User talk:Ebyabe/Archive 15

Images of Florida

Bravo Zulu on photographing historic sights in Florida. Really exceptional work. Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 19:29, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

And a Shaka Zulu to you! Sorry, best I could come up with on short notice. :) I do enjoy the photographing and the driving itself, and hey, at least it gets me away from the computer. 'Course after each trip, I'm stuck at the computer for days sorting and uploading them. Anyway, if you have any requests, you can add them to my list I use to keep track of all that stuff. Happy days! :) --Ebyabe (talk) 19:37, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Portal remove from NRHP template

Hi Ebyabe -- Would you please request reversal of the Portal addition to the NRHP template, and then we can discuss the Portal and the Template on the Talk page of WP:NRHP. I directly asked User talk:Happy-melon‎, who had implemented the change in response to your prior edit-protected request, to remove it, but he seems to be refusing to do so. Please ask that it be removed. doncram (talk) 23:20, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I asked. I didn't think it would cause a ruckus, honest. Maybe adding it to the template was premature. But as is, the portal is already as good as some out there. Oh, when the shortcut is removed from the template, could the portal be restored, please? It's been languishing in my userspace for ages, and if that's the only place it'll get worked on, I'm afraid it will languish even longer.

Btw, I shan't be available again until at least Sunday. I'm going to St. Augustine tomorrow. Going to get shots of 6 NHLs (incl. an NHL district, the town itself), both National Monuments, and as many NRHPs as I can get. And a food and music festival. Hope this all gets sorted out once I return. Happy days! :) --Ebyabe (talk) 23:59, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Old Lakeland High School

Hi, I see that you created this article and then merged it into Lakeland High School. In MHO, it can stand on its own and gets lost in the bigger article. What are your thought on recreating it and leaving a small section in LHS with a not to see Main Article? Thanks again for all your many kindnesses. Best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 01:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Did I? I can't remember that far back. :) It could probably be separated, since the building itself is notable as an NRHP.

And thank you for taking so many of the little stubbies I made and pictures I took and making something of them. It's why I made them; I figure it's easier to expand something existing than to create it from scratch.

I do need to get back to Lakeland, too. I took all those photos with the crappy disposable camera. It'll take a good part of a day to cover the place appropriately. I know of two people (you and another) who have interest in stuff there. You have interest in one architect, and he in a different one, who has a number of his designed buildings here. So maybe that should be my next trip. :)

Oh, I did get some shots of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. It was closed, so I got what I could thru the gates. Pretty place. I'll let ya know when they're uploaded. I know I'll be going back this time next year at least, since I really like "Taste of St. Augustine". Mayhaps sooner? Who knows. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 00:47, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

New Project

Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

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Work in progress, Fictional places of Eddings, would you help

Hello Ebyabe...Would you be interested in helping with an article/list about the fictional places of the works of the Eddings that I am currently writing in my user space? I really don't know what to do with it, but if you were willing to help me with it, that would be great! If no one thinks it is worth it, I will just get rid of it. Pop on over if you want. - LA @ 06:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Ramsdell Theatre

Thanks for all your help. BTW, just put the new article Ramsdell Theatre up and submitted for DYK. Happy Cinco de Mayo! --Doug ^talk 12:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. And... oui! ;) --Ebyabe (talk) 23:32, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, Thanks for your message of support. I guess I should know better than to do a lot repetitive type edits late at night. It seems to trigger profiling programs. Anyway, I can laugh about it now. Anyway I'm learning a lot doing the tables and Elkman's programs do the hard work. ONE DYK for instance is there are 5 Round Barns on the NRHP and they're all in Ohio. Again thanks and best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 02:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Yep, thank goodness for Elkman! I'd been planning to table-ize Florida, and when I realized he had that lovely program set up, I had at. There's some things I have to tweak, b/c I'm so OCD. Mostly the addresses; I don't like the abbrevs. So I have to change Ave to Avenue and Rd to Road and so on. St and Dr are tricky, since they can also be short for Saint and Doctor (respectively). Oh, and the state abbrevs don't always work. That's why I make sure to change the FL's to Florida. Did the same with Oh to Ohio. We are the nuts, aint' we? :) Keep up the good work!

I thought there were Round Barns in Illinois too. I know Ivo was working on some a while back. Maybe it was the Ohio ones... --Ebyabe (talk) 02:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, there is. Check Round barn, which Ivo did a lot of his usual excellently referenced work. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 02:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Duplicated...

