User talk:Magnolia677/Archive 1

Thanks for numbering the Nobels. One piqued my interest. Couldn't find any mention in his own article of William Faulkner ever attending Univ of Toronto. Seems unlikely. Bellagio99 (talk) 16:46, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Faulkner attended the School of Military Aeronautics in 1918 and had a room on the second floor of Wycliffe College. There's more information here: [2][3]. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:04, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you.Bellagio99 (talk) 23:02, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Magnolia667, I totally get your reversion of my addition to the Harrison, AR page due to the citation being shaky. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of citations throughout Wikipedia regarding the Vanguard series from the former Current TV channel that are pretty shaky, quite a few were citing web pages that don't even exist any longer. It's actually how I surfed into the Harrison AR page, following bad citations for Vanguard shows. I've actually seen the episode I mentioned on the Harrison page so I know it exists, I just need to find a better citation for the information, which is a little difficult because their home page (Current TV and Vanguard, both) have been taken down. I tried to clean up citations on other Wikipedia pages that had links which no longer exist, and I'll go ahead now and try and find a reliable solid location for a citation for the Vanguard episode on Harrison. Thanks for holding us, and me specifically, to the high standard necessary for Wikipedia! Hopefully I'll succeed in finding one, but if not I'll just leave it the way you've left it and not change anything. Thanks again for calling that to my attention, that my source was too weak, and I apologize for making the mistake in the first place. Cheers, Heimdallen (talk) 07:39, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd really like to add info to the Harrison, AR page about the existence of this Vanguard documentary, as after having seen it myself I think it's very informative and something that Wikipedia users need to know about. However, after searching for a more reliable source to prove the documentary exists, and having mentioned that the show's parent company "Current TV" has gone off the air and their webpage taken down, the best I can seem to find is mention of it on Vanguard's Facebook Page, Vanguard on Facebook, and mention of it on their parent company Current TV's Tumblr page, Current on Tumblr. I'm not confident that either of these are good enough for citations; I mean, I know the documentary exists and has been on TV many times, but that doesn't really do us any good other than the fact that I can say that these sources are indeed correct. I'd really appreciate your two cents on this, what do you think? I appreciate your time. Thanks in advance, Heimdallen (talk) 07:56, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I've noticed you have created some pages about Mississippi towns. Would you able to take some pictures of them? Is there a specific county where you would find this easy? Pls reply on my talkpage. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 11:07, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't feel comfortable taking pictures from flickr. It would be great if you could take pictures of Concordia, Mississippi (very interesting page!). I asked you because sometimes people don't even think of taking and adding pictures, but it is always very interesting for someone like me who lives overseas (though I have lived in the South!).Zigzig20s (talk) 14:48, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Since you mention flickr, is it possible to take this picture and add it to wikimedia commons and then include it to Francis Furman's page? But I don't feel comfortable taking pictures from Flickr. Would you like to do it for me though?Zigzig20s (talk) 05:11, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. I wish I could help, but the picture is © All Rights Reserved. To find only non-copyrighted pictures on Flickr, go to Flickr and in "advanced search" (top right) check all 3 boxes under "only search within Creative Commons-licensed content".

• When you find a picture you want, save the largest sized picture to your computer.
• Go to [4]. (this is the "Flickinfo tool" from this page [5])
• Enter the Flickr URL for the largest-sized photo you just downloaded. This tool will extract the photo's info. Then "open upload form". Under "licensing", select "uploaded to Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0". Then upload.
• Don't forget to copy down the file name.

Let me know how it goes! Magnolia677 (talk) 05:30, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...They're all 'all rights reserved' for this (even the statue inside the hall. I will try to ask some wikipedians who go to Vandy--I already did, but I will try to contact all of them. If they're on campus, it'd be very easy for them to take a picture of the statue inside and perhaps also a better picture of the building. The tomb in the cemetery might be more work though. We will see what happens...Btw, feel free to expand the page if you want and can. Thanks.Zigzig20s (talk) 05:47, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You may want to expand Cedar Grove Place if you can. I will try to create more NRHP buildings from Church Hill--partly because I am trying to figure out if the plantation that Gaines Ruger Donoho grew up on is listed. Let me know if you can/want to help. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 15:39, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I added an infobox to Church Hill, and put geocoordinates on the plantation. The home is visible on Google Maps and looks like a beauty. Let me dig around and see what I can find. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:11, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Church Hill seems to have been quite the haunt for the Southern aristocracy! The page needs to be done up properly. Meanwhile, I have created Richland (Church Hill, Mississippi), Pecan Grove (Church Hill, Mississippi), China Grove (Lorman, Mississippi), Oak Grove (Church Hill, Mississippi), Woodland Plantation (Church Hill, Mississippi) and Wyolah Plantation. Obviously, they need to be expanded dramatically and pictures added if possible. I am not sure if they are all plantations, as not all of them appear on the List of plantations in Mississippi. In any case, they are all listed, so a page is welcome. It would be good to know the names of the planters, if they were in the legislature, etc. I still haven't found out which plantation the painter I mentioned grew up on btw. Let me know if you can help!Zigzig20s (talk) 17:46, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work. Let me poke around and see what I can add. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 17:49, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also

