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International High School (New Jersey)

Number 141 (38 create/expand - 103 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 17 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article International High School (New Jersey), 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 09:10, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Morehouse article reference

The Pace University degree should be Masters in Teaching--not in Education. The reference source is not correct. Pace University references: http://www.pace.edu/page.cfm?doc_id=31584 http://www.pace.edu/page.cfm?doc_id=31616

as well as http://www.timmorehouse.com/

I'm a newbie and not comfortable correcting this. --Silver2e (talk) 04:30, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Martin Tytell

Number 142 (39 create/expand - 103 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 18 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Martin Tytell, 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.

--Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Amongst Friends

Ah, ok, my mistake, I now see I needed to go to the next page in the ref. I'm happy for the cite tag to be removed. Still don't believe it mind. Sounds to me more like typical movie fake food rather than a ploy to save money. It must surely have cost more than a bag of Doritos to pay someone to tear up triangles of cardboard. SpinningSpark 12:05, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Could be. There's not much of a market for fake tortilla chips. Alansohn (talk) 12:09, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

James Zadroga

Number 143 (40 create/expand - 103 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 18 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article James Zadroga, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 12:06, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Tabernacle Township, New Jersey

Why did you delete one of the notable residents from the list in the article Tabernacle Township, New Jersey? I hope you are not conspiring with other users to commit vandalism on the article. If the deleted resident is not notable, perhaps his wikipedia article be removed as well. Thank you. Faethon Ghost (talk) 19:29, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah sorry, I thought you removed Doolittle but it turns out you just moved it. Thanks! Faethon Ghost (talk) 19:34, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Wallpack/Walpack, New Jersey

Hi Alan ... I'm working on converting the New Jersey NRHP county lists to table formats. Along the way, I'm tidying up some links. List of Registered Historic Places in Sussex County, New Jersey, has red links for Wallpack Center, New Jersey. I was planning to create a redirect for these links to Walpack Township, New Jersey, but am hesitating because of the minor difference in the spellings. Since you are a regular editor of New Jersey-related articles out here, do you happen to know if the spellings of both are correct? Googling Walpack Township and Wallpack Township, the former returns more hits. Googling Walpack Center and Wallpack Center, the latter returns more hits. Consistent with the Google results, the USGS GNIS database] has the township spelled Walpack and the "center" spelled Wallpack. I recognize that this is a very sparsely populated place and that you may not know this level of detail, but I thought I'd pose it to you since you seem to have some local Jersey knowledge. Thanks. --Sanfranman59 (talk) 19:02, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanx!

Thanks for the many kind words. DRosenbach (Talk | Contribs) 01:55, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

How do I know when this will be a featured DYK? DRosenbach (Talk | Contribs) 03:26, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

More Thanks

Thanks for your help with Samuel Fisher.--Samuel J. Howard (talk) 03:30, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Controlled Demolition, Inc.

Number 144 (41 create/expand - 103 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 21 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Controlled Demolition, Inc., 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 13:35, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Amongst Friends

Number 145 (42 create/expand - 103 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 23 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Amongst Friends, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 20:01, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikis Take Manhattan

Wikis Take Manhattan


Next: Saturday September 27
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WHAT Wikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City. The event is based on last year's Wikipedia Takes Manhattan, and has evolved to include StreetsWiki this year as well.

LAST YEAR'S EVENT

WINNINGS? Prizes include a dinner for three with Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales at Pure Food & Wine, gift certificates to Bicycle Habitiat and the LimeWire Store, and more!

WHEN The hunt will take place Saturday, September 27th from 1:00pm to 6:30pm, followed by prizes and celebration.

WHO All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city). Bring a friend (or two)!

REGISTER The proper place to register your team is here. It's also perfectly possible to register on the day of when you get there, but it will be slightly easier for us if you register beforehand.

WHERE Participants can begin the hunt from either of two locations: one at Columbia University (at the sundial on college walk) and one at The Open Planning Project's West Village office. Everyone will end at The Open Planning Project:

349 W. 12th St. #3
Between Greenwich & Washington Streets
By the 14th St./8th Ave. ACE/L stop

FOR UPDATES

Check out:

This will have a posting if the event is delayed due to weather or other exigency.

Thanks,

Pharos

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 23:49, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Biomedical Tissue Services

Number 146 (42 create/expand - 104 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 24 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Biomedical Tissue Services, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 05:15, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK query

Thanks for the double DYK! Just a query: I see that User:CactusWriter, the creator of one of the articles I nominated, A Victim of the Mormons was not notified. I'm not sure if this was an oversight. --Bruce1eetalk 06:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

I've taken the liberty of notifying CactusWriter myself – I hope this is ok. --Bruce1eetalk 06:33, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
That appears to have been an oversight. Thanks for spotting the issue and taking care of it. Alansohn (talk) 11:13, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Number 147 (43 create/expand - 104 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 24 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Charles Hirsch, 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.

--Jordan Contribs 09:42, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK credits

Thank you for doing the DYK credits. Next time, please wait until after the actual DYK page has been updated from Next Update at Template:Did you know. Until then, these are only "suggested" DYK hooks, after all. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 07:45, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't know why I thought they had already been moved. Thanks for the catch. I will be more careful next time. Alansohn (talk) 07:54, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Okay thanks, no worries. Cirt (talk) 07:58, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Lynn Forester de Rothschild DYK

Number 148 (44 create/expand - 104 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 25 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lynn Forester de Rothschild, 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.

Congratulations :) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 14:35, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK 25/9

Number 149 (45 create/expand - 104 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 25 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Carol Berman, 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.

weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 21:29, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK nom

Number 150 (45 create/expand - 105 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 26 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Jordan Contribs 08:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Jim Hickman (1960s outfielder)

One of my all-time favorite Cubs. He was a major impact player on the Cubs of 1969 and 1970, kind of forgotten now when they talk about the Banks-Santo-Williams era. A very quiet country boy who just happened to have a knack for knocking the big bang in clutch situations from time to time. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 02:00, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I remember his Mets days also. I especially remember one game I was listening to on WGN radio, in which he hit a high fly to left that Billy Williams was camping under, but the ball landed in the upper deck overhang a the Polo Grounds, for a game-winning homer. Both the Cubs and the Mets were pathetic in those days, but occasionally one or the other of them would catch a break. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 13:46, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

re:DYK nom: 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

I wanted to stop by and offer personal thanks for the kind words, and for putting the nom through. Is there anything else I should do to help it continue through the process? LonelyBeacon (talk) 04:37, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah, yes, the 1971 All-Star Game, the one that rained home runs. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 13:47, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

J. Clarence Karcher

Number 151 (45 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 27 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article J. Clarence Karcher, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 17:50, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Bill Laxton

Number 152 (46 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 27 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bill Laxton, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 23:51, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Hyman Golden

Number 153 (47 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 28 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hyman Golden, 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.

Thank you for your contributions! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 05:50, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

NJ - Municipal Emergency Services

Alan, I've started putting in sections called Emergency Services into Bergen County municipalities. I've started with the towns in the Pascack Valley (i.e., River Vale, Old Tappan, and Hillsdale, New Jersey). Before I keep going, I just wanted to run it by you first. I'd appreciate it if you could just take a look at my contribs and let me know if you think I'm off to an ok start. Thanks!! Shirulashem (talk) 20:36, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

You're off to a great start, and I think it adds to the article at the municipal level. The one thing I would suggest trying to do is to add more sources to support the details. Where are the numbers and models of ambulances and staff members coming from? I do keep an eye on these articles and assume that like me you will be off the computer mid-week. Wishing you the best for a happy and healthy new year. Alansohn (talk) 21:17, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thanks. k'siva v'chasima tova. Shirulashem (talk) 12:57, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Number 154 (48 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 28 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton, 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.

