User talk:WaldoJ

Paul Goodloe McIntire
Hi Paul--I was glad to insert that information. I had already done some of the research when I added citations to McIntire School of Commerce, and I keep links to the two major histories of the University of Virginia on my user page just for this purpose. I too would be very interested to see what happens when people start taking responsibility for their own town's WP page. Tjarrett (talk) 21:04, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The Corner
Hey, great start on The Corner (UVA). I look forward to seeing how this develops! -Tjarrett (talk) 01:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: My VH1 Music Awards?
Hi, although I mostly agree with you on those counts, I've been working on the article for WP:FLC. Since there are some awards that are not considered notable, it's been agreed upon at FLC that awards which do not have a Wikipedia article solely dedicated to it is not considered notable and should therefore not be included in an awards list. It's just to keep awards list clear of any non-notable awards that might be used to pad an awards list, etc. Gary King ( talk ) 01:41, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay I see that you've created the award's article. Do you have reliable sources for the awards that DMB won from them? Then I can use them in the list. Thanks! Gary King ( talk ) 01:50, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Added. The FLC is here. Gary King ( talk ) 02:27, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Albemarle County
Sorry, thought I'd caught that typo before I began.

As to which exist and which don't - I'd greatly appreciate it if you could tag the ones that don't exist so that they can be culled. Everything in the template is an official "populated place" as per the standards of the US Geological Survey. What those standards are I leave open to argument; as it is I culled a number of mobile home parks from the list before creating the template. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 03:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Why do you say it doesn't exist? Look for it on Google Maps, and you'll find it: along State Route 6 southwest of Charlottesville.  Read the GNIS source and you'll find it there.  Please don't delete links from templates as you did if you can't prove that they don't exist, and please don't prod as nonexistent places that have sources to prove their existence.  Nyttend (talk) 16:43, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll try and work on it today or tomorrow. And please, winnow away - I have some troubles with GNIS.  By the same token, I don't know of another source that's as comprehensive.  It's sort of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:05, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I hate to admit it, but I did it by hand, not by tool - I wrote out the article template, copied it, and pasted it along the line. That's where the mistake got in in the first place.  I should be able to fix it tonight, though.


 * No worries - it's my mistake, so I should fix it. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 20:46, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Aww, thanks. :-) I've got a pretty good, pretty fast connection, so it's no trouble.  And I was just trying to fill in some gaps in coverage - unfortunately, GNIS is of little more than scant help in determining what, exactly, constitutes a reasonable locality.


 * Speaking of the House, incidentally, User:Rklear has been creating a spate of articles about current delegates recently, if you're interested. I'm glad to see it being done; the list was redlinked for so long it was getting frustrating. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Aaaand done. (For this I did use a program - AWB - which is very useful for things like this.  Not the best for article creation, though.) --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:27, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * AWB's page is here, if you're interested. I highly recommend checking it out - I've managed to do literally a thousand edits a day on some projects with it.  Minor stuff, but still. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 21:31, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

[unindent] The standard policy is to list all unincorporated communities with articles on the county template. I'm sorry that it seems problematic, but the GNIS is highly reliable; moreover, we don't just list current communities, but former communities too, so perhaps there was once a significant community there that doesn't exist anymore. Nyttend (talk) 23:06, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * You're going to have to prove it to the USGS that these places don't exist. Of the five that I've checked five tonight—Old Dominion, Westmoreland, Farmington, Stonehenge, and Batesville—four are sourced to authoritative USGS topographical maps or to USGS place name files (the exception being Stonehenge, shown on a map produced by a Charlottesville printing company); and I can't imagine why they would be assigning a name to a nonexistent place.  The USGS is open to corrections: go here for the contact page if you want to try; just a few months ago, I was working with a user who found an incorrectly-named cemetery in Iowa, contacted the USGS, and saw it get changed.  Nevertheless, the reason I said that you'd have to prove that these places don't exist is that the GNIS and other parts of the USGS are highly reliable and indeed definitive very often, so any contradiction must be very strongly sourced to demonstrate that they're wrong.  Nyttend (talk) 23:43, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't mean that you can't prove that they don't exist because the GNIS is final: that's why I put in the bit about the Iowa cemetery. I believe that it's going to be rather difficult, but I don't know how hard, as I've never contacted the USGS for anything, and I'm simply assuming that you'd have to have good proof to convince them to change their listing.  Nyttend (talk) 03:06, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Virgil Goode
You've modified the Virgil Goode entry to change:

"He was lampooned on The Daily Show for the apocryphal story."

to:

"He was lampooned on The Daily Show for the story."

