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Hello, OHWiki, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! — HomefryesSay•Do18:45, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi -- thanks for your new articles; I have added the infobox to each and have done some other minor additions. You might also wish to check out WP:OHSH and join the list. The more, the merrier! Happy Holidays! — HomefryesSay•Do18:47, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I notice that you did some prep work for me on the Ohio cities. I first noticed because Toledo was messed up but I seen that you fixed a lot of them thanks. —MJCdetroit04:59, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, OHWiki. Due to the high number of inactive users at WP:USRD, we are asking that you verify that you are still an active contributor of the project. To do so, please add an asterisk (*) after your name on Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. Users without one by the next issue in 2 weeks will be removed off the list and off the respective road projects as well. If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks. TMFLet's Go Mets - Stats20:14, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Good day. I noticed you recently rated the Columbus, Ohio article as "B" class. However, there was no explanation as to the reasoning behind this mark. Could you provide some justification for it as well as suggest ways in which the article could be improved? That would be immensely helpful. The article is quite extensive and very well referenced, so I am a bit surprised that it was given the same grade as approximately 1.5 years ago prior to a number of major improvements. --Analogue Kid14:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ohioan, I've quickly checked out the Columbus, Ohio article and it appears to be ready to become a good article. If you want, nominate the article on the good article nomination page. I'll then review it more completely and will be happy to promote it (if everything checks out).--Alabamaboy23:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks for the nomination. I'll hopefully be working on it some more with the long term goal of having it become a featured article. --Analogue Kid04:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My name is Alabamaboy and I'm an admin at Wikipedia. I was curious if you'd be interested in talking to Joe Blundo at the Columbus Dispatch about Wikipedia and Citizendium (Larry Sanger's new WP-like encyclopedia). If you're interested, please e-mail me and I'll forward your e-mail to Blundo. --Alabamaboy20:08, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I thought that since it was public information, you could just copy it. I've rewritten some of the history sections in some articles since then. Thanks for the help! Milktaco19:05, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You have gone way over the WP:3RR limit on the above article. While I appreciate your reporting of it to WP:RPP, the correct response isn't to revert-war. The other anon editor was at something like 8R and has now been blocked from editing - Alison☺01:32, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, I appreciate it because there has been too much vandalism going on for the last several days.---OHWiki01:41, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note also that 3RR doesn't apply to undoing vandalism. Just keep in mind there's a difference between vandalism and a content dispute. Rklawton20:59, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You may have noticed some changes at WP:USRD lately. Some of them, like the cleanup templates and the stub templates, have been astounding and great. Unfortunately, others have been disturbing.
This has become evidenced by the departure of a few prominent editors at USRD, a few RFC's, and much fighting among USRD editors.
After the second RFC, many of us found the opportunity to take a step away from Wikipedia for a while--as a self-imposed wikibreak, or possibly on vacation.
The result of such introspection was that many of us were placing ourselves in a "walled garden" and on a self-imposed pedestal of authority over the roads department. Also, we were being hostile to a few users who were not agreeing with us.
In fact, IRC has been the main incarnation of this "walled garden." Decisions have been made there to conduct grudges and prejudices against a few valued USRD users with poor justification.
For this, we have come to apologize. We have come to ask your forgiveness.
In addition to this, we hope to work as one USRD team from now on and to encourage cooperation instead of the promotion of interests.
All users are welcome to collaborate on IRC, the newsletter, or anywhere else at USRD.
In the future, please feel free to approach us about any issues you may have.
Thanks for working on improving the intros for various Ohio towns, but please remember not to remove the {{GR|6}} tags, which appear primarily in reference to towns that are county seats. Nyttend01:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are important discussions taking place at WT:USRD relating to whether WP:USRD, WP:HWY, or the state projects should hold the "power" in the roads projects.
I honestly don't know. I do know that SR 761 was tagged with speedy deletion because I was the only one who contributed to the article. There are several Ohio state route articles that only one person contributed to, so maybe they're going after all of them? I'll keep an eye out; maybe the members of the project just need to contribute more to other articles. MilkTaco 18:00, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Hey, sorry I took a while to get back to you. I just uploaded the image to the page, feel free to put it in there wherever you'd like since you're the one doing all the arranging. Hope it meets your needs. Frank1218:32, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is the first issue of WikiProject Ohio's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you would like to suggest something to be included in the next newsletter please see:The Newsdesk
Project News
*New features have been added to the project banner. All articles now need to be assessed for importance as well as class. There are approximately 60,000 articles under Category:Ohio that still need the banner added to their talk pages as well.