Blantonia Plantation House and Rosswood.Zigzig20s (talk) 19:05, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply

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And

Hughes-Clark House, Laurietta, Old Hill Place Bridge and Youngblood Bridge. The roads near the bridges don't have street view on google; it really must be far from everything.Zigzig20s (talk) 19:53, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply

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And finally Laurel Hill Plantation (very significant historically!). I think I am done for today. Do keep me posted. Thanks.Zigzig20s (talk) 20:29, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In Lowndes County: Brownrigg-Harris-Kennebrew House and Cox-Uithoven House. Please help me expand them if you can. Thanks.Zigzig20s (talk) 23:23, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User:86.13.182.103 has to be someone's sock. I suspect it may be the same editor as User:95.39.221.187, User:107.4.100.132 and User:190.74.245.151. --evrik ^(talk) 21:11, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Click on "what links here" in the user's talk page. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:53, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have now commented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wicks Steve. --evrik ^(talk) 22:11, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the wiki barnstar! Truth told, I do enjoy adding history to the towns that need it. The Google archive of old public domain books is a treasure trove of information just waiting to be incorporated into our project.- Gilliam (talk) 14:07, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is Princess Daisy going to be on Super Smash Bros 4 for the Nintendo Wii U? 173.59.11.76 (talk) 01:36, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The one you just made to

WP:PEACOCK. It adds nothing to the article at all, and is an opinion, not a fact CTF83! 03:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply

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I didn't write that they were brave. I reverted an edit where the editor removed that they were brave. You need to get your facts straight. Magnolia677 (talk) 03:14, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, I was that editor, same difference, you reverting is equivalent to you writing it. There is no need to list they are brave, it adds nothing. CTF83! 03:18, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No...but it takes something away. There was tremendous bravery shown by so many after that terrible event. So an editor wants to call the Port Authority officers "brave" for risking their lives during 9/11, and you are so pedantic, so inflexible to the real world outside this online novelty called wikipedia, that you can't find it in you to permit the word "bravery" to enter into an article about the first responders on 9/11? No peacocks for you! My cyber friend, you should hang your head in shame. Magnolia677 (talk) 03:32, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Don't

CTF83! 23:13, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks for the ref guidelines re the Dero Saunders page. I edit very little and the refs are a bit new to me still. Your guidance is appreciated! Clarella (talk) 16:57, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If you doubt the book's claim, please feel free to revert my addition. While the place names book is certainly a wealth of information, I have noticed quite a few contradictions to what is found in Wikipedia, and when I'm in doubt I will leave the article unchanged. I am going through the entire book and adding content to hundreds of cities and towns often devoid of any history section, and I believe that some sourced history is always better than nothing at all.

In the book's defense, the history of place names is quite often an unclear matter. Thanks for your feedback.- Gilliam (talk) 23:57, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification: When you say "it really isn't", what precisely do you mean? It really isn't what? Nightscream (talk) 16:04, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article calls it an unincorporated community. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:10, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You mentioned the literature in which it appears. You should put in the article what the literature says. And not only in the interest of accuracy, but also in the interest of

notability, since there are currently no inline citations that establish notability of that topic, since the one inline cite currently in the article is a dead link. Nightscream (talk) 19:12, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply

