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2010 census showed that Youngstown had a total population of 66,982, making it Ohio's ninth largest city. (Full article...
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Thank you for quality articles such as Youngstown, Ohio, for tireless gnomish work fighting trivia, for dreaming "what seizes your imagination, will affect everything", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
I wanted to know if the Fire Service and Fire Portals are still being maintained and updated? I would like to integrate them with some of my online fire classes, but didn't want to if they are out of date. As well, I have some ideas for expanding their usage, but again... its if they are being regularly kept up. Let me know. Thanks. Mfinney (talk) 18:16, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
I would be glad to take it over if you like. Can you share with me what you typically do with managing it? Mfinney (talk) 23:13, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Lately not a whole lot. With the portal, I tried to change the articles every two weeks. I don't think I've touched the portal in a year or more, however. There's enough Good, A, and FA articles in the Fire Service project to keep the Portal stocked with new material for a while. The project has mostly been dormant. We had a good group a few years ago working on fire service articles but most of those users have gone dormant. The first step would be to recruit some new users who may have a fire service background. Having them tag and assess articles, edit or update articles and maintaining/updating the project's pages would be a few of the items on the to-do list. If you have more specific questions, let me know. --Daysleeper47 (talk) 15:23, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
I am leaving you this note because I have reason to believe that you are interested in C-SPAN. (I may have made this assumption based on your C-SPAN user box, or perhaps for some other reason.) If this is not an interest of yours, please feel free to read no further and delete this message.
If you are in fact someone who is interested in C-SPAN, then let me put forward an idea that I have been kicking around for a while. What if we started a C-SPAN WikiProject?
The parameters of this (potential) project are up for discussion, but it could include some or all of the following (as well as things that may occur to you that have not occurred to me):
Use of C-SPAN programming in citations for various topics
Inclusion of unique and targeted C-SPAN video links for various articles. (Doing this with respect for established guidelines at Wikipedia:External links.) (Example: If you are interested in the submarine USS Wyoming (SSBN-742), then having easy access to the eight hours of programming taped while a C-SPAN crew were guests on that submarine could also be of interest to you.)
Inclusion of (and possible further creation of) templated links such as {{C-SPAN|laurabush}}, that will easily take article readers to a link of all C-SPAN Video Library links for the person about whom the article is about.
What else?
I don't know exactly how far we may want to go, nor in what directions, but I do believe (as I have long noted on my user page) that C-SPAN and Wikipedia are both...
...fantastic vehicles for the free exchange of ideas and information in a non-sound-bite manner, and they both invite the participation of any parties (expert or amateur) who are interested in taking the time to absorb and/or contribute to the ideas and information offered. C-SPAN and Wikipedia go together like peanut butter and jelly, and I want to help give other Wiki users easy access to the great work that C-SPAN has done on a variety of topics.
Now, I should mention that I have never started a WikiProject before, and I do not know the best way to go about it. (Perhaps one of you do?) Let me offer one of my sandbox pages, User:KConWiki/sandbox/Wikiproject C-SPAN?, as a gathering area for comments until such time as we gather enough steam to start our own WikiProject page.
Thanks for reading this far, and I hope that you will give some consideration as to whether this is something we ought to attempt. Please feel free to pass this message on to others you know whom might be interested, and please let me know your thoughts and comments.
is missing a description and/or other details on its image description page. If possible, please add this information. This will help other editors make better use of the image, and it will be more informative to readers.
Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Kirill[talk] 17:30, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Where did you find the great picture of Thomas L. Hamer? I'd like to cite back to the original source, if possible. Kestenbaum (talk) 19:47, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
I wish I could tell you, but I have no clue. I checked my files and did a Google search for similar, but it didn't turn up. I wish I knew but I uploaded it when I was relatively new to Wikipedia and didn't care as much for citations. Sorry! --Daysleeper47 (talk) 21:22, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