...is now blocked. [1] As Wknight94 had told me some time back, the WP:AIV page is constantly being watched, and if a complaint has merit, they will block the offender. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:49, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Goodie! I was hoping for that. We'll see if he comes around with another identity and tries again, like Ron. But at least Ron would respond (in his own wacky way) to warnings and blocks. This guy just kept doing the same edits, ignoring anything else. Good riddance, I say. Now, back to something more productive, like table-izing List of Registered Historic Places in Florida! :) --Ebyabe (talk) 22:16, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:HAU

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Ron?

Hard to say if it's him, but much of this material is (1) unsourced and (2) reads like it was lifted from someplace. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 22:52, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Plus the tone for many of them is very POV. --Ebyabe (talk) 22:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Kudos

Congrats on table-izing the Florida NRHP list. You did most of the work. I wonder if it's the first state to be finished or at least the first big one. It's probably the only one with no links. Best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 18:45, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Credit where credit is due. I try not to be a complete attention whore, taking credit for others work. Only a partial attention whore. :)

I think it is the first to be finished. And no redlinks for sure. Maybe the one with the most photos? At least you can really see that. And yeah to both of us, doncha know. :)

Btw, are you photographic? I now can see that Martin County is one of the ones with no pictures. So if you (or anyone you know) could get photos to fill in the gaps, it would be terrif. 'Cause I think it'll be a while before I can get down there. Best wishes and all! --Ebyabe (talk) 18:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey, thanks for classifying that NRHP article.  :) I know it's a stub... there isn't a lot to say about it. I'll try to visit the museum when it's actually open so I can get some more information to put online. I mean, in addition to my own edification.  ;) Chrissypan (talk) 03:14, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, your user page is great. Mine needs some work. Do you mind if I borrow some of your code to improve mine at some point? Chrissypan (talk) 15:31, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to borrow. Much of the stuff there I borrowed myself, so it's all good. :)

Assessment not a prob. I'm sort of the unofficial NRHP assessor, and noticed that the unassessed article count had gotten high (over 40, I think), so I had at. Don't be afraid to assess your own article. I did a lot of the ones on List of Registered Historic Places in Florida, and knew they were stubs, so assessed them as such. Higher than that can be iffy, though. That's why I did the easy ones first. The ones left are start or B, but am still debating with myself as to which ones are which. Anyhoo, welcome aboard, and above all, have fun. And if you've not already, make some time for photo-taking roadtrips. It's neat to actually see the stuff we're writing about, doncha know. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 23:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Sports facilities

Hi, Ebyabe. I am attempting to revive WP:WikiProject Sports facilities and noticed that you were the creator of Category:WikiProject Sports facilities articles I want to invite you stop back by the project and participate in getting things going, again. Best wishes. --Gwguffey (talk) 04:53, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Supernatural

Hey, were your edits on Supernatural because you agreed with my way of having the infoboxes, or because of the other user's reverts? If it is the former, do you mind contributing to the discussion page on this matter? Thanks. Ophois (talk) 02:34, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Your logic seemed more reasonable. I think the situation has mostly sorted itself out though, no? As long as the revert wackiness has died down, things seem to be OK. If it gets bad, though, don't let yourself get caught in it, report it at WP:ANI. Believe me, it's better that way. Cheers! --Ebyabe (talk) 23:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Channing Tatum

Have you kept tabs on the Channing Tatum article? I think you were involved in the excitement there a while back. I notice that blog site is still being referred to heavily there, including being referenced as the "official site". Was that confirmed somewhere? —Wknight94 (talk) 22:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I hadn't noticed it snuck in again. I don't really care enough about it now. I'll let others wage that battle, doncha know. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 23:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

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U.S. Post Office (Patchogue, New York)

So you rated this a stub. Hey, that's cool. My only regret is that I don't have an image available for this article... yet. Whether or not it upgrades the article, I'm still going to add it when my camera is emptied out. ----DanTD (talk) 21:43, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Others may have rated it differently. I tend to be a bit stingy on ratings, risking underrating than overrating. A pic might help. More words and refs definitely would. Most of the Florida NRHPs I created were stubs, and still are. But at least they exist, and others have expanded on some of them. It's all to the good, really. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 21:47, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

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De-Affleck‎ing

LOL. Grand job, didn't expect it to be done so quickly. Regards.--Hourick (talk) 19:44, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I got started, then couldn't stop myself! Cheers. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 20:54, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Tallahassee Olympians

Thanks, Ebyabe, for checking out those Olympic athletes I added to Tallahassee some time ago. I guess it falls on me to poke around and see if I can find some better refs. Tim Ross (talk) 10:29, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Great Floridians

That's a good idea, expecially since less than half the recipients have their own article on Wikipedia. I'll put that on my TODO list; should get to it by the weekend. Mgreason (talk) 18:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Template question

Hi there, I'm looking to make a template similar to Template:List of Registered Historic Places in Florida topnav for Ohio. I was wondering if you used a program to generate that or if you did it by hand. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 16:51, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

A bit of both. I used a program (this one), but had to draw the county boundaries. It's a sort of connect-the-dots method.

