User talk:Marylandstater/Archive 2

2008

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St. Barnabas Church, Upper Marlboro, Maryland peer review
I was wondering if you could take some time out of your schedule to head over to the St. Barnabas Church, Upper Marlboro, Maryland and give us an honest peer review. The page has evolved quite a bit in the last few months, and it would be fantastic if a prominent editor/contributor to Maryland topics like yourself, could head over and give us at WikiProject Maryland some sound opinion and ideas on improvements for the page. Several of us have worked very hard at improving the page, and we need great outside, reliable and trustworthy users to come over and help us improve. If you are interested in joining the peer review discussion with other prominent users/contributors, much like yourself, please follow the link. Thank you very much for your help and your continued effort to improve Wikipedia and its quality! Peer review/St. Barnabas Church, Upper Marlboro, Maryland/archive1 Toddst1 (talk) 19:26, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

William B. Henry
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Defunct High Schools
Hey, Marylandstater, I was hoping to get your opinion on a matter. I have been creating/enhancing Maryland high school pages. I did Harford, Baltimore County, Carroll, Howard, Wicomico, Worcester, and Talbot counties. Through my investigations I have found about half a dozen high schools that no longer exist - Ocean City HS, Sykesville HS, Taneytown HS, Buckingham HS in Berlin, and a few more than I cannot recall off hand. I created OC HS, but it kind of feels like it is in limbo. Are there some good categories that can be used to classify it? Would we want to keep this one and others out of List of high schools in Maryland? Wallstreethotrod (talk) 03:38, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Baltimore template
The Baltimore template should not be placed on pages already containing the Baltimore neighborhoods template. The latter already is there for that purpose. The Baltimore template is useful for other types of Baltimore-related articles. In general (with some exceptions), a template like this should only be placed in articles that it lists itself.Sebwite (talk) 16:22, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I am most impressed with the template, good job Deanlaw (talk) 01:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

WikiCookie
Just stopping by with wikicookies for those editors who started new articles today. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:07, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, my very secret recipe includes wikiraisins, wikichocolate chips, crushed wikiwalnuts, and wikicoconut flakes. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! « Maryland stater » « reply » 23:51, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Wilson Park, Baltimore
Hi,

Regarding the article Wilson Park, Baltimore, could you possibly convert the 'notes' part to a 'references' section?

There is a lot of information at Citing sources, but you might find it easier to look at some other similar articles, which do use a well-established style, and simply copy their methods.

In this case, a featured articles on a similar topics is Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek).

I hope this information will help contribute to improving wikipedia,

Any questions, please ask me on my own talk page.

--  Chzz  ►  00:39, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Joseph C. Howard, Sr.

 * This article is an interesting read and is well cited. I made some minor changes to the positioning of the subheadings, and moved "written works" to the end of the article as is customary.  Is there more you could add, perhaps about his judicial philosophy or notable cases?  Also, someone pointed out on the talk page that he is mentioned as the first African American judge, but he was also half-Native American, so was he the first Native American judge as well? --Tom (talk - email) 13:11, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Peterawlings.jpg
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Rogers Morton
Hello there. You recently asked me to look over one of your articles, and now I'm returning the request. I recently rewrote the article on Rogers Morton, a former Maryland congressman who served as Secretary of the Interior & Commerce. I feel it might be worthy to make a shot at featured status, so I was wondering if you had any thoughts regarding the content or anything else. Thanks. --Tom (talk - email) 04:55, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. I've expanded the article on Joseph Tydings since then as well, and I am currently working on Charles Mathias' article, but that one is taking a bit longer since he was a bit better known. --Tom (talk - email) 12:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Charles Mathias, Jr.
Sorry to bug you again, but I wrote a new article for Charles Mathias, Jr. (as I mentioned in passing above) and went a bit crazy with it. I feel as if this article could have a good chance of becoming featured, but I would like some feedback from people interested in the subject. There is enough content, but I am wondering if there is any place that you feel could use expanding or condensing, or if there is any POV I may have been adding subliminally, etc. I am also concerned about the fact that my primary reference is the Post, but it is still somewhat soon after his departure from the Senate for there to be much else I imagine. I posted on the Wikiproject Maryland talk page as well. Thanks! --Tom (talk - email) 02:30, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the star. Also, I'll look over that Union Bridge article you posted sometime soon.  --Tom (talk - email) 00:06, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Maryland Politics and Maryland schools
Hey, Marylandstater, you left a message for me a while ago asking why I deleted the legislative notes on some politician and I never got back to you. Vacation and summer stuff, you know. Anyway, I found that many (if not most) of the legislative notes were bias. Republicans had notes that they voted against the environment and Democrats had notes that they voted in favor of helping families, or such and such. To balance this, I started adding voting records such as voted in favor of increasing sales tax by 20%, which is true. But my edits kept getting deleted. So I thought about it a while and came to the conclusion that Wikipedia should not be a bullet-list pulpit for the candidates to express their views on issues, so I started deleting some. I have no problem if the issue is discussed in a paragraph, as long as it is cited. But just a quick, lopsided bullet-list just does not seem fair to either side. So that was my rationale.

