User talk:Davidhood72

Organ, New Mexico
Thanks for expanding the Organ, New Mexico article! If you're interested in continuing to contribute to Wikipedia (which I hope you are), you'd do well to read this Wikipedia page about citing reliable sources — if you don't cite sources, it's hard to verify the information that's in the article. Because there aren't sources in what you've added, I've removed it from the article and put it here so that you can work on it. Once you've added sources to it, please feel free to restore it to the article — or just pieces if you want to cite pieces. Please don't do like I did when I was new and add your own research to articles, by the way. Thanks again! Nyttend (talk) 00:18, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Organ is an unincorporated community in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. Organ was initially started as a mining camp prior to the American Civil War. However, it was not officially established as a community until 1883. President Chester A. Arthur granted the 40-acre parcel of land under congressional approval through a Federal Land Grant to the Organ Mining Corporation in 1883. Mining operations near Organ produced gold, lead, iron, silver and other minerals. Actual mining in the Organ Town Site was prohibited. The largest production mine was the "Torpedo Mine". Organ originally had its own school, constable's office, community center, town square, post office, hotel, business district and cemetery. Organ also had two large mining furnaces for smeltering ore and a geological assay office belonging to the mining company. In 1885 Organ's population was over 1500 people.In the 1930's the mines in the area became inundated with water and were no longer feasible for use and with the onset of the Great Depression, mining operations ceased. However, with the opening of White Sands Missile Range and the testing of the Nuclear Bomb in 1945, Organ began to thrive again as a community providing homes and leisure services to military personnel and government contractors only a short distance from the main military post. Organ is very active supporting the military and White Sands Missile Range still.Today, Organ is under the jurisdiction of the County of Dona Ana and the County Probate Judge as directed in the presidential order of 1883. This is a result of the community never being incorporated. The State of New Mexico recognizes Organ as an independent community under New Mexico State House Bill 523 of the 44th State Legislature in 1999. The State of New Mexico recognizes "Traditional Historic Communities" and therefore, Organ can not be annexed by any other municipality according to the provisions directed under this house bill.Organ still has its own water and sewer utility service and other services are provided independently. The Organ Community Center was improved in 2008 and is still located on land of the original town square. The roads are paved and improvements are still on going through the supervision of Dona Ana County. The Organ Post Office is still in operation and Organ still has a few businesses. The cemetery is still in use and is called the "Slumbering Mountain Cemetery" with newer and historic graves. Educational services for children are provided by the Las Cruces Public Schools in Las Cruces, New Mexico (the original Organ schoolhouse has been closed for some time). Organ is still an active community and has a rich history. There are roughly 100 households in the area currently.
 * Thanks for adding sources! I'd like to ask — are any of the sources that you cited online, or are they printed?  Please understand that either one is valid — it's not like we prefer one over the other.  However, if any are online, could you link to them?  You can link to an outside website by putting the URL inside a single bracket, and you can put words that you want as a hyperlink by adding them inside the bracket one space after the URL: for example, typing Factfinder produces Factfinder.  If they're print sources, could you give more precise publication information so that it will be easier for other editors to understand your sources?  You can find examples of how to do this at this page.  If you have any questions, please ask me.  Nyttend (talk) 01:06, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * By the way, you don't need to do the HTML coding — if you look at the current version of the Organ article, both the coding and the way it displays, you can see that I've removed the HTML, but the article looks the same. Nyttend (talk) 01:07, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Photos
I've seen the photos that you put up; thanks! Question on the older images, however: you've claimed that you are the author of File:Organ constable office.jpg, File:Organ school.jpg, File:Organ constable office 250.jpg, and File:Organ school house.jpg. Did you take these photographs yourself? If so, you're surely the oldest Wikipedia editor :-) As is, these photos are surely old enough that they've passed into the public domain, but you need to specify their sources so that we can verify that they're old enough to be public domain.  If you have any questions, please go to this page, where I've posted a question about them.  Nyttend (talk) 23:23, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Also — because the same image can be forced to appear as different sizes, there's no reason to have multiple copies of the same image at different sizes. I've asked to have File:Organ School 06.JPG, File:Organ school house.jpg, File:Organ constable office 250.jpg, and File:Organ Store Grant Roberts 250.jpg deleted, because there's no real need for them as long as we have the larger images that you supplied.  And thanks for supplying the larger images, since they're more useful :-)  Nyttend (talk) 23:26, 26 June 2009 (UTC)