User talk:EurekaLott/Archive06
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I-X Center
Thanks for helping to improve the I-X Center article! --DangApricot (talk) 20:09, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Eva Ducas
Thank you for your help. I see that your actions are recorded in your contributions file. Is this optional? I looked in the contributions files of the two editors who are recorded as causing my 'speedy delete' but their actions don't appear in their files. Trivial, I know, but I am just feeling my way as to how this all works. To be honest I am stuck: I find everything about Mrs Ducas is 'significant, interesting and unusual'. Wish me luck.Padres Hana (talk) 21:01, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Ohio meetup
Brainstorming is taking place for an Ohio meetup! Feel free to check it out, and make sure to add your name to the possible attendees if you'd like more information, as this page is mostly gauging interest at the moment. SpencerT♦C 21:39, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Cuyahoga County Courthouse
Just curious: if someone says "I'm going to the county courthouse", to which building would they go? Or is that your point, that neither building is more the courthouse than the other? Nyttend (talk) 04:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, I goofed up....Ceoil (talk) 22:56, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Snark
What was the edit war about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackal Killer (talk • contribs) 21:12, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Regardless of the NFL's marketing-driven fairy tale, the original Browns did move to Baltimore, hence it is correct to have Memorial Stadium as "succeeded by", in the context of the original Browns. It does seem a little awkward to have a "succeeded by" in another city, but the same thing was done at Sportsman's Park, and it makes sense, in context. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 03:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
"Erie" pronunciation
I don't think /ˈɪəriː/ is the right way to pronounce "Erie". (I'm the guy whose not-logged-in change to /ˈiri/ you reverted.) The /ɪər/ combination described on the English IPA page is for words with a more drawn-out "eer" sound. Pronouncing "beer" as in their example would sound something like "bee-er". I actually pronounce it /bir/. They have /ɪr/ for the less emphasized version in "mirror", but that page tries to encompass as many dialects as it can, and I think their /ɪr/ is more British, so in an American accent it would be /ir/. Also, /iː/ is for a similarly drawn-out sound, used in emphasized syllables - the page gives /i/ for the last vowel in "happy" and "city". I'm reverting the pronunciation to /ˈiri/. Number3Pencils (talk) 04:35, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 | Are you from the Ohio area? A Wikipedian meetup is taking place on July 18, 2009 in Columbus. If you are interested in coming or would like more information, see the first Ohio meetup page. |
Thanks! --Rkitko (talk) 19:56, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Calvary Cemetery
Sorry about the name, I had titled it to be consistent with Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thanks for moving it. Dan D. Ric (talk) 03:01, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
- I visit the cemetery several times a year. I'm going to upload a couple more photos. What do you think about gangsters as notable? I've got some pictures of gangster graves, one particularly impressive. Dan D. Ric (talk) 03:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Cleveland Grays Armory
Seeing that you improved the category for the Cleveland Grays picture, I was curious — do you have any idea about the point of the guitar in front of the building? Is it now owned by the R&R Hall of Fame or something like that? Nyttend (talk) 01:01, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Cuyahoga County NHLs
Thanks for fixing the number of NHLs. I added the new headers and footers after my college graduation...you'd think that if I can finish college, I could count to four! Nyttend (talk) 11:56, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Invitation
Since you are one of the editors who has participated in the discussion about renaming Category:Pages for deletion to Category:Pages for discussion, I'd like to invite you to comment upon my proposals for this category here. Debresser (talk) 16:07, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks
...for catching my accidental half-revert thing. SpencerT♦Nominate! 18:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
GA Reassessment of Warner and Swasey Observatory
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the article which you can see at Talk:Warner and Swasey Observatory/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:39, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free media (File:Dark city soundtrack.jpg)
Thanks for uploading File:Dark city soundtrack.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
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brown field
whereas the term 'brownfield' may indeed 'most likely' be a reference to the legal term is arguable, i completely disagree with your assertion that 'brown field' (two words) is also. --emerson7 04:01, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- The main reason I reverted your edits was because every page that links to brown field is referring to brownfield land. I didn't check every link pointing to brownfield, but all of the ones I looked at showed the same thing. I would never spell it as two words myself, but the articles linking there were about places in England. Perhaps it's a more common usage there. - Eureka Lott 04:36, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Fair use rationale for File:ArtPoster.jpg
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Ogden Nash stamp
Thanks for the correction -- an honest mistake, and really I'm not yet clear on it; why is it not PD? DavidOaks (talk) 18:28, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
- No worries. IANAL, but commons:Stamps/Public domain#United_States says that the Copyright Act of 1976 changed the copyright status of stamps. U.S. stamps issued prior to 1978 are in the public domain, and newer stamps have copyright protection. - Eureka Lott 19:06, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Southworth House
Thanks for the improvement; the post-beginning-of-restoration segment had always been the weakest part of the article in my mind, so it's good to see it strengthened significantly. Nyttend (talk) 01:55, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Brush High School
Thanks for shifting the image into the infobox. I tried to do it when I added the photo but couldn't figure it out.THD3 (talk) 14:57, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. Thanks for contributing the photos. Next time you upload images, please consider doing it at Wikimedia Commons. It will allow them to be used in multiple Wikimedia projects. - Eureka Lott 17:24, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
Close (To the Edit)
I noticed you reverted my edits for Close (to the Edit) and Close (To the Edit) and I'm wondering what I did wrong. IMHO the correct capitalization of the song should be "Close (To the Edit)", see Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/MUSTARD/Capitalization, section 2.5. Could you please clarify? EHonkoop (talk) 21:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
- There were two reasons I reverted your edit. First, I'm not convinced that either title is the correct one - the track listing on the CD has the entire parenthetical phrase in lower case. The main reason, though, was that you moved the page via cut and paste, which disrupts the article history and creates copyright problems. You can use WP:RM in cases like this. - Eureka Lott 16:03, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Child sexua lity
I noticed you declined the speedy deletion request for the redirect at Child sexua lity. I didn't realize that form of request required the page to be recently created.
