User talk:Notorious4life/Archive 4

Mall of Monroe
Please don't add store directories. Mall stores change all the time; online directories are often out of date; and Wikipedia is not a directory. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 19:59, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

List of islands of Michigan
It appears that the large number of templates on this page is causing problems (Help_desk). I don't know how to get around this but perhaps WikiProject Geographical coordinates could give some advice. Rmhermen (talk) 18:33, 18 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I've noticed that too. I think it's because the article is too long. I think the °N, °W template stops functioning properly after the 150th use in one article, and for some reason, only one of the two templates appears at the bottom of the article.  I don't want to have to remove any of the information in the article.  I have contemplated splitting the article into several articles based on their location, but I'm indecisive as to how to split the article.  The islands outside the Great Lakes can possibly be merged into those articles.  I'll have to add the restructuring of this article onto my to-do list.  Also, thanks for reinserting one of my images back into the Elizabeth Park article.  You recently went through and made some chances (some of which are grammatically incorrect), and I haven't had a change to go back to the article yet and retouch it up. —  ♣  №tǒŖïøŭş  4lĭfė   ♫    ♪  19:27, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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Tagging number articles
Was just wondering if you could explain why you have recently tagged almost every number article from 2 (number) to 200 (number) with ? If you have concerns about the contents of these articles, I think it would be much more helpful and productive if you discussed those concerns at the WikiProject Mathematics talk page. I have started a discussion here. Gandalf61 (talk) 11:11, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Blanco Co Tx tagging of Timeline list
The chronological timeline style is deliberate for visual ease and clarification to facilitate anyone using Wikipedia as a research tool. It's an acceptable style for relating chronological events as clearly as possible. Maile66 (talk) 01:36, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Eastern Michigan Eagles football
You recently added the WikiProject Michigan banner to this article, assessing it as "start-class". If you did not actually assess the article, and just based that on the other project banner assessment, I wonder if you could reassess it; the article has gone through a major improvement since that assessment. If you did assess it and concluded that start-class is the appropriate assessment, could you add some comments to the article talk page explaining what you feel is needed for the article to advance? Thanks, cmadler (talk) 11:04, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

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Template talk:Did you know
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DYK for Civil War Memorial (Adrian, Michigan)
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Michigan NRHP corrections
I replied to your comment/question at the WikiProject NRHP talk page (shortcut wt:NRHP). I'm glad you're on board and are in a position to note many location issues with NRHP's NRIS data. Would you please check out wp:NRIS info issues MI, which is a subpage of WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/NRIS information issues. In that system of workpages i and other NRHP editors have accumulated possible errors that we have noticed, for submission in batches to the National Register. The system allows us to proceed with making corrections in wikipedia articles, going contrary to the NRIS data, while ensuring the NRIS data will get fixed. This probably heads off a lot of future headaches as other well-meaning editors would correct the Wikipedia info back to the NRIS incorrect info (which is also echoed at private website copies such as http://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com.  I hope you'll please make submissions into this system.  Again, glad u'r on board! --doncram (talk) 17:26, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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Your DYK nomination
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Jefferson Avenue-Huron River and Harbin Drive-Silver Creek Canal Bridges
Not a problem--my goal is really to have an article on all of the Wayne County NRHP sites, and I don't really care if someone else writes the article or if I have to do it. The "starter article" in my sandbox was a placeholder with an infobox and one descriptive sentence cribbed from the infobox data, which I spent like three minutes creating. (And, really, stuff in my sandbox shouldn't stop other people from creating articles.) In any case, bridges don't really excite me, so I'm more than happy to have someone else do the grunt labor of creating the article. So thanks. :) Andrew Jameson (talk) 11:51, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Shutout (baseball)
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DYKs for River Raisin National Battlefield Park and Battle of Frenchtown
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DYK nomination of Roundhead
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DYK for River Raisin National Battlefield Park
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NRHP infobox details
Nice! OK, I'm on board with this. Thanks for the information. Andrew Jameson (talk) 00:20, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

dual coordinates
Hi there. I noticed you are updating nrhp infoboxes (I noticed it for lighthouses) and in the process sometimes marking the lighthouse coordinates as inline, leaving the nrhp coordinates in the title. Is this the preferred way? I don't know about the ones you marked, but when I add a lighthouse I sometimes geolocate it very accurately, so are the nrhp coordinates always better? Best regards --Muhandes (talk) 09:51, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Roundhead (Wyandot)
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DYK for Bridge School (Michigan)
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Speedy deletion nomination of File:DetroitRiverLocation.jpg


