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Your edit to Wikipedia:Peer review/Dallas, Texas/archive2

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Dallas FAC

Strongly supported it. Hope it gets through! --Longhornsg 02:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Packing, getting on a plane, will look at it over the weekend. It needs more citations than I tagged. Sandy (Talk) 03:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Minnesota

Can you re-check Minnesota in regards to pictures? Thanks! -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 07:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar. Much appreciated! Jakew 10:33, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:Dallas, Texas Main Street 1920s.jpg listed for deletion

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dallas

Well, not really—got too much paid work to do. Try searching for good people in the edit histories of similar articles. Look up the group WPians in Texas (if there is one). Check out contributors to Texan/US FAs. Show an interest in their work, and they might be willing. Tony 02:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Nice work. I've changed my Oppose vote to a Support vote. Kaldari 05:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Dallas FAC

For the lead attempt you put in the FAC, I feel the focus is wrong. The lead should summarize the article. Your first para is ok as an intro, the second is a good business summary. The non-existent third para should summarize the rest of the article that's not already in the lead (culture, education, sports, etc). Hope this helps. Pls leave additional questions in the FAC or on my talk page. Rlevse 11:50, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Population desity map

Hey drumguy, after the Dallas FAC is finished, is there any chance I could talk you into creating a population desity map for Nashville similar to the one you did for Dallas? I would be willing to trade services or make a contribution to the Wikimedia Foundation as payment. I have access to lots of newspaper microfilm archives for research purposes in case that would be useful to you. Kaldari 17:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Wow, that was fast! Thanks! Actually, I do have a tangental interest in Dallas history, specifically a newspaper that was published in Dallas in the 1890s called Coming Era. A friend of mine who does research about the history of political newspapers (and has written a few articles) has been trying to dig up information on this newspaper but hasn't had much luck. Even the Labadie Collection doesn't have any information about it. It seems to be completely lost to history. He dug up 1 issue in a private collection (in extremely poor shape) while working on some other research. Here's everything we know about it so far:

• The address of the newspaper's office was: "Rooms 306-307 Cockrell Building, 301 Maine St., Dallas Texas". That was the address as of 1898. Maine Street became Main Street and apparently the street was renumbered at some point. The Cockrell Building was razed in 1930 (it stood at the corner of Main and Field St. in the middle of downtown, where One Main Place Building is now).
• The newspaper was published on the 5th and 21st of each month.
• The editor of the paper in 1898 was Ross Winn.
• The paper had a definite anti-federalist left-wing political slant (although compared with other papers Ross Winn worked on, it was relatively mainstream).

If you can dig up any information about this newspaper, I would be ecstatic (and I'm sure my friend Shaun would write you a 5-page letter in gratatude). Good luck on the FAC process! Kaldari 19:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Awesome. I imagine the only places you might be able to find mention of it are books on local Dallas history (if they have a section on local newspapers), or mentions in other newspapers of the era (The Dallas News was around back then). If there are any librarians there that are knowledgable on local history they might be able to point you in the right direction. The reason the newspaper is particularly interesting is that left-wing political newspapers are extremely rare in the South. The few that existed usually had short runs and were quickly forgotten. The fact that one existed in Dallas all the way back in the 1890s is quite remarkable. Kaldari 19:56, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Time to update your vandalism notice :)

I reverted a tiny vandalistic change to your user page just now, so it's no longer accurate to say it's been vandalized only once. Incidentally, I also put a note on the AntiVandalBot talk page explaining that you had not vandalized the peer review page for Dallas, Texas after all. (Big shock, there.) Lawikitejana 18:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC) new member of WikiProject Dallas thanks to your automated notice

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Communities in Dallas

Please see my note in Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Dallas. The "standard" name for a community within a city is [[CommmunityName, City, State]]. I selected you to talk to because you're actively editing the project page. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 19:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Houston

Hello, I know you're heavily involved with the Dallas,Texas article, however I wanted to extend an invitation for you to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Houston. Thanks! Postoak 05:24, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

You are invited to visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Houston to participate in Project discussion - Guidelines (November 11, 2006). Thank you, Postoak 22:51, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey there, I'd like to integrate basic article assessment into the WP:HOU talk page template, similar to what you've done with the Dallas project. I'd like to keep it a simple as possible where we could quickly view all the articles by assessment. What would you suggest? Thanks! Postoak 05:41, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Peer review is in progess for Houston, Texas at Wikipedia:Peer review/Houston, Texas/archive1. Please participate with the article improvement suggestions that will soon follow. Thanks, Postoak 00:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Please see proposal December 27, 2006/Featured article nomination at Wikipedia:WikiProject Houston/Administration. Thank you, Postoak 20:41, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks

