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Hello. I saw the question that you asked TDA on the proposed decision talk page. You could ask the same question of me. I involved myself because I'd seen all the previous Doncram postings on noticeboards and felt that Orlady needed some help in sifting through the vast number of articles involved. I've done a small amount of editing about historic sites in the UK and France, which is easier because there's usually more history and documentation. I wrote most of [[La Vieille Charité]], [[Porte d'Aix]], [[La Couronne, Bouches-du-Rhône]], [[Chateau of Vauvenargues]], [[Cambridge Whitefriars]], [[Hanover Square Rooms]] and [[Handel House Museum]]. I am bemused at the moment by AGK's reactions to some of my statements. As someone very experienced in writing NRHP articles, do you think my comments on editors and editing have been accurate? Was the word "exasperation" appropriate? Cheers, [[User:Mathsci|Mathsci]] ([[User talk:Mathsci|talk]]) 08:27, 3 March 2013 (UTC) |
Hello. I saw the question that you asked TDA on the proposed decision talk page. You could ask the same question of me. I involved myself because I'd seen all the previous Doncram postings on noticeboards and felt that Orlady needed some help in sifting through the vast number of articles involved. I've done a small amount of editing about historic sites in the UK and France, which is easier because there's usually more history and documentation. I wrote most of [[La Vieille Charité]], [[Porte d'Aix]], [[La Couronne, Bouches-du-Rhône]], [[Chateau of Vauvenargues]], [[Cambridge Whitefriars]], [[Hanover Square Rooms]] and [[Handel House Museum]]. I am bemused at the moment by AGK's reactions to some of my statements. As someone very experienced in writing NRHP articles, do you think my comments on editors and editing have been accurate? Was the word "exasperation" appropriate? Cheers, [[User:Mathsci|Mathsci]] ([[User talk:Mathsci|talk]]) 08:27, 3 March 2013 (UTC) |
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: I think your comments on editors and editing have been accurate. You've studied the situation and you made a few proposals that have been considered by the committee. I don't think you've done anything wrong in commenting on the case, although I see you've had some friction with AGK. And, "exasperated" is an accurate description of the situation and my feelings about Doncram, both in regards to article-writing completeness and in regards to his behavioral issues. |
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: As far as {{user5|The Devil's Advocate}} goes, he appears to be the kind of person who just follows people around and complains about admin misconduct and ArbCom misconduct, but doesn't appear to write substantial article contributions. In his recent editing history, I'm having a hard time finding substantial mainspace contributions other than vandalism reverts. That's not exactly the attitude needed to build an encyclopedia. --[[User:Elkman|Elkman]] <sup>[[User talk:Elkman|(Elkspeak)]]</sup> 22:58, 3 March 2013 (UTC) |
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Great American Wiknic for Twin Cities in June
Howdy! I would like to invite you to again join the Great American Wiknic this June (maybe just update Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota ?) :) Also, please add any preliminary details to Wikipedia:Wiknic#2012 Wiknic.--Pharos (talk) 21:13, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
NRHP Delisted Properties
I'm new to this Wiki talk page, so I hope I'm doing it corrrectly. I am doing case studies and am looking to create a list of NRHP delisted properties that where delisted for other reasons than fire or flood distruction, and that where delisted through appropriate processes. I've downloaded the Main.xlsx file, but it only list projects in standing on the register. I am proficient in MS Access, but cannot seam to come up with the correct file off of the NPS web page. Can you give me any pointers or assistance. I see where you had identified 1508 properties that have been delisted. I also found another site that identifed that around 980 properties had been destroyed (most by fire). Thanks - bgconway — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bgconway (talk • contribs) 18:55, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
User:Elkman/Sandbox3, etc
