User talk:BrineStans/Archives - 2007

License tagging for Image:Gregorygrave2.jpg[edit]

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Nice work be sure to propose it for a DYK!! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 16:01, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know?[edit]

I nominated your recent article for DYK, but you should receive the credit. Here is the message-box I received:

On March 30, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Old Black (Great Smoky Mountains), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Best regards, and keep up the good work. YechielMan 05:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Sugarlands[edit]

Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, The Sugarlands, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on April 16 where you can improve it if you see fit. Regards, howcheng {chat} 19:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On 21 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Sugarlands, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 00:56, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image to Commons[edit]

Greetings! I've noticed the very nice pictures you've taken and uploaded to the site. I'm quite impressed! I would like to leave a note about something that would help Wikipedia tremendously, though. Instead of uploading these images to just the English Wikipedia, why not create an account over at the Wikimedia Commons, and upload them there? The website is located at http://commons.wikimedia.org. The purpose of Commons is to allow all of the various regional and language Wikipedias to share resources, such as images and free music. Where images uploaded to the English Wiki can only be accessed by this one site, images uploaded to Commons can be accessed by every Wikipedia in service, be it German (de), French (fr), Afrikaans (af) or others.

To that end, I'm going to start the process of moving your current images over to Commons. Your images aren't being changed in any way or deleted, just being moved to another Mediawiki website. If you have any questions about this process, adding images to Commons, or anything else Wiki related, please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page. Cheers, and hopefully this won't take too long! ;) -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 12:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tellico Blockhouse[edit]

Hi Bms4880. I nominated Tellico Blockhouse to appear on the Main Page under the Did you know... section. The nomination hook appears here. There is a five day from creation window for DYK nominations, so I wanted to make sure it was in the queue. Please revise the nomination hook as you see fit as it may not be entirely correct. Great job on the article. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 14:04, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

On 30 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tellico Blockhouse, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 12:16, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tellico Blockhouse[edit]

I've been reformatting the refs, and I wondered if, for completeness' sake, you remembered the two articles you consulted in Encyclopedia of Appalachia? Circeus 17:04, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Circeus. Here are the articles in the EOA:

p. 303-- "Early Settlement Shelters and Forts", written by Gerald L. Smith.

p. 324-- "Lumber Settlements", written by Gerald L. Smith and Solomon K. Smith.

Thanks for the re-formatting. It looks much better. Bms4880 23:59, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your image uploads[edit]

Greetings Brian, I just wanted to drop you an additional note requesting that you please, please, upload your photographs to Wikimedia Commons, as this is the proper location for public domain, GFDL and similarly released images. Placing them on the Commons website means they will be available not just to English Wikipedia users, but for users on any Wikipedia language site (whereas uploading them here prevents that). I again encourage you to assist the project by utilising Commons, and if you need any assistance in doing so, please feel free to contact me. -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 00:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to get to it this week. Bms4880 22:28, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and if you would like, I'll perform the move of your existing images from here to Commons so you don't have to worry about that aspect.

By the way, I want to add that I'm tremendously impressed by the articles you've written and expanded upon. I took a look through several, like the Sugarlands and Thunderhead, and found them to be extraordinarily well written and well documented. You are to be highly commended for your work. I only wish all our editors (myself included) were that good. Cheers for all that! I'm going to find you an appropriate barnstar as thanks.

Since I also noticed you've made good use of Topographic maps, etc, I would like to point out our extensive Coordinate mapping templates, located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates (which gives detailed implimentation methods for including different types of coord functions) and Category:Coordinates templates (which is an list of all available coord templates). -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 01:51, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have created a Wikimedia Commons account and uploaded a photo:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sugarlands-bh1.jpg

Let me know if I need to change the license or do anything else to make the photo legally useable on non-English Wikipedia pages. If all is good, I'll go ahead and start moving the others (about 140 in all). Also, is there a convenient way to link to Commons photos from Wikipedia pages, or should I just use the full url?

Thanks again for your help. I started using Wikipedia's coordinate maps a few weeks ago, but I've yet to go through and make the changes to my earlier articles. Bms4880 18:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That looks fantastic, well done. You can take a look here, Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons, for tips and procedures for moving images to the Commons from Wikipedia. Basically, after uploading there (don't forget to locate appropriate categories for the images, though I'm more than happy to do this if you wish), tag the Wikipedia image with {{subst:ncd}} so it can be deleted. And if you give it another name on Commons, which is not a bad thing given we want very unique filenames for images, use {{subst:ncd|Image:new image name.jpg}} here and change the name on the articles they are in.

