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Alta Peak

Thanks for catching the problem with Alta Peak. I do a lot of editing but create very few new articles. –droll [chat] 02:58, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Packard, Kentucky

Hi I hope you are doing well. Question: Is the birthplace of actress Patricia Neal Packard, Kentucky a ghost town or an unincorporated community? Pat Neal in her autobiography said Packard is a ghost town. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 11:09, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Miami Station, Missouri

Many thanks for helping with Packard, Kentucky. I found out many of these unincorporated communities can be interesting do to the history and notable people. Okay here is another one: Miami Station, Missouri=an United States Senator from Texas William A. Blakley was born there. Is it an unincorporated community or a ghost town? Many thanks=RFD (talk) 12:30, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:Nyttend/ZIP/AL

Thanks for the notice. You're correct — the page was vandalised in March 2007, just slightly more than a month before it was nominated at AFD; the vandal removed 284 ZIP codes and made changes to others. Per your request, I've created User:TheCatalyst31/Alabama; it has a history of two edits. The first edit is a copy/paste of the second edit in the original page's history (the first just had 11 codes, but the second was a full list), while the second is a copy/paste of the edit just before the 284 lines were removed. Nyttend (talk) 23:08, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The vandal removed several entire sections, but s/he also cut random individual ones or twos from other sections as well. Nyttend (talk) 23:22, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Zipcodes in Wisconsin

In Wikipedia:WikiProject Wisconsin in the library section under resources is the list of Zipcodes in Wisconsin. This was added on to WP-Wisconsin before the list was deleted. The following communities need to be done:

I am not sure why they were missed or omitted-Thank you-RFD (talk) 22:00, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for your comment-RFD (talk) 22:21, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry about the orphan tags-I add the unincorporated communities to the town and county pages and to the disamg pages. The changes to the Wisconsin county navigation templates come up on the recent changes page of WP-Wisconsin. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 12:29, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Summer 2010 USRD newsletter

Volume 3, Issue 2 • Summer 2010 • About the Newsletter
Departments
Features
State and national updates
WP:USRD/NEWS
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WikiCup 2010 August newsletter

We have our final eight! The best of luck to those who remain. A bumper newsletter this week as we start our home straight.

  • Pool A's winner was Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions). Awarded the top score overall this round, Sturmvogel_66 writes primarily on military history, favouring Naval warfare.
  • Pool B's winner was New South Wales Casliber (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured articles this round, Casliber writes primarily on natural sciences, especially botany and ornithology.
  • Pool A's close second was Hungary Sasata (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured pictures this round, Sasata writes primarily on natural sciences, favouring mycology.
  • Pool B's close second was Colombia ThinkBlue (submissions). Awarded the top score for good articles and topics this round, ThinkBlue primarily writes content related to television and film, including 30 Rock.
  • The first wildcard was New Orleans TonyTheTiger (submissions). Awarded the top score for did you knows and valued pictures this round, TonyTheTiger writes on a number of topics, including baseball, American football and Chicago.
  • The second wildcard was White Shadows (submissions). Someone who has helped the Cup behind the scenes all year, White Shadows said "I'm still in shock that I made it this far" and writes primarily on Naval warfare, especially U-boats.
  • The third wildcard was Connecticut Staxringold (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured lists and topics this round, Staxringold primarily writes on sport and television, including baseball and 30 Rock.
  • The fourth wildcard was William S. Saturn (submissions). Entering the final eight only on the final day of the round, William S. Saturn writes on a number of topics, mostly related to Texas.

We say goodbye to the six who fell at the final hurdle.

Gary King (submissions) contributed a variety of did you know articles. Finland Suomi Finland 2009 (submissions) said "I'm surprised to have survived so far into the competition", but was extactic to see Finland in the semi-finals. Norway Arsenikk (submissions) did not score this round, but has scored highly in previous rounds. We also say goodbye to Ian Rose (submissions), who withdrew earlier this month after spending six weeks overseas. Anyone interested in this round's results can see them here and here. Thank you to Bavaria Stone (submissions
) for these.

here
- the final eight are encouraged to add themselves to the list.

