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William G. Tachau
I'm interested to learn from your new article that Tachau "worked as a draftsman from 1896 to 1897 in the architectural firm of Lamb and Rich," and I would like to pinpoint a citation for this information. I didn't see this information in the source at the end of the paragraph. Thanks! --Galafuji-verlag (talk) 01:59, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, it's right there on the front page of the cited source where I should have seen it. --Galafuji-verlag (talk) 00:58, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

The Acker family
I saw you restored the article on Syboat Acker. The reason I redirected it earlier was that there didn't seem to be enough material for an independent article. Is Syboat noteworthy for any reason other than his relation to the more famous Ackers? If so, that should be included in the article, but if not, I don't think there's much point in having a separate article for him. Let me know what you think on my talk page. --RobthTalk 04:43, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds good; if you could edit the article to make it clear that it deserves to be a standalone article on those grounds, that would be great; that way it'll be less likely that someone else will come along and redirect it in the future. --RobthTalk 04:58, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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Dirck Storm
I also am a direct descendant of Dirck Storm through David Storm. I did alittle work on his article and I can't thank you enough for getting it started. If I can be of any help please just ask. --Lord Balin 11:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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Category:Adaptively Reused churches
Definition of adaptively reused churches: Adaptively Reused is an historic preservation / architectural conservation term for the reuse of a structure. For churches, this would include continuation as a church but for a different Christian denomination. I've distinguished "Adaptively Reused churches" from "Former churches" because former churches could refer to any church building no longer used as a church, which would include demolition, closure, abandonment, ruin, etc. Hope this clarifies that neither category is really a subcategory of each other, although they do heavily overlap. I would add your St Thomas A Beckett Church turned residential to both Former churches and Adaptively Reused churches categories.

In my own work, I distinguished reuse from 9.2 to 9.31 -- ''9.1. Religious: Original Denomination Continued Use 9.2. Religious: Original Denomination Specialized uses 9.3. Religious: Original Denomination Religious Order 9.4. Religious: Original Denomination Sharing Space with Another Denomination 9.5. Religious: Original Denomination Mixed-use with Active Worship Services 9.6. Religious: Original Denomination Ownership for Sympathetic Non-worship Use 9.7. Religious: Transfer to Mainline Denomination 9.8. Institutional Religious: Use as Chapel 9.9. Religious: Transfer to Less Established Denomination 9.10. Religious: Transfer to Another Religion 9.11. Civic: Everyday Public Access (Post Office / Visitor Information / Heritage Center) 9.12. Civic / Social: Care-giving Social Venues / Community Centers for Youth/Childcare or Elderly / Community Outreach Centers 9.13. Cultural: Performance Venues (Concert Halls, Arts Centers, Theaters, etc.) 9.14. Cultural: Library 9.15. Cultural: Museum 9.16. Institutional: Use as a Library or Museum, or Other Venue Run by a University, or Wealthy Private School/Non-profit, etc. 9.17. Commercial Cultural: Gallery 9.18. Commercial Cultural: Craft/Studio/Workshop Space 9.19. Commercial Social: Tea Room, Coffee Shop 9.20. Commercial Social: Sports Hall 9.21. Commercial Cultural: Musical Recording or Rehearsal Space 9.22. Commercial Social: Restaurant 9.23. Commercial Social: Bar / Nightclub 9.24. Commercial: Retail 9.25. Storage 9.26. Residential 9.27. Offices 9.28. Light Industrial / Garage 9.29. Heavy Industrial 9.30. Agriculture 9.31. Columbaria / Funereal '' —Preceding unsigned comment added by James Russiello (talk • contribs) 20:23, 10 February 2010
 * Rook Lane Chapel turned arts centre, Glenside Museum, St. Paul's Church, Bristol (now circus skills school) and St Werburgh's Church, Bristol (now climbing centre) are all good examples (the latter two have both been published extensively in adaptive reuse journals as preeminent examples). In fact, St. Paul's Church is a good example of how to distinguish an adaptively reused church from a closed church because it is owned by the Churches Conservation Trust and still consecrated (and thus NOT a closed church).
 * The key defining quality of a adaptively reused church is that the structure should have been first purpose-built as a church and then been reused for another program. Example: If a structure was built as a synagogue and then converted into a church and then adaptively reused as a office building, it would be an adaptively reused synagogue.

