User talk:Acdixon/Archive Jan-Jun 2009

Multiple FAC noms, Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy
The FAC page is backlogged, lacking in reviewers; the instructions call for one nom at a time and not adding a second until the first has gained support. To prevent overwhelming FAC reviwers, pls withdraw one until the other has support. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 02:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Please feel free to renominate once your other candidate has gained several supports. I've just noticed that you have several FAs, but you don't regularly review FACs; one way to help lower the backlog, so that more FACs can be processed, is by reviewing other FACs.  The Urgents list at User:Deckiller/FAC urgents may be helpful (many FAC regulars add it to their talkpage).  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 04:04, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Kentucky in the War of 1812‎
I wondered if you would have any interest in the Kentucky in the War of 1812‎ article. I did one for Indiana, and an IP requested one for KY, so voila. There's a book about it somewhere titled as such; wish I could find it.-- King Bedford I Seek his grace  16:02, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Like you, I am also busy in several things. Still, it's a fun little article to do.  You know more about the people involved than I do. If it takes time to do the article, so be it.-- King Bedford I  Seek his grace  16:15, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
There is an IPer that has assessed the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth article as a "high-importance" stub. I thought only registered users can assess articles. Your thoughts? Thanks, Willking1979 (talk) 18:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Daniel Mongiardo
Loooks like someone added this as a ref to the Daniel Mongiardo article. I know blogs are not reliable sources except when published by professionals, media outlets, etc. Your thoughts? Thanks, Willking1979 (talk) 14:40, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Wickland
Wickland has been written.-- King Bedford I Seek his grace  14:11, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Any time, dude
ACDixon, thanks so much for the barnstar. It made my day and then some. The last few months I've mostly gotten complaints from people about my impatient edit comments, but the reason I wasn't snarky and sarcastic in Isaac Shelby was because it was the cleanest copy I've seen forever -- for instance, a day earlier I made 87 edits to the featured article, Action of 13 January 1797, while I've made only four edits to Isaac Shelby. Your article is also the best-written I can remember. Normally I find myself clearing out wikilinks with a lawn mower, but you have an obvious nack for linking subjects that actually enlarge on the main article. And I didn't find myself stumbling over faddish words like "however" every third sentence.

Most of all, I was super-interested in the subject of the article. I've been studying revolutionary history lately and somehow I didn't know about Isaac Dixon. If you ever want me to go over another one, send me a message, I'd be glad to. I'm away from the computer a couple of weeks at a time, but I'll give it my attention whenever I'm back in front of my MacIntosh. I'm working toward my Yeoman Editor Star, and I need more than a thousand more edits.

As for the following citation, isn't mere reciprocation, because based on the excellence of Isaac Shelby and the list of your other contributions, I feel it only right to award you the much-deserved Epic Barnstar.

Oi, you missed a good one

 * See Mabel Stark. Kate Winslet has expressed interest in a movie about her life. I'll add the article to WP:KY. Ling.Nut (talk&mdash;WP:3IAR) 05:23, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Whitesburg, Kentucky
Do you think this edit by User:JamesWiley to the Whitesburg article is constructive? Thanks, Willking1979 (talk) 12:03, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Glad to copyedit
Mr. Dixon, I'm happy to go over the article. Good timing; I'm leaving town tomorrow and I only got back last night. I'm pleased to have your invitation because your articles are all interesting and worthy of notice. I'll get in it later tonight. --Preston McConkie (talk • contribs) 23:22, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've gone through it and made about 60 edits. That's a really fine article, informative and concise, with unusually clean copy. Ignore my comments on the discussion page about expanding information in the introduction. --Preston McConkie (talk • contribs) 17:22, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

GA review of Thomas Metcalfe (US politician)
I will be reviewing the article in the next couple of days. Please don't hesitate to contact me if necessary. Regards, MarquisCostello (talk) 18:23, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I have found some time to look at the article already, and have put some comments on its GA review page. MarquisCostello (talk) 20:48, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I have actually found time to have an in-depth look and have put more comments on the review page.MarquisCostello (talk) 21:29, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I will have a look at your changes today and tomorrow. Watch the review page!  Regards, MarquisCostello (talk) 23:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * In fact, i have got on a roll and have made all my responses to your edits already. Please take a look at your convenience.  Regards, MarquisCostello (talk) 00:11, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Article passed and added to the GA list! Regards, MarquisCostello (talk) 14:32, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

