User talk:Ken Gallager/Archive 15

Michael Bennet
Hi - I saw you reverted my addition of the only freely licensed image we have, thus far, of Kennett High School (New Hampshire) because you don't think it adds anything to the article. I disagree, given that it's the only image we have, it shows an educational experience (civic engagement, government class, whatever) at the school and was placed in the section about in-class education. I have been adding photos of Michael Bennet, among about 30 other political figures in the United States of all political persuasions as part of a larger Commons project I'm working on to document the social media accounts of Senators and Congresspeople. I assure you, I'm not doing this out of favor towards anyone specifically. I'm going to return the photograph, per these guidelines, specifically "When possible, find better images and improve captions instead of simply removing poor or inappropriate ones, especially on pages with few visuals." If you are concerned about the image not being encyclopedic enough, I'm happy to engage other editors on the talk page of the article to see what they think. Cheers and thanks for editing Wikipedia. Missvain (talk) 21:22, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Manchester NH
Yes that's true. Doriden (talk) 19:56, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Winnisquam disagreement and clarifications
Given that if I try to edit the page again it will probably be reversed by the evening, I'm simply going to comment here. With the added specification on the Winnisquam page that the article is referring to the area serviced by the Winnisquam post office, that is certainly progress in terms of clarity on the subject. It's been difficult to find a map of the zip code mentioned on the page or etc, but at this point, I'll take your word for it on that - that the zip code services Belmont, Tilton, and Sanbornton (Belmont does have a post office in its own town but I believe Sanbornton does as well, and the Winnisquam one being placed in Tilton, which might even have a second one).

Regardless, my concern is whether the article should be referring to the postal servicing area of the Winnisquam post office or the general community definition of Winnisquam. The map which was included centers around the bridge that possesses the border between Sanbornton and Belmont, not directly including much of the information of either town nor Northfield at all. Even if Northfield is not serviced by the post office, it is within the school district area and is generally accepted as one of the three towns of the unofficially defined community of Winnisquam, whereas Belmont is not in this context. Additionally, the Geographic Names Information System referenced on this page has two coordinate points listed as a "topographic map containing the feature." The second map is titled "Northfield."

My suggestion would be that, if it is so important, the article is allowed to generally focus on the postal location (as in I won't change the beginning paragraph) but I add a section below acknowledging the school district and other relevant information to the community, as I believe it is erroneous that the Winnisquam page does not acknowledge Northfield whatsoever, and is a confusing break of information consistency to any readers, as the Northfield page mentions Winnisquam through the school district area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cubic1608 (talk • contribs) 13:50, 9 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for writing. The school district you are concerned about is a completely different concept from the village described in this article. They both happen to take their name from Winnisquam Lake, but there is no other formal link between them. The easiest way to resolve this would be for you to create a Winnisquam Regional School District page. See List of school districts in New Hampshire. You will see that there are links to existing articles, which can give you a sense of what's covered in them.


 * Please note, also, that having "Northfield" as the title of a USGS topographic has no bearing on the affiliations of places shown on the map. "Northfield" is simply the largest community in a 7.5 by 7.5 minute quadrangular area. If you look closely at the image I added, you will see that the village of Winnisquam is at the corner of four USGS quads. If you go to the USGS Map Locator, you will find that the four quads are Northfield, Winnisquam Lake, Laconia, and Belmont. No one is suggesting that Winnisquam is in Laconia. --Ken Gallager (talk) 14:05, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Double Tollgate
Hello. On September 27, 2019, I relocated to Clarke County, Virginia, and eventually stumbled upon a current road sign which piqued my interest, "Double Tollgate", and I don't know where to start, as there is already a Wikipedia Page "Double Tollgate, Virginia", which states a great deal about the intersections adjacent to and intertwined with the "Double Tollgate" road sign. The citizenry don't seem to know much about it, so I thought I'd put pencil to paper and play detective. Am I wasting my time? Of course not! Thanks, JTPOB. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JTPOB (talk • contribs) 21:54, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Originally left on User:Ken Gallager in Special:Diff/956352519 AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 22:30, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good project. If you can find published sources describing the place, you'll be all set. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:24, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Sierra Blanca Mountains
Ken, I have to respectfully disagree with your edits to Rio Hondo (Southern New Mexico), Bonito Lake, Rio Bonito (New Mexico) and maybe another couple of articles. I grew up near the Sierra Blanca mountains. They are know as the "Sierra Blanca mountains" to everyone who lives in the area. It might be technically redundant, but that's what they are called by the locals. I'm going to revert the articles to edited which removed the word "mountains". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martylunsford (talk • contribs) 23:07, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * That's actually okay with me. Please just leave "mountains" uncapitalized, as you did in your message. Thanks, --Ken Gallager (talk) 23:12, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Ikenna Aniekwe
I went through your page and I must say that you are doing a great job. I need your help. I created an article titled Ikenna Aniekwe and it appears it hasn't been approved, I don't find it listed when I use a search engine. What am I supposed to do differently? MarkCarey911 (talk) 06:29, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I think you're doing it right. It takes some time for the search tools and other things to catch up when new articles are added. The article comes up now in the search box, if I type the whole name in and wait a second. Eventually (soon) it will come up more quickly. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:49, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, you are kind. MarkCarey911 (talk) 08:10, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Geneseo, New York
Thank you for your edits to Geneseo, New York! They've definitely made the article better. --bdesham ★  19:14, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Glad to be able to help a bit. --Ken Gallager (talk) 00:59, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Work in Progress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Patricia_(Financial_Technology_Company) Please, I created this and I need your help with the reviews. Thank you so much for you have taught me on wikipedia. MarkCarey911 (talk) 23:54, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Mark, I've looked over your article and the reason the editor gave for declining it, and I'm going to have to say that I'm probably not the right person to help you navigate this process for this article. My eye, which is untrained in reviewing business articles, sees that you have used numerous references from published news sources, so I do not know what the reviewer's reasoning was in saying they were not reliable sources. I would suggest messaging the reviewer directly and asking in a spirit of cooperation what sort of sourcing would be appropriate. Possibly also take a look at other articles about Nigerian businesses and see what sources people are using that would be considered reliable. Good luck, --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:28, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Much appreciated! --Ken Gallager (talk) 17:40, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives
Ken, could you review our page, and if there are no more required revisions, remove the COI notice.