Hi. I was wondering how this new category of yours differed from category:Former church buildings. Is the capital "R" in "Reused" deliberate? It suggests that it's some sort of title, but I'm assuming that's not the case. So who decides whether it's an "adaptively reused" church? Yours slightly puzzled, BencherliteTalk 20:14, 10 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Do you intend answering, or are you just going to fill the category without explanation – and without using edit summaries? BencherliteTalk 20:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)


 * In any event, I can't see how this church or this church can possibly count as "reused" ("adaptively" or otherwise) when they're both closed, without new uses. BencherliteTalk 20:23, 10 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply. Another mistake: this one is another closed church, not reused, so please take more care with your edits. Again, who says that these are "Adaptively Reused" churches?  You, or someone else?  Again, why the capital letter "R"? BencherliteTalk 20:31, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

What is the definition of an Adaptively Reused churches - I've been contributing to quite a few articles on old churches & its not a term I'm familiar with. Would St Thomas A Beckett Church which is now a private house count? What about churches/chapels which are now used by a different church?&mdash; Rod talk 20:50, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * What about Rook Lane Chapel which is now an arts centre or Glenside Museum (chapel now museum), St. Paul's Church, Bristol (now circus skills school) and St Werburgh's Church, Bristol (now climbing centre)?&mdash; Rod talk 20:59, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

I suggest we rename this category to "Secularized churches", which is what the Commons category is called. It makes a bit more sense ... not all former church buildings have yet been reused (as noted above), nor will they all be reused for religious purposes. At the very least the "r" should not be capitalized. Daniel Case (talk) 23:19, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Addendum: this should apply only to churches that have been reused for nonreligious purposes. A church building converted to a mosque or synagogue (they do exist) has obviously not been secularized. And where such use has been established, not just proposed. I would consider that you take Dutch Reformed Church (Newburgh, New York) out of the category since, while it has been deconsecrated and proposals exist for using it as a community center, none have yet been implemented. Daniel Case (talk) 23:24, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

James, just so you know, you needn't have written that long passage above because we do have an article on adaptive reuse. Daniel Case (talk) 23:28, 10 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I'll agree with you on Dutch Reformed Church (Newburgh, New York). Perhaps the 'r' could be lower case but I still believe there is a need for a separate category for adaptive reuse. I do not know why "secularized churches" is different from the much larger category of "former churches." I believe those two could be merged, but the category of adaptively reused churches should include non-secularized churches that have been reused by other Christian denominations, religions, or maintain mixed use (possibly secular) programs but remain (at least consecrated) churches (such as St. Paul's Church, Bristol).
 * You forgot to sign that. It's just that "adaptively reused" is a bit awkward. Actually, how about "repurposed churches", which covers any reuse, for another religion or for nightclubs or whatever. That's also a fairly common term. Daniel Case (talk) 12:24, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

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Henry Engelbert and Our Lady of Sorrows Church (New York City)
Hello James,

It's always nice to see someone else who's interested in this nearly-forgotten architect. I noticed you added Our Lady of Sorrows Church to the works of Henry Engelbert. However, this church was already listed in the article, a bit further up on the page. I've taken the liberty of undoing your edit -- but the church is still listed in the article.

By the way, are you sure the name of the church should be in the possessive form? ( Our Lady of Sorrows's Church (New York City) ) I noticed that on the Archdiocese of New York website http://www.archny.org/parish-search/index.cfm, they don't use the possessive form. Canadian2006 (talk) 19:31, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Greetings. I don't know much of Engelbert's work but I am quite attached to the less known architects of this period.

