User:CPacker/Archive1

Hello
Great to see more wikipedians from NE Oklahoma working on Tulsa-related articles. You might consider WP:TULSA for a place to find other editors interested in NE Oklahoma and discussion related to the topic. I wanted to let you know that I reverted a change you made to the Tulsa article because the picture you added sandwiched the text against another picture, which is generally frowned upon as the article gets crowded and confusing to look at. Also, the subject of the picture, the mid-continent tower, is depicted in the picture to the right, so there was a bit of redundancy. Just wanted to let you know. Keep up the good work. Okiefromokla's sockpuppet/ talk 17:25, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Northeastern State University
Hi there. Just wondering why you're using the infobox schools template on Northeastern State University instead of the infobox university. Most university pages on the wikipedia use the university one. -steventity (talk) 04:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Oklahoma capitol
Well, I have been editing a little lately on this account, but that's simply because work and school are on break until Monday. I can maybe look into doing some stuff for the Oklahoma State Capitol article, though if you want my opinion, Oklahoma City is probably more important and in more need of work :) Anyway, I'm not making any promises but I'll keep Oklahoma State Capitol in mind. If you want ideas, take a look at Oregon State Capitol, which is a featured article. Thanks for thinking of me, and by the way, the better place to contact me is on the account from which I am writing this, as I only check OkiefromOkla once in a blue moon (It's a miracle I checked it the same day you wrote on it, really). Okiefromokla's sockpuppet/ talk 20:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

welcome to WP:NRHP; oklahoma photos etc needed!
Hi CPacker -- This is an unofficial welcome, from another member, of the WP:NRHP. Nice to have you join. Any chance you could take a look at List of National Historic Landmarks in Oklahoma? The NHLs are the "honor roll" of sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. I was working on the Oklahoma list of NHLs article but the article is pretty sad, it needs cleaning up. In particular, it needs photos of the 20 national historic landmark sites (to be added first to the articles on the individual sites themselves). Any contribution of photos or editing would be appreciated. Please feel free to chat on my Talk page, or the Talk page of WP:NRHP. Again, welcome. Cheers, doncram (talk) 22:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Nice job with the photo of Cherokee National Capitol, which I saw you added to the List of NHLs in OK. There wasn't an article about it yet, so I just started one, and put your pic into it.  Take a look at Cherokee National Capitol.  Feel free to add another pic or two to the article, and to write some more text based on the sources now linked to the article or based on other sources you may have access to.  Again, nice pic, and thanks!  Keep up the good work... doncram (talk) 16:34, 16 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I also created an article for Creek National Capitol which lacks a picture... :) doncram (talk) 10:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Robert McGill Loughridge article
You asked me to comment on the Robert McGill Loughridge article. I don't do biographies myself, perhaps you can ask in the WikiProject Biography talk page for more experienced people to comment. Here are a few thoughts that come to mind for me though:


 * Offhand, it seems like a great article on a notable person, now with a nice illustration. I like that there are citations of the source for almost every statement.


 * I can't evaluate your use of the 1891 "Autobiographical sketch" source that I assume is not available on-line. Your notes referring to it use the "accessdate" field (which generates "retrieved on 1/16/2008" or whenever), which would be appropriate only for an on-line source (as the online source itself may change, and you want to assert that the info was there on-line on 1/16/2008, even if it is not there later).  If you used the accessdate field to indicate when you yourself consulted a printed copy, I think you should just drop the "accessdate" field.  The date of the document then is 1891, and there have been no changes to it.

"accommodate eight students, forty of each sex." (with an apparent typo that you corrected on eight vs. eighty). I think that is long enough as a phrase copied from the source, that it should either be put in quotes, or rewritten in your own words. In general, if you copy text, it should be put in quotes, to credit the original source (which you do give) for the wording as well as for the substance.
 * I find your wording about the school, saying it was to "accommodate eighty students, forty of each sex" to be kind of unusual, not how a modern writer would write it.  Indeed, that wording appears in the on-line source as:

