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Sick time
Friends have asked, so yes, I've been sick for two weeks now. Didn't get my flu shot. Not very sick. I expect at least another week of sitting around, wishing I could be biking instead. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:55, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Ugh, flu. It's usually the 'a bit sick', but not enough to be anything more than tiring and really, really irritating. Keep resisting the urge to battle the elements because you can't take sitting around inside for a second longer: it tends to be the wrong choice. Wishing you a speedy recovery! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:12, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Jim, so sorry to hear that -- I hope you feel better soon! Happy New Year. BMK (talk) 06:50, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Gradually improving, after missing two and a half weeks of warm December. Strong enough now that I ought to be more active in Wikipedia, especially processing my own picture backlog, and even getting some outdoor exercise. Our wise friend Iryna kindly reverted the pitiful insults of a thoughtless troll. My diminished power of judgment caused me to consider reinstating them and answering in a disdainful tone. Fortunately, since then, my power has increased so far as to make me unable to disregard the futility of such a gesture. We have people who have studied insects and learned to swat them efficiently. Oops, where did that disdainful tone come from? No, I'm not yet fully recovered.Jim.henderson (talk) 02:23, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Oops! Your temperature must have gone up unexpectedly. Have a little rest until the buzzing in your head goes away. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:07, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

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First NYC African American teacher of white students
Jim we met and you were enormously helpful at black lives matter editathon earlier this month List of African American Cemeteries in New York. I have just finished a very short, but I think important article, if you have a moment, do take a look and I'd appreciate comments or direct improvements! Here it is: Susan Elizabeth Frazier All the best. WindingRoad (talk) 11:27, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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Interference Archive A+F event in the New Yorker
In case you haven't seen this yet :)

A feminist edit-a-thon seeks to reshape Wikipedia. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 21:46, 11 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Delightful. The New Yorker, half a century ago, was one of the four or five magazines I carefully read every week, and now I'm in it. With a trivial error, as my laptop is a half year old Acer. Should have paid extra for a Dell, but didn't. Hmm, TNY being WP:Reliable, I am perhaps technically eligible for a Wikibiography. Don't anyone try it, though. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:14, 13 March 2016 (UTC)


 * FYI New Yorker piece mentioning a guy with your last name.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 14 March 2016 (UTC) Update: just saw the previous paragraph.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:59, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Pings
Hi. Regarding this, just to let you know that a user will only receive a notification when you ping them if you include the (correctly formatted) template in the same edit that you sign the post. If you subsequently have to correct the template, then you have to sign again to make the ping work properly. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:28, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah. Thanks, for the hint. Of course, the question wouldn't have arisen if I had stayed awake during the process. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:31, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * True, but we all make those mistakes (and I didn't realise that notifications don't work in these instances until someone told me, so I thought I'd pass it on). Cordless Larry (talk) 22:33, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Mount Prospect Park
I thought it would be helpful to provide a description of its location between the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Apparently you didn't, and I'm curious why. Frank Lynch (talk) 23:06, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Didn't it say that before,, as well as after our edits? Are you suggesting there should be more detail? Like, east of BPL, west of BBG? Jim.henderson (talk) 23:48, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, that detail is helpful. All it said before my edit was that it was near Grand Army Plaza and "shared a parcel of land" with the library and the BBG, and I think the expression "sharing a parcel" is not as clear as "sandwiched between" or your option. Frank Lynch (talk) 12:40, 30 March 2016 (UTC)