--Jordan Contribs 23:36, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Richard Wesley

Number 155 (49 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 29 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard Wesley, 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.

BorgQueen (talk) 12:45, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Where do you want to go today?

Number 156 (50 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 29 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Where do you want to go today?, 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.

BorgQueen (talk) 12:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Vandal

Sorry Alansohn

Didn't realize that one persons idea of relative data was vandalism to another. I will still continue to edit, but me more careful and cognizant of your feelings. RegardsCommonsPark (talk) 14:07, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (September 2008)

Thanks

Excellent work on List of ice hockey arenas by capacity finding sources. This is the legwork that I wasn't looking forward to doing. Unfortunately. you're on your own for a while, as I'm a little busy these days. But I figured your should know your hard work isn't going unnoticed. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 23:50, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Plácido Domingo is "people of New Jersey"?

Could you please claify this with evidence? - Jay (talk) 01:13, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Mike Berniker

Number 157 (51 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 30 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mike Berniker, 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.

Daniel Case (talk) 02:13, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK for John Montague (baseball)

Number 158 (52 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 30 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Montague (baseball), 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.

Keep up the good work! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 15:01, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Richard Kessel

Number 159 (53 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 30 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard Kessel, 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.

Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:59, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

New York State Consumer Protection Board

Number 160 (54 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 1 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article New York State Consumer Protection Board, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 09:42, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Tim Harkness

Number 161 (55 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 1 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tim Harkness, 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.

Daniel Case (talk) 18:50, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

PROD templates

Thanks for getting those PRODs removed; I cut the third one, from Salt Flat, Texas. I've never met this editor before; do you have any idea why he believes that these places aren't notable? Nyttend (talk) 04:19, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Looks like I may find out. Alansohn (talk) 04:24, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

"Inherent Notability" ??

You seem to be supporting inclusion of articles that lack any notability and, in fact make no claim of notability, much less provide references to support such claims. As defense, you claim "inherent notability." Can you help me understand what "inherent notability" means and how it meets notability requirements? Are there accepted guidelines and policies that support this concept? Is there an objective measure? Is there any form of valuation at all? I'm not interested in personal opinions or essays not accepted by consensus. The guidelines and policies I'm aware of seem to contradict your claim, and I'm hoping you can point me to guidelines and policies I might have overlooked. Thank you. —Danorton (talk) 04:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#Places, which describes the precedent in substantial numbers of previous AfDs that such places are notable. Alansohn (talk) 04:24, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Egyptian Geological Museum

Thank you for rescuing the Egyptian Geological Museum article. Matthew Glennon(Talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 14:50, 3 October 2008 (UTC).

DYK for DuMont Building

Number 162 (56 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 3 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article DuMont Building, 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.

Cirt (talk) 23:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Don Ultang

Number 163 (57 create/expand - 106 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 5 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Don Ultang, 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.

BorgQueen (talk) 04:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Irvin J. Borowsky

Number 164 (57 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 5 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Irvin J. Borowsky, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cirt (talk) 10:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Bob Miller (1957-1974 pitcher)

Number 165 (58 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 5 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bob Miller (1957-1974 pitcher), 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.

Cirt (talk) 10:33, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Smile

NHRHS2010 (talk · contribs) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

NHRHS2010 |  Talk to me  14:29, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Bruce Conforth

Number 166 (59 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 6 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bruce Conforth, 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.

Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) (talk) 08:45, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Notice

NetSupport Manager

I wish I'd been paying more attention to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NetSupport Manager (2nd nomination) now. The reason I stated advertising as a reason, and I realise now I wasn't clear, is that the guy who wrote the article is the guy who wrote NetSupport Manager. Just curious whether this would have affected your "Keep"? AlistairMcMillan (talk) 20:46, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Probably not. I've seen articles that did start out as an advertisement, but had the offending text removed, But this one didn't even reach that level. The text is a rather bland description of the product. Alansohn (talk) 22:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Milt Davis

Number 167 (60 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 7 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Milt Davis, 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.

Nice football hook. Cbl62 (talk) 22:16, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Cbl62 (talk) 22:16, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Bob Miller (1953-1962 pitcher)

Number 168 (61 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 8 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bob Miller (1953-1962 pitcher), 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.

Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:56, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Egyptian Geological Museum

Number 169 (62 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 9 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Egyptian Geological Museum, 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.

Cirt (talk) 09:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for saving that one. I sub stubbed a bunch of Cairo museums a few months back when I was going through an extensive missing list of museums and hadn't got around to expanding them. Any help you can give filling out the others would be much appreciated! Cheers The Bald One White cat 14:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Words of Turkish origin

Hi, Alansohn. I was generally concerned with the category Words of Turkish origin, and saw that there was a discussion for renaming the category to Category:Turkish loanwords, but unfortunately it was too late when I noticed that. For me too it was necessary to rename the category to Turkish loanwords for consistency. Therefore I formed a new category named Turkish words and phrases and made some cleanup on the other category, namely I transferred some of the words from Category:Words of Turkish origin to Category:Turkish words and phrases. So, if we can re-open the related discussion, I will be pleased to support the renaming. Happy edit. --Chapultepec (talk) 11:55, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Blocked

Hello, Alansohn. Per your conduct here, I have blocked you for 31 hours, pursuant to your editing restrictions. You are, of course, free to dispute this block below using {{unblock|your reason here}}.

Yours, —Animum (talk) 22:40, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I personally feel that is a bad block. I've read through that discussion and the restriction in the arbcom case, and Alasohn has not been uncivil, assumed bad faith, or made personal attacks. -- Ned Scott 05:12, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Seconded. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:51, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Then I think you both perhaps should read over the whole talk page and its archives. This is not new, there have indeed been personal attacks, quite a bit of bad faith (to the point of even calling for Kbdank71's desysopping), and to consider his comments "civil" is, at the least, stretching it a bit. - jc37 11:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Without having read it, the simple act of questioning whether someone should be an admin hardly sounds like a personal attack. 199.125.109.75 (talk) 16:05, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Alansohn (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

If only I had asked User:Kbdank71 directly about his justifications only for the contested and sourced CfDs that he provided no details for. Perhaps, this all could have been avoided if only Kdbank71 might have realized that providing any explanation for a contested CfD close could avoid problems down the road. If only I had not come to the unfortunate bafflement of seeing seven CfDs all closed by Kbdank71 within a span of a few minutes and seeing all of them, contested or not, being closed with the rubber stamp of "The result of the discussion was: delete". Perhaps the result would have been different if I had not listed all seven CfDs when trying to get additional details from Kbdank71, instead of assuming that he would realize that some of these CfDs (the contested ones, and especially where sources were provided in the CfD) were different from the others. If only I had offered the same documentation showing why I had a good faith issue with the close of Category:Fictional_obsessive-compulsives instead of hoping that Kdbank71 would provide context on his own and allow him the opportunity to respond to my reasons for questioning the close rather than hope he would reply and explain his actions. If only this had been an AfD, where providing reliable and verifiable sources trumps a claim of WP:OR without question, and not the topsy-turvy CfD world, where providing multiple reliable sources to rebut WP:OR carries no apparent weight and is not worthy of even consideration as an argument to keep a category, this might have ended differently. It's clear that things could have gone differently, and I have learned a valuable lesson from this about how the CfD process operates. I do understand why User:Postdlf prefered to pursue pushing for a block rather than addressing the underlying problems, and User:Jc37, who has been the initiator of a laundry list of CfDs and has been similarly unable to accept reliable sources as a solution to claims of WP:OR, has had to resort to maliciously false personal attacks, most notably a claim that I have been "calling for Kbdank71's desysopping" in complete violation of assuming good faith to rationalize this punitive block. In contrast, I am not the only editor who finds this particular block unjustified. Between this take page and WP:ANI, four editors with whom I have had no prior contact to the best of my knowledge -- User:Erik the Red 2, User:Pete.Hurd, User:Casliber, User:Ned Scott -- have independently agreed that the circumstances in question do not justify a block. If consensus should have any meaning anywhere in Wikipedia, it ought to be here. Alansohn (talk) 00:20, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Decline reason:

