Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vermont/Archive 4

Lyndon, Vermont
Hey all from a random Wikipedian. I don't live anywhere near Vermont but I noticed way back in 2006 someone involved with this Vermont group tagged Lyndon as needing a photo. It still doesn't have anything. Any of you Vermont residence people have or can get one? Just random encouragement! Cheers Nesnad (talk) 16:01, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Try http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/fist.php -- User:Docu

Category
I've nominated Category:County seats in Vermont to be renamed to Category:Shire towns in Vermont. Please offer your commentary at the discussion page. Nyttend (talk) 02:33, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

William Jarvis (merchant)
New article I've tagged with your project. Cheers. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 23:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Question on article suitability for this project and possible assessment
Myself and a couple of new editors just created an article about our favorite jigsaw puzzle company Stave Puzzles, which is located in Norwich, Vermont. I would like to know if an article about a company located in Vermont is suitable for inclusion in this project? If it does meet the scope criteria for this project, I would appreciate an assessment. Thanks in advance. --Captain-tucker (talk) 10:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Brattleboro Free Folk Festival
I've thought about either merging this stub into a general folk festival article/list or nominating it for deletion if I can't find any good sources to expand it. Does this project have any input? Viriditas (talk) 23:14, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
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Maria von Trapp
According to http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Qxz-ad113.gif, Maria von Trapp was born in Vermont. I love Vermont. My dad was born in Vermont. His Caucasian heritage there antedates its statehood and his Abenaki heritage there antedates its colonial status. I have imported Vermont Maple Syrup to the farthest reaches of Earth. I am proud that both Chester A. Arthur and Calvin Coolidge hailed from Vermont.

As a Wikipedian though, I need to address that Maria von Trapp was not born in Vermont but chose to live there, where she and her family became famous, and spent the end of her life there. She did not emigrate from Austria via Italy until after the Anschluss in 1938. Besides Johannes, all of her children were born before 1938, so none of them could be native Vermonters either. Considering that the family settled in Vermont in 1942 (cf. Agathe von Trapp), I believe that not even Johannes was born in Vermont. I know that quite a few of her descendents were though. "The Von Trapp Children" on their unofficial "Myspace" page, http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=37365260, say they are from Montana.

I would like you to have your ad changed to reflect that she, Arthur, and Coolidge were Vermonters, which is true, as opposed to saying all three were born in Vermont. :)--Thecurran (talk) 17:05, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Could someone change the ad please? It's misleading. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  05:41, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
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Terraces
Nineteenth century geologists were quite taken with the "terraces" of the NEK (and perhaps other areas in Vermont, but this is the only one I am familiar with). See http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vermont/GazetteerCaledoniaEssex02.html and http://books.google.com/books?id=1OUbAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA148&lpg=RA2-PA148&dq=geology+%22black+river%22+%22Orleans+county%22+vermont&source=web&ots=meDcyc-XFn&sig=7-euFkFpNOf_5bKCNbUMUBCE58o&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA18-IA1,M1

These terraces were apparently left by the glacier, but I don't understand their emphasis at all. Why do they ever care? I would appreciate a comment by anyone familiar with geology. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 00:06, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Vermont
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

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Vermont articles needing geographic coordinates
 articles in Category:Vermont articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Vermont is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:48, 26 November 2008 (UTC)