My mistake for the double listing. Thank you for deleting the redundant item. I have to add the citation for Engelbert to the list and the church article (http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/OurLadySorrows.html). Normally, I add the references while I create the articles but I I neglected to do that. I created all of the RC church articles for the Archdiocese of New York rather hastily. (Hoping that other people would add more interesting details.) In my rush, I prefer the possessive for churches. However, for this church, I think it is best to be moved to Church of Our Lady of Sorrow (New York City). If the possessive is kept, it has to be done correctly (I have it wrong) Our Lady of Sorrows' Church (New York City)--James R(talk)

Nice meeting you
Yeah, it was a pleasure seeing some Wikipedians in real life. As far as project WP:NRHP, I'll only suggest it if it helps you do what you really want to do - which looks like churches and architects - which are probably pretty close. I stripped out most of the churches in Westchester County on my user page User:Smallbones/WestchesterChurches. This is only to demonstrate that there are lots of recognized churches that folks would love to have you work on. I'll guess that at least 10% of the 85,000 NRHP listings are churches. One nice thing about concentrating on NRHP sites, is that there is usually some reasonably good documentation - e.g. the NRHP Nomination forms. I'll come back with a link to a Pennsylvania church nomination form - NY State links will be done in a different system, but you could probably find the right link at WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places/Editor_help (or maybe ask User:Daniel Case).

All the best, Smallbones (talk) 03:53, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

M.L.Wolf, 1981, NRHP Nomination Form for St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Enter "public" for ID and "public" for password to access the site.

Thank you for your comments, James
I am very new at this but I did want to get back to you about your message to my talk page. I agree with everything you said there and I think it would be valuable if we stayed in contact. I have my email address activated here and you can feel free to contact me there.

We obviously share an interest in religious architecture. In my case I have limited myself to catholic churches but there are plenty of them some 50,000 in the US. I hope to identify the architects for as many as possible. The information is being stored in an sql-server database but that does no one else any good. This is where wikipedia provides what I believe to be an indespensible opportunity to share this kind of valuable information (otherwise available only in archives and libraries) to others.

Right now my main concentration is Connecticut where I have been able to obtain architects for some 200 of the 375 churches there. To that end I will be visiting the archives of the archdiocese of Hartford later in the week where I have received some significant help before. I also have a great deal of information on Massachusetts (where I live) and New York, with some information on the most distinguished achitects throughout the country.

Most of the information I've acquired over the years comes from local resources. Of late some material is available on line but still most of what can be found is locked up in the public libraries, archives and building departments of the various communities. Obviously this makes it hard to get this information. I've been considering some other options, Facebook comes to mind but I want to think that through a bit more before I go that route.

Please feel free to contact me, I'm interested in your thoughts and I think we could help one another out. Lukascb (talk) 18:34, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

St. Michael the Archangel's Church (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
Please undo your edits/redirect. I wrote the article about parish not church. Also church is a part of the parish, so your redirect to church is wrong. Of course, you always welcome to write article about the church within this parish.--WlaKom (talk) 14:38, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