This request is too long; see WP:GAB. However, I do not need to read it to decline it. First, your restriction reads as follows: "Should he [Alansohn] make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, he may be briefly blocked" (emphasis mine). Note that the restriction does not require that your edits "are" indeed uncivil, etc., it is sufficient that one administrator judges them to be so. That condition being met, your block is in accordance with the restriction and is endorsed accordingly. If you find the restriction to be too restrictive, you need to petition the Committee to alter it. Second, I, as an administrator, determine that your subsequent edits ([1], [2]) also violate said restriction because they, at least, assume bad faith with respect to User:Jc37. The block is therefore also endorsed for these subsequent edits. —  Sandstein  07:37, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

I'll search out diffs, to corroborate my comments (and if requested, also in relation the user's comments above), if it's found to be necessary by the reviewing admin. (Though a read over User talk:Kbdank71 should probably deal with a fair amount.) - jc37 00:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
That the claim was made without a diff -- and none exists -- should raise further issues regarding the legitimacy of the block. Alansohn (talk) 00:57, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
It is extremely disturbing that User:Jc37, an admin who should be more than familiar with WP:AGF, would make a maliciously false claim to justify a block and then refuse to provide any support for his allegation while the block was still open. Again, providing sources to support statements carries absolutely no weight. Alansohn (talk) 01:59, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
I think it is quite reasonable to expect either a strong source to back up the alleged desysopping demand or an apology. Using a false claim such as this as justification for supporting a block in which you have a clear bias, is conduct unbecoming of any editor, let alone an administrator. That after some 24 hours User:Jc37 has still failed to provide the supposed diff he was searching for or to issue an appropriate retraction is unacceptable. I still await a response. Alansohn (talk) 04:49, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Alansohn (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Despite a clear consensus that this block was improper and unjustified, and despite a request to reconsider the block, no action whatsoever has been taken. User:Jc37 stopped by to insist that his baseless personal attack was justified and seems to have had little luck searching for the maliciously and knowingly false claim that I have been "calling for Kbdank71's desysopping". Any good faith response to clearing this block will be appreciated.

Decline reason:

I could be wrong, but I think your block has already expired. If you're still blocked, is it an autoblock or IP block? — Golbez (talk) 07:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

This makes for fascinating reading. High drama indeed. I hope you end the reign of terror against you soon. You're obviously a good guy! :) (Wallamoose (talk) 06:57, 12 October 2008 (UTC))

You want fascinating, you should have seen the email I just got from Alansohn.
Anyway, in response to him: Sure, since it seems your block shgould have expired by now, I'll see if we can figure out the problem. - jc37 08:59, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
The message I get is that you should be unblocked.
But since you say you can't edit, I'm going to try to reblock, and unblock, and see if it works (I'll note what I'm doing in the block summary.) - jc37 09:02, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok, if you're still online, try to edit. (Hopefully that cleared everything.) - jc37 09:07, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

James Bond actors

Per longstanding and widespread precedent, we do not categorize actors on the basis of the roles they play. Please read Wikipedia:OC#Performers_by_role_or_composition and please do not attempt to single-handedly undermine consensus by adding the articles back. Thank you. Otto4711 (talk) 14:18, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

List of James Bond actors. Tsk. Will have to turn that into a redirect to something like James Bond#Actors. Pah. None of the James Bond articles have a simple list of the actors. Even given widespread precedent, I wouldn't find it surprising to see a "James Bond actors" category tag at the bottom of those actor's pages. At the least, though, I would expect to see a link from each actor to a list of James Bond actors. Or maybe a template? Carcharoth (talk) 23:49, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
The precedent might perhaps cover a Category:Actors who have appeared in James Bond films or even Category:Actors who have played James Bond. Even then, I'd think you'd find broad consensus that the WP:OCAT doesn't fly from editors who are using that thing called "common sense". As the category in question is called Category:James Bond, we are making this encyclopedia worse for any reader by depriving them of any access via a category to articles about actors for whom playing James Bond is a strong defining characteristic of their careers as actors. I'd love to see your arguments at CfD. Alansohn (talk) 00:24, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Autoblock

If you are still autoblocked, please follow the instructions given when you try to edit; it's difficult to undo an autoblock unless we know which one is in play. --Golbez (talk) 19:18, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I think I found it. You should be unblocked now. --Golbez (talk) 19:42, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Don't know what the problem was, but this autoblock added about 15 hours to a block that consensus shows was unjustified. Alansohn (talk) 21:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Might want to raise that at some technical venue. Depends whether it was a technical thing, or people not being able to find the autoblock. Either way, it is a bit worrying. Sorry I wasn't around earlier, but I wouldn't have been much help (I shudder at the thought of trying to work out what an autoblock is, let alone lifting one). Carcharoth (talk) 23:42, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Categories like American Jews etc.

You might like this conversation: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Hubschrauber729 -NYC2TLV (talk) 02:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


Alexandra Powers

Hi Alansohn! I need your help in writing a article about a not very well-known actress nameed Alexandra Powers. What I do know about her is that she was born on 9 September 1967 in New York City and her birth name is Alexandra Kristin Powers. Her first role came in the TV film The Day After. She also had a small role in Mask (with Eric Stoltz, not Jim Carrey) and the TV series L.A. Law and 21 Jump Street. After DPS she starred in The Seventh Coin opposite Peter O'Toole and had small roles in The Player and Rising Sun. In 1994 she played Tonya Harding in the TV movie Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story. Other roles have been in Bruce Willis' Last Man Standing, the Walter Matthau / Jack Lemmon comedy Out to Sea, and the tv movie Storm. But since 2001, she has devoted her life to Scientology. Here are refrence links to what I know about her: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694490/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694490/bio http://www.filmreference.com/film/56/Alexandra-Powers.html http://www10.pair.com/crazydv/weir/dps/cast.html http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=24302. Please help me write a bio about this actress because I haven't written one yet! Thanks!Neptunekh (talk) 02:42, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Hidden categories discussion

Would you be interested in this discussion? Carcharoth (talk) 15:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Drat!

I wanted to write 195 Broadway for a DYK! Can I at least infobox it? MBisanz talk 20:27, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Georg J. Lober

Number 170 (63 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 14 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Georg J. Lober, 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.

Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) (talk) 00:19, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Miller

Just working through it now. :-) Peanut4 (talk) 20:20, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. Just to let you know I've left some more comments for the GA nomination. Peanut4 (talk) 23:55, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for List of Washington Nationals Opening Day starting pitchers

Number 171 (64 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 14 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of Washington Nationals Opening Day starting pitchers, 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.