 * "Sandwiched between" is a colorfully idiomatic phrase, which is a pleasant quality in writing that need not be WP:FORMAL but less good in WP articles. Careful thought will probably turn up (another colorful idiom, okay in talk pages) a better way to say it. Anyway in the next several days I must put fewer hours into Wikipedia, so such questions would be better discussed somewhere besides a personal talk page seen by only a few of our fellow editors. Perhaps,, you will find the most helpful audience by posting in Talk:Mount Prospect Park. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:17, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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Renee Radell pictures
Hi Jim. We met last month at the New York Chapter and had a pleasant conversation about photography in New York. I hope to see you Wednesday night and catch up. It happens that my article on Renée Radell made it to the main space and now I need to add some pictures. Would you have any guidance in that area? Should I use Visual Editor? I also need to add an Info Box. Would you have a suggestion of how to find the best template for an Info Box and pictures for a fine artist? Hope to see you Wednesday! OtterNYC (talk) 03:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Nice to hear from you again, . I pinged David as well, seeing that he has kindly been giving you some of his scarce time. My time is also scarcer than usual, mainly from trying to fill in for my injured Astronomy club president. I'll see you tomorrow night, probably a little late due to photographing a political rally in Washington Square. I shall also attend User:Aliceba's edit a thon in Brooklyn Sunday and maybe you would like to spend time there, swapping tips with fellow editors with probably a smaller crowd. Oh, here's the link for that. Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/2016 April Black Women Writers WiR BPL
 * The main way that beginners put an infobox in an article is to find an article about a similar subject, copy its infobox, and and change the lines that need change. More experienced users look up a template in that namespace, copy the blank version, and fill it in. In this case I guess it's Template:Infobox artist though I've never handled it, as I usually shun biographies especially of the living. If you mess up, just look in article history tab, undo, and try again.
 * The hardest part about Wikipictures is rights. When I snap the picture, I own it and can give away my creative rights. If someone else makes the picture, we need evidence that the owner of the rights has given them away or they have expired or some such thing. After that it's mechanics. Somewhat complex mechanics, mainly because Wiki software stinks for this purpose.


 * 1) Go to Main Page
 * 2) In the column on the left, look for "Participate" and below that, "Upload".
 * 3) Click "Upload" and follow the instructions. Release your rights, and in the next page fill in the blanks, best you can. For Category, use the same Categories that are at the bottom of her article. Right now, they are "Women artists" and "American Expressionist painters". Those are enough for a start; we can add more later.
 * 4) Next page, you get something that can be copied into a Wiki. Do that, save, and it will appear on the page. Later, we can integrate it into the infobox, but usually I do these kinds of things roughly and then spruce up the appearance in another edit.
 * 5) Notify me and some other old timer and mention it in your own talk page. One or more of us will come along and say, "Oogh, she's trying but I can make it right" and presto, it will become right along with clear, we hope, explanations of how we made it right.
 * Wikipedia is collaborative; we're all ignorant but on different things and we rely on colleagues who know what we don't. Oh. PS. Visual Editor doesn't make adding pictures easy. Better to paste into Source Editor. Jim.henderson (talk) 18:37, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Jim, thanks very much. I am starting to get the hang of this and I truly appreciate your willingness to convey knowledge. I will not take advantage of this kindness. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! Kevin OtterNYC (talk) 03:01, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

new section
hiHannah Silverman (talk) 00:47, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Category:New York City articles missing geocoordinate data
I have been working on Category:New York City articles missing geocoordinate data and  Category:New York articles missing geocoordinate data. I have the city down to 46 articles, and the state down to 1,019 articles. Perhaps you can help me. I especially think the defunct LIRR stations can be photographed and coordinates determined. The defunct schools and places of worship are especially difficult at a distance. what would you advise?--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:19, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * A quick look at the city category shows me vaguely described locations with little hope of clarification. Suburbs are a little more hopeful, such as school districts whose head office likely has a listed address. In my experience, train stations that closed before mid 20th century are mostly vanished without physical trace. Best hope for them is the large and unorganized collection in Commons of late 19th and early 20th century commercial atlases. Giving each of those maps an Object Location template for its center would allow finding the right map with a Commonscat Geogroup template fairly quickly. Line up the old roads with a modern map having coordinates. Easily said, and last year I located a number of defunct NYC Elevated stations by a similar method, except I used http://www.historicaerials.com/ instead of maps for the first step, and Google Earth for the second. Buildings other than schools and train stations are much less reliably shown on old maps. Spring has now sprung, putting me outdoors and shortening my keyboard time, so I'm shedding load rather than taking on new tasks.