Use the "Load from Wikimedia project" box, enter "commons.wikimedia.org" in the Wikimedia project field, and "Ohio counties map.png" in the Name field. Go down to the "Areas" box and click "Polygon". I'd enter the county name for reference in the "Title" field. Then pick the county and connect-the-dots, as it were. When you're done, click "Polygon" again and go to the next county, etc. I'd copy the code and save it in some other form (Word, Excel, or even Notepad), every few counties, so you don't lose too much if a glitch happens. 'Cause believe me, you only want to do the drawing of each county once.

Oh, you're going to have fun. Florida only has 67 counties, I see Ohio has 88. On the other hand, most of the Ohio counties are fairly square or rectangular. Florida has several mini-peninsula extensions and crinkly bits. I did as best I could. If you need any more help/advice, feel free to drop me a line. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 22:29, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll be sure to show you the final results. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:34, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Seems I'm stuck at Template:List of Registered Historic Places in Ohio topnav. All the links are in working order so I'm not sure what's wrong. Do you have any ideas? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 16:41, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the fix! I can't believe I missed that. Thanks for all of your help! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. Often it's some annoyingly simple thing like that. It just takes another set of eyes looking at it. I'm going to do a few more little tweaks, and then it should be good to go. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 22:34, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

There, that should do it. And you can use the map for other stuff, just change the links appropriately. For example, see List of counties in Florida. Cheers! :) --Ebyabe (talk) 22:52, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

fourth of July, or bust....

Hi -- I wonder if you've noticed doncram's wt:NRHP proposal towards completing the start, at least, of all the NHL articles nation-wide by June 29 or so. I've been marching through the state lists, doing a quick review of each article. The Florida list looks great (truly one of the easiest I've reviewed), in large part due to your widespread work. I wonder if you'd be willing to address some Florida issues, about including infoboxes and NHL designation dates and the NHL summary webpage source. There's been some talk of creating a joint IUCN/NRHP infobox in the future, so we're sort of leaving those alone. However, it's still nice to have the NHL designation date and the NHL summary (National Historic Landmarks Program) listing in each article. Dade Battlefield Historic State Park and Fort Mose Historic State Park have IUCN infoboxes, mention the designation date, but don't have the reference. Fort San Marcos de Apalache doesn't mention NHL status or have the reference. Mud Lake Canal has NRHP infobox, needs the reference. Ponce de Leon Inlet Light needs either NRHP infobox or at least NHL designation date, as well as the reference. Villa Vizcaya is tagged for citations. Can you help? The idea is to celebrate with a nation-wide NHL list DYK to appear on Independence Day (United States). Let me know, thanks, Lvklock (talk) 06:46, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Dade Battlefield and Fort Mose, done! :) --Ebyabe (talk) 00:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Many Thanks!! Lvklock (talk) 00:17, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

NPS NHL photo contest

Hi Ebyabe -- See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places#June 30 email deadline for 2008 NPS NHL photo contest. I didn't know about this contest before. You should submit at least a couple pics! Ten percent of submissions last year (12 / 125) were winners. You are a leading contender for the Southeast region. :) doncram (talk) 20:15, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for the headsup! I'll see what I can muster. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 02:26, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I award you the UF Barnstar

		The University of Florida Barnstar
		For good and thorough work pertaining to articles about the University of Florida.

Fourth of July, or bust, Thanks!

		The Fourth of July, or bust, Barnstar
		I award you this Barnstar for your solid, witty, creative, supportive, learned, timely, cheerful, eloquent, and/or otherwise generally great contributions on U. S. National Historic Landmarks' articles. Yippee o yay, we pretty much met our goal of a well-started article for each of 2,442 NHLs by today! Thanks, and have a great Fourth of July! -- Doncram, 4 July 2008

Thank you for contributing with stub creation and reviews, and for your key edits to the wp:NHL progress checklist. Your weighing in there, when you did, was a great encouragement and built critical momentum! It was great to learn you had quietly developped List of NHLs in FL to a superb degree, beforehand, and thank you especially for starting up this great wikiproject in the first place! cheers, doncram (talk) 17:42, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I second that! You pitched in when I was discouraged and gave me a second wind. Thanks. Lvklock (talk) 18:15, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, all. I don't feel I really did that much, but did what I could. And I'm always happy to lend moral support too. :) OK, so now what's the project for the two-year anniversary of our lil' WikiProject, hm? :) Maybe the Portal, b/c I think we have enough material to make it super-keen. Possibly something else too.

