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An article on which you're making good progress, List of farm to market roads in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, is in the wrong spot. Recently, I moved that article to List of Farm to Market Roads in the Texas Rio Grande Valley since the capital letters are technically correct (see [1]). Just letting you know about this mix up and that List of farm to market roads in the Texas Rio Grande Valley should just be #REDIRECT [[List of Farm to Market Roads in the Texas Rio Grande Valley]] . —Mr. Matté (^Talk/_Contrib) 00:27, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Saw this article while patrolling new pages - thanks for submitting it :). If it's a complete list and you can find some third-party sources you might consider WP:FL. If you're interested, give me a poke on my talkpage - I've run that gauntlet about fifteen times. Ironholds (talk) 23:09, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lists, rather than articles - articles are unfortunately a lot harder (hence why I only have two, really). I'll take a look at the list tomorrow morning, see if it needs tweaking and if not, co-nominate it :). Ironholds (talk) 18:47, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not sure if you're aware, but there have been discussions lately at WP:USRD about some topics in which you may be interested:

• Lists of highways in counties? (Do all 3000+ counties need a list of routes?)
• Virginia primary state routes serving major institutions (Are short articles better than a list of minor routes?)

Also, recently there has been a push to reduce the number of stub-class articles. A number of ideas have been tossed around, and we'd like your input at WT:USRD. Thanks for your contributions! --Fredddie™ 03:29, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm working on an article for RM 2424, which starts in Kent, and I was told by the users on #wikipedia-en-roads that you might have photos of RM 2424. Would you happen to have some? Griffinofwales (talk) 15:13, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I noticed you are a relative newcomer to the site. You should check out #wikipedia-en-roads ^connect (you might want to read WP:IRC and m:IRC first). It's where many of the USRD project members go and discuss things. Griffinofwales (talk) 02:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious as to why you removed the shields from the Galv. Co highways template? Warm Regards, --nsaum75^{¡שיחת!‎} 05:16, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, ok.. just curious. Thanks!! --nsaum75^{¡שיחת!‎} 17:30, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What would you think about {{Jct}} delinking the FM and RM articles that don't exist? The changes made would be similar to this edit I made to Minnesota County Roads. It wouldn't affect articles that have already been written, and once an article was written, the link would appear. Let me know what you think. –Fredddie™ 01:15, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you're referring to this and the other lists like it, this wouldn't affect it at all. The net effect of this is that all of the blue links on the completion lists would have links when you use {{Jct}}. –Fredddie™ 02:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanx Fortguy, the greeting is appreciated. As you've probably guessed, I'm not as versed about all the WP ins/outs as I should be. I was amazed when I first sat down to edit about how many articles could be written or needed help. I've gone to work on what I know, either from-scratch or additions to those articles already here. I have seen the ones that have the sections, but I guess I was either in a hurry to get several done before going to snooze, or was lazy and thought I'd come back to them. There's some things I know about some articles around here but there's always burden-of-proof thing that comes w/it I guess :D ...For example, I know that FM 2493 is a previous/historic routing of US 69 but I haven't been able to find the right map yet to tell me that so it can be linked. Also, that US 175, before it was commissioned in 1932, was a part of TX 40 (the original version, not the one used down by Bryan-College Station), but I've seen very little when it comes to maps and other documentation online that I can add, linkie-wise to the US 175 article without getting the WP evil-eye (plus, no car to go down to libraries along the way to do any research; or, take any new pix :( ). I've seen some of the {} stuff around but I didn't know about some of the ones you referenced. Also, I've seen the Google citations but didn't know exactly how they were done either. I haven't tried to do any map-drawing for any of the articles, but the shields--I don't know what I'm doing wrong on those. I've downloaded Inkscape, the Roadgeek fonts, and a blank FM shield, but can't get the fonts to work right, and I don't know my way around the 'path' thing. So, unfortunately, I've tried to be content listing the un-shielded articles in the needs-shield Category for now. Anyway, I'll have to hold on to that message so I can refer to it. Thanx again Fortguy--very helpful.... Awtribute (talk) 13:09, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could you sneak back for a second and sign your comment at Talk:Joel Burns (politician)? Thanks.