Would you please advise me on the correct procedure to request deletion of a redirect like that one, that clearly has no use because it's not a real word or abbreviation? Thanks. --Jack-A-Roe (talk) 02:39, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
- Older redirects can be nominated at Redirects for Discussion. This looks like a good candidate for deletion. - Eureka Lott 14:49, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
- OK, I'll post it there, thanks. --Jack-A-Roe (talk) 22:32, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Shaker Heights Public Library
Thanks for adding the photo, the information box, etc. to finish off our page. You beat us to the punch. We are debating internally whether we have two "branches" or a "Main Library" and a "branch." It is somewhat unusual for a library to have just two locations. Most bigger systems have multiple locations, such as Columbus Metropolitan Library, which has a Main Library and 20 branches. In their information box, they have "Branches: 20" but we really don't want to have "Branches: 1" because people might think we have only one location. It would be nice to be able to use "Locations" instead of "Branches" but the word "Location" is already being used for the city of Shaker Heights. I assume you live in Shaker? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lurend (talk • contribs) 21:51, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Speedy tagging
Hi. Thanks for doing New Page Patrol, which needs all the eyes it can get. When you tag an article, like "Caleb Florence (C-Flo)" just now, you should warn the author - the speedy template on the article contains, towards the bottom, a standard warning for you to copy and paste to the article author's talk page. Otherwise, he doesn't know what has happened and probably thinks he pressed the wrong button and simply puts the article in again. Also, if it's a new author who has never had a Welcome paragraph, I think it's important to give him one - it softens the WP:BITEyness of the speedy notice, and gives links to useful pages like WP:YFA, so that the user may learn to do better. A good one for someone who has just put in a first, unsuitable article is {{subst:firstarticle|<article name>}}. You can see the effect at User talk:Michaeljw12. Keep up the good work! Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:54, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
User:199.1.202.252
Aquaculture and Atlantic cod are on a list of articles I look after. I reinstated the link the IP added to these articles because it was relevant and topical. You are right that the link doesn't belong just as a link, but it does belong as a citation in a new section on cod farming. I will add this section when I get time, but for now I did not want to lose the link. I looked at the other links that he added on that day (3 Dec), and they seemed quite useful to me, perhaps better left to the editors who look after those articles to sort out rather than just mass deleting them. However, I did not reinstate those links. It seem to me that the IP, on that day, was merely picking the eyes from the journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, rather than trying to spam it. There is no Wikipedia article on the journal, but it is an open-access, peer reviewed e-journal, with 164,000 hits on Google, and seems a reliable source to me. It is also free, so there is no profit motive here. In his history the IP has shown an interest in sustainability issues, and is clearly rather keen on adding links. But earlier links he added were from different sources. I don't see that this is the pattern of a spammer, just someone keen to help. I apologise if cutting across you like that offended you, but I wasn't sure how to proceed in a more polite way. Perhaps it doesn't hurt to remind him that Wikipedia is not a link farm. --Geronimo20 (talk) 05:14, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
- Ah yes, indeed you're right. I'd call it benign spamming though, since the links seem appropriate, and are not excessive. I ran into a similar problem earlier, where it seemed that, yes spamming was technically happening, but the links were mostly appropriate (it was a government website offering factual information on politically neutral topics) and the motive didn't seem particularly sinister. The spamming was more extensive and the user was indefinitely blocked, and very upset. I thought it was handled badly, and felt somewhat ashamed as part of Wikipedia. So I have this reservation, and would like to see the issue handled fairly. For example, if he is warned, that it is also acknowledged that he has been adding appropriate links from reliable sources, and that the reasons he shouldn't continue modestly in that vein are made very clear. I must confess, those reasons are not that clear to me, and perhaps you can point me to some discussion or guideline which clarifies the matter. --Geronimo20 (talk) 17:02, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Cyburbia article?
I know you've always been a fan of Planetizen, given that you feature them as a "starred" site in the urban planning category on DMOZ that you maintain. Considering that you wrote an article about Planetizen, is there any way I can convince you to grant equal time to Cyburbia as well with an unbiased article? The site has about the same level of traffic, if not more, than Planetizen, it's been around six years longer (started in 1994), and the message board will likely reach Big Boards status (500,000 posts) in a few months. In Google and Bing searches for the term "urban planning", Cyburbia is usually near the top; it varies from 2nd to 4th place depending on the day. Links to Cyburbia that others have included in some Wikipedia articles about urban planning have been removed through the years. Thanks. Elmwood (talk) 19:04, 28 December 2009 (UTC)