I'm playing around with adding a map on the Florida NHL list like the one I did for List of Florida state parks. Will probably have to make sub-lists for locations that have multiple NHLs (St. Augustine in particular). Something to do, I suppose. :) --Ebyabe (talk) 21:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I am really happy our WikiProject has grown to be what I think is one of the most active and visible ones. Never in my wildest dreams did I think it'd take off like it has. Mostly I did it b/c someone suggested the idea to me, after I'd stubbed and otherwise de-redlinked List of Registered Historic Places in Florida. My semi-OCD comes in handy sometimes. *hee*

Oh, and I believe all ten of the photos I submitted for the NHL photo contest were accepted. I know 3 were definitely, and I re-subbed the other 7. Now that I know, though, I can plan for next year. Ironically, a new monument with the NHL plaque got put up last month at Fort King. Plus they put a new sign on the road for it. I drive by it almost every day. I've just been waiting for nice weather to get photos. Cheers! --Ebyabe (talk) 21:06, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Florida courthouse, etc.

Hi, Thanks for your recent messages. As a Gator alum, I'm always interested in new UF building articles. Thanks for notifying me on the 3 new NRHPs. I have some ideas for other articles on the campus. Tigert for one has always impressed me since I first saw it in the 9th grade. It makes an impressive appearance on SW 13th. On the courthouses, I'd like to do them all. I've looked for HDs or the UF-AIA book to hang them onto for notability. I did Madison today because someone put a dablink for the one in TX on one of the NRHP lists I watch. If you get back to St. Augustine, take a look at Clapp Octagon House on Anastasia Island. Also in Mayo, the House of the Seven Gables (Mayo, Florida). The old courthouse there is now an inn. That's on my list plus some others on the UF-AIA since there are no NRHPs in the county. Gilchrist, the other with no NRHPs, needs some articles, so its courthouse will be one of the next. I see you've done a picture of it. Best wishes. clariosophic (talk) 03:20, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Aha! I did go to UF, but didn't graduate. Worked on campus for a couple of years too. There's apparently a campaign to get more UF buildings added to the NRHP (around 6 to 10 more), and I think Tigert might be one of them. I did live in G'ville for over 20 years, so know ol' UF well. :)

Madison has an historic district, but it's state, not national. I was surprised when I was there to see that. Just shows that there's a difference. Sort of like Davis Island is a state historic district, but on the NRHP there's only a bunch of the buildings that are on the island.

I saw the Seven Gables article and will add it to my list when I get up in that neck of the woods. I wish I'd known about that Octagon House; I was at the lighthouse and climbed to the top (again). May have taken a photo of it accidentally. I'm going to upload some panoramas I stitched together from ones I took up there, and'll let you know, so you can see. Otherwise, yeah, next trip. :)

It is sad there aren't any NRHPs in Lafayette or Gilchrist counties. But then, there's not much of anything in those counties. Nice state parks in Lafayette, which are on my itinerary.

I do like the Gilchrist County Courthouse. Not as flashy as the one's like Madison's, but it has character. Unlike, say, this one. Cheers! --Ebyabe (talk) 22:51, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

FL NHL map

Great, i am glad you are creating that. I think those should be done for every list. As you may know, Ruhrfisch has done lots of these, such as for his featured list List of Pennsylvania state parks, and is one good person to consult.

But, offhand, here's an idea: i note that the multiple site ones are all around the coast, with Tampa being only a little ways inland. So, perhaps a dash from the location out into the ocean, and a cluster of 5, 3, 2, however many NHL dots, placed out in the ocean? Or an arrow from the ocean to the place. If you have the cluster of dots out there, then you can arbitrarily assign one NHL to each dot.

It looks great so far! doncram (talk) 04:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I stole that idea, doncha know, for List of Florida state parks. Which, by the way, yay, us. :)

I could cluster the two-fers. Not sure how to draw a dash/arrow, but that's a thought. Something to cogitate on. Danke! :) --Ebyabe (talk) 22:55, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

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