St. Adalbert's Church (Providence, Rhode Island)
Please also undo your edits/redirect for this article for above reason. If you did redirects more my "parish" articles -> "church" for the same reason, please undo them. Thank you for correcting the previous one.--WlaKom (talk) 16:17, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorting parishes
Please rewert your edits related to sorting. Parishes are sorted by city as deafault. If you want to sort, additionaly, by name you can add |. See the mess in Category:Roman Catholic parishes in Connecticut. Do not modify --WlaKom (talk) 08:34, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Can you point to a discussion where there was a consensus to sort parishes by city? This seems contrary to most categorization styles. Lady  of  Shalott  16:01, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Discussion? Parishes are sorted by location everywhere like other items. Location is the basic for sorting. Continent -> Country -> State -> City or other location. See other articles for sorting. Of course you can also sort them by patron. It you disagree, you can submit it for discussion before you change it. Also, remember, the parish means area, the church means building. Don't mix it. --WlaKom (talk) 16:19, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I have to just state my own background has been entirely with church building articles and not parishes, mainly historic building articles in the US, UK, and Ireland. I was unaware there were parish listings. Nearly all of the RC Church building articles include the history of the parish, the main church of the parish, and a list of associated chapels of ease or mission churches within the parish. If these are highly significant, the associated chapel of ease receives its own article. But most likely it is just listed under a chapter heading. All building articles are filed under the primary dedication to prevent their cluttering as a random list of starting with "Church of..." vs. "Saint" or "Holy...". Additionally, a number of counties, towns & cities have categories for Churches in town, state. Surely parishes could be grouped more easily that way.--James R
 * We can't create our own naming. If official name of the church (building) is: "St. Michael the Archangel Church", we have to use it as is, and add only location. If name of the parish (named by bishop by decree) is "St. Michael the Archangel", we can't name it as the church. It all depends on what it's about the article, if most of the text relates to the parish, in the name of the article should be a parish church and the description of the church included in the section. If the text of the church is very large, it should be a separate article about the church. In this way, articles are divided plWiki. Worse is if the article is just one sentence. Step should be: Province /Metropolis -> Archdiocese/Diocese -> Parish -> Church/Chapel. --WlaKom (talk) 17:07, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * BTW. If you want to sort by patron one of the category, you can add after the name of the category. --WlaKom (talk) 17:11, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think you are looking for something like this Category:Church building disambiguation pages. You can create similar one for parishes Category:Parish disambiguation pages. --WlaKom (talk) 18:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Let's discuss your concerns
and I'll amke whatever changes are required. I appreciate your interest.Lukascb (talk) 21:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

non-notable church articles
Please see User talk:Lukascb/Church, regarding the church article now at St. Mark Church (Stratford, Connecticut) and many other similar ones. These appear not to meet Wikipedia notability standards. I'll open an AFD about that one. Please stop creating new articles for now. -- do ncr  am  03:43, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of St. Mark Church (Stratford, Connecticut) for deletion
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 * Hi James Russiello, i hope you will comment within the AFD. It is a multiple-article AFD covering 3 New york city churches and 60 or so Connecticut ones, and more by extension.  I also encourage editor User talk:Lucascb to comment in the AFD but perceive you to be perhaps more experienced.  I hope you both will understand the AFD is important, but hopefully will result in understanding being reached and some/many of the articles being kept.  I think there has to be some line drawn, upon your and/or Lucascb's suggestion, about which ones are notable vs. which ones not.  Looking forward to your participation. -- do  ncr  am  02:49, 24 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi, James Russiello, I am responding to your message to me about this mass deletion AFD. I have read over part of the very long deletion request and responses. Much as I would like to be of assistance, I am not sure where I would stand on the deletion of St. Mark Church (Stratford, Connecticut), or of any of the other Connecticut churches. I understand the distinction between the church building and the parish. What I am going to do is examine the three New York City churches for possible improvements. I am also going to ask  do  ncr  am  about the process on multiple deletions. I have participated in AfD discussions many times on individual articles, on persons, topics, and buildings, but never on a multiple deletion request. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:11, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, the current discussion on the AFD is almost overwhelming, I'd appreciate the special attention with my three NYC church articles. Regardss, JR
 * Take a look at the sources provided on the talk pages of the two active churches. I posted questions to doncram, and will await his response before doing more with the NYC churches. --DThomsen8 (talk) 22:55, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Clutter
With your permission i would like to place the template for User:MiszaBot_III to archive your talk page. This will keep you talk page clean and clutter free of old topics that have passed, yet you will still have access to them if needed. Cheers, Darkskynet (talk) 05:18, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * A OK, work away.
 * It's done. Cheers, --Darkskynet (talk) 22:56, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassadors
I saw the quality of your contributions at DYK and clicked on over to your user page and was pretty impressed. Would you be interested in helping with the WP:Online_Ambassadors program? It's really a great opportunity to help university students become Wikipedia contributers. I hope you apply to become an ambassador, Sadads (talk) 23:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Mark Church (Stratford, Connecticut) - One list needed
Please note my request, Articles for deletion/St. Mark Church (Stratford, Connecticut) and comment or volunteer to make a list. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:03, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