Our final eight will play it out for two months, after which we will know 2010's WikiCup winner, and a variety of prizes will be awarded. 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

Fox and The ed17 23:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Winton, Wyoming

Hi! A Roman Catholic bishop from the

Lawrence Harold Welsh was born in Winton, Wyoming. I did some research and found out Winton, Wyoming is a ghost town. I thought you might be interested in this one. Thank you-RFD (talk) 20:37, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply
]

Many thanks-RFD (talk) 09:46, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Finnsville, Wisconsin

I am back again-would you please look at the article about Finnsville, Wisconsin? I did some research and came across 2 photos about Buggers&Finn's Blackbear Inn near Bayfield, Wisconsin and it has this sign about Finnsville population 2. I do not know if Finnsville is an unincorporated community or a resort owner's joke. If the article needs to be deleted that would be a good idea. Maybe the state of Wisconsin and Bayfield County considers this to be a unincorporated community. I think it is a resort owner's joke. Please let myself know-Thank you-RFD (talk) 15:19, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As always thank you-RFD (talk) 11:45, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2010 September newsletter

We are half-way through our final round, entering the home straight.

WikiCup talk page
.

Despite controversy, the WikiCup remains open.

Fox and The ed17 23:10, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Cumberland (CTA) On behalf of
WP:FOUR) 21:20, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Adminship?

I think you're ready for adminship. You've been doing editing here for a long time. In that time you have plenty of edits, articles on DYK/GA/FA, a broad experience base, solid nominations and rationales for deletion, and your deleted edits look appropriate. In other words, you have a broad background. Believe me, adminship is extremely helpful when you do new page editing so that you can delete those ugly vandalism articles that come up. We can always use another upstanding admin! Should I draw up my nomination for you? Or would you like to do a review to see what more editors think? Royalbroil 12:50, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fall 2010 USRD newsletter

Volume 3, Issue 3 • Fall 2010 • About the Newsletter
Departments
Features
State and national updates
WP:USRD/NEWS
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Adminship nomination posted

I have suggestions:
  1. Take your time with answering any questions posted for you. There is no time limit.
  2. Do research and dig into the questions.
  3. Be careful and do little to no responding to criticisms of you, and then only if addressed specifically at you.
  4. If it doesn't work out, then withdraw gracefully and learn from the experience.

Good luck, and you're welcome for the nomination! I wouldn't have approached you about if I didn't have a strong feeling that you'd be successful. :) Royalbroil 16:51, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your RfA

I don't know you personally. I haven't had much time in the last few days to analyse your contributions. Will do that. But irrespective of my vote, I wanted to pass by and give you a smiley sign :-) That's because I know these particular seven days must be taxing on you for reasons only people undergoing RfAs would understand :-) Don't worry irrespective of the result of the RfA. And keep smiling and be relaxed throughout. Best wishes. Wifione ....... Leave a message 03:43, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on a successful RfA

Congratulations on your

Join WikiProject Japan! 23:50, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Here's your free T-shirt!
Congrats! Please try on this and see if it fits :). Airplaneman ✈ 00:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Nicely done, welcome to the admin corps. - Dank (push to talk) 00:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well done. I've just spotted an admin and an IP edit warring over adding a birthplace to a BLP. Would you mind taking a look? ;) --Stephen 00:19, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats on surviving passing hell RfA! —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 00:27, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations on the mop! You did a great job of keeping your cool despite a tough question that I think some people commenting would have incorrectly blocked the admin (wouldn't that would make it a punishment instead of protecting the encyclopedia from damage?). Like I said earlier, I wouldn't have nominated you if I didn't think you would pass. After a while, believe it or not, the block, protect, etc. buttons are just like any other button like edit or history! Royalbroil 03:36, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats! If you need any help or advice, feel free to message. Have a look at my monobook.js thingy for lots of useful admin scripts. GedUK  08:35, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations :D
Champagne? • 10:08pm • 11:08, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Congratulations-RFD (talk) 16:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2010 October newsletter

The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to New Orleans TonyTheTiger (submissions), with 2260, and third to New South Wales Casliber (submissions), with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists – White Shadows (submissions), William S. Saturn (submissions), Connecticut Staxringold (submissions) and Colombia ThinkBlue (submissions). Also, congratulations to Hungary Sasata (submissions), who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.

Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is New South Wales Casliber (submissions), for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is Connecticut Staxringold (submissions), for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is Jujutacular (submissions), for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is New Orleans TonyTheTiger (submissions), for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is Republic of Ireland Candlewicke (submissions), for nineteen articles in the news in round three.