A question for you - I have been taking pictures of high schools in Maryland if they happen to be on any of my excursions or errands. I noticed that you took a picture of Chesapeake High School. What did you do to get the sky? It looks like an overlay of 2 different pictures. The sky is pixilated while the school is very clear. Just curious.Wallstreethotrod (talk) 15:23, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for Image:Wjz al and denise.jpg
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 * Hi, I think you misunderstood the purpose of the tag. It's not a PROD tag, but a dispute tag. The issue isn't whether there is a rationale or not, but whether that rationale is valid. The rationale you've written suggests that the point of the image is to identify the anchors, but since you can just as easily say "XXX appeared on this news program" without an image, the image doesn't really serve an encyclopedic purpose, and therefore it's decorative and not fair use. I'm going to put the tag back in, but I will be happy to discuss it in the image talk. --Mosmof (talk) 01:50, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles userbox
I noticed your userbox stating how many articles you started. I could find the template you used; would you mind telling me where I can find it? Thanks.-- King Bedford I Seek his grace  17:07, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

On this day
Great! I'll have to recalculate the percentage, but I'm pretty sure that puts us at over 50%, meaning when someone visits the portal, they'll be more likely than not to find something on the current date. Thanks a lot for the help!-Jeff (talk) 22:03, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Maryland High Schools
I like what you have done so far, but there are a couple of things stylistically I would change. First, I feel the 100% width is too hard to deal with due to varying widths of monitors (I have a widescreen monitor, for example, and it looks too stretched out), so I would remove that. Second, I looked at a couple of other featured lists, and I noticed many of them have slightly smaller font sizes. I have incorporated these two changes into the list in your sandbox so you can see for yourself and offer your perspective. Outside of styling, I had two ideas for new columns: "principal" (or dean, etc.; whatever is appropriate) and "address". Let me know what you think. --Tom (talk - email) 21:34, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:MarylandstaterDYK
Hi Marylandstater. I moved Template:MarylandstaterDYK to "User:Marylandstater/DYK" since user templates normally are maintained in user space. User:BlackThor had a similarly moved template. -- Suntag  ☼  21:07, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:43rd district.jpg listed for deletion
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New article needs assessment
MS: I just created Battle of the Severn, and user:Jeff02 has done some cleanup. I asked him as well, but if you have any time, can you please rate this article as a member of the project? Thanks.--Yachtsman1 (talk) 20:45, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * You gave me a good question when you asked how the battle was the final one of the English Civil War. The English Civil War ended in 1651, but news to the colonies was slow at this time.  The Commissioners were chosen by Parliament under the Commonwealth, but the battle occurred after the power of the commission was called into question when Cromwell sent his letter to "Governor" Stone.  In other words, the form of government had changed in England from a Commonwealth to that of the Protectorate.  The battle was fought, ironically, by forces loyal to a Commonwealth that was no more, and forces loyal to a proprieter who had received his powers from a ruler who had been executed.  It was one of the most absurd battles ever fought.  I will flesh this out later, and probably add how this battle and the circumstances leading up to it led to the contentious relationship between MD and VA that lasts to this day.  Remember, VA had claims to this territory prior to Calvert, and Calvert also received the entire Potomac River.  Territorial issues with Virginia have lasted well into present times, and the two states just had a case resolved by the Supreme Court over MD's ownership of the Potomac to the "low tide" mark and their efforts to block VA from placing a fresh water intake in the middle of the river.  I would, correspondingly, place the value of this article as medium, or even high as a result.  It foreshadowed the American Revolution in a very sigificant way, and paved the way for the two states to detest each other ever since.  Indeed, the two governments still refuse to talk to each other as a matter of course, explaining why Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts vary between the two states.  They can't coordinate anything.Yachtsman1 (talk) 07:00, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Re:Karl W. Hofmann image upload
Hey! Thanks for the upload help, I saved it as a file and it went to the upload but I got this message:

The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again.

What extension problems do you think happened? Here's the summary:

Information Description= Ambassador to Togo Karl W. Hofmann Source=http://togo.usembassy.gov/ambhoffman.html Date=00:55, 13 December 2008 (UTC) Author=US government Permission=Public Domain other_versions=none

And it comes out like this:

Thanks a bunch for your help!  Royal  Mate1  02:49, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Resolved!
I resolved based on your info, thanks. I uploaded these pics recently:



Thanks again. 

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