User talk:John Sweeney

Samuel Chapin
Thank you much for your work on the article. I've had it on my watchlist for a long time but just couldn't get into doing anything until your work. I'm not a descendant just an ex-Springfieler who likes the sculpture. I did find today though that Japhet and an ancestor of mine both fought in the Battle of Turner Falls.

The Samuel Chapin article currently says:
 * On February 9, 1623, Samuel married Cicely Penny. They had seven children: David, Catherine, Sarah, Josiah, Henry, Japhet, and Hannah.

I want to add:
 * The oldest five children were born in England and the last two in Massachusetts, Japhet in Roxbury and Hannah in Springfield.

It looks like you have the book on this. Is this true?

Also is the February 9, 1623 date Old Style or New Style? I suspect Old Style and, if so, I want to change 1623 to 1623/4. If New Style the day has to be adjusted to go with the rest of the dates.

Rather than replying to me would you please just make these changes if correct.

WikiParker (talk) 23:30, 9 February 2012 (UTC)


 * No problem. It was fun.  My sons were asking about family names and how we chose their own names, so we told told them how we had gone through the various genealogy texts we have and showed them some books we have.  My youngest was mortified when told he could have gotten Chapin as a first name (My mom's uncle's first name was Chapin, and I and other family members have it as a middle name.  It died out as a last name in my family 3 generations ago).  So when we looked Samuel up on Wikipedia I figured I could help out as it needed some cleaning up.  I had signed up for an account years ago, but never bothered to learn how to edit until now.  The statue has always been interesting as well because of a connection with the Saint-Gaudens family.  John Sweeney (talk) 13:02, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Karl Bodmer Travels
Thank you for uploading files from Bodmer, such as File:Karl Bodmer Travels in America (32).jpg and File:Karl Bodmer Travels in America (1).jpg. If you do more uploads, please upload them to Wikimedia Commons rather than here, since they will end up at Commons anyway, but the transfer takes scarce resources.

If you have any questions, please ask them here. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 23:41, 21 February 2012 (UTC)


 * OK. I will head over there and figure out the process when next I upload files.  John Sweeney


 * Good. And, again, don't hesitate to ask for help. The Commons upload process is simple enough so we get 7,000 new images every day, but it still has a few quirks. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 11:53, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I've been to Commons and it seems straightforward other than a few script errors when I try to run an upload.  Question: is there something I can to to move the files I uploaded here on Wikipedia over to Commons, or is too complicated or forbidden for me to mess with that?  Sorry for making things more difficult that I should have. John Sweeney (talk) 16:46, 24 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the slow reply -- I spend most of my time on Commons these days and sometimes I miss things here. There is a script which will do some of the work, but I have always found it cumbersome. If you still have the files on your computer, or can find them again, the easiest thing is to upload them to Commons with the same file name. Then tag the WP:EN file with Now Commons and it will be deleted in due course. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs)  18:27, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Cut and paste move of Henderson Lake
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Henderson Lake a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Henderson Lake (British Columbia). This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. • Gene93k (talk) 18:49, 29 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Sorry for creating problems.  However, is there a way to do a move and request it not be redirected if the purpose was to disambiguate?  I have looked into the move process, and will be sure to follow this procedure in the future.  However, I did not want a redirect, but rather a disambiguate on the original page (although the original page was about the BC lake, few of the incoming links seemed to intend that - most intended the NY lake.  I did disambiguate the the two pages, including the one I cut and pasted the original material to.  I checked the "what links here" page, and most links seem to be for the New York lake, not the BC lake.  I created pages for both lakes, but as the original page was about the BC lake, forwarding all the old links would not make sense.  I am planning to go to all the linking page and redoing the links so they direct to Henderson Lake (New York) or Henderson Lake (British Columbia) as appropriate.  But I think the Henderson Lake page should be left as a disambiguation page because more people are looking for or intend the NY lake.  Any thoughts? John Sweeney (talk) 20:46, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I think I figured it out, so you can ignore my request above.  I did the same thing with Blue Mountain Lake as I had been doing with Henderson, as a single Lake had been squatting on the broader topic page,  This time I moved the page first to its own state-specific page and only after I was done did I disambiguate the original page.  I redid most of the older links as well (most of which were wrong to begin with anyway as many if not most had been intending the New York lake and not he Arkansas lake of the original article.  I hope I did it all properly this time. John Sweeney (talk) 03:20, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

French Louie
I want to thank you for putting up the photo of Louie Seymore. I wanted to put up pictures, but I never seem to do it right, and the editors yank them for various reasons. 15:59, 4 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidHenrickson (talk • contribs)
 * No problem. I enjoy it.  John Sweeney (talk) 20:11, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Samuel Chapin article ratings
Today I checked out a change to the page and looked at the bottom of the page for an expected change. While there I noticed the ratings box and decided to look. Only four ratings but they were very good. Thanks for the great work. WikiParker (talk) 12:57, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

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