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There is a Buzzard Roost Swamp in GNIS, however, IF there is a map showing a community of that name, it is possible to have GNIS add this IF it can be demonstrated, that it was in some manner populated.Coal town guy (talk) 19:25, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

here isa sign, with some structures...possible yes, but we need a map??Coal town guy (talk) 19:28, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopedia of Mississippi Indians By Donald B. Rick page 383 mentions an Indian Village of that nameCoal town guy (talk) 19:31, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I found the reference to Buzzard Roost being a store here [6], and George County refers to it as a community [7]. Magnolia677 (talk) 19:42, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Veracity and notability should be addressed if the county page states it, which YES, its does look that way...Coal town guy (talk) 19:49, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the picture of the sea lion exhibit because it was an old picture. The new Helmerich Sea Lion Cove was finished in 2012. I am brand new to Wikipedia editing... And I'm sorry I keep deleting all pictures you added. Again I am trying to learn the routes of properly citing photos.. But I am in no way intentionally disrupting your posts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waltersn117 (talk • contribs) 23:34, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Magnolia677. I saw you reverted my edit on Allen, South Dakota. In the provided source/link, searching "Allen, SD" pulls up the an entry for the proper noun "wagmíza wakpála". Clicking or searching on these individual words shows individual translations resulting in "Corn Creek." I wanted to discuss it with you before I did any sort of reverting. GreenRunner0 22:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! Thanks for working in good faith! GreenRunner0 22:20, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi-I put the sections in the Neely, Mississippi article for easier editing and organization. My apologies for any problems. On a personal note-I am fascinated with the state of Mississippi. I developed a liking for William Faulkner's writings when I was in high school. I took a family trip to New Orleans on the Spirit of New Orleans Amtrak and enjoyed seeing Mississippi for the first time. Thanks-RFD (talk) 12:19, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fabulous work you're doing over there!— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 01:51, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm TCMemoire. Magnolia677, thanks for creating Victoria, Bolivar County, Mississippi!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Needs just a couple more footnotes for verification in the lead and the last sentence. Otherwise, very interesting!

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on

And how do we sort out the naming convention issues? There's one in Marshall County too. Is there a standard for naming when this happens? I'd guess it ought to be something like Victoria, Mississippi (Bolivar County) and then move the other one to Victoria, Mississippi (Marshall County), but I don't really know.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 02:17, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Or maybe Victoria, Mississippi (ghost town)?— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 02:18, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I added a bit more to the lead, with a source, but as for the "Victoria Hunting Club Road", that's right off Google Maps and I'm not sure how to source it. As for what to name this place, on the nearby ghost-town Prentiss, Bolivar County, Mississippi, all I did was add a hatnote to distinguish it from the other Prentiss in Mississippi. Thanks for your feedback! Magnolia677 (talk) 03:09, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, per

WP:USPLACE it turns out you're dead-on. I think the other ones should be moved to include their counties as well and that'll obviate the need for dab hatnotes, although they may still be desirable. I'm glad you're working on these little Mississippi towns!— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 03:23, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply

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Such interesting histories to these old towns. Do you know how to source a Google Map? I'd really like to remove the tag from the article, but not sure how to reference "Victoria Hunting Club Road" at 33°55′43″N 91°00′13″W / 33.928597°N 91.00368°W / 33.928597; -91.00368. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 04:21, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do you happen to know the year that the community was most active??Coal town guy (talk) 12:44, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

[I found this] 1873 map, BUT the resolution is not great. I was unable to see it, how about you? The only caution is that its possible it was not a true community, but rather a church community, not per se, an actual unincorporated...much like artist colony etc etc. BUT I would need to REALLY dive inCoal town guy (talk) 13:02, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, but you have no idea of the scope. It's not just unincorporated communities: it's all types of municipalities, too. It's not just Mississippi: it's all states. User:Hmains did this some months ago nationwide, despite the fact that this is quite inappropriate and a huge mess for other people to clean up. Nyttend (talk) 23:03, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker)Of the CDPs in WV, I saw 60 that had issues, THANKFULLY, Nyttend was able to provide guidance..The cat structure however, in most of the 55 counties of WV is a wreck...Coal town guy (talk) 01:56, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• You should read what 'all included' categories are and that they are perfectly legitimate and nothing 'is a mess' and no 'clean up' is warranted. See
  WP:DUPCAT. Hmains (talk) 02:56, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply
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I have done so, however, there is a difference between great categories and utterly redundant data that is double or triple stated. At this rate, why not create a super category called Higgs Boson and be done with itCoal town guy (talk) 18:16, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Thank you for your comments. While most of my edits have been to Mississippi communities, my impression has been that placing explicitly parent-child-child relationships--like Mississippi -> Washington County -> Stoneville--into categories that don't overlap, just seems so much "cleaner". It visually and unambiguously demonstrates the geographic hierarchy. Magnolia677 (talk) 19:50, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It was not unsourced, it was a question placed on the Usenet Oracle. Because that was before the days of Google, it was about 1992 I recall, the question placed was:

Why are the bubbles
In champagne always rising
I know my Boyle's Law
But it does seem surprising

Kate
The Great.