James Murphy (architect)
Look at Talk:James Murphy (architect) and notice the templates used for the architect, and also the historical information about the church added to the description of the image in Wikimedia Commons. This should be repeated in any articles about church architects you create or update.--DThomsen8 (talk) 01:52, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you. I will consult this in the future.---James R (talk)

NY Times article about St. Kiril and Metodi Eastern Orthodox Church
I nominated your article Saints Kiril & Metodij Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese Cathedral at DYK, perhaps prematurely, since I find issues with the references that I cannot fully resolve. In looking for information, however, I found the following link to an article about the church: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/13/nyregion/showpiece-for-bulgarian-americans.html

I don't have free access to the NYTimes to see the rest of the article; perhaps you do. --Orlady (talk) 18:23, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, I;m working on finding a copy of this article. I do not have full access either.---James R (talk)

DYK for Our Lady of Victory Church (Manhattan)
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   00:04, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Our Lady of Vilnius Church (New York City) DYK
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The Contribution Team cordially invites you to Imperial College London All Hail The Muffin Nor does it taste nice... 19:12, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of SS. Cyril, Methodius, and Raphael's Church (New York City)
Hello! Your submission of SS. Cyril, Methodius, and Raphael's Church (New York City) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! AgneCheese/Wine 11:05, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Also, St. Patrick's Cathedral (New York) is not eligible for DYK, as the expansion was not anywhere close to the five times expansion required. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  04:25, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Our Lady of Victory Church (Manhattan)
Regarding your latest addition, are you sure it was the Bronx? I ask because there's one in Brooklyn, at Throop Ave and McDonough Street, built 1891-1895, designed by Thomas E. Houghton, accoring to. Could there be three? Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:04, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, that's fascinating that there are more than one (I thought it was initially an unusual name that stood out). I double-checked the Times article and it referred to Our Lady of Victory Church, Bronx, twice. No address was given but I haven't seen that church listed in any of the Archdiocese parish lists for active or closed parishes (it could be run by an Order or another peculiar so it wouldn't be on that list). Alternatively, the NYTimes printed Bronx when they meant to print Brooklyn, twice.
 * I think you've got to go with what the RS says, so I guess that (across time) there have been at least 3 OLoV Churches in NYC. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:29, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Right, turns out there is a Our Lady of Victory Church (Bronx, New York), and it's still active.
 * Don't forget to add both to Our Lady of Victory (disambiguation) when you're done. Best, Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:39, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Incidentally, it's for this very reason -- multiple churches in the city by the same name -- that generally it's better to use "(Manhattan)" as a dismabiguator rather than "{New York City)", especially for older churches. Before 1899, "New York City" meant Manhattan, and Brooklyn was a separate city, so they often have institutions with the same or very similar names, which can cause confusion. I've just moved the "Church of the Holy Redeemer" article from "{New York City)" to "(Manhattan}".  I don't know if there's another church by that name in one of the other boroughs, but we're better safe than sorry, unless we're dead certain that the thing in Manhattan is the only one in the city. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:45, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. I've tried raising this point in discussions. And yes, I am familiar with the 1 January 1898 city merger between the largest and third largest cities in the union. I go with NYC because they are the more notable churches (generally) and when I started there were so few church articles. Now Manhattan makes much more sense. However, since its (Brooklyn, New York),(Queens, New York), etc. I always feel it should be (Manhattan, New York), which is somewhat redundant since there are few other Manhattan's around (except for Kansas). I still think it's good to at least have the article start out as New York City and then get moved (keeping the NYC redirect) to Manhattan. Do you know of any discussions on the location naming of buildings. I am against the comma separation of towns and the X of town type titles.---James R (talk)
 * No, I usually try to keep away from those discussions, because they mostly generate more heat than light. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:57, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. There was a pretty big squabble going on right now between churches and parishes.

