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State capitals
Just so you know, the reason that those articles say "U.S. state" in their introductions is not everyone who reads Wikipedia lives in the United States and might need clarification as to the ___location. So you might want to rethink some of your edits. Katr67 00:06, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Edit summaries
P.S. It's always a good idea to use edit summaries. Katr67 00:21, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Two articles about the same topic
Hi - Please respond about the suggestion to merge at Talk:Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:15, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Urban Corridor
I will create a new map illustrating Cheyenne, WY and related areas. Remove current map if you haven't already done so and I'll upload one tomorrow.
Category added to Robert McHenry
Buaidh, regarding the category you added to Robert McHenry, categories should not be added to articles about living people unless the justification for this is clear in the article text and this has been sourced. I've left it in, but if you can't supply a source for this, it will have to be removed (WP:LIVING has further details). Alan Pascoe 22:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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"PS - It is usually considered bad manners to remove the material of others without prior discussion."
I do not have access to a map showing the official boundaries of the airport property. However, your map of Broomfield shows the city limit/county line is aligned along the axis of 120th Avenue. An aerial photo of the airport, which can be called up at Google Maps, clearly shows that the north end of the north runway crosses this axis. Thus, the runway straddles the county line and puts at least some portion of the airport property in Broomfield.
Please stop your arrogance. If you are unwilling to do a little research, please don't edit -- or leave rebukes on my talk page. Watkinsian 03:44, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
"I don't mean to come across as arrogant."
Describing any edit of your work that you don't agree with as "vandalism" is rather arrogant. Watkinsian 00:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Cities Participation
Hi, your name is on a list of active members for WikiProject Cities. We have recently revitalized the project by including an article assessment department. Presently there is a great deal of work to complete in rating/tagging all of the 1000+ article which have not been assessed or tagged with the new {{WPCities}} banner template. Further, we have made changes to {{Infobox City}} that require some formatting changes in the articles that use the template. Your assistance at this time of change would be greatly appreciated. Alan.ca 15:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello, An article that I created as a part of Wikiproject Cycling called Mountain Biking on Mount Tamalpais and linked to the Mount Tamalpais article, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mountain Biking on Mount Tamalpais. Thank you, Bob in Las Vegas - uriel8 (talk) 11:25, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Advice requested
I've been attempting to overview and tidy up the geography cats which involve the places where people live. From the top level down to local neighbourhoods. There has been some overlapping and various mis-routings. It's been interesting looking at it all. However, there appear to be two useful ways of doing it - by region, and by size. And these can operate side by side quite usefully. The by region isn't a problem. But the by size has become difficult because User:Hmains wishes to use the term settlements to cover all sizes of communities, and has altered dictionary definitions [1] to fit his own understanding of the term - [2]. Community appears to be the term used most often to describe the places where people live, regardless of size. This is the definition of community - [3]. I did some sorting, placing the cat Human communities under Human geography. Human communities splitting into Urban geography and Rural geography. And those splitting into appropriate sized communities - cities, districts, neighbourhoods, villages, settlements, etc. Hmains has reverted much of my work, and insists on settlements being the term we should use - basing it on this decision, which was a declined proposal to rename Settlements by region to Populated places by region. What do you think? Is settlement an acceptable term for covering human communities ranging from well established cities down to refuge camps. Is Human community a viable alternative? Are there other choices (apart from populated places of course!)? I have started a discussion here and here, with the above wording, but no response as yet. Am I doing the right thing? SilkTork 19:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements)#Settlements SilkTork 11:28, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as Cleveland, MS μSA) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. JohnCub 21:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Actually now that I look at it, It seems to be a "MY bad" situation. I didn't know that μSA meant "Micropolitan" area. Still, are people bound to type that in? JohnCub 21:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
I agree. I think very few people know how to type "μSA" on their keyboards, much less use that kind of term to seek a Wikipedia article. Any reason not to delete the "μSA" redirects? NawlinWiki 21:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
An alternative to the long "see also" sections
I see that you've created articles relating to the census in various states of the USA. Good for you, and I wish you luck in completing that project.
I noticed that you've put a long "see also" section after each state article, including links to the similar page for all the other states of the Union. This is unusual for Wikipedia, and not particularly pleasing to the eye.
I recommend that you create a template containing all the 50 states, and then remove the equivalent links from the see also section. I'll explain how in a moment —The preceding unsigned comment was added by YechielMan (talk • contribs) 03:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC).
