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Illinois NRHP

User:Kranar drogin is working on an Illinois National Register of Historic Places project in his own userspace. I recall you are expert in grabbing data from NRHP fields. He requested my assistance on Cook County, Illinois, but I think you might be able to produce a quick script which would save countless man hours. Let us know if you can help.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 14:23, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, any assistance in this would be MUCH appreciated. Congrats on the admin btw.--Kranar drogin 00:16, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, awesome, I can wait. I will have to start gathering info together to start stubbing out these I think. I also have a bunch of pictures I have to upload also that I took this weekend for a bunch of different places. I will wait to hear from ya then on this project some more. Thanks!--Kranar drogin 01:19, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Looked over what you have done so far. Is there any way for the cities to have the City, Illinois|City created rather than just the city name? Its no biggie, also, is there any way to have the table created as I have done it? If not, again, no biggie, this should save me some time. Oh, how about all the year dates, could those be linked also? Again no biggie. I'll prolly work on this tomorrow, prolly on your page there to get it up to what I have for mine, and then move it all at the same time over to my page if you don't mind. It wil just take a bit of integrating work to get the tables set up the same with the || and whatnot. Great work, this should save me time from flipping from screen to screen. Thanks!--Kranar drogin 03:39, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

One other thing, would you be able to do the rest of the counties starting with Gallatin County? I would appreciate that very much.--Kranar drogin 03:40, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for Gallatin! I prolly wasn't good enough in explaining what I needed, but I need from Gallatin County down to Woodford County. So that is a bunch more counties, haha. Well, the format I have been using is slightly different than what you are putting on your page, but it all formats the same once I plop it on my page. You listed your down while I did mine across. No worries, I am not going to go back and change everything, would be a waste of my time. So Cook County's are listed down along with any more counties you do, while the others I have done so far are across. Not a bit deal though. I do appreciate your help in all this man!--Kranar drogin 22:42, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Also, I saw you fixed it where the city was linked up so I didn't have to add in the Illinois, awesome. I was wondering if there is a way to link the "Founded" also. Right now it seems there is a space just before the date, I don't know if this affects how your program works and if a ] isn't added then because of that? I can't keep saying thanks enough, this table program is saving me a lot of time. I don't suppose you would have something that creates automatic stubs for all these red links! lol--Kranar drogin 00:56, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I have changed my mind about the mass bulk stubbing. We have the list done, it is now time to check all the links out, write an intro, and then move it to the mainspace. Maybe even get a DYK (just need to expand it by 5 times the original). What do you think of the list? Here is the complete and utter list for the State of Illinois. Its big at 239,860 bytes, but I think it will be acceptable. Feel up to writing any Illinois historic places!? Well, I guess I will have to talk with Ivo some, and get an idea how to do these up, never having done any. We need to have at least 70% of the red links created, so here is to a long FL.--Kranar drogin 02:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, I am going to need you to run your program again. We have decided to remove counties all together, and we are going to seperate Cook County from the overall list to make their own list since there are just so many of them. We will add a See Also down at the bottom of both lists so they can crisscross. Having the county just seems to be very repetative, and will just change it. What do you think?--Kranar drogin 07:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Do you still want it ordered by county name, even though the county won't be displayed? Or should it just order by city and then property name? I'm assuming it should be sorted by city name and then property name, and that Cook County should be in a separate list. If this is the way you want it, let me know and I'll create the two separate reports. --Elkman 03:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, lets do it by city, then site name with all Cook County NRHPs having a seperate query for them. All I want for the Cook ones is city then site as usual, but don't enter in the neighborhoods since this is a Chicago thing only, and I am trying to make this list for all people to be able to use and update and 99% of us do not know what neighborhood what is in.--Kranar drogin 03:54, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I also just found List of Registered Historic Places in DuPage County, Illinois, this should also be run as a seperate query if you don't mind please. I am just going to put a See Also down at the bottom of the main page I think. Thanks.--Kranar drogin 14:26, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, with the list there are some changes that I forgot to tell you about, so sorry! Could you set it up like this:

Let me know if this is going to be a problem. Thanks!--Kranar drogin 19:28, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Just checking to see how you are coming with this for me. Sorry to be a bother.--Kranar drogin 00:52, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, we are going to add BACK in the counties. We made a mistake, and now we want to split the list up into three regions based on the counties. So, could you run your program one more time like this:

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
! width="*" |'''Site Name'''  
! width="*" |'''County'''  
! width="*" |'''City'''  
! width="*" |'''Built/Founded'''  
! width="*" |'''Date <br />designated'''  
|--
||] ||]||] ||? ||], ] ||
|--
}}

And could you have it sorted by the county, not the city. This will save us a lot of time. Also can you check to make sure it is the most recent NRHP list for Illinois? Again, sorry for all the work, but we do appreciate it A LOT.--Kranar drogin 23:06, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		WikiProject Illinois Barnstar
		For you work on Illinois related articles, especially on the Illinois NRHP list, I hearby award you WikiProject Illinois Barnstar. Keep up the good work!--Kranar drogin 02:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