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Michigan State Historic Sites
Hi, Notorious4life, I have recently finished emptying out Category:NRHP infobox needing cleanup and have noticed that you (and others) have added a few NRHP infoboxes to Michigan State Historic Site articles. Use of the NRHP infobox is limited to sites that are actually on the National Register, but I see you're in kind of a conundrum here as there is nowhere else really to turn. Infobox Historic Site doesn't support Michigan sites yet because the register doesn't pass through its requirements, but I've begun trying to remedy the situation (because of OCD and wanting to empty that category haha). I've begun a small list at User:Dudemanfellabra/Sandbox of the first 20 sites listed at the MSHDA database (which is wayyyy too clunky and needs an update IMO, but I digress). I was wondering if you'd like to help out with finishing the list and moving it into mainspace. Once this list is in place, I'm pretty sure the folks over at WP:HSITES (of which I am a member) will be fine with adding support for the Michigan register.

Btw, if you know of a better place than this where I can get information about Michigan sites, it would be nice of you to point it out haha. Currently I can only copy/paste 10 listings at a time, and the formatting is horrible, so I imagine this list will take an extended amount of time to complete. Any help would be appreciated, though. Thanks!--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 19:55, 29 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, the site you listed above is the only viable source for information on Michigan Historic Sites, in which approximately half of those listings are also listed on the National Register. I don't particularly like the site's structure (and yes, I feel it is outdated and somewhat vacant), but it is a bank of semi-useful knowledge on many of the historic sites.  A few months back when I started inserting the blue "Michigan State Historic Site" bar into the NRHP infobox, I followed the pattern of another state that has its own similar state database (I think California or Maryland, I can't remember), in which the NRHP infobox was supportive of this added criteria.  When I first started inserting the "MSHS" bar, I foresaw this problem should the NRHP infobox ever be changed.  I originally wanted to create a separate "infobox" for Michigan State Historic Sites and have it be able to be merged into preexisting infoboxes, such as the lighthouse or NRHP infobox, but I lament that I took an easier route that might need to be changed.  I was actually going to create an article along the lines of "List of Michigan State Historic Sites" and include all the sites listed on that website (many of which are not article worthy anyway), and that could open the door for countless more articles in the subject.  That might be a project for my unemployed 2011 summer.  But, thids past summer was burned out making the List of islands of Michigan article (and the subsequent splitting of the article) that took away more nights of sleep than I'd like to admit.  My later summer was burned out making the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lenawee County, Michigan article, which used a lot of gas to take those pictures.  It was then I realized that Michigan's NRHP articles are maintained and created by such a small number of users, in which I was overwhelmed but not deterred by the amount of work at hand.  Plus, I get sidetracked easily and felt like I was involved in too many side-projects (such as Shutout (baseball)). While I headed the inclusion of the MSHS bar for further recognition for the state of Michigan's history (as well as providing a noteworthy inclusion to articles that are MSHS but not NRHP listings, such as Woodland Cemetery), according to the my created Category:Michigan State Historic Sites, there are approximately 223 articles that this has so far affected (many of Michigan's NRHP listings articles have not been created or properly organized yet).  I categorized and altered the infobox in maybe 100 or so of those articles before a few other users joined in.  Therefore, I believe, the easiest solution would be to remove the MSHS bar from the NRHP infobox in those articles (while leaving them in the above category).  I don't see much of a quick fix to this issue, but it is a correctable issue.  In my almost six years on Wikipedia, I have no clue how to make or even edit an infobox's syntax.  It's something I've never done.  So, unfortunately, I have NO clue as to how changes in the NRHP infobox or anything relating to that will affect what myself and a few other users have done.  But, if there is a simple solution to the problem that I'm overlooking in my lack of infobox knowledge, then please let me know.  If WP:HSITES (to which I am not involved) has a solution to this issue, please let me know. I haven't been too active on Wikipedia in the past few months since I moved and work a lot now (as well as living in a cave without internet for some time), but I'm not the kind of person to abandon my "work" and not further assist when needed. —  ♣  №tǒŖïøŭş  4lĭfė   ♫    ♪  09:37, 30 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, I mean the infobox can be changed to allow these michigan sites to be supported without tripping an error category, but that error category catches other misuse of the infobox, so it would be better not to change the code of the infobox. (I'm actually the person that created and maintains the infobox haha, so no worries about template syntax; anything we need done I can do.)
 * Also, I don't think it's necessary or even desirable to remove the MSHS bar from these articles. There is a possibility that WP:HSITES will add support to their infobox for Michigan sites, but usually their requirements (to which I linked above) dictate that there must be a list on Wikipedia – or at least a decent article with a few examples on it – about the register. I've worked with several editors creating lists such as the List of National Monuments in Ireland and the List of Pittsburgh Landmarks (the latter is now a redirect from splitting it up) to allow them to be added to the HSITES infobox, so that was kind of my plan here. If we get this "List of Michigan State Historic Sites" started, the addition process at WP:HSITES will be easy-going, and you can use Infobox Historic Site with a Michigan bar to mark articles that are listed on the state register and not on the NRHP.
 * If you feel like you're too busy to help out with the list in my userspace, though, that's fine; I'll keep chugging along. Since I wrote that first comment, I've made the formatting of the list better and have expanded it a bit. There are only 30 on the list at present, but now that I have kind of a system going, it should be easy to rapidly expand. Thanks!--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 17:06, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