The reason cited was WP:NPOV. I'm puzzled by your deletion, because POV has nothing at all to do with it—it is a fact that the story is false, there is no evidence at all that it is true, and I think that is a point well worth emphasizing. The Daily Show didn't lampoon Goode for the factual story, but for the incorrect story that was circulated by bloggers, meaning that Goode wasn't criticized as much as a pretend version of him was. Hence "apocryphal" in that particular passage. There may be a logical reason to remove "apocryphal" from this sentence—though I don't know what it is—but POV simply isn't one of them. It's with that in mind that I'm adding the word back in. If you think there's a reason why that's wrong, I'm all ears.--WaldoJ (talk) 03:43, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The clip isn't linked, but presumably The Daily Show showed a Hummer with a Goode sign and lampooned it. There may have been some inaccuracy in the commentary (e.g. saying Goode owned the Hummer) but I think that's different from saying the story is apocryphal. After all, there was a Goode Hummer; it just wasn't a Goode-owned Hummer. AaronSw (talk) 13:34, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Virginia House of Delegates
Just a heads-up that I've added articles for today's two apparent special election winners, Delores McQuinn and Barry Knight (politician). I included links to Richmond Sunlight pages based on what appears to be their naming convention. With luck, those will actually appear before someone deletes the links from the articles. Rklear (talk) 01:20, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Mayors of Charlottesville, Virginia
I started a List of mayors of Charlottesville, Virginia which I thought might interest you. I've been looking for people to help me edit it and maybe add some pages for more notable mayors, such as Dave Norris, who doesn't have his own page yet despite a link on the Charlottesville, Virginia page. Anyway, just a heads-up in case this interests you or anyone else you might know. Iman2464 (talk) 19:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

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Keswick, Virginia
Hello. Regarding the Shackelford family graveyard in Keswick, it is a separate family graveyard from that at Monticello. I couldn't tell from your edit if you realized that, as your edit got mangled when posted. Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:11, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * The Shackelfords (correct spelling of the name in Albemarle and Orange) are already noted on the wikipedia entry for the Monticello Association. See . As for their prominence, you might have a look at the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, former president of William & Mary: There are many other sources as well. Note: the family derives from the village of Shacklefords, Virginia, in King and Queen County, but various branches use different spellings. The definitive work on the family's history remains that of Lt. Col. Robert Baylor Shackelford of Albemarle County, published by Jarman Press in Charlottesville in 1940. Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:29, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * An earlier book edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, entitled Men of Mark in Virginia, is here: Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:43, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, Willow Grove, a couple of miles outside Orange, used to be one of the family homes. Today it is a bed-and-breakfast. How things change.... Regards, MarmadukePercy (talk) 22:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I have added to the wikipedia entry on Orange, here: Orange, Virginia. Cheers, MarmadukePercy (talk) 01:23, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Barbara Bauer
On Talk:Barbara Bauer Literary Agency you ask for copies of the original Bauer wikipedia article. I have an archived copy of the google cache version that I saved when I first noticed the article had been deleted. The copy is dated 5 Apr 2007 21:06:25 GMT. I can e-mail it to you if you like, but as it's content that was deleted from wikipedia I can't really post it here. I can also fill you in on any background info you need, as I was an active editor of that page. JulesH (talk) 20:13, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Re:biglonie
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Canada
Since you bring up several points, I'll answer them separately.
 * As far as the city/county bit — the area is currently in the city, so it's not in the county, and thus shouldn't be in the county category. Since the area still exists, it should be categorised based on where it is now.
 * As far as the neighborhood/UC question — there's no good reason to categorise it as an unincorporated community. Either go with ghost town, since the settlement isn't there anymore in its fashion, or classify it as a neighborhood because it's within the city.  The typical way to treat it is as a neighborhood, because it's in the city — thus not unincorporated — and because if the area has been redeveloped, it's not at all abandoned either.
 * What do you mean by "w/r/t"? Nyttend (talk) 01:17, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey, thanks for the mention. You made my day! - Josette (talk) 02:06, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * So... Jo told me about this ... although I'm a Wired subscriber I missed the brouhaha when it broke. :) You made her day! I've been to Charlottesville before, liked it, and got nosy about your Flickr pics and I picked out a few from your stock set to upload to Commons, possibly to enhance the Charlottesville, or Downtown Mall articles, hope you don't mind, please fix the descriptions if I erred... they are
 * File:Flickr 2768192221 Charlottesville City Hall.jpg
 * File:Flickr 2768195097 Charlottesville 3rd St Downtown Side Street.jpg and
 * File:Flickr 2769039796 Charlottesville 4th St. Mall Crossing.jpg
 * Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 03:02, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Input on Virginia Gentlemen AfD
Hi--as an editor who has worked on University of Virginia related pages, I wanted to ask you to take a look at Articles for deletion/Virginia Gentlemen. If there is anything else I need to do to establish notability for the article, I'd appreciate the insight. -Tjarrett (talk) 13:29, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