Hey: I just wanted to thank you for your hard work on this Dallas Wikiproject. I'm looking forward to getting involved more. I do wikipedia in waves (obsessive for a while, then take a break), but currently I'm trying to finish up my semester of school and am kind of distracted. I will try to help out more in December if I can. Again, thanks. Peace. 75080 out. --nathanbeach 20:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Hide/Show

Hi. I see the problem, but I'm not familiar with the Javascript which operates the hide/show controls, and have no idea how to solve it. I merely created the page at Wikipedia:NavFrame to hopefully start collecting documentation, when I was equally frustrated with another aspect of this stuff. I suggest you post your question at Wikipedia talk:NavFrame or at MediaWiki talk:Monobook.js. —Michael Z. 2006-11-13 23:17 Z

White Rock Lake

I have no idea what happened to my edit! I re-added the photo. I'm doing what I can to get some photos for the projectDallas articles in need of photos. Chad 00:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that you put up Image:White Rock Lake 4.jpg but didn't give the full source URL, just that of the autho. Can you please correct both the source and the license (Flickr only uses version 2.0 of Creative Commons licenses, not 2.5)? Thanks, [ælfəks] 01:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Flickr

Flickr allows people to license photos in a number of different ways: under any of the version 2.0 Creative Commons licenses (including the very unfree NC and ND options, which is why rms has denounced the CC movement), or as "All rights reserved". Generally any decent Flickr images under a sufficiently free license will be uploaded to Commons by a special bot; there's then a further verification process to ensure that the licensing is accurate. Regards, [ælfəks] 01:58, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Flickr is harder than it appears

I read the talk page exchanges about Flickr images. I was unaware that some Creative Commons licenses were not to be used on wikipedia. I have considerably less experience in this than you do, so you should probably get second opinions on anything I tell you... -> ("I was given a set of links saying I could use any of them...") Alas, some of the images you uploaded are not OK to be used on wikipedia per these rules. I'm going through and changing the licenses to what they should be. It'll make some of the images for speedy deletion. Sorry for the misunderstandings. Chad 02:19, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm in the process of having the flickr users change their licensing to make it friendly to wikipedia. Thus, some images are returning. Chad 03:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Dear Drumguy,

Long time no see. (You might remember me as "Go for it!"). I've created a Virtual classroom for Wikipedians to learn, teach, and share advanced wiki-skills. I was wondereing if you would like to stop by and take a look. Right now the participants are engaged in a show and tell of their user interfaces (the tools we use to navigate and work on Wikipedia, including programs, extensions, scripts, settings, etc.). I hope you'll drop in to share and compare. Interiot, Rich Farmbrough, and CBDunkerson have been kind enough to help get things started by describing the interfaces they use. User:Interiot has even completed a new Firefox extension to make navigating Wikipedia easier. It is available in the announcements section on the Virtual classroom page. The Transhumanist 12:04, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

You've got replies...

At User talk:The Transhumanist#Hey and at User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom#Drumguy8800's external interface (left a couple questions for you there). The Transhumanist 13:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Virtual classroom update and assignment template

We've moved on to our second lesson in the Virtual classroom, though each lesson is continuous so we may see more additions to the interface share and compare as well.

To help keep track of what's going on, here's a template you can place at the top of your userpage or talk page:

Hope to see you at the Virtual classroom again soon. The Transhumanist 12:07, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: HDR Imaging

Hi Drumguy!
Yeah HDR imaging involves taking multiple exposures (usually 3) which cover the dynamic range of a scene (theoretically eliminating blown and underexposed areas). You can produce some really artistic photos, although they may not look all that realistic. Photoshop CS2 has HDR blending but I personally don't like it very much. Photomatix probably gives the most interesting results (I use it), but PhotoImpact probably produces more realistic HDR's. Both will cost a bit but not that much. You can download demos if you want a play around! cya, --Fir0002 04:22, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Currently, pronunciation is mostly added to articles with names that are unfamiliar or difficult to pronounce by most English speakers. English-language Wikipedia is used by many people worldwide, and I think it is appropriate to add pronunciation to almost any article whose subject is a proper name. (But may not be desirable for place names which contain ordinary English words, like Red River—some editors may argue that Wikipedia is not a dictionary.)

Don't worry about looking foolish. Try it out in a few articles, and see other editors react. Let me know if you need any help convincing someone. Regards. —Michael Z. 2006-11-20 17:39 Z

Happy Thanksgiving!

File:Turkey Roast.jpg

Happy Turkeyday from Tennis Dynamite!

Enjoy the meal! Tennis DyNamiTe ^{(sign in)} 17:35, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

10th tallest Tallest building in Texas

If you don't have List of tallest buildings in Texas on your Watchlist and/or you didn't already notice, someone has found that "missing" building that we talked about back in October. Ufwuct 19:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

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