Found these pages while looking to see if you'd been active lately. Ever think of just creating one of these pages for every county in the state and using {{GeoGroupTemplate}} on all of them? I've found this system highly useful and have created sets of pages for two different states, User:Nyttend/Indiana NRHP and User:Nyttend/Ohio NRHP. Nyttend (talk) 21:37, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- I've been quite inactive lately, so I should really do something about that. As far as those sandbox pages go, I created a subset of those county lists because I went on a trip to Jackson, Minnesota a couple weeks ago, and I wanted to get pictures of NRHP sites along the way. Having those subsets as sandbox pages made them easier to print and to look up on my iPhone, in case I needed to look up the map to a place while on the way. I should upload those pictures at some point. The sandbox pages exclude the sites with pictures, as well as the places that weren't on my route. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 21:59, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
- Didn't even think about smartphones. I much prefer a basic fliphone to a smartphone, so I always print out my maps with addresses and other details that I need to find them. Since my interest is photographing the unphotographed sites, I simply chop sites once I visit them (example from a recent lucrative trip) and am thus able to use the GeoGroupTemplate output instantly to see where I need to consider going on the next trip. Nyttend (talk) 22:12, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Generator modification request
Could you make a small change to the generator please? PumpkinSky is reporting that entries in Lewis and Clark County, Montana appear in the generator as "Lewis And Clark County", which results in erroneous category names. Thanks for the help! Nyttend (talk) 03:20, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, I've seen this several times. ThanksPumpkinSky talk 10:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
- I'll look into it. I suspect I was doing something to make each word start with an uppercase letter, dating back to the previous database that may have had only capital letters, and that I don't have to do that conversion any more now that the database is modernized. I'll let you know when I've got it fixed. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 19:09, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
- Still doing it see this PumpkinSky talk 21:34, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
- OK, I've fixed it... finally. I also fixed a small problem that would have occurred with King and Queen County, Virginia, because the database has "And" in there. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 23:25, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
- Still doing it see this PumpkinSky talk 21:34, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
- I'll look into it. I suspect I was doing something to make each word start with an uppercase letter, dating back to the previous database that may have had only capital letters, and that I don't have to do that conversion any more now that the database is modernized. I'll let you know when I've got it fixed. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 19:09, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Cottonwood County Courthouse
I undid your edit to Cottonwood County Courthouse before I realized Omeyer & Thori had been created. All of my information showed that the courthouse was created by O'Meyer & Thori. I created a redirect for now, but we may want to look at a rename once we find more information. Ryan Vesey 15:12, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Could you comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National_Register of Historic Places#use of upload-assisting pic in NRHP lists?
This is regarding a key part of the upcoming WLM-US photo contest. Smallbones (talk) 12:24, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
- It would probably be better for all participants if I don't get involved in an argument. The last time I got involved in an online argument about some policy, I got permanently banned from a forum. It didn't have anything to do with Wikipedia, but the principle is the same. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 14:41, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
New Article Creation - Lichelle Marie
I have seen that the article Lichelle Marie has been deleted for two times due insignificance... I propose to allow me to create that page with significant information, details and sources. Shall I proceed to create? I request your permission.... :)
Aniruddha22Paranjpye (talk) 05:46, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
ANI
Your name is not mentioned, but you were a party to one of the incidents addressed in the new section Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#A_new_wrinkle_on_personal_attacks? that I just started at WP:ANI. --Orlady (talk) 17:56, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia Loves Libraries event
Hi Elkman,
There's going to be a Wikipedia Loves Libraries event at Minneapolis Central's Special Collections on November 3 (see WT:Meetup/Minnesota). Can you make it, and are you interested in possibly being part of an editing intro session?