WCHV Edits‎
My edits were not on accident and I did mean to delete that section. On many radio stations there are large swaths of unsourced original research and while it is probably correct in the history, it can't be on here without sources. I do, however, welcome it being readded with reliable third party sources. If those can be found, readd away. :) Take Care... Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 03:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You might minimize confusion by justifying such significant changes in the edit summary in the future, then. :) Do you really think it's best to delete this information, as opposed to putting a citation requested header at the top? I know some of the folks who put that information in there, and they worked at the station for many years. (I worked there, too, for a few years.) The information obviously fails WP:OR in that regard, but given that there's no reason to suspect the information to be inaccurate, why not retain it with requests inserted? WaldoJ (talk) 15:36, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Fat Nancy Wreck
Hi Waldo, just noticed the coordinates on that one are off - links to a place north of Crozet, instead of nr. Orange. Just FYI. Regards, G-41614 --93.194.113.36 (talk) 15:37, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!
A few questions though... First, is this you: File:The state decoded - waldo jaquith - Flickr - Knight Foundation.jpg? Second, I've been uploading many photos from what I believe to be your Flickr account (flickr) and I've been adding your files to the category: Commons:Category:Photos taken by Waldo Jaquith. Did you know that your uploads to Flickr since approx. Jul 25, 2009 have been uploaded under a license that makes them incompatible to be used on Wikipedia or Commons? I assume the ones that are straight up copyright are such for a particular reason, but are the others? If so, that is fine and I understand. Once again thanks for your photos and everything :) -- Тимофей ЛееСуда . 21:50, 2 April 2013 (UTC)


 * That photo is me, although it's not licensed under terms that allow it to be used on Wikipedia. (The picture was taken by an employee of the University of Virginia for use on a university website. Whether that makes it a work in the public domain or not, I don't know—I'm not familiar with Virginia laws in this regard.) I'm glad that some of the photos that I have taken are useful to you—I'm always happy to see my photographs employed here. I have frequently taken photos and shared them with the hope that they could be useful on Wikipedia. (I even maintain a list on my iPhone of places in my vicinity of Virginia that I should photograph, should I get the opportunity, because they currently lack photographs on Wikipedia.) Yes, my photos that are copyright-encumbered are always for encumbered for a reason (such as when my wife actually took them), but that's vanishingly few of them. I was not aware that moving to a noncommercial Creative Commons license would make my photos license-incompatible with Wikipedia, although on reflection it's clear why that's so. I have a solution in mind, although I'm not going to have the time to research it anytime soon—dual-licensing, allowing photos to be used on Wikipedia under a less-restrictive Creative Commons license, but not elsewhere. Do you know if this is an acceptable solution under Wikipedia standards? --WaldoJ (talk) 15:58, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The image of you was uploaded to flickr, and then put on Commons based on the license on flickr which is compatible. If the license is incorrect on flicker, it may need to be brought up in a deletion discussion on Commons.  As for the dual licenses, that cannot be.  If they're on Wikipedia or Commons they are released under a free license and could be therefore used by anyone for any purpose.  If you want to keep them non-commercial, I completely 100% understand, especially since the quality is so good! thanks for your work and your response. -- Тимофей ЛееСуда .  19:46, 3 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Ah, yeah, it looks like the Knight Foundation took |my staff photo from UVA's website, posted it to |their own Flickr page, and set it to a Creative Commons license. I don't really care—I didn't take the photo, and as far as I'm concerned, such a photo ought to be in the public domain anyway—so I'm just calling it up. :) If you see any particular photos of mine on Flickr that you would like to use on Wikipedia, you're welcome to let me know, and odds are decent that I can change the license to permit sharing. --WaldoJ (talk) 02:26, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

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