User talk:Zaui/archive4

Your driveway
I'm standing in it. lol, just kidding (I love crappy horror movies). Seriously though, the picture on your userpage of the view from your driveway is beautiful and brightened my day. I live is Missouri now, but I grew up in California and I miss the mountains. You'd be surprised how much a person can miss seeing mountains once they no longer live by them. Props on the picture. Cheers! 68.143.88.2 18:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Heh - nice one. Yes, autumn is very scenic around here. I lived in the Kansas City area for a time and grew up in Wisconsin - the mountains here are a nice change from the midwest. &mdash; Zaui (talk) 18:59, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Photos on List of Oregon covered bridges
On this edit you made the edit summary remove some photos - ran past table - alphabetize remaining. Thank you for attempting to tidy up the article. Keep in mind that size of thumb nailed photos is configurable per user, as is the size of the font, line spacing, etc. and may depend on the skin a user chooses. Also, the screen width and resolution varies dramatically from one person's display to another, from mobile phones to 4000 pixel wide displays, so it is very difficult to conclude that the photos ran past the table in general. Thank you for choosing my least favorite photos of the Office Bridge for removal—I can't believe I didn't take a good photo of the sidewalk! Regards, —EncMstr 05:57, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

New COTW
Hello again from WikiProject Oregon. A round of applause for the project in October when we added three GAs, one FA, plus 10 DYKs! Next, thanks to all those who participated in last week’s Collaboration of the Week, John Wesley Davis & Johnny Kitzmiller. This week we have the Cayuse War, and in honor of the home opener, the Portland Trail Blazers. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies 18:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

WPOR's newest COTW
Thank you to all those editors who helped improve Cayuse War and Portland Trail Blazers last week as part of the Collaboration of the Week. They are looking much better. This week, with the election season over, we’ll tackle a request for Oregon Ballot Measure 37 (2004), which should have plenty of WP:RS available to work with on improvement. Our other article is another Stub in the High category, our only Miss America, Katie Harman. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Legal disclaimer: WikiProject Oregon and its affiliates are not liable for any personal injuries acquired while editing on the COTW including but not limited to carpel tunnel syndrome, Wikistress, alcoholism, anxiety attacks, or extreme emotional distress. Aboutmovies 20:10, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Oregon COTW version 11.20
Welcome to the jungle folks. Thanks to those who helped out with Katie Harman and Oregon Ballot Measure 37 (2004) last week. This week, we have two high priority stubs, one of the two major hospitals in Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center, and Oregon Department of Education. Enjoy your turkeys, or for some enjoy your tofurkeys. As always, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

WPORE Civil War COTW
Hello again to WikiProject Oregon members, time for this week’s Collaboration of the Week. Thank you to those who helped out improving Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center and Oregon Department of Education last week. This week, in honor of the annual Civil War, we have the University of Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State University Beavers. Or if you attended some other school, feel free to improve your alma mater’s article. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:06, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Fahrenheits
I see you probably figured this out already and corrected yourself, but I'll throw in a little additional explanation. Indeed, we don't use "Fahrenheits" or "Celsiuses"; that's because they are adjectives. We do pluralize the nouns they modify: degrees, as in "degrees Fahrenheit" and "degrees Celsius".

Similarly, before the old "degrees Kelvin" were thrown out 40 years ago, the word Kelvin in those units was an adjective, capitalized and unchanged in the plural, with the "s" added to "degree" just as it still is in degrees Celsius. Now the units are kelvins, where kelvin is now a noun rather than an adjective, lowercase and taking the normal plural form. Gene Nygaard 19:18, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the additional explanation. It seemed odd to me, then I read kelvin just to be sure. &mdash; Zaui (talk) 19:54, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

FA for WPORE COTW
Greetings boys and girls from the fine folks at The Wettest Place on Earth! A thank you to those who helped last week make some good improvements on the U of O and OSU OS articles. For this week, the next stub on the list is Fortune 1000 company Lithia Motors, Inc. way down south in Dixie, which only needs a little added to make it to Start. The other is a bit more of a challenge, but Linus Pauling I believe is our only Nobel Prize winning Oregonian, and a former FA. So hopefully we can get it back to FA, check the talk page’s article history template for comments. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies 20:57, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Oregon COTW #25 (or so)
Hello again from the COTW of WikiProject Oregon. We thank ye who went forth through the rain and mud and helped out with last week’s articles Lithia Motors and Linus Pauling. Hopefully Linus can return to FA status early next year. This week we have the request of Oregon Ballot Measure 5 (1990) and High importance article Portland Rose Festival. Whatever work you can contribute would be greatly appreciated by our master. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Salt Lake City
Thanks for offering to help with Salt Lake City. The culture section is the section that I'm really worried about, though, and that's not my specialty area. And I'm sure there's something in the county library system that will help. Don't ask me for specific book references, though. I get almost all of my referencing from the Internet, mainly the Deseret News archives (since you have to pay for the Tribune's archives). I'll also be updating the "to-do" list periodically. What areas of the article do you think you could help the most with? Also, if there's any other users you know who could help, try to get them involved as well. All of the main Utah contributors in the past seem to have disappeared...It seems like I've been working on this article since the moment I got onto Wikipedia! Oh, wait...I have. bob rulz (talk) 02:50, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy Holidays from WP:ORE
Hello again from the Collaboration of the Week for WikiProject Oregon. This week are two more stubs, the Oregon Garden and former Congressman Robert B. Duncan. Both are close to moving up to Start class, so only a little work is needed. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 00:03, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