Victuallers (talk) 20:55, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Where do you want to go today? afd

Hi, I notice you put a lot of work into the article on Where do you want to go today? but I'm not sure why a forgettable ad campaign from 13 or 14 years ago merits a wikipedia article, reference cites notwithstanding... discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Where do you want to go today? regards, __Just plain Bill (talk) 23:24, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I have replied at AfD. Thanks for the notification. Alansohn (talk) 00:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Category:Antiheroes

Why are you adding characters to this? The category was deleted.--CyberGhostface (talk) 16:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

If you want to put it up at DRV, go ahead, but can you remove the categories until the new consensus is reached?--CyberGhostface (talk) 16:51, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Notable section in a school article

I've been monitoring the Haddonfield Memorial High School battle that has been occurring recently where the entire (long) section about the marching band is taken out by IP addresses, and the user MarchingColonials keeps reverting it. I didn't want to step into an area that I'm unfamiliar with, but quite frankly I kind of agree with the anonymous IP addresses who say it's not really noteworthy and that nobody really cares. Marching band is not like sports at all on the importance scale, and I do think that maybe the whole marching band section should be taken out. Because honestly, "who cares" is right. And the fact that there's only one supporter of it and it was the creator of the section in the first place shows obvious bias as to why they keep re-including it. What do you think (does it qualify as "notable") and would taking it out really be that big of a deal? -Jrcla2 (talk)(contribs) 23:17, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I hadn't taken a look at the conflict in detail, but there were sources for some of the material. There's probably a middle ground here. Alansohn (talk) 23:20, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for 41 Park Row

Number 172 (65 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 17 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 41 Park Row, 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.

Thank you for your contributions! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 11:15, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Incivility

I'm sending this message to both of you. I'm not very familiar with what's going on, but I'm somewhat unimpressed by it.

Alansohn: when I wrote this in the talk page, I had you in mind, but you include "seem to utterly fail in the topsy turvy CfD world, in which every effort at recreation is met with knee-jerk delete votes" (emphasis added by me) in this comment.

Kbdank71: are you serious when you say this? Insane individuals taking great pleasure in roasting you alive? My guess would be that they're not really that interested in rotisseries, they're just unhappy (rightly or wrongly) with what you're doing in CfD.

I don't have all the answers, whether it be inviting more admins to close CfD debates, engaging in centralized discussions, mediation or user conduct RfCs. But even if we disagree in our visions of Wikipedia, that's no excuse for incivility. Andjam (talk) 09:34, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

If you have an issue with Kbdank71, please address the issue directly with him. No need to let me know that you do. If you are going to call me incivil, please note that I used the word "seem", emphasizing that this is how it appears to me, While I have no doubt that the individuals involved actually believe that they are acting in the bests interests of Wikipedia, regardless of my disagreement. Alansohn (talk) 00:56, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
Did you borrow "If you are going to call me incivil, please ..." from Kbdank's reply? And is prefacing an accusation with "seem" an acceptable excuse? Andjam (talk) 04:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
I appreciate your efforts and recognize that I, and all of Wikipedia, can always benefit from a greater dose of civility. Your efforts are appreciated. Alansohn (talk) 04:13, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia policy and reliable sources on works of fiction

As I said, you can beat your dead horse anywhere you want, but not my talk page. And if you want help doing it, you'll have to ask someone else. --Kbdank71 03:25, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Your good faith efforts to ensure that Wikipedia policy is enforced appropriately are always appreciated. Your commitment to refrain from using your clearly problematic misinterpretation of Wikipedia policy is the first step in rectifying the issue. Alansohn (talk) 03:30, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Joe the plumber

Wikipedia guidelines are notorius for being contradictory and ambiguos. Docku:“what up?” 06:05, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Sailor Beware

Number 173 (66 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 20 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sailor Beware, 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.

GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 20:16, 20 October 2008 (UTC) 20:16, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Sony Building (New York)

Number 174 (67 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 20 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sony Building (New York), 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.

GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 20:17, 20 October 2008 (UTC) 20:17, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Spirit of Communication

Number 175 (68 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 21 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Spirit of Communication, 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.

another! Victuallers (talk) 09:58, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Siruv

Number 176 (69 create/expand - 107 nominations)

Updated DYK query On 21 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Siruv, 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.

Cirt (talk) 17:07, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Milwaukee Brewers Opening Day starting pitchers

Hi, I have left comments on this FLC. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:55, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I'm catching up after two days off the computer and I'll respond to your changes some time today or tomorrow. Thanks again for the time and effort in going through the article. Alansohn (talk) 01:59, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
You responded at the FLC, but I think you forgot to hit the save button. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 June newsletter

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Poland Piotrus (submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, New South Wales Casliber (submissions) and Canada Sasata (submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 10:07, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Red categories

Hey, do you know why these categories are popping up on certain pages? Category:Historic districts in USA New Jersey Union County, Category:Historic districts in USA New Jersey Monmouth County, etc.

I use Hot Cat, and I am unable to get rid of them (no plus or minus button), and I doubt they should be created because they seem redundant to already existing categories. Tinton5 (talk) 16:46, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

  • There is a parameter called locmapin used in the NRHP infobox that controls the map template used for pushpin maps. If the parameter is "New Jersey", it displays a map of the whole state, which is not very helpful. I worked with another editor to create maps of each county, and if "USA New Jersey Union County" is specified, it will show a map of Union County. The problem is that this parm is also used for another purpose for historic districts. So if locmapin contains "New Jersey" it correctly generates Category:Historic districts in New Jersey, but if it contains "USA New Jersey Union County" it incorrectly generates Category:Historic districts in USA New Jersey Union County. Because these red cats are generated by the template, there's no way to get rid of them using a tool like HotCat. I will look through the template logic and see if there is any way to work around this or to have it fixed to deal with the problem. Alansohn (talk) 18:16, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

you

Don't threaten to report my edits as "vandalism" just because you don't agree with my style.

If in doubt about what vandalism is or isn't, see Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.

You do a lot of edits, and you have certainly added to Wikipedia. But you don't own it.

When you act so harshly with people who add to articles about New Jersey, you inhibit them from contributing. This is a problem.

Months ago I explained to you why I don't need to reference Wiki articles that have already been referenced.

If you don't like my edits, you are free to improve them.

And please note...

"Harassment, threats, intimidation, repeated annoying and unwanted contact or attention, and repeated personal attacks may reduce an editor's enjoyment of Wikipedia and thus cause disruption to the project."

Wikipedia:Harassment

Please stop contacting me. Richard Apple (talk) 17:28, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Official names?

Hey, are we doing an ongoing project by adding the "official name" of each NJ municipality (with exception of CDPs of course), such as Township of Clark, Borough of Clayton, etc? If so, I am willing to help here. I noticed the pages you edited had these included at the top, so I was just wondering. Tinton5 (talk) 01:03, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm doing so other editing to add 2012 Census estimates and cycling through the municipal articles and doing some other cleanup. There are parms in the infobox settlement for name and official name. Name is pretty much the article title, while official name is the formal name used for the municipality. There was an ongoing debate in the articles for Chatham borough / township that revolved around these two parms and I figured that I'd take care of those in the other articles as long as I am staring at them at the top of each article. Any additional hands will only make this work lighter. Thanks as always for your New Jersey editing. Alansohn (talk) 01:22, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

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New Jersey municipality census maps

Greetings, and how are you? I'm Quadell, a long-time Wikipedian. I don't think we've met, but for the last several days I've been moving your New Jersey municipality census maps to Commons, and improving the categorization of New Jersey counties and maps. (You may have noticed, I'm not sure.) Now, when one browses through Commons:Category:Red Bank, New Jersey, one will find the relevant census and locator maps as well as photos of the region, and will see it correctly categorized for easy reference.