Nomination of St. Francis Xavier's Church (Bronx, New York) for deletion
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February 2011
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NYC church dab pages
Hi, I just wanted to let you know there's a problem with these church disambiguation pages you've been creating. Per WP:INCDAB, you shouldn't be creating disambiguation pages with qualified names (i.e., parentheses in the title), but instead redirecting to the higher-level disambig. For instance, I merged the content from St. Jerome's Church (New York City) into St. Jerome Church and turned it into a redirect. All of them will have to be done this way. -- Ja Ga  talk 16:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for the advice. I'll stop doing that and will work on correcting the previous edits.

Dunlap ref
Hi. Not every author of a ref has, or ever will have, a Wikipedia article about them -- most, in fact, never will -- so there's no need to wikilink the author's name when you're adding a ref, unless you know they have an article, or suspect that they might (or should) have one in the future. Also, for refs, library-style (last name first) is preferred. Best, Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:58, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * True enough, I'm a stickler for Turabian style footnoting but if Wikipedia's style is last name first, I'll try that. Two of the three authors for the AIA Guide to NYC have articles so I'm always holding out hope that Dunlap gets his due. His articles in the Times are cited in Wikipedia a lot.---James R (talk)

I'll help any way I can
James:

I'm not at all sure if I can be of any help to you, or for that matter to myself. The nehilists seem to have complete control here.

I've read your article and find it very worthwhile. There are literally thousands of articals on Wikipedia right now that are not as worthy as what you've written here.

And I can see that you have spent what must be a great deal of time and personal effort adding a whole series of small articals about Catholic Churches throughout the New York Area. These are similar to those I wrote on Connecticut. Personally I believe this to be a very excellent beginning to establish the neglected history of these buildings and their architects. The very fact that you have a framework of all of these churches out there is very, very helpful in beginning to organize this large collection of art so that others that follow us will have it available to them. Isn't that something that Wikipedia would support?

I'm very troubled that the individual who flagged your artical as non-noteable has no need to proove his case while the burden of proving noteability falls squarely on your or my shoulders. Something seems very wrong here.

And if this person can get away with removing this article then he/she can do it to all of the others. This is, in my view, unfair and destructive to the point of vandalism.

I'm really getting sick of this crap. There should be another way to deal with this and to silence some of our critics.

I's be interested in hearing your opinions. It really doesn't make much sense to continue to try and help this organization if you and I have to deal with this all the time. Isn't there a better way?

In the meantime I will look around and see what I can find out about the building in question.

I'm sorry to see that this is happeniong to you. Perhaps there's a better way out than trying to argue with these people who should have no more authority than either of us.Lukascb (talk) 14:42, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Why is this Ravendrop so powerful? This makes no sense
Do you have any idea who the hell is Ravendrop? He's the source of a lot of this nonsenseLukascb (talk) 15:22, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * What's he done now? I was able to save the St. Agnes, Bridgeport, because he ignored an AfD ruling. You're lucky because that horrendous AfD string seems to have provided most of the articles you started with short term protection. There are a number of editors who just nominate articles for deletion or speedy deletion. I could list them but.... There are also many editors who make it a point of building up articles so they don't get deleted. Being nominated for deletion often improves articles greatly, at the cost of a lot of stress. Just be very civil and professional. You can get a warning or be blocked with out notice, and as I've found out, without a reason. Please email me privately. I left my contact on your page earlier.---James R (talk)

Friendly reminder
Don't bite the hamnd that feeds you. I am not Ravendrop and, unlike many others here, I'm trying to help.Lukascb (talk) 15:27, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, did I bite you, or was this intended for someone else? What is this in reference to? I have been very direct with my appreciation for what you've done for the articles I've created and the content you've been adding. And I'm most certainly interested in your research and references.