Hope these thoughts are helpful. Sincerely, doncram (talk) 10:50, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Oklahoma state seal
I also noticed that the seals were being considered for deletion. It seems like the person who nominated them did so because of a technicality (it's a work of a US embassy and not the federal government, as far as I understand the argument). So if that's the case, another state seal, like this one could be uploaded because it's from a work of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. That particular example isn't the best, but it's better than nothing. On the other hand, I really don't think it will be a problem because I suspect the deletion attempt will fail. If it does pass, I'm sure we can upload that picture or someone else will find something better. State seals are an important part Wikipedia's coverage of the U.S., so there will be many people working on it. Okiefromokla questions? 22:01, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:NSU Riverhawk.jpg)
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Thanks
Hey, thanks for the sign! Okiefromokla questions? 06:26, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Oklahoma Portal
I think there are some things that need to be tweaked before it would be a FP. I'm don't have experience in Featured Portals, but it's fairly safe to say that copying other FPs would help. For example, Portal:Utah has more content than OK's portal. I can help with that when I have time, but that generally means that I can't participate in the discussion. I think I'll be more useful helping with the demands of reviewers, though. (Unless you would rather have me give suggestions for you to work on, in which case I can vote.) Either way, thanks for your work! Okiefromokla questions? 21:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, now that I look at it again, I think you've done a really good job matching it with Portal:Utah, or another similar portal. I just noticed some stuff I had overlooked before, and I don't think it actually needs much work. I'll take a look at it closer soon, but I might wait before I support it because if there are reviewers who have some daunting requests, you may need help. I think I may support pretty much as it is right now, so let me know if you'd rather that I do that. Good work! Okiefromokla questions? 21:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

70.234.154.58

 * I want to say sorry again for bothering you the other day. And thanks for getting me blocked. That sounds sarcastic because it is. Kidding :P It helped me calm down. 70.234.154.58 (talk) 04:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Please dont get me blocked again for writing here. I just wanted to toutch base and say sorry if I offended you some how. 70.234.154.58 (talk) 04:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I understand. Thanks for explaining. I can understand about my edit to diahrea (or how ever you spell it), but I wasn't so sure why my edit to Lawyer was removed. I used to vandalize, but now I have decided not to. I discovered that it's funner not to vandalize, and was excited about not having my edits reverted. But then when you reverted my serious edits I got upset, and then got upset more because you wouldn't tell me why, and then got really upset because I was blocked after I had decided to stop vandalizing. I thought, "what can I do when even when I am good I get blocked for vandalism!" I will think about getting an account. Do you know any good names? I live in Oklahoma (broken arrow) and want something like Okiefromokla but I don't think I can do it if he already has it. 70.234.154.58 (talk) 05:09, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * In other words, if you could come up with a good or clever name that's oklahoma-related, I could really use the suggestions! 70.234.154.58 (talk) 05:13, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Northeastern State University
Hello! You must be a student at NSU. I'm an alum. Anyway, I've noticed that you take a lot of interest in the article. Much appreciated! I thought I'd make a couple of suggestions. The photographs are really, really good, but they're very small on both IE7 and Firefox 2. In particular, there is a lot of white space in the article near the lists of academic and residential buildings. Making the photographs larger would surely help. Also, and more importantly, the article needs to include information on NSU-Muskogee and NSU-Broken Arrow, two of the most major changes in NSU's history, of course. I'm apt to be pretty busy over the next few weeks, but I'm can definitely help out with these necessary additions. GreenGourd (talk) 20:29, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Oklahoma Portal
Hello. Sorry, I've been busy with midterms coming up and haven't had time to look into the portal. I've just supported it and offered a suggestion on the color scheme. Good job on it! By the way, that's for helping out with the recent vandalism on my user page. Okiefromokla questions? 19:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Great find!
Love the Image:1910 OKC Panorama.jpg photo you added to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma! Great work! --Kralizec! (talk) 15:27, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Image:Brett Favre 2007.jpg
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Interesting picture
Just wanted to say good job on the Image:Boston_Avenue_Methodist_Church.jpg picture, it's very interesting. Okiefromokla questions? 00:07, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Congrats!
Congratulations on getting Portal:Oklahoma to featured status so quickly. If you ever need any help with it, or any other Oklahoma-oriented project, let me know. GreenGourd (talk) 01:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Norway
FYI, I addressed your comment regarding Portal:Norway, per your recommendation at its WP:FPORTC discussion page. Cirt (talk) 15:49, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No worries, after I took a look at the intro section with the new image, it looks pretty good, so thanks for bringing up that point. Cirt (talk) 15:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Feature portals
Just came across the Pennsylvania portal and saw you were working on it, then checked our edit history and saw you were working on it alot. If you decide to put some other portals up for featured status, drop me a line and I'll be sure to check them out and vote. Okiefromokla questions? 02:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Okiefromokla questions? 04:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Portal:American Civil War at WP:FPOC
I believe I've addressed your concerns. Do you see any other issues? BusterD (talk) 12:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places articles
I noticed you've been creating some articles about places on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma. I thought I'd point out a resource or two that could make things easier:
 * A National Register database query tool which I built using a database downloaded from the National Register Information System
 * An infobox generator that will generate an infobox in Wiki markup
 * Documentation for properties that are part of Multiple Property Submissions (the query by county tool will tell you which ones are members of multiple property submissions)
 * Here's one of them for Territorial Homes of Wagoner, Oklahoma TR