Editors and Contributors Needed
*We are in need of editors for this newsletter. If you are interested please visit:The Newsletter Project Page. Also, the The Ohio Portal is seeking Wikipedians to nominate selected articles, sports teams, biographies, and images. The portal is also seeking maintainers.
Areas needing attention
Assessment requests: There may be Requests for assessment needing to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watch the assessment page.
Recently a number of Ohio related articles have achieved featured status. We at WikiProject Ohio would like the editors of those pages for their hard work.
Hi - This is Dan, a frequent contributor to the Ohio Roads Project, and also the webmaster of Ohio Highway Ends (http://www.state-ends.com/ohio/). I just wanted to give you a heads up that there is a gathering of roads enthusiasts, if you will, taking place in Dayton on Saturday, 5/10 at Logan's Road House, 2819 Centre Dr., Fairborn, OH 45324. The first part is a meet-and-greet over lunch, giving people a chance to shoot the breeze, with some attendees potentially bringing some interesting maps, atlases, pictures and more. There may even be a freebie or two floating out there at the gathering (such as a free map). After lunch, we'll divide up and take a tour of some highlights from Dayton area highways, including the almost-completed I-70/75 interchange (the "Freedom Veterans' Crossroads"), reconstruction of the I-75/OH 4 interchange, the newly-reconstructed US 35 through downtown Dayton, and a side tour to an historic crossroad: Dixie Highway & the National Road. We should be wrapped up with the tour by 4:30-5:00 PM. That's a brief synopsis of what the event will entail; I am sending a special invite to all of the Ohio Roads Project editors. These events are always fun, unique and very informative. If you have the opportunity on that day, I would like to invite you to join us. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, please let me know in the coming days. Thanks, and have a great week! DanTheMan474 (talk) 13:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I looked at it again, it may be fine to leave under the external links section. It may not be spam what so ever in my mind.---OHWiki00:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the News Desk! Have a great May.
The Ohio Portal
The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.
There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it. With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value. After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river. Billy Massie
Article Assessment
Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! Over 10,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}}
Article Achievements
New Featured and Good articles
Ohio was listed as a Good Article nominee; the result of the nomination was Not listed.
If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a lot of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage.
Add a picture to an article in the list of requested photographs in Ohio ( 354 ) (Most towns in Ohio are still on the list) or improve one of the articles with no images.
This is the third edition of the WikiProject Ohio newsletter. If you have any project announcements feel free to drop them by the NewsDesk. It's request that you watchlist our talk page; so you can chime in on current discussions. Have a great June!
The Ohio Portal
The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.
Getting the Project Moving
WikiProject Ohio as an entity doesn't have as much action as other state projects. For this reason it has been proposed that the inactive WikiProject Ohio Townships be added as our taskforce. There is a !poll going on at WT:OH and your opinion is essential in the matter!
Stepshep has also proposed sending an invite to everyone in Category:Wikipedians in Ohio with an invite to join the project. If you are already a member you would not receive the notice of course. Once again, please note your opinion on the project talkpage.
The Central Avenue Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located at 201 to 338 Central Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. It consists of late 19th and 20th Century Revival-style houses as well as late Victorian-style houses, which were all originally single-family residences.
Each month a new Ohio related stub is the selected article. If you have a new stub created feel free to nominate it at the NewsDesk.
Article Assessment
Reedy Bot and ShepBot are currently hard at work tagging all of the Ohio articles. We may need to have an assessment drive when the bots are finished. Think of it as a late spring cleaning. Please note your opinions on the project talkpage if you would be interested in helping! Over 15,000 articles have been tagged with {{OH-Project}} We have 5,000 articles that need to be assessed for class!
W. S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award was nominated at Afd.
The result was Delete
Homer E. Woodling and Robert F. Busbey were nominated at Afd.
The result was Keep
All Ohio High School Conferences were nominated at Afd.
The result was no consensus keep. There is an effort to improve these articles here.
Ohio Barnstar of Merit
If you know of a Wikipedian who has contributed a good deal of effort to Ohio articles feel free to award the new Ohio Barnstar of Merit by placing the following code on their user talkpage.
{{subst:The Ohio Barnstar of Merit|message}}
Article Importance Scheme
A new article importance scheme has been proposed at the assessment talk page. Please comment on the propsed system.
Add a picture to an article in the list of requested photographs in Ohio ( 354 ) (Most towns in Ohio are still on the list) or improve one of the articles with no images.
Coordinate with Ohio Portal to provide quality articles for use.