Also, using Commons images is the same as using Wikipedia images...even if the image only exists on Commons, the filename will still be accessible from any Wikipedia (see Image:WataugaLake.jpg for an example of a Commons image displayed here). -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 23:03, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Roaring Fork[edit]

Nice work on Roaring Fork (Great Smoky Mountains) -- reminded me fondly of my visit to the area a few years ago. That's all! Pfly 04:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback! Bms4880 21:23, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Grassy balds[edit]

A great job of professionalizing my clumsy start. --Wetman 20:58, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It wasn't clumsy. I just added some stuff. I'm glad you got it started, since it needed an article, and I had been procrastinating it for some time. Bms4880 13:50, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Appalachian Trail sites[edit]

Hi, I just saw your idea about setting up a template for articles about features that the Appalachian Trail encounters, where they'll be ordered north-south and south-north. I think that's a great idea. Another example to look at would be state highway articles, which are nearly all ordered by number for any particular state. I can't really offer any help in constructing such a template, but I'll be happy to help put articles into the order, especially for the New Hampshire area.--Ken Gallager 13:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

On October 31, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Overhill Cherokee, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Kindly nominated by PFHLai. Do feel free to self nom in future. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:45, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My special thanks to you and PFHLai for the nomination! Bms4880 22:01, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Census data[edit]

Hi! In several articles about unincorporated communities, you have inserted statements like this one: "Although not a census-designated place, the zip code area that serves Del Rio had a population of 2,138 as of the 2000 U.S. Census." Pardon my French, but that's impossible nonsense. The Census Bureau does not report population by zip code. They divide the world into units called census tracts and census block groups; in unincorporated areas, any resemblance between a zip code area and a census tract is pure coincidence.

Were you extracting Census data by block group? (A clever idea, if you did.) If so, please edit the articles to identify the block group(s) that you decided were roughly coextensive with each of these communities. --Orlady 05:40, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You probably know more than me about this, so I would appreciate any help, as I have done this with several articles. On the U.S. Census website, I typically enter the unincorporated community's zip code, and it brings up a "Zip Code Tabulation Area" fact sheet, similar to one for incorporated towns. For example, for Hartford, TN (zip code 37753), it brings up this page. It says population 814. Perhaps that's not referring to the zip code, but refers to something else. If this is an error, let me know, and I'll be happy to make the necessary changes. Bms4880 18:04, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I found the following on the Census Bureau's website:

The results from Census 2000 include ZCTAs that are approximations of ZIP Codes that follow the census block boundaries. A ZCTA is determined by taking a census block and determining which ZIP Code occurs most frequently within that census block.

Bms4880 18:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- Well, I've learned something today! As you found, the Census Bureau does provide population data for areas that approximate zip code boundaries. FWIW, here's their FAQ on the topic. I do appreciate your effort to add links to those articles, so users can find the data. Thanks for the lesson; I was wrong. --Orlady 21:10, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- - It's no problem. "ZCTA" and "zip code area" are different, so the information in the articles was slightly misleading. But feel free to remove the "Pardon my French..." statement above for posterity's sake :-) Bms4880 22:01, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Communities category[edit]

You've done a great job creating articles for Smoky Mountain area communities, but that doesn't make you a community, and I don't think you actually belong in Category:Communities of the Great Smoky Mountains. (I don't know if there's a policy on this; it just seems odd.) --Orlady (talk) 15:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake. I meant to remove it after creating the category, but I got carried away. My apologies to all who will get lost in the mountains searching for the long-lost village of User:Bms4880.

It's fixed. Bms4880 (talk) 15:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh, and to think I was wandering around for days trying to find this elusive village... -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 23:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Again, my apologies. I'm impressed, however, that your expedition apparently began before I even created the category. Bms4880 (talk) 17:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, certainly no need to apologise to anyone, just a simple error. And just because an expedition was begun, does not mean a destination was in mind! (*murmurs something about zen wisdom...*) -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 23:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eva archaeological site[edit]

Since you are working on TN archaeological sites, I wanted to give you a heads-up that I created Eva, Tennessee. I did that mostly in order to eliminate a red link in Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park (which previously had linked to Eva, Alabama instead of the correct location). The short bit I included on the archaeological site now constitutes the majority of the new Eva article. --Orlady (talk) 15:46, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's excellent. I made a few minor additions. The ZCTA extends out well beyond Eva, but I think it mostly covers the state park. And thanks for re-wording a few of the parks articles— I wasn't looking forward to doing that. Bms4880 (talk) 20:36, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Mound Bottom, was selected for DYK![edit]

On December 19, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mound Bottom, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 06:06, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the nomination. Bms4880 (talk) 14:36, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		For tirelessly updating Tennessee articles with great photos. Thanks for your contributions! ---Ichabod (talk) 01:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Timberlake[edit]

Hey... I was doing some work on the Chota (Cherokee town) article, when I noticed a mention of Henry Timberlake. I decided he was worth having an article about, and created one entirely from the article on him at The Tennessee Encyclopedia. Of course, this wasn't enough for a solid article. Then I found your section concerning the Timberlake Expedition on the Overhill Cherokee article, and used that to expand the article.

If you can contribute further (you've already done about half of the article without touching it), I'd appreciate it. I'd especially like a picture of Henry Timberlake for the infobox, if you come across it in one of your sources. Thanks! -- PEPSI2786^talk 01:52, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be happy to expand it and add more information about Timberlake's journey as a whole. It'll be early January, however, since the university library where I found a copy of Memoirs is closed until then. I'll also add some things to the Chota article. Great job on both articles, btw. Bms4880 (talk) 13:55, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. I am eagerly looking forward to your additions. And thanks. :) -- PEPSI2786^talk 04:36, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]