Also, if at all possible I'd like to get the article expanded with a little more background on his political career before his sudden rise to international fame — things he did or didn't do as a councillor, etc. — so that the article doesn't run the risk of being seen as a WP:BLP1E. But, obviously, at the moment the suicide speech is disproportionately dominating the information I can find on Google about him — do you know offhand where I might be able to find some older news coverage from DFW-area media? Bearcat (talk) 18:39, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Checking the 1938 map, the section between Nixon and Gonzales is TX 112. It's also shown that way on my summer 1939 map. 25or6to4 (talk) 19:23, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I left you a message regarding your comment about the section order of articles. --Kumioko (talk) 03:15, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See WT:USRD/SUB --Admrboltz (talk) 00:42, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey - thank you for one! But, when you are adding the Texas termini, can you use {{roadlink}} for those too? I think you are hand coding it so it shows TX not SH but I think SH xxx is fine, since the list also mentions "at the Texas state line". --Admrboltz (talk) 02:06, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so, and if there is, most people will click on the link to see what its all about. --Admrboltz (talk) 02:15, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, Imz mentioned that to me... US 412 doesn't show in the NMDOT log either. Right now the article just has NMDOT log info, I will go back through with AASHTO information soon. --Admrboltz (talk) 21:27, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, I will check in a couple days for you and get back to you ASAP. All I can say is that it inded was not mapped on the 1936 map. I will also mention that I was also working on a mass redirect type page for all the Texas highways that currently don't exist. Take a look here and see if you have any pointers/suggestions: [2]. Thanks, 25or6to4 (talk) 13:31, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I just checked the maps, and TX 247 is not on any of the maps from 1936 (March), 1937 (August), 1938 (September), or 1939 (June). 25or6to4 (talk) 15:29, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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There is a brief straw poll to see if conducting a RFC on the question of coordinates in road articles is worthwhile at WT:RJL. Your input would be appreciated. --Rschen7754 08:22, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Since this article is mostly your work, I was wondering if you would help me handle the good article nomination. - Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 16:49, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Per the template, shouldn't Category:Texas ranch to market roads be empty? --Kinu ^t/_c 21:04, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In short, don't use the templates to create the links, like you did at {{Val Verde County, Texas Highways}}. Navboxes should have direct links, and if an article hasn't been created yet, the link in the navbox should be red. The {{roadlink}} template is suppressing the link to Farm to Market Road articles that are redlinks, so they show up as plain black text in the navbox. Someone is liable to come along and remove them because they aren't links. Also, there are bots that update navboxes to change the target of a link if something is redirected, but these bots can't do that when the link doesn't directly exist in the navbox template. Keep up the good work though! Imzadi 1979 → 01:43, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Maybe you could help adopt this article? I think that if it could be expanded and transformed into an article about the interchange itself, with the reconstruction project as part of the history/future section, that we would have a much better treatment of the subject than the current paragraph which doesn't currently demonstrate notability. Imzadi 1979 → 01:46, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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		Thank you for adding historical designations to Cibolo Creek Ranch and for your excellent Texas edits. Magnolia677 (talk) 14:14, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for everything you've done on the Texas RTHL page. I created that page when I found out there was not one, and didn't have the Wikipedia coding talent to make it anywhere near what you have done. I should be due an RTHL update list from THC in July, and looking at how you've changed it, I do think I can add the handful of new ones in the same format. VinceLeibowitz (talk) 03:13, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for all the work on the Texas State University System page.

Just letting you know I made an edit for the Lamar University endowment depicted on the Texas State University System page. The endowment is actually over $100,000,000. Lamar has two endowments. The two are Lamar University Foundation, Inc with a 2015 amount of $73,438,000.00 and Lamar University with a 2015 amount of $33,388,000.00 according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers 2015 study released in January, 2015. It appears that USNWR is not picking up both endowments. I updated the endowment amount in the table to reflect the combined endowment according to the NACUBO study. I also added a note showing the endowment reported by the US News and World Report "Best Colleges" report with an explanation. The US News and World Report magazine uses the NACUBO study as a source. I linked a USNWR article and quoted a paragraph where USNWR provided a link back to the NACUBO study page.