Anyway, I mostly just wanted to thank you for all your maps. They're a great asset, and it must have been tedious to upload them all. Also, if you have any feedback on the things I've been doing (related to NJ), I'm all ears.

All the best, – Quadell (talk) 18:35, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for reaching out and my appreciation for all of your work. While I have encouraged others to create maps for places in New Jersey and while I have been active in using these maps, I can't take any credit for their creation. Great work on reorganizing and categorizing the images to make them more readily available to readers while uncluttering the articles. As with the article for Burlington city, these images can be used far more productively by integrating them into articles rather than bunching them in a gallery at the end of the article. Thanks so much. Alansohn (talk) 18:44, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Gloucester Catholic

Gostrum1710 - PLEASE, leave the Gloucester Catholic High School edits alone! I am the Advancement Director at the school and I am trying to get this info updated over the next 7 to 10 days. I am just learning how to do the reference citations etc., so give me a few days to get these changes made. Everything I am adding or revising is correct, The content on the site now is several years old and needs to be updated. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.163.62 (talk) 21:39, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

St. Patrick HS (New Jersey) and The Neale, County Mayo

I noticed you have edits on both these articles; graduated the former, father was born at the latter. Freddiem (talk) 18:05, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

  • I wish there were a connection, but this all seems to be coincidence. Saint Patrick HS is related to my New Jersey editing and i can't figure out why I would have edited The Neale, County Mayo. Thanks for reaching out. Alansohn (talk) 18:09, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
    • Yes, I noticed all your work on New Jersey articles, and then I saw you on the Neale history and it made me wonder. Visited the Neale about ten years back. Anyhow, thanks for all you do here for the good ol' Garden State. Freddiem (talk) 00:47, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Category confusion

You might want to take a look at Category:Cities in New Jersey, where subcats may not belong. Then what is the difference between that and this: Category:Cities in the New York metropolitan area? These are really confusing and I am not sure which entries belong where. Thanks! Tinton5 (talk) 20:18, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

I agree that they don't belong there. The city articles belong in that structure, but not categories for the cities. I have been undoing these as I get around to them. As always, your efforts to cleanup and improve these articles (and their category structures) makes a tremendous difference. Alansohn (talk) 20:30, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

WTF!

Alansohn! I found a New Jersey topic that you haven't yet scored a DYK for! What is this world coming to... The subject is the Crocker Mansion in Bergen County--a real swank house based on Bramshill House in merry old England. There's a website, here, and a really weird website, this one, which seems to be an official site but requires a login. Good luck with--I'm going to go ahead and redlink it, in full confidence of your legendary Protestant work ethic. Drmies (talk) 00:39, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

GOCE July 2013 news report

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
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FAC: Trees (poem)

A New Jersey topic that might interest you, one I just brought to WP:FAC today. Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Trees (poem)/archive1. Stop on by. --ColonelHenry (talk) 22:54, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Drinking in a dry town

You have new message/s Hello. You have a new message at User talk:DavidinNJ's talk page. DavidinNJ (talk) 15:35, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Objection to your edits

The "Book of Job" page violates your rules regarding accurate quotes. The article says "God' this and "God" that, yet in the Bible itself (and in all translations) the name is LORD or YHVH not God attributed to the events cited. It's a personal interpretation or "original research", to interchange the names God and LORD (YHVH).

You tell me (since you're the expert) Why is it acceptable to use the word "God" when the text literally says YHVH or LORD? Are you accurately representing the text? Or just caving in to public opinion?

How do we justify calling the LORD by anything other than the published name in the text? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.104.125.197 (talk) 11:17, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

You have new message/s Hello. You have a new message at ColonelHenry's talk page.
You have new message/s Hello. You have a new message at ColonelHenry's talk page.

Reply - naming townships, boroughs, etc.

I am actually wanting to implement some kind of project in addressing this issue. I believe that the user who moved Denville, NJ to Denville Township, NJ as well as East Hanover, NJ to East Hanover Township, NJ, etc, has a point, whereas naming of places should be, in fact consistent with all other pages for the topic at hand. They are the "official" names. When it comes to NJ municipalities, there are still some that do not contain the word "township" such as Cherry Hill, Medford, and the ones you mentioned like North Bergen, etc. Cherry Hill and Medford used to have the word Township in their title some time ago, and I wonder if they should be placed back. But that means their categories have to change as well. It's a great topic to discuss in general, and with the users who are also involved with the page moves. By the way, this entire encyclopedia is not consistent at all. But focusing on NJ topics is another issue to deal with when it comes to consistency. Tinton5 (talk) 23:10, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

PS, you're welcome. Always a pleasure to help out! Tinton5 (talk) 23:20, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

New Jersey townships

Sorry about that. I admit I'm not terribly familiar with local government in New Jersey, and it wasn't clear why certain townships didn't have "Township" in the name, especially since they had been moved several years ago with no apparent rationale. I wasn't aware that so many places in New Jersey were actually townships even though they're commonly known without "Township" in the name (and I've even been to Cherry Hill!) I won't move any more of those without a RM first; you can feel free to move those three back for now. (While the Randolph article seems to use Randolph Township within the article itself, there should probably be a discussion about moving it first.)

If it makes you feel any better, I can sympathize with odd state municipality structures. I do a lot of editing in Wisconsin, which has "towns" that have the same functions as townships in other parts of the Midwest. The towns often have the same name as neighboring cities or even communities located within the town. A lot of new editors think the towns are municipalities rather than townships and think the articles on communities with the same name are duplicates. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 23:32, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 June newsletter

We're half way through 2010, and the end of the WikiCup is in sight! Round 3 is over, and we're down to our final 16. Our pool winners were Ian Rose (submissions) (A), Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (B, and the round's overall leader), Colombia ThinkBlue (submissions) (C) New South Wales Casliber (submissions) and New Orleans TonyTheTiger (submissions) (D, joint), but, with the scores reset, everything is to play for in our last pooled round. The pools will be up before midnight tonight, and have been selected randomly by J Milburn. This will be the toughest round yet, and so, as ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Though unaffiliated with the WikiCup, July sees the third Great Wikipedia Dramaout- a project with not dissimilar goals to the WikiCup. Everyone is welcome to take part and do their bit to contribute to the encyclopedia itself.

If you're interested in the scores for the last round of the Cup, please take a look at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Round 3 and Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Full/Round 3. Our thanks go to Bavaria Stone (submissions) for compiling these. As was predicted, Group C ended up the "Group of Death", with 670 points required for second place, and, therefore, automatic promotion. This round will probably be even tougher- again, the top two from each of the two groups will make it through, while the twelve remaining participants will compete for four wildcard places- good luck everyone! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 OK to archive. Alansohn (talk) 03:32, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Alansohn. You have new messages at Fribbler's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

OK to archive. Alansohn (talk) 03:32, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

:-|

Jimmy Wales is notable, and a begger.