The WikiCup has faced criticism in the last month – hopefully, we will take something positive from it and create a better contest for next year. Like Wikipedia itself, the Cup is a work in progress, and ideas for how it should work are more than welcome on the

Fox and The ed17 03:12, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply
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WikiCup 2010 Ribbon of Participation

The WikiCup 2010 Ribbon of Participation
Awarded to TheCatalyst31, for participation in the 2010 WikiCup.
Fox and The ed17 09:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Foregen page

I stated significant reasons why its important. Why did you delete it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theknowledgeofthewiki (talk • contribs) 23:10, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin

I took care of the unincorporated communities in Wisconsin with putting the WP Wisconsin template on them. Also I wrote what town they are in, listing them on the county pages and the dab pages also. I am glad the Wisconsin counties navigation templates shows up on the recent changes in WP-Wisconsin-this makes it easier. Thanks-RFD (talk) 13:36, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost

Hi, could you check the blurb I wrote on you? Tony (talk) 10:14, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article,
Waumandee (community), Wisconsin

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Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page,

speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Waumandee, Wisconsin - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page
.

If you think that the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hang on}} to the top of

article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. jsfouche ☽☾ talk 02:03, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply
]

Jsfouche, please study the
Political subdivisions of Wisconsin. A town is not a community, it's exactly the opposite - land between communities. I declined the speedy request. Royalbroil 04:48, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply
]

Ojo de Agua, Texas

Hi I came across an article about a raid at Ojo de Agua, Texas in 1915 during the Mexican Revolution. Does Ojo de Agua, Texas still exists. Also I am keeping up with with the unincorporated communities in Wisconsin-adding the templates talk pages, adding the to the town and county pages, disamb pages, etc. Thank you again=RFD (talk) 19:51, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:1997 Detroit Tigers season game log

Template:1997 Detroit Tigers season game log has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji (talk) 21:12, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA Illinois Route 103

I have placed your nomination on hold. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 23:35, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Minor communities

How are things going with the adminship? I hope that you are doing well. Do you take requests for stubs in minor communities? I keep seeing your articles in Wisconsin. I keep photographing places around the state and I'd love to have to skip spending the time the create a stub for the photos. I'd appreciate if you'd do one for Gillingham, Wisconsin on Wisconsin Highway 56. I upload the images then often place them at User:Royalbroil/ToDo if I don't want to spend the time up front. If you take requests - there are several there right now, including a bunch in Upper Michigan. If you accept, you can remove them from my To Do list if you want. I have 134 more images queued on my hard drive just waiting for me to have time to upload them. I started the fall/winter with over 300 queued up. I don't know how many images belong in existing articles. Royalbroil 13:16, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks-

Many thanks for finishing the list of the unincorporated communities in Wisconsin that have Zipcodes.RFD (talk) 17:26, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin

Hi I came across 3 unincorporated communities in Wisconsin: Denzer, Wisconsin and Leland, Wisconsin in Sauk County in the town of Honey Creek near the Natural Bridge State Park and Disco, Wisconsin in the town of Albion in Jackson County. Maybe if you have time you might want to start articles on them. Thanks-RFD (talk) 12:26, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks again-RFD (talk) 22:43, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2011

Hello. You are being contacted because you have

WikiCup talk page or contact the judges directly. J Milburn and The ed17 06:52, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, TheCatalyst31/Archive 4! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

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Welcome to the project. --
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Texas FM/RM route articles

Hi there, I see that you've been assessing the articles that I've been creating regarding Texas FM/RM routes. While I'm not new to Wikipedia, I am new to

WP:USRD
(which is surprising, considering how much I love roads), and I had a couple of questions.

  • If I'm not mistaken, the only difference between a Stub-class and Start-class article is having all three of the requisite sections (description, history, and junction/exit list). I've created some articles with the stub template in place, but in looking at your assessments, the articles that have contained those sections have had the stub tag removed and have been promoted to Start-class. In the future, if I create an article with all three sections, am I correct in not tagging it as a stub? (I figure another editor, such as you, will give it a second look to assess it anyway.)
  • Given the current stub reduction drive, what is the proper procedure for having a Stub-class article reassessed to see if it can be considered Start-class? That is, if I add in and organize all three sections of information as per standards, am I allowed to reassess it myself, or is there a method to add it to the work queue to have someone else reassess it?

Thanks for your assistance. --Kinu t/c 09:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cylon, Wisconsin

I came across the unincorporated community of Cylon, Wisconsin in the town of Cylon in St Croix County, Wisconsin. I do not know if you still take requests for articles. Thanks-RFD (talk) 16:48, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Blue Sulphur Springs Pavilion