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Categories
Just a quick note, but if you're adding an article to a "X of Y County, Michigan" category, it shouldn't be added to the "Y County, Michigan" category as well. The categories by type/subject are subcategories of the county category, and you shouldn't have both on the same article; always use the most specific category in the tree only.  Imzadi 1979  →   18:42, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

You have made many great contributions to Wikipedia From your subject matter I can assume you are from Michigan. Quite possibly DownRiver area? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.173.204.42 (talk) 20:20, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * You're right, I just moved to Woodhaven recently but still have second residence in Frenchtown and know far more about Monroe County than Wayne. The vast majority of my contributions come during the summer months when I don't work as much, so we'll see what this summer brings for me to do in my free time (boredom). Notorious4life (talk) 02:06, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

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Photo requests
Hi! Do you do photo requests in Detroit? Are you willing to go to southwest Detroit? If so, I have some ideas for photos WhisperToMe (talk) 03:37, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Here are some ideas:
 * Campbell Branch Library - 8733 W. Vernor, Detroit, MI 48209
 * Springwells Post Office - 1901 SPRINGWELLS ST DETROIT, MI 48209-9998
 * Holy Redeemer Cultural Center (I am assuming it is at the same address as the church) - 1721 Junction Avenue Detroit, MI. 48209
 * If there's no photo of the church on the Commons, please get that too
 * Holy Redeemer Grade School: 1711 Junction Street Detroit, Michigan
 * Clippert Academy - 1981 McKinstry Street
 * Bennett Elementary School - 2111 Mullane Street
 * Beard Elementary School - 840 Waterman
 * Roberto Clemente Academy - 1551 Beard
 * Harms Elementary School - 2400 Central Street
 * Maybury Elementary School - 4410 Porter Street
 * Neinas Elementary School - 6021 McMillan Street
 * Phoenix Elementary-Middle School - 7735 Lane Street
 * Mark Twain Elementary-Middle School - 12800 Visger Street
 * Earhart Elementary-Middle School - 1000 Scotten Street
 * Western International High School - 1500 Scotten Street Detroit, Michigan 48209
 * Southwestern High School - 6921 W. Fort Street, Detroit MI, 48209-2912
 * If you plan to take any, please let me know
 * Thanks,
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 04:00, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much!
 * Would it be alright if I made a list of some placed to photograph in Lincoln Park and other Downriver communities too?
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 04:13, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Of course... taking pictures is something I love to do, and any new pictures can expand my gallery. I assume you are requesting these pictures for Wikipedia articles? I don't live in the technical area of Downriver, but I do go there almost everyday.  Notorious4life (talk) 04:16, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes I am requesting them for Wikipedia articles - and also for the Commons too
 * Alright - So here are lists by city :) - It's just a start, but this is what I have so far...
 * In general - Welcome to XXX city signs, water towers, and other identifying marks great for lead images in city articles
 * Lincoln Park
 * City Hall: 1355 Southfield Rd. • Lincoln Park, Michigan 48146
 * Library: 1381 Southfield Road, Lincoln Park, MI 48146.
 * Department of Public services: 500 Southfield
 * Fire department - 1355 Cleophus Lincoln Park, MI 48146
 * Police department - 1427 Cleophus Lincoln Park, MI 48146\
 * Parks and recreation - 3240 Ferris Lincoln Park, MI 48146
 * Post Office - 1515 FORT ST LINCOLN PARK, MI 48146-9998
 * Lincoln Park Public Schools administration: 1650 Champaign, Lincoln Park, MI 48146
 * Lincoln Park High School: 1701 Champaign Lincoln Park, Michigan 48146
 * Lincoln Park Middle School: 2800 Lafayette
 * Carr ES: 3901 Ferris Lincoln Park, MI 48146
 * Foote ES: 3250 Abbott
 * Hoover ES: 3750 Howard
 * Keppen ES: 661 Mill
 * Lafayette ES: 1350 Lafayette
 * Paun ES: 2821 Bailey
 * Raupp ES: 1351 Ethel
 * Romulus
 * City Hall (many other departments are housed here): 11111 Wayne Road |  Romulus, Michigan 48174
 * Library: 11121 Wayne Road
 * Building & Safety and Public Works: 12600 Wayne Road Romulus, Michigan 48174
 * Animal control: 12300 Wayne Road Romulus, Michigan 48174