Place the {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|OH=Yes|OH-importance=}} banner into Ohio related articles and assess
This newsletter is delivered by bot to all project members of WikiProject Ohio. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter in the future or would like to receive it in a different format, please note this in the appropriate section at the NewsDesk. Thank you, §tepshep
OHWiki: Hope you're having a good July 4th weekend so far. I am working to start ramping up the Ohio Highways WikiProject on a much larger scale, especially coming off of one of the first Ohio highway GAs (Ohio State Route 716). There is a lot of work to do on this project, given a number of stubs and a number of routes that do not even have any pages, but we definitely have the people out there to make it happen...especially including yourself. I wanted to talk to you about some of the possibilities for this; please let me know if you would be interested, and if so we will coordinate from there. Thanks, and enjoy the remainder of your weekend! DanTheMan474 (talk) 17:30, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A while back, you added a demographics table to Daytona Beach, Florida. I had to delete the figures from 1910/1920 because they are likely out of context. You are probably not aware that three separate cities, Daytona, Daytona Beach, and Seabreeze merged in 1926 into a consolidated Daytona Beach (so that the figures you pulled for 1910-1920 were only for the OLD Daytona Beach, which was a tiny city). Daytona was the oldest and largest of the three cities. I don't know if you can still dig up the data, but if you can pull up the populations for all three cities, it would be more accurate. Gamweb (talk) 17:12, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for doing the work to gather the additional info. I will have to figure out where to put the new infoboxes now! LOL - I was thinking about making separate pages for Daytona and Seabreeze - I guess I should do that now. (BTW: Daytona was founded in 1876; Daytona Beach and Seabreeze were both founded around 1900.) Gamweb (talk) 17:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I am working on a new page for Fun Coast (combined Flagler County and Volusia County) in Florida (in my sandbox first). I wanted to ask if you would be interested in helping me on a Demographics section for the article? I kind of like the way the demographics section in South Florida is put together, and am trying to figure out how to find the same data. Thanks for any advice you can offer. Gamweb (talk) 07:31, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello I found your downtown shot of Norwalk Ohio. I'd like to have your permission to present your photograph for use in in a new/remodeled restaurant in Norwalk. Upon approval we would enlarge it to 16x20, mat and frame it for use as wall decor in this single restaurant. Your name would appear in the credit line. Thank you for your time.
Yes, why not, you do have permission to use my photograph. I'm more then happy to allow you to present my photograph for use. The photograph will be nice enlarged to 16x20, mat and frame it for use as wall decor in a new/remodeled restaurant in Norwalk, Ohio. If all this gets done, I might sometime go up to Norwalk to see the mat and frame decor.—OHWiki00:08, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Are you from the Ohio area? A Wikipedian meetup is taking place on July 18, 2009 in Columbus. If you are interested in coming or would like more information, see the first Ohio meetup page.
Hello, OHWiki! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!
Thanks for uploading the Mechanics Bank photo into the Richland County NRHP list.
It reminded me that I had some photos from April 29, 2011 that I hadn't yet uploaded or quite figured out yet. On that afternoon I zipped through town and took photos of about 25 NRHP sites on Park Avenue West. I was disappointed that I couldn't snap all the PAW sites and unfortuneately couldn't quite figure out the adresses on a couple. Is there any chance you could check out or confirm a couple of these for me? Today I switched what I thought was
428 PAW to 437 PAW, and
365 PAW to 415 PAW
I believe they are now correct, but it bothers me that I wasn't sure when I uploaded them. If you see any other apparent mistakes please let me know.
I'm a bit obsessive about completing the NRHP county lists. Do you know that there are only about 22 NRHP sites left to photograph before the Richland County list is fully illustrated? In particular, I'd like to see the John Sherman Memorial Gateway (listed on July 8, 1983 at 699 Park Ave., W. 40°45′32″N 82°32′26″W right next to the Fraser House). I walked by this several times without knowing what I was looking for exactly, and even got a partial photo of half of it while taking a pic of a historical marker. It's right where Brinkerhoff Ave meets Park Ave. West. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks - any contribution of NRHP site pix is always appreciated. I'll assume that I finally figured out the right address for the right photo unless you move them around, but in the odd chance that I make it back to Mansfield again (from Philadelphia) I may check again. It looks to me like "Pacific Curios Antiques 365 Park Ave., W. 40°45′31″N 82°31′46″W" has been torn down for the Park Avenue car wash (381 PAW) with 359 immediately to the east. I don't have a clue as to why I didn't find the "John Krause House 428 Park Ave., W. 40°45′33″N 82°31′53″W". I wouldn't be too afraid of neighborhood disapproval in taking these types of pix - for every 100 sites I take, I'd say I get 3 or 4 disapproving glances or comments ("Why don't you mind your own business" or "leave us alone") and 10-20 positive comments ("You know I went to school there - it was a great place" or "I didn't think many people really knew how important this is"). Mostly, of course folks just ignore me!
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