I'm pretty sure the NACUBO number is more correct than USNWR. Lamar had a multi-year fund raising campaign, "Investing in the Future", which ended in 2014. The campaign's primary purpose was to increase the University's endowment. That campaign raised $132,000,000. Here's a link to the campaign's final report. <ref>http://www.lamar.edu/news-and-events/cardinal-cadence/2014-issues/campaign-surpasses-goal,-132-million-raised-.html<ref>

As an fyi, the USNWR endowment number has similar discrepancies for other universities. For example, USNWR shows $135,804,000 for the University of South Alabama. The NACUBO study shows $362,492,000 for the University of South Alabama Foundation fund and $167,226,000 for the University of South Alabama fund. There was a similar issue with another university that I graduated from, Texas A&M University. USNWR understated A&M's endowment by several billion $'s then. USNWR has the correct number now. A&M reports a combined number of its endowments to NACUBO now, but separated its multiple endowment funds during the years USNWR reported an understated amount. I suspect, as in Lamar's case, USNWR was not picking up all of A&M's endowment amounts in its report. LUSportsFan (talk) 23:15, 9 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The listings you recently added to the Cibola County NRHP list are all already on the Valencia County list, and all but El Morro National Monument are listed as being in Valencia County in the NRIS. I'm missing something; are these all listings that span both counties (even though some appear to just be buildings), are they NRIS errors that should be removed from the Valencia County list, or is it something else? TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 13:28, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, over the past couple of days I've been working on a new List of county courthouses in New Mexico. Shortly after finishing it, I saw that you already created a draft version of this same article, which looks pretty similar to what I came up with. I'm sorry for bypassing all your hard work, I didn't think to check if there was a draft article. Anyway, I'm not really sure how to proceed now. I like some features of your list better, especially color coding for the various historic designations, and it looks like you also found a couple of courthouses that I missed. Would it be OK to incorporate some of your formatting and material into the live article? Camerafiend (talk) 17:42, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Don't forget to add the link to Outline of New Mexico. ;) The Transhumanist 16:14, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, I could really use some simple help with the javascript system supporting wp:NRHPPROGRESS, by the way. --doncram 21:15, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Point me to the JS pages. (On my talk page). The Transhumanist 07:08, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, i found your Draft article on Henry M. and Annie V. Trueheart House and I hope you don't mind I just moved it to mainspace. I was literally just about to create a short stub article on the topic, because for some reason i was trying to complete out National Register of Historic Places listings in Jeff Davis County, Texas. I did create a couple others there. The silly reason was for appearance in the maps at wp:NRHPPROGRESS. --doncram 21:15, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you've removed the coordinates from at least two articles which already had them, Tsama Pueblo and Salmon Ruins. Would you mind saying why? Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 18:24, 6 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Emijrp,

Last sprint you mentioned that you can read JS, and I got the impression you were interested in learning more. Therefore, I thought you might be interested in what I've been working on, including the extensive notes I present on how each script works (on their talk pages).

So far, there is:

• User:The Transhumanist/OutlineViewAnnotationToggler.js – this one provides a menu item to turn annotations on/off, so you can view lists bare when you want to (without annotations). When done, it will work on (the embedded lists of) all pages, not just outlines. Currently it is limited to outlines only, for development and testing purposes. It supports hotkey activation/deactivation of annotations, but that feature currently lacks an accurate viewport location reset for retaining the location on screen that the user was looking at. The program also needs an indicator that tells the user it is still on. Otherwise, you might wonder why a bare list has annotations in edit mode, when you go in to add some. :) Though it is functional as is. Check it out. After installing it, look at Outline of cell biology, and press ⇧ Shift+Alt+a. And again.
• User:The Transhumanist/RedlinksRemover.js – strips out entries in outlines that are nothing but a redlink. It removes them right out of the tree structure. But only end nodes (i.e., not parent nodes, which we need to keep). It delinks redlinks that have non-redlink offspring, or that have or are embedded in an annotation. It does not yet recognize entries that lack a bullet (it treats those as embedded).

It is my objective to build a set of scripts that fully automate the process of creating outlines. This end goal is a long way off (AI-complete?). In the meantime, I hope to increase editor productivity as much as I can. Fifty percent automation would double an editor's productivity. I think I could reach 80% automation (a five-fold increase in productivity) within a couple years. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

There's more:

• User:The Transhumanist/StripSearchInWikicode.js – another script, which strips WP search results down to a bare list of links, and inserts wikilink formatting for ease of insertion of those links into lists. This is useful for gathering links for outlines. I'd like this script to sort its results. So, if you know how, or know someone who knows how, please let me know.