OK to archive. Alansohn (talk) 03:32, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

bbert94

Thank you for leaving the article Russ Feingold alone, as a show of gratitude, I wanted to leave it the way it was. Please leave it alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbert94 (talk • contribs)

OK to archive. Alansohn (talk) 03:32, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!


The Thing T/C is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:User:TTTSNB/Merry_Christmas}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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The WITF wants you

The World Intelligence Task Force would like to recruit you as an agent. If you accept, comment under the pending section on the project page. It is a relatively new task force and we need new members right away so if you are interested please don't be shy. At this moment in time we only have three members. If you want more information, please go to the project page.

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Articles for Creation Appeal

Articles for Creation urgently needs your help!

Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently the are 1774 submissions waiting to be reviewed.

Do you have what it takes?
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If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog.

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WikiProject Article Rescue Squadron Newsletter

Article Rescue Squadron Newsletter

Volume I, Issue III
February 2012

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GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update
GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far.

Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers.

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AFC Backlog

Articles for Creation urgently needs YOUR help!

Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently there are 1774 submissions waiting to be reviewed and many help requests at our Help Desk.

Do you have what it takes?
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  4. Are you autoconfirmed?
  5. Can you review submissions based on their individual merits?

If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog. You might wish to add {{AFC status}} or {{AfC Defcon}} to your userpage, which will alert you to the number of open submissions.

PS: we have a great AFC helper script at User:Timotheus Canens/afchelper4.js which helps in reviewing in just few edits easily!

We would greatly appreciate your help. Currently, only a small handful of users are reviewing articles. Any help, even if it's just 2 or 3 reviews, it would be extremely beneficial.
On behalf of the Articles for Creation project,
TheSpecialUser TSU

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Princeton (Part 2)

I utilized the link you provided and sent the task force an email. While this is a true merger, wherein the two existing municipalities will cease to exist and be superseded by the new consolidated Princeton, I'm told the new municipality will have a "borough form of government," meaning essentially it will all be the Borough of Princeton. While this won't be the same entity as the current Borough of Princeton, it will still technically be called the Borough of Princeton.

Now, I was curious what you and others were planning to do as there are currently 3 articles regarding Princeton. My advice would be to delete the Township and Borough articles as they'll be redundant. The article simply called Princeton should specify that the the municipality is a borough, and that it's existence came about from the merger of the former borough with the former township. I see no point in having 3 articles.

But what is your opinion and those of others heavily involved in editing those pages?

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BHG talkback

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NYC Wiki-Picnic: Saturday June 22

Great American Wiknic NYC at Prospect Park
You are invited to the Great American Wiknic NYC in Brooklyn's green and lovely Prospect Park, on this Saturday June 22! We would love to see you there, so sign up and bring something fun for the potluck :) -- User:Pharos (talk)

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WikiCup 2013 July newsletter

We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Canada Sasata (submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, London Miyagawa (submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Poland Piotrus (submissions), Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

Other than that, there is not much to report! If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:33, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK RfC

Two things

1) the Teterboro article states that the census miscounted the city in 2000 but does not source that claim.

2) There is no wiki page for the Division of the Rate Counsel.

3) Thanks for making my like easier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fibinachi (talk • contribs) 02:06, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

I've updated the Teterboro article and I plan to create an article for the New Jersey Division of the Rate Counsel in the near future. Alansohn (talk) 03:32, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Wow, your fast. I do appreciate your work, because it makes mine easier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fibinachi (talk • contribs) 15:14, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Response on American Jews talk page

I have an objection regarding the removal of Middle Eastern American from that page.Evildoer187 (talk) 17:55, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

I realize you are a NJ editor, but...

Would you mind joining a discussion about category structure for the next state over, located here? I ask, because a while back you created Category:Unincorporated communities in New Jersey by county, which contains only subcategories. Also, it makes me wonder why there are only 9 states out of 50 under Category:Unincorporated communities in the United States by county. Anyway, I know it's PA-related and not NJ, but figured I had nothing to lose in asking. Thank you for your help. Tinton5 (talk) 20:39, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Platform tennis

Alex Shih(talk) 08:04, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

The Center Line: Summer 2013

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GOCE July 2013 copy edit drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter

We have completed our July backlog elimination drive.

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Well deserved barnstar

The Invisible Barnstar
The articles on towns and boroughs of New Jersey are among the most detailed and reliable of any state in the Union, and much of that is due to you. It ain't glamorous work, but I figured it was time someone told you they noticed. Thank you. – Quadell (talk) 17:09, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

For The Record

You're right; sorry about that. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:17, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

No problem. I will do my best to go through the other articles, where I agree that there are genuine COI issues. Alansohn (talk) 18:19, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
As an administrative support worker myself, I am painfully aware that this may not be Liz' fault: she may have simply been tasked to do this by somebody higher up the food chain than herself. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:25, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Regardless of the circumstances, any sort of COI is going to taint content, the only question is how bad it's going to be. It's tough to write neutral content about yourself or your boss, especially given our obligation under WP:NPOV. Thanks for catching this. Alansohn (talk) 18:28, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Salutations!

Hello, Alansohn. I stumbled across your user page and wanted to say, I am very impressed with your Wiki-philosophy, particularly in the areas of punitive vs. preventative blocking and the very logical possibility of a brief intro for potential editors (I would never have come to that conclusion myself, but it really makes sense when I think about it). I wish more Wikipedians were as thoughtful as you. I suppose I'll award you a barnstar. Dozzzzzzzzzing off (talk) 15:52, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence
For your hard work and the amount of thought you put into said work. Dozzzzzzzzzing off (talk) 15:57, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your voluminous contribution history. Dozzzzzzzzzing off (talk) 15:57, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

BACK OFF

Poking where you don't belong
I have reviewed your suggestions and I disagree with your decision about what is exactly "Encyclopedic." As I was reviewing policy and amending my updates, you decided to change my article once again. A breakdown of individual emergency services branches and the background of each is exactly the type of things that users are interested in and should have access to such. Please put back what you changed and leave my posts alone. Fireems71 (talk) 15:08, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
It would appear that someone doesn't understand Wikilove... – Quadell (talk) 15:30, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Funny, I was also receiving a bit of a mixed message here. Alansohn (talk) 15:35, 23 August 2013 (UTC)


Information icon Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fireems71 (talk • contribs) 19:17, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

GOCE Blitz wrap-up and September 2013 drive invitation

Guild of Copy Editors August Blitz wrap-up

Participation: Out of sixteen people who signed up for this blitz, nine copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 26 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the September drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, and The Utahraptor.

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New Jersey Telephone Exchanges

My source is Area Code/Exchanges at TelcoData.com (TelcoGuy) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.254.184 (talk) 12:18, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I will check it out as a source. Please be sure to add the sources (Between a pair of angle-bracketed ref and /ref statements) when adding the exchange information to articles. I will be happy to help, just let me know here on my talk page. Alansohn (talk) 13:25, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

  1. Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
  2. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
  3. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
  4. Canada Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
  5. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
  6. Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
  7. London Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
  8. Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Poland Piotrus (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), Michigan Dana boomer (submissions), Prince Edward Island Status (submissions), United States Ed! (submissions), Florida 12george1 (submissions), England Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

Finally, the usual notices: If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 05:43, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

August 2013

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Verifiable notability for school alumni

The Wikipedia guidelines for notability of lists of people clearly state:

"A person may be included in a list of people if all the following requirements are met:

  • The person meets the Wikipedia notability requirement. An exception to this requirement may be made if the person is famous for a specific event, the notability requirement need not be met. If a person in a list does not have an article in Wikipedia about them, a citation (or link to another article) must be provided to establish their membership in the list's group and to establish their notability on either BLP1E or BIO1E.
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Greetings!