DYK for SS. Cyril, Methodius, and Raphael's Church (New York City)
Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Category:Roman Catholic churches in New York
I think, you mean the city not the state, then the category should be Category:Roman Catholic churches in New York City.--WlaKom (talk) 19:23, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Cajetan J. B. Baumann
Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 18 February 2011 (UTC)


 * FYI. 28bytes (talk) 22:26, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I've blanked most of the article. Please familiarize yourself with our guidelines regarding WP:Plagiarism. Thank you, r ʨ anaɢ (talk) 22:31, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Copyright concerns
Please also review Close paraphrasing and Copy-paste. Plagiarism is a serious concern, but with a source like that one, copyright infringement is an even greater concern. The US laws that govern Wikipedia do not require a copyright notice to be displayed for work to be protected. We cannot import or closely follow previously published material without verifying that the content is public domain or compatibly licensed for our use. If we can't verify that, we must write our content from scratch, utilizing neither the creative language or creative structure of our sources except in brief, clearly marked quotations in accordance with non-free content policy and guideline. I note that you were advised of this in January of this year. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:47, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Defunct architecture firms based in the United States
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Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Defunct architecture firms based in the United States
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St. Dominic Church (Bronx) and other matters
James:

I wanted to get bck to you on your recent trip to Boston. I hope it was enjoyable. I would not have been able to meet with you because a week earlier, in Columbus Ohio, I sustained a violent fall where I lost the connection between my right quad tendon and the rest of my leg rendering me unable to walk. I needed immediate surgery to correct that and now, two weeks along, I am still recovering --- house bound. The entire recovery period will take a year at the least.

Anyhow I also wanted to ask you about the attributation of St. Dominic Church in the Bronx to Anthony J. Depace. I am inclined to agree that DePace and his people are the most likely firm to have done the job. I had looked for evidence tothis and could not come up with much. It seems that the footnotes on the Wikipedia pagw don't point out anything further.

So, yes, I think that you're right about DePace but would be interested in where you found thiis information. Aslo, did you update the DePace page itself to contain St. Dominic?

Good work!!!Lukascb (talk) 17:22, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, will respond later. Briefly though, very sorry to hear about your fall. I always cite my references. User:TheBronxNYC added DePace and the construction start date. Will look into it later. Have a number of photos though of several churches in question.---James R (talk)

NYC Roman Catholic Churches
There are seventy articles with importance=low but class=??? in New York City, all of which are Roman Catholic Churches. I am busy with reducing the number of unrated articles in Pennsylvania, but I thought that perhaps you could work down those 70 articles.


 * http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=New%20York%20City&importance=Low-Class&quality=Unassessed-Class

This link will show you all seventy articles. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:26, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi David, thanks. I'd be happy to do it but I wonder about conflict of interest as I may have written some of them. Is that an issue?---James R (talk)


 * Good question, and not the first time I have been asked that. I have done it myself, but I will try to get a more definitive answer. Go ahead and do some of the ones you did not write. --DThomsen8 (talk) 23:45, 27 March 2011 (UTC)


 * WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ says that anyone can do an assessment. That certainly applies to class=stub, class=start, and class=C, which are the only classes I ever apply, and class=C only for long articles with many inline citations. I must have a very good reason to apply higher than importance=mid. Go ahead and assess articles that you wrote, or leave them for me to do once you have done the others.--DThomsen8 (talk) 01:07, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

English counties - beware old references
I don't think anyone's picked you up on this from a quick scan of your archive, but can you be a bit more careful when assigning eg churches to English counties, you're obviously using references that are wildly out of date. For instance a lot of London suburbs were merged into London about 50 years ago, yet you put Congregational Church, Penge in Kent. Admittedly Penge is a particularly awkward example as it's been passed around from Surrey to London then out to Kent in 1900 before coming to rest in the London Borough of Bromley, but it does mean that all the cats were wrong and the Coord missing tag among others. A lot of the big towns have been carved out of the counties in the last 20 years, so the cat structure now reflects those unitary councils in many cases - it's easy enough to check by clicking through to the town article. Just thought I'd mention it. Le Deluge (talk) 19:45, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Architects of Cathedrals
I noticed that you had just added Edmund Blacket, who is on my watchlist, so I started looking for those names missing from your list. I added a couple and immediately realised that this category is a no-goer. It's pointless.