—innotata 02:24, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
- Mcghiever's doing an intro, but we still likely need as many Wikipedians as we can get (since there will be more non-Wikipedians)--can you come? —innotata 22:29, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Some MN articles needed to support WLM nominated photos
Hi Elkman. There are a couple (or more) Minnesota NRHP topics within User:Smallbones/list articles, which is a list of needed articles where a WLM-nominated-for-a-prize photo exists. Editor KudzuVine has kindly provided new articles for South Carolina sites on that list; I and several others have started new articles on other sites where NRHP nom docs should be available on-line. Could you possibly please consider starting new articles that might use the WLM pics for MN sites, and help towards verifying those are valid pics of NRHP-listed places? cheers, --doncram 22:52, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
- I took a quick peek at two of them on the list. Grant County Courthouse appears to have enough material online and probably offline to start a decent article about it. As far as the Heins Block in Olivia is concerned, there isn't a lot of information out there about it, but there's probably enough to start a stub. I'll see if I can get to those articles within a few days. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 03:41, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for creating Grant County Courthouse (Minnesota), giving a home for its nice WLM-nominated pic contributed by Gobonobo. Nice article; fun stuff i guess about the stolen cornerstone...tho i kinda wonder how you tear out a cornerstone without causing a lot of damage. --doncram 20:42, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
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Just a technical question — why is it www2.elkman instead of www.elkman? I can't remember ever seeing another page that was anything but www.name.domain Nyttend (talk) 23:28, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
- It's a bit complicated for no real reason. I registered http://www.elkman.net for my own personal web site, which goes to a "real" web server hosted by visi.com. But, I also have the ability to host a web server on my DSL line at home, on my machine at home. Thus, I made www2.elkman.net point to my home machine. www.skateminnesota.org also points here, but brings up different content. I could have named my home machine "nrhp.elkman.net" or something like that, too. And, actually, http://nrhp.mnhs.org points to this page with National Register listings for Minnesota. So, not all Web servers need to be named "www". Now, if I wanted, I could explain all sorts of technical information like how en.wikipedia.org and fi.wikipedia.org can point to the same machine and display different content, but that's probably superfluous. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 02:48, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
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- I think the only policy that would govern my return to adminship is: "God forbid." --Elkman (Elkspeak) 13:59, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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Cowbell and drumkit
Definitely not a screwup [1], in fact a good catch. On behalf of WikiProject Percussion and drummers everywhere, thank you. Andrewa (talk) 10:02, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Microformat request
Requesting a simple change to the generator output — when it returns a specific year in the |built= parameter, could you have it envelop the date in {{Start date}}? See this edit for what I mean. According to its documentation, the purpose of the template is to improve microformatting without affecting the appearance of the article. Nyttend (talk) 21:48, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
- OK, I've added it. I started the first article with this template: Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives. Let me know if anything is out of place. Oh, and Happy New Year! --Elkman (Elkspeak) 23:15, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Doncram's talk page
That was not a particular politic question to ask him, especially on the heels of your poke on ANI when I blocked him on Friday.
Look, he's either going to file a case or not; he either includes you or not. Poking at someone is rarely helpful. He asked you to leave him alone, please respect those wishes. You seem to have done so so far, which is great. If something does happen then commenting on it in public is fine.
Thank you. 03:38, 8 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgewilliamherbert (talk • contribs) 21:38, 7 January 2013
- Fine. Got it. I suppose I'm just going to have to deal with whatever the Arbitration Committee dishes out toward me. I suppose I'm eventually going to have to pay the price for whatever screwups I've made in editing over these past several years. (And, really, it's only my screwups that count.) I know quite well that if there's an Arbcom case, I'm going to be named as one of the defendants, and I'm going to be in a complete load of trouble over it.
- I'll tell you what: Why don't you, Georgewilliamherbert, just block me indefinitely right now? If you need a block reason, just put down: "Idiot editor who can't get along with people." Or, put down the reason that if I failed at a different Web site (in this case, a costuming and propmaking forum), and got banned there, then maybe I deserve to be banned from Wikipedia as well. How's that for an answer? --Elkman (Elkspeak) 04:09, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
- Why on earth would I block you? We have no idea if he's going to file, you didn't poke enough now or when he was first blocked to merit a formal warning, etc.
- He's being sensitive to the situation, you're being sensitive to the situation, you two should probably just stay apart for a while. Me telling you that is not a threat or severe criticism. I'm just trying to avoid anything escalating.
- If he files a case, he files a case. Relax?
- There is no block-hammer being waved over the "Hey, man, chill out a bit?". You're not being a bad person.
- Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 04:21, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for the welcome
Hey, Elkman, thanks for the Welcome to Wikipedia. A few of us here at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts are diving in and learning how to Wikipedia because we have a lot of resources we want to share - we started with the image of the Purcell Cutts House and a Grant Wood that just entered the public domain. I won't make it to the MHS meetup this weekend but my colleagues hsraatz and abortolot (whose user page doesn't seem to exist) will be there.
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New URLs for generator?