NRHP add date vs. NHL designation date

In Darwin D. Martin House article, the prior version was very clear that the building was added to NRHP one year, designated NHL another later date, but your NRHP infobox generator gives the later date. I can verify the NHL designation date several ways; am not sure how to verify the NRHP date, I have been relying upon your infobox generator. Can you clarify what date it outputs, perhaps when NRHP add date is not available but NHL date is? It would help for it to generate both dates, actually, consistent with new infobox formatting that includes NHL designation date. Thanks for all your help... doncram 02:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your clarification. Glad to see there is no problem with this; i agree the error was in the prior writeup for the DDM House. Now I further see a direct way to confirm NRIS date, by searching at http://www.nr.nps.gov/nrloc1.htm , which I guess is just a report out of the database your generator uses. By the way the "NRHP Nomination" form for Darwin D. Martin is unusual among those i have been adding to NYS NHL articles in that it is not dated by the preparer. But for those that are dated, the date can easily be after both NRHP date and NHL date, as the form is used for "inventory" after the fact as well as for nomination purposes. You probably know that. Thanks again. doncram 07:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I have blanked out that projeck page you made there Elkman, so if you want, could you put the other counties in there starting from Gallatin whenver you get a chance please? This seemed to save me a lot of time. I have now merged in Cook County with my list. Thanks!--Kranar drogin 03:45, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Image review

Elkman, seeing that you are an admin with a lot of image uploading experience I'm wondering if you can take a look at this for me. Appraiser recently added an image to 2007 Midwest flooding. It came form an NOAA web page, but the author is not a government employee and instead contributed the photo to the NWS. I'd always assumed that images like this were not allowable in wikipedia, until Appriser found this disclaimer: Use of data and products. This looked legit to me, so before I go hog wild in uploading images like this, I'd like to get an admin's blessing. Can you do this, or there somewhere else that would be more appropriate? The image I upload is here, and the original that Appraiser uploaded is here. thanks! Gopher backer 18:54, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

In general, works of the United States Government are in the public domain, unless claimed otherwise. I checked the original source pages for those images and they didn't say anything about the contributor having a commercial copyright claim. (I haven't seen too many counterexamples where a government source will use a commercial image. Typically, it might be from a magazine like Time or something of that ilk.) So, in general, I'd assume it's OK to use NOAA images unless a copyright is specified elsewhere. If you still have questions, you can ask at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard. Lar also has image copyright experience, so he'd be a good one to ask. Note that works of the Minnesota state government (or any other state government) are not in the public domain unless the state says they are. --Elkman 19:41, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good, two questions though. 1) So in this case it's considered a work of the government, even if it wasn't created by one of their employees? 2) In the disclaier it says that you can use the material so long as, 2. use it in a manner that implies an endorsement or affiliation with NOAA/NWS. Does the NOAA licensing tag that you put on there do that? Gopher backer 19:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

The answer is yes to both of those questions (although the license says you may not use it in a manner that implies an endorsement or affiliation with NOAA/NWS). The {{PD-USGov-NOAA}} tag I put on both of those images is sufficient to identify that those images are originally from NOAA/NWS. --Elkman 20:06, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Info Boxes for Indiana Covered Bridges

Thanks for updating the info boxes. I also just tried the info box generator and it works good, that is cool. Just an FYI after trying to generate a couple of other info boxes the coordinates on some bridges are not as accurate as my GPS coordinates. Just FYI..... Histrylover34 21:21, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 14 September, 2007, a fact from the article Mackinac Falls, which you recently nominated, was featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 11:24, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Gardiner Town Hall

Well, if you read the source page there's a bit more to it than that, but by and of itself it's true and does sound sort of funny. Perhaps I should submit it to DYK ... there are town elections coming up in these parts, and to be fair I am on the Democratic Committee of another nearby town ... but it's irrestibly DYK stuff all the same (I had also been thinking of the bit about how it was rolled in on logs). Daniel Case 04:34, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Barneca RfA thank you spam

Elkman, thank you for your support during my RfA. If the concerns that were brought up by other editors gave you second thoughts, rest assured that I'll keep all of the comments in mind in the coming months, and will try again later. In the mean time, if you see me doing something stupid, please let me know. See you around.--barneca (talk) 12:41, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Minneapolis Water Towers

I can't find Kenwood Park Water Tower on the NRHP list. Do you know if it's on there? Thanks--Appraiser 14:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I think it would be good to create stubs with the infoboxes and pictures. Today I'm counting the articles in Category:Registered_Historic_Places_in_Minnesota to fill in the table at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. That's why I ran across the Kenwood tower article. I guess I'll remove the NRHP from it. Thanks.--Appraiser 15:34, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The now-traditional RFA thank-spam

Dear Elkman,

Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 83 supports, 1 oppose, and 0 neutrals. No matter if you voted (I mean, "!voted") support or oppose, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. I'm new, remember, so if you have any suggestions feel free to inform me of them, and if I do anything wrong, feel free to add to the permanent chorus of disapproval on my talk page. Special thanks to Walton and Dihydrogen Monoxide for nominating me.

