User talk:LPBrennan

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Proposed deletion of Northern Wisconsin National Canoe Base[edit]

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Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

North Jacksonville Street Railway, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:05, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject[edit]

Hello, LPBrennan.

There is no formal procedure to join a wikiproject. Just go to the project's wikipage and add yourself to the member list. You might also add one of the Member userbox templates to your user page. If you need help for a specific action, just ask. I usually check my talk page daily--some weekends I don't. Given the importance of trains in the development of Florida, there is an absence of good information on the topic, so any contribution would be welcome. Mgrē@sŏn 15:47, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

Leesburg Transfer Company, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you are more than welcome to continue submitting work to Articles for Creation.

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MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:52, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Images for streetcar articles[edit]

Greetings, note that images published in the US prior to 1923 are out of copyright; the article would look great if you could do some image-grabs of old flyers, adverts, etc. and add one to each article for any of these older transport systems. Bear it in mind, and don't be afraid to ask for help, since learning image work takes a few times to get the feel for it.

Thanks for your work fleshing out this aspect of Wiki! MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:53, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

LPBrennan, I'll keep all my replies on this page here, so we can have the conversation in one place. If you reply from me and don't hear back immediately, you can just "ping" (remind) me to check here by posting the following code on my page: {{talkback|User_talk:LPBrennan}} Same goes for anyone else who posts here, and you want to go to their Talk and tell them "hey, I replied to you back on my page."

So far as questions, to start a new article just enter the exact title you want in the Search box at top. Hit search, it'll say "There's no such article as West-Eastern Acme Streetcar Line, would you like to create it?" Just hit the "create" button and it'll give you a blank page where you can start writing. That's just if you're ready to publish right away. Alternately, at the top of the page in the URL line of your browser, you can just append the "User:LPBrennan" with "/West-Eastern Acme Streetcar Line", hit return, and you'll be able to start a new article as well. Since it's within your own User pages, it won't publish until you explicitly move it to the main article space.

So far as pictures, whenever you feel relaxed and ready to learn, and have a picture file on your computer of a pre-1923 image, come let me know and I'll walk you through it.

So far as copying coding from articles you like, yes, that's a great way to do it! Learning by observing certainly works, and I've learned a lot of wikicode that way. Glad to hear it's working for you, and ping with with questions as needed, or you can take it to the Teahouse if a larger body of helpers would be good. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:46, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! LPBrennan, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. An awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us! MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:46, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew- Thank you- I checked the editing on an article with a picture and added my first to Commons and the article on Leesburg Transfer Company. However, I can't yet get a thumbnail. The article I copied had a picture that was thumbnailed, but I didn't get one- just the full size image. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lpbrennan (talk • contribs) 23:51, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

To further complicate things, when I signed in to Wiki Commons I failed to note that my name was entered as Lpbrennan instead of LPBrennan. I couldn't find any way to edit my name with proper case sensitivity. (I am not a typist, except with two forefingers, so I don't often notice exactly what I've typed on the screen.)

Hello LP, nice job uploading the image! You got the licensing info right and everything, which a lot of first-timers mess up.

You did almost everything right, it's just where it asks "image size" in the Infobox you took it literally and put in the dimensions of the full-size image. What it's asking there is "what size do you want?". So I just went in and typed "250px" which is pretty standard for main images. You don't need to put "250 x 340 px" or whatever, just give it one dimension and it'll scale the other accordingly. In general on Wikipedia, it knows what your original size is, it's just asking what size you want.
Small correction, you're using "Infobox Settlement" right now for your little margin box on Leesburg, what you want instead is whatever infobox is used for companies. I'd suggest you look at the article for some large/established rail or streetcar company, and copy whatever infobox they use, which might also include some useful lines for you to put rail gauge, mileage, that kind of transport-specific stuff.
So far as your username, there is a way to have the same username/password work across all Wikimedia projects, all language variants (French Wikipedia, etc), including Commons. Something like "universal login" or whatnot. I would go to Wikipedia:Help desk and ask how you can merge your mistyped WikiCommons username with your current one, and then just use that one. It appears that in your post to me above you actually did post from your "Lpbrennan" account, so you might just have two usernames functioning across all Wikimedia projects. I'd just get with the Helpdesk about getting those merged for you.

Hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:01, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge[edit]

You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

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Women in Red World Contest[edit]

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!