The reason for this is that it automatically excludes Bramante, Michelangelo, Sangallo, Moderna, Bernini who together created "the greatest church in Christendom", which is, however, not a cathedral. Likewise, your category can include the architect of Cologne Cathedral but cannot include the architect of it's great architectural rival Ulm Minster. It cannot include the Medieval and Renaissance architects, Henry Yevele and Nicholas Hawksmoor of Westminster Abbey. It cannot include Gaudi creator of le Sagrada Familia.

It would be much better if you just left the category of ecclesiastical architects, because although a cathedral is expected to be a work of architectural significance, this may not be the case, particularly in Italy where the basilica of the local saint may be considerably more impressive than the church which is the seat of the bishop. On the other hand, a great number of the world's greatest churches in architectural terms, are not cathedrals. And there is no point in making separate lists of "basilica architects" and "abbey architects".

I'm sorry to be so discouraging! Look at Architecture of cathedrals, basilicas and abbey churches. Amandajm (talk) 03:40, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
 * My delayed relply---James R (talk)

Image categories
I noticed you moving a great many pictures to church categories where they mix with articles. This practice is of course not forbidden, but to me it seems a poor one, at least for large cats like Category:Churches in Manhattan. Better I think to create a separate image cat, a child of Category:Images of Manhattan (and of the CiM cat). Or, for files that are in Commons, simply to create a commonscat link (similar to that in Category:Images of New York City rather than categorize them here in WP. And thank you for all the good work you are doing; I just feel that this particular detail could be better handled.  Jim.henderson (talk) 19:46, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Jim, I didn't realize there was an image cat. My mistake because that would have been the better course of action. I will cease adding any more cats to images, although I might leave what I've done alone for now if it is not incorrect (because it would take some time to change).---James R (talk)
 * Please do not categorize images on commons in wikipedia. The images and their categories only belong on commons. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:58, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Also almost every one of these files contains typos. Can I suggest that you help undo the mess you created? Vegaswikian (talk) 07:01, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think every one should be reverted here in en if the picture is in Commons, or if the en category has many articles, or typos. For now I'm busy with my own new pictures and won't immediately do much with old ones.  Should this matter be mentioned in an official guideline?  Or is it, and I merely failed to find it?  Jim.henderson (talk) 01:48, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Het Notite Boeck der Christelyckes kercke op de Manner of Philips Burgh
Hi James, I added HM to Het Notite Boeck der Christelyckes Kercke op de Manner of Philips Burgh It seems that a cut and paste move was done back then. --Avandobben (talk) 12:39, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Selectivity, please
Not every fact you find needs to be inserted into an article. A prime example were the addressess of architects' offices you put into many church articles. While sourced, and presumably accurate, such facts don't really service the reader, they just clutter up the article. The stuff you're doing now is pretty much the same. Unless there is some compelling reason to do so, saying that a church was at the same address now as it was in 1892 is just clutter. Worse, saying that a church had a different address in 1892, but the builidng's in the same place, without explaining why there is a disparity is potentially confusing to the reader, at the gain of very little. I have to ask that you use better judgment and selectivity in your contributions, please, and not add stuff simply because you've found it in your research. Take a look at whether the new fact enhances the article, providing better value for the reader, or simply clutters it with factoids. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:32, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

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Clergy
As I've mentioned to you before, not everything you find in your researches is necessarily appropriate to add to a Wikipedia article. Adding a new "Clergy" section with a single sentence about a single person, with no indication of why they are notable either to the history of the church or to the wider world is not improving an article, it's simply adding facts which are not particularly relevant. Please stop doing this. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:23, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
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William Tregarthen Douglas
Please review your entry as William T. Douglas was apparently not Commissioner of Irish lights. That was his uncle William. See:http://www.commissionersofirishlights.com/cil/publications/beam-magazines/volume-33/william-douglass---designer-of-fastnet-lighthouse.aspxShipsview (talk) 18:27, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

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