User talk:Bedford/Archive5

Ref style
Hi Bedford! You've done some great work with Indiana articles, but you have a problem with references. Often you will use newspaper articles as references, but you just write the information. Instead, you can use Template:Cite news, which automatically adds all formatting to the citation. Also, a newpaper article is cited using quotation marks rather than bold. The template does it itself. One article I've noticed this on is Indiana in the American Civil War. I stongly recommend using this template, as well as Template:Cite web and others. Cheers, Reywas92 Talk  22:26, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate your concern. However, I'm afraid I wouldn't write nearly as much on Wikipedia if I was constantly fussing with templates. Most of my articles are now so full of references, that I would spend 90% of my time on templates.-- Bedford 01:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator election
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Thanks for your your help on the ACW portal
Anytime you'd like to suggest or just make worthy changes, please feel free. This next week shows the style I've been using. BusterD (talk) 01:38, 3 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Will do. I took pictures of a book with a day to day timeline of the War, as I saw all the blankness of the current week.-- Bedford  01:54, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * To be entirely honest, I left the section blank for a few weeks to see if anyone was actually reading the portal. Thanks for your help. Any contributions (especially in this particular sub area of the portal) will always be very welcome. BusterD (talk) 03:36, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

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Portal: Massachusetts
I added the archives for all four categories. STORMTRACKER   94  Go Sox! 21:57, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

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User box
Would you be interested in having this user box. Alex1996Ne (talk) 00:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Due to its error in calling it an invasion, and the fact it shows grammatical incompetence, I just say "no, thank you".-- Bedford''' 17:31, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Bank of the Commonwealth
Just thought I'd share this article to help you with your work on Bank of the Commonwealth. No hurry, though. I just ran across it and thought I'd share while it was on my mind. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 12:57, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

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James Whitcomb Riley House picture
Hi Bedford -- I wonder, could you identify where you obtained the picture Riley_museum_nps_pic.JPG which now illustrates the James Whitcomb Riley Home article. I ask because it does not seem to me to appear in any reference from the article. If the pic is on-line somewhere, I would like at least to edit the pic's description to include that location. In the absence of more precise source information, I am wondering if it is in fact a public domain picture or not. Some pictures accessible through NPS sites are public domain, and some are not. Sincerely, doncram (talk) 11:24, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It was on a nps.gov website. I'll go look for it.-- Bedford  12:05, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for adding the link to the actual photo, that provides better documentation in the commons system and answered my concern. I didn't realize it was in the NRHP photo set for this site.  It prompted me to add the NRHP photos set to the NRHP text reference I had previously added to the article (don't know why i didn't find the photo set previously).  This photo is arguably public domain because the NRHP owns the negative and it was taken by an NPS employee.  In other NRHP photo sets, there are pics taken by commercial photographers that are not public domain.  I added further descriptive information to the photo description at commons, including photographer name and photo date, and the photo description's name for the site.... James Whitcomb Riley House. :) doncram (talk) 22:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)


 * P.S. I added HABS photo set link to the same article, too, which has 17 pics and 15 data page writeup. doncram (talk) 22:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * YAY!!! My second Bluegrass Barnstar. Thank ye.-- Bedford  21:21, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you very much.-- Bedford 07:33, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! Hope you don't mind, I made a small copyedit to remove the word "probably". When I came to portal peer review, your work stood out as an inspiration immediately. Best wishes and thanks again. -Susanlesch (talk) 18:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

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Military history WikiProject coordinator election
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An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Confederate Monument in Georgetown, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid (talk) 20:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Corydon
Hey Bedford, I have done alot of work on the Corydon, Indiana article (along with alot of other great harrison county stuff) I see you are the quality rater for the Corydon Artcle and would like you take a look and tell me what you think.Cool10191 (talk) 20:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

On this day
Hey thanks for creating that. I wanted to but I figured it would be better if you did since you've done this before. To save time I'd really appreciate it if you taged each on this day with ((WikiProject Indianapolis|class=Portal|importance=NA)). Thanks! HoosierStateTalk 02:16, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I wondered when you'd see what I did. Sure, I'll go back and do it.  As I don't actually live in Indy, I might have problems filling out each day (its hard enough doing Louisville and Kentucky).  Also, you might want to look at Interstate 65 in Indiana.-- Bedford  02:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I already tagged the ones you created. Tomorrow when I have more time I'll get to work for On this day and I'll post an alert on the wikiproject so we can get this going. HoosierStateTalk 02:25, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey just wondering if it's okay to more than 1 item on each day; like Portal:Indianapolis/On this day.../March 7. If not feel free to remove one or the other. HoosierStateTalk 19:39, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure, you can double up. We just need to make sure we don't put too many on one day.-- Bedford  19:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Indy Sports
I was going to use the Pan American games as one of the sections but the article itself is so bare and I don't know enough to write about it myself. I'll leave one open so we can put the Pan American games as one of the featured sports articles. HoosierStateTalk 23:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Indianapolis
Hi. Thanks for the heads up. I looked at Portal:Indianapolis and think you could nominate it right now. You and others seem to like the portal skeleton, looks great. Although as kids my family loved lima beans, Portal:Minnesota had about the same peer review (no comments). It is nominated if you can find time to take a look. -Susanlesch (talk) 02:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I disagree with your repeated insertion of the tag on Vicki Iseman
Yesterday you might have had a case. We're long past notability here, IMHO. We're at making sure the article is correct and well-cited. I'll point out that I haven't removed the tag myself, but I agree with its removal. BusterD (talk) 06:58, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Kentucky's portal nomination
The portal you nominated at featured portal candidates on February 13 2008 has been promoted to featured portal status. Well done. You can view eventual comments at the nomination page. Best regards, Rudget . 17:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

User notice: spam2
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 * Thanks for not giving me a chance. It's people like you that drive people away from WIkipedia.-- Bedford  02:45, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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Always nice to win an award twice, especially for vastly different reasons. Thanks.-- Bedford 23:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

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DYK
Thanks, oh mighty golden primate.-- Bedford 02:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)