 * Ah, but you are a great help, Jim. First, you have done some coordinates, in both city and state lists, and second, you have given me some exellent techniques to do more myself. Cheers!--DThomsen8 (talk) 13:30, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Jim!
Great info and very kind and patient assistance today! Much appreciated and great to meet you.Maitefa (talk) 19:38, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim
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Hudson River Museum
Jim, Thanks for picking up the additional "Winnie-the-Poo" vandalism on the Hudson River Museum page ... I thought I'd cleaned it all up, but unfortunately I made the mistake of not checking on the earlier edit by that same person. Am glad you spotted it. - Xenxax (talk) 00:37, 2 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for noticing. For decades I have tended towards a long view.  I miss the details that quicker minds grasp, but see some things that they miss.  In Wikivigilantism I mostly look at changed articles when they approach the bottom of my watchlist, which is usually 35 to 45 hours after the last change.  Usually this merely confirms that the quicker have done their job, but once in a while . . . .  Jim.henderson (talk) 00:48, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

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SOWING
Hi Jim,

Did you happen to take any pictures at the SOWING event at the Simons Foundation last week? If so, would you be up for uploading one or more to Commons? Not looking for anything in particular -- just something to illustrate the event because I may wind up doing a quick blog post about it for wikiedu.org/blog. If not, or if it's a hassle, no worries :) Thanks &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 18:10, 8 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reminding me. I spent my time in chats that were less productive than expected. These are the best three; the other four were merely the same things except poorer. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:35, 8 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Excellent! Thanks! &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 20:46, 8 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Just curious why you removed them from the Simons cat? I created the category because the events took place at the Simons Foundation. Perhaps I should've added a subcategory "Events at the Simons Foundation"? My Commons categorization instincts are not always on point :) &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 20:52, 11 June 2016 (UTC)  &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk \\ 20:54, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

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Inadequate edit summary
In this and the related edit, your edit summaries are not adequate: "Moving a few paragraphs on this subject, from archaeological method article)" and 13:10, 1 August 2016 (diff | hist) . . (-2,896)‎ . . Excavation (archaeology) ‎ (→‎Development led archaeology: Moving a section of why archaeology, to purpose section of general article)." You don't give the name of either article correctly, nor link them in the edit summary. You need to do both of these. It becomes clear what you are doing only from your contributions list, but who will bother to dig through these as time goes by?  Otherwise it would require a mind-reader to work out what articles you are talking about. Clarity when moving text between articles is important, not least for legal reasons. Edits like these are very likely to get reverted, perhaps removing the text entirely. Was there actually a reason for removing it from the Excavation article? Might it be better to leave it in both? Johnbod (talk) 14:06, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, ; on the first point you are quite right. I should have linked in the summaries for easy following, and I apologize for creating an unnecessary difficulty.
 * On the second point, I still don't see why a general description of the history and purposes of Archaeology belongs in a specific article about locations and methods of Excavation (archaeology), nor why it should be duplicated. Perhaps you can fill those gaps in my understanding.
 * As for whether the moved paragraphs suit well the purposes of the general article, my intention is to leave that to editors whose expertise in the matter is greater than mine. As usual I will be watching both talk pages, in case my advice may be useful in these questions. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:31, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

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St. Joseph's College (New York)
I see that you have edited St. Joseph's College and may have had some involvement with a photo of Burns Hall.

It is my understanding that the INFOBOX might have a photo or logo but not both. I received updated information about the official logo via OTRS and replace the two images with the current logo.

It way well be appropriate to include a photo of Burns Hall within the body of the article but I prefer to leave that to someone who knows how to position it and how to caption it correctly and which of the options for photos is best.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  19:12, 6 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'm surprised at this limitation in the infobox. I snapped that picture long ago on my way elsewhere. I guess I'll put it in the article when I get home from the edit-a-thon where I'm coaching. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:51, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

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Check out the last item on my talk page--Dthomsen8 (talk) 00:23, 28 September 2016 (UTC).

