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Black Hills and Badlands

Allen: thanks for your contribution to Template:Black Hills and Badlands. I had designed the sidebar to only include major public land, so that there's a clear demarcation of what is appropriate to highlight about the region: if Crazy Horse is there, why not any other private attraction? Of course, Crazy Horse Memorial is an outlier. It's historically important, artistically important, frankly humongous, and I had a very hard time keeping it out of the original versions of this sidebar. If Crazy Horse Memorial does belong there, then we should consider other private attractions that may also warrant placement. I'd appreciate your thoughts. Runner1928 (talk) 15:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

I kind of see your point. At one point, Crazy Horse was destined to be one of the largest sculptures in the world. I guess Keystone, Wind Cave, and other places could be added, too. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 22:51, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

I've thought more about this and now believe that sidebar Template:Black Hills and Badlands should be a subset of the most important pages in navbar Template:Black Hills, South Dakota plus several out towards the Badlands (no longer restricted to public land). I'll work on getting Template:Black Hills, South Dakota up to snuff and then will return to the sidebar. In the meantime, I've replaced your link to Crazy Horse Memorial. Best, Runner1928 (talk) 01:04, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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USCG MUC with Operational Distinguishing Device

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Is this what you were looking for? EricSerge (talk) 18:55, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it is. Thank you so much. I will add it to my userbox page. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 23:29, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

A piece of friendly RJL advice

There's an alternate format specified in MOS:RJL for cases like U.S. Route 25, a national-level article for a highway with state-detail articles. The short version is that you insert lines like:

;Georgia

and then each junction is formatted like:

:{{jct|state=GA|US|17|GA|25|GA-Conn|25}} in [[Brunswick, Georgia|]]

The advantage is that you don't have to repeat the state name in the cities, and it separates everything into a neat list with pseudo headings. If US 25E and US 25W have separate articles, those sections can probably be replaced with a single line saying "Split into US 25E and US 25 W between X and Y", or something like that, but it looks like a US 25W article needs to be created. :-(

Also, MOS:HEAD tells us to avoid repeating the name or subject of an article in headings where we can avoid it. Imzadi 1979 → 07:54, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

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