 * Police department and Ordinance department: 11165 Olive Street Romulus, Michigan 48174
 * Fire department: 28777 Eureka Romulus, Michigan 48174
 * Senior citizens department: 36525 Bibbins Romulus, Michigan 48174
 * Post Office: 11000 HUNT ST ROMULUS, MI 48174-9998
 * Romulus Community Schools administration: 36540 Grant Rd Romulus, Mi. 48174
 * Romulus High School: 9650 Wayne Rd. Romulus Mi. 48174
 * Romulus Middle School: 37300 Wick Rd. Romulus, Mi. 48174
 * Romulus Community School: 15303 Merriman Rd. Romulus, Mi. 48174
 * While there is File:Romulus Community High-Middle School.JPG, see if you can get a view where the name of the school is stated, like in File:Romulus Senior High School Michigan.jpg
 * Barth: 38207 Barth Rd. Romulus, Mi. 48174
 * Halecreek: 16200 Harrison Rd. Romulus, Mi. 48174
 * Romulus ES: 32200 Beverly Rd. Romulus, Mi. 48174
 * Wick ES: 36900 Wick Rd. Romulus, Mi. 48174
 * Allen Park
 * City Hall and Police Department: 16850 Southfield Road Allen Park, MI 48101
 * Fire Department: 6730 Roosevelt Allen Park, MI 48101
 * Library: 8100 Allen Road � Allen Park, MI 48101
 * Senior housing: 17000 Champaign Road Allen Park, MI 48101
 * Post Office: 6800 ROOSEVELT AVE ALLEN PARK, MI 48101-9998
 * Allen Park Public Schools administration - 9601 Vine Street  Allen Park, MI
 * Allen Park High School - 18401 Champaign Road Allen Park, MI 48101-2299
 * Allen Park Community School - 14700 Moore     Allen Park, MI   48101
 * Allen Park Middle - 8401 Vine  Allen Park, MI 48101
 * Arno Elementary - 7500 Fox  Allen Park, MI   48101
 * Bennie Elementary -  17401 Champaign       Allen Park, MI  48101
 * Lindemann Elementary - 9201 Carter      Allen Park, MI  48101
 * Rogers Early Elementary School - 5000 Shenandoah *Allen Park, Michigan 48101 (this is a part of the Melvindale-Northern Allen Park district)
 * Melvindale
 * City hall: 3100 Oakwood Blvd. Melvindale, MI 48122
 * Housing Commission/Coogan Terrace: 3501 Oakwood Blvd Melvindale, Michigan 48122
 * Melvindale Civic Arena and Parks and recreation department: 4300 S Dearborn St Melvindale, Michigan 48122
 * Post office: 17081 ALLEN RD MELVINDALE, MI 48122-9998
 * Department of Public works: 3315 Greenfield Road Melvindale, MI 48122
 * Melvindale-Northern Allen Park Public Schools administration - 18530 Prospect Street, Melvindale, MI 48122
 * Melvindale High: 18656 Prospect St. Melvindale, MI 48122
 * Strong Middle: 3303 Oakwood Blvd. Melvindale, MI 48122
 * Allendale Elementary: 3201 Oakwood * Melvindale, Michigan 48122
 * River Rouge
 * City Hall - 10600 West Jefferson Ave. River Rouge, MI 48218
 * Library - 221 Burke Street River Rouge, MI 48218
 * Post office - 10455 W JEFFERSON AVE RIVER ROUGE, MI 48218-9998
 * River Rouge School District administration: 1460 West Coolidge Highway River Rouge, MI 48218
 * River Rouge High School: 1460 W. Coolidge Hwy. River Rouge, MI 48218
 * There is File:RiverRougeHighSchoolMI.jpg - But the school's official name is now "River Rouge New Tech High International Academy" - It might help to check for updated signage
 * Sabbath Middle: 340 Frazier St. River Rouge, MI 48218
 * Visger Elementary: 11121 W. Jefferson Ave. River Rouge, MI 48218
 * Ecorse
 * City Hall/Public safety - Albert B. Buday Civic Center |  3869 West Jefferson  |  Ecorse, MI 48229-1798
 * Housing commission: 266 Hyacinth Street Ecorse, MI 48229
 * Senior center - 4072 W. Jefferson Avenue Ecorse, MI 48229
 * Ecorse Public Schools administration - 27225 West Outer Drive Ecorse, MI 48229
 * Ecorse Community High School - 27385 West Outer Drive Ecorse, MI 48229
 * Grandport Academy - 4536 Sixth Street - Ecorse, MI
 * Bunche Academy - 503 Hyacinthe - Ecorse, MI 48229
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 04:35, 22 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Looks like quite a fun list. I have a few of these pictures already, such as the schools in Lincoln Park.  I'm wondering what's so "International" about River Rouge's high school?  As soon as the weather isn't so gloomy, I'll head out and see what I can get. I don't ever go to Romulus, so I might put that city on the bottom on the list. 02:26, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
 * If it's fine, please put the images in both formats. Thank you :) WhisperToMe (talk) 22:37, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much for posting the images! Have you thought of uploading them onto the Wikimedia Commons? If they are there they can be used on many projects and can have multilingual descriptions WhisperToMe (talk) 04:36, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