File:Robert J Breckinridge.png
I moved one of your images to commons: commons:File:Robert J Breckinridge.png. Hope you don't mind.--Jwilkinsen (talk) 23:17, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Moving images to commons is pretty easy:Moving images to the Commons. The easiest way to to just upload the image to commons and tag the wikipedia-based image with a NowCommons tag and someone will delete the old one. Or, you can just tag all your images with Copy to Wikimedia Commons, and someone (or a bot) will eventually do it.--Jwilkinsen (talk) 03:25, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

GAN for John L. Helm
I've reviewed the article and left notes on the talk page. I've put the nomination on hold for seven days to allow the issues to be addressed. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, here, or on the article talk page with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:59, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

GAN Charles S. Morehead
I've reviewed the article and left notes on the talk page. I've put the nomination on hold for seven days to allow the issues to be addressed. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, here, or on the article talk page with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

FA John L. Helm
Excellent! :-) FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 23:02, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

James Guthrie
I'm not sure if this is the right way to add a note?

Thanks for responding to my edits on James Guthrie.

I've checked the Encylopedia of Louisville; it does not match what was on the Wiki page. It states "Guthrie married Eliza Churchill Prather in 1821. They had three daughters:  Mary, Augusta, and Srah "Sallie"." Thus it supports Eliza over Elizabeth, and that fits with my sources. So the remaining bones of contention are Sarah Julia's nickname and Ann Augusta's first name; I'm sure she was called Augusta because there were four Augustas (Ann Augusta, her daughter Augusta Guthrie Caldwell, her daughter Augusta Caldwell Bright = my grandmother, and her daughter Augusta Bright Davis = my aunt) and thus the solitary Augusta in the Kleber volume, no doubt. I have visited the grave and Sarah Julia is explicitly listed as "Sister Jule"; I have also gone through the files at the Filson historical society where there are letters with the same nickname.

Suggestion: Until we can verify the nickname to both our satisfaction, we should just call her Sarah Julia. Also, since Anna Augusta is NOT supported by the reference you cite, I hope you will agree to Ann Augusta until we can find a better source. (I'm not sure why Wiki would prefer secondary to primary sources; as a scholar, my bias is quite the opposite!) I do have a published paper listing most of these names, if that would help - it is about J. Lawrence Smith and his travels with his wife and niece, based in part on the journals we have. It appears in the volume "ANNI MIRABILES: A SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE 90th BIRTHDAY OF DORRIT HOFFLEIT (1999), A. G. D. Philip, W. F. van Altena & A. R. Upgren, eds., L. Davis Press " I'd have to check the page numbers for my article at my office if you need that.

AstroProfessor

Thanks for your note - it was particularly interesting to read the page on sources, and think about the reasons for the choices made. It makes more sense to me now, and I appreciate your help on this.

I'm looking for some published sources (besides my own article) with the names; I hope to get to the library tomorrow. Meanwhile: Since I'm pretty sure the Anna is wrong, and also that she was called Augusta, and we have a source with just Augusta, how about listing her as A. Augusta until we sort it out? I hope that will only take a day or two.

AstroProfessor ---

Added later: The paper about J. Lawrence Smith mentioned above is now available online at www.public.iastate.edu/~lwillson/JLawrenceSmith.pdf.

I checked a Harpers Magazine article (from many years back) about Louisville with a long section on Guthrie, but it does not mention family. There is an MS thesis about Guthrie, now online at U. Louisville in the Thesis section on the library web site, but it is page-imaged and thus hard to search; I expect to find the info in that but it will take a little digging. I don't know if that would be sufficient to counter the Encyclopedia article.

AstroProfessor ---

I've looked through the thesis (available at http://etd.louisville.edu/view-etd.php?ID=470 )

and find the following married names for his daughters -- from his will, apparently -- I would like to look at the original some day! --

Mary E. Caperton: Ann A. Caldwell: Sallie Julia Smith:

So this only thickens the plot - it confirms the Ann over Anna but suggests that perhaps Sarah Julia had more than one nickname.

I do think leaving out Sarah Julia's nickname is the right solution here, and either A. Augusta or Ann Augusta would be OK until we have something better to cite.

