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July 8: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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I did what you did to Boring(earth). Thank you for doing that. I will be more careful.

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Sunday August 2: WikNYC Picnic
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FYI Irvington Bus
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 * Thanks. Pleasant to be credited. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Additional help with MetLife
Hi Jim, I noticed the changes you made in the MetLife article following my request there, and I wanted to thank you. It appears you removed the Finance section and changed a section title according to some of the changes I proposed, but weren't able to look at the rest of the proposed changes. If you have free time this week, could you possibly take another look at my drafted section and let me know what seems appropriate to implement? I'd love your continued help on this. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 22:05, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Alas, I'm barely keeping up with actions already promised, at least through next week. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

August 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Hi Jim.henderson
I happened upon your comments regarding the 2012 blackout. I know it happened some time ago and there hasn't been too much talk of it in recent times, but I think you expressed the thoughts of those who were not particular fans of the blackout quite well. Just thought I'd let you know.  Ergo Sum  00:57, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Oops! I haven't always been paying attention to my own talk page lately, . And haven't much thought about that long ago and, to our thinking, unfortunate episode. Anyway, I've noticed a perhaps similar political controversy about European Freedom of panorama which apparently hasn't provoked great interest in a similar Wikireaction. Perhaps this is due to a difference in the underlying controversies, or perhaps to caution engendered by the American example of years ago.  Or, as often happens, I may be simply clueless.  Jim.henderson (talk) 20:05, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

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September 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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thank you!
thank you for your help with wiki! ~kellnerll — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kellnerll (talk • contribs) 00:19, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

met you last night i have a question about titles
Hi Jim i want to change the title page of the person i was entering - should be Grace Jeffers instead of Grace Antoinette Jeffers Kellnerll (talk) 13:33, 24 September 2015 (UTC)Kellnerll


 * You remembered several of the things we told you; excellent. According to Moving a page you can't yet do it.  Instead of giving more details here, I'll move the discussion to the article's talk page, which is Talk:Grace Antoinette Jeffers. This is in hopes of attracting more than just my personal attention. Click there. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:06, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Potential new topic, new category
I would appreciate your opinion (I am also gathering others') because I am interested in documenting the growing number of rural African-American cemeteries being "rediscovered" in the NY Hudson Valley and NY State. There is currently a category that appears to be used for such cemeteries that are historic and nationally listed: Category:African-American_cemeteries. But I am interested in the smaller, less recognized cemeteries, many of which were not marked or not marked well and have been left "undiscovered" for a century. They are not nationally listed nor likely to be candidates. There has been more attention to these recently in NY (Mt Zion in Kingston rededicated, "Section E" in Rhinebeck assessed, Kinderhook and I see others coming into view).

Questions. 1) Notability. These for the most part would not be Nationally Registered historic places, but collectively they add up an unarticulated history of marginalized African Americans in rural NYS in the 18th and 19th centuries that has not been documented.  In a sense, I think the fact these histories have been erased or avoided is itself notable?  2) If qualifying as notable, should there be a new category that would recognize this distinction, such as "African-American rural cemeteries" or "African-American rural cemeteries in NY State." 3) Might I create individual articles for each cemetery? Or create one article that summarizes the cemeteries and has brief descriptions? Or go even further and create a page of "Rediscovered African American Cemeteries" which tells the story of the process rediscovery overall? Any advice would be appreciated. Hope this makes sense.  Thank you. WindingRoad (talk) 13:41, 26 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I've made minor additions to your post, for clarity. Having much experience with categories, I figure that question is the less important one, but also the easier, thanks to my familiarity with the precedents. Category:Former cemeteries is not a new one. Locally, Category:Cemeteries in New York serves all kinds, segregated by whatever criterion or mixed; and status: operating, dormant, abandoned or rediscovered. If we had many articles, they would call for finer subcategories by location, status or whatever. Those would be made as the need arises. I've also got some experience with cemeteries, and the term Rural cemetery has been used for over a century for something else, mostly grand rather than humble. No big problem.
 * My experience is less in questions of WP:Notability, but making an article usually depends on having multiple independent, published, WP:Reliable secondary sources. This problem often arises regarding unjustly neglected persons or groups. If the world of publication neglects them, Wikipedia won't cure that.
 * Articles about a trend or social process can have problems of their own, but still this strikes me as easier. I create few new articles, and prefer a gradual buildup method, finding an existing more general one, not too large, which can take first a paragraph, later a section, soon to be reasonably subsectioned so our fellow editors will easily understand the merits of giving the topic its own article. At a quick look, I don't find a candidate. Cemetery is not too large, and says little about abandonment or rediscovery. Perhaps that's a suitable place to plant a seed. Or, you could start afresh. Sometimes that works well; it's just not my custom in the past years or so.
 * One could also start from the race history angle. Obviously Category:African-American history of New York is one where an eventual article would belong. However, that category doesn't provide to my eye any suitably broad existing article. Each is about a specific place, and some of its cemetery articles look to me like barely meeting the notability requirement as applied in today's somewhat stringent examinations.
 * Well, as I implied above, some of your questions are easy but to my mind minor; the more important ones call for understandings not quite in my main field of Wikiexpertise. But if you get it wrong, it's usually only a modest waste of effort. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:45, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Saturday October 3: WikiArte Latin America Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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Thursday October 15: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim (drop-in any time, noon-8pm!)
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Thursday October 15: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim (drop-in any time, noon-8pm!)
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Oct 28: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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BEN-AMI SHULMAN
TO BE CONTINUED ....... BEN-AMI SHULMAN (talk) 21:31, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Sunday Nov 22: Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon & Women In Science Edit-a-thon
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Photos from edit-a-thon
Hi Jim! Could you share the photos from the Soviet Jewry edit-a-thon? Thanks! --Lange.lea (talk) 21:16, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure will. Busy day for me. Busy week of photography, too, what with MoMA tomorrow and family pix the next two days, but I'll get to it. Commons:Category:Soviet Jewry Edit-a-thon WPNYC 2015-11 is where they will show up. Oh goodness, did I really spell it that way? Jim.henderson (talk) 23:12, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, Yesterday was too hard a day for my endurance, but they're in at last. The pictures are also few, because I wasn't there long or very industrious. But, they're what I got. And I'm late to MoMA, too. 'Bye. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:50, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Beautiful! Thank you so much!!! --Lange.lea (talk) 15:10, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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== Dec 9: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC; Dec 12: Art & Law editathon + Dec 13: Black Film editathon ==

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MetLife
Hi there, Jim. Earlier this year you made some helpful edits on the MetLife article and were kind enough to take a look at one of my requests there, so I wonder if you might be able to help more on that page? There are some small requests that I've made recently about updating existing material to improve the references, chronology and accuracy. If you would have a few minutes to see what you think, it would be most appreciated. As a quick disclosure / reminder, I do have a conflict of interest as I am working on this article as a Wikipedia consultant for MetLife. Thanks so much for any help you can give. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 15:37, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Relay program
Thanks for the great picture of the antenna. This article is a dear to me because I was on the receiving end of that first transmission across the Pacific by Relay 1 on November 23 1961 (November 22 to you), and nobody in our generation will forget where they were when... All improvements are appreciated. Don Lammers (talk) 21:39, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I was a little space cadet at the time. Last week while combing the Commons categories of lost, uncategorized pictures, I came across several that were eager to find an article to illustrate. Including this one. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:07, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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