Thanks! Gjenvick (talk) 20:38, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Moultonborough
You removed verifiable information about the town’s history with regards to the Native Americans. This is not acceptable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacobgwiki (talk • contribs) 15:48, 8 September 2020 (UTC)


 * It was too vague to be verifiable. At a minimum, please provide names, dates, and locations, and make sure you provide a reference to a published source so others can verify it. Please respond on the town's talk page. --Ken Gallager (talk) 15:52, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

That is your opinion. It is not your place to remove it. You might as well be saying slavery didn’t exist in the South. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacobgwiki (talk • contribs) 15:56, 8 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia's policies on Verifiability are not an opinion. Please read them and adjust your editing accordingly. --Ken Gallager (talk) 15:59, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, you should sign your comments. You do so by adding four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of your comment. Best wishes, --Ken Gallager (talk) 16:02, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Pushpin map alt is a valid parameter
I saw your edit on Back Lake (New Hampshire) that pushpin_map_alt as not being a valid parameter, but it is valid as part of the Infobox Body of Water which is the root template. There sometimes is an invisible character encoding issue I've seen arise which causes the parameter to be flagged as invalid so be careful in checking for those. See Infobox Body of Water for the valid parameters. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 00:40, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for the info. I just tested your alt caption on Back Lake, and this time there was no error message. Seems very strange to me, but I will keep an eye open for that possibility going forward. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:38, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:37, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Milford, New Hampshire
Hi there. You recently restored an external link to Milford, New Hampshire, and other articles, about the local public libraries, which I had previously removed. Fair. However you didn't provide an explanation for why these external links are valid. I don't see anything in these library sites that adds encyclopaedic information to the subject of these town that would allow them under WP:EL. Are they useful for residents, sure, just like a link to any other local service could be, but we don't judge links on usefulness. They're not of any encyclopaedic use to non-residents, and provide no encyclopaedic information about the towns themselves (the subjects of the articles) that would make then useful for inclusion. Not interested in any edit wars obviously, but I'm curious as to why you think they should be included as your edit summaries didn't provide any information other than a statement of valid link. Thanks. Canterbury Tail talk 00:55, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Libraries are good sources of information about their towns. Some have special collections, but all of them (e.g. Milford) will at least have books about their towns in their catalogs. --Ken Gallager (talk) 00:57, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes true, but how does their webpage help the reader of the article. The webpages themselves contain no encyclopaedic info, and we don't link to directories or services. Canterbury Tail talk 13:57, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks like we'll have to disagree. I see no ban in WP:ELNO on directories or non-commercial services. You would think a library would be a useful resource to obtain more information about the subject of the article. --Ken Gallager (talk) 14:09, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Ronaldão (footballer, born 1965)
Hey, why not move the above page to Ronaldão (footballer)? He's the only footballer with the name, and it's different enough from Ronaldo that I don't think it'd be a big deal.--Ortizesp (talk) 02:43, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's an excellent idea. I checked for that ahead of time but didn't realize that (footballer) was a redirect to him already. --Ken Gallager (talk) 02:47, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Harry Shokler
Hello, I noticed your edits of this article and am interested in knowing your rationale for two types of changes you made: (1) Why move commas outside quoted text and before the citation? The results look strange to me and the little searching I've done turns up no instances where this is done or advised. (2) Why make blue links for topics that have little relation to the subject of the article? To me they seen like noise. Thanks. Delabrede (talk) 00:13, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Standard Wikipedia punctuation placement. Check MOS:LQ. If you think I mis-applied the guidance, by all means change them back. 2) They are of interest. Why regulate what other people might wish to follow? Different people come at the same article from different directions and may wish to take off in yet other directions. Having seen many overlinked articles, I believe that this falls well short of WP:OVERLINK. You have created a very well-written article, by the way, so thank you. Best wishes, --Ken Gallager (talk) 02:58, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Ken, For some reason I had thought the quotation comma rule was like the serial comma rule; writer's choice. Now I know. Also, I accept your judgement regarding links and will try to be somewhat more conscientious about this practice. - Delabrede (talk) 15:38, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Pawtuckaway River
On 10 Dec you took this photo of the Pawtuckaway River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pawtuckaway_River_Dec_2020.jpg. That viewpoint is from a trail that had been marked with surveyor's tape for many years, but I noticed today that the tape had disappeared. I know that the landowner didn't remove the trail markings. Where they there on 10 Dec? I know they were there two weeks ago. Teishin (talk) 21:51, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I may have seen a couple pieces of tape, but I don't remember any trail. I was just following the river and thinking I was bushwhacking. Pleasant surprise to find the ledges! --Ken Gallager (talk) 02:34, 17 December 2020 (UTC)