AstroProfessor ---

I've had an interesting exchange of email with Jim Holmberg at the Filson Society on this. I think we may have found the origin of the spelling variants, with the clue provided by the article. He checked their archives and wrote "In folder 150 of the Guthrie-Caperton Papers are documents re: James Guthrie's estate. One document is a list of taxes to be paid by legatees. The clerk lists Sarah Julia as "Sallie J. Smith" and Ann Augusta Caldwell as Anna Augusta but that made two small slash marks through the last a in Anna. Someone looking at this list and using it for family names might have missed it. I didn't see a manuscript copy of Guthrie's will. A clue as to what might have been the source of Sallie and Anna for some researchers. In other documents in the file they are listed as Sarah Julia Smith and Ann Augusta Caldwell. More food for thought!  Jim Holmberg"

I still have some books to check & will let you know if I find anything that trumps what we have.

AstroProfessor —Preceding unsigned comment added by AstroProfessor (talk • contribs) 01:05, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by AstroProfessor (talk • contribs) 00:32, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Adminship
Hi. Just curious, have you ever considered running for adminship? Personally, I think you'd be an excellent candidate. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:49, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Being an admin has its benefits, as well as its drawbacks. There's no obligation to do any admin work at all, so you can continue building content (the delete button comes in extremely handy when certain pages need to be moved). However, as an admin you'll inevitably find yourself in rather difficult situations, so it can get a bit stressful at times. Overall though, I think it's definitely worth it. Regards, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 17:14, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

GA review for Beriah Magoffin
I reviewing the article, and my comments can be seen here. I'm going to notify you whenever I post more comments unless you specifically ask me not to. Cheers. Mm40 (talk) 01:33, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I have posted my review and am giving you seven days to remedy them. Also, if you have any feedback, I would greatly appreciate it as this was only my second GA review. I know I was a bit strict with the writing, but I'll work on that. Mm40 (talk) 11:22, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I am passing the article now. Congratulations, and thank you for all your contributions to Wikipedia. I hope you consider reviewing a nomination like this one. Cheers. Mm40 (talk) 11:46, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Back
I've been gone from editing for a while from Wikipedia, as I had some major life changes. I'm back to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Kentucky. I won't be able to edit as often, but I plan to help in any way I can. Please let me know if you have anything you could use help on. -- Steven Williamson (HiB2Bornot2B) - talk ▓▒░ Go Big Blue! ░▒▓  20:51, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll do what I can, but I'm really inexperienced at BLP, so I'm probably going to make a few mistakes along the way. -- Steven Williamson (HiB2Bornot2B) - talk ▓▒░ Go Big Blue! ░▒▓  21:41, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
Hi. I notice on Talk:Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. that you are a major contributor to the article. I've been going through Kentucky governor articles trying to raise them to at least GA status, and I'm more or less up to Buckner. You may have noticed that I recently made several expansions to the article regarding mainly his political and personal life. I left intact most of the military stuff, as my sources on that aren't as good. Any chance you'd be willing to add some inline citations for the still-uncited parts of the article? I assume you added much of that information originally and have a better idea where it came from. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 19:42, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I happen to own Borderland Knight. BusterD (talk) 19:57, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I added some cites. There is a good more detail that can be said about his post-Donelson career, but I have other projects keeping me busy. Hal Jespersen (talk) 00:05, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. A tip about GA: the first task you should address is to expand the lead section (before Early life section) to be 3-4 paragraphs, summarizing the key points of the full article. Hal Jespersen (talk) 18:27, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Charles A. Wickliffe
Hi, I have reviewed Charles A. Wickliffe and passed it as GA. See the review at Talk:Charles A. Wickliffe/GA1. I have made a few copy editing changes. I hope you don't mind. Congratulations on a good article! Regards, &mdash; Mattisse (Talk) 15:47, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Preston Leslie
Hi, I am reviewing Preston Leslie for GA, and have left one small question at Talk:Preston Leslie/GA1. Regards, &mdash; Mattisse (Talk) 16:43, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Thomas E. Bramlette
Hi, I have reviewed Thomas E. Bramlette for GA and passed the article. See Talk:Thomas E. Bramlette/GA1. Congratulations! Regards, &mdash; Mattisse (Talk) 21:08, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Steve Beshear
I gather that you're an admin...anyways, we really need help with the Steve Beshear article...users are trying to harass other users (principally me) by stating a lot of alleged personal info, in violation of WP:PA, etc. You can see the edit history and the talk page for details. TylerKnew (talk) 02:29, 19 June 2009 (UTC)