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Marquette Park photo
This panorama you made is truly remarkable. I recommend nominating it for featured picture on Commons or here on Wikipedia. Jsayre64  (talk)  03:24, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Boyton/Oakwood
Thanks for adding this page, though, I'd have broken them up into seperate pages since the two neighborhoods are nothing alike and physically seperated. Why I'm writing, though, is that I don't get why in the demographics section, you use race/ethnicity data from the 2009 American Community Survey (I assume) when the 2010 Census demographic data is out. Is it that they haven't broken it down by zip-code? Even so, you can do it by block and block group. --Criticalthinker (talk) 10:14, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

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Brightmoor requests
Hi, Notorious! I posted some more Brightmoor photo requests WhisperToMe (talk) 20:05, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Monroe and River Raisen Paper Company
As a young boy from Chicago, I got to visit my Uncle Roy and Aunt Ann who lived in Michigan. My first memories are of Eaton Rapids. Roy was sawing a tree in his yard and I would go too a local park there. They moved to Monroe and Roy worked at the River Raisen Paper Mill. We watched the big ships sailing across the center lane on Lake Erie in a house he rented on the water. They moved to Grand Rapids so I got to see them there. I visited the capitol in Lansing, Michigan too. By the way, I live in Lansing, Illinois. Thanks for the pictures. It is sad to see the pics of the broken down River Raisen Paper Mill, as I remember it in it's heydays in 1950's. Time changes everything. William Kazak — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.77.17.252 (talk) 12:16, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

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