Who Was Who in America. If my math is right, it jibes with the "age 62" in his obituary.

I do know about the ship Stephen Whitney. SW was in partnership with Robert Kermit. But I didn't know the ship had its own article. I have been working on a Stephen Whitney page, but it is not done (in particular, no footnotes yet!).

By the way--my editorial comment about Bradish Johnson on the Harry Whitney site was merited. The sleazeball was at the center of an infamous scandal--he fed distillery mash to sick cows, and then sold the sickly and doctored milk to the poor! You can look it up (swill milk)--(Bradish Johnson's was the distillery at the heart of the scandal). But thanks for setting me straight anyway...

Wildcatman99 (talk) 02:35, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I never said the opinion was not merited. Just that unless you cite a reliable source, it does not belong on Wikipedia. In particular, the NYT obit does not say that (although of course obits were often "polite" in those days). The burden of proof is on the editor who wants to add something to "look it up" and include where they looked it up :-). Right now swill milk goes to Michael Tuomey which has no citations, sigh. More "opportunities" when someone gets the time. Thanks. W Nowicki (talk) 22:27, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is in the queue and should be on the main page in the next few days. – ukexpat (talk) 19:05, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Harry Whitney[edit]

On 11 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Harry Whitney, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Harry Whitney was at the center of the Peary–Cook controversy over who had reached the North Pole first? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:42, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on the DYK! Let me know if you need help with other articles. – ukexpat (talk) 14:04, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Page numbers: Don't worry, you are picking this up faster than usual. I will leave a few comments on the article talk page when I have the time. W Nowicki (talk) 18:48, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Whitney[edit]

I took the liberty of working on the pictures a bit (hope they are an improvement). And a few style nits to the article. Otherwise looks good, thanks. W Nowicki (talk) 23:43, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the work on the pictures W Nowicki. I do not know how to get a full image from a Google book. For some reason the portrait shown in the info box looks squished to me, like it was shown at the wrong ratio. Maybe it is just Whitney's pinched look. Wildcatman99 (talk) 13:31, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have not figured out yet how to download just a page, but can download the entire pdf from Google and then put that into Photoshop to access the original scan resolution. There are often several different scans of the same book, and various scanners will often re-scan pages with photos with different settings optimized for pictures rather than text (but not this one, alas). I do see what you mean: evidently Whitney was depicted as fairly "lean", but the pdf seems even more squished than the online preview. I tried compensating a bit for the aspect ratio variation, but can only "eyeball" it. And this is a sketch anyway so can never be sure on accuracy. W Nowicki (talk) 17:41, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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ukexpat (talk) 01:24, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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ukexpat (talk) 14:52, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Another great job and a very interesting subject! I think we can craft a DYK for this one based on the "swill milk scandal". I did notice that swill milk redirects to Michael Tuomey (politician) - I wonder if there is enough additional content for an article about "swill milk" itself? I will try to work on a DYK, will keep you posted.--ukexpat (talk) 15:06, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination created at: Template:Did you know nominations/Bradish Johnson.--ukexpat (talk) 15:23, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Ukexpat. I uploaded an image that I recently obtained from a B. Johnson descendant, cleaned up the Garden District link, and added an infobox.--Wildcatman99 (talk) 02:40, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good stuff - I am going to add the image to the DYK nom if I can figure out how...--ukexpat (talk) 14:10, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Would you please comment on the question raised at the DYK nom: Template:Did you know nominations/Bradish Johnson? Thanks.--ukexpat (talk) 00:27, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The DYK has been "promoted" and we will receive a notice on our talk pages when it appears on the Main Page. Great work once again!--ukexpat (talk) 14:57, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for March 5[edit]

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Bradish Johnson, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Garden District... Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 12:40, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the ambiguity. --Wildcatman99 (talk) 21:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Bradish Johnson[edit]

On 24 March 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bradish Johnson, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that American industrialist Bradish Johnson (pictured) was involved in the "swill milk" scandal, in which organic distillery waste was fed to sick old cows and their milk sold as "farm-fresh"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bradish Johnson. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats, another excellent job!--ukexpat (talk) 02:11, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just checked the DYK page view stats here, not bad!--ukexpat (talk) 00:41, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]