Irvington, New York
Very handsome picture of the Presbyterian Church - thanks for adding it to the article. Hope you're well. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:02, 2 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, it came out nicely. I forgot I had passed from Tarrytown into Irvington, pedaling hard to join friends at their lunch break in Hastings before continuing to Yonkers. Still must correct the filenames, etc but right now I'm just taking a break from coaching newbies at Brooklyn Public Library. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:29, 2 October 2016 (UTC)


 * I fixed the filename for that one, so you're covered there. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:34, 2 October 2016 (UTC)


 * I think I got all the Tarrytown to Irvington changes, but you should check. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:47, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

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In 30 minutes, I learned about several new Preferences settings, contributing to a User page, Disambiguation editing, dealing with Categories, the Manual of Style, and navigating Templates ... Wow! Thank you very much - Mari — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maristoddard (talk • contribs) 23:27, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi Jim!
Thank you Jim for showing me how to work with categories and how to communicate through the talk pages :-)) I was nice meeting you! Mgho12345 (talk) 02:28, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Two new editors

 * Splendid. I shall answer both in one section. First about me, I have been spending over an hour figuring how to transfer photos from my phone to my laptop. This has become important since I lost my red camera this morning, containing most of my photos from this weekend. Must also shop for a replacement camera at home, but losing its photos gives much more importance to the few in the phone.
 * Having half an hour with you in the classroom in San Diego,, we got much more done, but is also a quicker learner than me, so we made significant advances in just a few minutes. Both of you, like other new editors, should spend time with other editors, both fellow newbies and especially any old hands you can trap. I didn't have that advantage; in the early years there were no local chapters and each of us newbies learned mostly alone, by trial and error. Many, many errors in my case but eventually I caught onto the elementary points and started inventing strange new errors instead of doing the same old ones every time.
 * Usually there are better places to ask technical questions than in a particular old editor's talk page, because only you and several other editors have put that page in their watchlist. Usually the article's talk page and the WP:TEAHOUSE are better, because many editors with a particular interest in the subject are watching there. Or ask the question in a few different pages but not too many, lest you be accused of polluting those pages with unnecessarily repetitive redundancy. Well, my bedtime approaches, so time to stop. Jim.henderson (talk) 04:20, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Newbie requests guidance on an Anti-Dooring article now in sandbox...
Jim, I gather (rather easily!) that you are a NYC cyclist and an old trout in that regard, having survived among sharks and whales for years and a few scars to prove it. I also recall, or suspect that you've weighed in, or perhaps written?, the Door Zone article?

If so I'm hoping you might give me some counsel or help on a very closely related subject... Heard recently of the 'Dutch Reach'? or have you known for a while about the Dutch method for safer opening of car doors? If not, perhaps take a moment to Google "Dutch Reach", read the Boston Globe article by Steve Annear (9/8/16), see the Outside Online magazine video: Dutch Reach (Safe for Work) and maybe listen to the PRI version or the OutspokenCyclist.com podcast of 10/8/16. I've done a prospective article on the subject for Wikipedia, which is sitting in my sandbox and seek your advice on whether it is appropriate altogether, or if bias or some conflict of interest might manifest, etc.

I don't want it to run into a meat grinder; I do want to get it out there beyond my website, www.dutchreach.org asap. Its hardly practiced or known at all outside of NL, and as you will quickly gather I am not arms length from the issue.

I am quite the newbie here. And honestly I don't know how I/one goes about pre-sharing one's sandbox work. The would be article is rather long, pretends to be scholarly but is quite serious -- explaining an important subject and contribution to public safety which has been MIA.

So while I don't know for sure how you get back to me -- some bat signal when I log in again? -- I hope to hear back yea or nay, preferably the former. BTW I'm up in Boston and also take photos on my cycling journeys in and about, though hardly as voluminously or with such public utility!

Yours truly, mcha6677 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcha6677 (talk • contribs) 22:04, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Jim, (It's still unclear to me how one (I) should best communicate with you. I did respond to your initial reply and # bullet pointed 5 issues beneath your reply itself (did so early Fri. am).

I have 4 quick related questions on how to proceed right now:

I.a. Should I continue working alone on my draft with you occasionally commenting back?

I.b. Or should I hit the button "Submit draft for review"? which has now appeared - it seems for the first time [before I saw a "Publish" button, no longer] - on my sandbox page, in a rectangle at bottom of header.

I.c. Or have you begun contacting appropriate co-editors to start the review process amongst yourselves?

I'm happy to start cutting. But I'd be happier to learn what other's think or do.

I.d.  If the editor review process has already begun, then my question is whether I just step back at this point and let the wiser hands proceed. Or am I expected to dialog back on a regular basis?