US 12 in Wisconsin
Please don't fix stuff that isn't broken (WP:R2D) Redirects make things easier to work with in situations such as disambiguating. If you have any questions let me know. —  master son T - C 21:13, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I guess I don't understand why Fort Atkinson would be preferred over Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin . &mdash; Zaui (talk) 22:07, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree, the first wikilink is preferable. Perhaps user:Master_son mistook such a change for mindless redirect replacement often done for links like United States Route 26 or Douglas fir.  Use of such links are fine even though they are redirects.  Certain such links may help organize creation of new articles where warranted, or provide friendly multi-language handling, such as tyre vs. tire.  —EncMstr 22:29, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh - perhaps I should look more carefully - sorry - and thanks for pointing that out. I'll be more careful next time  —  master son T - C 22:41, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Holiday COTW
Greetings to all the WikiProject Oregon crew. Happy holidays to those who celebrate holidays. Thanks to those who helped out with last week’s articles Oregon Garden and Robert B. Duncan. Due to the holidays and people likely to be spending less time on Wikipedia, the new Collaboration of the Week will run for two weeks (OK actually I’ll be out of the country, but same difference). The first item will be a general Reference Improvement Drive. So find an article, source an tagged sentence or bring all the citations up to WP:CITE standards. The other item is a Tagging Drive, looking for those random articles about Oregon that do not yet have a WikiProject Oregon tag on the talk page. In the past I’ve found the Category:People from Oregon and its sub cats fertile ground for the lost Oregon souls. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:00, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

New Year COTW from WP:ORE
Happy New Year to all the Oregon WikiProject People. A big round of applause for everyone last year, we got a lot done. A thank you to everyone who helped with the last Collaboration of the Week, I saw a large number of articles in the unassessed section and our total number of articles is over 5000 (we were around 4000 in June when the assessment program finished the initial run) so I know at one person was busy tagging. This week we are back to a High importance Stub article the one and only max security prison, first prison, and only one with a death row in the state, the Oregon State Penitentiary. Then, by request we have one of the most prolific ballot measure sponsors in Mr. Bill Sizemore. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 16:52, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Image request
Please see my Image request, at WP:OREGON. Any chance you could help out with getting some related free-use images for anything I mentioned? Cirt (talk) 09:49, 12 January 2008 (UTC).
 * Would you be in a position to obtain free-use photos of any of the mentioned stuff? You'd know more than I about getting free-use images from Oregon-related locations, perhaps a friend of your lives closer to that area?  Cirt (talk) 22:47, 14 January 2008 (UTC).
 * Sorry, probably not. Only in-laws live in Oregon and no one is that close to The Dalles. &mdash; Zaui (talk) 23:54, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for the reply, I'll keep looking. Cirt (talk) 00:00, 15 January 2008 (UTC).

Portal:Wisconsin
I noticed your addition to the portal. On my 768x1024 monitor I still get 2 columns of text which don't wrap properly on the image. Everything looks fine on the wide screen monitor on my other PC. Royal broil 02:29, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I changed my resolution to 768x1024 and I don't see anything out of the ordinary. Maybe I'm not understanding the problem - around which image is the text not wrapping properly? The selected image or an image in the selected bio or article?  Is it only one picture or all of them?  Thanks, &mdash; Zaui (talk) 17:36, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Oregon GA COTW
Howdy to WikiProject Oregon members, time for another edition of the Collaboration of the Week. As you may have already noticed, our flagship article Oregon is up for the third time as we make a push to get WP:GA status before going for WP:FA. Since this will take some time to get where it needs to be, this will be the COTW for more than just a week. Also, so we hopefully don’t trip over ourselves, try to coordinate on the article’s talk page. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here.

On another note, just a general good job/pat on the back to the project for a great 2007, the first full year of the project. We had 83 DYKs about Oregon, improved one article to FA, and went from around 4 GAs to 17 GAs. Plus numerous new articles, improvements to existing, the introduction of the COTW, and the introduction of article assessment at the project. Again, great job and here’s to a new year. Aboutmovies (talk) 17:06, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Snowy COTW from WPOR
Hello again from WP:ORE. Please note the Collaboration of the Week is running two hours late, no morning kindergarten, and routers are on snow routes. Thank you to those who helped improve Oregon, we are inching towards GA quality. This week we have another High importance Stub in our official state insect (who knew?) with the Oregon Swallowtail, and then a new article I came across, Biglow Canyon Wind Farm. Help if you can get out of the snow. Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Good day! Aboutmovies (talk) 16:08, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Utah template
No problem. I reduced it to semi-protection. Cool Hand Luke 04:12, 31 January 2008 (UTC)