User talk:Dogbows

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Dogbows, good luck, and have fun. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:33, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

How do I go about getting the misspelling of a local community corrected? This community is "Dogtown" in DeKalb County, Alabama. It is misspelled as two words when in fact it has never even remotely been referred to as two words by locals. Only outsiders have misspelled it as two words. This link is the best proof I have at the moment: http://www.akinsfurniture.com/page/about-us.html  It has been "Dogtown" one word since the beginning of the 1900's.  Dogbows (talk) 18:10, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Help me!
Why was my user name changed from dogbows to Dogbows. I do not capitalize my user name dogbows. How do I get that changed?

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Dogbows (talk) 16:22, 14 January 2018 (UTC)


 * It's a Wikipedia technical thing. Every page in Wikipedia has a capital first letter. It's possible to show some pages with a lowercase (see Template:Lowercase_title), but your user name in all the history pages where you edit will be Dogbows. Ron h jones (Talk) 16:32, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * WP:CUSTOMSIG may also be of interest. Huon (talk) 16:35, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Help me!
How do I go about getting the misspelling of a local community corrected? This community is "Dogtown" in DeKalb County, Alabama. It is misspelled as two words when in fact it has never even remotely been referred to as two words by locals. Only outsiders have misspelled it as two words. It has been "Dogtown" one word since the beginning of the 1900's.

https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:0::NO::P3_FID:157935

http://www.akinsfurniture.com/page/about-us.html

http://www.dekalbk12.org/ruhama/School%20page.html

Please help me with...

Dogbows (talk) 03:17, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Dogbows, and welcome to our Encyclopedia! We have two Dogtown articles on file - Dog_Town,_Alabama, which is the Dogtown in DeKalb County, and Dogtown, Alabama, which is in Walker County. It seems at one point, the USGS did have the DeKalb County Dogtown on file as "Dog Town", which is probably the cause of the confusion. I'll confer with some more experienced editors and see if we can't get this sorted out! -- Thanks, Alfie. talk to me &#124; contribs 04:10, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi again! I've put in a rename request to get the pages moved to the right place. Thanks for letting us know! -- Thanks, Alfie. talk to me &#124; contribs 04:33, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Help me!
Thank you, Alfie! You are correct in that USGS did in fact have it incorrectly spelled for DeKalb County. A field agent in 1967 verified to them it was two words. But USGS thanks to my urging has found a Soil Conservation Service map from 1958 that proved it to be Dogtown one word. I actually joined Wikipedia just to try to get this fixed. But most of Wikipedia is still very confusing to me. It may be a tiny little community, but it is our tiny little community and we appreciate your efforts in getting it spelled correctly.

I think I may be doing this twice. As I said much about the Wikipedia format is confusing. So forgive me for posting it twice, please.

Please help me with...

Dogbows (talk) 16:09, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * As Alfie said above, they have started a discussion that should get the page renamed. You can read it at Talk:Dog Town, Alabama; you're welcome to comment if you want to, but I don't think any further input is necessary at this point. It's just a matter of time now to see whether someone possibly objects (which seems very, very unlikely). Huon (talk) 19:39, 8 February 2018 (UTC)