[nb: My wifi access is iffy until Monday]

Thanks! Your truly, Mcha6677 (talk) 21:05, 15 October 2016 (UTC)mcha6677Mcha6677 (talk) 21:05, 15 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Oof, just back from Queens and Brooklyn, my first bike ride in half a month, apart from little one- and two-mile utility trips like the one I'll take tomorrow to the WP:WPNYC architectural photography contest which fortunately I won't join or judge but merely coach newbies in how to handle photos. Right now I'm too tired to think precisely but not too tired to type. Whatever forum we use, we use to flag someone who ought to listen. When we talk about the things a particular editor wants to do, we use her (or his) Talk Page, which means I'm replying in the wrong place. When it's about a particular article, we use the talk page of that article in order to attract editors who may be watching that article. That means I'm again in the wrong place but as long as we use that "reply to" gimmick, we at least notify the people whom we think about.


 * As for the "new article review process" having begun, I'm afraid that process has become a bit of a joke, since few experienced editors see any fun in taking care of that business. We're all hobbyists, which means a job only gets done if enough people with the right skills are odd enough to think it's fun.


 * You were wise to ask beforehand about posting on your own website. We often run into copyright problems with that, when the outside page is published without a copyright release. Indeed some authors routinely stamp "All Rights Reserved" on everything they make, which puts it completely off-limits to Wikipedia. Creative Commons license gives an overview of how works of art (including verbiage) can be released. WP uses the Share-alike version, which I mildly dislike for reasons not relevant here, so for simplicity you can use that. Or put something like "Public Domain" on the page; I'm too tired now to find the exact words that make it impossible for you to retract it. This is how I release the majority of my photos; CC0 irrevocable surrender of all rights. Whichever of these licenses you like. You can study the matter, or just give up thinking and use the standard Share Alike license.


 * Oh, I see you put four pictures into a and didn't properly create the category. Notice that my paragraph looks odd because I misused a template. No big deal in a talk page; they are allowed to look like crap. Categories are a pain. They are a minor feature in Wikipedia, aiming to arrange all articles in a neat hierarchical tree structure. However, they easily become tangled because the world is not a neat hierarchical tree structure. In Wikimedia Commons they are much more important, as well as usually more tangled. Anyway I fixed the Commons Category. As for the article, we've got more important things to think about and can eventually get around to categorizing. Going to Save this, get some water, and resume in a few minutes.


 * All right; after consideration I shall put a recommendation in Talk:Door zone and continue this disquisition in User talk:Mcha6677. Jim.henderson (talk) 00:32, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Sun October 16: CommonsLab / Open House NY Photo Contest + Hackathon
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Saturday October 22: WikiArte Latin American Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
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obtain your permission for picture
Dear Sir,

I am an Chinese architect, now writing a book about Chinese urban public space which cited the picture of Paley Park as a case description. So I want to cited your picture. I write this letter to obtain your permission, and if so I would appreciate it so much！

If there are more clear pictures that will be great！And tell me if I need to pay for some pictures.

Whether or not，thanks again！

Xiaodi Zhu 534415572@qq.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.243.223.57 (talk) 04:49, 27 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for asking, but you already have permission. Pictures in Wikipedia have already been given some kind of permission. When you look at File:Paley Park jeh.jpg it shows the words "Public Domain" meaning I have given away all my rights. Anyone can use this picture for any purpose without asking permission, and without saying it's my picture. Wikimedia Commons has four pictures of this park, and three of them are similarly free of restrictions. It would be polite to credit the photographer and Wikipedia, for example by saying "Photo from Jim.henderson via Wikipedia" but this is not legally required. One picture, File:Paley Park plaque.jpg is more restricted and you probably would need permission to use that one in a book.

Saturday November 12: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences (plus Sunday Indigenous People's Justice event)
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Battle of Peschiera listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Battle of Peschiera. Since you had some involvement with the Battle of Peschiera redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Place Clichy (talk) 16:58, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
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Kicking it with Jim henderson
Wikipedia specialist Jim Henderson guided me thru starting my Wikipedia page.Savkillz (talk) 20:20, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Your help with our Black Lunch Table editathon was very much appreciated! Thanks!

Heathart (talk) 01:21, 11 December 2016 (UTC) 