Script and script feature requests (for outlines) are welcome. The Transhumanist 07:11, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

All the work you have been doing categorizing images and creating articles on Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks is awesome. Thanks. Nv8200p talk 10:59, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Morning,

I'd be interested in getting a copy of the RTHL spreadsheet. Need any help with the new lists? 25or6to4 (talk) 16:20, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, thank you for your numerous edits to Texas NRHP-listed places which have been popping up on my Watchlist. Hey, you just moved Cass County Courthouse (Linden, Texas) to Cass County Courthouse (Texas)]], and I moved it back. Please leave this and other courthouse articles at their existing names, of either format. There is long-standing disagreement about the proper disambiguation for these, and a consensus decision/discussion is probably needed. The situation is stable with no one moving them in either direction, except to reverse a new move.

My quick view is that (City, State) disambiguation works best for U.S. places and is consistent with wp:USPLACE guideline and its many discussions. It makes clear you are naming a place, not suggesting there is some statewide court, and avoids begging the questions "where is it?" and "if it is not being disambiguated by place, what is the meaning of STATE here?" ... i think it is clearer to readers and does not raise issues if city,state is used as in all other types of buildings.

Before any moves, there could/should be a big discussion with RFC on the topic; I didn't want to open it earlier but would be able/willing to do it now, if must be. --Doncram (talk) 22:11, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps it is time to open such a discussion. First off, while there is no consensus naming convention at present and names of current articles are not consistent, I prefer to use just the state name for DAB for courthouses that are still being used as county governance facilities. If I read in an article somewhere else that the Cass County Courthouse is the oldest current courthouse in continuous use in Texas, I shouldn't have to also remember the name of the town (Linden) to go to the page without wading through search results. The WP:USPLACE guidelines, as currently written, seems to apply primarily to populated places rather than to buildings or structures.

At Commons, however, the discussions among their editors that I've seen generally trends toward leaving the name of the city out of the category name. After all, no single state has two counties with the same name. Instead, some Commons editors would actually prefer a naming convention with a comma rather than parentheses such as "Cass County Courthouse, Texas" (an idea that seems to have no traction). Despite this, Commons categories, just like Wikipedia articles, are divided between those with the "(city, state)" name and those with just "(state)".

The idea of a county seat and a county courthouse as a single building housing most of a county's judicial and administrative functions is increasingly becoming a quaint and old-fashioned concept. Even in rural areas, many counties have long ago outgrown their courthouse buildings and house many essential offices in county administration buildings often either across the street at least within a couple of blocks nearby. Sheriff offices, jails, and detention centers are now commonly many miles away from the courthouse building. While looking into San Juan County, New Mexico, I found out that they replaced their old courthouse (now demolished) with a multi-building county complex that more resembles a corporate campus in Simi Valley than anything resembling a traditional courthouse. Still, the one building in that facility that has courtrooms only holds trials for minor matters within county jurisdiction. More serious matters are tried in a state district court building some distance away.

These trends become even more pronounced in highly populous counties. Many of such counties now have "sub-courthouses" or "branch courthouses" located in various places, frequently in towns outside the county seat, where the justice of the peace, constable, and county commissioner of that particular precinct may have offices along with various county administrative departments. In these branch courthouses, you can file a small-claim tort against your incompetent plumber, change your voter registration, renew your vehicle sticker, and pay your property taxes without ever having to go to the county seat.

In my view, a Wikipedia article, certainly one of GA-quality or higher, about a county courthouse would describe, not just the old, historic building that traditionally held that omnibus role if it even still exists, but all such buildings in the modern county while leaving the actual minutiae of county administration to the main county article. As many of these facilities may not be located in the official county seat, putting the name of the county seat in the article title would not be reflective of the scope of the article.

As far as historic county courthouses that no longer serve any county function and if they are located in a former county seat, that is a different matter. In that case, the "(city, state)" name disambiguation would be necessary. Let's go back to the subject that prompted this discussion in the first place, the Cass County Courthouse.

• The original Cass courthouse was located, not in Linden, but in Jefferson, Texas which is now in Marion County. That building no longer exists and only deserves mention in the history section about the present courthouse rather than a standalone article. If that building still existed, however, and were noteworthy for being on the National Registry, and if there were plenty of article-building information about it, then I would suggest an article titled "Former Cass County Courthouse (Jefferson, Texas)".
• After the county seat was moved from Jefferson to Linden, the original Linden courthouse was a building no longer extant. If, however, that building still existed and was article-worthy, then I would call that article "Former Cass County Courthouse (Linden, Texas)" regardless of the status of the former Jefferson courthouse. Now, consider an alternate unive