And the answer was what I quoted verbatim:

When champagne is in the bottle it is highly pressurised
When you open it it's not (alas) I doubt that your surprised
The liquid now contains perhaps more C2 than p'raps it oughta
The question still remains: where will the gas escape the waughta?
The answer: it prefers to leave in nucleation sites
And glasses, being glass you see've got scads of 'em, like mites
And that is why the bubbles form in legions at the bottom
It's "sites": the gases all adore 'em and they find the glass has got 'em

Now to me, that was a perfect example of the tit-for-tat that people had before the days of icons and whatever and were just doing chit-chat in plaintext and could still compose a leonine rhyme and it wasn't mine and if I found out who it was (it was all anonymous) then I would buy that person a pint for composing that. Or, in the alternative, if it can't be found (I did source it, I said it was from the

(talk page stalker)Here it is (search for "champagne" in the page). I still kinda wish the web hadn't been invented and ruined usenet...— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 00:24, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for the edits -- I added some links from other articles, but didn't know how to get the orphan notice off. I am absolutely interested in finding out how to tighten up the citations, and anything else you can suggest that would move my grade up from "C"!

Best regards, Mary K McIntyre (talk) 17:32, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Magnolia, this is very helpful. Have to admit that the Wikis make my eyes googly, and I start looking at what other writers have done to see what makes sense. I will take a stab at this tonight when the phone isn't ringing and I can concentrate :D

One other thing: I've added 3 pix of my subject's work, and even though they are the same height (326 pixels), they display as different heights. Any ideas on how I can fix *that*?

Best regards,Mary K McIntyre (talk) 19:48, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for looking at my images. I am going to add a couple more, and it sounds like you are saying that 326 pixels is kind of large. Should I will re-size the existing ones and the new ones to 220 pixels?

Hi, again! Thanks for making those citation edits, I didn't get a chance to look at them last night.

Re: the primary source, it is the only source for the particular information cited. I am prepared to offer this as an explanation if/when it is queried -- I see that other biographies have accessed information from the subject's website (for example), without being dinged for it.

Re: linking place names to Wiki articles -- I've done this in the body of the text when talking about places that the subject lived or studied. However, the Exhibitions list is intended to document the significance of the shows/galleries in which the subject has shown work; secondarily, to demonstrate the subject's long history of public exhibitions. I think it would be more important to create links for these, than for the cities. I have included External Links of some of the galleries (e.g. Canadian Museum of History). This weekend, I will see about finding as many links as possible to the others (e.g. Art Gallery of Hamilton, etc.).

Thanks again for your advice and help! Mary K McIntyre (talk) 19:14, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

	Thanks in turn!
	Thanks for the thanks, Magnolia! TexasReb (talk) 22:03, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding Stephen Duncan's picture. I wasn't sure we could find one (I didn't see any during my research). Btw I think his second wife may have been the daughter of (or related to) Adam Lewis Bingaman, but we'd need to find a source for it. The reason I wrote the "personal life" section with a list of children is because I think it brings more clarity btw. Ideally I'd like to find the birth- and death-dates of his children as well. Also, let me know if you want to work on Charles P. Leverich (with quite a few prominent planters who need a page). I do think "Washington Jackson & Co." (or whoever ran the firm) also deserves a page (I've noticed you removed the red link). Thank you again for your interest.Zigzig20s (talk) 18:24, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. It may be worth trying to see if any of his plantations are listed...or where exactly they were located as well. Perhaps, some of them were burned down or rotted away however.Zigzig20s (talk) 19:46, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Are you able to find a painting of Isaac Ross? Also, feel free to expand Mississippi-in-Africa if you can. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 16:10, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have added your picture to [List of United Church of Canada churches in Toronto]]. It is not mentioned in the Downsview article so I have upgrade the list article from what you added. Secondarywaltz (talk) 19:06, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I added him because of his importance to the African-American community. I wasn't aware of the cultural constraints. Tezero (talk) 13:10, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. You just left a message on my talk regarding the school psychology article, but did not specify. Which edit are you referring to please?Mrm7171 (talk) 04:15, 17 April 2014 (UTC) Please see a new discussion I've opened on Talk:School psychology, relating to that section too. Thanks.Mrm7171 (talk) 04:39, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the kindness of a Barnstar. --papageno (talk) 18:54, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your article on Love, Virginia is off to a wonderful start. Thank you for the submission. I hope you decide to continue writing articles; we could really benefit from your awesome knowledge. :) EmilyREditor (talk) 21:07, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating Love, Virginia, Magnolia677!

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