I see you're already a member of WikiProject National Register of Historic Places, so I don't need to tell you about that. I'm pretty enthusiastic about this project. Happy editing! --Elkman (Elkspeak) 21:40, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you so much for your pictures! The NSU and BOK Tower pictures look great and we've needed to change those for a long time. I have a favor to ask, since it seems you like taking pictures. Could you by any chance get some good pictures of the Tulsa skyline at day, preferably when everything gets just a tad greener in the coming weeks? It would be great to have some good daylight pictures, preferably at least one that shows the Arkansas River in the foreground. It's needed pretty badly. Okiefromokla questions? 01:50, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, do you think the BOK picture you just uploaded would look better if just a little bit of the top was cropped off? Could you try that out? Thanks again. Okiefromokla questions? 01:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, I played around with it a little. I uploaded the picture again, just with a tiny bit cut off the top. Hope you don't mind. Okiefromokla questions? 02:23, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, yes, college will be out... and not a day too soon. That all sounds great; I agree the Methodist picture really needs to be replaced. It's been one of the weaker pictures on the Tulsa article for a long time. If you're going to be running around downtown and you have the time, we also need a picture of the new city hall &mdash; it's the one with all the glass next to the BOK tower; I think it used to be called the Wil-Tel building. Thanks again. Okiefromokla questions? 17:48, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Can't think of anything else but I'll let you know if I do. Okiefromokla questions? 20:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Charles Griffin and Ohio category
I deleted the Category: People from Ohio for this article (twice) as it is common convention in Wikipedia not to use both the parent cat and the subcategory (in this case, People from Licking County, Ohio is a subset of People from Ohio. Regards!! 8th Ohio Volunteers (talk) 20:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem! Keep up the good work in editing Civil War articles. 8th Ohio Volunteers (talk) 20:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

WP:OK logo
Done. When editing SVGs you have to use a vector editor like Inkscape (free) or Adobe Illustrator, the file type's not supported by most raster editors. That may explain the problems you were having. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 04:32, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * It was some sort of caching problem. I had it purge the cache of both the image and the template page; that seems to have done the trick. If it's still not displaying right for you, you need to refresh and bypass your cache, as it's probably cached on your local computer as well.

Osage, Rogers county
I knew that it extended into Osage, but it doesn't extend into Rogers according to a map I just looked at, which says that the city limits end at the Rogers County line. However, the map says Tulsa does extend into Wagoner County. I don't think we need a ref for that, as the ref would just be a map. But we could find a map that has the current city limits and use that for a ref. I can try to find one a bit later.

Also, this picture was recently deleted for having an improper license: "Image:From Williams, Downtown Tulsa.jpg". It really added a lot to the architecture section of the Tulsa article and its a shame that it's gone, so is there any way you can take another when you go downtown or just upload again with a different license? Okiefromokla complaints 17:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, it does go into Wagoner county. This map shows the city limits: Okiefromokla complaints 22:01, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Jessica Alba lead photo
Hi, I've changed the photo back to the one that was up before, if you disagree we can discuss it at the talk page. The image displayed now shows an event related to what she is noted for, at the premiere of a movie which she acted in. It is also of higher quality. Hello32020 (talk) 23:18, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Image request
Hey, if you go to downtown Tulsa, we could always use a new BOK Center picture. It's been almost a month since the last one, and they're working on it 24 hours a day so I'm sure it probably looks nicer now. If you swing by there, could you see if it's worth getting a new picture? Thanks. Okiefromokla complaints 01:56, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Flickr images
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New images
Good to see you got a lot of different pictures. I swapped the one you put as the main pic for one that has the entire skyline, but that's it. I think about switching the pic in the geography section you recently put up, since it would probably be better to have the skyline viewed from Turkey Mountain since Turkey Mountain is mentioned in the article, whereas the river west festival park is not. I'm also not sure about the picture of Appeal to the Great Spirit statue. It'd be good for the Woodward Park article but it may be too narrow of a topic for this one. It's just a matter of opinion, I suppose :) Good work! Okiefromokla complaints 06:29, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Mapit templates
Please don't delete the Mapit templates (the coords) from the bottom of place articles: they're required by the Guidelines. Nyttend (talk) 14:12, 5 May 2008 (UTC)