Bagan (Godzilla)

I'll be less hasty with my speedy delete tags in the future. Thanks for taking the time to leave me the advice. Clerks. 15:59, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Regarding the Searles Valley Minerals Inc.‎ article, thanks for quickly bringing sense to that situation. I was a bit brash in responding the speedy tagger's user talk page and maybe I'll tone it town when I calm down. It's good to know there are level headed editors like you out there. --Oakshade 04:55, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Tagging

Thanks for the clarification of the speedy deletion policy in terms of notability. I will take more time to determine an article's eligibility to be speedily deleted. --TheBressman 07:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

List-Class Chicago articles

I have just created Category:List-Class Chicago articles. Can you set up the template to recognize the List or list parameter for the class field.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 14:54, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. Yes, I should have tagged Category:Chicago lists for WP:SD. Congratulations again on the admin promotion.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:41, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Akasaka Prince Hotel (2nd nomination)

Hi... I think you closed this keep but it seems like the AFD notice is still on the article. Did you mean to leave it for some reason? Thanks. ++Lar: t/c 17:46, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for catching this. I forgot to remove the AFD notice from the article and forgot to post {{oldafdfull}} on its talk page. The AFD was started on July 29 and I didn't close it until September 10, so there must be something about the article that makes it slip through the cracks. --Elkman 17:52, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

No worries. Coming here meant that I noticed my name mentioned, above... is that NOAA image thing all sorted then? ++Lar: t/c 18:29, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I think so. I applied {{PD-USGov-NOAA}} to the images and I think that should solve it. I just gave your name out as an additional resource in case they had further questions. I checked the original source page(s) and didn't see anything indicating that the pictures were copyrighted or that they were contributed by someone other than a NOAA employee, so I'm assuming they're good. --Elkman 18:33, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

AIV report for 216.114.182.34

Thank you for taking the time to explain rationale on this. If an IP address ignores several final warnings, I would think that in itself merits a temporary block, regardless of imminence of threat. JNW 02:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Chicago Banner

I just noticed that Class=low does not register as class=low. I think I have previously discussed the right side of the equal sign for case sensitivity. I don't think we have talked about the left side. Let me know what can be done.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:57, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry my problem was with Class=B vs class=b.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 17:14, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

In a hurry?

Hola, in F. Scott Fitzgerald‎ you spelled you Wikilink wrong: F. Scott Fitgzerald House...looks like you were in a hurry.

Also, this looks better:

"Fitzgerald returned to his parents' house at 599 Summit Avenue, on Cathedral Hill, in St. Paul to revise The Romantic Egotist."

Carry on. WikiDon 05:44, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Me again. I think there could be an article called either St. Paul's Summit Avenue or St. Paul's Cathedral Hill.

For more on the houses of Summit Avenue:

• Photos of the neighborhood
• Summit Avenue East Architectural and House History Information, Part 1
• Summit Avenue East Architectural and House History Information, Part 2
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Walking Tour of St. Paul

What do you think? WikiDon 17:08, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Meetup RSVP

Social Parking

I have made changes to Social Parking. Please check it out. Perhaps you might change your mind about it. -IDNexpert —Preceding unsigned comment added by IDNexpert (talk • contribs) 00:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Louie33

Hi, although I understand your point of view, would you mind rewording your comments here to more follow Misplaced Pages's Civility and WP:NPA policies? Thanks. Corvus cornix 21:41, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks.  :) I didn't mean take them out altogether, just tone them down, but thank you for addressing it. Corvus cornix 22:06, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Midtown Greenway pix

Do you have any better pictures along the Midtown Greenway? Your garden picture is of a pretty dismal looking garden, I know we have a lot better ones. Thanks, at least you start the leg work for the rest of us :) 75.72.162.175 08:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Chicago Banner Classes

Can you set up class=disamb and class=disambig to direct to Category:Disambig-Class Chicago articles. Right now it seems that only class=dab works. Also, can you tell me if FL would go to an Category:FL-Class Chicago articles if one existed?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 05:30, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Useful

I'm in the right mind to tell you off. As for my last 100 edits, mind your own business. >=

Nah homie, it's 50 cent, yo. "When Death Becomes You". Lmmfao. Get with the times homie, and seriously, get off mah back. I'm off to have a smoke and chill now. >=

Appreciation

Hello Elkman,

Thank you very much for supporting my RfA; it ended earlier today rather successfully. I wanted to take the time to express appreciation for the cogent analysis you provided with your support. Hitherto the nomination, I never interacted with you; however, the case you made in supporting my candidacy was the kind that shows a genuine interest in my goal. I was concerned that the UAA incident would derail the nomination, but I believe that the insight you provided went a long way to keep that from happening.

For me, the promotion was about being trusted to be responsible with the tools. I assure you that I intend to uphold that trust with my service to the community.

Thanks again, and I hope to see you around. Cheers, --Aarktica 23:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Reply

Thank you for the advice. I will keep that in mind while editing, even though my friend mentioned the same thing you said over and over again. She can be very annoying sometimes. Bushcarrot _{Please Sign!} 01:33, 11 October 2007 (UTC)