User talk:Adcoffman55

Your submission at Articles for creation: Berea, Kansas (June 12)
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Karnataka (talk) 20:04, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
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AfC notification: Draft:Berea, Kansas has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Berea, Kansas. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 15:42, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hello, Adcoffman55. Thank you for your work on Appanoose, Kansas. User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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I have sent you a note about a page you started
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Nomination of Berea, Kansas for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Berea, Kansas is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Berea, Kansas until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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 * I have don’t a lot of research on this Ghost town. There are many historical maps showing that Berea existed in Franklin Coutny as well as an archived post office and even a college published research paper giving great detail on the town. Adcoffman55 (talk) 06:52, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Done* not don’t. My apologies. Adcoffman55 (talk) 06:52, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Making more GNIS mess
Please do not source new articles to the GNIS and thereby add to the huge mess, that there already is in Wikipedia that has already taken years of cleanup effort by many editors, because of this unreliable and fault-filled computer database. Find proper sources like actual history books and do not source to the GNIS at all. It will make things a lot simpler for you in the long run, because there is a lot of editorial resistance to the GNIS, up to and including outright Arbitration Committee cases, once we discovered that the world already knew that it was flawed years ago (before the Wikipedia editorship learned of this) and the huge amount of outright lies that Wikipedia now has that we are still discovering by the shedload years later. Uncle G (talk) 09:41, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Project:Reliability of GNIS data
 * Project:Reliable sources/Perennial sources


 * Making Wikipedia pages are hard enough. Surely the edit is easy. But no. I just tried fixing that GNIS issue and it ruined the whole page. I’ve done extensive research finding these forgotten towns in Franklin County. I tried my best to make these pages and all I am getting is attacked for it by people who probably do not live within 1000 miles of Kansas. No one has been helpful at all on this page. Adcoffman55 (talk) 15:38, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Bowling Green, Kansas for deletion
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 * There are historical maps claiming the town once existed as well as evidence that there was a post office in the town for a short time. Adcoffman55 (talk) 20:31, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

December 2023
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Appanoose, Kansas, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it.

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 * I believe you were trying to be helpful with that edit, but you removed a swath of infobox formatting and thereby ruined page readability. Please be in the habit of using Preview, as it will reveal such errors immediately. Thank you, Jessicapierce (talk) 22:26, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the good advice. My apologies for the mess up. I’m pretty new. You’re the first one to give me actual advice instead of harassing me. Adcoffman55 (talk) 22:28, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry to hear that's been your experience, but I can definitely relate. It's not the most user-friendly (or just friendly) site. I'm utterly self-taught and no expert, but if you ever run into trouble with formatting or the like, feel free to drop me a line and I'll see if I can help. Cheers, Jessicapierce (talk) 00:16, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

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