An alternative to the long "see also" sections
I see that you've created articles relating to the census in various states of the USA. Good for you, and I wish you luck in completing that project.
I noticed that you've put a long "see also" section after each state article, including links to the similar page for all the other states of the Union. This is unusual for Wikipedia, and not particularly pleasing to the eye.
I recommend that you create a template containing all the 50 states, and then remove the equivalent links from the see also section. You would need to create a template with code similar to the hidden text on this page (click "edit" to see it). It's probably not correct, but it's close enough that a template expert could help you finish the job.
I hope this helps. Best regards. YechielMan 03:47, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- The template you have created is nice, but rather large (550) for a "see also" section. Would it be possible to scale down the size a bit, after all, it is a "see also" template... :) Rarelibra 18:44, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- I could reduce the size of the U.S. map template by linking to the two character state abbreviations rather than the state names, but this would make the template more difficult for children and folks outside the United States to use. Since the template is normally placed near the bottom of articles, it doesn't seem too distracting. Your thoughts? --Buaidh 19:11, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- It really is a nice map, but should be a bit smaller. I think if you use the state abbreviations it is applicable... if they want to find out, then they can click on the abbreviation and find the name. After all, it is a US map - regardless of whether someone from around the world looks at it. Rarelibra 20:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- I've reduced the area of the U.S. map template by 47%. See Table of United States primary census statistical areas#See_also. Please let me know what you think. Thanks. --Buaidh 18:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
- Really looks great! It is a nice reference, especially for those state pages. Rarelibra 20:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
List of capitals in the United States
Just want to say thanks for the work you're doing on this, it's looking good. Kmusser 15:30, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Typo redirect West Plains, MO μSA
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Great idea. Great. I see you used my maps; do you think it would help if I whipped up some 'zoomed in' versions, focusing only on Colorado, maybe showing its present-day borders, or should we keep the 'wider' perspective?
Most states this wouldn't be useful for, but you're right, Colorado's borders have definitely had an active history. --Golbez 20:45, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
"The State of..."
Please don't change the names of the states to "The State of..." It makes the definition improper. Please discuss on Delaware's talk page. Thanks. HokieRNB 18:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
- I have additional concern about your use of the edit summary to mask the true nature of your edits. In at least one instance, your edit summary was "fixed the IPA", and yet all you actually did was add "The State of" back into the article. I didn't see any instance that your edit summary said "added the official designation to the state name". Please see the discussion on Delaware's talk page. Thanks. HokieRNB 12:55, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Please see Talk:U.S._state#Official_and_Common_State_Names. Thanks, Buaidh 13:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
IPA
Why did you change the IPA for Minnesota? The pronunciation has a reference, and you changed the IPA without changing the reference. -Ravedave 03:25, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
- I changed the pronunciation to match the reference at U.S. state. Where is your reference? Thanks, Buaidh 13:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
- You know how the footnote system works, right? The U.S. state pages does not have a reference for the IPA pronunciations, whereas the minnesota page has footnote 2 which has the actual IPA provided by Dictionary.com (takes a second to load, click on show IPA). I will be updating the U.S state page with references. -Ravedave 04:03, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
- IPA needs to be referenced. If you can find another IPA reference besides dictionary.com go ahead, but I will be directly pasting from there, and not deciding on my own what the pronunciation will be. -Ravedave 04:54, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
- You know how the footnote system works, right? The U.S. state pages does not have a reference for the IPA pronunciations, whereas the minnesota page has footnote 2 which has the actual IPA provided by Dictionary.com (takes a second to load, click on show IPA). I will be updating the U.S state page with references. -Ravedave 04:03, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
redirected two of your redirects
I don't know whether you care, but I redirected both Eau Claire, WI MSA and Eau Claire-Menomonie, WI CSA to Eau Claire-Chippewa Falls metropolitan area instead of to Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Just a heads up. Tomertalk 21:38, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you much. --Buaidh 21:40, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for responding
Thanks for responding to by message on Talk:U.S. state, but please do make an effort to read into what people are saying more. Doyel 05:25, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
- I read your comment, but I believe you are missing the point of the note. Some people think of a "city' as being a municipality, and some think of a "city" as being a metropolitan area. If the largest municipality is not the center of the largest metropolitan area, I made a note to that effect. --Buaidh 13:04, 22 June 2007 (UTC)