Hi, Alansohn,
I noticed you do a lot of work on New Jersey topics (I'm in Morris County, myself) which brought me to your page and I read your interesting Wikipedia philosophy. I haven't used Huggle and AWB myself (although I've found HotCat useful) so I'm not sure how much they automate the process of editing. Sometimes I'm adding, renaming or deleting a lot of category tags and it is very repetitive work but it's important to pause and look over each article.
Any way, in case you are in NJ, I just wanted to say "Hi!". Thanks for working on all of those municipal articles. Liz Read! Talk! 20:10, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia university class project focused on Jersey City

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October 2013 AFC Backlog elimination drive

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WikiCup 2013 September newsletter

In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. Canada Sasata (submissions), Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions)—who has never participated in the competition before—and New South Wales Casliber (submissions) follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

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Re: County edits and sources

Hi, Thanks for contacting me. I changed the references mostly because I don't see the need for five or six different references for the population numbers, especially since most of them are redundant. When I started updating populations, I was using the University of Virginia website, because it does have nice tables, but someone else changed them to the general census website I use now. I think it is nice to have one consolidated link for all dates. Maybe some people find it too cumbersome, but I don't think it is altogether inappropriate.

On a different note, the geography reference used in the New Jersey articles ([3]) is no longer good. Although it's impossible to access right now, this should be the corresponding table for New Jersey. But I find {{GR|1}} just as useful (unless you don't like the extra navigation.) Thanks. Kennethaw88 (talk) 00:55, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

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Municipalities in New Jersey

PLEASE do not remove the municipality categories for categories in New Jersey! It is very appropriate to list all the Township, Town, City and Borough categories under the parent category for the state! By removing the link it becomes extremely difficult to find all the named categories, such as cities in New Jersey. Categories named after a municipality are TOTALLY appropriate to include in that parent category. Your rationale for removing them would force the removal of far too many categories from their appropriate parent, such as category about a municipality in a county not being linked to the parent category for the county, i.e. not including the category for Elizabeth, NJ in the category Union County, NJ, since Elizabeth is not the county! Please, before you make more changes, I ask the topic to go to a higher level of discussion. Jllm06 (talk) 19:19, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

I very much disagree. Please look at the work done in every other state to list municipal categories at the parent and county level. There is indeed a value to know the name municipal categories at the state level. Jllm06 (talk)

Correction

"That any editor should have to face this kind of abusive tactics at no less than twenty-two articles by Orser67 earns my sympathy"

  1. Although I would dispute your use of the word "abusive", I'll grant that it's subjective and you're free to consider anything abusive, regardless of merit.
  2. I read ninety articles by Orser67. Twenty-two of them were about people who are current candidates for US Congress. For ten of them, I judged that there was no assertion of notability aside from 'is currently a candidate for US Congress'. I have since restored those articles so that they can go through a formal AfD. This is a factual error on your part; please correct it.
  3. How often do you patrol the newpages queue? How many hundreds of articles do you process per day? I await your reply. DS (talk) 12:01, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Being a candidate for Congress as the choice of a major party is an assertion of notability. It may not be enough to withstand AfD, but it is more than enough to exclude the possibility of a speedy deletion, all the more so when the articles include multiple reliable and verifiable sources about the subject. The amount of time you spend on new pages does not excuse the unjustified speedy deletion of any article. Alansohn (talk) 13:46, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
I await your correction of your factual error re: 22 vs 10. DS (talk) 15:09, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
The numbers used were based on your statement and you are free to post a correction indicating that your improper actions were limited to ten articles rather than the twenty-two you described. Meanwhile, I await a cure for cancer. I await an end to war. I await a solution to hunger. I await admins who allow the community to make decisions, rather than taking unilateral action to delete articles accepted by community consensus. I await your restoring the one article under discussion here, where there is not a shred of justification for deletion. I don't await a reply, but I do hope that you will be taking action to undo the damage you caused. Alansohn (talk) 15:26, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_October_25#Category:Rape_victims

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Glasson and Pennington

Actually, after I looked more closely at the Glasson citations on his own page, it appears he only played live once with Seal. The other claims to notability on his page are all from his own website, not a third-party source. I'm starting to wonder if that article should even exist, what do you think? Rockypedia (talk) 21:39, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

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Ocean Grove Notables

Please see my comments on the Ocean Grove talk page. I think we can work this out. Bilbobag (talk) 21:17, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

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Melbourne MacDowell, South River, New Jersey

Hi, not only was South River called Little Washington but it had been called Washington Woods and Washington Village during the time of MacDowell's youth in the mid Victorian era. The source is included in citation #1 two sentences into the main article: the Lewis Strang book on actors which was published in 1898-99, the name of the town had only been changed to South River in 1897. Two men associated with the town were named Thomas Willet and his grandson Samuel Willet. I don't know if they're related to Melbourne MacDowell whose Christian first name is 'Willet' . The notables section in the South River article are arranged by the person's year of birth not ABC order which is why I put MacDowell at the top as he was born in 1856 which makes him earlier than any other person on that list. If you would like to ABC order the names, do so, Im not doing it though. Here's a link to a little history of South River, New Jersey. South River's Old School Baptist Church

Thanks for inquiring, as I learned about the Willet family but I don't know if they're related to Melbourne MacDowell.Koplimek (talk) 01:24, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

You were correct, the names are in alphabetical order, so I made the change and placed him in ABC order. Some of the entries in the notables did look arranged by year but not all of them when I rechecked. ThanksKoplimek (talk) 01:34, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
MacDowell's connection to South River:
why not use the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)link on MacDowell's external links section of his page. I had a physical copy of the 1899 Strang book from a college library when I wrote MacDowell's wiki entry. GoogleBooks would have it but Im not sure they would post the whole book(or page you need) despite it's 100+ year age. I wish they did!Koplimek (talk) 02:06, 4 November 2013 (UTC)


Bergen County#Korean American Community

Hi Alansohn, shouldn't the Korean American Community section precede the other communities, rather than follow? That's how it had been for quite a while, even before being separately subsectioned. It looks really odd following the rest. Thanks, Castncoot (talk) 15:49, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, Alansohn - I saw your November 1 edit of the main article and noted your edit summary - I can't wait to see your completed masterpieces!

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Interview at Wikimania 2011

Hello Alan! My name is Aaron Muszalski and I'm a Storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be traveling to Wikimania next month to collect editor stories for our 2011 Fundraiser. While there I'd love the chance to meet with you and hear your thoughts about Wikipedia.

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OK to archive. Alansohn (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

School history of Morristown-Beard School

Clearly, Morristown-Beard School carries the history of St. Bartholomew's School as it represented a re-founding of that school and name change. As the article on Morristown-Beard School explicitly states, three Harvard graduates took over St. Bartholomew's School after its financial difficulties and renamed the school to the Morristown School. Thus, the removal of Herbert Claiborne Pell, Jr. from the alumni section represents an error because he attended St. Bartholomew's School:

-The Wikipedia entry on Morristown-Beard School: "Morristown School was founded in 1891 as St. Bartholomew's School"

-An Uncommon Man: The Life & Times of Senator Claiborne Pell By G. Wayne Miller: "Herbert attended St. Bartholomew's School in Morristown, NJ..."