I just noticed that the generator can spit out a URL of http://www2.elkman.net/nrhp/infobox.php?refnum=xxxxxxxx — is this a new feature, or have I just overlooked it? I expect I'll find it beneficial either way; thanks. Nyttend (talk) 05:29, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- That's been in there all along. I added that in there so the user can click from a list of properties in a county or city and then pull up an individual infobox. Technically, it's the difference between using HTTP GET, with arguments in the URL, and HTTP POST, with arguments that come from a form. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 13:49, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Edit summary
Your excellent edit summary here got my Monday off to a good start! :) Cheers DBaK (talk) 11:51, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
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Flaw in evidence
Quaker Meetinghouse (Adams, Massachusetts) wasn't created by Doncram. He moved it to the current title. Thought you'd want to know! --Orlady (talk) 04:05, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
- Well, that was stupid of me to put it there. I removed the entry. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'm sure there will be absolute hell to pay when someone else notices my mistake there. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 04:18, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
- I'm sure you could find other examples. ;-)
- Don't let the criticism get to you. It's not about you -- it's about the dynamics of the platform. This is, after all, the place where many people seem to think that I'm being disruptive if I don't smile and say "thank you" when I'm repeatedly assailed with every negative adjective in the thesaurus, because my assailant is a prolific creator of stubs who is easily offended. --Orlady (talk) 06:13, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
- "Dynamics of the platform" may be one thing, but I could very easily be arbitrated out of existence here. After all, I got banned from a Predator costuming and propbuilding forum after I had an argument with a moderator there. Apparently, my "quality and integrity" were bad enough that they didn't want me to represent them in public. So, if I got banned from one place for poor social skills, it establishes a precedent that I could be banned from here for any similar screwups. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 06:46, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
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NRHP lists
I don't particularly see the point, since he's done with this run and he makes so many automated edits that he'll not notice, while if I tell him he'll simply do it all over again. Nyttend (talk) 16:53, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
A puzzle toy for you!
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Colorado nominations at Focus
Just wanted to let you know: the Focus status page says that the Colorado nominations are now online. Nyttend (talk) 13:42, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads-up. I noticed that California and Washington state are now online as well, so I added both states' links to the infobox generator. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 14:03, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
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Generator got confused
I decided to try http://www2.elkman.net/nrhp/anyquery.php and was curious to see what the "Rice County, MN" option would do, but no matter what I try, I get
Running query select * from propmain,county where county.countycd = 'MN0131' and propmain.refnum = county.refnum and county.statecd = 'MN'; Invalid query: select * from propmain,county where county.countycd = 'MN0131' and propmain.refnum = county.refnum and county.statecd = 'MN';Unknown column 'county.countycd' in 'where clause'
I don't generally have any reason to look up Rice County data (and if I do, I know how to use the querybycounty.php page), so please don't think I'm asking you to do anything for me. I'm telling you this only so that you can take action if you care about it. Nyttend (talk) 14:52, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
- That query dates back to the previous schema of the NRHP database, before they changed the database schema (and denormalized it, really). I never updated it, and I'm not even sure why I wrote a separate query for Rice County in the first place. I should probably remove it, eventually. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 15:28, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Question
Hello. I saw the question that you asked TDA on the proposed decision talk page. You could ask the same question of me. I involved myself because I'd seen all the previous Doncram postings on noticeboards and felt that Orlady needed some help in sifting through the vast number of articles involved. I've done a small amount of editing about historic sites in the UK and France, which is easier because there's usually more history and documentation. I wrote most of La Vieille Charité, Porte d'Aix, La Couronne, Bouches-du-Rhône, Chateau of Vauvenargues, Cambridge Whitefriars, Hanover Square Rooms and Handel House Museum. I am bemused at the moment by AGK's reactions to some of my statements. As someone very experienced in writing NRHP articles, do you think my comments on editors and editing have been accurate? Was the word "exasperation" appropriate? Cheers, Mathsci (talk) 08:27, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- I think your comments on editors and editing have been accurate. You've studied the situation and you made a few proposals that have been considered by the committee. I don't think you've done anything wrong in commenting on the case, although I see you've had some friction with AGK. And, "exasperated" is an accurate description of the situation and my feelings about Doncram, both in regards to article-writing completeness and in regards to his behavioral issues.
- As far as The Devil's Advocate (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) goes, he appears to be the kind of person who just follows people around and complains about admin misconduct and ArbCom misconduct, but doesn't appear to write substantial article contributions. In his recent editing history, I'm having a hard time finding substantial mainspace contributions other than vandalism reverts. That's not exactly the attitude needed to build an encyclopedia. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 22:58, 3 March 2013 (UTC)