For further confirmation that Morristown-Beard School traces its founding to the St. Bartholomew's School, see the school's page on its background:

"Quick Facts Founded: 1891, merged 1971 School Type: Independent, Coeducational"

Likewise, every single third party description of Morristown-Beard states 1891 as the founding year for the school (including books on preparatory school listings).

The year 1891 reflects when the Episcopal Church founded St. Bartholomew's School. The three men from Harvard from the class of 1888 did not rename the school to the Morristown School until 1898, the year after financial difficulties caused hardship in 1897. When they took over the school and changed its name, Morristown School occupied the same buildings, etc. as St. Bartholomew's School. In all but name, Morristown School was essentially St. Bartholomew's School under new ownership.

Thus, Morristown-Beard School alumni do in fact include those who attended Morristown School during the brief period when the boy's boarding school carried the name of St. Bartholomew's School.

I added Pell back to the alumni section where he belongs.

ok to archive. Alansohn (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Ukrainians in Vineland, NJ

I have personally visited this Ukrainian church in Vineland (http://uebchurch.com/), as well as two other Ukrainian churches. So, there is definitely a Ukrainian community there. How would you propose adding it to the article?--Sanya3 (talk) 04:19, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

The presence of a church might be a start, but details regarding a Ukrainian community there -- with stores, organizations, festivals, heritage fairs, events, etc. -- would really be what's needed to demonstrate the existence of a cohesive community, with sources from newspapers and magazines. The ones that don't have articles in appropriate sources probably don't make the cut. Alansohn (talk) 04:29, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Bell, General Mills, Wash Twp Glo Co NJ

The Wash TWP, Glo Co NJ article contains the claim that the Bell family of the Bell's Lake area was connected to General Mills. This might be through James Ford Bell, who was born in Philly and worked in AC. Are you aware of any sources that verify or expand upon this? μηδείς (talk) 05:03, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

I agree that the connection between Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey and General Mills seems hard to believe, but this source from the Township's website makes the explicit connection to the company, and longtime president / chairman James Ford Bell was born in Philadelphia and attended the Lawrenceville School. This does call for more research, but I think there is enough here to justify the mention in the article. Alansohn (talk) 18:28, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I wasn't so much as challenging the matter as wishing it were better sourced in our article. It's very interesting, and I am quite surprised I had never heard any of it before now. μηδείς (talk) 05:13, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
I had remembered reading it in the Washington Township article and on the township's website, but even re-reading the source it seems hard to believe. I will try to find a better source and thanks for raising the question. Alansohn (talk) 05:15, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
The stream that runs through Bell's Lake is the steepest in the area, I don't doubt there would have been a mill there. Given the name and the fact that Bell worked in Atlantic City, with Wash Twp on a direct line between AC and Philly, I think the story is entirely plausible. I just suspect the mill site must have been built over, or we'd have had field trips to it as we did to Weymouth and Smithtown and various other local areas of interest. μηδείς (talk) 05:59, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

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Mercer is in NYC, not Philly CSA

Reviewing edits, looks like you changed Mercer to be in the Delaware Valley Combined Statistical Area? The link you reference says its in the NYC one. Famartin (talk) 06:44, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

The proximity of Mercer to Philadelphia rather than New York City must have lulled me into reading the source incorrectly. Thanks for the catch regarding Mercer County and for your tweaks to the Trenton, New Jersey article. Alansohn (talk) 15:55, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

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Your opinion is welcomed!

As I saw you on a list of WP:Judaism members, please weigh in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Category:European people by ethnic or national origin. Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 19:11, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

just drop it

My opinion, fwiw: It's really not worth continuing the discussion there... cheers, --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 23:10, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Communities in Hammonton, NJ

Hey there! I just closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Communities in Hammonton, NJ as merge to Hammonton, New Jersey, but I'm unsure of how to approach this task. I am unfamiliar with the subject, but you have indicated that you know about this town. Do you think you could point out which content is worth merging and merge it to the article? I was initially inclined to just copy-paste the content into the lead, or a "Communities" section, but no such section exists, and the article's tone is less than formal. Thanks! Michaelzeng7 (talk) 21:24, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the close. I think that I've already added the appropriate material to the Hammonton article, so there's nothing else that needs to be done. Alansohn (talk) 23:12, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

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On 23rd Street Fire of "Rv chg; Wikipedia is worse off with editors (and even worse, admins) who mindlessly remove content that is prefectly valid without any review or thought applied." - Please remember to assume good faith, and consider that that comment could be considered a personal attack. The editor who was being reverted is a community banned mass sockpuppeteer, who is using Wikipedia as a game so that he can get "recognition". Therefore the blanket and essentially automatic reversion of all of his edits, constructive or not, is supported by the banning policy; all of this banned editor's contributions are disruptive by their very nature and are reverted on sight. Please consider this in the future before assusing editors and admins of "mindless" reversions and suggesting there was "no review or thought" when, in fact, there was. - The Bushranger One ping only 22:45, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

On Saturday night, I happened to pass the site of the incident, and I slowed down to point out to my wife the fact that this fire had resulted in the largest loss of life in the history of the NYFD (until 9/11), with the loss of 12 firefighters. This was a straightforward edit that added two categories, both of which clearly belonged on the article. If a bot were removing all of an editor's edits, I'd understand not distinguishing between good and bad. When someone is sitting down and one-by-one reverting tainted edits, I'd still hope that some brainpower would be utilized to separate the wheat from the chaff. I hope that if you are putting policy into place in the future, that the goal of making Wikipedia better with each and every edit be considered as a factor. Alansohn (talk) 23:50, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
It is. And not feeding a troll is a significant factor. The editor in question was warned a year and at least 50 sockpuppet accounts ago that any further edits he made would be considered as vandalism, and he has not stopped. It does not matter, per Wikipedia's banning policy, that the edits are constructive; the mere fact that they are made by a banned user makes them disruptive and requiring rollback so that the banned editor is not rewarded for evading their ban using illegimate accounts - so that Wikipedia is made better and not worse. If you believe this shouldn't be the case, then please open a discussion at the policy page to change the policy. In the meantime, as a legitimate editor you are more than welcome to re-add the categories yourself, but please don't make personal attacks on editors and admins who are applying policy and discouraging trolls when you do so. - The Bushranger One ping only 02:17, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
If you keep useful content, you make the encyclopedia better; If you remove it, you make it worse. I saw the categories removed in a manner that made the encyclopedia worse, and I reinserted them. I don't give a crap if a troll or a sockpuppet or a pedophile or a mass murderer added the content: If it's good, it stays. If you believe that your role as an administrator is to mindlessly apply policies regardless of their impact, then we're all worse off. No one is forcing you to follow orders and you are free to apply a tiny measure of common sense in cases where useful material would be lost by blindly observing some policy. Is there any way to discourage admins and other editors who delete useful content in the name of enforcing editing purity? That's a discussion worth starting. Alansohn (talk) 02:32, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
If you believe the policy is incorrect and needs changing, please start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Banning policy. Until and unless that happens, the common sense procedure is not to feed the trolls. - The Bushranger One ping only 18:44, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
If you truly believe that destroying Wikipedia is the best way to save it and that deleting content -- regardless of its value -- is an appropriate way to deal with "trolls", systematically and mindlessly removing anything they have ever touched, good or bad, we are truly screwed up far worse than I could ever have believed. As bad as the editor in question might be, its admins who refuse to use any brainpower who can and do cause far more damage than any troll could ever do. Alansohn (talk) 18:57, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
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